《Vengeful Martial God》


 Chapter 1: 3 Years of hard work

    With Ye Qing¡¯s help, Ye Meng somehow managed to hide his presence. Even though his cultivation was crippled, his body was extremely fit due to his previous accomplishments in cultivation. He could outrun Olympic runners and beat professional boxers in the comparison of punching power. As he was jogging deeper inside the forest, he was constantly getting memories from Ye Qian.


    The process of transferring memories was mysterious and one had to be careful which memories to transfer.The reason for that was because, if you transfer memories of yourself getting burned alive, the receiver will feel like he¡¯s getting burned alive. It¡¯s like a youtube video taken by a GoPro which you can watch anything, but everything that happens in the video also feels like it happens to you. Short clips of memories are a lot easier because they¡¯re just used to transfer techniques.


    "The body refining technique I''ve given you was the reason why I died. I found this technique while I was exploring some ancient ruins and showed it to my brothers. They started attacking me for the method and eventually I died under their combined attacks, but before that, I exploded my Qi. That killed them all and with the little time my soul had left, I quickly memorized the contents. The enemies of the Ye Clan should be the clans that my so called brothers hailed from." Explained Ye Qing.


    "The technique is called The Sovereign¡¯s Body and it is extremely valuable, even to an expert like me. The technique is heaven defying as it literally transforms your body. One could go from average cultivation speed to a cultivation speed that is thousands of times faster than a normal person''s if you complete all of the 13 stages of it by transforming and widening your meridians. The other advantage is that it is an absolute top tier body refining method but you need a lot of effort to break through. The first stage is quite easy as it just requires someone hitting you on certain points over and over again. But, the second stage requires a good amount of body refining medicines and treasures along with heavy pressure on your body. Getting to the 1st stage will allow you easily defeat Dan Forming cultivators. The second stage will let you easily fight against Divine Sea experts. If you reach the 10th stage then if I were alive I wouldn¡¯t be a match for you, that shows how strong this technique is. The only downside is it needs tons of resources or else the cultivation speed of this technique will be extremely slow.¡±


    Ye Meng started shaking with excitement, He''s slightly above average and it took him 5 years to reach the peak of Spirit Forming so just 10 times faster means he will get to that level in half a year! 100 times faster means that he will get to that stage in about 2 and a half weeks! 1,000 times faster means that he¡¯ll get there in 2 days!


    Just the thought of that cultivation speed made Ye Meng extremely enthusiastic to cultivate it. "The standard cultivation method for the Ye family is not what you''ll learn. You''ll learn the best cultivation technique that I have. The technique should be in your memories, it''s called the GodKing''s Breath. There is nothing that special about the technique that I found besides the fact that is a very good one as your only absorb the purest of Qi. The pure Qi makes your foundation incredibly solid and helps you lessen the length of bottlenecks.¡±


    Ye Meng recalled the technique from the memories he received a while back from his ancestor. His pitch black eyes widened because the technique he got is like heaven compared to the technique he got from the Jade Mountain Sect. ¡°No wonder no one in The Jade Mountain Sect has a cultivation level over Divine Sea. Their techniques are so bad that no matter how talented someone is they wouldn¡¯t be able to break through.


    Seeing Ye Meng''s completely dumbfounded expression, Ye Qing felt a strange burst of happiness and he exclaimed, "Haha! Do you think that I, Ye Qing, would be lacking in any top tier techniques? You should see my alchemy techniques, I was a top tier alchemist back in my day!"


    "Holy shit.... This old man was a fucking pro at alchemy. Look at those skills! He doesn''t even have to look at the herbs to know what they are!" Thought Ye Meng as he looked through his ancestor''s memories. Ye Meng is a relatively young alchemist and he only knows about 2,000 herbs by heart, but the old man knows at least 1,000,000 by heart! Ye Meng felt a raging fire of determination ignite by scanning through the memories and his blood was boiling. ¡°I want to be like him! I want to refine poison pills that can kill countless experts when inhaled!¡±


    Ye Qing purposely gave important memories of his life to Ye Meng as life experience was very important. He saw how the old man killed countless amounts of strong experts with one blow. But, he also saw all of the heartbreaking betrayals and tragedies the old man had to endure. Ye Qing''s standing in his heart unknowingly went from a distant relative who has a business relationship with into someone who should be respected. Ye Qing was not in any ways righteous, but Ye Qing always followed the ideals in his heart until his last breath. He never cheated anyone or betrayed anyone even if they had done that to him.


    Ye Qing lectured Ye Meng and told him every single useful technique he had so Ye Meng could use them when in need. They spent the whole night talking and Ye Meng felt extremely drowsy because he was currently a mortal right now even with his superhuman body he still had to sleep.


    Ye Meng laid down and slept for 2 hours because with his current body, 2 hours of sleep is all that he needs.


    Eventually, 3 years had passed in the blink of an eye. Ye Qing had been worked to the bone by Ye Meng. The former started liking Ye Qing more and more as time went by. The main reason why Ye Meng was so cold to Ye Qing was because in normal Xianxia''s, the protagonist gets used by the old master or sage. It''s not really hard to give someone your techniques, but something that is really hard is killing a guy who is several stages ahead of you in cultivation. If you can¡¯t kill him, then you¡¯ll have a heart demon for breaking a vow which makes you unable to ever grow in strength. During the three years, Ye Qing forbid Ye Meng from cultivating because his cultivation speed was just awfully slow. It would be better to refine techniques and temper his body to the first stage before beginning his cultivation. His cultivation speed was just too inefficient to be used.


    Ye Qing never asked him to do revenge on his behalf but Ye Meng swore that he would do it anyways as it was him who saved his life. Ye Meng''s alchemy skills had to be refined over the 3 years and he had been selling his pills along with buying materials at the closest Alchemist¡¯s Association branch.


    Indeed, he did get the memories of Ye Qing, but the memories were more like guidelines. Most average people had to practice hundreds of times to properly learn how to refine a pill, which was why alchemists were so rare, the cost of the materials were exorbitant, but Ye Meng only had to do it several times to get it right due to his inherited past experiences.


    Ye Meng was currently cultivating The Sovereign''s Body by repeatedly getting hit by a beast. You simply cannot temper yourself simply by sitting in a lotus position and circulating your Qi around your body to strengthen it. You need to endure some kind of pressure to help stimulate the growth of stronger cells.


    Ye Meng got help at capturing a Magical Beast with the cultivation of a Foundation Building by paying someone and had it hit him in the proper places. Ye Meng wasn''t scared of dieing because he bought a beast rearing collar which can enslave a beast making it follow all of your commands.


    Cultivating The Sovereign¡¯s Body is extremely painful as you purposely get hurt and then you circulate Qi from the air in the way it¡¯s shown in the diagram. The Qi stimulates the growth of new stronger cells and helps you heal in the blink of an eye.


    As he was repeatedly getting hit by the attacks and tempering his body, his whole body started glowing red. Ye Meng felt the excruciating pain of his body being reformed and changed thousands of times faster than it normally did. Every single cell in his body was screaming in pain because they were getting ripped apart and rebuilt every second. Ye Meng¡¯s body was completely transforming, he grew taller and more muscular.


    Instead of the skinny and feminine boy he used be, Ye Meng had transformed into a man. During the three years his appearance didn¡¯t change much at all, he remained fragile and skinny but now he finally changed. He still retained his delicate facial features but he grew a several inches taller making him well above the average height. His body gained muscles that were very lean like a cheetah''s. His face was a lot more masculine with a change in facial structure. His bones were denser and his lean muscles were packed with power that could punch holes in mountains and lift giant boulders with no problem at all. Even ''down there'' grew bigger, which made Ye Meng the happiest. He circulated his Qi to test out his meridians and found out they were much wider and stronger than before. Whenever he circulated his Qi before it was like little strands of Qi coming into his dantian but now it was like a steady stream. He didn¡¯t look innocent at all anymore, instead he looked like a refined young scholar.


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    Whilst Ye Meng was undergoing his drastic change, Ye Qing was watching all of this with shock in his eyes. He had read the technique but as they say seeing is believing, "No wonder those old fogies attacked me for that technique! With his body he could currently fight a Dan Forming cultivator without any problem at all! His body is comparable to a Rank 3 Demonic Beast! This is just the first stage and each other stage is supposed tens of times stronger than the latter! His meridians are many times better than before! It seems that if he reaches the 3rd stage, he¡¯ll get the talent of an above average youth in the Immortal Realm!


    There are two different kinds of beast in this world, magical beasts and demonic beasts. Demonic beasts are ranked 1-9 from weakest to strongest. A rank 2 demonic beast is can fight against 10 cultivators of the Foundation Building stage but lose out to Dan Forming cultivators slightly. Demonic beasts are ferocious and stupid unlike magical beasts which have intelligence. Magical beasts are beasts who cultivate and are intelligent.


    Magical Beasts have magical cores which are used for powering arrays, formations and can be used to make pills that increase your cultivation. Demonic beasts don''t have a core but their bodies are incredibly touch which can be used to make weapons, armor and jewelry.


    Ye Meng was currently gnashing his teeth due to the intense pain he had to endure. Over the 4 years he spent with Ye Qing, his personality and ideals changed a lot. He cared more about getting stronger than living a comfortable life, woman or money. If you become strong, then you will naturally get these even though you don¡¯t want it. If you¡¯re the strongest expert in the world, no one will mess with you, women will flock to you like flies and people will gift you money just for them to stay in your good books.


    His personality got a lot colder to people who weren¡¯t related to him due to seeing all of Ye Qing¡¯s memories. Experiences change how someone¡¯s personality is because if you had gotten betrayed in the past multiple times, you would be colder and less trustful of other people. When he looked through Ye Qing¡¯s memories when he stood on the peak of the Immortal Realm, he felt a sense of superiority and he got addicted to the feeling. He wanted to be on top, he wanted to be respected and he wanted to be strong. All of those desires converged together to form his iron will and his firm determination.


    Ye Meng kept enduring the nerve wracking pain until it suddenly stopped and a stinky thick black liquid came out from his body. Ye Meng felt as if he was floating in soft and fluffy clouds as his body was releasing all the impurities he had. Eventually, the release of impurities stopped and Ye Meng looked down. He saw a puddle of sticky, thick and stinky black liquid under his feet. When he caught a whiff of the smell, he almost threw up and immediately ran to the nearest body of water.


    He came upon a small lake and jumped right in there washing away all the remains of the impurities that were stuck to his body. After he was done washing himself, he swam to the shore and spat out the water he swallowed, ¡°Pwah! Pwah! Cough! Cough! Cough!¡±. Ye Meng knew that in normal Xianxia after going through an impurity cleansing, one¡¯s strength increases by leaps and bounds but he wanted to see for himself. He found a giant tree to use as a target and he threw a punch with all his might. When his fist hit the tree, the tree instantly snapped and fell in his direction.


    Without a single trace of panic, Ye Meng caught the 100 foot wide tree with his bare hands and did a couple of squats. With a satisfied expression on his face, Ye Meng muttered, ¡°Before I reached the first stage, I had the strength to just shake the tree whenever I punched it. But now, I can easily break a tree this size. I think my strength has increased by 3 times. Previously, I had the strength of 100,000 jins of force in a punch but now, I have the force of 300,000 jins of force in a punch even without techniques. I reckon with the techniques that I¡¯ve learned I could punch out 600,000. This technique is amazing¡­¡±


    After seeing Ye Meng¡¯s satisfied expression, Ye Qian harshly scolded Ye Meng, ¡°Hmph! Why are you satisfied with just that? This level of power is incomparable to what you could have by cultivating The Sovereign¡¯s Body! Never stop aiming for the peak and remember, there is always someone stronger than you so don¡¯t dare to be arrogant with this measly amount of strength. In a while, I¡¯ll tell you a secret that only the upper echelons of the Immortal Realm know once you reach the Foundation Building stage. ¡± Ye Meng listened to the old man¡¯s wise words and made sure to remember them. ¡°The hard part of your training is over, I¡¯ve built a firm foundation for you in The Sovereign¡¯s Body so you can start cultivating now. Use those pills to boost your cultivation as soon as possible as you can absorb more now.¡±


    Hearing those words Ye Meng felt relieved, he had to endure nerve wracking pain to temper his body while cultivating was essentially just sitting in a lotus position while circulating Qi. But, before he started cultivating, he went to the beast he had enslaved and killed it cleanly. The first time Ye Meng had killed, he almost puked but after killing hundreds of beasts he got used to it. Some people have tried to rob him before and he killed them without an ounce of regret. If people try to rob someone, they should be aware of the risks and be prepared to die.


    He went to his cabin he built as a shelter inside the Magical Beast Range. He cleaned the blood off of him and he put the beast rearing collar inside his interspatial pouch which was worth several pills that Dan Forming experts used.


    He sat down cross legged and took out pills from his bag. He sighed and remembered his past ¡°My life has really been turned upside down. Before, I could only use pills for Spirit Forming cultivators but now I can use the pills that the Marrow Cleansing elders in the sect used.¡± He popped a handful of those pills inside his mouth and quickly absorbed them into his dantian. If anyone else saw what Ye Meng did they would¡¯ve pitied him for his stupidity but Ye Meng isn¡¯t a normal mortal. He¡¯s reached the first stage in The Sovereign¡¯s Body which is an extremely powerful body refining technique. His meridians have been strengthened to the point where he can use several of those pills in one go.


    He absorbed the Qi then ate pills, he absorbed the Qi then ate pills, the cycle went on and on. Eventually, 2 weeks had passed and Ye Meng had reached the peak of the Spirit Forming stage. He sighed and muttered, ¡°I took so much pills and I only increased my cultivation to the peak of the Spirit Forming stage. I reckon if anyone else took those pills they would at least reach the peak of Foundation Building stage. The Sovereign¡¯s Body really is expensive to cultivate¡­¡±


    If you¡¯re wondering why Ye Meng didn¡¯t take pills during the three years to increase his cultivation it was because it had no effect. The Sovereign¡¯s Body greedily devoured everything inside the pills to improve the speed it took him to reach the first stage. His meridians were really weak due to being a mortal and they could only absorb pills made for Spirit Forming cultivators. But, the pills had an extremely meagre level of Qi compared to the pills Ye Meng previously devoured so he only got a few scraps of Qi for cultivation. It wasn¡¯t worth it so he just didn¡¯t try at all to absorb the Qi whenever he took pills.


    Ye Meng decided to test his strength and looked around for Marrow Cleansing magical beasts. He found multiple Dan Forming beasts and he killed them with a single strike without using any Qi. He took their cores to make pills later on and continued the search. He spent about 2 hours before he found a Marrow Cleansing magical beast.


    It was the Two Headed Tiger that had the aura of a king. The Two Headed Tiger saw him and disdainfully snorted. The tiger ran at him with anger because the tiger thought that the Spirit Forming cultivator was mocking him by entering his territory. The speed would be like a blur in the eyes of most Spirit Forming cultivators but for Ye Meng, it was slow. He simply sidestepped and slashed at the side of the tiger¡¯s body using Ye Qing¡¯s favorite sword technique, 7 Swords to Slay Gods. Blood gushed out of the tiger¡¯s side and he retreated back quickly. The tiger might be a beast, but it was still intelligent. If the first exchange ended up with him being heavily then what would happen in 10 exchanges, 20 exchanges or 30 exchanges? Would he even be alive after 20 exchanges? In his eyes, the mortal cultivated some amazing body refining technique which made his body incredibly strong.


    He chased the tiger through the forest and slowly overtook him. The tiger had none of that arrogance it previously had and it was like a deer trying to run away from a magnificent dragon. It only took a couple of slashes to kill the Two Headed Tiger. He took the tiger¡¯s core and decided to use it for alchemy.


    He ran out of the forest at the speed incomparable to his speed a couple of weeks before. After a couple of hours, he found was on the outskirts of the forest. After almost being killed by Wang Fang, Ye Meng went to a city where no one knew his identity as he wanted to start anew. He kept the same name because there were hundreds of billions of people in this world. How many people would be named Ye Meng? A million? 10 million?

 Chapter 2: Soaring Dragon City

    The city was a called Blue Wind City and it had a Marrow Cleansing expert as the city lord. Before his breakthrough, Ye Meng was confident in killing Dan Forming Experts but now he could be said to be the strongest in the city. He decided to hide his cultivation using a technique he got from Ye Qing as going from no cultivation to peak of Spirit Forming stage in a couple of weeks is inhuman in this backwater area.


    He saw the middle sized city and he approached the gates. The Foundation Building guards saw his ragged clothes and dirt covered all over him along with his lack of cultivation. They disdainfully said, ¡°No beggars allowed in the city. ¡±


    Ye Meng was at a loss for words and Ye Qing was laughing like a madman due to the guard¡¯s reactions. Ye Meng is quite friendly with the guards and they should recognize him even if he was from 1,000 meters away. ¡°Hahhaaha! They¡¯re calling you a beggar! Hhahahahahah!¡± wheezed Ye Qing. Ye Meng felt a tinge of annoyance in his heart as he pulled out his Alchemist¡¯s Association blood bounded card.


    The guards saw the card and they almost spurted out blood. They were scared of offending prestigious people but they did just that. A revered Tier 3 alchemist in the city had the appearance of a beggar! Who would¡¯ve expected that?! They knew that Ye Meng was an eccentric who didn¡¯t care for many things so even if he slightly resembled Ye Meng they would¡¯ve asked a bit more respectfully. But, his stature was completely different than the normal Young Alchemist Ye they knew. The difference between the two was like heaven and earth! You have to understand that one word of one of the two Tier 3 Alchemists in the city, who can refine pills for Dan Forming cultivators, can have their families killed. The quickly kowtowed on the ground without an ounce of shame and begged the young man in front of them, ¡°Young alchemist Ye, please excuse our words back then!¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s alright, I had just been in the Magical Beast Range looking for herbs and I managed to get dirty. I also managed to make a breakthrough in my body refining technique which transformed my body.¡± When the guards heard that they wanted to die. How is this a breakthrough in a body refining technique?! This is must be a transformation technique! How can a body refining technique make someone go through puberty?! But, the guards don¡¯t dare to say it out loud in case of offending the young alchemist in front of them another time.


    The guards got up and let Ye Meng in with awkward smiles on their faces. Ye Meng entered the city and headed to his house in the city. He quickly washed himself and then he went to go say goodbye. He walked to the branch of the Alchemist¡¯s Association after getting some tasty food from food stalls.


    The Alchemist¡¯s Association was the number 1 power in the world without a doubt. They have branches everywhere around the world and alchemists are ranked by tiers through 1-9 with Tier 1 Alchemist''s being able to refine pills for Spirit Forming cultivators. A Tier 2 Alchemist could refine pills for Foundation Building cultivators and so on. No one dares to offend the Alchemist¡¯s Association because they can call cultivators to aid them by giving them expensive pills.


    He entered the building and went to the branch leader¡¯s office. There was an identity checking array up ahead and he just flashed his card. As soon as the arrays picked up his identity they informed the branch leader. Ye Meng waited for a while and the door opened up to reveal a mature woman in her mid thirties wearing beautiful robes walking out out. As soon as she saw Ye Meng, she knitted her eyebrows because he seemed familiar. After a while, she exclaimed with shock, ¡°Little Meng?! What happened to you?!¡±


    Ye Meng scratched his head and he innocently said, ¡°I made a breakthrough in my body refining technique. Anyways, I¡¯ve come to tell you that I¡¯m leaving to join a sect after I finish up some loose ends.¡± When she heard that, her beautiful eyes starting tearing up and she hugged him, ¡°Remember to eat well and don¡¯t start unnecessary fights! Sects are dangerous but with your talent you¡¯d be given the utmost care!¡±


    Even with Ye Meng¡¯s current strength he felt crushed under her bear hug. He remembered that she was pregnant 15 years ago but her child died due to an enemy¡¯s attacks so she thought of him as her own child. His heart warmed whenever he was reminded of that because he lost his parents when he was younger and he subconsciously thought of her as a mom during the 3 years.


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry Aunt Chen Bing, I¡¯ll be fine. I have a special parting gift for you and a secret to tell you.¡± He patted his interspatial pouch and a couple of fragrant pills appeared in his hand. As soon as she saw the pills she shuddered with excitement and she exclaimed, ¡°Tier 5 pills! Where did you get those?!¡± He wryly smiled and he proudly said, ¡°Would you believe me if I told you that I made these?¡± She stared at him with shock and her pretty face broke out into a huge grin, ¡°Uuuuuhhhh! Little Meng¡¯er, you were hiding your true capabilities!¡±


    Ye Meng told her to give the pills to her husband, the city lord of the city and he left the building. A cold light gleamed in his eyes and he thought, ¡°It¡¯s time to pay back Wang Feng with the blood of his family¡± . He went to a weapons store and bought an expensive bow and sharp arrows for 65,000 silver liangs. He also bought a map of the nearby million li along with a wooden face mask.


    Currency in this world is in silver liangs and spirit stones with 10 silver liangs being the average income of a mortal family. Ye Meng has around 800,000 silver liangs due to his frugal living conditions which is pretty wealthy amongst Tier 3 Alchemists. Low grade spirit stones are worth around 100,000 silver liangs each which is an exorbitant cost just for their purpose which is to increase cultivation speed.


    He walked out of the city and looked at his map. Ye Meng knew the city where Wang Feng¡¯s family resided in due to his endless boasting in the sect. It was quite far away from Blue Wind City, even for him. He saw that it would take a couple of weeks before he got there if he ran at his full speed. Whenever he thought about Wang Feng and the Dongxue Clan, he immediately became enraged. He clenched his palms until they bled whenever he thought about Wang Feng¡¯s actions towards him. He never did anything against Wang Fang but Wang Feng wanted to kill him just for talking to a girl. He thought about how the Dongxue Clan killed his parents just because his mother refused to ¡®serve¡¯ the young master of the clan. When Ye Qian saw how Ye Meng was enraged, he was reminded of his past self, so he decided to help him out.


    ¡°Hey brat, let me give you some advice. You may have the necessary strength to get revenge but don¡¯t be rash. What if a Divine Sea cultivator is visiting the Wang Clan? You might be able to dominate against Marrow Cleansing cultivators but if you come upon a Divine Sea cultivator you¡¯d be dead. One of the biggest struggles of being a cultivator is growing stronger to make sure you get your revenge. All cultivators must¡¯ve endured some form of being wronged or they aren¡¯t true cultivators. But, they begin blinded by hatred and it causes a heart demon for them. It makes their cultivation unable to advance. It doesn¡¯t matter if you cultivate The Sovereign¡¯s Body, you won¡¯t be able to ascend without reaching the pinnacle of the realm. Don¡¯t be rash and use your time wisely. Don¡¯t create heart demons by obsessing over revenge. You should wait until you reach Foundation Building and I can tell you the secret.¡±


    Ye Meng took some of it to heart but he shook his head and said, ¡°I¡¯m sorry old man, there are some things I can¡¯t agree with you on. If I don¡¯t get my revenge as soon as possible, I¡¯m afraid I¡¯ll go mad. Hatred is like a water leak, it keeps accumulating until it overflows. You¡¯ll need to empty it or else it¡¯ll overflow.¡±


    Ye Qing sighed and he didn¡¯t say anything else. Ye Meng started his journey to the city where the Wang Clan resided in. He spent most of his Qi using his movement technique during the day, so at night he concocted pills and meditated to replenish his Qi. He took the pills he concocted to slightly increase his cultivation. One day, Ye Meng was running very quickly towards Wang City when suddenly, a terrifying roar came from behind him.


    He almost tripped due to shock and when he looked back his expression turned gloomy. There was a Tier 4 deadly beast behind him charging right for Ye Meng which made him run the fastest he has ever run in his entire life. It was one of the strongest of Tier 4 deadly beasts called the King Black Bull. Ye Meng¡¯s body was as strong as an AVERAGE Tier 3 deadly beast and along with his techniques, he could fight an average Tier 4 deadly beast to a standstill. But, the King Black Bull wasn¡¯t an average Tier 4 beast, as Ye Meng knew that the bull was several tens of thousands of jins stronger than an average Tier 4 deadly beast. Ye Qing was very confused because even in the Immortal Realm magical beasts and deadly beasts have their own territories, it was almost like a natural law.


    The chase lasted for a couple of minutes and the King Black Bull almost caught up to him. Ye Meng sighed and thought, ¡°I guess I have no other chance than to fight.¡± Ye Meng saw a giant 300 foot wide tree ahead of him so he thought up a quick plan. He ran to the tree and used his powerful legs to push off the tree towards the King Black Bull like a spring. The King Black Bull totally didn¡¯t expect that to happen as it reacted a lot slower than it should have. Ye Meng flew towards the King Black Bull and he pulled out his best sword called Windfreeze from his interspatial pouch. Windfreeze was a Tier 3 Artifact made by the materials of a Tier 3 deadly beast that he bought for 80,000 silver liangs.


    It looked like a thin blue estoc and gave off a chilly aura. With the slight amount of time he gained from that skillful maneuver, Ye Meng reached the back of the bull and stabbed his sword toward a particular weak spot with all his strength. The estoc made a rather deep 6-inch hole in the bull¡¯s back and the bull angrily roared at Ye Meng. Scarlet blood rapidly gushed out of the wound and Ye Meng quickly retreated back towards safety. This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    He ran towards another giant tree and climbed up the tree hoping to waste time for the bull to be severely weakened by the blood loss. The King Black Bull upon seeing that the opponent was a coward snorted with disdain and ran towards the tree with full speed. Upon getting close to the tree, the bull leaped towards the tree with the force that could cause cracks in mountains. The bull¡¯s large horns pierced the tree¡¯s hard trunk deeply and the bull was now hanging down from the tree unable to get off.


    Upon seeing the hilarious sight, Ye Meng sneered with disdain, ¡°Hmph! As expected from a deadly beast.¡±. He carefully walked along the branches of the tree until he was right above the bull while hanging upside down from a branch. He propelled himself towards the bull and aligned his sword perfectly towards the eye of the bull. Like an arrow, he pierced the eye of the bull and penetrated it¡¯s brain. Ye Meng sighed a breath of relief and started cutting the horns of the bull off. With the horns cut off, the bull¡¯s corpse fell from the tree and hit the ground with an earth shaking rumble. Ye Meng ran to the Wang Clan after he cut off the important parts of the bull and put them in his pouch.


    Eventually, a month had passed since Ye Meng had left Blue Wind City and he reached the Wang Clan¡¯s city.


    The city that the Wang Clan resided in was called Soaring Dragon City. It¡¯s power balance was similar to the Blue Wind City but there was an another major power in the city known as the Mu Clan. The Wang Clan¡¯s Patriarch was the city lord of Soaring Dragon City and was a peak Marrow Cleansing expert but the Mu Clan¡¯s Patriarch was a mid Marrow Cleansing expert. The Wang Clan further solidified their position by being a city under the Jade Mountain Sect.


    Even one small stage was a huge divider in cultivation. The Mu Clan¡¯s Patriarch could probably hold off the Wang Clan¡¯s Patriarch for several moves but after that he would be heavily injured. Ye Meng obtained all that information from some traveling cultivators. With the help of Ye Qing, he disguised his appearance to a young man in his twenties and this time he didn¡¯t forget to wash up before entering the city. He wanted to ask Ye Qing how he made Ye Meng transform but Ye Qing didn¡¯t respond. He entered the city and went to a relatively cheap inn. He spent a couple dozen silver liangs to stay in the inn for two months.


    He concocted pills in his room until it became relatively dark. He walked out of the inn and headed to a nearby tavern for information. The tavern was fairly shabby and looked rather low class. He greeted the bartender and ordered some cheap wine. He drank by himself and he wasn¡¯t worried about getting drunk as The Sovereign¡¯s Body naturally made his body immune to a certain extent of poisons so naturally he would be immune to something weak like alcohol even if he was meant for cultivators. He acted drunk because the amount of alcohol he drank was several cups. A normal peak Spirit Forming cultivator would naturally get drunk from this much.


    While he was drinking, he was secretly eavesdropping with his superhuman hearing. He listened to the conversations about cultivation, woman, and many more interesing conversations. Eventually, he found out what he was looking for, ¡°Did ya hear? The Wang Clan¡¯s young miss, Wang Biyu and the Mu Clan¡¯s Patriarch¡¯s son, Mu Donghai are getting married! In two months the wedding is supposed to take place!¡±


    ¡°Perfect¡­ Much better than I expected¡­¡± muttered Ye Meng as he heard the two old men talking about the Wang Clan and the Mu Clan. Sadly, he didn¡¯t get any more info on the subject. He thought back of the simple strategy, killing with a borrowed knife and found it absolutely fitting for the occasion. But before that, he¡¯ll have to strengthen the knife so it can properly kill.


    He walked out of the bar looking drunk and when he was on the street, he spouted out about random things. People looked at him with disdain but he paid no mind to them because this was a perfect way to disguise himself ever further. He walked back to the inn while he was acting drunk and then he went to his room. He looked at his interspatial pouch and sighed, ¡°I barely have enough materials to execute the plan. I guess I¡¯ll need to get more.¡±


    He checked how many pills he had left and sighed. He didn¡¯t gain any pills when he was concocting in the Magical Beast Range. He had a lot of magical cores but concocting pills needs more than just magical cores. He put on a cloak and asked Ye Qing, ¡°Can you hide my aura to make me look like a mysterious expert?¡±


    Ye Qing did the mystical thing without saying anything and suddenly his aura was completely hidden. Ye Meng found that process to be extremely mysterious and very interesting. He opened the window of the room and stealthily jumped out. He headed towards the Alchemist¡¯s Association branch in the city. Generally, Alchemist¡¯s Association branches are only located in cities where the strongest expert is at least a Dan Forming cultivator. Those branches are maintained by an alchemist whose tier is one lower than the strongest cultivator¡¯s stage. That means that a city with a Divine Sea stage cultivator has a Tier 4 alchemist while a city with a Dan Forming stage cultivator has a Tier 2 alchemist.


    He entered the building and he didn¡¯t show his Alchemist¡¯s Association membership card because he wanted to hide his identity. He waited for an attendant to show up and soon enough an old man walked up to him. ¡°How may I help you?¡±


    Ye Meng didn¡¯t say anything but he turned over his hand and upon them there were plenty of pills with a fragrance like fresh morning dew. The old man carefully looked at the pills and suddenly his eyes bulged with shock, ¡°T-t-t-tier 4 PILL!¡±


    The sudden commotion drew a whole bunch of other alchemists and they thought, ¡°No way, a Tier 4 alchemist is the branch leader even in those stronger cities, why would he come here?¡±


    They still went to go inspect it because if it really was a Tier 4 pill then they wouldn¡¯t wanna miss it. Different Tier pills could be identified by seeing the color of the aura it gives off. Tier 1 pills give off a black aura, Tier 2 pills give off a grey aura, Tier 3 pills give off a brown aura, Tier 4 pills give off a purple aura, Tier 5 pills give off a blue aura, Tier 6 pills give off a red aura, Tier 7 pills give off an orange aura, Tier 8 pills give off a yellow aura and the legendary Tier 9 pills give off no aura at all.


