Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile-Chapter 124: Let’s Go, Brother Ye Chen Is Climbing Now!

Screams continued to ring out through the forest as the sword rain continued; however, despite this, many escaped, especially the ones with life-saving measures and late-stage Qi-refining cultivation.

The virtual swords were, after all, not real swords so as long as someone acted swiftly, they were able to dodge and escape.

Nevertheless, half of the disciples from the heretical and fallen sect perished here, making Gao Jinhai's face extremely ugly.

He had thought killing Ye Chen would be an easy task, especially with the vitality-draining arrows, which can bypass life-saving treasures and inscriptions. But now he knew how wrong he was and regretted his decision to group with fallen sect disciples.

"Humph! I told you; Brother Ye Chen will show what true ev— Ahem! I mean, what 'Rectifying the Dao' truly means!" Fatty Li Zhenyuan stated with a righteous look as he found out there was no danger to his fat life.

Of course, if he misspoke, things would end up differently.

Seeing his behavior, Ye Chen knew that Fatty hadn't learned his lesson, but he didn't care too much about him and arrived in front of Gao Jinhai, who was calm despite all escape routes being sealed.

"Looks like you have something up your sleeves, don't you?" Ye Chen chuckled as he saw his serene expression.

There was no way Gao Jinhai shouldn't know that the life-saving treasures and inscriptions were useless in front of him, so Ye Chen was curious about what kind of tricks he had.

"Humph! Laugh all you want now because in the future all you can do is regret and cry." Gao Jinhai displayed no weakness and snorted in response.

Then, without waiting for any nonsense, he shoved his sword, however, not towards Ye Chen but towards his own heart.

He did this so swiftly that no one had time to react; even Ye Chen was stunned at his actions and before he could do anything, the sword in Gao Jinhai's hand already penetrated his heart.

Cough!

In that instant, Gao Jinhai spat out a mouthful of blood; however, there was no pain or despair, only a sinister smile.

"Ye Chen, you will regret your whole life for cornering me like this!" He stated, his voice sounding strange, as if two people were talking at once.

It didn't take too long and everyone guessed what was happening as they saw Gao Jinhai's face shifting into someone else's.

"Damn it, that bastard used puppet technique; no wonder he was so arrogant!" The fatty Li Zhenyuan cursed as he recognized why that retard didn't fear his death.

Well, how could he since he was not here in the first place and was just controlling someone's body with some tricks?

"Brother Ye Chen, that retard might still be near somewhere, as this technique won't work at long distances, so why don't we find and kill him?" The fatty suggested.

Even the crown prince, Ji Feng, and others agreed with this and decided to help in the search.

But to their surprise, Ye Chen shook his head.

"No need to let him run away as much as he wants," he said with a nonchalant look and waved his hand to extract the blood essence.

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Slap!

A resonating, crisp sound echoed through the forest a few miles away from 'Heavens Staircase.'

"Useless! How could you all be so useless?!"

Chang Bai roared angrily as he once again slapped a kneeling disciple in front of him.

"M-master, it's not our fault; it's the vitality-draining arrows that didn't work on Ye Chen," Si Wen explained hastily as he begged for forgiveness.

"Humph! Vitality-draining arrows didn't work? Then why didn't you use other ones? Were you blind?!"

"Master, you should know how the fallen sects were eradicated in the past, so we don't have too much material and strength to create more threatening arrows than this. Furthermore, the only reason we crafted vitality-draining arrows now is to kill some young geniuses from this batch."

Si Wen explained once again; however, Chang Bai was still not feeling good and slapped him a few more times before asking him to scram.

Now Chang Bai was left alone with an extremely ugly expression but suddenly a cruel smile formed on his lips.

"Haha! Ye Chen, you are dead now! Just wait for the mystic realm to close! Ah-hahaha!" He laughed maniacally.

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"Here, take these Qi-recovery pills."

After Ye Chen was done collecting blood essence, he took out the pills he refined and distributed them between those who came to fight from the staircase.

