Ye Yuan smiled slightly. Reaching his hand out and flicking it, several hundred medicinal bottles appeared in front of Zhao Qian.
On every medicinal bottle indicated the name of the medicinal pill. They were shockingly all Tier 6 medicinal pills!
“You do a check,” Ye Yuan said.
A glimmer of shock flickered across Zhao Qian’s eyes, but she said verbally, “No need!”
As she said this, she put away these medicinal pills immediately.
Right at this time, a sonorous voice sounded out outside the door, coming over from far away, “Ye Yuan, where are you?! Quickly come out for me!”
Ye Yuan’s brows furrowed and he said, “Pei Wenqiang? What’s he here for?”
Zhao Qian suddenly opened her mouth and said, “Forgot to tell you guys. City Lord Ying won’t be back for the time being. The higher-ups have already appointed a new acting city lord. His name is Pei Wenqiang.”
Chapter 769 - Crimson Afterglow Valley
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Zhao Qian’s words made Ye Yuan and Jun Tianyu both stunned.
Without waiting for them to react to it, Pei Wenqiang already barged inside hastily.
“Ye Yuan, this City Lord came to grace you with his grand presence, and you actually dare to not go out and welcome!” Pei Wenqiang said gloatingly.
Ye Yuan said with a black face, “It’s clearly you who forcefully barged inside yourself. Is there still reason?”
Jun Tianyu said coolly, “Ye Yuan, want to sweep him out or not?”
Pei Wenqiang’s expression choked up and suddenly discovered that Jun Tianyu actually broke through to Third Level Heaven Enlightenment already, and already caught up to him on cultivation realm.
But in terms of concepts comprehension, he could not catch up to Jun Tianyu even by whipping his horse. Jun Tianyu wanting to sweep him out of the door was probably just a simple matter too.
“Hey, I’m warning you guys! I’m the Ancient Opulence City’s City Lord for now! If you all dare to touch me, bear the consequences yourself!” This time, it was Pei Wenqiang’s turn to pull a black face.
Ye Yuan waved his hand and said impatiently, “Alright, stop flaunting your City Lord’s power and prestige! You be the City Lord, I’ll run my Fragrant Medicine Pavilion. Let’s stay in our own lanes and mind our own businesses! Speak, what did you come to find me for?”
Pei Wenqiang was pissed the moment he heard that. “Heh, what high-sounding sentiments! Your shop is opened in my territory! To actually dare have such an attitude towards me! Do you believe that I’ll make you close down shop for good or not?!”
Talking until here, Pei Wenqiang seemed to be even more pleased with himself as he thought and said, “It’s decided. Later, I’ll make people come to impound your Fragrant Medicine Pavilion. See if you still dare to be so insolent towards this City Lord!”
Ye Yuan laughed and said, “Is that so? Recently, there just happens to be another person finding me. Because I couldn’t bear to part with the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion, so I didn’t agree. Since you seized the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion, it helped me make this decision.”
Pei Wenqiang laughed loudly and said, “Heh, found a path to retreat so quicklyhuh? I wonder who your next player is? You also know my big brother’s status in the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land. Whichever organization you go to, I’ll make them close down! I want to see who dares to take you in!”
Ye Yuan fished out a token very helplessly and played with it a little in his hand.
Pei Wenqiang had yet to have any reaction, but when Zhao Qian saw that token, she could not help being struck dumb with amazement as she said, “The Heaven’s Destiny Trading Company’s gold token! You … Why would you have this kind of thing?”
Ye Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said, “I didn’t want it. People insisted on forcefully pushing it to me.”
It was indeed Zuo Xin who forcefully pushed it to Ye Yuan. In order to make Ye Yuan accept this token, Zuo Xin almost knelt down for him.
Pei Wenqiang’s expression changed drastically too as he said, “This … This is the Heaven’s Destiny Trading Company’s gold token! Isn’t it said that in the entire Crimson Afterglow Holy Land, only the Holy Lord alone has this thing?”
