And so, Ye Chen lived in Yellow Village for half a year.
During this time, he had also seen the primordial beasts roaming within the Boundary Desert. They were all ancient exotic species, typically at the Divine Transformation level, many at the Saint realm, and some even at the Heavenly King realm. In the borderlands of the Origin Land, they could absolutely be considered quite powerful.
After all, this was not the core Thirty-Three Heavenly Domains; it was more like those chaotic ancient universes of the Primal World, where no one was particularly strong.
Among them, Ye Chen perceived that the clansmen of Yellow Village possessed only one set of cultivation method, focused primarily on body refinement. They devoured the flesh and blood of primordial beasts, drew upon the essence of heaven and earth, strengthened their own bodies, and silently cultivated and evolved—that was all.
But it was a form of cultivation learned from heaven and earth, silently strengthening the inner source.
After half a year of living together, Ye Chen had gained quite some insights.
During this period, following the example of the Yellow Village clansmen, he consumed the plants of the Boundary Desert and ate the flesh and blood of primordial beasts. He could clearly feel his physical body constantly evolving and strengthening, his power continuously rising.
Because Ye Chen, compared to the Yellow Village clansmen who were often over a zhang tall, appeared relatively short and slender, many clansmen gave him more plants and primordial beast flesh to consume, accelerating his improvement.
Not long after, Ye Chen expressed his hope to go out and hunt primordial beasts together.
The Yellow Village clansmen amiably agreed, believing that as long as they avoided those perilous places, they were sufficient to protect the "weak" Ye Chen and also let him witness the true terror of primordial beasts.
Naturally, they also hoped that after consuming enough primordial beasts, Ye Chen could become as robust as them.
The hunting process went quite smoothly at first. The primordial beasts they encountered were only at the Divine Transformation level, which was not weak. However, the hunting team from Yellow Village had several Demi-Saint level physical bodies, and even one powerhouse whose physical body had achieved Sainthood. In just a few days, they hunted one Demi-Saint level primordial beast and seven Divine Transformation level primordial beasts—a considerable harvest.
Just as the group was preparing to return to Yellow Village, they encountered a terrifying Beast Tide.
The so-called Beast Tide was a scene where over a thousand primordial beasts gathered together.
Within this Beast Tide, there were three Saint-level primordial beasts, over twenty Demi-Saint level primordial beasts, and countless Divine Transformation and Demi-God level ones, all charging towards the Yellow Village hunting team.
Without a doubt, the hunting team faced a life-and-death crisis. Even the captain, whose physical body had achieved Sainthood, changed color. Faced with such a Beast Tide, they were basically facing nine deaths and one life; they would likely perish in this Beast Tide.
But at this moment, Ye Chen, this seemingly weak youth, suddenly erupted with overwhelmingly powerful physical combat strength. He charged into the Beast Tide, instantly sending swathes of primordial beasts flying, and even forcefully killed the three leading Saint-level primordial beasts. This caused exclamations from the Yellow Village clansmen, who were shocked and regarded him as a heaven-sent being, filled with admiration.
The strong are respected, and this is the same everywhere, including in Yellow Village. Who would have thought that Ye Chen, with such a weak physique, could raise his hand and kill three Saint-level primordial beasts?
Ye Chen shook his head. He didn't know why his physical body was so strong either. He could only feel that he was very powerful, and it seemed there were still seals, with boundless power sealed within the deepest part of his body, waiting to awaken.
However, there was no way to awaken it, and he also couldn't cultivate any dao techniques, as if he was innately incapable of cultivation and could only refine his physical body.
Or perhaps, it was as if the dao techniques were sealed within the deepest part of his body, requiring his physical body to reach an extremely profound level before such seals could be undone.
After this incident, Yellow Village invited him to join the hunting team, going out to hunt from time to time.
Therefore, Ye Chen often followed the Yellow Village clansmen out, venturing deep into the Boundary Desert, engaging in battles with primordial beasts, devouring their flesh and blood, refining their essence, and silently tempering and strengthening his physique.
These primordial beasts, their flesh and blood contained extremely powerful divinity, which could continuously stimulate the physique and promote constant evolution.
Another twenty years passed in this manner. During this time, Ye Chen displayed extremely high physical talent. Since arriving at Yellow Village, the improvement of his physique had been advancing by leaps and bounds, benefiting from Ye Chen's constant hunting of primordial beasts. He went out every day to hunt various primordial beasts, from initial Saint-tier beasts to later, where even Savage Beast Kings were hunted by him no less than ten times. He became a renowned warrior in Yellow Village.
Thus, another thirty years passed.
By this day, Ye Chen had already killed tens of thousands of powerful primordial beasts, among which were not a few Savage Beast Kings at the early Heavenly King stage. He had almost exterminated the primordial beasts within a radius of several million li.
The flesh and blood of tens of thousands of powerful primordial beasts were devoured by him, and these beasts also produced a special crystal within their bodies. The people of the seventy-two villages called it the Blood God Crystal, the crystallization of their flesh and blood essence.
Relying on these Blood God Crystals, Ye Chen's physique was strengthened to another level.
Similarly, having killed so many primordial beasts, his fame spread far and wide, even reaching the other seventy-one mountain villages in the Boundary Desert. All knew that a powerful warrior had appeared in Yellow Village.
Rumble—
On this day, a terrifying heavenly tribulation descended from the originally clear sky, engulfing Ye Chen.
He underwent tribulation. His physical body had broken through, and a fearsome heavenly tribulation was descending.
The heavenly tribulation was vast and terrifying, unprecedented. Just a few random strikes were sufficient to kill a peak Saint.
However, Ye Chen's physique had been tempered to be extremely powerful, peerless within the same realm. He stubbornly resisted it, though of course he was also struck until his skin split and flesh tore, blood flowing freely.
Naturally, he also utilized the power within the heavenly tribulation to temper his physical body, causing it to evolve and become even stronger.
This was a form of evolution, without any cultivation method, relying completely on the natural power of heaven and earth to evolve.
Compared to those physical evolutions that possessed cultivation methods, this physical evolution seemed slower, but it had one advantage: it could encompass everything and was not limited.
Gradually, the physical body became stronger, also devouring more of the heavenly tribulation power, which circulated between his limbs and bones, continuously strengthening them.
Finally, the heavenly tribulation dissipated. Ye Chen had undergone tribulation, and his physical body reached a higher level, directly achieving a Heavenly King-level physical body.
Because it was pure physical evolution, and because there was no need to step into reincarnation, it was equivalent to directly crossing a major realm.
With his physical body alone, Ye Chen could contend against Heavenly Kings, even easily suppress Heavenly Kings of the same realm, and cross realms to deal with super Heavenly Kings of higher, more profound levels.
The powerful physical talent Ye Chen displayed also startled the chieftain of Yellow Village.
The chieftain was aged and nearing the end of his life, an elder who had lived for nearly a hundred thousand years. But his blood energy was not depleted; he was still very powerful, and his physique was also very tall. Looking at Ye Chen, he revealed a simple and kind smile.
As the chieftain, he had protected Yellow Village for a hundred thousand years. Moreover, he was also the person with the highest cultivation in Yellow Village, a body refinement Great Power, whose physical strength was terrifying enough to rival a Great Power.
The old chieftain was very surprised by Ye Chen's physical talent. This was the first time in the several decades since Ye Chen entered Yellow Village that he was received by the old chieftain.