The three ghosts helped each other, their heads hanging low.
"Big... Big brother, what do we do now?"
"Just let it go like this?"
The big ghost clenched his jaw, grinding his teeth and saying, "We absolutely cannot let it go like this!"
He balled his fists, making them crackle.
"Did you remember that little bastard's face?"
"Re... Remembered!" kuAiδugg
"Then that's good. Next time we meet, we must kill him!" the big ghost's gaze was dark and full of coldness.
"Mm, no problem!"
...
Chen Fan returned to his rented room.
He began to meticulously refine pills.
Absorbing the full medicinal properties from the old herbs.
After more than half an hour, a batch of pills was successfully refined, their finished products emitting a fragrant aroma.
Chen Fan looked at the quality of the pills in his hand and said slowly, "They look alright, but there are some flaws..."
Immediately after, he swallowed all the refined pills.
The next second, a warm current spread through his mouth, accompanied by waves of fragrance.
Chen Fan used his inner energy to absorb the medicinal properties of the pills, and in a short while, his dan tian felt as if it were in a warm current.
The sensation was incredibly comfortable.
Another hour passed before Chen Fan finished absorbing all the medicinal properties. He muttered to himself, "It's truly not easy to break through from the Grandmaster realm to the Great Grandmaster realm!"
In the martial arts world, each realm was a new heaven.
Especially upon reaching realms like Grandmaster and Great Grandmaster, breaking through each major stage was akin to plucking the moon from the ninth heaven.
This was also why the number of martial artists at the Grandmaster and Great Grandmaster realms were so few and far between.
In this era of declining martial arts, Grandmasters were already rare, let alone Great Grandmasters.
Someone like Chen Fan, who was already a Grandmaster at his age, was one in ten million.
"As the old man said, it's true: 'It costs money to cultivate martial arts, and one needs wealth for cultivation'!"
"It's not easy to reach the Great Grandmaster realm!"
The path of a martial artist was either to accumulate inner energy through time or to rely on external forces. Previously, Chen Fan had utilized the medicinal properties of old herbs.
However, those old herbs were still a drop in the bucket for a Grandmaster's advancement.
Unless one used herbs that were a hundred or even two hundred years old.
This was also why some martial arts families would fight fiercely for a two-hundred-year-old herb.
Chen Fan pondered for a while and then fell asleep.
During the night, he dreamed of his unreliable master, and of some ephemeral people he had never met...
At the same time, over at the Ye family in Lingnan.
After Xu Long's second injury, his condition became unstable. He appeared deranged, his eyeballs bloodshot, giving him a ferocious appearance.
"Aaaahhhh..."
He roared.
However, his body was secured by straps, and his struggles were in vain.
Ye Sheng and Ye Ming looked at him, also somewhat at a loss. With no other option, they could only knock Xu Long unconscious.
Ye Sheng slowly said, "Second brother, it seems your medicine failed!"
Ye Ming's gaze was deep. "Logically speaking, all the proportions were correct. I'll try again!"
"There's a ready-made test subject anyway!"
Ye Sheng nodded. "It's fine even if Xu Long is crippled. Just make sure he stays alive! After all, the Xu family once did us a favor!"
"Don't worry, I understand!"
Ye Ming hadn't expected his method of reconstructing the dan tian to fail, so he began making new adjustments and testing the medicine again.
Now, Xu Long had completely become the Ye family's guinea pig.
As for Xu Shan, he was still in the dark... Truly, being sold and still counting money for others.
Thus, several days passed in a flash, and the Ye family's ultimate goal remained unachieved.
On the contrary, they had crippled Xu Long.