by Feng Yise
Indeed, Lu-er's expression changed when she heard that.
It had also been some time since she came to the Tranquil Cloud Sect. She had a rough understanding of the Tranquil Cloud Sect's situation. This title of Pill Hall's Hall Head was absolutely a big shot in the Tranquil Cloud Sect, even if he was the future Pill Hall's Hall Head.
Lu-er did not dare to delay. She immediately went in to report.
When Ye Yuan heard that it was some future Pill Hall's Hall Head, his brows could not help knitting together. Did trouble come to find him so soon?
However, wasn't this scale a little large?
Everyone was at the elder level. Want him to go to the gate to receive him?
This name of future Hall Head might be useful to others, but it was useless to Ye Yuan. In Ye Yuan's eyes, those Pill Hall elders were all trash; let alone the fact that his identity was already not beneath his.
One had to know that Skymaple asked him to be the vice hall head at the start. The other party actually had no concept of importance.
"Lu-er, go tell him that this Young Master is currently busy cultivating. Time doesn't wait for me. I don't have time to go out and receive him," Ye Yuan said calmly after hearing that.
Lu-er was shocked as she said, "But, that Senior Apprentice Brother said that this elder's position is very high. Wouldn't this offend people?"
Ye Yuan rolled his eyes and said, "He originally came to find trouble. Even if I go out and welcome him, he will still find trouble. So what's the difference between whether I offend him or not?"
Lu-er asked curiously, "How does young master know that he came to find trouble?"
Ye Yuan chuckled and said, "Your young master knows everything. Hur hur, go on, just repeat it word for word."
Ye Yuan did not tell Lu-er about the matter of him becoming a nominal elder. To Ye Yuan, it was simply not noteworthy.
Lu-er would never defy Ye Yuan's words. Since Ye Yuan said so, he definitely had his reasons. Hence, she returned to the entrance and reported Ye Yuan's words to Li Ming.
When Li Ming heard the words, he nearly cried out. Even if he was giving excuses, there was no need to be so obvious, right?
Li Ming's eyes went wide as he stared at Lu-er and confirmed, "You really told your young master that it's Elder Shao Yun who came to find him?"
Lu-er felt a little guilty, but she still nodded and said, "Yes. I already told him. But my young master is really busy with cultivation."
Finishing, Lu-er slammed the door shut with a bang.
Li Ming stood there in a daze and did not recover for a long time. Isn't this Ye Yuan too conceited? To actually not even give face to a Pill Hall elder?
"Elder Shao Yun looked like he was finding trouble to begin with, but Ye Yuan is still showing this attitude. He's dead now. No one who opposed the Pill Hall elders had a good ending!" Li Ming thought to himself.
Carrying some discontentment, Li Ming returned back to Shao Yun and reported the encounter earlier. Of course, he even mixed some personal stuff inside.
Indeed, Shao Yun flew into a great rage when he heard that. He rushed over to the No. 72 courtyard furiously.
Bang, bang, bang!
"Ye Yuan! Come out for this Elder! I know that you are not cultivating!" Shao Yun shouted.
Nobody answered . . .
Shao Yun was so enraged that he was about to explode. His position in the sect was extremely high. Yet, he was actually declined entry when coming to find a Martial Hall core disciple!
Due to him shouting extremely loudly just now, it already attracted quite a number of disciples to crowd around.
If he could not even get the other party's door to open today, then it would be a tremendous disgrace!
Shao Yun's face was already as black as the bottom of a wok. He said solemnly, "I'll count to three. If you don't open the door, this elder will tear down your courtyard!"
"One . . ."
Shao Yun waited for several breaths of time. No response.
"Two . . ."
Still no response.
"This Ye Yuan is too ballsy! That's Elder Shao Yun! Others can't even wait to suck up to him, yet Ye Yuan actually dared to refuse him entry!"
"Heh heh, this is the prelude of being chased out! Elder Shao Yun is a powerful candidate for the next generation Pill Hall's Hall Head! Is there anyone who can stay in the sect after offending him?"
"Last time, I still thought that this boy was a genius when I saw Ye Yuan beat Ceng Yu. But looking at it now, this fellow is a hothead! He could have offended anyone, but why did he have to offend Elder Shao Yun?"
