Regarding the Holy City knowing about his arrival, Ye Yuan was not surprised.
The Holy City was the Divine Realm’s central. It was incomparably well-informed. Ye Yuan did not deliberately conceal his whereabouts either. With their strength, grasping his whereabouts was beyond easy.
When this Hou Yu said that he was a disciple of the Purple-Gold Hall, a trace of pride flickered across his eyes.
The Purple-Gold Hall was the hall where the Holy City’s most elite disciples were at. Inside were virtually divine king powerhouses. To be able to rank fifth, his strength was rather out of the ordinary.
Ye Yuan looked at Hou Yu and said with a smile that was not a smile, “What haughty airs Cloudsky old punk has! This young master arrived, and he actually doesn’t receive personally!”
Chapter 1082 - Golden Cloud Sky Stairs
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The moment these words came out, the countenance of Hou Yu and the group of disciples behind him suddenly changed.
This guy proclaimed to be Qingyun Zi before their eyes. His age was much younger than them. But he behaved like a senior when saying these words.
Who was Cloudsky?
Cloudsky was one of the three titans of Holy City. His status in the Holy City was second only to the Heaven Stabilizing Divine King.
Such a character personally appointing a disciple to come out and welcome, could it be that it was still not grand enough?
This fellow in front of them was also a little too insolent, right?
“H-Haha, Lord Cloudsky is too busy and truly can’t find time to come and receive Your Excellency. I hope that Your Excellency doesn’t take offense. Your Excellency, enter the city first. When Lord Cloudsky is done with work, he’ll definitely come and pay a courtesy call to Lord Qingyun Zi,” Huo Yu said with an obsequious smile.
Ye Yuan gave him a glance and said with a cold smile, “Heh, this Cloudsky old punk, isn’t it seeing that this young master is no longer the man I was, having a high opinion of his identity, that’s why he dispatched you all to come forward? Forget it, coming this time is for important matters on hand. I won’t stoop to the level of you all, these juniors.”
Hou Yu had an appearance as if a heavy burden was lifted off. He extended his hand to lead the way as he said, “Lord Qingyun Zi, please!”
The place Hou Yu pointed at was a mass of golden-colored cloud. Under the shine of the sunlight, it appeared glistening.
Ye Yuan was slightly surprised as he said, “Yo, Golden Cloud Sky Stairs. Cloudsky old punk is still giving a lot of face, huh?”
Hou Yu said smilingly, “What’s Lord Qingyun Zi saying? Your Excellency is the Divine Realm’s pinnacle-most alchemist. With your status, naturally, there’s only the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs that’s fitting.”
But Ao Qian’s expression changed, and he looked at Hou Yu viciously as he said, “What do you mean, brat?”
But Hou Yu said calmly, “This senior, I don’t understand your words. The Golden Cloud Sky Stairs is the Holy City’s highest treatment of receiving distinguished guests. One step, three thousand stairs, what do you think I mean?”
“You!” Ao Qian was tongue-tied for a moment and could not help looking at Ye Yuan as he said, “Milord, we’d best go up from the ordinary Cloud Sky Stairs!”
Ao Qian, this kind of old monster, naturally came to the Holy City before.
Flying was prohibited within 10 thousand miles of the Holy City. If someone attempted to fly into the Holy City, they would be decimated by the divine rank grand array.
The only way to enter the Holy City was this Cloud Sky Stairs.
Under the Holy City, there were masses of clouds. The shade of colors varied.
As long as one stepped onto the clouds, a cloud and mist staircase would naturally form step by step. It was called Cloud Sky Stairs!
The color of the Cloud Sky Stairs went from light to dark. It was divided into a total of nine ranks, corresponding to martial artists’ nine ranks, respectively.
Rank-one Cloud Sky Stairs, one step one stair. Reaching the Holy City from the bottom required a full one year’s time.
While the rank-nine Cloud Sky Stairs, one step, three hundred stairs. Ascending to the Holy City required a day’s time.
While above rank-nine, there was an even higher level staircase still, named Golden Cloud Sky Stairs.
The Golden Cloud Sky Stairs, one step, three thousand stairs. One only needed several hours to be able to reach the Holy City.