    When the alchemists saw the thin purple layer of Qi surrounding the pill, they became incredibly excited and their eyes turned red. These alchemists are just Tier 2 or Tier 1 alchemist''s who¡¯ve never even seen Tier 4 pills so it¡¯s no wonder that they¡¯ve become crazy.


    The Dao of Alchemy is a long one and even seeing a pill made from someone else whose accomplishments in the Dao are a lot better than yours can result in a breakthrough. Suddenly, a peak Dan Forming aura emerged and swept away everyone else from Ye Meng. A refined young man appeared from the branch leader¡¯s office. The alchemists all piped down and were like obedient dogs.


    Ye Meng guessed that he was the branch leader and he coldly said, ¡°Are you the branch leader?¡±


    The young man nodded and he said, ¡°Yes, my name is Luo Xiuxi may I be so rude to ask why such an alchemist at your level stopped at this lowly city?¡±


    Ye Meng kept up his farce and he arrogantly said, ¡°Hmph! I ran out of materials to make pills. Why else would I, a Tier 5 alchemist, stop at this backwater city. I need materials as soon as possible so I might give you a Tier 5 Sea Condensing pill if you give me sufficient resources.¡±


    As soon as they heard the words Tier 5 alchemist, the alchemists started giving Ye Meng gazes of reverence. Luo Xiuxi looked completely surprised as his jaw was literally hanging out. He started panting and ordered an arrogant young man at his side ¡°Quickly! Wang Di, Go our best materials to trade for his pills!¡±


    ¡°Ah, a member of the Wang Clan, I see¡­ You should savor the last few months of your pathetic life.¡± Ye Meng thought. The arrogant young man called Wang Di rebutted, ¡°But master, those are very expensive treasures that you said I could use if I become a Tier 5 alchemist!¡±


    The branch leader yelled, ¡°Do you know how much a Sea Condensing pill costs?! It''s worth more than half your Wang Clan¡¯s total assets!¡±


    Wang Di immediately shut up and didn''t say a word after that. Luo Xiuxi started rambling on about alchemy and how honored he was to meet Ye Meng but he wasn''t paying attention at all. They walked towards the treasury and entered. As soon as Ye Meng saw what was inside he gasped on the inside. Ye Qian exclaimed, ¡°How can that thing possibly be here?!¡±


    They both were shocked because the medicinal plant they saw was called the Divine Steel Plant and it was extremely rare, even in the Immortal Realm. It would be a shock if it was only one stalk, but there were 5 stalks of it! The plant was used to make extremely potent power used to increase the speed in cultivating body refining techniques. But, if you don¡¯t use the proper recipe and follow all of the directions carefully, you¡¯ll end up with a poison that makes you more useless than an eunuch in bed.


    Ye Meng suppressed his excitement and he said arrogantly while pointing to the Divine Steel Plant, ¡°Hmm. That plant looks rather interesting, give me all of the stalks you have.¡±


    Luo Xiuxi nodded and carefully plucked out the stalks and gave them to Ye Meng. He didn¡¯t question him because many experts in various fields are very eccentric. It wouldn¡¯t be good for him to secretly pry into personal matters as he risks offending them..Ye Meng picked out a whole bunch of materials for his plans and he gave Luo Xiuxi a Sea Condensing pill along with some Tier 4 pills.


    After that, Ye Meng left the building and found out he had pursuers. ¡°Hah, only peak Foundation Building cultivators want to tail me?¡± he sneered with disdain. Ye Meng used his full speed and disappeared into an alley. He went back to his drunk persona and headed back to his room. He began his preparations for his big plan of destroying the Wang Clan.


    Unbeknownst to him, he wasn¡¯t the only one with a big plan. In the Wang Clan, an old man with a fluctuating aura sometimes his cultivation was at the Dan Forming stage, but other times it was at the mid Divine Sea stage! That person was the Wang Clan¡¯s Patriarch, Wang Yan who was currently cultivating using unknown methods. Suddenly, the aura stabilized at mid Divine Sea stage and Wang Yan opened his bloodshot eyes. He sighed and he muttered, ¡°Only 2 more months before I can make my breakthrough! Finding this stone was truly good fortune. After that, I¡¯ll avenge you my darling Xiu¡¯er!¡±


    Sadly, both of them didn¡¯t know that a third power was coming. In a extravagant city, 10 middle aged men in black clothes were whispering to each other. The most shocking thing about them was that all of them had auras far surpassing Wang Yan! As they were chatting to each other, an old man appeared and the whispering immediately stopped. ¡°The Divine Elemental Stone was found in a backwater city with the strongest expert being a Marrow Cleansing cultivator.¡±


    The listeners all gasped and they all felt greed from the bottom of their hearts but, they knew who this old man was, an existence that should not be provoked! ¡°Get ready, we should get there in around 9 weeks.¡± The men all exited the city at a speed multiple times faster than Ye Meng but the most surprising thing was that the old man had an aura that far surpassed the middle aged men. A fitting coincidence was that they were all powerful figures in a certain clan...

 Chapter 3: Profound Laws and Wedding

    Eventually, two weeks had passed with Ye Meng keeping up his daily drunk persona to gather information. He found a lot of interesting things such as rumours about the Wang Clan Patriarch in secluded meditation until the wedding. Ye Meng was currently in his room cultivating while taking pills when suddenly, a large amount of Qi came rushing towards Ye Meng like a whirlpool. Time slowly passed and the large amount of Qi dissipated. Ye Meng opened his dark black eyes and he exclaimed, ¡°Finally, I reached the Foundation Building stage!¡±


    Ye Meng would¡¯ve taken longer to reach Foundation Building if he didn¡¯t have The Godking''s Breath which helps pass through bottlenecks and expensive pills made for cultivators many stages ahead of him. Ye Qing exclaimed,¡°Finally brat! Now since you can have an elemental affinity I can tell you the secret!¡±


    Elemental affinity is a rare thing that awakens in only the top geniuses in the mortal realm. Elemental affinity determines which Elemental Dao you have the highest comprehension speed in. Ye Qing purposely didn¡¯t give the secret to Ye Meng so he was very confused, ¡°I already know that elemental affinity determines my Dao. So that¡¯s the big secret?!¡±


    Ye Qing sighed and said, ¡®Hmph! Do you think Daos are all powerful?! This secret is a level above the Daos! Even if you completely understand a Dao you won''t be able to fight again a person if they''ve comprehended a portion of this.¡±


    Ye Meng was completely shocked as even in the Immortal Realm people who have completely completely comprehended Daos are a handful. He started panting and excitedly said, ¡°Tell me the secret!¡±


    ¡°Calm down brat, you need to learn patience. Never tell this secret to ANYBODY who isn¡¯t 100% in your control because this secret can change the fate of this world.¡±


    Ye Meng was quite suprised, ¡°Change the entire fate of this world?! How big of a secret is it?!¡± He thought.


    ¡°There are two parts to this secret, the first secret is something that everyone who has reached the upper stages of cultivation in the Immortal Realm knows, there is a realm above the Immortal Realm called the God Realm and we can ascend to there with enough Qi. The second part of the secret can change the entire way people look at the world. The world is governed by Laws and in the God Realm, the people use the power of Laws to fight. The Laws are the laws of the universe and Daos are just different simplified branches of Laws. Laws are immeasurably deep and even though I¡¯ve known been trying to comprehend Laws for a million years I daresay that I¡¯ve even comprehended a single percent! But when I apply the single percent of the laws I¡¯ve comprehended in battle, I can say that I can kill a cultivator of the same stage with a single move!


    I found all this information in some ancient ruins I¡¯ve visited. I¡¯ve comprehended the Profound Laws of Water because I personally found it the easiest but some other people were better versed in Fire, Life and Death. If the mortal realm knows about this, then the ones who have better comprehension will be the ones on top.¡±


    As soon as Ye Meng heard it, he was rendered speechless. He remembered those geniuses of the Jade Mountain Sect who have gotten a hint of insight in a Dao. They could beat people on the same stage as them without much effort just because of their Daos. Imagine if he could comprehend a Law which is above a Dao! What could he do then? His blood started boiling at the thought of all the power, ¡°Are you gonna teach me how to comprehend Laws? And can you use your memories to help me learn them?¡±


    Ye Qian disdainfully laughed and he angrily said, ¡°Hmph! If it took me so long to comprehend so little of the Profound Laws of Water, then how long do you think it¡¯ll take for you? Anyways, Laws are gained by reaching enlightenment! Memories are just guidelines, they can¡¯t guide you on how to gain enlightenment!¡±


    Ye Meng confidently said, ¡°We¡¯ll never know if we don¡¯t try! I might be a genius at


    comprehension.¡± The reason why Ye Meng was so confident was because of his previous knowledge from Earth! Ye Meng was awfully confident because he still remembered about science from his past life. Ye Meng thought the Laws were just another name for science but he was partially wrong.


    ¡°Sigh, this brat is too confident¡­. Whatever, I¡¯ll just crush his hopes and dreams right here instead of causing him to be obsessed.¡± Ye Qian thought. ¡°Okay brat, let¡¯s first find a lake and then sit in a lotus position underwater. Everyone who has the bloodline of the mighty Ye Clan has a water elemental affinity.¡±


    Ye Meng quickly left the city at night and spent half a day to enter the Magical Beast Range.


    Ye Meng used his superhuman hearing he got from reaching the first stage of The Sovereign¡¯s Body to find water. It takes him a couple of minutes but he finds a lake and immediately jumps into it. He uses Qi to make sure he sinks and reaches the bottom. He slowly sinks until he reaches the bottom of the lake and adjusts his position so until he¡¯s sitting in a lotus position. ¡°Now what do I do?¡± he asks his teacher. ¡°Now just think about water around you and think about the deep mysteries in water."


    Ye Meng felt very awkward because just by taking a class he knew the answer to all of those so called ¡®mysteries¡¯. Ye Qing would probably cough up blood if he knew that Ye Meng was forced to learn them. He meditated and pondered those questions but surprisingly, he didn¡¯t instantly comprehend them like he thought he would. By using the science he learned from Earth as a foundation, he started his comprehension. He comprehended the Laws awfully slow in his opinion but if other people knew he thought his process was slow, they would¡¯ve died with shame right there. His speed was insane but not as Ye Meng expected but how could he have known that the Laws are different in this world because Qi alters the way science works. When other people tried comprehending Laws it was like painting an image until you get the image correctly, but they don¡¯t know what the image is. But for Ye Meng, he was just solving a puzzle with some of the pieces missing so he had to make his own pieces. He sat in the position for an unknown amount of time. Slowly time passed, minutes turned into hours, hours into days and days into weeks.


    Ye Qian was watching all this while cursing, ¡°Fuck! How could have this guy fallen into a state of enlightenment right there? Right when I said that he wasn¡¯t going to comprehend anything, he falls into a state of enlightenment. Now, I¡¯ve lost all face as a senior since I¡¯ve told him that he won¡¯t comprehend anything. I¡¯ve had states of enlightenment lasting minutes and hours but an enlightenment lasting weeks is heaven defying!¡±


    Unbeknownst to Ye Meng, 1 and a half months had already passed in the blink of an eye. Suddenly, Ye Meng opened his eyes that were filled with profoundness and wisdom like a Buddha¡¯s. He touched his robes and felt that they were dry due to him unknowingly applying the Laws on his robes. He waved his hand and the lake parted like Moses did with the Red Sea. His movements were fluid and very flexible like water. ¡°Holy shit, Moses must¡¯ve been a cultivator too! No wonder he could part the Red Sea.¡± thought Ye Meng.


    Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.¡°Hey old man, do you wanna see how much I¡¯ve comprehended? I bet I understand the Profound Laws of Water ¡±


    ¡°My name¡¯s not old man! Anyways brat, you might¡¯ve just gotten lucky, the next time you won¡¯t be so lucky.¡±


    ¡°Then why don¡¯t we just compare insights? I¡¯m sure I have at least a tenth of your insight.¡±


    ¡°Hmph! I haven¡¯t lost all sense of shame to compare with a junior.¡±


    ¡°That¡¯s just an excuse because you know my comprehension is amazing. Anyways, how long was I meditating?¡±


    ¡°You¡¯ve been meditating for 1 and a half months! The wedding should be tomorrow!¡±


    Ye Meng felt dizzy when he heard Ye Qian, he thought spending months in meditation like in Xianxia novels was impossible but he did just that. ¡°1 and a half months!?!¡± He yelled out to Ye Qian who was looking down on Ye Meng. ¡°If you think that 6 weeks of secluded meditation is a lot then wait till you reach my level. Training for 70,000 years in one go isn¡¯t much in the Immortal Realm.¡±


    Ye Meng felt even more dizzy when he thought about 70,000 years. He hasn¡¯t even lived for 100 years and yet the old man was talking about spending 70,000 years practicing.


    Ye Meng knew that he could get back to the city in half a day so he decided to apply his Laws to his techniques. He felt confident in handling a Divine Sea magical beast so he went around looking for one. He searched for a couple of hours until he found a Vermillion Fire Eagle. Upon seeing the lone cultivator, the eagle had an unknown hatred towards him probably because Ye Meng¡¯s elemental attribute is the exact opposite of the eagle¡¯s. The Vermillion Fire Eagle shrieked and descended from the skies like an arrow towards Ye Meng. Ye Meng barely avoided the eagle by a hair¡¯s breadth by slightly moving to the side in the last second. The magical beast kept trying to hit Ye Meng but the answer was always the same, Ye Meng dodged it with a hair¡¯s breadth without even counterattacking. ¡°Hmmm¡­ So the Profound Laws of Water makes my movements fluid like water. Using flexibility and targeting weaknesses is truly the essence of water!¡° he thought.


    The Vermillion Fire Eagle was enraged, never had a human with a low level of cultivation made a fool of him. With his eyes containing an arrogant intelligence, he carefully retreated and thought of ways to counter Ye Meng. He thought of the perfect move and this time, he flew at an even greater speed towards Ye Meng. Just when Ye Meng was about to dodge the same way, the eagle¡¯s wings suddenly caught ablaze with bright orange fire and he flapped his wings towards Ye Meng. The fire made the form of a giant phoenix and surrounded Ye Meng with it¡¯s powerful wings entrapping him in the fierce blaze that slowly tempered his body. Upon seeing the trap he was put in, Ye Meng sneered and found the weak spot of the attack with moderate difficulty. One Sword to Slay Immortals! He slashed with his sword with 7 Swords to Slay Gods that seemed to be flow like a raging stream towards a waterfall.


    7 Swords to Slay Gods required an insane amount of Qi that Ye Meng didn¡¯t have but he could make a weaker version of it by using a lot less Qi. He still required a large amount due to his low cultivation base though. One Sword to Kill Immortals was the first move of the technique and the only move Ye Meng could use as it required tons of Qi. Although Ye Meng¡¯s cultivation base was low, he used his strength to forcefully throw the Qi with the strength of hundreds of thousands of jins. A thin brilliant blue wave of Qi moved towards the phoenix and completely cut it in half. The eagle used a lot of Qi to trap Ye Meng so when he saw Ye Meng easily break it in half, he felt scared and immediately tried to flee. What he didn¡¯t see was that the blue wave of Qi changed its trajectory and flew towards him. It instantly severed a wing and made him drop from the skies like a bird shot by an archery expert. Sha! Sha! Ye Meng made another 2 slashes of One Sword to Slay Immortals that aimed directly for the eagle. The eagle was instantly ripped into shreds after letting out a mournful screech.


    Ye Meng jumped up and snatched it¡¯s magical core while slightly panting. ¡°Brat, you used up too much Qi in that battle, although One Sword to Slay Immortals is powerful, it requires around 30% of your current Qi each time you use it. Even a peak Divine Sea cultivator won¡¯t dare to neglect your attack but you have to use them carefully. It doesn¡¯t matter if you injure them if you don¡¯t have any Qi left.¡± nagged Ye Qing.


    Ye Meng put the core in his backpack and said a word of thanks to Ye Qing. He had barely 10% of his Qi left so he slowly made his way back to the city after washing up. His movements were a lot faster and used the slightest of touches to move the farthest. He saw a couple of deadly beasts in the Magical Beast Range which didn''t seem like a coincedence like last time.


    The whole city was in a festive mood due to two of the biggest clans having an alliance. No matter what city it is, people will always feel tense when there are two big powers facing off against each other. Ye Meng put on his drunk persona and watched the wedding from on top of a building far away. He had his bow out and an arrow notched ready to fire. Some time passed and he saw a handsome young man who he assumed to be Mu Donghai and a group of people following him while the Mu Clan cheered. Ye Meng saw the Mu Clan Patriarch and the Wang Clan Patriarch looking happy but he knew that the Mu Clan Patriarch would be the happiest after this wedding. He kept his bow ready and he saw the beautiful Wang Biyu come out shortly after with her bridesmaids. Members from the Wang Clan cheered when they saw her. They did the ceremony and when the couple were about to kiss when suddenly, an arrow flew into Wang Biyu¡¯s back and pierced through her heart.


    In an instant, 3 other arrows imbued with the Profound Mysterious of Water hit 3 elders of the Wang Clan and instantly killed them. The Wang Clan Patriarch, Wang Yan had a grim expression on his face. Although if he revealed his true cultivation base it¡¯d draw too much attention, it might save a few more Wang Clan members¡¯ lives. People screamed and ran around while Ye Meng occasionally shot some Mu Clan members that were hidden traitors. Wang Yan quickly scanned for enemies but he couldn¡¯t find any without revealing his true strength.


    Ye Meng saw the Mu Clan Patriarch and he gave him a thumbs up and suddenly, the aura of a Divine Sea cultivator came from the Mu Clan¡¯s Patriarch, Mu Chen. Wang Yan was currently shocked, never in a million years did he expert that Mu Chen would become a Divine Sea warrior. ¡°Haha! Wang Yan, the era of the Wang Clan ruling Soaring Dragon City shall end today!¡±


    Mu Chen threw a earth shattering punch at Wang Yan but right when it was about to hit, the aura of a peak Divine Sea cultivator emerged from Wang Yan. Wang Yan sneered and threw a fist to counter his opponent¡¯s fist. Wang Yan easily overpowered Mu Chen in a couple of moves resulting in Mu Chen with heavy injuries. Ye Meng had given expensive pills to Mu Chen so he could take care of Wang Yan while he slowly killed Wang Clan members but sadly, things didn¡¯t go as he thought it¡¯d be. ¡°Haha Mu Chen, it¡¯ll be your Mu Clan who¡¯ll end up with their entire 9 generations slaughtered after I¡¯m finished with you and that little worm in the corner of my eye.¡±


    After saying that, Wang Yan looked directly at Ye Meng¡¯s current position with a provocative smile on his twisted face. ¡°Shit! I can¡¯t handle a peak Divine Sea cultivator! I need to run" Ye Meng thought. He tried to run away but Wang Yan was currently faster than him. Ye Meng had ran to the outskirts of the city when suddenly an old figure descended upon him. "Hmph! Killing my family yet thinking of escaping? You''re courting death!"

 Chapter 4: Two Battles Two Opponents

    In the outskirts of Soaring Dragon City an old man was blocking a junior''s way. Ye Meng had an ashen expression on his face, he truly didn¡¯t expect Wang Yan to be a peak Divine Sea expert. He could be evenly matched with a mid Divine Sea expert but not a peak one. Wang Yan was sneering at Ye Meng on the outside but he was secretly shocked in the inside. ¡°How could this brat kill those Dan Forming elders when he¡¯s just at the early Foundation Building. This brat must have some treasures like that stone, hahaha! The Heavens have truly blessed me today!¡±


    ¡°Brat, give me the divine treasure you have on you and I¡¯ll give you a quick death! Hmph! I¡¯ll even be forgiving and let you kill the person in the Wang Clan you have an enmity with if you give me that treasure.¡±


    Ye Meng didn¡¯t say a word and quickly darted towards the Magical Beast Range, he knew that if he wanted to escape he couldn¡¯t run. He had to find a good hiding spot and cultivate until he reaches a higher realm to come back to the city. Wang Yan rushed towards Ye Meng with the speed of lightning as soon as he moved. Wang Yan truly didn¡¯t want to kill him yet because he wanted to learn how this brat could skip realms in strength so he decided to force him into a corner.


    ¡°Fuck! Ye Qian! Ye Qian! Elder Qian! Old Man Qian! Are you there?!¡± shouted Ye Meng inwardly. He truly thought that Ye Qian would help him in this sticky situation but sadly a voice denied his requests, ¡°Haha! You want me to help you? What will you do when facing a tough opponent after I¡¯m gone huh? Do you think that others will protect you? Unless you¡¯re on the verge of dieing, I won¡¯t help at all.¡±


    Ye Meng cursed inwardly and looked back to see Wang Yan a couple of hundred meters behind him leisurely running towards him like he¡¯s taking a daily jog. Anger bubbled up inside of Ye Meng and he jumped straight towards Wang Yan with his sword. Sha! One Sword to Kill Immortals!


    A brilliant blue wave of Qi flew towards Wang Yan who looked at the wave of Qi with disdain. He held out his fist and blue lightning began jolt through his arms, he threw a punch at the wave of Qi. Boom! An explosion occurred when the two collided with a thick layer of smoke surrounding them. When it cleared surprisingly a shocked Wang Yan was pushed back with his arms bloody from the exchange. ¡°Brat, you have some very powerful techniques. I wonder what you did in your past life to have this much good fortune but if you don¡¯t hand it over to me right now I¡¯ll make sure you¡¯ll have a painful death!¡±


    Ye Meng was completely crestfallen, 30% of his Qi was gone and he only managed to give Wang Yan a minor injury. He gritted his teeth and thought, ¡°I¡¯ll just hone my battle techniques here then!¡± Wang Yan pulled out his saber and jumped towards Ye Meng who was currently flying towards him. They exchanged sword techniques with Ye Meng winning in terms of technique but Wang Yan used his higher cultivation based and made Ye Meng stagger back. Wang Yan kept pushing Ye Meng back using his superior strength. Ye Meng¡¯s internal organs felt like they were repeatedly getting smashed by a hammer due to the shock. Inside of Ye Meng¡¯s body, massive changes were currently going on due to a strange green liquid. That was the compressed liquid form of all the energy from the pills that Ye Meng had ate in the past months all being released.


    Every time he got injured, the green liquid would automatically heal his wounds and make him stronger. After hundreds of continuous blows and injuries, his body was undergoing massive changes but it wasn¡¯t comparable to breaking through in The Sovereign¡¯s Body. His body was getting stronger and tougher to the point where it was comparable to a Tier 4 deadly beast¡¯s body. His bare punching strength had reached 600,000 jins of force which was double the amount he had a couple of months ago. Combined with the techniques of the Immortal Realm, Ye Meng now had the strength of 1,200,000 jins in total. The reason why it took him 3 years previously to get to the first stage was because he was awfully careful when he was being hit. But this time, he was constantly getting hit over and over again like someone tempering steel. High risk and high reward truly go together when cultivating The Sovereign¡¯s Body.


    Wang Yan was currently shocked, he wanted to severely injure Ye Meng to the point where Ye Meng had to accept his proposal. He was already planning to spare Ye Meng if he gave Wang Yan the treasures because Wang Yan didn¡¯t really care for the Wang Clan that much other than that they were basically his servants. He didn¡¯t have a single descendant of his bloodline in that clan due to an injured body part! Sadly, Ye Meng was constantly healing every time he got injured. That made Wang Yan go mad with greed, what kind of treasure is this that could heal you in a couple of seconds?! He went too mad to the point where he didn¡¯t realize that Ye Meng was slowly getting stronger and stronger.


    Swords rattled against each other as Ye Meng slowly gained the upper hand as his strength increased. Coupled with his superior sword techniques, Ye Meng found the weak spots of Wang Yan¡¯s relentless attacks and he used his massive strength to force Wang Yan back. Aside from the two Patriarchs, the Mu Clan and the Wang Clan were fairly even in strength but due to some of the strongest members, the Mu Clan was currently prevailing. Both sides had secretly planned to declare war on the other on the day of the wedding with the Mu Clan having the help of a ¡®mysterious expert¡¯ so no one dared intrude upon their battle.


    The first time that Wang Yan was pushed back, he felt that something was awfully fishy. How could he, who had the higher strength be pushed back?! He regained his clarity and saw that Ye Meng was sneering at him with an overjoyed expression on his face. Suddenly, a familiar blue wave of Qi flew towards him twice as fast as it was a couple of minutes ago. Wang Yan felt a foreboding sense of danger so he used his strongest move. He raised his sword in the air and suddenly, it started raining. Lightning struck his sword and he slashed out towards Ye Meng. The wave of lightning and the wave of Qi collided and created an earth shaking explosion. Smoke produced by the explosion surrounded the two and suddenly, the smoke was cut in half. The brilliant blue wave of Qi won the exchange and headed straight for Wang Yan. It caught Wang Yan unprepared and he tried his hardest to defend but his defense faltered at the overbearing force. Kirik! Wang Yan¡¯s sword broke and a large cut appeared across his chest. Blood oozed out of the wound and Wang Yan winced in pain. ¡°How did this junior get stronger than me?! I used 50% of my Qi in that move. It must be that treasure! Hmph! He looks exhausted, that move probably used up most of his QI as well.¡±


    Ye Meng truly was exhausted, he used the utmost effort before he had an increase in strength. Add that with two One Sword to Slay Immortals! He had depleted most of his Qi reserves. Pitter-Patter! Pitter-Patter! Ye Meng looked up and saw it was raining due to Wang Yan¡¯s previous move. He smiled and shouted, ¡°Bastard Wang Yan, how does it feel to know that you¡¯ve contributed to killing yourself?!¡±


    Wang Yan was awfully confused but he paid it no mind thinking it was mind game. Suddenly, he saw all the raindrops around his converging to form a giant flood dragon on Ye Meng¡¯s fist.¡°I-I-Insights in a Dao?!! Wait!!! Control of a Dao?!¡± he shouted out with great fear. Wang Yan was truly scared, he caused it to rain which is practically heaven for people with insights in the Dao of Water. Ye Meng inwardly sneered when he heard Wang Yan¡¯s pitiful cry, ¡°Hmph! This is a Profound Law, not a Dao. Something that you¡¯ll never be able to touch!¡±


    Ye Meng punched out and the giant flood dragon roared with the sound of a crashing waterfall as it flew towards Wang Yan with overbearing might. Wang Yan threw away his broken sword and he got a new sword from his interspatial pouch. The new sword was quite bulky and heavy, it looked like a club at the right angle. Wang Yan condensed his Qi and threw the sword straight at the flood dragon. The sword formed a spear wielding terracotta soldier in front of Wang Yan. When the terracotta soldier thrusted out his spear, the heavens and earth rumbled. The fierce flood dragon collided with the soldier and they both exploded. Wang Yan was panting like a dog in heat. He used up the rest of his Qi and an expensive puppet in that attack while Ye Meng didn¡¯t use anything but the Laws and his fist. While Ye Meng was watching the explosion, he saw something very profound. A lone raindrop managed to cause a large crack on the terracotta soldier. The raindrop searched and searched for imperfections on the terracotta soldier as it trickled down the body of the soldier. When it saw a crack, it penetrated the crack deeply as it eroded away the rock. When he saw that profound sight, Ye Meng had a burst of enlightenment!


    ¡°Water is never meant to fight opponents with the same strength head on!


    ¡°Water searches for small imperfections and it uses them to create massive damage! Atoms are made up of over 99% empty space so there are weaknesses everywhere! No defense is perfect, everything can be defeated by the power of water!¡±


    ¡°When I use a sword infused with the Profound Laws of Water, I should never counter head on unless I¡¯m sure I¡¯ll win the exchange! I should use ¡®Soft¡¯ to counter the attacks, not ¡®Hard¡¯! I was doing it wrong the whole time!¡±


    Ye Qing was watching this with indifference, when suddenly he exclaimed with shock. ¡°Motherfucker! He gained enlightenment in something very profound! At this rate he¡¯s gonna have more insights in laws than me!¡±


    Ye Meng¡¯s current eyes glowed yellow as he comprehended the enlightenment he received. A large vortex of Qi swirled around him and entered his body. Boom! Boom! Boom! His cultivation advanced to early Dan Forming stage solely based on his enlightenment. Enlightenment was very different than a state of enlightenment as enlightenment is extremely rare, even in the Immortal Realm. States of enlightenment can be achieved with large difficulty in the Immortal Realm and they increase your comprehension speed by hundreds of times. Enlightenment is when you comprehend something very profound and heaven rewards you with large amounts of Qi based on what you managed to understand.


    Wang Yan was so focused on controlling the soldier that he didn¡¯t see the receiving of enlightenment at all. Ye Meng saw the remains of the flood dragon and disdainfully flicked his hand. The flood dragon collapsed and formed a giant puddle of water. Immediately, the puddle of water moved behind Ye Meng and formed a giant wave. Ye Meng punched and the giant wave crashed on the terracotta soldier. Each little drop of water found weak spots in the terracotta soldier and eroded it away. Ye Meng dashed towards Wang Yan and threw a punch. The water surrounded his fist and soared towards Wang Yan like a giant bullet of water. Wang Yan gave up and sadly said, ¡°Who in the Wang Clan offended you?¡±


    Ye Meng calmly said, ¡°Wang Feng.¡±


    Wang Yan muttered, ¡°Aah! Wang Feng was always arrogant and domineering. Hah! To think that I¡¯d die due to a feud between two juniors¡­ I¡¯m sorry Xiu¡¯er¡­.I can¡¯t avenge you¡­¡±


    When Ye Meng¡¯s fist hit Wang Yan, the latter exploded into a bright crimson mist of blood. He opened Wang Yan¡¯s interspatial pouch and when Ye Qian saw the stone he immediately exclaimed, ¡°That stone isn¡¯t as simple as it seems!¡±


    ¡°How?¡± asked Ye Meng. ¡°Even I can¡¯t see through the stone, it has very profound mysteries.¡±


    Ye Meng was shocked, even Ye Qing couldn¡¯t see through it?! Ye Meng kept it in his pouch to experiment on it later, he found 2,000,000 silver liangs and a variety of weapons as well as treasures in Wang Yan¡¯s pouch. He stored them all in his interspatial pouch and headed towards the city. The water reformed the giant flood dragon that swept away everyone. With a punch, the dragon roared and a member of the Wang Clan died. The strongest cultivator in the Soaring Dragon City was a peak Dan Forming Supreme Elder of the Mu Clan. Ye Meng refined some pills and helped him breakthrough to Marrow Cleansing to keep the balance.


