Chapter 553: Ye Feng, the Drug Addict

For Ye Feng, who already possessed a virtual treasure, he was well aware of its functions. Especially this virtual treasure that could create warriors surpassing the Saint realm, he was extremely interested in it. After a brief silence, he agreed to the spirit of the artifact’s request to obtain it through the prescribed procedure.
“How do I use the Martial God Token?” Ye Feng asked, pulling out the black token.
“It’s simple. Just input your internal energy, and it will automatically transport you away,” replied the woman in white, the spirit of the artifact, slightly surprised.
“But I’ve tried before, and it didn’t react at all,” Ye Feng doubted her words. He had tried various times to figure out how to use the Martial God Token, including inputting energy and mental power, but to no avail.
“That was outside. The Martial God Token can only function as a key on the Absolute Martial Ark,” the spirit explained.
“I see. No wonder I tried every method I could think of when I got it but didn’t know how to use it,” Ye Feng realized. The Martial God Token was like a key to a room in a house—useless if you hadn’t entered the house yet. Only by entering could you use the key to open that room.
As he input his internal energy, Ye Feng found the token in his hand suddenly disappear, and he found himself in a strange place.
Above him were wide steps leading upward. Looking up, he saw mist swirling starting from the second layer, making it impossible to see clearly. He couldn’t even count how many layers there were.
“It seems I’m supposed to climb up?” Ye Feng looked around. There was nothing else in this space but those steps.
With no other choice, Ye Feng stepped forward.
As soon as he stepped on the first step, he felt his soul power increase slightly. With no other abnormalities, he stepped onto the second step. His soul power increased again, a bit more than before, still without any other signs of trouble.
When he stepped onto the third step, he felt a slight repulsive force from his body, but it wasn’t significant. To his surprise, he saw another person—a Saint Spirit-level warrior sitting cross-legged, drenched in sweat, seemingly struggling to hold on. It was one of the eighteen people from before.
When the man saw Ye Feng, he was slightly surprised, but his expression soon turned bitter.

“Could it be related to one’s cultivation level?” Ye Feng frowned slightly. If that was the case, it would likely be very difficult for him to surpass those eighteen experts at the Saint Venerable level, as he had only been at the Saint stage for a short time. But Ye Feng wasn’t someone who gave up easily—this was a precious treasure, not some cheap street item.

With this thought, Ye Feng took another step forward and reached the fourth layer.

Upon arriving at the fourth layer, an overwhelming force of repulsion surged toward him from ahead, trying to push him back down to the third layer. Ye Feng gritted his teeth and held on, but the repulsive force continued to pour in like mercury, seemingly penetrating every gap.

At that moment, an ancient voice sounded in his ear, “Those pushed down by the repulsive force are immediately eliminated. The longer one stays on the same layer, the stronger the repulsion becomes. The more movements one makes, the stronger it gets.”

“It seems this place indeed forces cultivation. To resist this repulsion, one must improve their cultivation level…” Ye Feng finally understood how it worked. “But improving cultivation requires a large amount of pills, which not everyone has. If one relies solely on absorbing external energy, it’s unclear when they’ll be able to advance by one level.”

With no other choice, Ye Feng used his spiritual power to reach into his storage ring, took out a bottle of pills, controlled it with his spiritual power, extracted the pills, and put them in his mouth. He relied entirely on his spiritual power because he felt that even the slightest movement might send him flying due to the repulsive force.

In such a place, Ye Feng actually had a huge advantage. First, the strength of his soul had reached the peak of the Supreme Saint level, so there would be no obstacles in raising his cultivation to that peak—he just needed enough energy to replenish it. Second, he possessed a vast amount of pills, some of which were taken from nearly four thousand Saint-level experts. Even the lowest-grade ones were of the Saint Emperor level, not to mention those from Supreme Saint-level experts. There was no need to worry about a shortage of pills.

As he swallowed each pill, the pale yellow vortex in his dantian accelerated the absorption of the pills by nearly ten times, causing his cultivation to grow rapidly. If cultivation levels could be seen with the naked eye, it could be said that they were increasing at a visibly fast pace at that moment.

In just three hours, Ye Feng’s cultivation level soared directly from the peak of the Holy Spirit tier to the early stage of the Holy King tier. The reason for such a rapid advancement was that he was already on the verge of a breakthrough. With the stimulation from the pills at this moment, he finally broke through.

After three days, Ye Feng finally reached the peak of the Holy King tier. By now, the repulsive force had lessened significantly. He had to admit that, to some extent, this repulsive force had also accelerated his absorption of the pill’s effects. However, having experienced nearly being pushed back to the third layer by that force before, Ye Feng didn’t dare to proceed directly to the fifth layer. Instead, he planned to wait until he reached the early stage of the Holy Emperor tier before attempting it.

Now, Ye Feng finally had time to observe what was on the fourth layer. Turning his head, he saw that less than a hundred meters away, there were three powerful individuals—two of them were among the eighteen people earlier, and the third was someone he knew well: the Sea Emperor from the Endless Abyssal Sea. They were tightly closing their eyes to resist the repulsive force and hadn’t noticed Ye Feng’s presence, or perhaps they did but didn’t care. Just like when Ye Feng first reached the fourth layer, he was too busy struggling against the repulsive force to pay attention to anything else.

Ye Feng sat cross-legged again and began to take the pills, aiming to break through to the Holy Emperor tier that very day.

Another three days passed, and Ye Feng finally reached the early stage of the Holy Emperor tier. Glancing at the three people who still had their eyes closed, he ignored them and moved on to the next layer.

The terrifying repulsive force struck again, making it difficult for Ye Feng to stabilize himself. After adjusting a bit, he sat cross-legged once more. He noticed there was another Holy Emperor-level warrior on this layer, also one of the eighteen people from before.

The situation on this layer was slightly better than the previous one. At least Ye Feng now had a Holy Emperor-level cultivation, so he wasn’t in as dire straits as before.

Closing his eyes, Ye Feng focused on taking the pills once more.

This time, the advancement wasn’t as fast. It took a full twelve days for Ye Feng to reach the peak of the Holy Emperor tier. It took him eleven days to break through to the Holy Sovereign tier.

“Wow, the speed of my cultivation improvement is truly astonishing…” Ye Feng couldn’t help but exclaim. Fortunately, his soul strength was strong. After taking so many pills, he only needed some time to consolidate his foundation, without any lasting issues.

After stepping onto the sixth level, Ye Feng saw two of the leaders among the eighteen people before. Those two also noticed Ye Feng’s presence and were greatly surprised upon seeing him. Although they had been unable to determine Ye Feng’s cultivation level before, they did not think he was a strong opponent on par with themselves. But now that Ye Feng had reached the sixth level, it meant he was also a strong fighter of the same rank, which posed a significant threat to them. Although Ye Feng had closed his eyes and entered a state of meditation as soon as he arrived, those two were only at the mid-stage of the Saint Venerable level. If they were not careful, they might be pushed out by the repulsive force, so they dared not move at all and could only pray that they would be able to reach the next level before Ye Feng.