This Golden Cloud Sky Stairs assumed a golden-color, looking extremely deluxe. It was indeed what the Holy City used to welcome distinguished guests.
But, this Golden Cloud Sky Stairs, even ordinary Void Mystic powerhouses might not be able to ascend it safely either.
When Ao Qian saw Hou Yu’s very cautious manner, he even thought that Hou Yu was really apprehensive of Ye Yuan’s identity. He did not expect that Hou Yu was scheming something!
He was also perplexed earlier. His Excellency normally treated people very modestly. Why did he have a high and mighty attitude toward this brat in front of him?
One had to know that him calling Cloudsky old punk, was placing him and Cloudsky on the capacity of the same generation.
These few were merely the Purple-Gold Hall’s disciples. They immediately became a generation lower compared to Ye Yuan.
Only then did Ao Qian come to a realization why Ye Yuan had a very cocky appearance just now. Turns out that he had long seen through this Hou Yu’s little thoughts and deliberately postured for him to see!
Hearing Ao Qian’s words, Hou Yu feigned surprise and said, “How can this do? Lord Qingyun Zi is the Divine Realm’s pinnacle-most alchemist, a person of the same generation as Lord Fengtian. How can he go up from the ordinary Cloud Sky Stairs? This way is also too deigning, right?”
Ao Qian’s face turned black, and he berated, “Brat, shut your mouth for this old man! Do you believe this old man will tear your mouth or not?”
But Hou Yu did not care about him at all and pretended to have a sudden realization again as he said, “Ah! I know, could it be that Lord Qingyun Zi reincarnating, he can’t even mount this Golden Cloud Sky Stairs now? Lord Qingyun Zi, this … Hou Yu had good intentions. I didn’t think that Your Excellency actually can’t go up! Sorry, truly sorry!”
“Hahaha!”
His words being uttered, the group of disciples behind him all roared with laughter.
Hou Yu apologized verbally but was delighted in his heart.
Ask you to posture! Ask you to offend Eldest Senior Brother!
Isn’t it just a lousy alchemist? Only climbed on top of Eldest Senior Brother’s head by taking advantage of trickery. Really think that you’re some important character?
Reaching the Holy City, even a dragon had to coil for Your Father!
Ao Qian was just about to fly off the handle when Ye Yuan used a hand gesture to stop him from speaking. He looked at Hou Yu and said smilingly, “Guo Xu made you do it, right? Already been so many years, that fellow is still so small-minded. How will he take on big responsibilities in the future?”
The Guo Xu out of Ye Yuan’s mouth was precisely Hou Yu’s Eldest Senior Brother, the Purple-Gold Hall’s head disciple.
This Guo Xu was the same as Ye Yuan and Jian Wushuang, genius martial artists that grew up in the same generation.
But Guo Xu’s growing speed was similarly far from comparable to Ye Yuan.
When Ye Yuan became a peak Alchemy Emperor, Guo Xu was still just a peak Divine King and had not stepped into the realm of Void Mystic.
Originally, the two were of the same generation. But with Ye Yuan’s breakthrough, Guo Xu became a junior all of a sudden. How could this not make him depressed?
Back then, Guo Xu was known as the Divine Realm’s number one genius, with hopes of inheriting the Heaven Stabilizing Divine King’s mantle.
But he was crushed by Ye Yuan until he was black and blue all over.
> Even though the two people never had a frontal-clash before, every time Guo Xu saw Ye Yuan, that thick enmity could not be concealed no matter what.
Living in the same era as Ye Yuan, regardless of what kind of a genius, it was all a tragedy.
Jian Wushuang was like that, Guo Xu was similarly like so.
Huo Yu was choked badly by Ye Yuan’s words. But he forcefully pressed it down in the end and switched to a smiling face as he said, “What’s Lord Qingyun Zi saying? Hou Yu doesn’t understand! Hou Yu has good intentions. What has it got to do with Eldest Senior Brother? Sigh, it was Hou Yu who was rash. If Your Excellency can’t ascend the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs, then change to an ordinary one then.”