    After that, he headed towards the Magical Beast Range towards the Jade Mountain Sect. A couple of days later, a group of men with imposing auras came out of the Soaring Dragon City. ¡°So the old man who had the stone was killed and now it¡¯s in the hands of a youngster?¡± said the extremely powerful old man. ¡°Yes Elder Yun, the youngster was seen heading towards this Magical Beast Range.¡± said one of the men.


    ¡°Hmmm¡­ Spread out and corner him. Your status in the Dongxue Clan was skyrocket if you complete this mission.¡± ordered the old man.


    The men felt their blood boiling when he said that, although they were above the Divine Sea stage, they still had a decent status in the Dongxue Clan. But, there were thousands of people with the same status as them in the Dongxue Clan. They spread out and rushed towards the Magical Beast Range with almost double the speed of Ye Meng.


    Ye Meng was currently in the boundaries of the Jade Mountain Sect waiting to intercept a specific someone. A couple of hours passed and he saw an arrogant young man followed by 2 other men. ¡°Hahaha! I, Wang Feng will become an early Dan Forming cultivator at such a young age! Heavens are truly favoring me!¡±


    Upon hearing that vile and arrogant voice, Ye Meng¡¯s eyes glinted with a cold light. He took out a sword from his interspatial pouch and he slashed out twice towards the two men following Wang Yan. Their heads rolled on the floor as blood splattered all over Wang Feng. Wang Feng fearfully yelled out, ¡°Senior, I¡¯m one of the top 5 inner disciples in the Jade Mountain Sect! Please refrain from attacking!¡±The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.


    Ye Meng sneered and lunged towards Wang Feng with a fist surrounded by malicious Qi. When Wang Feng saw the incoming fist he tried to dodge but Ye Meng was way faster than Wang Feng. Crack! All of Wang Feng¡¯s bones broke immediately and his cultivation crippled due to the vicious technique Ye Meng used. Internally, Wang Feng lost all control over his body so he was completely paralyzed, the only thing he could do is think. When he saw Wang Feng¡¯s pitiful appearance, Ye Meng felt as if he was extremely calm. He felt as if a giant pressure was lifted off his shoulders and he could finally stand. Boom! His cultivation base exploded and reached mid Dan Forming stage, he had removed the thing that was stopping his cultivation. ¡°Wang Feng, this is the payback of trying to kill me, Ye Meng! shouted out Ye Meng. Wang Feng¡¯s eyes widened and intolerable hatred filled his eyes but sadly, he couldn¡¯t express it. Ye Meng dropped a note telling the Jade Mountain Sect to treat him like an animal and left a sealed Tier 5 pill as payment.


    ¡°Nice job brat! If someone tries to kill you, wait till you get stronger and pay them back 10x over! You¡¯re truly worthy to be someone who was taught by me.¡± Ye Qian proudly applauded. ¡°Now you should join a top tier sect or academy after reaching Divine Sea stage and getting to the 2nd stage of The Sovereign¡¯s Body.¡±


    Ye Meng nodded and decided to go into seclusion training for a year when suddenly, a group of men with imposing auras all surrounded him in the blink of an eye. Ye Meng actually felt scared, each of the men were stronger than Wang Yan but there were 10 of them! ¡°Greetings seniors, may I ask what you¡¯d require of a junior like me?¡±


    The men parted to let an extremely old man through, ¡°Junior, hand over a stone you received from killing Wang Yan and this senior will reward you.¡±


    Ye Meng wasn¡¯t a complete retard, how could he beat them in a fight? He already had a divine technique known as The Sovereign¡¯s Body, being too greedy without having sufficient strength is simply courting death! He took out the profound stone and handed it to the old man. In the middle of the exchange, 5 of the men surrounding him suddenly attacked. ¡°Brat, you should curse your luck for finding the Divine Elemental Stone. If anyone else knew we had this stone then we surely would¡¯ve been annihilated. We can¡¯t leave any witnesses. You should be proud to die in the hands of the Dongxue Clan!¡±


    Ye Meng slashed out 5 times with his sword to counter the attacks without even thinking after he swallowed the stone. One Sword to Slay Immortals! They weren¡¯t worried about him swallowing the stone because they could just dissect his body after killing him. He countered the attacks without even thinking due to them saying they were from the Dongxue Clan. The familiar blue waves of Qi infused with the Profound Laws of Water split their attacks and headed towards the men. ¡°Oh? This brat can actually deal with early Golden Elixir experts! This country bumpkin would be above average, even in the Divine Sky Academy.¡± muttered the old man.


    The other 5 quickly dashed towards the attackers and they easily blocked the attacks. ¡°Brothers, this brat is stronger than you. Don¡¯t worry, we¡¯ll handle him for you!¡± one of the stronger men said.


    The stronger men swapped positions with the weaker men while Ye Meng had an ashen expression on his face. Ye Qian was extremely worried as well, he didn¡¯t want to use his last resort to save Ye Meng but it looked like he had to if the old man got into action. The stronger men attacked Ye Meng with various attacks but this time, Ye Meng had time to assess the weaknesses of their moves. He used One Sword to Slay Immortals! Which now used around 5% of his total Qi. The blue wave hit the exact weak spots of the attacks to break them. The stronger men looked at Ye Meng with shock, how could this brat from a backwater area have this terrifying perception?!


    ¡°What terrifying perception, now he could be considered a genius in the Divine Sky Academy¡­¡± muttered the old man. ¡°Junior, you¡¯ve forced my hand. Prepare to die!¡±


    The old man took out a single flying sword and pointed towards Ye Meng. The flying sword flew at the speed of lightning towards Ye Meng. Splurt! The flying sword made a giant hole through Ye Meng¡¯s tough body. Ye Meng had a grave expression, he knew that the men were Golden Elixir cultivators which were a stage above Divine Sea. The old man was at the Divine Sense stage which was above the Golden Elixir stage!


    The Divine Sense was the true start of cultivation according to Ye Qing¡¯s memories. You get to control Divine Sense which lets you fly, control flying swords and lift mountains just by flicking your fingers up. By infusing your body with your divine sense, you can kill thousands of Golden Elixir cultivators by yourself. But, crossing from Golden Elixir to Divine Sense was extremely tough! The flying sword retracted and pierced him again and again. Ye Meng truly felt powerless as he kept groaning from the multiple stabs, the Dongxue clan killed his parents and now he was gonna die in their hands?! Laughter and jeers filled his ears as they saw his feeble attempts at trying to block the sword. Ye Meng¡¯s total strength with his bare body and cultivation was 780,000 jins but with techniques he could use 1,560,000 jins of strength. Coupled with his insights in the Profound Laws of Water, he could deal with mid stage Golden Elixir cultivators.


    Ye Meng felt extremely lifeless as all of his blood was leaking out of his body. The Sovereign¡¯s Body couldn¡¯t heal his body when it was continuously getting pierced every second. ¡°Old man, where are you?¡± he thought. Suddenly, a giant force pushed everyone besides Ye Meng tens of thousands of li back. Ye Meng¡¯s injuries were instantly healed and he found himself inside a cave. ¡°Brat¡­.. This ¡­ is my last¡­ words to ¡­ you.. Please¡­ ascend¡­ quickly.. To ...help...the Ye..clan.. I¡¯ve used up¡­ all of my power ¡­ saving you.. You¡­ have¡­. 20 years.. To get strong ¡­ enough¡­ to kill¡­ the enemies¡­ outside.. I .. want.. You to¡­ ascend to¡­ the God Realm for me...¡± croaked Ye Qing as if he was a dying old man.


    It took a while for Ye Meng to understand what Ye Qing said but when he did, he started crying tears of blood. Crimson streaks of blood flowed down his face while Ye Meng was harshly reprimanding himself inside. Although Ye Meng never really showed his affection for Ye Qing, he always felt sad when he knew that Ye Qing was ¡°If I had enough strength, the old man would¡¯ve never died!¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s all my fault¡­ I had one more year with him¡­. ¡°


    He fiercely gripped his hair and pulled it hard, ¡°ARGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH! DONGXUE CLAN!!!!!!!!!!! IF I DON¡¯T ANNIHILATE YOU IN UNDER 100 YEARS THEN MY NAME ISN¡¯T YE MENG! YOU¡¯VE KILLED MY PARENTS AND NOW MY TEACHER?!¡±


    Ye Meng coughed up many mouthfuls of blood and unknowingly passed out. If someone saw him, they would be frightened to the point of pissing their pants, Ye Meng truly looked like a mad devil. Ye Meng had went in a coma to due to shock for an unknown amount of time. Unknowingly, the Divine Elemental Stone that he swallowed had entered his dantian and fused with it. Standss of 4 different colors were emitted from the stone and the strands were absorbed by Ye Meng¡¯s body. Unknowingly his natural talent for the Laws were changing. Although he had science to help him with Laws, it only helped him with the very basics of it. Laws were a lot more complex and profound than Ye Meng thought. His cultivation was slowly increasing due to the colorful strands. One year had passed and Ye Meng still hadn¡¯t woken up but the Dongxue clan had surrounded the Magical Beast Range. Ye Meng had reached the late Dan Forming stage within a year! Golden Elixir cultivators have lifespans of thousands of years while Divine Sense cultivators had life spans of tens of thousands of years. Waiting 1 year for such a heaven defying treasure was not boring at all.


    Another year passed and there was no sign of Ye Meng waking up soon. Eventually, 5 years had passed and Ye Meng reached mid Marrow Cleansing stage! Suddenly, Ye Meng¡¯s sharp eyes opened and he had finally woken up from the coma. Ye Meng could barely stand due to an extreme pressure raining down on him so he put on clothes while he was laying down on the ground.


    Ye Meng felt that the pressure was extremely beneficial for cultivating The Sovereign¡¯s Body, so he decided to train. His muscles squirmed and strained themselves to the max as they tried to do a simple push up. During the 5 years he was in a coma Ye Meng didn¡¯t just do nothing, he solidified his mental fortitude to the point where he didn¡¯t feel much pain at all from this extreme pressure. He also comprehended something a little extra. Pitter Patter! Pitter Patter! Beads of sweat hit the ground as Ye Meng pushed himself to the absolute maximum. Suddenly, Ye Meng had a certain idea. He took out the Divine Steel Powder he made from the Divine Steel Plant a couple of weeks ago. When he spread it all over his body, he looked like a man made out of aluminium.


    Up! Down! Up! Down! Ye Meng grunted with every push up he did under the massive pressure. The Divine Steel Powder accelerated the growth of muscles by 10 times! Coupled with The Sovereign¡¯s Body, Ye Meng¡¯s muscles were being reforged many times every second. He gnashed his teeth from the pressure and kept exercising.


    In the blink of an eye, 2 years had passed. Ye Meng had finally reached the 2nd stage of The Sovereign¡¯s Body! Every cell in his body forcefully squeezed the impurities out of them while his body was now comparable to a Tier 5 deadly beast! His skin was tough to the point where even Tier 4 artifacts couldn¡¯t harm him at all! His meridians were even tougher and wider than last time. Ye Meng conjured water and washed himself of the impurities. His cultivation had also advanced without Ye Meng even cultivating! Ye Meng found that awfully strange but he had no answers for it. It was a benefit so he¡¯d rather not experiment with it. Sadly, he still hadn¡¯t broken through to the late Marrow Cleansing stage. With his current strength, he could finally stand up in the terrifying pressure. He decided to sit in a lotus position and circulated his Qi. Qi entered his body like a river that was around 3 times bigger than the previous stream!


    His cultivation speed was now 50 times faster than an average person¡¯s cultivation speed! Ye Meng felt overjoyed at the massive increase in strength he had but he knew that he still wasn¡¯t a match for that powerful old man. He could probably kill at the other men with one move but that old man would absolutely destroy him.


    Ye Meng stood up and tried walking towards the direction of the massive pressure but he found the pressure increasing the more he went towards it. He kept training by trying to walk towards the pressure. Ye Meng didn¡¯t care about the passage of time unless it was nearing 20 years. He took a step and felt that the pressure was too much. He did thousands of pushups until his body was adjusted to the pressure. He took another step, and he did thousands of pushups.


    Unbeknownst to Ye Meng, he was being watched by a being far more powerful than Ye Qing. In the direction of the massive pressure, an entity exclaimed ¡°Hahah! I can¡¯t believe that I found a mortal with decent insights in the Profound Laws of Water! He puts those so called geniuses in the God Realm to shame.¡±


    The powerful entity sighed with melancholic tone, ¡°If only I didn¡¯t offend a High God I wouldn¡¯t have to resort to hiding in the mortal realm.¡±


    The cycle continued for 3 years until Ye Meng was satisfied with his current strength. Ye Meng¡¯s current cultivation had reached the peak of Marrow Cleansing stage in the 3 years. He had only advanced a dozen steps towards that massive pressure but those dozen steps helped him train his body to the strength of a Tier 6 deadly beast. He changed his clothes and went back to his starting point to search for the exit to the cave. Eventually, he found a light source and started heading towards it. Ye Meng instinctively raised his hands to block his eyes from the Sun. After staying inside the dark cave for so long, he was like a vampire. He scanned his surroundings after adjusting to the bright sunlight. He saw a massive torrent of water crashing on the ground. It turns out he was in a cave behind a waterfall!


    He walked through the waterfall without getting wet and looked around for a twig. He picked up a weak twig and held it like a sword. Ye Meng scouted for nearby Dongxue Clan members with his superhuman ears and eyes. ¡°It¡¯s been 10 years since we¡¯ve tried looking for the stone, fuck that dead brat¡¯s ancestors! We would¡¯ve been living an easy life if it wasn¡¯t for him.¡±


    Ye Meng heard some familiar tones and chuckled, ¡°Haha! They actually think I¡¯m dead! I couldn¡¯t have gotten a better hand than this!¡±


    Ye Meng silently ran towards the direction of the conversation with the twig in hand. He came upon two of the 10 men conversing. He crept behind them and slit their throats with one stroke of his twig. He quickly put the contents in their interspatial pouch inside his own pouch and hurried off to find his next victim. It turns out that the old man had requested several dozen more Golden Elixir stage cultivators. Ye Meng truly felt rich, his fortune right now couldn¡¯t even be compared to how much he had 10 years ago. After killing 60 of the Golden Elixir stage cultivators he had over 50,000 low grade spirit stones! Each low grade spirit stone was worth 100,000 silver liangs!


    Ye Meng felt excited just thinking about all the herbs and weapons he could buy. If one had a good weapon, one could defeat someone in a higher stage of cultivation! Ye Meng felt greedy and wanted more, so he went on a mad killing streak of Golden Elixir stage cultivators trying to lure out the old man. The old man would surely have a large fortune inside his interspatial pouch. Ye Meng felt elated reducing the strength of the Dongxue Clan while earning large amounts of currency.


    Dongxue Huan was an early Divine Sense stage cultivator who was currently relaxing in a cabin while sipping tea. ¡°Having all these Golden Elixir stage trash doing all my dirty work is the best!¡±


    He thought. Suddenly, the life slips of the 80 Golden Elixir stage cultivators started breaking one by one. Crack! Crack! Crack! He immediately flew out of his cabin and headed towards the search area. ¡°Who dares to attack the Dongxue Clan?¡± he thought.


    He flew looked around to see blood of his fellow clan members splattered all over the Magical Beast Range. His expression was grave because if someone could kill all those Golden Elixir stage cultivators in this short of a time, they must be a Divine Sense stage expert. He flew around the forest and he came upon a familiar figure. It was that brat who swallowed the Divine Elemental Stone! The young man looked up and sneered at him provocatively. Dongxue Huan was completely enraged, if his men were killed by a Divine Sense expert he wouldn¡¯t be as mad but they were all killed by a junior! This was a huge loss of face for him, he lost 80 Golden Elixir cultivators due to a peak Marrow Cleansing junior!


    He took out 33 flying swords and they formed a giant sword. Heaven Sundering Sword Formation! The giant sword headed straight for Ye Meng who just threw a twig covered in a pale, translucent light like a dart towards the sword formation. The thing that Ye Meng managed to comprehend during was coma was sword intent! Sword intent is a mysterious force gained after gaining some insights in the sword. A late Divine Sea expert could easily kill an early Marrow Cleansing expert if they had sword intent. Only peerless geniuses could comprehend sword intent in the mortal realm. Dongxue Huan saw the sword intent and was immediately alarmed, Wind Control of a Dao! Dongxue Huan¡¯s sword formation became twice as fast! Control of a Dao is a level you can reach by comprehending 25% of a Dao. If someone had over 25% insights in the Dao of Fire, they would be able to control fire by using Control of a Dao. Control of a Dao was usually used to enhance attacks. Anyone who had some insights in the Profound Laws would automatically be able to do Control of a Dao. But, their Control of a Dao would be stronger than someone who didn¡¯t comprehend Laws.


    Ye Meng made many tons of water by combining hydrogen and oxygen using Control of a Dao. Ye Meng tried making more but he simply couldn¡¯t. Ye Meng did a breaking gesture and the twig snapped into thousands of pieces. Water surrounded the broken shards of the twig to form thousands of ice needles with the twig shard as the point. They all flew towards specific spots in the sword formation. The specific spots were the spots that Ye Meng thought would be the weak points of the formation. Dongxue Huan sneered when he saw that almost all of the ice needles were breaking from impact but Ye Meng was smiling.


    One ice needle managed to hit a weak spot and it triggered a massive reaction. The whole sword formation collapsed and the broken needles of ice reformed into a familiar giant flood dragon on Ye Meng¡¯s fist. Although the giant flood dragon looked the same, it¡¯s might when fighting against Wang Yan compared to right now was like the distance between Heaven and Earth! Ye Meng punched out and the dragon arrogantly roared like he was the King of Heaven! Dongxue Han had a crestfallen expression as he took out a thin sword and quickly slashed 27 times towards the dragon. The 27 sword slashes formed a lotus shield and tried to defend against the flood dragon.


    Boom! The lotus shield broke and the flood dragon flew towards the pale faced Dongxue Huan. ¡°I won¡¯t die to a junior!¡± he yelled out and coughed out some blood essence. He put the blood essence on his sword and held the sword behind his head. Dongxue Huan fiercely used up all his strength as he swung his sword down at the flood dragon. Mountain Splitting Strike! A giant blade of wind emerged from the sword and flew straight towards the flood dragon. Shua! Ye Meng gritted his teeth and so did Dongxue Huan as their attacks collided against each other.


    The wind blade dissipated after making a cut on the top of the flood dragon¡¯s snout. Dongxue Huan pitifully cried as he got ripped into shreds. Ye Meng searched his interspatial pouch and surprisingly didn¡¯t find it. He felt like he got robbed but he had a sudden epiphany, ¡°Maybe has an interspatial ring?!!!¡± He looked around and found a seemingly ordinary ring. He opened it and found over 20,000 low grade spirit stones! He felt extremely happy as his fortune was over 75,000 low grade spirit stones! He found a map towards the capital and happily headed towards that direction leaving hundreds of miles of destruction behind him.

 Chapter 5: A Maidservant

    A handsome young man could be seen running extremely fast through the Magical Beast Range. His movements were as fluid as water and he radiated an aura that made people feel like he was an old wise sage who has lived for thousands of years. His black eyes were sharp like swords and if you looked at him for too long, it felt like you were being stabbed by a sword. That young man was Ye Meng and he was currently heading to a city with a Divine Sea cultivator as the strongest expert.


    He eagerly wanted to be promoted to a Tier 4 alchemist and after that a Tier 5 alchemist. It would serve as a way to protect himself and make a good reputation in the capital before going to the Divine Sky Academy which was known as the best academy in the world. Ye Meng had no use for the techniques that they offered, he recieved techniques a lot better than those trash techniques. He couldn¡¯t wait till he his cultivation reached the Divine Sea stage because he could finally use the first move of Ye Qian¡¯s fist technique, Azure Dragon Fist! Techniques could make you exhibit 100%, 120% or even 200% of your total strength but moves could make you exhibit 200%, 300% or even 500% of your total strength!


    His total battle strength would skyrocket if he could use that move. Also, he could use the 2nd move of One Sword to Slay Gods! Once he reached Divine Sea stage. Excitement bubbled up in his heart thinking about how strong he¡¯d be after reaching the Divine Sea stage. He felt that he could kill Dongxue Huan without much effort!


    A couple of hours passed and he saw the city¡¯s gates. He went back to clean himself up and wore expensive clothes he bought for formal occasions. He approached the city gates with an arrogant appearance and when the guards approached him he arrogantly looked down upon them with disdain. He tossed two bags that have thousands of silver coins inside them to the guards and arrogantly said while releasing the pressure of a peak Marrow Cleansing stage cultivator, ¡°Hmph! If you knew who my master was you wouldn¡¯t dare to block my path¡±.


    The guards gulped at his strength and immediately moved to the side, with excitement hidden in their hearts when they looked at the bag. They just received thousands of silvers! That¡¯s around 50% of the salary they get every 10 years! They could buy expensive pills and treasures to maybe even become a captain of the guards which quintupled their salary! Ye Meng entered the city with a domineering attitude, ¡°So this is what it feels like to be a rich young master¡­¡± he sighed inwardly. Ye Meng in his past life was fairly poor with average qualities. Ye Meng marched arrogantly to the Alchemist¡¯s Association branch in the city. While he was walking he heard countless whispers due to his superhuman hearing.


    ¡°Hey Zhang Li, see his young appearance and his high cultivation base?¡±


    ¡°Yeah yeah, what about it?¡±


    ¡°He must be a young master of those frightening clans! Don¡¯t even slightly offend him or else he¡¯ll kill all 9 generations of your family! One word from him could have the city lord killed!¡±


    ¡°Wow! I wish I was from a powerful clan but I¡¯ll stay away from that young master. I don¡¯t wanna die for a random offense!¡±


    Ye Meng wryly smiled, his facade had worked a little too well. He wanted to quickly get promoted and acting arrogant was the best way to do it. Although Ye Meng enjoyed the rush and feeling of power, he hated people who killed people for no good reason like Wang Feng. He swore that he would never follow in the footsteps of the long dead Wang Feng. He arrogantly entered the branch of the Alchemist¡¯s Association and he yelled out, ¡°Get your branch leader out here! You should be honored I¡¯m taking my Tier 4 Alchemist promotion test in this backwater area!¡±


    ¡°Who the fuck is this brat?!¡± yelled a robust middle aged man at the peak of Dan Forming stage. Ye Meng stared at him and the middle aged man started trembling, just one stare from Ye Meng was enough to completely immobilize a cultivator under the Marrow Cleansing stage. Other people saw this scene and knew he was someone not to be messed with. He had a high cultivation base at such a young age, he surely must be a young master! An old man walked out out a large door with his hands behind his back. When he saw Ye Meng he instantly turned respectful, he was an old man whose have had tons of life experience in dealing with stuff like this. ¡°Haha! Young master, this old servant would be glad to have you promoted as a Tier 4 Alchemist in this humble city. But first, we must see your Tier 3 identification card as the rules force us to¡±


    Ye Meng¡¯s lips formed a smile and he flashed his Tier 3 Alchemist card. He said, ¡°Okay old man, I¡¯m gonna take the test right now. Lead me to the room.¡±


    The old man gestured Ye Meng into his office and he followed. ¡°Such a power young figure must be from an exalted clan! You surely know the procedures of the Alchemist¡¯s Association promotion test but I have to go over it with you due to the regulations. You will be assigned 5 random pills with their difficulties varying and you must concoct each of them. Your job is to make a Marrow Cleansing pill, a Frosty Body Tempering pill, a 9 Revolutions Sunfire pill, a Tier 4 Qi Replenishing pill, and a Venomous Paralyzing pill. The ingredients will be provided for you.¡±


    Ye Meng nodded and he whipped out the pill furnace he used which was looked very expensive. The old man sighed on the inside, if only he could have such an extravagant and luxurious pill furnace. Once Ye Meng got the ingredients, he immediately tossed them all into the pill furnace. Seeing his brutish actions the old man wanted to bleach his eyes out, alchemy isn¡¯t just tossing materials in a pill furnace and burning them. Alchemy isn¡¯t cooking! But, he didn¡¯t dare to say such a thing in front of this arrogant young master.


    Ye Meng lit up the furnace and waited until the ingredients were all in their powder form. As soon as they turned into power, he flicked his fingers and all the powder was separated into 5 different sections for 5 different pills. He poured his Qi into the pill furnace and the temperature changed in the locations of the 5 different sections. The Frosty Body Tempering pill required a special type of wood called the Ice Fire Wood to concoct and it was highly reactive. It was a pill which could only be concocted alone, but Ye Meng was concocting it with other pills! Eventually, a couple dozen minutes passed and the pills were all done. They came out of the furnace with a fragrant smell and an extremely thick purple aura surrounded each of the pills. Thickness of the aura decided the quality of the pills and such a thick aura meant that the quality was extremely high! When Ye Meng looked at the old man, he saw that the old man was in a state of enlightenment. ¡°Haha! I¡¯ve barely used 10% of my total knowledge on pills yet just that was enough to send him into enlightenment.¡± he thought. Ye Meng waited for a couple of hours as the old man came to his senses. When Ye Meng looked at the old man, he saw a lot more wisdom and calmness in his eyes. The old man looked at Ye Meng as if he was his teacher. He kowtowed to him and he said, ¡°May I please become your disciple?¡±


    Ye Meng sadly shook his head, he didn¡¯t have time to take in a disciple. Maybe later he might¡­. He pulled out a jade slip and wrote a slight bit of his knowledge in alchemy techniques. He tossed it to the old man and he said, ¡°Here are some techniques, how much you can comprehend is based on you. ¡°


    The old man thanked him and gave him his well deserved Alchemist¡¯s Association Tier 4 alchemist badge. Ye Meng quickly left the city and he did the same thing to get a Tier 5 alchemist badge. Unbeknownst to Ye Meng, that old man would become the 2nd Tier 9 Alchemist of this era. The first one naturally being Ye Meng of course.


    ¡°Now I can finally head straight to the capital. I¡¯ve heard that Dongxue Huan said something about the Divine Sky Academy. It seems like a top tier academy¡­ I guess I¡¯ll join it for the resources.¡± Ye Meng thought. He had everything but large amounts of resources and if he pulled off his plan well, he could get extremely rich inside the academy. Sometimes provoking people is a good way to con money out of them.


    As Ye Meng was running to the capital, he saw a dirty girl being chased by multiple men. Ye Meng wasn¡¯t a saint, he was about to look away when he heard the name of his most hated clan. ¡°Li Xiaoyu, your Li clan was annihilated for offending the Dongxue Clan! You¡¯re the only one left! Just surrender right now and you might be able to become a sex slave for a Dongxue Clan young master!¡±


    The multiple men all had auras of peak Divine Sea stage but one was a Golden Elixir stage cultivator. Ye Meng coldly snorted upon hearing those words, these guys were probably lackeys of the Dongxue clan. The dirty girl looked at him as if ushering him to run away and he just pulled out his sword. When the pursuers saw his actions, they started laughing and jeering at him.


    ¡°Haha! This peak Marrow Cleansing brat doesn¡¯t know the immensity between 1 stage of cultivation! Haha!¡±If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    Ye Meng slashed out, One Sword to Slay Immortals! A man threw a weak punch with disdain but the blue wave easily decapitated him. When the other men saw it, they all turned enraged. Ye Meng just killed one of their sworn brothers so how could they not be fuming mad? Ye Meng controlled the sword wave to go in the direction of the other pursuers. The stench of blood filled the forest as the heads of the pursuers were scattered across the bloodstained grass.


    The dirty girl watched all of this with shock, she was just an early Marrow Cleansing cultivator but she couldn¡¯t even endure a single blow from the pursuers yet he who looked around the same age killed them all with one strike! She limped over to him and weakly croaked out, ¡°Thank you sir for saving my life. Is there anything I can do to repay you?¡±


    Ye Meng looked at her calmly but on the inside he was almost crying due to joy. Ye Qian had a mysterious technique he found which was only for females with a certain type of body called the 81 Divine Yin Meridians Body. The technique was called the Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique. Ye Qian thought that the technique was extremely profound but, he couldn¡¯t find anyone with an 81 Divine Yin Meridians Body. Ye Meng had managed to find one though! If the Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique was truly as mysterious as The Sovereign¡¯s Body, he could have a valuable ally! But Ye Meng had to approach this carefully, he remembered how Ye Qian got betrayed multiple times by his closest friends. Especially at the time of his death, so Ye Meng decided to take safety measures. ¡°Do you want to destroy the Dongxue Clan like they did with your Li Clan?¡± he calmly questioned Li Xiaoyu.


    A cold glint appeared in her eyes and she trembled with hatred but in the end she sighed. She wasn¡¯t stupid, she couldn¡¯t even protect her own life so how could she think of revenge? ¡°I wish¡­¡± she muttered.


    Ye Meng looked her in the eyes and lifted up her dirty chin with a finger. ¡°I swear to the Daos that I have killed a Divine Sense Dongxue Clan elder named Dongxue Huan before 30 years old. If I told a lie then may the Heavens pass judgement onto me.¡±


    The dirty girl looked at him with her mouth agape. He said he killed a Divine Sense elder at such a young age and he even swore to the Daos! If you swear to the Daos, then you have to tell the truth or else you¡¯ll be smited by the Heaven. Ye Meng smirked upon seeing her flabbergasted expression and he arrogantly said, ¡°How about this, since you have decent aptitude I¡¯ll let you become my maidservant. If you accept then you should be able to annihilate the Dongxue Clan by yourself in 200 years but if you decline then I¡¯ll just forget about you like we¡¯ve never met in the first place.¡±


    LI Xiaoyu found all this too sudden, a couple of minutes ago she was on the verge of being captured and now she was offered lots of power coupled with revenge on her most hated enemy. She bit her lower lip and said, ¡°Can you give me a night to think about it?¡±


    Ye Meng nodded and he said,¡±I''ll give you the maximum of 3 days to think about it.¡±


    She agreed and went to a nearby river to wash herself off. Ye Meng tossed her a set of white clothes to change into before she washed herself off. She smiled at his attention to detail, her family just died so wearing anything but white would be extremely disgraceful. A couple of hours of hard scrubbing and a beauty wearing white robes came out of the river. Although she was quite beautiful, she didn''t faze Ye Meng that much because in Ye Qian¡¯s memories he had seen many beautiful women that Li Xiaoyu couldn''t compare to.


    Li Xiaoyu noticed his lack of reaction and felt a bit depressed. Her charm was one of the things she felt the most confident in. She wanted to seduce him and have Ye Meng under her thumb but it he was just indifferent. Li Xiaoyu went to think about the decision that could change her entire life for 3 days straight. Li Xiaoyu was a smart girl but she was far too emotional, she loved her whole family but they were all massacred by the Dongxue Clan just because the vile young master wanted to spend a night with her! All that love that she felt for her family transformed into hate for the Dongxue Clan.


