Looking at Ye Chen, the old chieftain revealed a trace of astonishment, sensing that Ye Chen's flesh body was like a great world, with endless divine treasure gates continuously opening within him, releasing divine treasure power.
Such an extraordinary physique was something he was seeing for the first time; even during his own youth in the same period, he was far inferior.
"Child, have you truly forgotten everything?" The old chieftain looked at Ye Chen. In his youth, he too had left the Boundary Desert and ventured into the world, though only within the border wastelands.
After all, the Origin Land was simply too vast, and its spatial stability surpassed even the Primal World. Even a Great Power exhausting a lifetime of a hundred thousand years would find it difficult to reach the core Thirty-Three Tian Domains.
While venturing in the border wastelands, the old chieftain had traveled widely, seen much, and had encountered many extraordinary constitutions.
He had even seen an Imperial Son, whose body flowed with Supreme bloodline, innately powerful.
However, the Ye Chen before him was different from all the extraordinary constitutions he had seen or heard of in the past. Although extremely powerful, he flowed with pure, bright red blood energy and lacked innate Dao fragment principles. He did not resemble those legendary extraordinary constitutions but seemed more like a mortal body.
Yet this mortal body was so powerful it was almost unbelievable, comparable to those legendary constitutions.
Ye Chen shook his head, truthfully informing him that it seemed his memories had been erased, his only memories being of everything after encountering the Yellow Village.
The old chieftain could tell Ye Chen wasn't lying, for the eyes are the windows to the soul—dark, distinct, pure, and flawless.
"Perhaps the descendant of some supreme powerhouse, who encountered a sudden calamity. To prevent disaster from reaching this descendant Ye Chen, the relevant memories were sealed." The old chieftain somewhat suspected that Ye Chen was the descendant of a supreme powerhouse, and such things were not uncommon in this world.
Although suspicious, even if it were true, the simple and honest old chieftain would not expel Ye Chen from the Yellow Village. Instead, he felt even more pity for him.
Feeling pity for Ye Chen, the old chieftain led him to a low hill before the Yellow Village.
Ye Chen looked at this hill in surprise. It appeared low, but he knew in reality it was the cave abode where the successive patriarchs of the Yellow Village cultivated, also recording the various cultivation methods left behind by those patriarchs. It was extremely precious.
Even within the Yellow Village, only a handful of clansmen were qualified to be allowed here by the old chieftain.
Ye Chen hurriedly shook his head. "Grandfather Chieftain, this absolutely cannot be!"
He was not a member of the Yellow Village and therefore believed he had no right to enter this cave of successive patriarchs.
The old chieftain grew even more satisfied with Ye Chen. Although an outsider, his character was as simple and kind as the Yellow Village clansmen. He smiled and said, "Child, although you are not of my Yellow Village, you are now, in a way, a blade of my Yellow Village. Moreover, your talent in body refinement is excellent, surpassing all past generations of my Yellow Village. I believe you are a kind child, so come."
Hearing this, it would be false to say Ye Chen wasn't tempted. Although his memories were sealed, regarding body refinement, he was driven by a special instinct.
The old chieftain said a few more words, and finally, Ye Chen entered that low hill, stepping into a cave.
Inside the cave sat numerous withered figures, as if old monks in deep meditation, motionless and devoid of aura. But upon closer inspection, they were all clansmen who had passed away.
These were all the successive patriarchs of the Yellow Village, all Great Powers in body refinement, their flesh bodies powerful, incorruptible and immortal, preserved here.
Every Great Power in body refinement from the Yellow Village, before passing away, would enter this cave abode and carve down their own insights and methods of flesh body cultivation as a legacy.
Although the Yellow Village was only one of the Seventy-Two Villages of the Boundary Desert, their ancestors had once produced a world-shaking top existence who nearly ascended to the position of Supreme One, with a peerless flesh body.
Therefore, regarding body refinement, the Yellow Village possessed extraordinary insights.
After leading Ye Chen into the cave abode, the old chieftain left.
Ye Chen thanked the old chieftain and also paid his respects as a junior to each Yellow Village patriarch, observing the body refinement cultivation methods they left behind, benefiting greatly.
Finally, in the deepest part of the cave abode, he saw that strongest patriarch from the Yellow Village's ancestors—a Monarch achieved through the flesh body, with a peerless flesh body who had nearly succeeded in proving the Dao to become a Supreme One. Unfortunately, he ultimately failed, died of old age, and passed away here.
The flesh body cultivation method left by this Monarch patriarch was the most valuable. For Ye Chen, the insights were not small, but subconsciously, Ye Chen still felt this Monarch patriarch's cultivation method was rather ordinary, seemingly nothing special.
Even he himself did not know why this mindset appeared.
After gaining insights in the cave abode for three years, Ye Chen left, having benefited immensely. His flesh body had grown significantly stronger, his blood energy flourishing, supreme among his peers.
He felt that if he were to strike, tearing apart a primordial beast of the same level would be easy; he could suppress them with a raised hand.
Unconsciously, Ye Chen had already been in the Yellow Village for a hundred years.
Over these hundred years, he specialized in cultivating his flesh body, without any specific technique to speak of. Even all the various flesh body cultivation methods left by the senior sages he saw in the Yellow Village cave abode were only for reference; he did not cultivate them.
Subconsciously, there was always a special instinct that made him autonomously avoid cultivating any other techniques, only using them as reference. He should forge his own path of flesh body cultivation.
Thus, during these hundred years in the Yellow Village, although flesh body cultivation was not like cultivating dao techniques with precise realms for reference, unconsciously, his flesh body had also reached a shocking height.
This height, Ye Chen could not accurately perceive, but he felt he could at least casually suppress and kill an ordinary Heavenly King, his flesh body peerless.
And over the past few decades, his power had been proven. Within a radius of ten million li in the Boundary Desert lived numerous fearsome primordial beasts, including some super primordial beast kings comparable to cultivators at the Seventh Heaven of the Heavenly King realm. All were easily slain by him, their blood staining the vast earth, his battle achievements truly astonishing.
Several times, he even alarmed primordial beast venerables from the extreme depths of the Boundary Desert, all Great Power-level existences, terrifyingly powerful, who pursued and hunted Ye Chen.
But each time, Ye Chen always managed to retreat unscathed.
His fame spread ever wider across the Boundary Desert, attracting the attention of many.
Not long after, an elder returned from the outside world, bringing important news.
The Seventy-Two Villages would hold the once-in-ten-thousand-years Boundary Desert Young Generation Grand Competition to see which village had the most outstanding younger generation. The victor would receive combined resources for cultivation and even be sent outside the Boundary Desert to travel the world.
This news caused a stir in the Yellow Village. Many young clansmen were excited, eager to try, all wanting to participate.
Not just for the many cultivation resources, but also hoping to leave the Boundary Desert and venture into the outside world.