Ye Yuan gave Pei Wenqiang a glance rather surprisedly and said, “Looks like I underestimated you. Didn’t think that you actually even know about the gold token.”
Pei Wenqiang’s expression was ugly as he said, “I … I heard my big brother mention it before when I went to the Heaven’s Destiny Trading Company’s Crimson Afterglow branch to buy things.”
Ye Yuan was enlightened as he said, “Oh, turns out it’s like that. Oh, right, didn’t you want to seal up my Fragrant Medicine Pavilion? Quickly seal. What are you still waiting for?”
“H-Haha, just now I was just cracking a joke, cracking a joke, Younger Brother Ye, you don’t take it seriously. Ah! Only cared about making jokes, I almost forgot that coming today was for for proper business.” Pei Wenqiang suddenly thought of something and hurriedly changed the topic
What kind of joke was this? This gold token, only a holy lord would have one in the entire holy land. Then what possessing it signified was already understood without being told.
Sealing up the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion?
The Heaven’s Destiny Trading Company was a Rank One Holy Land; much more powerful than the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land, this sort of Rank Nine HolyLand. 1
If Ye Yuan really went to the Heaven’s Destiny Trading Company, he could use the status this token represented to screw him to death effortlessly.
Zhao Qian was absent-minded by the sides. It was also uncertain what she was thinking about.
But Ye Yuan was somewhat curious about Pei Wenqiang’s intent for coming and asked, “What are you finding me for?”
Pei Wenqiang said, “It’s like this. The Crimson Afterglow Holy Land will be organizing a Quasi-Holy Son selection competition a month later. Each faction subordinate to the holy land has three quotas. About this, when I received this news, I thought of you right away and plan on giving you a spot. How is it? Sincere enough, right?”
“Quasi-Holy Son selection competition? Not interested!” Ye Yuan rolled his eyes and refused immediately.
Other martial artists longed to enter the holy land very much. But Ye Yuan did not need it.
Becoming a so-called Quasi-Holy Son was nothing more than getting the holy land’s high regard, then obtaining a certain amount of cultivation resources, such as cultivation methods, such as medicinal pills.
Yet, these things, the present Ye Yuan could resolve all of it himself. Likewise, he could also settle it himself in the future.
Because in the Divine Realm, the ones who lacked money the least were alchemists.
As long as Ye Yuan was willing, he could earn truckloads of earth essence crystals.
The establishment of the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion also proved this point. Just a short two to three month’s time, Ye Yuan’s current wealth already exceeded 10 million earth essence crystals. This to an ascender who had just ascended for merely several months was simply something unimaginable.
Yet, Ye Yuan accomplished it!
Carrying the title of ‘junior with the greatest hope of achieving Alchemy God’, if Ye Yuan could not even earn this bit of cultivation resources, that would also be too trashy.
“Heh, you still don’t know, right? The rewards for the Quasi-Holy Son selection competition this time are exceptionally generous. Not only will the first place obtain a high-grade profound artifact, but he can also even get the chance to enter the Crimson Afterglow Valley! The Crimson Afterglow Valley! My elder brother, as one of the Seven Holy Sons, didn’t even get the opportunity to enter the Crimson Afterglow Valley before!” Pei Wenqiang was actually quite agitated as he said.
The Crimson Afterglow Valley from Pei Wenqiang’s mouth, Ye Yuan had never heard of it before. He naturally did not know why he would b
e so agitated too.
Rather, Jun Tianyu was quite surprised as he said, “The Crimson Afterglow Valley is the place Holy Lord Crimson Afterglow Holy Monarch attained the Dao. It’s said that it opens once every three hundred years. Each time, only three people can go in! These three names have always been selected from the holy land’s holy sons. Why did they actually organize such a Quasi-Holy Son selection competition this time? This kind of thing has never happened before in the past.”
Even though Jun Tianyu did not enter the holy land, he was not foreign to the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land’s secrets.
Pei Wenqiang said, “Who cares! As long as I can charge into the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land, no matter how great a price you make me pay, I’d be willing too! Sadly, my age is too old and can’t take part in the competition this time at all.”