    It was noon and they were both sitting down on the hard ground. Ye Meng was calm on the outside but in the inside he was extremely anxious. ¡°What if she declines? I don¡¯t want to coerce her and have her hate me for eternity. I know that my conditions were too harsh but I have to do this! Even Old Man Qian didn¡¯t find someone with an 81 Divine Yin Meridians Body. Even if that technique is half as good as The Sovereign¡¯s Body, then she¡¯ll be able to be a supreme expert with the growth speed around my level. That¡¯s what I need most, my cultivating speed is too fast to make allies. I¡¯ll just end up passing them in strength within a couple hundred or thousand years.¡±


    On the other hand, Li Xiaoyu was quite anxious as well. If she agreed, she didn¡¯t want to be forced to do things she didn¡¯t want to do. She wouldn¡¯t mind being his servant as long as she could annihilate the Dongxue Clan but a small voice in her head said that she had her own dignity. Although he was quite good looking, she didn¡¯t want to do that with someone she didn¡¯t love. She gritted her teeth and she said, ¡°I agree on one condition.¡±


    Ye Meng was quite worried on what that one condition was, if it was too demanding then he would be forced to coerce her. ¡°What¡¯s your condition?¡± he asked her. She started turning red and she whispered, ¡°No doing ...that¡­ until I¡¯m ready¡­¡± Her voice was extremely soft, if Ye Meng didn''t posses superhuman hearing he wouldn¡¯t be able to hear it. As soon as he heard those words he felt like he was gonna collapse, he was super worried for nothing. ¡°Okay okay, I agree.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu swore that she would follow each and every command except her previous remark while Ye Meng swore that he would give her his best techniques as long as she stayed as his maidservant. Now it was time for Ye Meng to give her a technique. Ye Meng wrote his memory of the The Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique on a slip of jade and handed it to Li Xiaoyu, ¡°This technique is called The Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique which requires a special type of body to cultivate. You have that body, and you know that there is a level above the Mortal Realm right?¡±


    She nodded and asked, ¡°What about it, young master?¡±


    Ye Meng wryly smiled and said, ¡°This technique will probably let you reach the pinnacle of the realm above the Mortal Realm called the Immortal Realm. I was lying to you the whole time, if you didn¡¯t agree on your own I would¡¯ve coerced you because of your talent.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu was speechless, she knew that peak level experts could ascend to the Immortal Realm but this technique could let someone reach the pinnacle of that realm! What kind of technique was it?! He had no reason to lie so she trusted his words. Her beautiful black eyes widened and she exclaimed, ¡°How long do you think I can destroy the Dongxue Clan in, young master?¡±


    Ye Meng shook his head and he answered, ¡°I don¡¯t know, this technique is extremely mysterious like the body refining technique I¡¯m currently cultivating.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu¡¯s eyes started glowing when she wondered about how powerful the technique could be. Ye Meng was currently feeling annoyed, the sound of Young Master reminded him of many unfortunate events. ¡°Xiaoyu, stop calling me young master. Just call me Ye Meng.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu stopped calling him that obnoxious name and she started cultivating The Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique. He gave her one year to reach the Divine Sea stage. Li Xiaoyu was a peak Dan Forming cultivator when he first saw her but in a year she managed to reach the early Divine Sea Stage with the help of Ye Meng¡¯s pills. Since Ye Meng got better ingredients, he could make pills of higher quality. His cultivation had broken through to reach early Divine Sea as well. In a nearby city, Ye Meng had been known as the ¡®Mad Pill Concocting Youngster¡± simply because he would show up to the city every 4 weeks with a few hundred pills and bloodshot eyes. A 100 Tier 5 pills took a long time to concoct compared to the 100 Tier 1 pills he was making in the Jade Mountain Sect. The higher tier the pill, the more time and concentration it took. So, concocting hundreds of pills in 4 weeks was extremely fast to the point where people wondered if he ever stopped concocting pills.


    During the one year, Ye Meng was often quite bored so he always flirted around with Li Xiaoyu during the one year. They had gotten awfully closer to the point where she trusted Ye Meng with everything. Ye Meng felt it amusing that she would probably listen to every order except that even without the agreement forcing her to. One day, Li Xiaoyu was cultivating the Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique when a dark light came out of her body. She was feeling excited, that meant she had reached the first stage! The dark light made her faint and her body was undergoing slight external and internal changes. Ye Qian had received the whole technique but he had only been able to interpret a bit of the technique. There were a lot of other parts he didn¡¯t understand about this technique. After the change, Li Xiaoyu pulled out a mirror and saw her appearance. She was extremely happy about the new changes and she felt extremely confident. She walked towards Ye Meng¡¯s cabin and entered the door.


    Ye Meng was currently having fun eating delicacies such as a frosted cake, perfectly roasted meat with spices scattered all over it and a jar of thousand year old wine. Although he didn¡¯t have to eat, he still did because the dishes in this world tasted countless times better than on Earth due to the nourishment of the Qi in the air. When he saw Li Xiaoyu come in, he instantly spit out the wine on the floor. After his long stare of shock, he sputtered out, ¡°W-What happened to you?!!¡±


    Not even Li Xiaoyu¡¯s mother would¡¯ve recognized her right now. She was completely different, in a good way though. Although she was a beauty before her change, her past couldn¡¯t be compared to her current appearance. It was like comparing a mortal to an Immortal Fairy whose descended from the Heavens! She had long hair flowing down her shoulders and her back. Her beauty was absolutely flawless with thin pink lips and snow white skin. Her large emotionless eyes were the color of beautiful black jade. Her body was extremely well proportioned with a variety of perfect features. Her arms were thin and fragile as if they were a piece of porcelain. Her waist was thin as willow with her breasts were rather large but not too large. Her hips were wide and her butt was round and perky. Her facial expression was a cold type of emotionless as if nothing could ever phase her. Li Xiaoyu previously gave off a slightly noble aura but now, she gave off a cold, noble and graceful aura.


    It was the first time that Ye Meng had seen such a beautiful woman, even in Ye Qian¡¯s memories there wasn¡¯t anyone more perfect than her. He felt incredibly blessed to have her as a maidservant but he also knew that beauty invited trouble. Li Xiaoyu felt bashful and delighted at the same time. Bashful because he was staring at her too intently but delighted because her charms were finally making their way into his heart. Ye Meng quickly suppressed all ideas of lust in his heart, lust was the downfall of many heroes in this world. He asked her playfully, ¡°So, are you ready to do ...that thing¡­ now?¡±


    She immediately turned slightly red and she glared at him angrily. She walked towards him with exceedingly graceful movements that were mesmerizing to the eye and said coquettishly, ¡°I¡¯ve reached the first stage in The Heavenly 9 Circulation technique. Do I get any rewards?¡±


    Ye Meng put on a vile smile and he hugged Li Xiaoyu right there taking full advantage of her. He wrapped his hands around her slender waist while pulling her towards him. Her body was soft and he felt her soft breasts pressing on his body. Li Xiaoyu was totally enraged, she had expected him to give her a powerful technique but in the end he just took complete advantage of her. She fiercely bit her arm and she angrily said, ¡°You rascal! Go die!¡±


    Ye Meng let go of the hug and his expression turned serious, ¡°We¡¯re heading to the capital now so get ready.¡±


    She nodded and she started backing up things she needed. It was time to head to the capital!

 Chapter 6: The Capital

    Ye Meng wasn¡¯t a dumb person, he knew how to learn from mistakes unlike Xianxia protagonists. Beauty is a dangerous thing as it could be beneficial or detrimental depending on the beholder. If a beautiful woman came upon a horde of bandits, then she would obviously have to endure incredibly malicious and lecherous things. But if she came upon a kind hearted young man, she would be courted and basically have some sort of control over the young man. But if she came upon a nobleman she would be forced to serve as a concubine if the noble took enough liking to her. Li Xiaoyu was beyond beautiful to the point where words couldn¡¯t describe her beauty but that was a bad thing.


    The previous Li Xiaoyu was a beauty but she wasn¡¯t as shocking as she is right now. He could¡¯ve just passed her off a maid for a young Tier 5 Alchemist like him. No one would go out of their way to offend such a budding talent that would obviously be nurtured by the Alchemist¡¯s Association just for a beauty. He had Li Xiaoyu put on a tough silver mask, which she gladly agreed to. She wasn¡¯t stupid either, she knew the consequences of her divine beauty. The duo quickly approached the capital of the kingdom they resided in known as the Royal Shangxuan Kingdom. With Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu¡¯s cultivation base coupled with their youthful looks they attracted a lot of attention. The average youth in the capital was at the Foundation Building stage! Even the guards were at the Marrow Cleansing stage! They could be first class experts in low class cities such as the Soaring Dragon City but in the capital they were just simple guards!


    Ye Meng had also noticed that the Qi back in the low class cities was very sparse compared to the Qi near the capital. It seemed like the more they got to the capital, the more Qi was in the air! That¡¯s why Ye Meng was confused on how he advanced so quickly, it turns out that just cultivating here increased his speed by 5 times! Many families stay in the same location for hundreds of thousands of years so their genes have been nourished by the Qi in the air to increase their cultivation talent! ¡°No wonder the guards are all experts here, it was the density of the Qi! Maybe there are different places with higher Qi in the city that I could buy. Maybe some might increase my cultivation speed by 2 or even 5 times! Li Xiaoyu would surely benefit from that since she relies more on cultivation unlike me.¡± Ye Meng felt himself salivating at the thought of his cultivating speed increasing by 5 times. When Li Xiaoyu saw that bit of saliva escape from his mouth she pulled out a cloth from her interspatial pouch and tenderly wiped it off.


    When the guards saw them they asked for the usual identification cards or money and slightly passed over Li Xiaoyu¡¯s perfect figure with hungry eyes. Ye Meng flashed the Alchemist¡¯s Association card. ¡°This girl is my maid and assistant so if you offend her you offend me.¡± Ye Meng quickly warned them. They looked at him with shock and reverence because such a young Tier 5 alchemist would surely become a major figure in the capital in a couple hundred years! They couldn¡¯t afford to offend someone with boundless prospects such as this young master. They apologized and Ye Meng quickly entered the capital and headed straight to the Alchemist¡¯s Association headquarters in the Royal Shangxuan Kingdom. Apparently, there was supposed to be a Tier 7 alchemist located as the leader. The Royal Shangxuan Kingdom supposedly had an ancestor who had reached the peak of 8th stage in cultivation but there wasn¡¯t a Tier 8 alchemist as the leader simply because of how scarce Tier 8 alchemists were. There were 10 Tier 8 alchemists in the world and most of them were eccentrics who¡¯ve distanced themselves from the mortal world.


    Ye Meng instantly attracted a lot of attention due to his young age. Some alchemists probably thought he was a young master due to his high cultivation base. Ye Meng walked up to a beautiful receptionist and she asked him, ¡°What would you like to buy young master?¡±


    Ye Meng shook his head and said while pulling out his identification card, ¡°I¡¯m not buying, I¡¯m selling.¡± She looked at the card, then back at him, then at the card and back at him again with her eyes widening every second. She immediately yelled out, ¡°Grandpa! Get out here right now!¡±


    Suddenly, an old man with a ferocious yet lazy aura came out of a giant door. As soon as the other alchemists saw him, they ceased their conversations and looked at him as if he was their fathers. The old man lazily mumbled, ¡°What did you call me here for Xian¡¯er? As a tier 7 alchemist I¡¯m very busy!


    Li Xiaoyu and Ye Meng were both in shock, that lazy old man was a Tier 7 alchemist? And that receptionist was actually the granddaughter of the alchemist? Talk about staying low key¡­ The receptionist rolled her eyes and yelled out, ¡°We have such a young Tier 5 alchemist and you want him to leave?¡±


    All eyes instantly turned towards Ye Meng and the old man¡¯s eyes lit up. He approached Ye Meng with the speed of an early Divine Sense cultivator. The Tier 7 alchemist approached Ye Meng and he asked him with a thoughtful look in his eyes, ¡°Hmmm¡­. Being a Tier 5 Alchemist in around 30 years! That talent is just higher than mine, you can become a Tier 7 Alchemist if you try hard. Would you like to become my disciple?¡±


    The nearby alchemists were all shocked! Every one of them would gladly become that old man¡¯s disciple but a brat just got offered exactly just that. They had traces of jealousy, envy and surprisingly admiration. They couldn¡¯t help but admire Ye Meng¡¯s incredible talent in alchemy. No matter who they are, people always respect the strong and talented such as Ye Meng. They thought he was double or triple his age so they didn¡¯t put him in their eyes but they finally recognized Mt. Tai.Even their idol complimented him saying that he could be a Tier 7 Alchemist! Who is a Tier 7 Alchemist? Someone with the same authority as a King!


    Ye Meng shook his head, ¡°I already have a master, it was he who made me a Tier 5 alchemist.¡±


    The old man gave a look of understanding and gave Ye Meng a symbol made out of gold. ¡°Your master should be a Tier 7 alchemist like me, I¡¯ll give him face and help you out.¡±


    Ye Meng took the jade slip and saw that it was the royal emblem! Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu looked at the emblem with shock, a royal emblem could let them do many things they previously couldn¡¯t do! Ye Meng looked down at the royal emblem that gave off an aura of nobility and looked back at the old man. He respectfully clasped his hands and he said, ¡°Thank you senior, this junior will forever remember your kindness.¡±This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.


    The old man just chuckled and he said, ¡°Just call me Old Man Bai and when you become a Tier 7 Alchemist just share some of your notes with me! I¡¯ll arrange a manor for your and the miss beside you to reside in. There is an auction happening in a couple of weeks so it¡¯d be a good place to buy various treasures!¡±


    Ye Meng nodded and he made a bit more smalltalk with Old Man Bai before he sold off his pills and got a lot better ingredients. The price of a medicinal ingredient could vary from 10,000 silver to even 200,000 silver just based on where you¡¯re buying and selling it at! In Soaring Dragon City, the ingredients found in the capital everywhere that cost a measly 15,000 silver would cost


    a whopping 200,000 silver! All of that was based on how rare the object was in that specific location.


    He exited the building with Li Xiaoyu at his side and headed straight for high class shops. Due to the large crowd, Ye Meng was forced to hold Li Xiaoyu¡¯s hand which made her red inside of her mask. They arrived at a high class clothing store after a long struggle in the crowd. Ye Meng didn¡¯t have a lot of clothing for women so naturally they shopped for women¡¯s clothing. Ye Meng found some expensive robes he liked with each of them costing over 50,000 silvers! He let Li Xiaoyu pick her own clothing and eventually, it was time to pay.


    They went to the register and were greeted by a cute teenager. Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu dropped all of their stuff on the counter while the register¡¯s jaw was dropped. The duo had put down dozens of articles of very expensive clothing like it was nothing for them! Her facial expression turned respectful immediately and she excitedly said, ¡°Young Master and Young Mistress, the total cost of your purchase is 2 million silvers.¡±


    Ye Meng nodded and threw out 20 low grade spirit stones in front of her. Although this was a shop for the wealthy, no one but the extremely rich folks just threw out spirit stones like they were candy. They exited the shop and headed straight for the manor. Ye Meng knew that peak Divine Sea cultivators were following them. He sighed and went into an alley. Blood splattered on the floor as Ye Meng easily beheaded the pursuers. As they entered their mansion, Li Xiaoyu tugged on Ye Meng¡¯s sleeve. ¡°Ye Meng, can you give me some superior techniques?¡±


    ¡°Eee? I forgot about that! Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll give you techniques as long as you pay a price.¡±


    mischievously said Ye Meng. Li Xiaoyu shuddered when she saw the smile and she asked, ¡°What do I have to pay?¡±


    People take things that were free for granted so Ye Meng didn¡¯t want Li Xiaoyu to take him for granted. It was easier to control someone who likes you rather than someone who doesn''t like you. Ye Meng let out an evil laugh that could frighten most people and said, ¡°Sleep on the same bed for me for a month.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu turned red and her beautiful face flickered with many complicated emotions. The reason why Ye Meng gave her a choice was because if he gave her an order, she¡¯d hate him even more! But since it¡¯s an even trade, Li Xiaoyu would feel grateful for the technique but blame herself for accepting the choice. Every single action was to currently trying to increase Li Xiaoyu¡¯s affection for him until it transformed into love. For someone as talented as Li Xiaoyu, he wanted absolute loyalty and control, which was called love in Xianxia worlds. Most of the MC¡¯s women are usually easy if you save their lives and say a couple of honeyed words. But, they were completely loyal and dedicated to you if they fell for you. If Ye Meng could do that then Li Xiaoyu was under his control even without their agreement. After a couple of moments of thinking, she gritted her charming white and said, ¡°I agree, but no touching!¡±


    ¡°Of course, I¡¯m not a beast to touch without consent.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu felt angry from the bottom of her heart, you hugged me without consent! You also held my hand without consent! What a hypocrite!


    Ye Meng took out a jade slip and started thinking about the best techniques for Li Xiaoyu. Yin techniques were the ones he was looking for because of the Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique. If they synergized then maybe the techniques would have an even greater increase of her strength! He saw a couple of trash ones until he finally found a good one called Frost Yin Palm. It employed the palm to carefully hit specific spots so it could freeze those spots and deal massive damage.


    Ye Meng wrote the technique on the jade slip and handed it to Li Xiaoyu along with a movement technique. ¡°Study them and have them perfected by the auction. We might have some enemies so I recommend that you quickly gain strength.¡±


    She nodded and went to a lone courtyard in his mansion. Their mansion was fairly big and was located in the upper class area of the city. They had no maids because of how many secrets Ye Meng had, if they ended up being revealed then he had just lost a card in his hand. They had a special room where the Qi was 3 times as thick as the outside! Ye Meng started cultivating in that room and his speed was incomparable to his speed a year ago.


    Eventually, the night came and they both headed for Ye Meng¡¯s giant room. Cultivators at the level of Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu didn¡¯t really need to sleep but everyone still did simply because of the benefits. Sleeping was like entering meditation but in a different position, you both tried comprehending different Daos, Laws and etc while you were sleeping or meditating. But, the thing was that sleep was a great natural stress reliever was the number one reason that people slept. Many cultivators had things they were stressed out about such as money, face, their enemies and etc. Nothing was better than sleeping in that essence.


    Li Xiaoyu was wearing a silk shirt way too big for her. It showed off her sexy snow white thighs and calves. Ye Meng felt his pole rising whenever he saw Li Xiaoyu in her dress which was very inconvenient. Li Xiaoyu must¡¯ve noticed it as well because her cheeks were flushed red whenever she peeked at the bottom half of Ye Meng. Ye Meng smiled like a good natured boy at her and he said while patting the mattress, ¡°Come on maid, don¡¯t make me force you.¡±


    She clicked her tongue and she slipped inside the bed with her back towards Ye Meng. He got a sudden idea and he started faking having nightmares. ¡°Noo! Mother!! Father!!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu couldn¡¯t sleep with Ye Meng¡¯s endless ¡®nightmares¡¯ no matter what. She looked back at him and saw his back towards her. She slightly hugged his body while trying to cover up his mouth. As soon as she embraced him, he stopped his nightmares. ¡°What? What just happened?¡± thought Li Xiaoyu.


    She decided to test things out and let go of her hand over his mouth. Nothing changed so she decided to go back to her original position on the bed when suddenly, the nightmares continued. But, the nightmares had a little something else to it, ¡°Xiaoyu¡¯er don¡¯t die! I was going to marry you after this so please don¡¯t die! I love you!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu felt extremely strange when she heard those words so she decided to put an end to the ¡®nightmare¡¯. She embraced him from the back and they slept like that until morning. Ye Meng was smiling the whole time because of her voluptuous body on her back and the success of a stage in his plan, it made him feel truly blessed. He sometimes ¡®accidently¡¯ groped Li Xiaoyu as a result of his ¡®nightmares¡¯.


    On the second day, the same thing happened but Ye Meng cursed at the Dongxue Clan a lot more than usual. The cycle kept repeating until it was the last day of their agreement. Ye Meng had made it so that Li Xiaoyu wouldn¡¯t react to holding hands with him unlike last time. She also hugged Ye Meng a lot more than usual for an unknown reason. Finally, 7 weeks had passed and it was time for the auction. Ye Meng didn¡¯t have much improvements but Li Xiaoyu¡¯s strength increased by leaps and bounds.


    Unbeknownst to either of them, a storm was brewing which was the reason for the out of place deadly beasts. An egg had appeared on the mortal realm which produced frightening power! It was the egg of a creature that¡¯s descended from the Immortal Realm by unknown means.

 Chapter 7: The Auction

    Ye Meng was currently waiting for Li Xiaoyu to get ready for the auction at his mansion. His hair was tied up in a ponytail with some of it flowing down the sides. His eyebrows were like sharp like swords and his skin was fair. His eyes held a penetrating gaze like daggers penetrating you and he had on expensive robes he bought at the high-class clothing store. ¡°How long is she going to take?! It¡¯s been an hour already!¡± thought Ye Meng impatiently. He had been waiting for far too long, make up wasn¡¯t available in this world so she shouldn¡¯t take this long. A couple of minutes passed and suddenly, the door opened. An extremely beautiful woman that radiated a cold aura emerged from the door. Ye Meng was completely struck dumb at her beauty even though he was used to her appearance, she was many times more beautiful. It was like a dull sword compared to a sword that has been sharpened. It just couldn¡¯t compare! Upon seeing Ye Meng¡¯s dumbfounded expression, Li Xiaoyu slightly smiled.


    Li Xiaoyu was wearing light blue robes that showed off a bit of her thin jade-like arms. Her large breasts were also slightly revealed in the robes. Ye Meng shook his head and quickly regained his composure. ¡°Put on the mask or I might viciously attack you and eat you right now!¡± he said in a lecherous yet light hearted tone. She coldly humphed at him and put the mask on her face. Ye Meng coiled his arm around her slender waist like a snake.


    She coldly glared at Ye Meng but let his arm stay with a slight tinge of red on her cheeks. They walk out of the manor and headed for the auction. Ye Meng also put on a mask as it¡¯s an custom when partaking in auctions. Old Man Bai had given them VIP tickets for the auction because he wanted to improve his relationship with Ye Meng. Old Man Bai obviously had some other ulterior motives but Ye Meng didn¡¯t worry about it as


    They arrived at the auction house which was like a palace, everything was perfectly made with the finest handiwork. They walked towards the entrance but as they were walking, they came upon a disturbance that Ye Meng was quite familiar with in xianxia¡¯s.


    ¡°I¡¯m the 13th Young Master of the Dongxue Clan, Dongxue Tian! How dare you not give me a ticket! I¡¯ll have your family executed right now!¡±


    Ye Meng felt Li Xiaoyu tremble with anger and he whispered into her ear, ¡°Is he the one who caused the death of your clan?¡±


    She gave him a slight nod and clenched her fists with anger. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, in under 5 years I¡¯ll have him killed. In 100 years or less I¡¯ll annihilate the Dongxue Clan, I promise.¡± he reassured her. The guards were sweating under the pressure of Dongxue Tian¡¯s bodyguards. The 10 guards staying in front of the auction were only middle Golden Elixir stage cultivators, they were no match for Dongxue Tian¡¯s 5 peak Golden Elixir bodyguards. Suddenly, a Divine Sense expert walked out of the door and she waved her hands. ¡°Who dares act so unruly in front of the Heavenly Auction Palace!¡±


    Dongxue Tian and his bodyguards all coughed up blood while flying back a couple dozen meters. The Heavenly Auction Palace could be considered the 3rd strongest power in the world after the Divine Sky Academy and the Alchemist¡¯s Association. The old lady decided to be the doorkeeper after seeing Dongxue Tian acting so unruly. Meanwhile, the young master was paralyzed on the floor as he watched countless powerful figures enter the building. Most of the other people lining up felt nothing but disdain for Dongxue Tian, it was alright to disagree but to cause such a ruckus in the Heavenly Auction Palace¡¯s headquarters was being too rowdy! Eventually, it was Ye Meng¡¯s turn to show his tickets. Ye Meng flashed his VIP ticket to the old lady and when she saw it, her expression brightened up. ¡°Young Master Ye! The old man told me about you! Welcome! Welcome! It¡¯s an honor to have you and your partner here with us. I¡¯ll personally escort you two to your VIP seats in the old man¡¯s booth.¡±


    Upon hearing it, Dongxue Tian coughed up a mouthful of blood. He was a young master of the Dongxue Clan which was one of the Four Great Clans in the kingdom and yet he didn¡¯t get a ticket yet this nobody got a VIP ticket! Dongxue Tian was a peak Marrow Cleansing cultivator who could beat average early Divine Sea cultivators but a nobody with a lower cultivation base got in. It¡¯s no wonder he became so enraged to the point of coughing up blood. He wanted to say something but the old lady¡¯s Divine Sense had completely immobilized him. The other figures were more intelligent than the young Dongxue Tian and they knew a lot more people. They knew exactly who this old lady was and the only person she would ever call an old man was her husband, Old Man Bai!


    The old lady crushed a jade slip and 20 guards all with the aura of peak Golden Elixir came out of the door. They bowed respectfully to her and went outside to be the new guards. The old lady and Ye Meng chatted while they walked through the beautiful auction house.


    The walls were adorned with many treasures and artistic paintings of beautiful things. Meanwhile Li Xiaoyu was completely mesmerized by the magnificent view in front of her eyes. Ever since she had accepted being Ye Meng¡¯s maid, she had a luxurious life far exceeding her life in the city. She had an amazing cultivation technique, she had very expensive silk clothes, she had her cultivation base increased by a lot in such a small period of time and now she got to see extremely marvelous sights like these. Other than the death of her family, she was very content with her life. Power was everything in this world and Li Xiaoyu had a chance to get power far greater than she could imagine. ¡°Maybe being a maidservant for Meng isn''t a bad idea after all.¡± she thought.


    Meanwhile Ye Meng was utterly perplexed, he had a certain feeling of longing toward something in the auction house. ¡°Hmmm¡­ It should appear in the auction so I can buy it with my spirit stones.¡± he thought. They walked towards a large and luxurious booth that looked like it was meant for a king. They saw a familiar old man and his beautiful granddaughter waving at them. Ye Meng waved back and entered the booth with Li Xiaoyu. Old Man Bai laughed and he said, ¡°When we first met I forgot to introduce you to my granddaughter but her name is Bai Chen.¡±


    Ye Meng nodded and shook her slim hand and said, ¡°Nice to meet you Lady Chen. My name¡¯s Ye Meng.¡± She smiled awkwardly and received his handshake, but then she turned straight towards Li Xiaoyu and greeted her. ¡°May I ask what your relation with Ye Meng is?¡± Bai Chen asked. Old Man Bai laughed and he arrogantly said, ¡°Just a concubine I bet! When I was younger I had countless beauties chasing after me because of my dashing looks!¡± The old lady furiously yelled at Old Man Bai, ¡°Hmph! They were just after your talents in alchemy! They didn¡¯t really love you at all. How dare you think back to them when you have me!¡± Old Man Bai scratched his lead and repeatedly apologized. ¡°I¡¯m just his maidservant.¡± answered Li Xiaoyu with a feeble and helpless tone.


    Bai Chen angrily said, ¡°Hmph! Tell me all the details of your agreement. If he dares bully you, he¡¯ll have to answer to me!¡±


    ¡°He can order me to do anything but the deed between man and women.¡± responded Li Xiaoyu while giving Ye Meng a mischievous look. Bai Chen immediately became enraged and dashed towards Ye Meng, ¡°You sex fiend! I bet you take advantage of little Xiaoyu every single day! Does it feel good to be a beast?! Hmph!¡±


    Ye Meng smiled mockingly and he said, ¡°Xiaoyu, be honest have I ever bullied you? How well have I treated you?¡±


    Li Xiaoyu shook her head and she was forced to say, ¡°You¡¯ve taken plenty of advantages from me but you¡¯ve never bullied me. You¡¯ve always treated me like a princess.


    Bai Chen somewhat calmed down and she glared at Ye Meng, ¡°I¡¯ll forgive you this time but if she comes running up to me saying that you bullied her. Hmph! Hmph! I won¡¯t forgive you!¡±


    ¡°Hmph! This girl, I¡¯ll make sure to properly punish you once we get home!¡± thought Ye Meng. Li Xiaoyu was purposely making it hard for him, although it was just a small joke Ye Meng still wanted vengeance.


    Bai Chen chatted a bit with Li Xiaoyu and Ye Meng talked with Old Man Bai about alchemy.


    ¡°Ye Meng, if you ever need some money in the auction, I¡¯ll lend you some as a favor.¡± said Old Man Bai. Ye Meng nodded and looked extremely happy but he was scared on the inside. What did Old Man Bai want with him? With Old Man Bai¡¯s influence, he could even call out some cultivators above the Divine Sense stage! Ye Meng could do nothing but die if that happened so he was trying to think of all the possible motives Old Man Bai might have towards him. Eventually, half an hour passed and the auction was starting. Old Man Bai and Bai Chen put on their masks. The old lady worked for the Heavenly Auction Palace so she had to leave and help out with the protection of the items. Even the King was coming along with the Imperial Family so they had to make sure the process went smoothly. The curtains of the stage parted and revealed an extremely fat and jolly man. Although his appearance might be harmless, Ye Meng knew that he was a legendary cultivator above the Divine Sense stage! The fat man merrily laughed and he said, ¡°Welcome! This auction will be the grandest auction in the history of the Royal Shangxuan Kingdom! We have exactly 2401 items that we¡¯re auctioning. The auction will last for 7 days and nights so be prepared to spend some money!¡±


    The entire auction house was dead silent, not even a sound could be heard besides the jolly fatty. This was the biggest auction of all times without a doubt! The second place couldn¡¯t even compare with a measly 300 items! The stage above the Divine Sense stage was known as the Soul Cleansing stage, where your soul gets nourished and purified until it¡¯s ready to become a True Soul. All of the Soul Cleansing experts had grave expressions on their faces because they certainly knew what 2,401 truly meant. It meant their chance of survival¡­. The higher the number of items, the higher the chance of death.


    The jolly fatty talked a bit more on the stage and eventually he got off the stage. A heaven defying beauty walked on stage with graceful movements, she had a revealing dress. She flashed a beautiful smile that could make any man swoon except for maybe Ye Meng. He had a bored expression on his face, she was too low class compared to the exquisite Li Xiaoyu. She announced the first item which was a technique called the Sturdy Earth Fist. Ye Meng didn¡¯t put that into his eyes because he had better ones.


