Cangxuan Continent.
Xu Mingyang stood on the Xu family’s weapon refining peak, looking into the distance.
A cultivator in green clothes, riding a flying sword, landed next to Xu Mingyang, “Mingyang, someone from Rongtian Palace is here.”
Xu Mingyang nodded and said calmly, “I understand.”
”Mingyang, I heard that in the secret realm, you risked your life to help a native from the Eastern Continent deal with people from the Southern Continent, which made many cultivators from the Southern Continent have a strong opinion of you. Why?” Xu Lei asked.
”It was just a transaction. He helped me heal my damaged soul, so I helped protect him for a few years. If it weren’t for him, my injury would not have healed,” Xu Mingyang said.
Xu Lei hesitated for a moment and said, “I heard that you and him have a close relationship?”
Xu Mingyang looked at Xu Lei and said coldly, “Cousin*, what exactly do you want to say?!”
”There are some unpleasant rumors outside, saying that you are shameless and have become the concubine of that Eastern Continent native,” Xu Lei said.
Xu Mingyang said lukewarmly, “Really? Rumors stop among the wise. When people get tired of talking about it, they will naturally not mention it again. It doesn’t matter.”
Xu Lei looked at Xu Mingyang and said, “You have nothing to do with him. Is it necessary to almost die for him?”
”A person cannot live without integrity, and the grace of a drop of water given in need should be repaid with a gushing spring. I naturally have my own reasons for the things I do. What’s more, he didn’t need my help at all. He could still succeed without me.” Of course, if Ye Fan was not Ye Qixian’s younger brother, he would still do his best to help to repay the grace of saving his life, but he wouldn’t have gone so far.
Xu Lei looked at Xu Mingyang, shook his head, and said helplessly, “Okay!”
”Who came from Rongtian Palace?” Xu Mingyang asked.
”A foreign affairs elder.”
Xu Mingyang nodded and said, “I guess he’s here just to complain. Cousin, please help me give him some spirit stones and send him away.”
”Ye Qixian is here too. Do you want to meet him?” Xu Lei asked.
”He’s here?” Xu Mingyang couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.
Xu Mingyang took a deep breath. He originally planned to think about how to mention the matter with Ye Fan and then go to Blue Cloud Sect to find Ye Qixian after a while. Unexpectedly, Ye Qixian came over.
”I think he seems a little angry!” Xu Lei said.
Xu Mingyang said with some confusion, “Angry? Why is he angry?”
Xu Lei shook his head and said, “He seems to have visited an alchemist because of the damage to your soul. When he came back, he found out that you secretly went to the secret realm. He seemed a little worried about you.”
Xu Mingyang said with a complicated expression, “Really? But when I failed to form a golden core before, he said that I have poor qualifications, so it’s not surprising that I failed to form a golden core and it’s still good to be a mortal.”
Xu Lei: “…”
……
Xu Mingyang’s side courtyard.
”You’re here!” Xu Mingyang walked into the side courtyard and saw Ye Qixian holding his sword and standing in the side courtyard with a stern face, with a sense of solemnity all over his body.
Ye Qixian looked at Xu Mingyang and frowned. “Are you… okay? I heard that the heavenly fire was contracted by a cultivator from the Eastern Continent. Your soul…”
”That alchemist happened to have a Soul Replenishing Pill left over from ancient times, so my soul was repaired,” Xu Mingyang said.
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Ye Qixian said with some suspicion, “It’s that alchemist you were following in the secret realm. I heard that you and him…” Ye Qixian frowned and did not say any more.
”Did you hear that I slept with him?” Xu Mingyang suddenly had some teasing thoughts in his heart.
Ye Qixian frowned and said, “You… didn’t though, right?”
”He is quite good, and I have a good impression of him. However, he has a wife, so it’s not my turn,” Xu Mingyang said.
Ye Qixian breathed a sigh of relief and said, “It’s just a low-level alchemist. An alchemist’s status is very high. In fact, they’re nothing great. There are a lot of scum among the alchemists nowadays. Many of them just collect spiritual herbs and spirit stones and don’t do any work. I have seen a lot of such scum.”
Xu Mingyang smiled and said, “That alchemist is really good at alchemy. As long as spiritual herbs and spirit stones are provided, most of the time, pills can be successfully refined. When the secret realm was about to close, he gave me a lot of medicinal pills. Do you want any?”
”No,” Ye Qixian said without hesitation.
”With your cultivation level, you won’t be able to use them. However, there are many medicinal pills that are suitable for Jinwen. Can you help me bring them to him?” Xu Mingyang asked.
”Jinwen doesn’t want them either,” Ye Qixian said coldly.
Xu Mingyang shook his head and said, “Although you are Jinwen’s elder brother, you can’t make decisions for him! Please help me bring the medicinal pills to Jinwen. If Jinwen doesn’t want them, then you can return them to me.”