But Ye Yuan asked, “This Crimson Afterglow Valley, could it be that there is anything different?”
Jun Tianyu nodded his head and said, “It’s said that the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land was originally a Rank One Holy Land, ruling more half of the White Valiant Region! It’s just that no idea why, the Crimson Afterglow Holy Lords became more incompetent with each passing generation later on. Today, it actually became a Rank Nine Holy Land. But one thing is for sure, the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land’s rise and decline have a very close relationship with this Crimson Afterglow Valley. Because each generation’s Holy Lord came out from the Crimson Afterglow Valley. This point has never changed before. The holy land organizing the Quasi-Holy Son selection competition this time unprecedentedly is probably for the sake of breaking the curse too, hoping to find the emergence of a junior disciple who can attain the Dao in the Crimson Afterglow Valley.”
Chapter 770 - Quota
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Listening to Jun Tianyu’s words, Ye Yuan became somewhat interested in this Crimson Afterflow Valley.
In the Divine Realm, to be able to become a Rank One Holy Land, not one was not a major force with deep foundations.
But deep foundations did not represent strength perpetually not changing. In these countless years, each and every major force took turns alternating. Some of them, their strength became even stronger, while others’ strength declined.
Such as the Medicine King Hall, they were a super holy land which had just begun flourishing in these few thousand years recently.
It was just that the Medicine King Hall’s rise up was akin to a flash-in-the-pan, becoming the past very quickly.
The present Medicine King Hall was already not the Medicine King Hall in the hearts of many Divine Realm martial artists.
“Just what on earth is inside this Crimson Afterglow Valley?” Ye Yuan could not help asking curiously.
Jun Tianyu shook his head and said, “This, apart from those Holy Sons who entered the Crimson Afterglow Valley, probably no one knows! But everyone also has some conjectures. This Crimson Afterglow should be some kind of inheritances. It’s just that nobody knows what kind of inheritance it is. Ye Yuan, I feel that you can go in and give it a shot. With your talent, I feel that you should be able to obtain the Crimson Afterglow Valley’s inheritance!”
“Oh? Brother Jun feels that I should go and give it a shot too?” Ye Yuan said in amazement.
Jun Tianyu was aware of Ye Yuan’s true talent. Ordinary inheritances, he would really not attach any importance.
But even so, Jun Tianyu still proposed for him to go give it a shot. It could be seen that this inheritance definitely had extraordinary aspects.
Jun Tianyu nodded and said, “Legends has it that back then, the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land’s first generation Holy Lord had a great world-shaking battle with a Divine King powerhouse at that time because of some matter. At that time, the first generation Holy Lord was still a nobody, while that Divine King powerhouse’s strength was probably almost on par with the present Ten Great Divine Kings. The two people battled for ten days and nights, ultimately ending in a draw. But not long after that, the two people passed away because their injuries were too severe. It was also precisely because of this that the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land became more abysmal with each generation too. Their strength plummeted very quickly. Reaching this generation’s Holy Lord, they were finally reduced to a Rank Nine Holy Land.”
Ye Yuan only came to a realization after he heard that.
Before ascending to the Divine Realm back then, Qi Hai once said that he had already not received news from the Divine Realm for a long time.
Looks like starting from that time, the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land was already unable to fend for themselves and completely did not have the energy to go manage the Lower Realms’ matters.
But the first generation Crimson Afterglow Holy Lord was actually able to fight to a draw with a Ten Great Divine Kings level powerhouse. His strength absolutely did not allow underestimation.
“Looks like I really have to make a trip to this Crimson Afterglow Valley,” Ye Yuan said with an emotional sigh.
To the current Ye Yuan, increasing his strength was still placed as number one.
His present strength was still too weak and still worlds apart from Ji Canglan’s. To be able to obtain an inheritance comparable to the Ten Great Divine Kings, this kind of opportunity naturally could not be missed.
“Hey, brat! I only promised you a slot. Why are you treating it like this first place is already an item in your bag?” Pei Wenqiang was very displeased with Ye Yuan’s cocky attitude.