    Techniques were divided into 5 main grades: Mortal, Earth, Heaven, Saint, and Divine


    Each class had a low, middle and peak as dividers. The highest techniques that could be found in the Mortal Realm were peak Earth grade techniques and maybe one of two early Heaven techniques. Ye Meng knew that One Sword To Slay Gods was a peak Divine grade technique as well as The Godking¡¯s Breath. The Sovereign¡¯s Body and the Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique were both far too mysterious. Sturdy Earth Fist was a peak Mortal grade technique, it was simply a waste of money if he tried to buy it.


    The items were supposed to be better as time went so Ye Meng bided his time. Eventually, one day passed with nothing catching Ye Meng¡¯s eyes. 343 items had already been auctioned off and it was the second day. ¡°The first item we¡¯ll be auctioning off is an extremely mysterious technique that will hide your cultivation base to even True Soul stage experts!. It¡¯s called Remnants of the Ghost. We still don¡¯t know it¡¯s grade though. Bidding starts at 1,000 low grade spirit stones and increases at increments of 250.¡± said the beautiful lady. Ye Meng¡¯s ears instantly perked up, what he wanted the most was to hide his aura! Ever since he had almost been killed by Wang Yan due to him hiding his aura, he had always wondered how to do it. Ye Qian also managed to make him hide his aura but Ye Meng didn¡¯t know that hiding one¡¯s aura is a little feature of the Divine Elemental Stone that is accessible once you properly merge with it. Old Man Bai say Ye Meng¡¯s reaction and smiled. ¡°Little Ye, do you want this technique?¡±


    Ye Meng nodded and he said, ¡°If it goes over 20,000 low grade spirit stones, I¡¯ll ask senior to help me out.¡±


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    Voices echoed out as they bidded for the technique.


    ¡°1,500!¡±


    ¡°2,000!¡±


    ¡°2,250!¡±


    Ye Meng sighed and he yelled out, ¡°4,000!¡±


    ¡°5,000! Who dares to fight with a Divine Sense stage cultivator!¡±


    ¡°7,500 spirit stones! Sorry for offending you senior, I really need this!¡± shouted out Ye Meng in an apologetic tone.


    The voice didn¡¯t bid any further because even though he wanted the item, it wasn¡¯t something he really needed. He heard from some Soul Cleansing stage seniors that the most important thing to do was to strengthen yourselves because a storm was approaching. 7,500 spirit stones was a stretch for him so he decided to stop.


    The beautiful lady in the front flashed a smile towards Ye Meng and she said, ¡°VIP Booth 3 wins the Remnants of the Ghost for 7,500 low grade spirit stones! Please come forward and purchase your items once the auction is over.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu was completely shocked! 2,000 low grade spirit stones was the entire fortune of her family, yet Ye Meng just pulled out 7,500 like it was nothing! Although she disliked being a maidservant, she really admired Ye Meng. He was extremely mysterious and his achievements far surpassed the limit for his age. Eventually, another day passed and Ye Meng didn¡¯t find anything he liked but Li Xiaoyu did.


    ¡°The next item is a sword made up of a special kind of ice called Pure Blue Ice which is known for it¡¯s exceptional toughness. It¡¯s a Tier 7 Artifact called the Azure Frost Sword and one of its exceptional feature is that it increases the power of techniques that use frost Yin! Bidding starts at 3,500 low grade spirit stones and increases at increments of 500.¡±


    The sword was displayed on the stage, the blade was a beautiful azure color like the sky. The hilt of the sword was exquisitely carved and it radiated a frosty aura. Li Xiaoyu¡¯s eyes flashed with yearning because she fell in love with the sword at first sight. She wanted it badly but she was ashamed to say it, 3,500 low grade spirit stones was a lot of money for her. She bashfully tugged on the hem of Ye Meng¡¯s robes to draw his attention. Ye Meng was smiling on the inside, he knew exactly what Li Xiaoyu wanted but he faked it. ¡°Um¡­ Brother Ye Meng¡­. Can you buy me that sword please?¡± she bashfully muttered. Her ears were crimson red because she was burning with shame. Although she was his maidservant she hadn¡¯t done anything much for him, it felt embarrassing to beg someone for something expensive when you haven¡¯t done them any favors. (No, she is not brotherzoning him. ¡°Familial terms can also be added to the surname of someone not related to impute to them a special closeness or relationship to the speaker.¡± http://traditions.cultural-china.com/en/214Traditions9155.html</a>) Ye Meng made a struggling expression and he said, ¡°I only have around 15,000 low grade spirit stones with me. The sword is a decent Tier 7 artifact so it might end up costing 10,000 low grade spirit stones. I won¡¯t be able to buy anything else. You better exchange something good if you want that.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu said, ¡°I¡¯ll do anything for a year except ...that.. For that sword.¡±


    Ye Meng¡¯s eyes lit up and he said in a lewd tone, ¡°You¡¯ll have to give me a kiss everyday for the next year. Okay?¡±


    Li Xiaoyu wanted to negotiate further but, she thought about their agreement. ¡°He could do anything to me except that but for acts like this he always negotiates with me. He respects me and asks for my consent every time. Why am I being so ungrateful? What have I done for him? Some of my friends who actually had fiancee¡¯s have told me about how sometimes men go to those brothels to do that shameless act. Meng never does that and he always cultivates or concocts pills.¡± thought Li Xiaoyu with a lot of guilt. Seeing her guilty expression, Ye Meng smiled because he had finally made her beg and guilt tripped her. Li Xiaoyu was the young mistress that everyone doted on in her city, she had no fiancee because she was given rights regarding to whom she wanted to marry. She never really cared about men even though she had thousands of pursuers, all she cared about was cultivation and her loved ones. Whatever she wanted, she would get. Her cultivation talent and beauty were decent to the point where their family had hopes of her breaking through and being a Golden Elixir stage cultivator. She was a proud daughter of heaven but today was the first she had to beg for something.


    She nodded and muttered a weak ¡°Thanks¡±


    Meanwhile the bid wars was going on and it was very intense between 2 female Divine Sense cultivators who both practice frost Yin techniques. Although people wore masks, their voices could not be faked.


    ¡°You bitch! 7,500 spirit stones! You dare mess with me?!¡±


    ¡°Slut! I¡¯ll deal with you after the auction at the north part of the Magical Beast Range! Do you dare to accept my duel?! 10,000!¡±


    ¡°12,500!¡±, the female cultivator had spent 15,000 on a rare piece of fruit that could help ease through breakthroughs so this was her maximum.


    ¡°14,000¡± yelled the other one. She too was low on spirit stones because she had spent it on a low Earth grade technique.


    ¡°15,000¡± yelled out Ye Meng. He felt extremely unhappy over his expenses but whenever he thought about completely controlling Li Xiaoyu, he shut up. One of the two cursed the person in VIP Booth 3 while the other one felt nothing but gratitude. If her enemy got the sword then she might¡¯ve been severely injured by their duel! ¡°VIP Booth 3 wins the Azure Frost Sword for 15,000 low grade spirit stones! Please come forward and purchase your items once the auction is over!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu was like a little girl, she couldn¡¯t wait to get her sword. Bai Chen was shocked, males can¡¯t cultivate frost Yin techniques but he spent 15,000 low grade spirit stones on her. Even though she was doted on by Old Man Bai, her yearly allowance was only 1,000 low grade spirit stones. ¡°Wow.. This sex fiend actually treats Sister Xiaoyu quite well. If only more women could be treated the same..¡± though Bai Chen.


    As he was watching the auction, he felt Li Xiaoyu¡¯s head rest on his shoulder. ¡°I apologize for being so rude Brother Meng.¡± whispered Li Xiaoyu in his ear. Ye Meng was quite happy with her changes in attitude, she was a bit vain before this and making her more humble was a great idea. The auction continued and on the last day, Ye Meng felt the yearning desire grow stronger every second.


    The beautiful lady on the stage held a box and she opened it to reveal a seemingly ordinary black pearl. Ye Meng felt the stone in his dantian react as if it was excited. ¡°This is a mysterious black pearl that a Soul Cleansing cultivator found and he couldn¡¯t understand what it does. Our auction house is not responsible if the pearl is trash. The bidding for this item will start at 10,000 low grade spirit stones and increase at increments of 1,000.¡±


    Many people laughed on the inside, who would spend money for something that they don¡¯t know the purpose of? Ye Meng walked up to Old Man Bai and he whispered into his ear, ¡°If the cost of this item exceeds 30,000 spirit stones can senior buy it for me?¡±


    Old Man Bai laughed heartily and he said, ¡°Don¡¯t worry Little Meng, as long as the price doesn¡¯t exceed 75,000 low grade spirit stones I can buy it for you.¡±


    Ye Meng smiled and thanked Old Man Bai. His main purpose was to ensure he got the item, but another one was to make it look like Ye Meng was actually broke and didn¡¯t have anything after the sword to make Li Xiaoyu feel even guiltier. Ye Meng waited for someone to bid but surprisingly no one did!


    ¡°10,000!¡± shouted out Ye Meng.


    The beautiful lady had an awkward smile on her face and she reluctantly said, ¡°VIP Booth 3 wins the mysterious black pearl for 10,000 low grade spirit stones! Please come forward and purchase your items once the auction is over!¡±


    Ye Meng was extremely delighted, no one bid against him this time! Although he had around 52,000 low grade spirit stones left he wanted to save some. He waited the rest of the auction and watched as Old Man Bai placed some bids on some treasures. Eventually, the auction was over and they walked up to the front to pay for their items. Ye Meng paid for his items and put it all in his interspatial ring. He held Li Xiaoyu¡¯s hand and walked out of the auction house. He started to head back to his mansion when he saw Dongxue Tian glaring at him angrily. ¡°How did a no name like you become a VIP but I couldn¡¯t even enter!¡¯


    Ye Meng tightened his grip on Li Xiaoyu¡¯s hand to prevent her from retaliating violently. ¡°It¡¯s none of your business.¡± he said coldly to Dongxue Tian. Dongxue Tian¡¯s bodyguards blocked their way and Dongxue Tian said with contempt, ¡°There is no famous Ye Clan in the entire world so how could a commoner like you get in? Tell me or else don¡¯t blame me for being merciless!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu coldly said, ¡°Get lost trash, our backer can destroy your family with a couple of words.¡±


    ¡°You!...¡± Dongxue Tian angrily bellowed but when he saw Li Xiaoyu¡¯s body, his anger turned into lust. ¡°Don¡¯t blame me for being so ruthless since you¡¯ve rejected my offer. I¡¯ll have a nice night with that beauty beside you after I¡¯m done.¡± Dongxue Tian said as he vilely licked his lips as he scanned Li Xiaoyu¡¯s body. Ye Meng felt Li Xiaoyu tremble with anger and he knew that this was an awfully familiar situation to her. The peak Golden Elixir bodyguards attacked with fierce moves but Ye Meng wasn¡¯t fazed at all. He was just waiting for a special someone, he pulled Li Xiaoyu and dodged them all. Upon seeing that their attacks missed, Dongxue Tian was surprised because even he couldn¡¯t dodge the attacks of his bodyguards. He suppressed that surprise with his own lies and he yelled out, ¡°He was just lucky! Get him and I¡¯ll make sure to treat you to flower wine at the Pure Wind Pavilion!¡± ( Flower wine means drinking with beautiful girls/prostitutes serving you)


    The bodyguards felt their bloods boiling after they heard that, the Pure Wind Pavilion was the best brothel in the capital! All the prostitutes there were all beauties that even princes would want to take as concubines! They roared and attacked Ye Meng with the ferocity of a tiger. Suddenly, a familiar tone yelled out with rage, ¡°WHO DARES TRY TO KILL MY GUEST!¡±. Suddenly 5 flying swords instantly pierced the bodyguards¡¯ throats and a palm flew towards Dongxue Tian¡¯s dantian at frightening speeds. Crack! Dongxue Tian was instantly crippled and his meridians were torn apart. Dongxue Tian coughed up half a dozen mouthfuls of blood and his complexion was as pale as a vampire. ¡°S-s-s-Senior, I-I¡¯m the y-y-young master of the D-d-d-Dongxue Clan!¡± he stuttered as his body trembled with fear. Old Man Bai and Bai Chen were both extremely angry as walked towards Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu. Old Man Bai was seething with anger because someone dared to harm his goose who is going to lay golden eggs while Bai Chen was angry because of Dongxue Tian¡¯s vile words towards Li Xiaoyu. ¡°Although women naturally have weaker martial arts constitutions, it doesn¡¯t mean we can be raped and taken advantage of!¡± thought Bai Chen.


    When OId Man Bai appeared into Dongxue Tian¡¯s view, he knew even his clan¡¯s ancestor couldn¡¯t save him because even his ancestor had to be humble when Old Man Bai talked to him. The power of alchemists was already strong, but once you become a Tier 7 Alchemist, no one dares to offend you beside True Soul cultivators. There are around a thousand Tier 6 alchemists all over the world but there are only a couple dozen Tier 7 alchemists. The reason is because making pills for Divine Sense stage cultivators are just too hard! A Soul Cleansing stage expert could kill a Tier 6 Alchemist but once they did, the Alchemist¡¯s Association will demand payment to nurture another Tier 6 Alchemist. Even though they¡¯re Soul Cleansing experts, they¡¯ll still be forced to give up half of their life savings! So unless it¡¯s a life or death enmity, no one dares to offend alchemists. The main reason the Alchemist¡¯s Association has the power to do this is because they have 5 True Soul experts backing them! Their strongest expert is the strongest cultivator in the entire world as well! The second strongest is the Divine Sky Academy and they have 3 True Soul experts while the Heavenly Auction Palace has 2 True Soul experts but they have a lot of Soul Cleansing experts.


    Old Man Bai humped and arrogantly said, ¡°I¡¯ll let my guest decide your fate! If it were up to me, I would¡¯ve killed you right then!¡±


    Ye Meng smiled with good intentions, ¡°It¡¯s alright Elder Bai, you should let him go.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu nodded as well, she knew exactly what Ye Meng was thinking. Old Man Bai was puzzled but he still let Dongxue Tian go. Li Xiaoyu was laughing and sneering at Dongxue Tian in her heart, ¡°A simple death would be considered nice when I remember what you did to my family! I¡¯ll make sure you¡¯ll be begging to die at the end of the 5 years!¡± Ye Meng also had the same vicious thoughts in his mind. Old Man Bai asked ¡°Why did you let him go? He¡¯ll come back for revenge?¡± Ye Meng smiled and he arrogantly said, ¡°Does senior think my master will leave me without protection? I was waiting for senior to come so I could avoid the troubles of having to deal with his family after I¡¯d crippled him. Even though I¡¯m under senior¡¯s protection, they¡¯d still send assassins after me but since senior crippled him they wouldn¡¯t dare to do anything.¡±


    Old Man Bai looked at Ye Meng differently now, he was young as a fox cub but he was wily as an old fox! Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu walked home with hurried strides as they were eager to test their purchases. They entered the mansion and Ye Meng quickly learned Remnants of the Ghost. He taught it to Li Xiaoyu as well because her cultivation speed would even shock True Soul experts if they knew. She pulled out her sword from the scabbard and tested it out. Her beautiful black eyes shimmered when she felt how light it was. Whenever she swung, the air would freeze and instantly become extremely cold. Ye Meng was watching her swordplay and shook his head, it was so horrible that it almost made Ye Meng laugh. Compared to his own sword techniques along with sword intent, her swordplay was like a blindfolded child trying to hit a pinata by waving a stick around. ¡°Maid Xiaoyu, I can¡¯t bear seeing you like this! I¡¯ll teach you a sword technique that use the properties of Yin.¡±


    Her ears perked up and she looked at Ye Meng as if he was a tree that grew money. Ye Meng taught her a technique called the Heaven Freezing Yin Sword and gave her a week to learn all it¡¯s stances and moves or else she had to promise him something. She relentlessly trained without sleeping and Ye Meng felt that it was time to experiment with the pearl.


    He held the pearl in his palm and examined it carefully with his superhuman eyesight. ¡°What does it do? I know that the Divine Elemental Stone wants it but I¡¯m wondering how I can do that¡­¡±


    He spent a couple of hours trying everything like trying to absorb the pearl like an elixir, trying to chip off pieces of the pearl, and even crack the pearl. Suddenly, an idea popped in his head after seeing a small bird swallowing a worm. ¡°I swallowed the stone so maybe I can swallow the pearl!¡±


    He popped the pearl in his mouth and swallowed it. Ye Meng felt an extreme discomfort as he felt the pearl travel in his body. When the pearl reached his dantian, his body convulsed and his veins inflated to the point where they looked like worms on his fit body. He felt all his Qi dispersing from his body as he tried his best to remain sane from the intense pain. He felt all his Qi disappearing while he could do nothing to stop it and due to loss of Qi, he blacked out. Ye Meng woke up facing the ceiling in a spread eagle position. He got up and circulated his Qi to make sure it was still there. When he saw the Qi, his face broke out into a large grin. ¡°This¡­.¡±

 Chapter 8: Downfall of a Genius (EDITED)

    When Ye Meng circulated his Qi, he found out that it was completely refined over and over again. He felt that if he could use half the Qi than before for the same effect! ¡°I wonder what other functions the Divine Elemental Stone might have¡­This item wasn¡¯t in Ye Qian¡¯s memories so it must be something from the God Realm! I can¡¯t get complacent with just this level of strength, there are over trillions of people who could all kill me in a single blow.¡±


    Ye Meng happily walked out of the room and headed to the courtyard where Li Xiaoyu was practicing. He was in a really good mood so he decided to tease her a bit. Her mask was off and she was repeating the stances of the technique over and over again. She was wearing a set of white training robes that were completely drenched in sweat so Ye Meng could see through them. Meanwhile, Li Xiaoyu felt like someone was watching her so she turned around to see Ye Meng staring at her body with a lewd expression on his face.


    She instantly turned crimson when she saw her clothes were see through. She tried to flee but Ye Meng appeared in front of her in the blink of an eye. Ye Meng forcefully locked lips with her and moved his hands over her body while gently caressing her smooth skin. Her lips were very soft and her saliva was very fragrant. Ye Meng savored every second of this joyful experience and made sure to burn it into his memories. Li Xiaoyu tried to resist at first, but her strength was being drained from her body every second. She was like Superman trying to resist the effects of Kryptonite, it just wasn¡¯t possible as kryptonite was Superman¡¯s natural weakness.


    Li Xiaoyu didn¡¯t know why but her heart was beating extremely fast, and she felt extremely hot in places Ye Meng¡¯s hands touched. A minute passed and Ye Meng let the red faced Li Xiaoyu go. ¡°That was the first kiss you owe me.¡± Ye Meng said with a devious smile while walking out of the door.


    Li Xiaoyu traced her lips with a finger while thinking about how her first kiss was taken by Ye Meng. When they slept together, it was like a hug so she didn¡¯t care as much about it. Li Xiaoyu has given tons of hugs to her family members so she didn¡¯t put it in her eyes. But now, her first kiss has been forcefully taken by Ye Meng! Whenever she thought of the kiss, her face turned crimson red which made her even more attractive and her heart started beating quickly.


    Meanwhile, Ye Meng was secretly following the crestfallen Dongxue Tian. Dongxue Tian has always been a genius in the Dongxue Clan and always received the best treatment. Woman? He had very beautiful concubines that were gifts from various clans to improve their relations with. He also had a beautiful fiancee who was the princess of the Kingdom. Money? He received 500 low grade spirit stones every year, which was an extremely large sum. 500 low grade spirit stones was equivalent to 50,000,000 silver liangs! 50,000,000 silver liangs was how much an average Tier 5 alchemist would have on him! You have to know that average cultivators are very frugal, they aren¡¯t like those young masters of the big clans who can spend freely. They have to kill beasts for magical cores to sell which is risking their lives!


    Cultivation Resources? He always received the finest pills given to him as gifts. Whatever he asked for, he was given it. It made his personality arrogant and unruly.


    Everything changed overnight when the Soul Cleansing ancestor found out that he was crippled. Everyone in the capital knew about it, even the servants of restaurants! His status in the clan instantly plummeted and the only reason he was still alive was because he was the son of the Patriarch. Even his own father was cold to him because he was crippled. His father had over 20 sons and daughters so how could he care about a crippled son from a concubine? Dongxue Tian had the potential to be a Divine Sense elder in the Dongxue Clan so that¡¯s why everyone treated him so well before he became a cripple.


    There were only 4 Divine Sense elders in the Dongxue Clan, not counting the deceased Dongxue Huan so each additional one was a huge boost to the clan¡¯s power. After he got crippled, his allowance plummeted to a fraction of what he had in the past. He only got 1,000,000 silver liangs a year which was equivalent to how much an average Marrow Cleansing stage cultivator had only because his father was the Patriarch of the clan. All his beloved concubines who¡¯d spent nights accompanying him were all sold to cheap brothels because no one wants used goods, especially from a cripple. He had received a particularly heaven defying beauty that he was completely infatuated with a couple of days ago. As for cultivation resources, he didn¡¯t receive anything! No one would waste pills on a useless cripple. They might add some low Tier healing pills to make sure he doesn¡¯t die when being beat up.


    You can¡¯t simply imagine how angry Dongxue Tian was when he heard all of this. None of his friends remained by his side and the only person who supported him fully was his mom. Sadly, his mom was only a mid Golden Elixir stage cultivator so how could she have much influence in the clan? There were hundreds of people stronger than her so the only positive thing she had was that she was extremely beautiful. Only by begging Dongxue Tian¡¯s dad was she able to make his allowance 1,000,000 silver liangs. When his mom was around, no one under the same status dared to offend him but his mom was in charge of many things so she was often away on trips.


    The Dongxue Clan was a clan filled with hidden dragons and crouching tigers. As soon as word got out that he was crippled, they bullied him and beat him up to the point where his eyes look like the eyes of a panda. None of his brothers helped him out because they weren¡¯t even from the same mom! They weren¡¯t obligated to do so as well because their status increased when he became a cripple. All of his friends cut off any form of relation towards him and acted cold when he tried to meet them.


    Dongxue Tian was currently walked out of his clan with a measly mid Divine Sea stage bodyguard when suddenly, a fist socked him in the jaw. Crack! Some bones on his face broke and the bodyguard just sat there doing nothing as he didn¡¯t want to offend the figure in front of him. It was the 14th Young Master of the Dongxue Clan, Dongxue Nan! (Dongxue Tian is older than Dongxue Nan.) Dongxue Nan was a genius only slightly below Dongxue Tian and the latter always bullied the former. Now it was his time for revenge. ¡°Trash! How dare you walk the same path as I, your father! Aren¡¯t you scared of dying?¡± the vile Dongxue Nan yelled towards Dongxue Tian. Crack! Crack! More of Dongxue Tian¡¯s bones broke as the younger brother relentlessly kicked the older brother¡¯s ribcage. Ptui! Spit landed on the enraged Dongxue Tian¡¯s face. ¡°Kowtow and call me grandfather or else I¡¯ll make you even more crippled than you already are! You useless cripple!¡± ordered Dongxue Nan.


    Dongxue Tian gritted his teeth and kowtowed towards Dongxue Nan. ¡°G-Grandfather.¡±


    He knew he had to endure and meet Hua Tong¡¯er. Surely she wouldn¡¯t discriminate against him, right? Dongxue Nan sneered and said a bunch of snide remarks towards him as he walked away with his bodyguards. Dongxue Tian pulled out a healing pill from his interspatial pouch and popped it in his mouth. ¡°Get that spit off of me.¡± ordered Dongxue Tian towards the bodyguard. The bodyguard gave him a look of disdain and reluctantly wiped it off. Dongxue Tian¡¯s body fully healed in an hour and during that time, countless people passing by sneered, jeered and mocked him. In a world where strength reigns supreme, who would care about a cripple?


    Generally, it shouldn¡¯t take an hour to heal such severe injuries but Dongxue Tian was currently a mortal! A Tier 3 pill for small injuries could heal Dongxue Tian in an hour because Dongxue Tian had no Qi. Qi nourishes and spreads around the body so when Dongxue Tian was crippled, all of his Qi was lost. The Tier 3 pill just had to heal his Qi-less body, not the Qi nourished body of a cultivator. Dongxue Tian walked towards the beautiful concubine he¡¯d received a while back called Hua Tong¡¯er.


    He heard a martial arts instructor teaching young members of the Dongxue Clan while using him as an example. ¡°Listen up brats, don¡¯t go offending people whose status and strength are way above your strength and status. Don¡¯t be like the pitiful Dongxue Tian who offended a Tier 7 Alchemist.¡± The children all solemnly nodded, they were in the strict Dongxue Clan so how could they not take it to heart? They all knew that status is based on cultivation talent and who your family members are. If you become a cripple then you parents will basically disown you!¡± Dongxue Tian felt his cheeks go red at the humiliation and swore to himself to never trust anyone again. Everyone would stop caring about you once you stopped cultivating, this world was simply that brutal.


    He entered her room and when she saw him, her beautiful face had small hints of disdain. With Dongxue Tian¡¯s perception, he could see how much she loathed him. His heart felt like it was constantly getting pierced by needles and he feebly raised his voice to say something, ¡°Beloved Tong¡¯er, are you going to leave me too?¡±


    She forced out a smile and told a lie, ¡°I apologize and I hope you won¡¯t take it to the heart but the Hua clan called me back. Don¡¯t call me by beloved anymore, I find it a bit annoying.¡±


    Dongxue Tian feebly smiled and hid the heartbreak in his voice, ¡°It¡¯s alright...You can go back..¡±


    He knew exactly what she actually meant by her tone, she was leaving him for good because his status as a cripple. He knew that she never truly cared about him at all but he still became infatuated over her. Hua Tong¡¯er sneered on the inside because from the time she was 5, the Hua Clan had adopted her because they thought she had the potential to be extremely beautiful. The Hua Clan was a clan on the same level as the Dongxue Clan, they were both known as one of the Four Great Clans of the Royal Shangxuan Kingdom along with the Xiang Clan and the Chen Clan. Her whole purpose was to seduce a young master with huge potential and become a concubine to get the Hua Clan in the young master¡¯s good books when he became an expert. From her childhood, she¡¯s been learning everything to prepare for her future like learning how to play a variety of instruments, learning how to act like a noble lady, learning how to properly seduce someone and cultivating. Her whole life was practicing seducing some young master, so why would she go for a cripple? That¡¯s equivalent to digging her own grave!


    As he watched her departing figure, Dongxue Tian was quietly sobbing. He had fallen really hard for Hua Tong¡¯er but she left him as soon as she knew he was crippled. He thought about Ye Meng and felt nothing but extreme hatred towards him to the point where he couldn¡¯t exist in the same universe as him. It was because of him that he lost his standing in the clan. It was because of him he that lost all his beloved concubines. It was because of him that Hua Tong¡¯er left him. Dongxue Tian felt he he had aged 1,000 years in a single night. Everything was taken from him in one night. Everything. Some strands of his hair started turning grey and his face looked two decades older. There were visible streaks of grey on his previously pitch black hair and wrinkles began to appear on his face. Dongxue Tian looked like a middle aged man due to the extreme stress he endured. His face was still recognizable and a somber aura radiated out from him. His mind had nothing on it other than revenge against Ye Meng, Hua Tong¡¯er and drinking away his sorrows.


    Meanwhile, Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu were both watching this from a restaurant. Ye Meng never expected that the effects of Dongxue Tian being crippled resulted in this! He had brought Li Xiaoyu when he saw what Dongxue Tian¡¯s current status in his clan was like. She was watching this intently while sipping on some very expensive wine. Lots of accumulated stress and worries were all fading away as she saw this pitiful scene. She remembered all of his family members who¡¯ve died because of him and broke down crying. She cried on Ye Meng¡¯s shoulder and reminisced about her family. Ye Meng was cautiously scanning the surroundings because Li Xiaoyu¡¯s mask was off. It wouldn¡¯t be a stretch to say that her beauty could topple entire worlds! If someone saw her beauty, then they were in deep trouble. Half an hour later, Li Xiaoyu¡¯s eyes were red from crying and a vicious glint appeared in those eyes.


    She willingly kissed Ye Meng on the cheek and she said with a kind tone along with a flushed face, ¡°Brother Ye, thank you for helping me get revenge. But, this isn''t enough.¡± Her voice became vicious in the end which made shivers crawl down Ye Meng¡¯s spine.


    Ye Meng felt delighted when her soft lips gently kissed him and he asked her, ¡°What else can we do then?¡±


    Li Xiaoyu coldly said, ¡°We should make sure to ruin his mother¡¯s life as well. Only a demoness could give birth to such a vile spawn.¡± Ye Meng shuddered on the inside, her words were just too vicious! He reminded himself to never cross Li Xiaoyu.


    Ye Meng nodded and told her to put on the mask. They walked out of the expensive restaurant and headed back home.


    Unbeknownst to them when they heard the rumours of Old Man Bai moving to save a guest by crippling Dongxue Tian, every large clan searched for who it was. They didn''t want to offend Old Man Bai by accidentally offending his guest. They spent quite a bit of time until one of the alchemists in the Alchemist¡¯s Association described Ye Meng entering the building and the events following it.


    They were all shocked when they heard that Ye Meng became a Tier 5 Alchemist at 30 years old. Becoming a Tier 1 Alchemist might take a blessed child of the Heavens from the Four Great Clans or the Royal Family a year. Becoming a Tier 2 Alchemist might take 3 years, becoming a Tier 3 Alchemist might take 8 years, becoming a Tier 4 Alchemist might take 15 years, becoming a Tier 5 Alchemist might take 25 years!


    Every single time you want to be a higher level Alchemist, it takes exponentially more time! That''s why 3 of the 10 Tier 8 Alchemists are True Soul experts. With more time, the more accomplishments one could get in alchemy.


    Although Ye Meng didn''t break any records it was still displayed a shocking talent in alchemy. The fastest person to become a Tier 5 Alchemist manages to get it when they were 20! That person later went on to become a legendary Tier 9 Alchemist.


    Many Tier 7 Alchemists became Tier 5 Alchemists around 35 and 40 years old so Ye Meng had huge potential! They also heard Old Man Bai say that Ye Meng¡¯s master must be a Tier 7 Alchemist as well. They knew that they had to get into Ye Meng¡¯s good books so the clans searched for Ye Meng¡¯s location. Old Man Bai decided to help them out and straight up told the clans where Ye Meng resided. That led to a large group of people waiting in front of his mansion, surprisingly Old Man Bai was there too.Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.


    Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu held hands to make sure they didn¡¯t get lost in the crowd as they were walking through it. They were both puzzled on why a whole bunch of people were blocking the entrance to their mansion when suddenly a familiar old man spotted them. ¡°Haha! Little Ye sorry for not informing you of all this.¡± said Old Man Bai as he parted the crowd. ¡°Old Man Bai, could you please explain to me the reason for all of this?¡± asked Ye Meng.


