Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Fan with suspicion in his eyes.
Bai Yunxi rubbed his forehead, took a deep breath, and secretly thought: Ye Fan, this idiot, was full of flaws as soon as he opened his mouth.
Ye Fan looked at Xu Mingyang a little unhappily, “Blue Cloud Sect is such a big sect. Why didn’t you mention it? Shouldn’t you be the most familiar with Blue Cloud Sect?”
Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Fan in confusion and said, “How does Alchemist Ye know that I am familiar with the Blue Cloud Sect?”
Xu Mingyang frowned and secretly thought: If he was not mistaken, this Alchemist Ye should be from a very desolate continent. He had heard other cultivators from the Southern Continent saying that they never expected such a wild continent like the Eastern Continent could produce such a powerful alchemy genius.
“He listened to what other foreign cultivators said,” Bai Yunxi said.
Xu Mingyang nodded and said, “Oh.”
Xu Mingyang frowned. There was no teleportation token for this secret realm in Cangxuan Continent. He traveled to other continents in the Southern Continent and came here by accident. His origins shouldn’t be very clear to other cultivators in the secret realm.
“How about introducing the Blue Cloud Sect? How is the Sect Master? How are the Golden Core elders in the sect? What outstanding talents are there in the sect?” Ye Fan asked.
Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Fan in confusion and said, “Alchemist Ye, why do you care so much about the Blue Cloud Sect?”
“He accidentally got a cultivation method from the Blue Cloud Sect, and he can be considered half a member of the Blue Cloud Sect. Therefore, he is more concerned about the affairs of the Blue Cloud Sect. How is the relationship between Fellow Daoist Xu and the people of the Blue Cloud Sect?” Bai Yunxi asked.
Xu Mingyang frowned and said, “It’s okay. I don’t know which cultivation method Fellow Daoist Ye got from Blue Cloud Sect.”
“Blue Sky Heart Method,” Ye Fan said.
Xu Mingyang’s face changed greatly. The Blue Sky Heart Method was the highest cultivation scripture of the Blue Cloud Sect. It was said that the ancestral cultivators of the sect practiced this method and cultivated all the way to God Transformation.
However, after that, a corner of the cultivation method was torn off for some reason. Because a line of words was missing, most of the cultivators who cultivated this cultivation method went into qi deviation and died at the Nascent Soul stage.
Later, this cultivation method was mostly left idle in the sect. Of course, there were also some cultivators who were determined to complete the cultivation method even knowing it was almost guaranteed to be a dead end. Ye Qixian was one of them.
“Blue Sky Heart Method?” Xu Mingyang said in shock.
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Yes! If you meet my…” Bai Yunxi glared at Ye Fan. Ye Fan blinked, and said, “If you meet the senior management of Blue Cloud Sect, tell them, the inner breath circulates twelve cycles, opening up the mysterious meridians.”
“Twelve cycles? Isn’t it nine cycles? Nine is the number of chapters!” Xu Mingyang asked.
Ye Fan shook his head and said, “No, it’s twelve cycles. Nine cycles are not enough. You must remember to say it! If you tell them, maybe Blue Cloud Sect will give you a gift.” Ye Fan secretly thought: his elder brother was desperate to practice the Blue Sky Heart Method, and he would be out of luck once he reached the Nascent Soul stage. However, Nascent Soul was not so easy to achieve.
Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Fan and said, “Alchemist Ye, you…”
Ye Fan looked at Xu Mingyang and said, “Why are you staring at me like that? I only like my wife. I was lying when I said that I wanted to enjoy the blessings of everyone.”
Xu Mingyang’s lips twitched, smiled, and said, “That’s natural. With such a stunning companion like Fellow Daoist Bai, how could Alchemist Ye look at me? Alchemist Ye’s name seems a bit unusual?”
Bai Yunxi smiled and said, “How could it be? Two out of ten people surnamed Ye have this name.”
Xu Mingyang: “…”
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Knowing that the Blue Cloud Sect was fine, Ye Fan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
“Fellow Daoist Xu, do you have any news about the flame of life? I heard that the flame of life has not appeared yet. Is it possible someone got the flame of life, but concealed the news?” Bai Yunxi asked.
Xu Mingyang said in confusion, “You don’t know?”
“Know what?” Bai Yunxi asked.
“The flame of life is actually in the inner city of the secret realm. The real good things are also in the secret realm’s inner city. The secret realm’s inner city will not open for another two years, so no one will get the flame of life for the time being,” Xu Mingyang said.
Bai Yunxi said with some confusion, “How could that be?”