Ye Yuan said confidently, “If there is no Heaven Enlightenment Realm powerhouse taking part, then this first place, I’ve probably nailed it!”
Pei Wenqiang curled his mouth and said disbelievingly, “Although if you get first place, as the person who recommends you a quota, I definitely won’t miss out on benefits and will also have glorious honor. Your boasting is too big! That’s right, the competition this time indeed won’t have Heaven Enlightenment Realm taking part. The age is also restricted to under 40 years old. But you, a Divine Traversing Realm boy, said it like you’re going to sweep across Boundless Realms. It’s also too shameless.”
Ye Yuan smiled and did not explain anything. Rather, it was Jun Tianyu who laughed and said, “Ye Yuan isn’t bragging. He has this capital!”
Jun Tianyu’s words made Jun Tianyu and Zhao Qian both stunned.
Could it be that this boy still had uncommon attainments along the Martial Path?
But Pei Wenqiang did not believe this, and he said, “Boy, I know that you have some means and your capabilities aren’t small either. That’s why I took the risk of offending a major aristocratic family and gave a quota to you. It’s also considered your repayment for the ancient grotto. But in the end, you’re just an alchemist. To talk about overwhelming the junior generation in martial arts, I won’t believe even if you beat me to death either!”
If Ye Yuan was Boundless Realm right now, Pei Wenqiang might really believe it. After all, Ye Yuan’s means, he had experienced before.
Disregarding other things, just his attainments in the divine soul was plenty more than ordinary martial artists could bear.
But Ye Yuan was just Divine Traversing Realm now, while quite a few major aristocratic families and major sects’ disciples were all middle-stage Boundless Realm, even late-stage experts.
Among them, there was no lack of some genius martial artists with very formidable strength. To say that Ye Yuan had the strength to crush everybody, how could he possibly believe it?
Ye Yuan gave Pei Wenqiang a glance and said with a smile, “This favor, I accept it. City Lord Pei, after this time, the old scores between us are written off. Nobody owes the other. How’s that?”
Ye Yuan discovered that even though this Pei Wenqiang had somewhat of bad habits of a silkpants, having a manner as if he was number one under the heaven, when really got to know him, he was not that detestable either.
At least his promise in the ancient grotto, he really achieved it now.
Ye Yu
an knew that such quotas only had three. Each major aristocratic family would definitely snatch viciously over it. But Pei Wenqiang left one for him. This definitely had to offend people.
But in order to repay him, he did it without any qualms.
Though Pei Wenqiang had a powerful backer behind, governing such a large city, he could not really be as reckless as he wished for everything.
On the contrary, Pei Wenqiang was actually very clever and was very skillful in governing a city too. Otherwise, the moment Ying Tianya entered Clear Reed City back then, he would not possibly have known right away.
Pei Wenqiang nodded his head and said, “Alright, deal! But this quota, I helped you to get hold of it, but the things at the back, you can only do it yourself. Although you boasted to the high heavens, I still don’t really believe it. You have to do your best. Even if you lose, don’t lose too miserably too. Otherwise, my face will have no light!” 1
Pei Wenqiang was managing two cities right now, which was also to say that he actually had six quotas on his hands.
But Clear Reed City and Ancient Opulence City’ strength belonged to the lower-class standards among the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land’s subordinate forces.
Even if the two cities’ major aristocratic families snatched until their scalps bled to obtain the quotas, they probably could not walk very far in the end as well.
This point, Pei Wenqiang was perfectly aware.
Him saying this was only putting feathers on his own cap.
Ye Yuan said with a smile, “City Lord Pei rest assured, at that time, your face will radiate brilliant light in all directions!” 2
The few people were just chatting fervently when all of a sudden, there was a disturbance outside the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion’s front door.
“Ye Yuan, you scram outside for this young master! Your cowardly turtle, scared is it? If you have the guts, come out and fight one-on-one! Watch this young master beat you until you piss your pants! I want to let City Lord to have a look at just who is fit to go participate in the Quasi-Holy Son selection competition!” outside the door, a young man roared furiously.
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