Ye Qixian: “…”
Ye Qixian followed Xu Mingyang into the room. Xu Mingyang waved his hand, and hundreds of pill bottles appeared on the table.
Ye Qixian looked at the table of medicinal pills with strong spiritual power and said with some suspicion, “These were all refined by that alchemist?”
Xu Mingyang nodded and said, “Yes…”
”Why did he give you so much? You two have a good relationship?” Ye Qixian asked in confusion.
”We indeed have a pretty good relationship. He had a lot of pills, so he gave me a bunch that he didn’t need. He’s quite generous,” Xu Mingyang said.
Ye Qixian said unhappily, “How did your relationship get so good?”
”He has the same name as your brother, Ye Fan, so I felt a little closer,” Xu Mingyang said.
Looking at Ye Qixian’s look, Xu Mingyang knew that Ye Qixian didn’t know that the alchemist in the secret realm was named Ye Fan. Back then, after Ye Fan died, the name Ye Fan became taboo. Ordinary people would not mention it in front of Ye Qixian for fear of bringing up sad memories for Ye Qixian.
”Does he have the same name as Ye Fan?” Ye Qixian said in confusion.
Xu Mingyang nodded and said, “Yes!”
Xu Mingyang thought to himself: Ye Qixian would know about Ye Fan sooner or later. Instead of letting Ye Qixian become suspicious at that time, it was better to say it now. However, was it really a good thing not to tell Ye Qixian about Ye Fan’s identity?
”By the way, when I was in that secret realm, I saw remnants of the Blue Sky Heart Method. I recorded it on a jade slip. I don’t know if it will be useful,” Xu Mingyang said.
Ye Qixian’s eyes widened and he said, “Did you see remnants of the Blue Sky Heart Method in the secret realm? You didn’t make a mistake, right?”
”I’m not sure either. You’ll know after you take a look.”
Ye Qixian took a look at the jade slip, and suddenly his eyes widened, and he murmured, “So that’s it, that’s it. A leaf obstructs the eye and you can’t see the mountain! It turns out that it’s so simple.”
Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Qixian’s reaction and was secretly shocked. As expected of Ye Fan, his comprehension was astonishing. Of course, one of the reasons Ye Qixian chose to practice the Blue Sky Heart Method back then was because he believed in Ye Fan. Who knew that Ye Fan would run out and die suddenly.
”Is it useful? That’s great,” Xu Mingyang said.
Ye Qixian held the jade slip and said with confusion, “How did you find the remnants of the Blue Sky Heart Method in the secret realm of the tree people?”
”Perhaps other Blue Cloud Sect cultivators have gone in before?” Xu Mingyang said.
Ye Qixian nodded and said, “Oh.”
Seeing that Ye Qixian believed it, Xu Mingyang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If Ye Jinwen were here instead, it might not be so easy to muddle through. In Ye Qixian’s mind, there was only swordsmanship, and other things didn’t matter.
Ye Qixian looked at the jade slip and couldn’t put it down. “It’s great. The Blue Sky Heart Method has been completed. Maybe in the future, our Blue Cloud Sect can produce a few God Transformation cultivators.”
Xu Mingyang: “…”
”I also have something else for you,” Xu Mingyang said.
”That alchemist was the one who gave it?” Ye Qixian asked with squinted eyes.
Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Qixian and said, “If it’s from him, you don’t want it?”
Ye Qixian nodded and said, “Yes, I heard from the rumors that that alchemist doesn’t look like a good person.”
Xu Mingyang: “…” Ye Qixian would regret these words sooner or later.
”It’s not from that guy. It’s something I found,” Xu Mingyang said.
”What is it?” Ye Qixian asked.
Xu Mingyang took out a jar of lightning strike fluid.
Ye Qixian’s eyes widened and he said, “There are a lot of good things in the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm!”
Xu Mingyang nodded and said, “Yes!”
”I can’t take such a precious thing,” Ye Qixian said.
Xu Mingyang looked at Ye Qixian and said, “If you don’t want it, give it to Ye Jinwen.”
Ye Qixian said with displeasure, “Jinwen is so young. How can he use such good things?!”
……
A long convoy was traveling on the road. Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi were mixed into the team. The convoy was divided into two people per carriage.
Ye Fan looked at Bai Yunxi and said, “Yunxi, this task is not fun at all.”
Bai Yunxi looked at Ye Fan and said, “Be patient.”
Ye Fan nodded and said, “Okay.”
When the convoy arrived at a city, the cultivator guarding the gate stopped the convoy.
”Princess, routine inspection.”
Situ Jiaojiao hit the guard on the side with a whip, and the cultivator who stopped the carriage was thrown to the ground by the whip.
”You even dare to stop my carriage. You are so brave.” Situ Jiaojiao was dressed in red and stood majestically on the fire dragon carriage, looking like she was dominating the world.
