Ye Xiao stood up, his body aching with excruciating wounds. He then dug out the ground bit by bit, creating a human-sized hole. As a cultivator, it was easy for him to make a hole like this, but Ye Xiao's condition was so painful and weak that it took a lot of effort just to make it.
With teary eyes, Ye Xiao lifted Aunt Zhang's decrepit body and slowly placed it into the hole he had dug.
The elderly figure before him was the last person who cared about him, and after this, Ye Xiao was truly alone. Aunt Zhang was his last family, and after this incident, his connection with the Ye family was completely severed.
After a moment of calming himself down,
Ye Xiao, with some hesitation, sat cross-legged and closed his eyes. This place was a dense forest filled with various spiritual trees and plants. Even ordinary plants would generate abundant natural energy due to their sheer number and size.
However, directly absorbing natural energy is much slower than using spirit stones. After all, spirit stones are formed from the long-term accumulation of natural energy. The longer the time and the better the quality of the natural energy, the higher the grade of the resulting spirit stone.
It was unknown where Ye Xiao had been transported by the blood sword spirit, but wherever it was, as long as he was safe, it was certainly a good thing. Ye Xiao felt he still had a chance for revenge in the future. He intended to make the most of this time to become stronger and then return to the Ye family to take revenge himself.
One day passed...
Two days passed...
One month passed...
Ye Xiao slowly opened his eyes, a glint of light radiating from them.
His father's sneak attack was extremely powerful. Fortunately, with Ye Xiao's strong physique, he was able to survive. Otherwise, the attack of a cultivator as powerful as his father would have surely killed him, leaving him completely shattered.
Ye Xiao was increasingly convinced that his experience of meeting a figure similar to himself was real, and that the pain he endured to increase his physical strength was also real.
"Okay, let's do this first," Ye Xiao said, looking at the blood sword in front of him. His current condition was almost at its peak, enough to allow him to mobilize his soul power to establish a soul contract with the blood sword spirit.
"Okay, now you need to understand this soul contract method first," the blood sword spirit said, sending a stream of energy into Ye Xiao's soul.
Hmmmm...
As soon as Ye Xiao received the energy, it immediately split within Ye Xiao's soul, forming a transparent book with various characters clearly written on it.
"That's a very good soul contract. Even at your current level, you should be able to contract with a soul spirit stronger than your own." The sword spirit's words indicated that the soul contract method it had imparted was no ordinary one. Of course, there were limits to the level Ye Xiao could cultivate once he had grasped it.
"Oh, really? Okay." Ye Xiao nodded and began to read and study all the characters that appeared in his mind.
Ye Xiao could certainly read the characters clearly, but understanding them required time and perseverance for his mind to process them.
But the soul contract method itself isn't as difficult to grasp as attack techniques or cultivation techniques, let alone formation and pill refining methods. It's a relatively easy skill to grasp.
One week later...
"This... A very good method," Ye Xiao murmured as he reopened his eyes. He had now grasped every essence of the soul contract method the blood sword spirit had imparted to him.
Furthermore, Ye Xiao could feel his soul power increasing after comprehending the soul contract method.
"Alright, let's begin," Ye Xiao said after calming down and gazing at the blood sword in front of him.
"Yes, let's begin." The blood sword spirit sounded very excited.
By understanding the soul contract method, Ye Xiao also learned how to use it.
Ye Xiao bit his finger, causing a drop of blood to flow from the bite mark. Then, he wrote some strange characters in the air, creating a writing pattern in the air in front of him.
Ngung...
The next moment, the blood lettering in the air emitted a blood-red light and formed a circle with various strange characters surrounding it.
"Let's do it...!!" And along with Ye Xiao's shout, the blood-red circular pattern shot into the body of the blood sword in front of him.
Ahhh...
Along with that, the sword spirit groaned, indicating that a soul contract was trying to control it. The body of the blood sword seemed to be trembling.
Ye Xiao continuously focused his mind on controlling the energy of the soul contract to fully embed it into the body of the blood sword. And indeed, Ye Xiao could sense that the blood sword spirit offered no resistance to Ye Xiao's soul power, making the process of implanting the soul contract very smooth.
This showed that what the blood sword spirit had said from the beginning was indeed not a lie. However, this also made Ye Xiao even more suspicious about the origin of this blood sword. Why was it so interested in making him its master? Was it because he was powerful? Of course not. Judging from the previous situation, the powerful Ye family ancestor couldn't even establish a soul contract with this blood sword because it would definitely refuse to recognize the Ye family ancestor as its master. But why did it seem so sincere in making Ye Xiao its master? There must be a reason, but what was that reason? Ye Xiao became even more curious about the origin of this blood sword in front of him.
And after a while...
Boom...
The body of the blood sword trembled even more intensely.