“Every time, few cultivators from your area escaped. When people leave the secret realm, the news spread is always a mixture of truth and falsehood. It’s normal for you not to know,” Xu Mingyang said.
Bai Yunxi: “…”
Ye Fan breathed a sigh of relief and said, “If that’s the case, there are still two years. Then there’s no rush.”
Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Fan and did not speak.
…
Hearing Xu Mingyang say that the flame of life wouldn’t appear for the time being, Ye Fan returned to the Heavenly Thunder Bamboo Forest and settled down. He intended to increase his strength to the late stage of Foundation Establishment and also refine some more self-defense spiritual weapons such as Heavenly Thunder Beads.
Xu Mingyang was very wary of Ye Fan at first, but after thinking of a certain possibility, Xu Mingyang simply stayed.
Ye Fan gave Xu Mingyang a room.
After Xu Mingyang entered the secret realm, he was chased and killed constantly. Because he wasn’t able to pause and rest, the injuries on his body didn’t recover. With Ye Fan settling down, Xu Mingyang’s injuries recovered.
Ye Fan was sitting in the forest, nibbling on spiritual fruit while making spiritual weapons.
“Alchemist Ye, you are so leisurely!” Xu Mingyang said.
“It’s okay.”
“Does Alchemist Ye have an elder brother?”
Ye Fan nodded without hesitation and said, “Yes!”
“Your brother must treat you well.”
Ye Fan rolled his eyes and said, “I used to be short-sighted and thought he was good to me, but I don’t think so now?”
“Why?” Xu Mingyang asked in confusion.
Ye Fan turned his head to look at Xu Mingyang and said solemnly, “Fellow Daoist Xu, you know that living means to enjoy life! If you don’t enjoy life, then it’s useless to live for a long time. What is enjoyment? To enjoy is to eat!” As he spoke, he took a bite of the spiritual fruit.
“My elder brother is a bastard, bullying me when I was young and ignorant. Soon after I was born, he fed me fasting pills. I grew up eating fasting pills, which made me think that everyone in the world eats fasting pills, until I..”
Xu Mingyang’s brows jumped and he said, “Until what?”
“Until I went down the mountain one day. I opened the door to a new world. I wanted to eat roast chicken, roast duck, roast squid, turtle, mutton, crab, noodles, wontons and ice cream… Anyway, there are many delicious things.” Ye Fan smiled and said.
Xu Mingyang laughed dryly and said, “You know that ordinary human food contains a lot of impurities. If you only eat fasting pills, you can live for several more years. If a mortal had the chance to only eat fasting pills, they could easily live past a hundred years.”
Ye Fan rolled his eyes and said, “Life is so boring like that. I might as well die!”
“I think your elder brother would be very sad if you died!” Xu Mingyang said.
Ye Fan shook his head, and said with some confusion. “I don’t know! He should be very sad.”
Ye Fan raised his head, looked at Xu Mingyang, and said, “What’s the matter with your cultivation? I remember a few years ago, you were about to form a golden core! How could it regress?” Could it be that he time traveled to a few years earlier? In this way, Ye Fan in this world might still be alive.
Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Fan and said, “I was secretly plotted against when trying to form a golden core. My soul was damaged, and my cultivation base fell. However, how did you know that I was about to form a golden core a few years ago?”
Ye Fan rolled his eyes and said, “I guessed.”
“Alchemist Ye knows a lot about my Cangxuan Continent. I even suspect that you are actually from Cangxuan Continent,” Xu Mingyang said.
Ye Fan rolled his eyes and said with a guilty conscience, “I’m a native of the Eastern Continent, as you know.” Everyone in the secret realm would automatically be teleported back to their original location once the secret realm closed.
Xu Mingyang smiled and said, “The cultivation method practiced by Alchemist Ye is not like those from the Eastern Continent. Fellow Daoist Ye, this method of refining spiritual weapons seems to be the Hundred Refining Treasures Refining Technique, which is a bit like the Blue Cloud Sect’s Elder Jin’s signature technique. I wanted to learn Elder Jin’s craftsmanship, but he looked down on me, probably because he thinks my aptitude is lacking…”
Ye Fan looked at Xu Mingyang and said, “You’re wrong to think so. Maybe that elder didn’t despise you for being stupid, but despised you for being too smart. Once he teaches you everything, how can he still mess around in the future? Teach the disciple, starve the master.”
“Fellow Daoist Xu, do you like tall, cold, and mensao sword cultivators?” Ye Fan asked.
Seeing that Ye Fan brought up old matters again, Xu Mingyang was not angry this time. “What is meant by mensao*?”