Hou Yu was certain that Ye Yuan could not ascend the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs. Hence, that was why he kept on using words to squeeze Ye Yuan ceaselessly.
This trip here for him was indeed sent by Cloudsky. But before coming, Guo Xu greeted him and told him to make things tough for Ye Yuan.
His current thoughts were very simple, that was to give Ye Yuan some trouble. Either way, he could not ascend the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs.
Even Eldest Senior Brother, this Void Mystic powerhouse, could not ascend the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs, let alone Ye Yuan, this Third Level Dao Profound.
He deliberately raised Ye Yuan’s status high in order to extol him to death.
It was just that he did not think that Ye Yuan’s present bit of strength, he actually dared to climb up along the shaft too. But he had also repulsed enough for him to choke on.
Ye Yuan chuckled and said, “Forget it, forget it. Since Guo Xu is so cordial, wouldn’t it brush off his good intentions if I don’t mount this Golden Cloud Sky Stairs?”
Chapter 1083 - Child’s Play
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Ye Yuan lightly leaped and stepped right onto the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs.
Seeing this scene, Hou Yu’s face revealed a look of derision.
The Cloud Sky Stairs was this divine rank grand array’s subsidiary, containing extremely profound powers of law. If one’s cultivation realm fell short, there was no way to stand firmly on top at all.
Ye Yuan’s cultivation realm was simply inadequate to stand on it.
Cultivation realm not match, the grand array would immediately eject Ye Yuan out, even get injured by powers of law.
This move of Hou Yu’s was in order to make a fool of Ye Yuan. If he could let him suffer a big loss, that would be for the best.
Sure enough, the moment Ye Yuan stood on it, the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs spilled over with light and was about to throw Ye Yuan off.
Beneath Ye Yuan’s foot quaked unceasingly, making his entire body start swaying, looking as if he was going to be thrown off.
“Hahaha! This is our Lord Qingyun Zi! You’re a major power of the Divine Realm! To actually not even be able to stand on the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs!” Hou Yu laughed loudly and said.
“Haha, what’s wrong, Lord Qingyun Zi? The Golden Cloud Sky Stairs, one step three thousand stairs, you haven’t taken this step yet!”
“Hold steady, quickly hold it there steady! Being flung off the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs isn’t that pleasant.”
“Is this really that Lord Qingyun Zi hailed as closest to the Alchemy God Realm? Wouldn’t be a fake one, right? Hahaha!”
For a moment, mocking laughter sounded out everywhere. The group of Purple-Gold Hall disciples laughed themselves into convulsions, all mocking Ye Yuan non-stop.
Ao Qian and the rest all had black faces. This bunch of fellows was clearly long prepared to watch a spectacle!
If not out of fear of delaying the important matters, they wished that they could teach these guys a good lesson.
But on the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs, Ye Yuan was not panicky. A faint surge of power of laws slowly spilled over from his body, converging into the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs.
Very soon, his body no longer swayed. The Golden Cloud Sky Stairs also stabilized.
This surge of power of laws was precisely those divine inscriptions’ Divine Dao laws!
The eyeballs of those Purple-Gold Hall disciples all popped out. The original mocking laughter abruptly ceased.
What kind of situation was this?
Why was a Third Level Dai Profound martial artist able to stabilize himself on the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs?
This … This was something that had never happened before!
This face-slapping was simply resounding.
A lot of their faces were still carrying that strange smile earlier, currently frozen on their faces. But now, they could not smile no matter what.
Ye Yuan turned around and gave Hou Yu a pitiful glance as he said with a smile, “I was only teasing you just now. You expended such a great effort; if I didn’t let you be happy for a bit, it would seriously let you down.”
Done talking, Ye Yuan took a step out and immediately appeared above three thousand steps!
Jiang Taicang also froze there. Seeing Ye Yuan disappear before his eyes, he let out a guffaw and said, “You see it? You bunch of dumbasses take a good look! This is disparity! You guys think that Qingyun Zi, these three words, is casually shouted?”
Ao Qian was also akin to being relieved of a heavy burden and said with a cold snort, “A bunch of things who overestimate their own abilities! Really unbelievably foolish!”
