Yang Che couldn't help but shiver, and subconsciously asked, "The second stage? It won't still be this painful, will it?"
"That depends on you. Whether it's painful or not depends on yourself."
As the Purple-haired girl spoke, she brushed the hair from her forehead and said with extreme solemnity, "From now on, I will reside in the Purple King Pavilion and won't easily come out again. When guiding you, I will only communicate with you using Divine Sense. Remember, no matter where you go, you must never expose the existence of the void illusion demon stone."
After the Purple-haired girl finished speaking, she entered the Purple King Pavilion.
Then, she continued through Divine Sense transmission, "I sense that there are many Disciples from different Sects training in this sea area. Most of them are at the eleventh and twelfth layers of the Qi Refinement Stage."
"Therefore, the requirement for your second stage of Cultivation is that you cannot use any attacks, nor can you use Magical Artifacts or spiritual talismans for defense. You must rely solely on the strength of your Physical Body and speed to contend with these Qi Refinement Stage Disciples and seize all the Spirit Medicine and Spiritual Plants from them."
Upon hearing this, Yang Che immediately showed a bitter expression and said, "You think too highly of me. I can't attack, and I still have to snatch Spiritual Plants from their hands. How can that be done?"
"I will transmit to you an ancient body technique, specifically for use with Ancient God Power. To what extent you can learn it will depend on your Comprehension Ability. Other than that, I will not give you any further help. If you cannot obtain all the Spirit Medicine they have gathered, it means you are not worthy of my guidance."
After the Purple-haired girl finished speaking, and without knowing how she did it, countless characters floated directly from the Purple King Pavilion and merged into Yang Che's mind.
"Wind Severing Shadow?"
Yang Che immediately became interested.
An ancient body technique of ancient Cultivators, Wind Severing Shadow, has three Realms.
The first Realm is Wind Severing, which means to use the airflow of the wind to conceal one's aura.
The second Realm is Shadow, which means to be extremely fast, leaving no shadow behind.
The third Realm is Wind Severing Shadow, which means to be extremely fast and completely without aura simultaneously.
Yang Che was very interested and immediately began to Cultivate using Ancient God Power.
Having consumed two nine-leaf dark yang fruit, his Comprehension Ability had indeed greatly improved.
In just three days, he had completely comprehended the first Realm, Wind Severing.
Then, it took him another ten days to comprehend the second Realm, Shadow.
However, for the third Realm, Yang Che felt that it was indeed very difficult to integrate the two Realms simultaneously, and it seemed somewhat unrealistic to fully comprehend it in a short period.
So, he simply left the Sea Island and entered the inner sea training ground.
Yang Che didn't forget that he still needed to gather five thousand-year-old Spirit Medicine to hand over to Junior Martial Uncle Zheng Yang when he returned to the Qing Jian Sect.
Following the map given by Junior Martial Uncle Zheng Yang, Yang Che quickly flew towards a Sea Island with a large amount of Spirit Medicine.
This island was called 'Maple Leaf Island,' a considerably large Sea Island.
As soon as he set foot on the island, Yang Che sensed no fewer than ten Cultivators on it.
"Begin."
The Purple-haired girl's voice sounded in Yang Che's mind at the appropriate moment.
Yang Che didn't expect the Purple-haired girl to still be supervising him, so he thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Isn't it a bit bad to snatch other people's things for no reason? After I get them, I'll find an opportunity to return them."
"You can, return them at the very end," the Purple-haired girl said indifferently.
Yang Che secretly breathed a sigh of relief and began to approach these Cultivators.
Closest to him were a pair of very young male and female Cultivators.
Seeing their intimate appearance, Yang Che guessed they must be a couple.
Among the five major Cultivation Sects in Jiang Country, Lingxia Palace was almost always seen with Dao Companions.
Lingxia Palace had many female Disciples, all as beautiful as flowers.
However, most of them had Dao Companions, which often made the male Disciples of the other major Sects talk about them with envy.
"Fellow Daoists, I apologize."
