Eternal Holy Emperor
Chapter 84 - 76: Monument of Strength

Chapter 84: Chapter 76: Monument of Strength

Gravity Tower.

In the Nine Times Gravity Room, Ye Chen, with his upper body bare, displayed a robust physique without an ounce of excess fat. Under the terrifying ninefold gravity, he was doing a handstand, supporting his body with his hands and moving it up and down.

He was undergoing a grueling exercise. Though the Domineering Refining Saint Technique was crucial, basic physical exercises that could synchronize every function of the body were equally indispensable.

As a descendant of the Combat Saint lineage, Ye Chen was clearer about this aspect than anyone else.

With his hands supporting him in a handstand, his body moved up and down with the bending and straightening of his arms during handstand push-ups. It seemed like a normal, simple daily exercise, but under ninefold gravity, it invisibly added a tenfold increase to the fatigue, unimaginably arduous and under extreme pressure.

His body felt as heavy as a thousand pounds. Each time it sank and then rose, it bore that terrifying gravity, severely draining his strength.

Even for Innate Strong People who circulated Innate True Essence to protect their body, it would be absolutely impossible to continue for long; it was very exhausting.

However, Ye Chen’s physical body was extraordinarily strong. During such exercises, only the veins in his arms slightly protruded, and even his facial expression remained calm, with not a single drop of sweat falling.

Moreover, his entire body was circulating a faint golden color as the Human Origin Body Technique continued to operate autonomously within him, circulating the Great and Small Circulation and continuously revolving.

After continuing like this three hundred times, suddenly Ye Chen’s hands shifted from five fingers to three. Though it appeared to be just a reduction of two fingers, the level of difficulty more than doubled.

At this time, some sweat began to appear on Ye Chen’s face, but it was still bearable.

Half an hour later, suddenly each hand was reduced to just one index finger, multiplying the pressure several times, with all the gravity borne by two fingers, bending as if they might break at any moment.

Veins in his arms, like earthworms, gruesomely prominent, rose up, and with more handstand push-ups, his whole body began to secrete copious amounts of sweat, pouring like rain.

Even Ye Chen’s breathing began to grow heavy and his face turned red.

But if an outsider were there, they would be shocked out of their wits. Despite only two fingers supporting his entire body for the handstand push-ups, enduring an unprecedented fearful pressure and greater exertion, every rise and fall of Ye Chen’s push-ups was consistently timed, not a second more, not a second less, evenly matched, almost mechanically precise, unbelievably so.

Even an Innate Strong Person employing Innate True Essence for protection couldn’t achieve this.

Finally, after continuous exertion for a full hour and a half and after the seven hundred eighty-third handstand push-up, Ye Chen finally stopped and stood up again.

By then, his entire body was thoroughly soaked with sweat, as if he had been drenched in a heavy rain, and his arms had swollen to the thickness of thighs, aching to the point of numbness.

Ye Chen’s face too had turned somewhat pale, his breathing rapid, but his eyes remained as calm and natural as ever, as if none of this had ever happened.

Even Elder Yan couldn’t help but marvel, this guy really wasn’t ordinary, to be able to remain so composed facing such pain.

Unbothered by his surroundings, Ye Chen accelerated the operation of the Human Origin Body Technique, strands of Human Origin Power circulating in his arms, quickly reducing the swelling, and the intense pain also rapidly disappearing.

Although the Human Origin Body Technique was a Body Refining Method, as the first part of the Supreme Three Body Technique, comparable to the Domineering Refining Saint Technique, it also possessed extraordinary healing properties and could repair injuries.

Thereafter, Ye Chen began a new round of training.

Since returning from the Danxin Palace, Ye Chen hadn’t gone anywhere else; he had directly entered the Nine Times Gravity Room using the privileges of the Thirteenth Prince, and had started a dull and tedious life of hardship, staying there for twelve days.

Over those twelve days, Ye Chen hadn’t left the Nine Times Gravity Room for even an hour, continually enduring the difficult days of training that ordinary people could hardly bear, practicing two major Body Refining Methods.