"About to reach the count of three. Do you guys think that Elder Shao Yun will drag Ye Yuan out and give him a beating?"
The surrounding disciples were discussing fervently. Such a rare show truly should not be missed!
Shao Yun had a dark face as he gnashed his teeth and yelled, "Three . . ."
Still no reaction!
Chapter 249 - A Jade Slip!
"Good! Very good! Really treating this elder as air? I want to see just how you be a turtle after I tear down your house!" Shao Yun gnashed his teeth in hatred and said.
Finishing, Shao Yun gathered up a colossal amount of essence energy, forcing the surrounding disciples back as if he was really going to wreck Ye Yuan's house.
Watching Shao Yun gather up such immense essence energy, the crowd could not help being dumbstruck. If this really smashed down, forget about the house, even Ye Yuan would become residue, right?
But right then, the door squeaked open.
The sound of the door opening was ear-piercing. Everyone could not help looking over in that direction.
They initially thought that they could see Ye Yuan's form scrambling over here, but they saw a little green pixie. It was precisely Lu-er.
Shao Yun only put away his skill after he saw the gate finally open. He sneered coldly in his heart.
"Humph! As expected, he belongs to the family of donkeys! He won't move unless he's hit!" Shao Yun snorted frostily.
Lu-er did not say anything. She just beckoned towards Shao Yun, signaling him to come over and talk. She looked very mysterious.
Shao Yun thought that Lu-er was asking him into the house to talk. Hence, he went forward a few steps and was about to enter the door.
He came to let Ye Yuan know what was called heaven beyond heaven, and human beyond human, not let a bunch of disciples watch a show.
If he let these disciples know that he came to find Ye Yuan to compete in alchemy, it would only lower his social status. Even if he won, it would not be honorable.
The Pill Hall's Fifth Seat winning a Martial Hall core disciple. Wasn't this him hitting his own face?
Grand Elder had already instructed not to reveal Ye Yuan's Pill Hall elder identity. Shao Yun naturally did not dare to poke the bull.
Except, when he entered the gate and was just about to walk inside, Lu-er extended her hand to stop him.
Shao Yun's face fell as he asked, "What's the meaning of this?"
Lu-er said in a soft voice, "Young Master says that he's busy with cultivation currently and doesn't have the time to spar in alchemy skills with others. Elder, please go back."
"I already came in. Making me go back? Ye Yuan, he . . ."
Lu-er interrupted his words and passed him a jade slip, saying, "Young Master said to pass this to you, and you'll leave on your own."
Shao Yun reached over to take the jade slip and snickered icily as he said, "Trying to dismiss me with one jade slip? Who does Ye Yuan think he is? A puny little Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm actually dare to be so arrogant and look down on others to such an extent!"
Lu-er said, "Why don't elder take a look at the jade slip first? Since Young Master said so, he naturally has some confidence."
"Haha, what a joke! Fine, I want to see just how Ye Yuan will use a jade slip to send me away!"
Shao Yun was a competitive soul. Lu-er slyly slipped in some goading, and this fel
low fell for it. In reality, Lu-er did not know what was inside the jade slip either. It was just that Young Master said so. He obviously would not fight a battle he had no confidence in.
Of course, the more important thing was that Shao Yun simply did not believe that Ye Yuan could send him along his way using a jade slip.
Shao Yun guessed that there should be a pill formula inside the jade slip. Ye Yuan should be thinking of using a pill formula to bribe him.
He took this too lightly!
Think it's impressive that you can memorize a few pill formulas? Knowing how to recite pill formulas doesn't equate knowing alchemy skills!
Even if Ye Yuan had an incredible master who taught him countless types of pill formulas, he was only a low-rank Alchemy Master!
Today, Shao Yun came to let Ye Yuan know that he was merely an Alchemy Master!
Shao Yun sunk his divine sense into the jade slip. The expression on his face involuntarily froze. He immediately frowned, then became dazed. Following that, his eyes lit up, and finally, it was a mesmerized face.
Lu-er kept staring at Shao Yun. Observing how the look on his face changed so richly, on top of curiosity, she felt that Young Master was really too amazing!
At first, when she heard Young Master say that this elder wanted to find him to spar in alchemy skills, Lu-er was shocked for a long time.