…
“Eldest Senior Brother, Qingyun Zi reincarnating, he’s merely an initial-stage Dao Profound minor character now. Lord Cloudsky actually made you come and receive personally. We really feel not worth it for you!”
“Yeah, Eldest Senior Brother. Why don’t you go back? This sort of minor character, we’ll do the waiting. You’re a Void Mystic powerhouse now. How can you humble yourself and bend your knee to welcome a puny little initial-stage Dao Profound martial artist?”
“For him to want to come up from the rank-nine Cloud Sky Stairs, it still needs a day’s time! But I’m looking very forward to his badly battered appearance when he comes up, hahaha!”
Outside the Holy City’s gates, several young men were gathered together. The one at the front was actually a Void Mystic powerhouse. Who could it be if not Guo Xu?
Toward the group of junior apprentice brothers’ flattery, Guo Xu quite enjoyed it.
Except, he had a reason that he must be here as well. He very much wished to personally take a look at what kind of state the Qingyun Zi, who commanded the wind and clouds back then ended up in.
Especially the appearance of tumbling until his nose was bloody and his face swollen.
Guo Xu felt very thrilled in his heart even thinking about it.
Of course, he would not utter this sort of words in front of a group of junior apprentice brothers.
“Talking rubbish! How can Lord Cloudsky’s orders be brushed over? Although I broke through to the realm of Void Mystic, I’m just the Purple-Gold Hall’s head disciple in the end,” Guo Xu reproached.
Although it was a reprimand, not a hint of reprove could be heard in his words.
Right at this time, a silhouette burst right through the clouds and appeared in everyone’s line of sight.
“It’s the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs!” somebody exclaimed in shock.
There was no need for him to say this, because Guo Xu already discerned that it was the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs.
Moreover, that unfamiliar young man on the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs was precisely Third Level Dao Profound. Who could it be if not Ye Yuan?
Gui Xu looked at Ye Yuan absentmindedly with a look of disbelief.
How could Third Level Dao Profound possibly come up from the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs?
Ye Yuan leaped, jumping down from the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs, and arrived before Guo Xu, and said with a smile, “Long time no see, Guo Xu.”
Guo Xu said in a daze, “You … You’re really Qingyun Zi? But how did you come up from the Golden Cloud Sky Stairs?”
Ye Yuan reached his hand out
and patted on his shoulders twice, and slowly walked into the city as he said without even turning his head back, “So many years of not seeing, you’re still such a good-for-nothing! You’re at any rate a Void Mystic powerhouse now too, still playing this sort of child’s play tricks. Don’t you find it disgraceful?”
The moment Guo Xu heard, his lungs wanted to explode from fury.
This guy still postured just like in the past, to actually use the tone of a senior to reprimand me!
You’re merely a Third Level Dao Profound right now. To actually dare talk this way to a Void Mystic powerhouse. You really don’t know how the word death was written!
“Ji Qingyun, stop right there for me!” Guo Xu looked at Ye Yuan’s back view and shouted coldly.
Ye Yuan seemingly did not hear it and paid no heed to all as he walked into the city.
Guo Xu’s expression sunk, and he said, “If you’re looking for a bashing yourself, then you can’t blame me!”
Finished saying, he immediately reached his hand out to grab at Ye Yuan.
This grab, Guo Xu intentionally wanted to embarrass Ye Yuan, mustering up essence energy fully.
As long as he grabbed hold of Ye Yuan’s shoulder, it could absolutely make him hurt until he knelt down.
The power of a Void Mystic powerhouse’s grab could be imagined!
The group of junior apprentice disciples only saw a blur before their eyes, and Guo Xu vanished before them.
While at this time, Ye Yuan seemed to be oblivious and still walked forward neither too fast nor too slowly.
With a whistle, a strong wind already arrived!
Guo Xu’s grab directly aimed at Ye Yuan’s shoulder.
However, just as his hand was about to touch Ye Yuan, he only felt a blur before his eyes. His body actually passed right through Ye Yuan’s body.
Guo Xu abruptly turned his head back and discovered that Ye Yuan was still standing there perfectly well. It was as if he never moved before at all.
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