Although the days of practice were always monotonous and dull, for someone from his previous life who often needed decades of long retreats, it was utterly insignificant. Ye Chen could ignore such clamor.

With the Domineering Refining Saint Technique excavating the potential of the human body, combined with the cultivation of the Innate Demon Pill through the Human Origin Body Technique, and under the condition of nine times gravity, the progress in physical training was astoundingly rapid, with an increase nearly every day. Ye Chen could very distinctly feel his body strengthening every moment, each cell breathing in nature’s spiritual energy, and continuously growing stronger.

Even at times, Ye Chen felt that the strength of his physical body was so immense that he could strike down one of the Innate Strong People with a single punch.

Of course, this was just an illusion, but it was enough to prove his rapid progress.

In his cultivation journey, even his Dao progress advanced by leaps and bounds, unintentionally breaking through to the Acquired Ninth Layer, and the next step would be the Innate realm.

Being at the Acquired Ninth Realm at the age of sixteen was already quite remarkable, yet compared to his achievements in physical strength, it seemed rather trivial.

Boom, boom, boom—

Eventually, Ye Chen in the gravity room was directly swinging his fists and feet, each punch and kick possessing the force of thousands pounds, striking in the void and directly exploding the air, creating a booming vibrational sensation, shaking the entire nine times gravity room.

Moreover, his entire being, like a ghostly apparition under nine times gravity, ran producing a string of illusions, making it impossible for ordinary people to capture where his figure was.

Had there been an outsider present, they would have been incredibly shocked. To be able to explode the air and move with illusions under nine times gravity indicated the immense strength of his body, which was unbelievable.

When everything ceased, Ye Chen suddenly came to a standstill, immovable like a mountain, his whole body crackling ceaselessly, muscles and bones resonating like drums, deafening.

Finally, when everything calmed down, Ye Chen took a long breath, opened his eyes wide with a flash like cold lightning, lighting up the entire gravity room.

The door of the Nine Times Gravity Room opened, and Ye Chen left, choosing to emerge from seclusion.

Because he felt that even if he continued to practice this way, it would not be much effective any longer. For him at present, the Nine Times Gravity Room had gradually been adapted to, and the effect was slowly diminishing, not as good as at the beginning anymore. To strengthen his body, he could only choose other methods.

Moreover, the Royal Capital was about to host an unprecedented auction, not to be missed, and naturally, Ye Chen would not miss it.

Now, only two days were left until the auction, and Ye Chen chose to come out a day early to prepare for the auction.

After all, every item at the auction was extremely rare, and the bidding prices were absolutely steep. Although he had 370,000 Gold Coins, which might seem a lot to the average person, it would prove grossly insufficient when the real bidding began.

The rarer the treasure, the steeper the price, this was a rule.

Especially the last Divine-level Secret Treasure, which was invaluable; it might even provoke those high beings to fight, and without substantial capital, one wouldn’t stand a chance.

Thus, he planned to first gather some capital, trying to accumulate more wealth in the Purple Pattern Gold Card as a precaution.

After leaving the Gravity Tower, Ye Chen was about to go to Danxin Palace to discuss this matter with Li Yun when, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a bustling Martial Arts Arena nearby, filled with large numbers of students crowding around it, bustling and lively.

Curious, Ye Chen walked over and saw in the center of the Martial Arts Arena stood a ten-zhang tall black stone stele, smooth all over but evidently aged, appearing somewhat ancient.

The stele was densely engraved with names from top to bottom in a row, totaling up to three hundred people upon close counting.

And behind each name, there was a value, measured in catties.

From the conversations around him, Ye Chen finally understood that this was a Stele of Strength, a mysterious stele that could accurately measure a person’s strength with a full strike against it.

The three hundred people on the stele were from Xiafeng Academy’s history, those who had measured the highest strength, each with a strength value of above 30,000 catties, with even the weakest having 33,000 catties.

Ye Chen’s gaze turned to the top of the Stele of Strength, clearly written was the first, Xia Yang, with a strength of 68,079 catties!

Xia Yang, the current Crown Prince of Xiafeng Country!