Crown Prince Ji Feng and others were stunned at his actions, wondering why he was giving them such a trivial thing; however, the moment they held the pill, their spiritual Qi started to recover slowly yet surely.

"A high-grade tier-1 pill and with hundred percent purity at that!" Liu Jiarong exclaimed with shock as she examined the pill.

One had to know that most of the pills had the purity of thirty to sixty percent. If one wanted more pure ones, then they had to pay an exorbitant amount of spiritual stones, and this was when the purity was raised by just one percent.

Furthermore, any alchemists who could refine pills with such purity were tier 5 and further. Not only that but the purest pill they could refine was just seventy percent.

There had yet to be one that could refine a pill more pure than this. Some of the alchemists even claimed it was impossible and said the only reason ancient alchemists could refine such pills was because of lost refining pill formations and alchemy techniques.

Then there was one more thing and that is that such pills with high purity could be sold for millions of low-grade spiritual stones, which were equivalent to hundred thousand mid-grade and ten thousand high-grade spiritual stones.

The alchemists were, after all, rich so if there was something interesting that caught their eyes, they wouldn't mind spending a few million even if the item was tier-1. Not only they but sects were like that too.

However, Ye Chen cared nothing about their surprise and shock.

"If you don't want to miss the opportunity inside the inheritance trial, then you better eat those pills," he stated and without waiting for their response, he flew towards the staircase.

This time he didn't wait and directly started to climb the stairs.

Watching his back, Crown Prince Ji Feng and others hurriedly sat down and swallowed the pills. No one wanted to miss the opportunities after all.

However, even with the pills in hand, they didn't hope too much, as it would take at least two to three hours to recover fully. They had, after all, fought a fierce battle, using everything they could. It would be strange if they recovered immediately.

Of course, they knew this would happen but if they didn't take any action, the heretical and fallen sect might target them, which would do no good, especially if Ye Chen died or couldn't stop them.

There were no ifs, so they had to make a decision, and they chose to fight with them, knowing well they might not be able to reach the top of the staircase.

"This! My spiritual Qi is recovering rapidly! At this rate I can recover in just a few minutes!" Xue Feng's eyes displayed astonishment as he saw the Qi-recovery pill exploding like an endless river.

Then, without even circulating his cultivation technique, the spiritual Qi got refined and gathered in his dantian.

Others too faced similar situations and were dumbfounded.

"His brother Ye Chen is too mighty! Just a tier-1 pill can make someone at our level recover in a short amount of time; moreover, without us doing anything, doesn't that mean we can climb the stairs and recover as we want?" Li Zhenyuan said with a deep breath.

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If the Qi-gathering pills were tier-2 or tier-3, they would not be this shocked because such high-tier pills with hundred percent purity should work like this, but a tier-1? It was too much for God's sake!

Especially since you can recover your spiritual Qi without even doing anything, it would just take some more time and there would be a little loss. Nevertheless, it was a shocking fact compared to ordinary Qi-refining pills, where if you do not use your cultivation technique to recover, there will be eighty to ninety percent loss.

Which meant if one wanted to recover while fighting, they had to use Qi-recovery pills like candy but doing so would do no good since they had impurities in them that would result in a shallow and weak foundation if they didn't deal with the impurities immediately, which was impossible to do without using their cultivation.

It was no wonder Crown Prince Ji Feng and everyone else didn't try to do this when fighting or on the stairs.

"Let's go, brother Ye Chen is climbing now!"

After knowing he didn't have to worry about impurities and major loss, Li Zhenyuan didn't hesitate and jumped on the stairs.

However, no one followed him because the loss was still a loss for them and since it just takes a few minutes to recover, why not just do that?

As for Fatty, he had a good relationship with Ye Chen, so he could shamelessly ask for more pills if he needed them; there was no way they could compare to him.

Thinking of this, they couldn't feel a little jealous of people close to Ye Chen; however, what they didn't know was that despite having pills with hundred percent purity, Li Mei and Lan Ming didn't take them.

The reason? Well, they were not aware of its heaven-defying effects, as they had never consumed one.