“Mensao means being serious on the surface, but in fact they are full of bad water, just like my brother. You know, when my brother was six years old, he secretly drank an elder’s wine and wet the bed, and then he blamed the two year old me. I pity my two year old self. He’s been taking the blame since he was two years old,” Ye Fan said bitterly.
Xu Mingyang hesitated and said, “I don’t like that type…”
Ye Fan tilted his head and said, “How could it be? When I was sixteen, I saw a weapon refining book.”
Xu Mingyang stared at Ye Fan and asked, “What weapon refining book?”
Ye Fan blinked and said, “It’s nothing. It’s just an ordinary weapon refining book.”
Ye Fan took a deep breath. When he was sixteen years old, Xu Mingyang gave Ye Qixian a weapon refining book. He happened to be interested in weapon refining at the time, so his elder brother gave it to him.
There was a bookmark in the book that had a handwritten poem. When the end of the world was exhausted, there was only endless love*.
At that time, he didn’t understand the meaning of this poem, but now that he had a wife, Ye Fan thought about it again and thought that the bookmark was a love letter.
Back then, Xu Mingyang might have expressed his intentions to his elder brother implicitly, but he didn’t notice it at all. Thinking about it this way, his elder brother was really a scumbag. However, he might also be overthinking it.
Bai Yunxi walked out and said, “Fellow Daoist Xu, don’t you need to recuperate?”
“Thanks to the medicinal pills given by Fellow Daoist Bai, my injuries healed very quickly,” Xu Mingyang said.
“If you are short of medicinal pills, I’ll give these bottles to you,” Ye Fan said.
Xu Mingyang nodded and said, “Thank you. Alchemist Ye is so kind to everyone?”
“Ordinary people, no way, but…” Ye Fan said.
“But what?” Xu Mingyang asked.
Ye Fan shook his head and said, “Nothing.”
Bai Yunxi walked out, looked at Xu Mingyang, who was chatting happily with Ye Fan, frowned, and said, “Fellow Daoist Xu, Ye Fan is going to refine Heavenly Thunder Beads. Let’s not disturb him.”
Xu Mingyang glanced at Ye Fan, then at Bai Yunxi, smiled, and said, “Okay!”
The Taotie ghost looked at Bai Yunxi and Xu Mingyang, smiled, and said, “Ah, ah. There’s a fire in the backyard*?”
Ye Fan looked back at Ao Xiaobao and said, “Where is there fire? Don’t talk nonsense and scare me.”
Ao Xiaobao: “…” Ye Fan, this idiot, would die of stupidity one day.
…
Bai Yunxi sent Xu Mingyang away and found Ye Fan.
“What did Xu Mingyang say to you?” Bai Yunxi asked.
Ye Fan shifted his eyes and said, “Nothing much. We were just chatting.”
“You didn’t tell him anything confidential?” Bai Yunxi asked.
Ye Fan blinked and said, “There was one thing.”
“What was it?”
Ye Fan smiled mysteriously, and said, “I told him that my elder brother wet the bed. If anyone knew that my brother was still wetting the bed at the age of six, then my brother’s reputation would be discredited. You know, my brother is a role model in the minds of the Blue Cloud Sect cultivators! He is embarrassed, and Blue Cloud Sect will also be embarrassed. However, he doesn’t know who my brother is anyway.”
Bai Yunxi: “…”
The Taotie ghost looked at Bai Yunxi and said, “Young Master Bai! I see how devious this guy Xu Mingyang is. Your husband is also stupid. You should send that guy away as soon as possible, otherwise everything will be dug out.”
Bai Yunxi frowned. Although Ye Fan kept clamoring to be promoted to Nascent Soul to go to Cangxuan Continent, it was hard to say whether they could really be promoted to Nascent Soul. Currently, Xu Mingyang was the only one who knew the situation of Blue Cloud Sect. If they didn’t take this opportunity to learn more, they might not have the opportunity in the future.
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T/N: Bonus chapter for Ale. Thanks for the ko-fi!
Lol Ye Fan is an idiot. Xu Mingyang pretty much already knows. Ye Fan is also really oblivious…his family fed him fasting pills because they were always afraid of him dying early. Even an outsider like Xi Mingyang could tell, but Ye Fan still doesn’t get it.
*Mensao (闷骚) – it’s a modern term, which explains why Xu Mingyang doesn’t know it.
*Yes I definitely butchered the poem…
*Fire in the backyard – reference to ancient days where wives and concubines all lived in the back/inner courtyard. Means trouble with your love life (similar to the English saying “trouble in paradise”).
YF 🤣
YF is the prime example of people being book smart but not street smart.. 😅😅