Yang Che cupped his hands in a salute, and his body suddenly turned into an afterimage, rushing towards the female Cultivator who was still bewildered.
The female Cultivator subconsciously took out a Magical Artifact, but suddenly felt something strange at her waist. She looked down, her face turning pale with shock.
Yang Che hadn't expected the speed of Wind Severing Shadow to be so terrifying, allowing him to take the female Cultivator's Storage Pouch so easily.
With a sweep of his Divine Sense, he only took all the Spirit Medicine inside, then threw the Storage Pouch back to the completely stunned female Cultivator.
Yang Che barely paused, then rushed towards the male Cultivator.
However, the male Cultivator was already on guard; a bead-like defensive Magical Artifact had already been activated, forming a solid spiritual energy shield that protected the man in the center.
Upon seeing his female companion's Storage Pouch snatched, the man had already become furious.
After setting up his defense, a large blue flag appeared in his hand. With spiritual power injected, it billowed in the wind, and he fiercely waved it at Yang Che.
Yang Che saw a blue python, as thick as a bucket, fly out from the large flag, opening its fangs and trying to swallow him.
Yang Che subconsciously wanted to use a Magical Artifact, but then remembered what the Purple-haired girl had said: he couldn't use any offensive or defensive Spells or Magical Artifacts, only relying on the strength of his Physical Body and speed.
So, in desperation, he again used Wind Severing Shadow, cleverly avoiding the blue python, and directly crashed into the spiritual energy shield with his Physical Body.
Yang Che's 'abnormal' behavior left the male and female Lingxia Palace Cultivators bewildered.
"Fellow Daoist, give me all the Spirit Medicine in your hand, and I'll leave immediately."
Yang Che failed to break through the spiritual energy shield with one collision and shouted loudly.
"How dare you!"
The man, at the twelfth layer of Qi Refining, felt 'insulted' by Yang Che's words. In a fit of rage, he injected more spiritual power into the large blue flag.
The giant python, boosted by the spiritual power, became even more ferocious. After continuously twisting its body in mid-air, it actually formed an encirclement and fiercely lunged at Yang Che again.
"Oh, is that Junior Brother Yang?"
Suddenly, a slightly familiar voice sounded not far away.
After Yang Che avoided the blue python's Devour, he glanced over and couldn't help but be stunned.
The speaker was actually Jiang Nan, the black-mole youth who had guarded the Hanging Waterfall Medicine Garden in Wulong Valley back then.
Yang Che remembered that Jiang Nan was at the eleventh layer of Qi Refining at that time, and now he had advanced to the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.
His heart sank.
Meeting a Wulong Valley Disciple, wouldn't they have to 'fight' it out?
He was still carrying the 'crime' of 'fleeing in fear of punishment' from Wulong Valley.
However, Jiang Nan had no intention of fighting Yang Che at all. Instead, upon seeing Yang Che seemingly being 'bullied,' anger surged within him, and he immediately played his emerald green flute Magical Artifact.
Waves of murderous musical notes mercilessly fell upon the shield protecting the male Cultivator from Lingxia Palace.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang, what are you doing?"
The male Cultivator from Lingxia Palace was bewildered, watching as his shield was about to be pierced by the deadly musical notes.
Seeing a good opportunity, Yang Che said nothing, activated his Ancient God Power, and once again crashed fiercely into the Lingxia Palace male Cultivator's shield.
'Bang!'
With a loud sound, the man's shield was shattered.
Yang Che used 'Wind Severing Shadow' and instantly snatched the man's Storage Pouch.
He only took a few Spirit Medicine from within, then threw the Storage Pouch back to the Lingxia Palace male Cultivator.
Jiang Nan, who was standing by, watched with wide eyes.
"Senior Brother Jiang, long time no see."
Yang Che laughed loudly and flew towards Jiang Nan, a cunning glint flashing in his eyes at the same time.
However, Yang Che quickly became depressed again.
Because the two Disciples from Lingxia Palace were both shouting loudly behind him, intending to warn Jiang Nan to be careful of his Storage Pouch being snatched.