After a few more minutes, numerous droplets of sweat slowly flowed down from Tang Ye’s forehead. They flowed past his brows, flowed past his closed eyes, and flowed towards his lips. A cool breeze blew by, and the leaves in the forest rustled. A few withered and yellow leaves descended slowly from the sky, whereas, the young man on the enormous rock was still standing ramrod straight like a status. After around an hour of time, suddenly, the Dark Iron Sword in Tang Ye’s hand was suffused with a light golden glow, and it trembled slightly as if it had come to life. After a moment of silence, Tang Ye’s eyes suddenly opened up, and they emanated an extremely clear cold glow. Tang Ye held the Dark Iron Sword in his hand as he suddenly swung it towards an enormous tree in the distance. Energy Split Sword Technique! Tang Ye spoke lightly in his heart. After that, a light golden strand of sword qi flashed out from the tip of the Dark Iron Sword. Bang! An enormous tree that required a few people to embrace and was over 10m away from Tang Ye had been chopped into two along with this bang, and the point it was chopped was smooth like a mirror. Rumble! The upper half of the tree fell to the ground and caused countless dust and dirt to suffuse the air. As he looked at the tree that fell to the ground, Tang Ye’s seemingly exhausted face wasn’t able to conceal the excitement he felt. After cultivating day and night for six days, he hadn’t just improved his Basic Sword Technique again, he’d even cultivated the Energy Split Sword Technique to the first level. How could he not be excited by this? Suddenly, a feeling of emptiness surged from the bottom of Tang Ye’s heart. It was the feeling of completely exhausting one’s Profound Energy! Looks like unless it’s a critical moment, otherwise, I can’t rashly utilize this Energy Split Sword Technique! Tang Ye couldn’t help but laugh bitterly as he looked at the Dark Iron Sword in his hand. Even though the Energy Split Sword Technique was formidable, its consumption of Profound Energy was too terrifying. Just like this moment, he’d merely executed a single strand of sword qi, yet the Profound Energy within his body had been exhausted. Tang Ye withdrew an Energy Stone and held it in his hand before started to absorb the energy within it. The Profound Energy within the Energy Stone surged into his body and was instantly absorbed by the mysterious tiny vortex. Suddenly, Tang Ye frowned because the tiny vortex didn’t give him some light golden Profound Energy as it had in the past! Has something happened again? When he thought up to here, Tang Ye couldn’t help but feel slightly panicked, and he immersed his mind into his body. However, he was actually unable to enter the tiny vortex this time. In the past, he was able to enter the tiny vortex with his Spiritual Energy, but this time, it seemed like there was something on the tiny vortex that was obstructing him, causing him to be unable to observe the situation within the tiny vortex. When he noticed this, that feeling of panic spread completely from the bottom of Tang Ye’s heart, and he hurriedly withdrew over 10 Energy Stones and started absorbing them. However, it was still as it was before this. The Profound Energy was instantly absorbed by the tiny vortex, but the light golden Profound Energy still didn’t flow out. “Brother, what’re you playing at now?” Tang Ye’s expression was slightly unsightly when he noticed the tiny vortex only took but didn’t give. Could it be that the tiny vortex intends to act like it did in the past? In next to no time, Tang Ye denied these thoughts of his. He and the tiny vortex were a single whole. If he didn’t absorb Profound Energy, then the tiny vortex would be unable to absorb Profound Energy. They could be said to be bound together for good or bad, and he didn’t believe that the tiny vortex wouldn’t bite the hand that feeds it! After going silent for a moment, Tang Ye withdrew an Energy Stone and started absorbing it because he wanted to see what the tiny vortex was doing. After 15 minutes passed, 200 Energy Stones were gone, and the tiny vortex was still absorbing.One hour later, 800 Energy Stones were gone, yet the tiny vortex was still absorbing, and it was absorbing at an even quicker rate. Just like this, after six hours passed, the tiny vortex was still absorbing, and it didn’t show any signs of stopping or giving him some light golden Profound Energy. On the other hand, Tang Ye seemed as if he was going to fight the tiny vortex until the end, and he ceaselessly withdrew Energy Stone after Energy Stone. In these few hours of time, the tiny vortex had already absorbed a few thousands of Energy Stones. As he watched the Energy Stones vanish, Tang Ye’s heart hurt slightly. Luckily, Bao’er had given him over 100,000 Energy Stones, otherwise, he wouldn’t allow the tiny vortex to absorb the Energy Stones like this no matter what. Just like this, Tang Ye sat here from day until night, and numerous Energy Stones vanished. However, the tiny vortex seemed like a bottomless hole, and over 10,000 Energy Stones were still unable to satisfy the tiny vortex. In the blink of an eye, Tang Ye had continued sitting here from the night until the day, and in this time of a day and night, 20,000 Energy Stones had vanished. As he watched these Energy Stones vanish bit by bit, Tang Ye wanted to stop on many occasions, but he couldn’t. Because he had to figure the tiny vortex out. Otherwise, not to mention the battle on the Life and Death Arena with Liu Qingyu three months from now, he would even be eliminated from the Outer Court Exam that was being held over 20 days from now. In the blink of an eye, three days had passed, and half of the Energy Stones Bao’er gave him had been consumed. At this moment, Tang Ye was already numbed to it, and it had aroused his ferocity. Because in any case, he was going to ‘fight’ the tiny vortex until the end! At a certain moment at noon on the third day, Tang Ye’s hand that held the Energy Stones paused for a moment, and he immersed his mind into his body. When he saw the Dantian within his body, Tang Ye’s eyes instantly opened wide, and his face was covered in disbelief.