    The whole crowd made sure to pay attention because this surely must be the ¡®Young Alchemist Ye¡¯ that Old Man Bai talked about. Old Man Bai explained the situation to Ye Meng who was very annoyed at the current situation. Due to his fame, he would have less opportunities to go undercover and people would pay more attention to them. If someone came in the mansion while Li Xiaoyu¡¯s mask was off or if someone came in while she was training in her beautiful sword technique, it''d be a huge problem. Ye Meng wasn''t sure about killing peak Divine Sense experts so he had no other option but to flee. But, he couldn''t flee with Li Xiaoyu as she would get in his way. He had to be more careful now or else he would die.


    Ye Meng chatted with many of the members from the big clans. He spoke respectfully and humbly towards everyone which made people have a natural liking towards him. He received many gifts such as spirit stones, weapons, and even some beautiful women! Ye Meng felt nothing but disdain for people who actually give women as gifts. Although Ye Meng has lived in this world for over 20 years, he still retained some of his morals from Earth. He gave them back to the gifters and politely refused them.


    ¡°Young Alchemist Ye, although you don¡¯t like women please give me a chance.¡± said a coquettish voice yet slightly familiar in the midst of the crowd. Li Xiaoyu and Ye Meng both looked at the source of the voice with shock. It was the Hua Tong¡¯er that Dongxue Tian was infatuated with! Ye Meng had a sudden flash of viciousness in his eyes, ¡°Daring to force my maid to serve you?! I¡¯ll make the girl you love serve me in front of your very eyes!¡±


    Ye Meng smiled and respectfully said, ¡°I don¡¯t dislike women, rather my standards are too high. Nothing for a lady with your beauty and talent. I¡¯d gladly take you in as my concubine! But, I¡¯d like Lady Tong¡¯er to give me some face and tell the truth on one matter.¡±


    The crowd heard their exchange and thought, ¡°No wonder Young Alchemist Ye rejected all those beauties. None of them could meet Ye Meng¡¯s standards and only the extraordinary Lady Tong¡¯er could!¡±


    They all knew who Hua Tong¡¯er was, she was an adopted daughter of an elder. She was very talented in everything and she was very beautiful. The Crown Prince was rumoured to be courting her but sadly, she was adopted so he couldn¡¯t take her in, even as a concubine! Her birth was very humble, it would ruin the reputation of the Kingdom if he did. Meanwhile, Hua Tong¡¯er was feeling proud that her charms worked on Ye Meng. ¡°Although I¡¯ll have to give my body to him, it¡¯s nothing compared to having the status of the Empress!¡±


    The crowd parted as she seductively walked with her wide hips swaying. Every young man in the crowd swallowed their saliva when they saw that marvelous sight and felt extreme jealousy towards Ye Meng. Ye Meng felt nothing but disdain for Hua Tong¡¯er, ¡°Only a superficial slut would stay with Dongxue Tian!¡± Ye Meng had to admit that she was indeed seductive even though he¡¯d seen countless seductive women in Ye Qian¡¯s memories. If Li Xiaoyu was a Goddess, then Hua Tong¡¯er would be called a succubus. She had a beautiful face with charming big black eyes, an arched nose, and luscious red lips. Her body figure was better than Li Xiaoyu¡¯s and the way she carried herself was a lot better as well. Her movements were exceedingly graceful and fluid like water.


    ¡°Thank you for your compliments Young Master Ye but what question would you like me to answer?¡± she said with the same tone as before.


    ¡°It¡¯s a small matter but it¡¯s rather important to me as a man. Have you ever been touched by another man except for your family members? My pride as a man won¡¯t allow me to have a woman who''s been tainted by another man.¡±


    Hua Tong¡¯er merely smiled and she said no while swearing to the Daos. The crowd slowly crept away to give Hua Tong¡¯er and Ye Meng some space. Old Man Bai also left while giving a lecherous grin and a thumbs up to Ye Meng. Li Xiaoyu just waited at the side with a strange painful feeling in her heart, ¡°What¡¯s happening to me? Why am I getting so upset when he talks to other girls¡­¡±


    To be honest, Ye Meng had better conversations with the talented Hua Tong¡¯er than Li Xiaoyu because she was well versed in many subjects. She was a Tier 3 Alchemist and an early Marrow Cleansing cultivator which was nothing compared to Ye Meng. They walked into the mansion and Ye Meng gave her a large room for her stuff. While they were talking, Hua Tong¡¯er couldn¡¯t help but get curious at the identity of the cold masked girl, ¡°Who is the girl in the mask right next to you? She¡¯s been following us the whole time.¡±


    Ye Meng smiled and he said, ¡°She¡¯s my maidservant, but she also has a higher status than you in my heart simply because of her cultivation talent. Reaching early Divine Sea stage at 25 and being able to fight against mid Divine Sea.¡±


    Hua Tong¡¯er was shocked, she was very smart so she remembered to never offend the masked girl. With the masked girl¡¯s potential, she would become a Divine Sense expert for sure! She humbled herself and asked, ¡°Excuse me, may I have the honor of knowing your name?¡±


    Li Xiaoyu coldly said, ¡°Li Xiaoyu.¡± while glaring at Ye Meng who was feeling very confused right now. She was grateful to him a couple hours earlier but now she was glaring at him? ¡°Women are too confusing¡­¡± thought Ye Meng. Ye Meng and Hua Tong¡¯er chatted and flirted for a couple of hours after Li Xiaoyu went to train in her courtyard. Ye Meng broke off the conversation and went to his room to concoct a certain pill.


    Ye Meng was wracking his head because he had to invent his own poison! Poisons are the opposite of pills but they¡¯re extremely hard to make and Ye Meng was making his own poison which made it even harder! He thought of how alchemy worked, you turned the ingredients into power and cooked them at the right temperatures. ¡°Isn''t poison just medicine with a large change in the effects? Like the way to cure the Blazing Lava Poison is to use the Frosty Glacier Poison in a pill to counter the effects. Medicines are to heal and poisons are to cause damage and illnesses to someone. So, I should find out how to cure the condition and slightly alter it.¡± thought Ye Meng with his eyes glowing. Ye Meng recalled millions and millions of herbs while trying to find out the one that had the effect Ye Meng wanted. ¡°Aha! The Unappealing Stink Ginseng might work for this poison! It has the some of the effects I would want in the cure.¡±


    He spend a lot of his mental strength calculating what type of herbs would properly synthesize to form the pillhe wanted. He had didn¡¯t have enough ingredients so he went and bought extremely large amounts from Old Man Bai for a couple hundred low grade spirit stones. He experimented hundreds and hundreds of times with the ingredients. Fail. Fail. Fail. Fail. Fail. Everytime he failed, he wrote the results in a slip of jade and found out which steps he did wrong. Ye Meng seemed to be getting better at alchemy during this time as well. Before he relied on his memories but now, he can rely on himself to make pills. Eventually, 3 months had passed and Ye Meng was still concocting pills. He was like a madman possessed in his work, he didn¡¯t eat or sleep during the whole 3 months. Li Xiaoyu was very worried about him to the point where she forced him to stop and get some fresh air.


    Ye Meng was madly concocting like usual and writing down the results on a jade slip. He was stuck on one step, the poison was a liquid had multiple properties in different places. So, if you drank one portion of the poison, then you might feel high but if you drank another portion you might feel all jittery. ¡°Hwaaah¡­ Earlier I wanted to make this pill for the sake of revenge but now, I want to forge my own path in Alchemy!¡± thought Ye Meng with a strange glint in his eyes. He was thinking about the various different ways to make sure the liquids all combined ¡°If only poisons had the same form as pills¡­.¡± thought the sad Ye Meng.


    Suddenly, an idea popped up in his head, ¡°How am I so stupid?! Why can¡¯t poisons take the form of pills? What¡¯s preventing it from doing that?!¡± thought Ye Meng as he facepalmed due to overlooking the obvious. He did the same steps as last time, but this time he froze the liquid into a jade mold of a pill. When the pill was completed, Ye Meng tested it out on a rabbit and it worked! Ye Meng felt pure ecstasy as his hard work finally paid off! They say that you learn from your mistakes and Ye Meng finally experienced it. Alchemy seemed to flow much better in his mind after he concocted the poison pill simply because even though they have the opposite effects, they both have the same roots!


    Ye Meng made another version of the pill and finally left his room. Hua Tong¡¯er was very surprised and admired Ye Meng¡¯s iron will. He spent 3 months trying to concoct one pill without doing anything else! ¡°No one has that kind of determination! No wonder he¡¯s so talented at a young age! Hard work is better than talent¡­¡± thought Hua Tong¡¯er. Dongxue Tian was just a gold mine in her eyes as he was infatuated with her and he was a genius capable of reaching the Divine Sense stage! But, he was an extremely supercilious and lecherous man which made Hua Tong¡¯er dislike him. She was from a humble birth so every time someone looked down on commoners, she became slightly angry and her opinion of them drastically lowered. ¡°So Young Alchemist Ye has finally came out of secluded concocting!¡± she said in a joking tone.


    Ye Meng didn¡¯t respond or spare a glance at her, he was simply too tired! His cold reply made Hua Tong¡¯er unhappy but who could blame him? He wanted to rest and regain his youthful energy so he went back to his room. When he entered, he saw Li Xiaoyu in the bed with the blanket on top of her. Her sleeping expression was rather cute and didn¡¯t fail to lighten up Ye Meng¡¯s mood. Ye Meng leapt into the bed without waking Li Xiaoyu up and hugged her from the behind. He slept peacefully with her in his arms and had pleasant dreams of positive vibes. A couple of hours later, Li Xiaoyu woke up with something hot poking and prodding at her round butt. She turned around and saw Ye Meng behind her sleeping soundly. She carefully checked to see what was poking at her and when she saw, she turned crimson red at the speed of light!


    If you think sex ed is bad in the US, then sex ed is hundreds of times worse in this world. ¡°Mother always said that when guys become s-sexually st-stimulated then they become hard ¡®down there¡¯. So he must be stimulated by me?!¡± thought the red face Li Xiaoyu. She scrambled out of bed and quickly went to her friend Bai Chen¡¯s mansion.


    A few maids greeted her as she entered with familiarity because Li Xiaoyu had been here multiple times. She headed straight to Bai Chen¡¯s room with quick steps and flung open the door. Bai Chen was currently refining pills and when saw Li Xiaoyu come in excitedly she stopped. ¡°Xiaoyu, what happened to you to make you so jittery? Did Ye Meng bully you?!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu turned red and whispered the events that took place recently to Bai Chen. The latter¡¯s eyes got wider and wider as the story went on. ¡°Xiaoyu, maybe Ye Meng likes you? You also said that he proclaimed his love for you in his sleep?¡± said the shocked Bai Chen with an ambiguous smile. Li Xiaoyu turned red at the thought of love and when Bai Chen saw her crimson ears, she decided to tease Li Xiaoyu a bit. ¡°Xiaoyu, do you like him too? Just tell me and I¡¯ll keep it a secret from Ye Meng!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu laughed and weakly punched Bai Chen with a red face, ¡°Sister Bai! What are you saying?¡±


    Bai Chen smirked and she said, ¡°You didn¡¯t deny it! You do like him!¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t know¡­ He treats me rather well and I don¡¯t do any of the things you normally do as a maid. I certainly don¡¯t dislike him but I¡¯m not sure if I like him.¡±


    Bai Chen aah¡¯d and she questioned Li Xiaoyu, ¡°Sister Xiaoyu, does your heart rate speed up when you see him?¡±


    While the two girls were chatting, Ye Meng had woken up and decided to go outside to drink with Dongxue Han. Ye Meng walked towards the extravagant residence of Dongxue Han and made sure to get some gifts worth millions of silver liangs ready. He saw the guards guarding over his residence and he walked over to them. The guards were very well versed in who not to offend and who they can afford to offend but sadly, they didn¡¯t know of Ye Meng. The guards blocked Ye Meng¡¯s path inside and they coldly said, ¡°Young Master Han is currently cultivating. Please come back later.¡±


    Ye Meng outright knew that it was a bold die so he said, ¡°Tell Dongxue Han that Ye Meng came to visit him.¡± The guards paled at that name, even if the chance was less than 1%, they still knew that they had to be safe. The appearance and cultivation stage matched of Young Alchemist Ye Meng and the person in front of them so they sent a man to call Dongxue Han out.


    A minute later, Dongxue Han came out with his peak Golden Elixir bodyguards surrounding him and a beauty in his arms. ¡°The apple doesn¡¯t fall far from the tree huh?¡± thought Ye Meng. Ye Meng and Dongxue Han greeted each other as the latter shoo¡¯d off everyone but his bodyguards.


    ¡°Young Master Han, I¡¯d like to ask you to accompany me to a get some fine drinks.¡± said Ye Meng while giving Dongxue Han some expensive gifts. Dongxue Han knew he couldn¡¯t decline because the gifts that Ye Meng gave him were extremely expensive! It would result in Ye Meng losing face and one thing that Dongxue Han did not want to do was to offend someone who could be a Tier 7 alchemist! Dongxue Han politely replied with, ¡°Of course! The best place to drink and have fun is always the Pure Wind Pavilion (Best brothel in Kingdom. Girls are beautiful to the point that even Princes would lick their lips with lust when thinking bout em.)¡±


    Ye Meng had an innate dislike for brothels for no particular reason at all so he wasn¡¯t okay with Dongxue Han¡¯s choice but he knew that a lot of these young masters spent time at brothels to he had to adapt. Although Dongxue Han was from the Dongxue Clan, Ye Meng was a lot more restrained than usual because he put himself under huge pressure. He still hated Dongxue Han but since Dongxue Han utterly humiliated Dongxue Tian, Ye Meng¡¯s image of Dongxue Han improved. He also couldn¡¯t reveal his past or strength because it was simply too shocking! If his past and hatred became revealed then it would be very bad for him and Li Xiaoyu.


    The Dongxue Clan would know that he was near the area of the Divine Elemental Stone and his cultivation increased by insane speeds so they would forcefully check him. Also people would go mad with envy if they heard that he could kill a Divine Sense stage expert at the age of 30! The youngest Divine Sense expert in the world was only around 60 years old! If Ye Meng¡¯s true strength was revealed then he would be hounded by countless experts hoping to see what methods Ye Meng used to become so strong in so little time.


    One priority of Ye Meng¡¯s was to build a good relationship with the young masters because some of them might come to the Divine Sky Academy with him. He didn¡¯t want to offend anyone else that he didn¡¯t have to. The Crown Prince was naturally a lost cause so Ye Meng didn¡¯t put him in his eyes.


    They arrived at this building decorated with colorful lights and looked extravagant. Dongxue Han and Ye Meng entered the building and picked the same room after the attendant saw their qualifications. It was a fairly well lit large room that had a fragrant peach blossom smell to it. There was a table and some large beds in the room as well for certain acts¡­ On the table, there was a pamphlet that had life-like paintings of each girl in the pavilion and each girl had a certain price range.


    ¡°This brothel is like a restaurant but with woman!¡± thought Ye Meng with a wry smile. Dongxue Han didn¡¯t even look at the pamphlet and immediately broke two jade slips which sent a signal to call the girls to his room. Ye Meng decided to get option 3 to relieve himself after that continuous 3 months of alchemy experiments. Ye Meng decided to be a bit extravagant and best for two of the best girls ranked #2 and #4 in terms of beauty. The second ranked girl¡¯s option 3 costed 3,000,000 silver liangs (30 low grade spirit stones) and the fourth girl¡¯s option 3 costed 2,000,000 silver liangs (20 low grade spirit stones) which was nothing but a drop in the bucket for Ye Meng. Option 3 was just a massage and touching avaliable but Ye Meng wanted a massage. Dongxue Han¡¯s picked #6 and #10 in terms of beauty because he had a liking towards them.


    Dongxue Han had a yearly allowance of 500 low grade spirit stones so he could only go to the Pure Wind Pavilion two or three times a year! The cost was simply too high! Four perfect beauties all arrived at the same time and they all had different figures along with different personalities. Dongxue Han had also picked option 3 and went to a bed adjacent from Ye Meng¡¯s. Ye Meng had brought some very expensive wine for them to enjoy as they relieved themselves.


    During the massage, Ye Meng and Dongxue Han both felt like they were on cloud 9. ¡°I never knew that a massage could feel this good.¡± thought Ye Meng. ¡°No wonder this is reputed to be the best brothel in the capital, even the massages are this good!¡±


    Eventually, the massage ended and Ye Meng felt a lot more flexible than before. Ye Meng was caressing the prostitutes beside him while having a discussion with Dongxue Han. He learned a lot of things like the Divine Sky Academy entrance tournament was in 1 year and 9 months. A couple of hours passed and the discussion finally came once the prostitutes clocked out.


    ¡°Dongxue Han, do you hate Dongxue Tian?¡± asked Ye Meng.


    Dongxue Han gritted his teeth and said in a low voice filled with anger, ¡°Yes¡­ I hate that bastard with a passion. He has always bullied me because his talent was only slightly better than mine!¡±


    Ye Meng nodded and said, ¡°I hate Dongxue Tian with a passion as well, he tried to rape my beloved maid or assistant or partner two times before. He also tried to kill us because we got invited to the auction but I had lifesaving treasures from my master so I wouldn¡¯t died anyways. I originally called you here to tell you about a plan to utterly humiliate Dongxue Tian even further.¡±


    Dongxue Han nodded and gave Ye Meng a look of understanding. What kind of man (beside a cuckold) wouldn¡¯t be angry if someone tried to forcefully rape their beloved? ¡°What¡¯s the plan¡± asked Dongxue Han with a vicious smile on his face.


    Ye Meng whispered the plan into Dongxue Han¡¯s ears and the latter¡¯s eyes widened with shock. This type of revenge was far too vicious! ¡°So¡­. Are we gonna shake on it?¡± asked Ye Meng with a confident smile. Dongxue Han shook his hand and they discussed their plan.

 Chapter 9: Assassins and Kidnapping

    Ye Meng walked home with a faint smile on his handsome face without knowing that he was being targeted by someone.


    Flashback from 3 months ago


    ¡®What?! She left Dongxue Tian and now she became another guy¡¯s concubine willingly?!¡± exclaimed the Crown Prince with shock while slamming the table. ¡°Yes your Highness, that¡¯s what the reports say. We had some eyewitnesses testify for us as well.¡± said the servant while bowing.


    The Crown Prince reassured himself, ¡°My beloved isn¡¯t a slut! She was forced into being Dongxue Tian¡¯s concubine by the Hua Clan! She must¡¯ve been forced by her clan this time around as well!¡± thought the Crown Prince with an anxious face. ¡°My plans to kill Dongxue Tian were just about to be executed. I had two Quasi Divine Sense cultivators ready to attack after the auction was over. I guess I¡¯ll have to make them change targets.¡± thought the Crown Prince with a vicious look on his face.


    ¡°Make sure to tell the assassins to stalk that motherfucker Ye Meng and kill him when he¡¯s alone.¡± ordered the Crown Prince fiercely. ¡°Also, arrange a meeting with Dongxue Tian¡¯s mother when she gets back to the capital.¡±


    The Quasi Divine Sense cultivators he was referring to were on the brink of reaching the Divine Sense stage. Another name would be half a step into Divine Sense stage, Quasi Divine Sense stage was actually supposed to be a title. There was no actual Quasi Divine Sense, it was a stage where the cultivator had reached the limits of Golden Elixir stage and had managed to acquire pseudo Divine Sense. Generally, the Divine Sea condenses to form a puddle of elixir and once you reach the peak of Golden Elixir, it turns gold. To acquire Divine Sense, you need to transfer the Golden Elixir into your meridians and condense it in your upper dantian otherwise known as your Shentian, short for Shen Dantian. Quasi Divine Sense cultivators were people who¡¯ve condensed a bit of Divine Sense. Only 20 of these experts would be found in a Great Clan such as the Dongxue Clan while the Royal Family had around 40 of these experts.


    Flashback End


    While Ye Meng was continuing his journey back home, he felt like someone or some people were stalking him. He would be fine if they were just Divine Sense lackeys but they were actually Quasi Divine Sense cultivators! ¡°Only the Crown Prince would have enough money and influence two Quasi Divine Sense among the people who I¡¯ve offended. But, I¡¯ll still interrogate the men anyways just to make sure.¡± thought Ye Meng with his lips curled up. That was one of the many benefits of not provoking many people, you use simple logic to find who targeted you!


    Ye Meng went into a dark alley which made the assassins grin. Going inside a dark alley? That was simply digging your own grave! Ye Meng pulled out a sword from his interspatial pouch and tightly grasped the hilt.


    The hooded and cloaked assassins didn¡¯t speak a word and daggers flew towards Ye Meng with the intent to kill. Their auras became concealed yet filled with killing intent. Ye Meng withdrew his sword and cut the flying daggers into two with one deft slash of his sword. ¡°What! How is this possible? Isn¡¯t he just a Divine Sea brat?!¡± thought one of the unfortunate assassins. ¡°That must¡¯ve been a life saving treasure from his master. Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯ll make sure that the second attack works by using poison.¡± said one of the assassins to his partner. Suddenly, a vicious thick green cloud crept up and surrounded Ye Meng who just stood there with a smile. ¡°What is that bastard doing? He¡¯s just standing there like an idiot¡­ Did the Crown Prince order us to assassinate a retard?¡± were the thoughts of both of the assassins as they watched the seemingly stupid Ye Meng.


    Ye Meng was secretly laughing in his heart, he could withstand a great deal of poison due to reaching the second stage in The Sovereign¡¯s Body. Slowly, half an hour passed and the assassins grew more dumbfounded every second. ¡°What a monster! That poison could kill Quasi Divine Sense stage cultivators with relative ease but a Divine Sea stage brat can resist this with no problem?¡± whispered one of the assassins to the other. The other assassin wasn¡¯t paying attention at all and he seemed to be thinking about something grave as his face was getting increasingly more sullen. ¡°Brother Xinfeng, we might¡¯ve provoked a character far more frightening than we thought.¡± said the sullen faced assassin. ¡°Why? His master should be a Divine Sense stage cultivator, we¡¯ll break through to that realm in maybe a couple hundred years.¡± asked the confused Xinfeng.


    Meanwhile, Ye Meng fanned the air with his palm and all the poison dispersed into the wind. The assassins trembled with fear, their poison was known for being thick and impossible to disperse but the ¡®monster¡¯ in front of them just dispersed it with ease. They both looked at Ye Meng with shock and Xinfeng realized what the sullen faced man was talking about. ¡°You¡¯re wrong, maybe he is actually a hidden Divine Sense stage expert! Remember that auction? There was a technique that could hide your aura that was sold.¡± said the sullen faced assassin. Xinfeng¡¯s expression became increasingly more ugly as he realized what they might¡¯ve done. ¡°Senior! We¡¯re sorry for attacking someone of your level. Previously we¡¯d been forced to under unpleasant circumstances but so I beg of senior to forgive us!¡± exclaimed both of the assassins while kowtowing. Ye Meng sneered at them with disgust and said, ¡°Be my slaves and I won¡¯t kill you.¡±


    The two Quasi Divine Sense assassins wanted to refuse but they knew that their lives were in the hands of this young man. They gritted their teeth and said, ¡°We¡¯ll agree to be your slaves.¡±. Ye Meng chuckled and exclaimed with a large smile plastered over his face, ¡°Great! You guys don¡¯t have to call me senior, I¡¯m just around 30 years old.¡± The assassins were both stunned, at first they thought that the rumours that Ye Meng was 30 was just a blatant lie because how could a Divine Sense stage expert be 30 years old?! ¡°Holy shit! Following this guy won¡¯t be bad at all if he tells us how he got so strong at 30 years old.¡± thought the two assassins with their eyes shimmering with greed. Power is everything in this world so how could they not desire more strength? In Fact, they became assassins for the money to buy cultivation resources and treasures. Nothing is more important than cultivation in this world.


    Ye Meng noticed the greed in their eyes and faintly smiled. Desires are a good way to control some people more effectively but in this world it¡¯s a lot more prominent because everyone desires strength no matter who they are. It¡¯s a desire that everyone has so Ye Meng could control anybody based on how much they want power. If someone desires revenge badly, then they¡¯ll be willing to become a maidservant even though they were an arrogant rich daughter previously. If someone desires a nice and easy life, they¡¯ll be willing to charm countless people to find one person who¡¯ll give them the life they desire. Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website.


    They told Ye Meng that the Crown Prince ordered his death for 5,000 low grade spirit stones. Ye Meng made the assassins into his slaves and asked them to reveal themselves. The previously sullen face man took off his hood to reveal a middle aged man with an imposing gaze and he said while bowing, ¡°Master, my name is Song Donghai and I have a wife named Hou Yuanyu.¡±


    The person named Xinfeng bowed and revealed his hood. ¡°Master, my name is Jiang Xinfeng and I have a wife named Xiao Qing.¡± Xinfeng was a middle aged man as well but he had a rather fierce gaze. Ye Meng smiled and said, ¡°Where do you guys live?¡±


    His slaves both told Ye Meng where they lived and Ye Meng made sure to buy some nice houses for his slaves near his mansion. Although Ye Meng is their master, they can always choose to perform their duties and mess up. Like if they both hated Ye Meng and wanted him to die, they would leave witnesses behind when Ye Meng asked for them to do an assassination. It¡¯s not breaking the contract because he really did what Ye Meng asked of him, just inefficiently. That¡¯s the reason why Ye Meng treats his slaves very well compared to some other people.


    Meanwhile, Li Xiaoyu was just getting back home after leaving Bai Chen¡¯s mansion when suddenly, two peak Golden Elixir stage cultivators blocked her way. She had something important to tell Ye Meng so she was in a hurry. ¡°Move!¡± ordered Li Xiaoyu with a cold expression on her face. ¡°Do you want to offend Young Alchemist Ye?¡±


    One of two sneered and he said with vicious intent, ¡°A dead genius is a worthless genius.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu¡¯s heart started pounding furiously and her eyes started to get watery at the thought of Ye Meng dying. ¡°Wait! Isn¡¯t he supposed to be able to kill a Divine Sense expert? Then why am I worried. No one would mobilize a Divine Sense stage expert to kill a mere Divine Sea cultivator.¡± realized Li Xiaoyu in her thoughts. Her heart rate slowed done and she wiped the tears at the edge of her eyes. ¡°These bastards must be playing a psychological game and trying to trick me.¡± Upon seeing that their words had no effect, one of the men raised their hands and Li Xiaoyu was instantly knocked out.


    At that moment, Ye Meng felt a deep sense of foreboding. He felt as if Li Xiaoyu was in a large predicament and urgently needed his help. Every passing second, made him lose more reason and act without thinking of the consequences. He left his slaves and ran straight towards his mansion with his thoughts being frantic. He didn¡¯t see anyone but Hua Tong¡¯er and asked her, ¡°Where did she go?!¡± Hua Tong¡¯er saw his anxious expression and knew that she couldn¡¯t offend him in this state. ¡°She went to her friend Bai Chen¡¯s house.¡± Ye Meng rushed out and ran to Bai Chen¡¯s house. ¡°Please¡­. Be there!¡± he thought as his heart was like it was being crushed due to anxiety. Li Xiaoyu wasn¡¯t at Bai Chen¡¯s house as well!


    Ye Meng felt the pressure increase every second as he looked everywhere for Li Xiaoyu for hours. He was completely drenched in sweat and red eyes for some reason. Ye Meng felt like a madman and looked like one as well as he stared at the Heavens with hatred as if cursing fate. Coincidentally, it just started to rain at that exact moment. ¡°Where is she?! WHERE IS SHE?! WHERE IS SHE?! WHERE IS SHE?!¡± screamed out Ye Meng towards the skies as if he was personally asking the Heavens a question. His relentless screams towards the skies continued for a couple of minutes, until an ancient and powerful voice shouted inside his own mind. ¡°INSOLENT!¡± Splatt! White colored lightning descended from the Heavens and smited Ye Meng as if he was a heretic. ¡°THE SUCCESSOR OF SOVEREIGN JIANG FENG WILL NOT BE THIS USELESS! FIND HER BY USING YOUR OWN ABILITIES!¡± Ye Meng coughed up a mouthful of blood and surprisingly, he felt extremely calm. His sense of reason was coming back to him after it departed when he was searching for Li Xiaoyu.


    He immersed himself on finding out what that foreboding sense of danger was. ¡°If I can figure out what this is, maybe I can find out where she is..¡± thought Ye Meng. An hour quickly passed and Ye Meng was stuck, it seemed as if the foreboding sense of danger was a natural part of him buried underground. He imagined digging a small hole but that resulted in mind wracking pain. Suddenly, the Divine Elemental Stone released a white strand of energy and the mind wracking pain was gone. Ye Meng kept digging while trying to reach the foreboding sense of danger. Ye Meng¡¯s mouth was bloody from biting his tongue and his fingernails were bloody from clenching his fists too hard. 1 feet. 2 feet. 4 feet. 8 feet. 16 feet. 32 feet. Ye Meng kept on digging and digging for what seemed like forever but only a couple of minutes had passed outside.


    Finally, he had reached the foreboding sense of danger. He dug it up and saw that it was an extremely large milky sphere that felt soft to touch. As soon as the milky white sphere left the ground, his entire body started convulsing and blood started leaking from his 7 orifices. His perception of the world completely changed, it was like before he was looking at a black and white version of the world but now it was like a colored version of the world. The milky white sphere split into two and one part went in the direction opposite of Ye Meng. Ye Meng washed himself off using his control over the Profound Laws of Water and knew exactly where Li Xiaoyu was. He felt a unique bond with her and her only. He knew exactly where she was and he felt as if her emotions could influence his mood. Unbeknownst to Ye Meng, he had actually managed to condense a True Soul before even stepping into the Soul Cleansing stage! He had also split his soul into two and gave half to Li Xiaoyu!


    He ran straight towards the direction of Li Xiaoyu and entered a low class pub. He went to the restroom and kicked the wall. Kacha! The wall was unexpectedly a door to a secret room! The door shattered due to the force of his powerful kick, and he entered the secret room. He pulled out a sword and made sure he was on guard as the room was very dark. ¡°Haha! So, our Li Xiaoyu has finally woken up! I¡¯ll have my son play with you, bitch! Even someone pretty as you will be forced to serve him and be under his crotch in a few minutes! Just wait till he gets here!¡± cackled a completely shrill voice filled with insanity. Ye Meng felt his anger explode, Li Xiaoyu was gonna be forced by that old woman. If the limit to anger was a dam, then anger itself was the water. Ye Meng¡¯s dam exploded and he ran straight for that voice. Dozens of bodyguards tried to block his path but they all ended up dying from being beheaded.