The captain of the guards quickly stepped forward and said, “We don’t dare, Princess Jiaojiao, but this is an order from Tianyi Sect.”
Situ Jiaojiao snorted coldly and said, “Tianyi Sect? You are using the Tianyi Sect to suppress me? Tianyi Sect is so bold that they even dare to interfere with the Situ royal family*.”
The guard captain said with embarrassment, “Princess, we are also following orders. Just ask your men to come down and go through the motions.”
Situ Jiaojiao snorted coldly and said, “Hurry up, I have to rush back to celebrate my ancestor’s birthday. I don’t have time to mess around with you lackeys. If you delay this* princess’s affairs, I’ll make you look good.”
As soon as Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan were teleported out of the secret realm, Bai Yunxi was anxious to leave Pill Capital.
At that time, Princess Jiaojiao was leaving Pill Capital to celebrate the birthday of the ancestor of the Situ royal family.
After Bai Yunxi and Ye Fan weighed the situation, they changed their appearance and mixed into Princess Situ Jiaojiao’s bodyguard team.
Bai Yunxi secretly thought: It was indeed the right thing to choose to take on the mission of guarding Princess Situ Jiaojiao. There were privileged classes everywhere, and it was the same in the cultivation world.
Tianyi Sect was the largest sect in the Eastern Continent. There were two Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect, and they were extremely powerful.
The Situ royal family also had a Nascent Soul ancestor, so they were not afraid when facing the Tianyi Sect.
This Princess Jiaojiao was very talented. It was said that she was very popular with the old Nascent Soul monster of the Situ royal family, so Princess Jiaojiao could act so unscrupulously.
Many teams now passed through some cities along the way and had to undergo strict inspections. However, following this Princess Jiaojiao, although they still had to go through the formalities, it was not so strict.
……
At dusk, the convoy stopped, and everyone walked out of the convoy to rest.
”Princess, who are the people from Tianyi Sect looking for?” Situ Jiaojiao’s delicate maid asked with confusion.
Situ Jiaojiao raised her eyebrows and said, “I don’t know. I heard that he is a vicious criminal who killed innocent people indiscriminately in the secret realm. He killed many people from each sect, so only a few disciples from each sect escaped this time. “
The maid covered her mouth and said in surprise, “How could there be such a hateful person?”
When Ye Fan heard the maid’s words, he couldn’t help but roll his eyes. He was not evil. He was an upright person.
He would not offend anyone unless they offended him first. When it came to killing people, he had killed more foreign cultivators. In total, because he killed many foreign cultivators, there were more cultivators from the Eastern Continent that survived. These people should be thanking him, yet as soon as he came out, they all sold him out.
Situ Jiaojiao said nonchalantly, “These sects are also really weird. It’s not a glorious thing to be killed by two loose cultivators. Shouldn’t they try to hide this matter? They actually mobilized troops to capture two Foundation Establishment cultivators. It’s really a big joke.”
Ye Fan: “…” This princess had quite the imagination.
”Princess, there are checkpoints everywhere. We have been questioned many things throughout the whole journey. How many people did Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi kill?”
Situ Jiaojiao shook her head and said, “I don’t know. I heard that Pill Capital has been placed under martial law, and people are only allowed in and not out. If Ye Fan and Bai Yunxi are still in the city at this time, it will be difficult to fly out.”
Ye Fan blinked and thought to himself: Fortunately, he ran fast. Otherwise, he would have been in big trouble.
Bai Yunxi sat there without speaking, his face a little ugly.
Bai Yunxi had already guessed that after they left the secret realm, they would be chased and intercepted by the various sects. However, Bai Yunxi did not expect that the pursuit and interception by the various sects would be so severe.
***
T/N: Haha, Ye Qixian is jealous. In case it’s not obvious, Ye Jinwen is the name of Ye Qixian and Ye Fan’s younger brother.
Also, hypocrites everywhere… it was repeatedly mentioned that the survival rate of cultivators from the Eastern Continent in the Heavenly Wood Secret Realm is low (the reason why was revealed to be because they were hunted down and killed by those from other continents), so now more than usual have actually survived, but the sects are spreading the misinformation that survival was low because of Ye Fan. This is just to mislead the masses and paint him as an evildoer so the sects aren’t criticized for hunting him down.
*堂哥 (tang ge) – older male cousin of the same surname (so his older paternal cousin).
*Yes, the cultivation world has royalty too – the cultivation continents are split into smaller continents and kingdoms (e.g. Cangxuan Continent where Ye Fan is from in the Southern Continent, and the place they first arrived in the Eastern Continent was Dongyue Kingdom). Presumably, the Situ family also rules over a kingdom in the Eastern Continent.
*She refers to herself as 本公主 (ben gongzhu). 本 (ben) is an arrogant way to refer to oneself, most often used in ancient settings.