    Ye Meng approached the voice and saw Li Xiaoyu chained up along with an extremely beautiful mature lady looking at Ye Meng with hate. ¡°So! You¡¯re the one who made that monster Bai cripple my son¡­ Hahhaaha! My son will enjoy having a fellow cripple as a friend!¡± she shrieked and put up a symbol. Suddenly, the room turned completely dark and water started flooding it. ¡°EVEN IF I DIE, I¡¯M GONNA TAKE YOU WITH ME! I¡¯M SORRY I COULDN¡¯T PROTECT YOU TIAN¡¯ER!¡± yelled Dongxue Tian¡¯s mother. Ye Meng smiled as if he had just won the lottery, he had comprehended the Profound Laws of Water! How could he be killed by drowning?! Ye Meng rushed towards the insane lady and chopped her head off. He felt disappointed because originally, he had planned to make this old lady die in the hands of Dongxue Tian¡¯s father.


    Li Xiaoyu¡¯s hands and were bound in chains and her mouth was stuffed with cloth. Ye Meng chopped off the chains and grabbed Li Xiaoyu with his left hand. She spit out the cloth and she jumped into Ye Meng¡¯s embrace. She started crying on his chest and thanked Ye Meng multiple times. She told her about what happened and Ye Meng felt enraged. ¡°Big brother Ye, will this happen again?¡±, she said with a worried tone. Ye Meng stroked her hair and reassured her, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, in a couple of days I¡¯ll have 2 Divine Sense stage experts guarding you at all times.¡±


    Ye Meng saw the ugly bruises the chains left on her beautiful skin and reminded himself to make pills to heal that. ¡°Everyone who wants to touch her will die by my hands.¡± thought Ye Meng while radiating a massive amount of killing intent. They got home and eventually, it was time for the tournament.

 Chapter 10: A Fun Night and The Divine Sky Academy Entrance Tournament (p1) (NSFW)

    When Ye Meng read the rewards for the Divine Sky Academy entrance tournament, he was completely stupefied. First place was a Tier 7 artifact and 5,000 contribution points in the academy! Second place was a Tier 7 artifact! Third place was a Tier 6 artifact and 2,500 contribution points! Old Man Bai had good connections as a Tier 7 alchemist so he heard that the rewards were gonna be much greater this time but it this level of rewards were insane. First place last year was just a Tier 6 artifact and 500 contribution points which was lower than this year¡¯s third place.


    The entire news caused huge waves of excitement and uproar throughout the world. All the eligible young men felt their bloods boiling when they saw the rewards. The Divine Sky Academy has entrance tournaments in every Kingdom so that means 20 Tier 7 artifacts will be handed out!


    Contribution points were the currency in the Divine Sky Academy and every single point was worth a lot. 5,000 contribution points is the cost of a Tier 7 artifact and an average Tier 7 artifact costs around 10,000-20,000 low grade spirit stones.


    A Tier 6 artifact was worth a mere 250 contribution points and costs an average of 750 low grade spirit stones. The difference in strength was like the price difference, it couldn¡¯t be compared! Countless people wondered why the rewards were so much greater this year than any other year but only the upper echelons of the world knew the true reason. Many rumours spread out about the cause but none were even close to the true reason.


    Ye Meng was currently tutoring Li Xiaoyu and his two slaves on perfecting her sword techniques and reaching sword intent. ¡°Nonono! To reach sword intent you have to gain enlightenment in the sword. You have to be able to imagine a sword¡¯s will on everything. The will to cut Gods and Devils into two! The will to dominate the Heavens! The will to sunder the oceans and the sky! Once you put that will onto something, it¡¯ll emit a pale translucent light and have the power of a sword.¡± lectured Ye Meng. He trained them for a couple of hours and went back into the interior of the mansion.


    ¡°Phwaaa!¡± yawned Ye Meng, ¡°Training those three is too tiring!¡±. Ye Meng has been trying to increase their strength for the last 1 year and 9 months. They¡¯ve all made significant strength gains but Li Xiaoyu has made shocking improvements while Ye Meng reached the mid Divine Sea stage. With just around 3 years under Ye Meng, she¡¯s gained sufficient strength to kill peak Golden Elixir while being at the peak Divine Sea.


    The two slaves are able to dominate the Quasi Divine Sense stage and withstand 20 moves of an early Divine Sense stage cultivator. But if they use a special formation, they¡¯ll be able to withstand 100 moves of an early Divine Sense stage cultivator. But, strength is not the only thing that¡¯s changed. Ye Meng had been making connections with EVERY single genius who would for sure enter the Divine Sky Academy. Although the geniuses were conceited and arrogant, they knew how important making connections with a future Tier 7 Alchemist was so they gladly accepted him. Ye Meng participated in some junior alchemy tournaments which he won with little to no effort. He also helped out many juniors in alchemy which made his reputation skyrocket.


    He headed straight for Hua Tong¡¯er¡¯s room and knocked on the door. A fragrant smell entered his nose as a curvaceous figure entered his eyesight. Hua Tong¡¯ers beautiful visage sweetly smiled at Ye Meng and asked him, ¡°What does Young Alchemist Ye desire?¡±


    Ye Meng chuckled and said, ¡°Nothing much, just a proposition.¡±


    She feigned a bashful voice and said, ¡°You don¡¯t have to ask me. I-I¡¯m your slave after all.¡±


    Ye Meng said with a amiable smile, ¡°Although you¡¯re my slave, I don¡¯t like doing things without consent. I¡¯ll be like my last proposition but a lot more tame and it¡¯ll be in public. I¡¯ll give you 2,000 low grade spirit stones to spend if you do the acting properly.¡±


    She blushed thinking about Ye Meng¡¯s last lascivious plan in that hotel and agreed once Ye Meng briefed her about the details of his plan.


    Flashback to 1 year and 8 months ago


    ¡°Dongxue Tian usually spends his nights drinking at a mid class brothel and returns home all drunk. Our father is leaving the clan so tomorrow is the perfect date. I can use that technique on him when he¡¯s drunk and force him to enter a hotel or if he stalks you, then I¡¯ll make sure one of my lackeys follow him. Once he¡¯s had enough, I¡¯ll use that technique on him. You should be able to handle it from there right?¡± said Dongxue Nan to Ye Meng.


    Ye Meng nodded and confidently said, ¡°If our plan works then Dongxue Tian will be driven insane and completely crippled. He¡¯ll be unable to do anything but think back to the night in the hotel which will drive him even more insane.¡±


    ¡°Excellent¡± said Dongxue Nan with a sinister smile on his face. ¡°I¡¯ll make sure to ~ask~ the hotel employees to turn off the sound blocking formation in between the two rooms you¡¯re residing in.¡±


    Ye Meng smiled and they both shook hands. Dongxue Nan exited Ye Meng¡¯s mansion and went back to the Dongxue Clan. Ye Meng headed to Hua Tong¡¯er¡¯s room and opened the door. He saw her cultivating and decided to wait by cultivating. His opinion of her had gotten better after hearing her life story which was pretty sad. Eventually, Hua Tong¡¯er stopped her cultivation and saw Ye Meng in the corner. She knew that he must be waiting for her and gently shook him. Ye Meng opened his black eyes and stood up straight. He handed her a jade slip and said, ¡°I¡¯ll be blunt. If you agree to be my slave, then I¡¯ll give you this Saint level cultivation technique.¡±


    She read the contents with disbelief on her face and as she read, the disbelief slowly changed into shock. The technique she got was incredibly profound! She has been peak Earth cultivation techniques but this technique is like comparing an ant hill to a mountain. Maybe she could reach True Soul just by cultivating this technique. Her greatest desire was power but her talent was just well aboveaverage so she knew that she had to charm someone with power. If she got this technique then she wouldn¡¯t be able to fear anyone except Ye Meng. She didn¡¯t even hesitate before saying, ¡°I agree!¡±.


    She swore an oath and Ye Meng felt relieved, ¡°I can only trust Dao Oaths¡­ Without it I can be betrayed by anyone.¡± he thought while remembering some of Ye Qian''s betrayals. Ye Meng told her the outline to his plan to get revenge on Dongxue Tian and told her what she needed to do. She started blushing like mad when she heard a certain important part of the plan. Once Ye Meng finished giving her outline and what he required of her, he left the room. He sat down and began cultivating until the next day. He changed his clothes to more expensive ones and headed to his female slave¡¯s room. She walked out while wearing a tight dress that showed a lot more skin than usual and outlined her curves perfectly. Her snow white calves were revealed along with a bit of her creamy thighs.


    She caught Ye Meng staring for a bit too long and playfully gave him an inviting smile. Ye Meng moved at the speed of lightning and appeared right beside her. He pulled her towards him and whispered into her ear, ¡°Succubus, don¡¯t play with me! When you were a concubine, I gave you respect but now you¡¯re my slave. Don¡¯t forget that I can do anything to you and you¡¯ll be unable to resist due to the oath.¡±


    She instantly shut up and became as meek as a obedient dog. When she was a concubine, she would be able to at least make excuses and have some power but since she¡¯s a slave she had absolutely no power. Ye Meng hooked arms with her and excited the mansion. Ye Meng made one of his Quasi Divine Sense slaves follow them to act as a bodyguard.


    Hua Tong¡¯er was just too attractive, she might attract some unwanted attention so he had to ¡®protect himself¡¯. Although Ye Meng could protect himself easily, he didn¡¯t want his powerto be revealed so he had to use a bodyguard. Ye Meng headed out during the usual time that Dongxue Tian excited his home to go to those brothels. He acted as the ¡®rich young master¡¯ trying to please his very attractive lover which was a usual sight in the capital.


    ¡°Eeeeh?! You want to shop at this shop? This shop is just for beggars!¡± yelled Ye Meng towards one of the best ranked jewelry stores throughout the capital ¡°The jewelry all costs a measly 100,000 silver liangs! It¡¯d be embarrassing if my concubine was seen wearing jewelry worth only 100,000 silvers!¡±


    ¡°But hubby! Where else should we go?¡± wailed Hua Tong¡¯er.


    ¡°Don¡¯t worry, let¡¯s go to the Descended Angel¡¯s Jewelry Shop! That place is reputed to be the best!¡±


    ¡°Alright!¡±


    Ye Meng felt his pockets become slightly lighter as he watched over 700,000 silver liangs fly out of his pocket but Ye Meng didn¡¯t care much about money. What he really cared about was contribution points in the Divine Sky Academy because the Divine Sky Academy¡¯s resources are dozens of times better than the Royal Shangxuan Kingdom¡¯s. He kept repeating the same cycle with a variety of different stores and all he got was a bunch of kisses from Hua Tong¡¯er.


    ¡°Eeeeh?! You want to shop at this low class clothing store? If the clothing isn¡¯t made from the silk from the Tier 3 demonic beast, the Golden Silkworm I won¡¯t agree to let my concubine wear it!¡±


    ¡°Eeeeh?! You want to shop at THIS weapon store?!¡± said a voice filled with disdain. ¡°Those so called treasured weapons are merely cheap Tier 6 artifacts!¡±


    Ye Meng purposely chose stores that weren¡¯t owned by any important family. All those stores were forced to remain silent because they knew they couldn¡¯t dare to offend this young master! Eventually, the commotion drew the attention of the pitiful Dongxue Tian.


    Dongxue Tian¡¯s allowance had surprisingly increased to 5,000,000 silver liangs a year due to the death of his mom. The yearly allowance was just enough for him to spend his life wasting away at brothels and bars. His mom¡¯s will said to treat Dongxue Tian better and so his dad did it out of respect. He only treated Dongxue Tian a bit better though, everyone didn¡¯t beat him up but the rude and disdainful remarks were still there.


    Dongxue Tian was currently walking down the street to find a brothel and pub to drink away his sorrows because maybe with some pretty girls accompanying him for the night he could forget his sorrows and that girl. As he was walking, he heard an awfully familiar coquettish tone of the person he so very much desired. He rushed in that direction with an early Golden Elixir stage cultivator opening his way for him.


    He saw the beautiful figure of Hua Tong¡¯er in the arms of the same man who ruined his life. He saw how affectionate Hua Tong¡¯er was towards Ye Meng to the point where she regularly kissed him. He saw how much money Ye Meng had and was reminded of his measly 5,000,000 silver liangs allowance. He saw how Ye Meng¡¯s bodyguard was a Quasi Divine Sense stage expert while his was merely an early Golden Elixir cultivator. He saw how young and handsome Ye Meng was while he looked like a middle aged man. He saw how the duo flirted around while Hua Tong¡¯er never did that to him.


    Ye Meng saw Dongxue Tian¡¯s face through the crowd due to his increased perception and gave him a look which said, ¡®Try to kill me? I¡¯ll steal your woman and make you a useless cripple!¡¯. The look had disdain for Dongxue Tian, dominance and pity all combined which made Dongxue Tian extremely angry. If it wasn¡¯t for the wisdom he has gained throughout the past 4 months, he would¡¯ve charged at Ye Meng with the intent to kill right there. Instead, he breathed in and out to try to control his rage while heading straight for a brothel. He ran into a dark alley which was a shortcut to his favorite brothel. Suddenly, a fist came out of nowhere and instantly knocked his bodyguard unconscious. Dongxue Tian heard the ¡®Thunk!¡¯ sound of his bodyguard falling to the ground and looked behind him. A familiar younger brother was staring at him with a innocent yet vicious smile on his face ¡°Big brother¡­ It¡¯s time for your retribution!¡± Before Dongxue Tian had a chance to react, a fist came at incredible speeds towards his already crippled dantian. Kacha!


    All of Dongxue Tian¡¯s bones broke and his meridians were severed. His body was completely paralyzed and just like Wang Feng, all he could do was think. Meanwhile, Dongxue Nan was watching with shock as the brutal and disgusting effect of the technique Ye Meng gave him was unfolded. All the times when Dongxue Tian had bullied Dongxue Nan made countless heart demons on him and now they were all destroyed with Dongxue Tian¡¯s current appearance.


    The Qi from the air accumulated and it all entered Dongxue Nan''s dantian. Dongxue Nan¡¯s aura exploded and he reached the early Divine Sea stage! Dongxue Tian was 23 years old while Dongxue Nan was 20 years old. A 20 year old Divine Sea stage cultivator was simply frightening! The Crown Prince was hailed as the ¡®King of Geniuses¡¯ and he had too reached the Divine Sea stage at 20 years!


    Dongxue Nan¡¯s status in the clan would meteorically rise and he would be hailed the number 1 in the younger generation in talent after the Crown Prince. Ye Meng felt like this was going to happen because when he cleared away the heart demon that Wang Feng made, he also rose in cultivation that¡¯s why he let Dongxue Nan use that vicious technique on their victim. A lot of Ye Meng¡¯s ideals came from Ye Qian so whoever treated Ye Meng well, they would be rewarded. Whoever made enmities with Ye Meng would be paid back 10 times through!


    Dongxue Nan felt elated when he thought about what his status will be in the Dongxue Clan after this. He also remembered that fratricide was a huge crime in his clan. ¡°Listen up! You guys have been my bodyguards since I was 6. Today, your salary will rise from 10,000,000 silver liangs to 20,000,000 silver liangs if you keep this quiet!¡±


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    His bodyguard eagerly nodded and swore a Dao Oath, they weren¡¯t retarded. This was a 10,000,000 silver liang raise! The bodyguards carried the broken frame of Dongxue Tian¡¯s body and headed for a hotel while Dongxue Nan went to personally inform Ye Meng. Once Ye Meng heard the hotel where Dongxue Tian was located, he thanked Dongxue Nan and headed straight for the hotel with Hua Tong¡¯er in his arms.


    The bodyguards had registered room 4 for Dongxue Tian so he registered room 3. The bodyguards didn¡¯t lock room 4 so Ye Meng could just barge in whenever he liked. Ye Meng walked towards room 4 and opened the door. He feigned a shocked expression as he saw Dongxue Tian laying there on the ground near the wall. ¡°Ahhh! Whoops! Wrong room! Eeeh?! It¡¯s you! Sorry for intruding, my beloved Tong¡¯er was so excited that she made me rush. I hope you don¡¯t mind the sounds.¡± He said with a smirk and gave Dongxue Tian the same look as before.


    ¡°What is he talking about? What sounds?!¡± thought the anxious Dongxue Tian. Surely it wouldn¡¯t be too bad, right? Wrong! Ye Meng entered room 3 and looked right at Hua Tong¡¯er. He saw the nervous expression on Hua Tong¡¯er face and held her thin waist. He planted a kiss on her soft lips and squeezed her soft and perky butt. He began to furiously kiss the red faced Hua Tong¡¯er while caressing every inch of her wonderful body. Although Hua Tong¡¯er had heard about pleasing men from her superiors in the Hua Clan it was still her first time, she would naturally be embarrassed. The duo leapt onto the bed and started stripping each other. He unhooked her black bra and saw her beautiful white rabbits with cherries on top. He started sucking on them which made Hua Tong¡¯er emit a bunch of seductive moans.


    Although the moans weren¡¯t loud, they were loud enough for Dongxue Tian in the other room to hear what was going on perfectly. Speaking of Dongxue Tian, he was currently crying even though he¡¯s completely paralyzed. His whole body is fighting itself because what Dongxue Tian really wants is to just bash his head multiple times into a wall.


    If he does that then maybe he¡¯ll have a chance of getting brain damage and forgetting Hua Tong¡¯er¡¯. ¡°Please! PLEASE! STOP! I¡¯LL KILL YOU YE MENG!!!!!!¡± yelled Dongxue Tian inside his thoughts. He regretted going to that auction. He regretted even thinking maliciously towards Ye Meng. He regretted blocking Ye Meng¡¯s way. He regretted questioning Ye Meng. He regretted offending Ye Meng. Unfortunately, most of Dongxue Tian¡¯s dreams and desires were just things in his past before he became crippled.


    Sadly, Time is something that can never be reversed. Even the most powerful of Gods, Immortals and Devils can¡¯t interfere with the Laws of Time. Space was something that could be tampered with but Time is an immovable thing.


    Meanwhile, in the room beside Dongxue Tian¡¯s, Hua Tong¡¯er was nervously looking at Ye Meng¡¯s pole and started sucking it bashfully. Ye Meng looked at this soul stirring beauty and unconsciously imagined Li Xiaoyu in her place.


    Ye Meng felt his pole about to erupt after a couple dozen minutes of her skillful techniques, so he said, ¡°Now, lay on your back.¡± She meekly nodded and removed her mouth from Ye Meng¡¯s large pole. She laid on her back with her charming eyes making eye contact with Ye Meng. Ye Meng looked at her lower mouth and saw that it was soaking wet. A mischievous smile appeared on his handsome face because he just thought about a way to torment Dongxue Tian even further. He slowly rubbed his hard thing on the opening of her flower bud. Her eyes became increasingly more clouded with lust every second and Ye Meng whispered, ¡°Do you want it?¡±


    She bit her lower lip seductively and whimpered a quiet, ¡°yes¡­.¡±


    Ye Meng smirked and said, ¡°What? I can¡¯t hear you.¡±


    ¡°Give it to me!¡± yelled Hua Tong¡¯er who was crazed with lust. Ye Meng thrusted inside her and felt her wet inner walls that were soft as velvet. He thrusted even deeper and felt a blockade so he looked at Hua Tong¡¯er for consent. She quickly nodded and she looked like she was begging him. He thrusted in and broke the barrier that guarded her virginity. Many different positions were tried throughout the night. Pain and pleasure both filled Hua Tong¡¯er¡¯s mind but it eventually transformed all into pleasure as the night went on.


    Ye Meng felt pleasure but he also felt an even greater pleasure, the thrill of making love to someone¡¯s beloved while the other guy was listening. The feeling was even greater when he thought about what Dongxue Tian wanted to do with Li Xiaoyu. Meanwhile, Dongxue Tian was being driven insane by listening to their lovemaking. Every single moan of hers made him feel like a knife was piercing his body.


    ¡°The Sovereign¡¯s Body is worthy of it¡¯s name¡± remarked Ye Meng in his mind. He was sure that all his vitality that let him last for hours was because of practicing The Sovereign¡¯s Body. Ye Meng had a seriously good time last night because all of his lust was bottled up. It seriously didn¡¯t help that Li Xiaoyu was beautiful as a Goddess. He didn¡¯t feel guilty at all for bedding Hua Tong¡¯er without telling Li Xiaoyu because they weren¡¯t in a relationship. Hua Tong¡¯er was his slave so Ye Meng naturally wouldn¡¯t hold back.


    Cultivators are people too, they have their own desires. He look at the sleeping figure of Hua Tong¡¯er at his side and thought about when he first got transported into this world. He wanted to be rich, have countless peerless beauties by his side and life a comfortable life. He already became rich, but only rich in the mortal realm which was not enough. He had Li Xiaoyu and Hua Tong¡¯er but he didn¡¯t think he had any romantic feelings towards them. As for the comfortable life? It was impossible.


    No matter what you do, a cultivator¡¯s life is filled with bloodshed and tragedy or else they can¡¯t be called a cultivator. He leapt out of the bed and put on his clothes because he wasn¡¯t finished with Dongxue Tian. He believed that the best revenge was the longest revenge. Killing is just a way to finish someone who hasn¡¯t mortally offended you. For someone like Dongxue Tian, he needed extra torture.


    Although Dongxue Tian killed Li Xiaoyu¡¯s family, Ye Meng felt an extreme level of hatred towards him because of what he was about to force Li Xiaoyu to do. Ye Meng was extremely possessive when it came to things that were his. He considered Li Xiaoyu his and became enraged at the thought of Dongxue Tian trying to force her. Ye Meng entered Dongxue Tian¡¯s room after leaving his and saw the crippled Dongxue Tian¡¯s face which was filled with the dried up tears from crying last night. Ye Meng opened his jaw and threw the poison pill he had refined a month ago.


    As soon as Dongxue Tian absorbed the pill, he started convulsing and his veins started bulging all over his body but that wasn¡¯t all. The real effect of the pill was to make someone hallucinate the past 12 hours into a never ending cycle. It could be a blessing or a curse deciding on how you chose to use it.


    Ye Meng walked out and returned to his room. After Hua Tong¡¯er woke up, he carried her home because she was still tired from last night¡¯s activities. Surprisingly, Li Xiaoyu didn¡¯t notice the change but the two middle age slaves surely did. They were giving thumbs ups, grins and winks to Ye Meng during the whole day. As for Dongxue Tian? Ye Meng took Li Xiaoyu to see the current wretched state of Dongxue Tian. Li Xiaoyu beheaded him with a single stroke and immediately started crying tears of joy/pain.


    ¡°Thank you Brother Ye, I¡¯ll never forget this! You can do anything to me now¡­. Even that..¡± said the blushing Li Xiaoyu with bits of hesitation.


    Ye Meng shook his head and put his hand on her round butt, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I won¡¯t make you do anything you don¡¯t want to. I might take some advantages here and there though.¡± said Ye Meng with a playful twinkle in his eyes.


    ¡°Hmph!¡± snorted Li XIaoyu with a slight smile on her face. The playful atmosphere quickly turned dark with Li Xiaoyu''s vicious words. ¡°We¡¯ll put that aside for now but the Dongxue Clan MUST be annihilated. An apple doesn¡¯t fall far from the tree so all of the Dongxue Clan members must be like Dongxue Tian. Imagine how many innocent girls they¡¯ve defiled, I would¡¯ve been defiled as well if it wasn¡¯t for you.¡± said Li Xiaoyu while gnashing her teeth thinking about what might¡¯ve happened to her.


    Ye Meng nodded and said, ¡°I have my enmities with the entire Dongxue Clan as well. Especially one person, named Dongxue Yun. He should be in the Divine Sky Academy right now so I¡¯ll deal with that later.¡±


    Li Xiaoyu¡¯s eyes blinked with curiosity and she asked Ye Meng, ¡°Brother Ye, what did Dongxue Yun do to make you have something against the entire Dongxue Clan?¡±


    ¡°It happened when I was a young boy¡­.¡± said Ye Meng in a nostalgic tone. He told her all the events that happened in his life, except the transmigration of course, and her beautiful black eyes widened even more with every single word. They headed home and once a month, Ye Meng would enter Hua Tong¡¯er¡¯s room for fun.


    Flashback End


    Ye Meng was walking with Old Man Bai, Bai Chen, Li Xiaoyu and Hua Tong¡¯er to a booth that Old Man Bai had reserved for them. The booth was at the very top of the arena which was the host of the Divine Sky Academy entrance tournament. Hundreds of thousands of people are going to be watching the amazing spectacle of who will get in and who won¡¯t get in. Everyone wants to enter the Divine Sky Academy because everyone who has graduated has become a Quasi Divine Sense stage expert!


    But graduating from the academy and entering the academy is extremely tough! On average, only 20 people in the Royal Shangxuan Kingdom manage to make it in but only 5 people manage to graduate! If you graduate, you can go back to your homes but if you don¡¯t manage to graduate, you¡¯ll be forced to work at the Divine Sky Academy no matter who you are. Everyone accepts the risks because how can you get rewards without taking a bit of a risk? The Divine Sky Academy is part of the Immortal Trinity which includes the Alchemist¡¯s Association, The Divine Sky Academy and the Heavenly Auction Palace.


    The Alchemist¡¯s Association controls the pills, the Divine Sky Academy controls the highest form of education and the Heavenly Auction Palace controls the influx and outflow of goods. They¡¯re called the Immortal Trinity because even if empires rise and fall, they¡¯ll be remaining upright. The Immortal Trinity cannot be worn down by time because their foundations are extremely deep and unfathomable.


    Once they reached the booth, Ye Meng tells the others that Li Xiaoyu and him are registering. After making some small talk with the others, Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu line up to register. The first requirement is to reach the Divine Sky stage before 40 years old which is fairly easy, for most young masters that is. There were also around a thousand people waiting in line which was greater than Ye Meng expected.


    ¡°All of these people would be on the same level as the Supreme Elder in the Jade Mountain Sect¡± sighed Ye Meng. He¡¯d come so far in the martial path but he still couldn¡¯t wrap his head around those heaven defying geniuses.


    The people who were waiting in line with them were not aristocrats so they didn¡¯t know what Ye Meng looked like. As they were waiting in line, a burly dark skinned man saw Li Xiaoyu¡¯s voluptuous body and lecherously said to Li Xiaoyu while walking towards her, ¡°Hey baby, want to spend the night with this young master? I¡¯ll make sure to please you well.¡±


    LI Xiaoyu coldly snorted and Ye Meng grasped her hand. The burly man became enraged and said, ¡°You¡¯re gonna ignore me and be with that pretty boy?! My biceps are bigger than his chicken thighs! Don¡¯t blame me for breaking his bones and making him watch as I ride you all night!¡±


    He came up to Ye Meng with the aura of a mid Divine Sea stage cultivator and threw a punch at Ye Meng who had been suppressing his aura to early Divine Sea stage. Ye Meng dodged at the last minute which made everyone think it was sheer luck.


    ¡°Fuck! How is this brat¡¯s luck so good?¡±


    ¡°Yeah! He dodged Senior Brother Zhang¡¯s punch at the last minute!¡±


    But, what happened next shocked everyone who was watching. The burly man threw another punch but this time it was infused with Qi. An image of a roaring tiger appeared on his fast but Ye Meng touched the tiger with a single finger infused with Qi. Boom! The Qi exploded and most of the burly man¡¯s clothes were shredded up in the explosion including his undergarments. When everyone saw his family jewels, they started cracking up.


    ¡°Bwhahah! He said he would please that girl but I¡¯m not even sure the girl will feel anything if he puts it in!¡±


    ¡°Fuck! Is that a string bean or is it a man¡¯s thing?! I can¡¯t tell the difference!¡±


    ¡°No wonder his muscles are so big! He needs to make up for his small thing!¡±


    ¡°Uhh Mommy! Why is his thing even smaller than mine? I thought you said it would grow as I grew up!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu quickly looked away at the grotesque sight with red cheeks and Ye Meng started cracking up with the crowd. Everyone forgot about Ye Meng and the burly man¡¯s argument because they were so focused on laughing. Eventually, it was their time to be tested for bone age, name and cultivation. There was an array that scanned you to see if you fit the requirements. Ye Meng passed by it and revealed his true aura of mid Divine Sea.


    ¡°Ye Meng


    Age: 32


    Cultivation: Mid Divine Sea¡±


    As soon as it said Ye Meng, many aristocrat¡¯s ears instantly perked up and they looked in the direction of Ye Meng. When they saw his familiar face, they broke out into smiles and showered him with greetings.


    ¡°Ahhh! So Brother Ye is also participating in the entrance tournament!¡±


    ¡°Greetings Brother Ye!¡±


    Ye Meng greeted all the aristocrats back with smiles and exchanged praises. He felt a sinister killing intent staring right at him, it was the Crown Prince. Ye Meng paid it no mind and walked to the testing stage for the 2nd requirement which was a combat test against a mid Divine Sea dummy. You needed to severely injure the dummy in ways such as severing an arm, cutting off the head and etc.


    Li Xiaoyu passed by the array and revealed her aura of peak Divine Sea stage.


    ¡°Li Xiaoyu


    Age: 31


    Cultivation: Peak Divine Sky¡±


    The crowd went wild because the Crown Prince had reached the Peak Divine Sky at 30 years old was known as a heaven defying genius.


    ¡°Heavens! Who is she and why haven¡¯t I heard about her before?!¡±


    ¡°Stupid! She¡¯s with Young Alchemist Ye and she has a mask. She must be his maid!¡±


    ¡°Fuck! If I had a maid with that much talent and such a hot body I would die happy!¡±


    All the aristocrats looked at Ye Meng with reverence and envy. Someone with her level of talent was sure to become a peak Divine Sense expert or maybe even a Soul Cleansing expert! Only True Soul experts might have Soul Cleansing experts as subordinates but none of them have a Soul Cleansing expert as a mere maid.


    Multiple people congratulated Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu who did the same to other people. Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu watched people try to fight the dummies but failing every time. The dummies were only Mid Divine Sea stage but their fighting techniques were incredibly honed and perfected. One needed to have combat experience to pass this stage. As Ye Meng saw the fights, he realized he needed to do something. He needed to temper himself! ¡°I won¡¯t use the strength of my body or the extremely powerful techniques I''ve learned from Ye Qian''s memories during this tournament! I''ll use the basic foundation techniques for every battle! I need to temper myself like metal, only then I can truly become strong!¡± thought Ye Meng with a fire ignited in his eyes. He noted some exceptional individuals who¡¯ve defeated the dummies in a short amount of time.


    The fastest was the Crown Prince and the second fastest was a gentle looking youth called Hua Hanshan. A couple other strong ones were called Xiao Mei, Xiao Yun, Luo Wei, and Ye Ying.


    Eventually, it was Ye Meng¡¯s turn to come up. The dummies looked like terracotta warriors but they were emitting a fierce fighting aura. Ye Meng got into the dummy¡¯s range and the dummy immediately threw a punch at him. Ye Meng dodged with by just a sliver and he hit the side of the dummy¡¯s arm. Dodge. Punch. Dodge. Punch. Ye Meng was trying to find the weakness of the dummy¡¯s fighting technique by feeling him out but the dummy¡¯s movements were flawless in combat.


    Ye Meng decided to reveal one of his major cards. He took out a firm leaf from his interspatial ring and imbued it with sword intent. Once the various experts saw the pale light they all jumped up from their seats. Sword intent!


    ¡°What kind of perception is this?¡±


    ¡°Reaching sword intent at only 32!?¡±


    ¡°Heavens! Young Alchemist Ye is a dragon amongst men!¡±


    Only geniuses of geniuses with extremely terrifying perception can comprehend sword intent! They made sure to let Ye Meng enter the Divine Sky Academy even if he didn¡¯t win in the tournament which was unlikely. Sword intent could make someone beat someone in a higher stage with little problems.


    As soon as the dummy punched out, Ye Meng used his leaf and made a large gash on the dummy¡¯s arm. Ye Meng was surprised because the dummy¡¯s body seemed to be exceptionally hard! Even peak Divine Sea experts would have to spend some effort to cause damage to it. Ye Meng decided to be patient and made numerous gashes on the dummy¡¯s body. Dodge. Slash. Dodge. Slash. Dodge. Slash. Eventually, Ye Meng found the perfect moment and he used all of his strength to chop off the dummy¡¯s arm like a lumberjack chopping wood.


    The aristocrats applauded him because his time was compared to the top geniuses in the capital. Ye Meng watched Li Xiaoyu fight the dummy with her Yin techniques. She essentially made numerous small holes in the dummy¡¯s torso and at the right moment, she thrusted her sword into the dummy¡¯s torso with all of her strength. The dummy¡¯s torso slowly froze and Li Xiaoyu returned back to where Ye Meng was. The crowd¡¯s cheers for Li XIaoyu were even greater than the cheers for him because her time was only slightly worse than the Crown Prince. The duo headed back to their booth because the first day was over. There were around 150 people left after the second stage which meant that 130 people would fail.


    ¡°The hopes and dreams of 130 people will be crushed in the next 3 days!¡± exclaimed Old Man Bai who was commenting on talented youths while eating delicacies. Ye Meng nodded and remembered when he took the entrance exam for the Jade Mountain Sect. He had barely passed and because of that, countless people who failed by a slim margin looked at him with hate, envy and jealousy.


    ¡°Whenever someone wins, someone will lose. Whenever someone gains something, someone will lose something. Whenever someone kills someone, someone will feel angry and desire vengeance! This is the unwritten laws of the cultivation world!¡± thought Ye Meng. ¡°Sometimes I wonder if cultivation was a curse rather than a blessing for me. My life was fairly average before but average is better than suffering through countless calamities and heart breaks.¡±


    Mortals might be considered livestock to cultivators but compared to cultivator¡¯s they¡¯re like Saints. Cultivators might be considered Saints to mortals but compared to mortals, cultivators are like wild animals in the jungle. They kill, steal, rape, pillage and do what they desire without thinking of the consequences. So, is cultivation really a good thing?

 Chapter 11: Divine Sky Academy Entrance Tournament P2

    It was the second day of the entrance tournament and Ye Meng was waiting at Old Man Bai¡¯s booth with Li Xiaoyu. The tournament was about to start in a couple of minutes and they were waiting for which group they would be assigned to. 10th place was where the rewards slowly started exponentially becoming better and better so everyone was hoping to reach top 10. The people who were going to be in the top 10 were basically confirmed except for Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu. Li Xiaoyu and Ye Meng both did very well during the second stage but no one really knew of their strength so people put them off as wildcards. Wildcards with a huge chance of entering the top 10 though.


    As they were waiting for the tournament to start, Ye Meng was reminding Li Xiaoyu on what to do and what not to do. ¡°Suppress the strength of your attacks but make sure you reach the top 10. Reveal the Azure Frost Sword once you start having difficulties with your opponents and with that you should be able to take 2nd place.¡±


    She attentively listened and made sure to take note of what he said. A couple of minutes later, the tournament officially began and a middle aged Divine Sense stage expert walked onto a large stage which shocked Ye Meng. ¡°If their announcer is just Divine Sense stage, then how strong are their judges?¡± The middle aged man raised his voice and said in a professional tone, ¡°Welcome! Today is the 2nd day of the Divine Sky Academy entrance tournament! By the end of the day, only 80 of the 150 contestants will be remaining! The contestants are divided into 10 groups with 15 people in each group. Each group will battle it out and the 7 with the lowest amount of victories will be expelled from the tournament! The groups and matchups are visible on your jade tickets. Let the tournament begin!¡±


    The audience all clapped and felt their blood boiling with excitement. Watching a battle between old fogies wasn¡¯t as entertaining or exciting as watching a battle between geniuses because geniuses are young and unpredictable! The sound of hundreds of thousands of strong cultivators clapping made a sound equivalent to thunder! Meanwhile, Ye Meng was looking at his jade slip to see if there were any notable geniuses in his group which was group 7. He saw a particular genius in his group that made him chuckle. Li Xiaoyu had one of the geniuses that Ye Meng mentally marked, Luo Wei, in her group which was group 10. Most of the 150 contestants were at the peak Divine Sea stage and only a couple dozen were at the mid Divine Sea.


    The first battle was up and it was between two uninteresting youths that Ye Meng didn¡¯t care about. Sometime between the second battle, Ye Meng saw Old Man Bai, his granddaughter and Hua Tong¡¯er coming back to their booth. When Hua Tong¡¯er neared Ye Meng, he asked her, ¡°Did you bet the 30,000 low grade spirit stones and how were the rates for us to get first place?


    She nodded and said, ¡°The rates for Li Xiaoyu winning was 1:9 while the rates for you winning was 1:13. I put all 30,000 on you winning the tournament.¡±


    Ye Meng smiled and cheerfully thought about how much money he was going to rake in. Although he didn¡¯t care much for money right now, he knew that the main currency in the Immortal Realm was midgrade spirit stones which was a level above low grade spirit stones. 100 low grade spirit stones was equivalent to 1 mid grade spirit stone. 300 mid grade spirit stones was just enough to stay at a mid class inn for a couple of weeks but 3,900 mid grade spirit stones was enough to buy a villa in a fairly backwater area. Ye Meng and Old Man Bai chatted while they were waiting for his turn. An hour later, the announcer called out, ¡°Ye Meng and Xiao Mei in arena 5!¡±


    He snickered when he saw Xiao Mei (means little girl in Chinese, I think) because of how opposite her name was from her body. Xiao Mei was a giant dark skinned girl with a height over 10 feet tall and weighing at least 700 jins. She had scars all over body and her dark rough hands carried a giant hammer weighing at least 10,000 jins. Ye Meng walked to arena 5 trying to think of a plan to easily beat her.


    Ye Meng knew that he couldn¡¯t fight against her head on because her cultivation level was higher than his and she was using a large hammer. He pulled out a Tier 6 sword that he¡¯d gotten from killing the Golden Elixir Dongxue Clan members and held it in one hand without a stance,


    ¡°Junior Brother Ye although you have comprehended sword intent, my hammer and superior strength is the perfect counter to it! Don¡¯t be offended if I win!¡± said Xiao Mei with her deep voice.


    Ye Meng amiably smiled and said, ¡°Sister Xiao Mei, don¡¯t worry about me. Just worry about yourself in this match.¡± She grunted and the announcer yelled out, ¡°Match BEGIN!¡±


    Xiao Mei dashed towards Ye Meng while holding her large black hammer with both hands. She jumped up into the air and used gravity to increase the weight of her attacks. She flew towards Ye Meng with the hammer ready to crush him at any time. The hammer started accumulating a malicious aura and the hammer grew larger and larger to the point where it was like a small mountain. The top head of the hammer suddenly became engulfed in a fiery Qi and cause the audience to ooah and aah.


    ¡°Hehe! It looks like War Giant Mei is using one of her strongest moves from the beginning!¡±


    ¡°I wonder how Brother Ye will defend against her attack?¡±


    Said the watching aristocrats and young masters. When the hammer was amount to reach him, Ye Meng thrusted out with the speed of lightning and hit a small point on the hammer. Kacha! The whole attack was disjointed and the size of the hammer grew smaller till it hit the original size. The Qi exploded and Xiao Mei was forced back with only slight injuries. She rushed towards Ye Meng multiple times with numerous attacks but Ye Meng did the same for all of them. He also managed to get some large gashes into her already scarred skin. The crowd felt like they were watching a monster in perception when they saw Ye Meng find the weakness of her attacks numerous times.


    ¡°Sword intent and can easily find the weakness to all of her attacks! How can someone be so talented in perception!¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t forget that he¡¯s primarily an alchemist! His main job isn¡¯t cultivating but rather alchemy! So he spent less time than all these so called geniuses but he¡¯s on the same level as them.¡±


    Ye Meng felt that fighting against her was easier than fighting against the dummy because she had weaknesses in her moves. He was also using a simple leaf against the dummy just to test out his strength. He could exploit the weaknesses and make sure that all of her attacks failed. The same cycle kept repeating with Ye Meng disjointed all of her attacks. After digging up that milky sphere, Ye Meng¡¯s perception grew to terrifying heights so how could he not be able to find the weaknesses in the attacks of a mere Divine Sea cultivator? After a hundred moves, Xiao Mei was heavily panting and she had soot all over her body. She had numerous gashes on her body as well, so she decided to take the loss. She knew that she could at least get into the top 20 so she wasn¡¯t worried at all. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.


    ¡°Junior Brother Ye, it seems like your perception is indeed terrifying. I admit defeat!¡± said Xiao Mei. The audience applauded and the announcer shouted out, ¡°YE MENG WINS!¡±


    They both headed back to their respective booths and Ye Meng looked at the direction of the Crown Prince¡¯s booth. Sure enough, the Crown Prince was watching him with his hawk eyes so Ye Meng could start the plan to make the Crown Prince infuriated. Although the distance between them was hundreds of meters wide, the Crown Prince could clearly see Ye Meng because of the superior eyesight that all cultivators have. The higher your cultivation, the better your eyesight. True Soul experts were supposed to be able to see tens of thousands of meters!


    Ye Meng beckoned Hua Tong¡¯er to come over and he gave a slight wink towards Li Xiaoyu. He had already gave Li Xiaoyu the details of the plan and she agreed, with some hidden reluctance in her heart of course. He held Hua Tong¡¯er slim waist and started kissing her fragrant mouth.


    Ouyang Guodi was the name of the Crown Prince of the Royal Shangxuan Kingdom. From birth he¡¯d always been known as a peerless genius and been given the best treatment. If he wanted this one girl, his father would give it to him but make her a maid. This time, he was charmed by this exquisite and seductive girl known as Hua Tong¡¯er. He seemed to like everything about her and he asked his father if he could make this girl a concubine. But, his father slapped him angrily and brought up how they were all noble blood but she was a commoner. It was quite common for the classes to be divided. If a commoner tried to marry a noble, they had to be the best out of the best. But, her cultivation talents were just above average and not fit for Ouyang Guodi.


    He would become a mighty Soul Cleansing expert while she would at most reach the early Golden Elixir stage. He would have the lifespan of tens of thousands of years while she¡¯d die in a mere thousand years! Class and talent is how marriages are decided on, but someone who¡¯s a commoner with above average talent being the concubine of a Soul Cleansing expert was just impossible. He couldn¡¯t make her his maid because the Hua Family interfering and making her the concubine of Dongxue Tian. In order to protect her purity, he¡¯d bought 2 Quasi Divine Sense assassins for 3,000 low grade spirit stones. Just when he was about to assassinate Donguxe Tian, news came out that he got crippled by the Old Monster Bai. He was feeling excited when suddenly, she willingly became a concubine to another man and that man was protected by that old monster along with a Tier 7 Alchemist master! He became enraged and his mood instantly turned dark. He tried assassinating him but it didn¡¯t work! He was angry back then, but the anger he was feeling right now couldn¡¯t be compared to the anger in the past.


    His beloved kissing another man! No man could just sit there and watch, unless they wore a green hat (means that they¡¯re a cuckold). Ouyang Guodi clenched his fists and trembled with anger as he saw he sight unfolding. Li Xiaoyu was feeling a bit jealous and angry but she didn¡¯t know it, ¡°Hmph! It looks like they¡¯ve done this before multiple times! Ye Meng! You big bastard! Playing with multiple girls! You¡¯ll see how I deal with you!¡± muttered the angry Li Xiaoyu.


    Time passed and both Ye Meng and Li Xiaoyu had been called up multiple times. Most of his matches ended in a just a dozen or so moves because his enemies used up all their trump cards on him and they didn¡¯t do anything. Ye Meng did various different styles for various different weapons. For heavy weapons, he used the same strategy as he did with Xiao Mei but for light weapons like swords and sabers, he used his superior swordplay to win. As someone who has comprehended sword intent, how could his swordplay not easily dominate others? Li Xiaoyu used her superior strength and her superior techniques to defeat most of the opponents. This time, it was Ye Meng¡¯s turn and surprisingly it was that big burly guy from the line. He had actually made it into the actual tournament!


    ¡°Ye Meng and Zhang Yaodai in arena 6!¡±


    Ye Meng walked to the stage and instead of drawing his sword, he draw a stick. When Zhang Yaodai saw the twig he became enraged, ¡°Ye Meng! Although I might not be comparable to Xiao Mei and the others don¡¯t think you can just use a stick against me! You might end up crippled and I¡¯ll have some fun with your maid!¡± said Zhang Yaodai in an extremely vile voice. Zhang Yaodai burned the memories of the time he got humiliated by Ye Meng into his mind. He had swore to pay back the humiliation ten fold and now was the perfect time.


    Ye Meng snorted with disdain and innocently said, ¡°I thought you¡¯d like a stick? Don¡¯t dogs like to play fetch with sticks?¡±


    ¡°Hahaha! Young master Ye is too ruthless!¡±


    ¡°What kind of enmity do they have?¡±


    ¡°I think that Zhang Yaodai was attracted to Ye Meng¡¯s maid and made a lecherous comment about her.¡±


    ¡°Ah, no wonder!¡±


    ¡°YE MENG, DON¡¯T BLAME ME FOR BEING RUTHLESS!¡± shouted out the enraged Zhang Yaodai as he draw a giant club and lunged towards Ye Meng. Ye Meng just walked towards him without a care in the world and when the club came towards him, he just ducked. He was playing safe by only making light scratches and making sure people didn¡¯t get that injured in his previous matches to avoid enmities with other people but now he didn¡¯t care. Ye Meng thrusted into Zhang Yaodai¡¯s belly and made a large hole. Blood started seeping out of the hole and Zhang Yaodai attacked Ye Meng numerous times but they were all dodged or disjointed. Cuts and slashes in non-lethal are just to weaken your opponent, if you truly want to severely injure or kill you need to thrust or pierce with a sword! Numerous holes appeared on Zhang Yaodai¡¯s body in just a dozen moves! When Zhang Yaodai was about to say something, Ye Meng chopped off his clothes and revealed his lower part to everyone. Just like last time, people started laughing and made degrading comments on Zhang Yaodai.


    The match ended with Ye Meng¡¯s win and he quickly returned to his booth. Ye Meng felt as if there was a problem with him, he would instantly become angry whenever someone says or does malicious things towards Li Xiaoyu. As Ye Meng was returning to his booth, numerous eyes were carefully watching him.


    ¡°Ye Meng is tough competition¡­ I guess I need to reveal that hidden card.¡±


    ¡°Ye Meng¡¯s perception sure is terrifying, I might have to show that my Immortal Fiend Body has reached the 6th stage.¡±


    ¡°This Ye Meng sure is interesting. Imagine if he solely focused on cultivation, he would be able to sweep away all of the other contestants. Since he didn¡¯t do that, I should be able to beat him with the Heaven Piercing Sword Formation.¡±


    Ye Meng won all of his matches and it was time for Li Xiaoyu vs Luo Wei. Luo Wei was a handsome youth with his most prominent features being his black eyes that seemed to be the color of the night sky filled with stars. Li Xiaoyu took out the Azure Frost Sword and the crowd went wild.


    ¡°Oh my! That looks like a Tier 7 Artifact! It¡¯s impossible for it to be anything else due to the aura surrounding it!¡±


    Artifacts could be identified by the color just like pills. The colors were the same for each tier so when they saw the color on the sword the audience went wild. A couple of Divine Sense experts along with others saw the sword and their eyes widened. It was that Azure Frost Sword in the auction! How rich was Ye Meng to buy a Tier 7 Artifact for this maid! Some of the rather new Divine Sense experts don¡¯t even have Tier 7 artifacts but a mere Divine Sea stage does! How could they not feel incredibly envious and greedy? Luo Wei¡¯s eyes widened with shock because even though he was the top genius in his family, he had gotten an artifact known was a Quasi Divine Artifact especially made for Quasi Divine Sense experts. He felt greed but quickly suppressed that inside his heart.


    Greed was a bad thing that could lead to your death if not restrained. The battle started and Li Xiaoyu made the whole arena feel like it was freezing. Her swordplay was like a falling snowflake and her attacks were powerful as a blizzard. Luo Wei was actually a bow user! His arrows became like meteors and stars with the help of Qi and the duo battled furiously. In a hundred moves, Li Xiaoyu was slightly panting but Luo Wei was completely exhausted. ¡°Sister Li, your cultivation and techniques are just too profound. I admit defeat.¡±


    With that match, Li Xiaoyu had finished up all of her matches and they were watching the other contestants. Soon enough, the day was over and 70 youths were unable to enter the academy of their dreams!

 Chapter 12: Divine Sky Academy entrance tournament P3

    Have you ever wondered why some people always become extremely angry when they lose to the protagonist but when they lose to someone else in a tournament, they aren¡¯t as angry? It¡¯s because the protagonist is acting like the MC of an Xianxia, which is a grave mistake. Xianxia MC¡¯s are underdogs that manage to beat the rest of the competition which causes hate. Losing to someone you know is better than you doesn¡¯t make you feel bad but losing to someone who¡¯s worse than you makes you feel depressed and frustrated which causes anger.


    Another reason why an underdog winning makes them angry is because most of these antagonists plan beforehand on how to beat every single threat they have so when a nobody out of nowhere with no background comes in and ruins their perfectly thought out plan, how could they not be extremely angry? People might like surprises but they do not like wildcards and unexpected factors in their plan because that can cause unexpected results.


    Since Ye Meng revealed his sword intent and finished the 2nd requirement at an extremely fast speed, people made sure to mark him as dangerous. Only fools would pay no attention to someone who has comprehended sword intent! Li Xiaoyu basically did the same thing, she revealed her strength and talent in the 2nd requirement so people would mark her as dangerous. The one day wait between the actual tournament and the 2nd requirement gave everyone some time to change some parts of their plan.


    For instance, just to defeat Ye Meng, people used heavy weapons such as hammers and clubs because they are one of the best counters to Ye Meng. If Ye Meng gets hit once, then he¡¯ll end up losing because his cultivation is lower than most of the peak Divine Sea stage geniuses so his defense would be weaker. Also, sword intent is meant for piercing and cutting, it¡¯s not meant for sheer force. If they swing their clubs or hammers in a circle, how could Ye Meng defend against such a powerful attack with something that¡¯s meant to pierce or cut?


    This all applies to everyone beside Ouyang Guodi of course, he was always pampered and praised for being a genius so his arrogance reached unimaginable heights. All of the other geniuses have tasted defeat in the hands of other geniuses or the Crown Prince so they were rather humble when it came to defeats from stronger geniuses. But defeat wasn¡¯t in Ouyang Guodi¡¯s dictionary so why would he care about his other competition? Everyone knew he had two major trump cards, he had reached Control of a Dao in lightning and he trained in a powerful body refining technique. Normal peak Divine Sea stage geniuses were simply not his match!


    Every single action, beside humiliating the burly man, was part of Ye Meng¡¯s plan. Speaking of Ye Meng, he was currently in Hua Tong¡¯er¡¯s room giving her orders. Her cultivation had increased from early Marrow Cleansing to peak Marrow Cleansing in the span of a year and several months because of the Saint ranked cultivation technique coupled with Ye Meng¡¯s resources.


    ¡°After Li Xiaoyu and I enter the Divine Sky Academy, your job is to cultivate with my two other slaves while expending as much of my resources as you need. In a decade, you should be able to reach the early Golden Elixir stage and the assassin duo should be at the early Divine Sense stage. At that point, you should start making all the important figures of weaker sects your slaves and work up from there. Be sure to make them happy and remember to keep cultivating.¡±


    Hua Tong¡¯er nodded and asked, ¡°Won¡¯t people become suspicious if we¡¯re buying resources worth hundreds of thousands of low grade spirit stones? Also, how can we make the higher ups in the sects happy?¡±


    Ye Meng stroked his chin and thought about it for a while. ¡°I¡¯ll ask Old Man Bai to buy it for us while we just give him the money. As for the higher ups, everyone likes power so I¡¯ll write down a long list of amazing techniques and give them to you.¡± Hua Tong¡¯er asked Ye Meng about a bunch of small details and he replied back with the answers.


    Once you reach Ye Qian¡¯s level, you can pay a large sum to descend to the Mortal Realm you ascended from. Ye Meng wanted to create a sect because he wanted to hold dominance over the entire world and the best way to do that is to create a sect. By having a sect that controlled the world, he could enjoy the best of everything as the founder of the sect. Ye Meng also wanted to scout some youths with special bodies and a sect is also the best way to scout for budding talents.


    He quickly left the room after it was done and headed for his room. He wanted to sleep as soon as possible because he felt like he had gained some insights into the sword after fighting and he wanted to digest the insights. Ye Meng¡¯s perception was already extremely high, but it reached unprecedented heights since he awakened his soul so he could gain insights much faster than anyone else. It wouldn¡¯t be strange if he managed to reach One with the Sword in a century.


    When he entered the room, he saw Li Xiaoyu sleeping on his bed while trying to comprehend the Dao of Yin. He changed into more suitable clothes and cuddled up next to Li Xiaoyu. He fell asleep and entered a dream immediately. In that dream, an imaginary Ye Meng was holding a classic sword and fighting off against multiple sword masters. The sword masters used complicated attacks while Ye Meng just fended them off with basic sword techniques. A couple of hours passed and the imaginary Ye Meng¡¯s attacks were the same, but they had gotten a tiny bit stronger.


    ¡°So that¡¯s how it is huh?¡± thought Ye Meng as he woke himself up, ¡°I know my path to reaching One with the Sword. I need to comprehend the essence of my sword techniques and then reach such a state of perfection with my sword techniques that I forget all of the moves.¡±


    Ye Meng felt overwhelmed because comprehending sword intent was nothing compared to this! He walked out of his room and went to a courtyard to practice his sword techniques. ¡°It seems like the basic sword techniques is how I understood what path to take.¡± muttered Ye Meng with an ironic smile. The sword techniques that everyone knows are the key to reaching legendary One with the Sword state. Swish! Swish! Ye Meng practiced his sword techniques for hours until Li Xiaoyu woke up. Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.


    After that, they headed to the arena for the entrance tournament to compete. The announcer walked up on stage and yelled out, ¡°Welcome! Today is the 3rd day of the Divine Sky Academy entrance tournament! By the end of the day, only 20 of the 150 contestants will be remaining! The contestants are divided into 10 groups with 8 people in each group. Each group will battle it out amongst itself and the 6 with the lowest amount of victories will be expelled from the tournament! The groups and matchups are visible on your jade tickets. Let the tournament begin!¡±


    Ye Meng looked at his jade slip and he saw one of the geniuses he mentally marked in his group. Ye Ying seemed on par with Xiao Mei so unless he had a card up their sleeves, then Ye Meng would win. Although one of them would drop out from the tournament, there were another way to get in. That was to challenge someone who was ranked at least 10 spots higher than you and beat them. Li Xiaoyu had some talented people in her group but no real geniuses that could compare to Xiao Mei.


    The first match was boring so Ye Meng just waited until he got called up. Victory. Victory. Victory. Victory. Ye Meng spent time sparring and learning when he was up against sword or saber users but against heavy weapon users he rushed for a victory. Some people with no major background instantly surrendered when they met Li Xiaoyu or Ye Meng as they didn¡¯t care about face.


    ¡°Ye Meng and Ye Ying in arena 7!¡±


    Ye Meng walked down to the stage and saw the handsome Ye Ying that radiated an aura of serenity. They greeted each other and Ye Meng pulled out a sword while Ye Ying pulled out a saber. As soon as the saber was drawn, the atmosphere around Ye Ying became bloodthirsty. Ye Meng knew that this was Ye Ying¡¯s special body refining technique called the Immortal Fiend Body. You gain a massive amount of strength when you do a certain action but you became a crazed and bloodthirsty demon. Many experts have died from offending a powerful figure while in the frenzied state so the technique is marked off as forbidden but Ye Ying has a special type of body that makes him calm no matter what situation so he¡¯s the only person to properly cultivate the Immortal Fiend Body.


    Ye Ying dashed towards Ye Meng his saber. Clank! Clang! Ye Meng¡¯s arms shook with every single blow due to the massive strength of Ye Ying. ¡°I can¡¯t fight guy head on. I guess it¡¯s time to use what the Profound Laws of Water have told me.¡±


    This time when the saber came at him, Ye Meng didn¡¯t block it. Instead, he hit the saber on the side with the tip of his sword to disjoint the attack. Ting! The saber was disjointed and the same cycle continued on for a dozen moves until Ye Ying¡¯s saber became engulfed in an evil frost and headed straight for Ye Meng. The saber would make a mortal die and make lower leveled cultivators scared. Even some Golden Elixir stage cultivators felt a chill down their spines. Ye Meng responded with imbuing his sword with sword intent and finding the weak spot of the attack. After a couple hundred moves, Ye Ying was sweating intensely but Ye Meng only had a bit of sweat on his body because Ye Ying was using moves unlike Ye Meng who was simply using basic sword techniques.


    ¡°Brother Ye, your perception is extraordinary! I was saving this for the Crown Prince but I guess I have to reveal it earlier.¡± said Ye Ying while panting.


    Suddenly, the atmosphere around Ye Ying had grown even more bloodthirsty and Ye Ying came crashing down at Ye Meng. Ye Meng tried to use the point of his sword to deflect it but the saber was around 200,000 jins stronger than before! When some of the audience saw this, they were all shocked.


    ¡°Ye Ying reached the 8th stage of the Immortal Fiend Body!?¡±


    ¡°Amazing! This match is getting more interesting!¡±


    ¡°Does Ye Meng have any other cards? If not, he¡¯s gonna lose!¡±


    Instead of disjointing the attack, Ye Meng actually made the saber tilt so that it was on it¡¯s flat side when heading towards him. The tilted saber hit Ye Meng¡¯s chest and Ye Meng quickly bit his tongue, which healed immediately after, to cough out a mouthful of blood. He had to fake an injury or it would awfully suspicious on how he came out of that exchange without an injury.


    Ye Meng gritted his teeth and imbued his sword with a bit of the Profound Laws of Water he had comprehended. The saber came towards him again but this time, Ye Meng¡¯s sword was like water. It never actually touched the saber for more than a millisecond and in a dozen moves, Ye Ying had small scratches all of his body. The audience saw that his swordplay was like water and looked at Ye Meng with amazed gazes.


    ¡°His strength increased by so much since he infused the Dao of Water onto his sword! His level of insights must be unfathomable!¡±


    ¡°Maybe with his perception he could comprehend Control of a Dao in around 10 years!¡±


    Ye Ying imbued his sword with his chosen Dao which was the Dao of Yin. Although Li Xiaoyu and Ye Ying both had comprehended the Dao of Yin, they had chosen two different pathways. Li Xiaoyu had picked the cold part of Yin while Ye Ying had chosen the evil part of Yin. They exchanged moves and they were both evenly matched so Ye Meng decided to imbue his sword with more of the Profound Laws of Water.


    Ye Ying¡¯s face instantly turned dark when he saw that Ye Meng hadn¡¯t shown all of his insights yet. He was at a disadvantage and he had no special cards left. Daos were usually last resorts because they used a large amount of your mental strength to control unlike Laws which didn¡¯t. Mental strength needed rest until it could be restored unlike Qi which just required pills or cross legged meditation. Daos were usually used to for extremely important battles. He exchanged a couple more blows with Ye Meng and saw that he couldn¡¯t do anything without being severely injured. ¡°I can take 2nd place in this group, Ye Meng is too much of a monster. I won''t offend him in the future.¡± thought Ye Ying as he admitted defeat.


    Ye Meng retreated to his booth and watch the other matches. Sometimes when he felt like the Crown Prince¡¯s gaze was on him, he would kiss Hua Tong¡¯er and act like a pair of lovers just to spite him. Li Xiaoyu won all of her matches with little effort due to her easy matchups. Speaking of Li Xiaoyu, she was glaring daggers at Ye Meng¡¯s back because he had Hua Tong¡¯er on his lap and he was stroking her hair. Bai Chen was giggling at her friend¡¯s misfortune and she whispered into Li Xiaoyu¡¯s ear, ¡°Sister Li, you¡¯re glaring at Brother Ye but you¡¯re not doing anything to fight for him! Cmon sister! You¡¯re so much better than Hua Tong¡¯er! Just confess!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu blushed when she talked about confessing and angrily said, ¡°No! That bastard is a pervert and womanizer! I¡¯m not gonna confess to him unless he straightens up his ways.¡±


    Bai Chen rolled her eyes and reminded her friend, ¡°If you just ask him to stop fooling around with Hua Tong¡¯er, then he would!¡±


    Li Xiaoyu shook her head and said, ¡°No he wouldn¡¯t! You don¡¯t know his vile ways. He would make me be the substitute for her and he¡¯d take advantage of me like that. Hmph! I''m not an easy slut like Hua Tong''er!¡±


    Two of the endlessly conversed with each other and eventually the 3rd day of the tournament had ended. Ye Meng went home with the two girls and practiced his sword techniques.


    Meanwhile at the Royal Palace, Ouyang Guodi was cultivating in his room when suddenly his aura exploded! Qi accumulated in his dantian till it burst and he broke through. ¡°Hahahahah! First place is mine!¡± laughed the Crown Prince as he threw a punch at a strength tester.


    There was a 1,800,000 in blue on the strength tester which was incredibly high for an early Golden Elixir culivator. The average strength of an early Golden Elixir cultivator was 1,350,000 jins of strength while the average strength of a mid Golden Elixir cultivator was 1,750,000 jins of strength! The last day would surely be interesting with this breakthrough.