In Lu-er's understanding, a Quasi-Alchemy King was an extremely powerful existence, even more amazing than Old Master! Such a figure actually came to compete with Young Master in alchemy skills!
However, shock was shock. She still chose to believe in Young Master.
This sort of baseless trust, even she herself did not know why. Anyway, she just believed that Young Master was the strongest. Even a Quasi-Alchemy King could not beat him.
Of course, her understanding was one thing. Whether or not this jade slip could let a Quasi-Alchemy King scram was another matter.
When she passed the jade slip to Shao Yun, Lu-er was still having doubts in her heart. But looking at that expression changing like a conjuring show on Shao Yun's face, Lu-er knew that this elder would not want to enter.
Indeed, Young Master was the strongest!
. . . . . .
Under everyone's astonished eyes, Shao Yun left.
When he arrived, his aura was tumultuous, and he nearly tore the house down.
But not five minutes passed after he entered the house when Elder Shao Yun walked out of the courtyard with a besotted look like he had acquired some treasure.
"What's with Elder Shao Yun? His stance earlier, no matter how you looked at it, it looked like he went to find trouble, right? Why is it like this now?"
"Who do I ask if you ask me? It hasn't been five minutes since he entered the courtyard. Even having a conservation wouldn't be so quick, right?"
"Eh, do you feel that this newcomer Ye Yuan is full of mystery like he is unfathomable?"
"Speaking of which, it really seems to be a slightly so! Did you notice that Senior Apprentice Brother Ceng Cheng has already returned for a very long time, but still has not come to find trouble with Ye Yuan?"
"Hehe, I heard about that. The two of them really met before. But after Senior Apprentice Brother Ceng Cheng took a look at Ye Yuan's identity token, he immediately stood there mindlessly and did not even know that Ye Yuan left! Furthermore, did you know that the last time Ye Yuan went to the support star pavilion, he accepted a level nine mission?!"
"No way? So exaggerated? Then did he complete it?"
"Don't know. Shouldn't be complete I think? No matter how heaven-defying he, a Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, is, it's also impossible to finish a level nine mission, right?"
"Uh, that's true."
After Ye Yuan entered the sect, he stayed in his dwelling and had little outside contact. He only did a few things. But these few things made him appear mysterious in the disciples' eyes.
And after Shao Yun got that jade slip, he directly returned to his own refinement room without even informing other people.
The group of elders was still waiting for his news, but it was like he evaporated into thin air.
The elders only sent someone to inquire in the Earth Barracks after not getting Shao Yun's news for a long time.
They only knew that Shao Yun already went there with this inquiry. But he arrived hastily and left swiftly too.
They only knew that Shao Yun returned to his own residence after they continued investigating.
But the elders only knew that Shao Yun directly entered a retreat and was not meeting anyone after the elders went to his place to ask!
After going one big circle only to get such news, it really angered everyone until they were tender on the inside with a burnt exterior.
This old punk is too irresponsible! Notify us if you're entering seclusion!
You made everyone wait for your news!
However, while they were dissatisfied, everyone was even more doubtful now. Even if Ye Yuan's level was really extremely high, he could not have made Shao Yun return in defeat after five minutes, right?
Just what did Shao Yun experience at Ye Yuan's residence?
Chapter 250 - One After Another!
At the Pill Hall.
Many elders were gathered together, discussing Shao Yun's sudden seclusion.
"You guys tell me; what did Shao Yun encounter at Ye Yuan's place? Why do I feel that this is more and more abnormal?"
"Logically speaking, the greatest possibility for Shao Yun's closed-seclusion is that he was defeated and felt that he lost face, so he was embarrassed to come and see us. That's why he chose to enter seclusion. But the problem is Shao Yun did not even spend five minutes at Ye Yuan's residence. It's not even enough for them to have a conversation!"
"Yeah. Five minutes isn't even enough to explain a pill formula clearly. What can they do? This isn't competing in martial arts either. Can Ye Yuan even one-shot defeat him?"
"Elder Xin, you're our big brother. You've got to step up for this matter! Can it be that we, such a large bunch of elders, really have to be defeated by Ye Yuan?"
Once these words were said, the group of elders looked towards the elderly person sitting at the main seat with his eyes shut to rest his mind. He was the Pill Hall's Third Seat, the number one person beneath Ouyang Yu and the vice hall head, Xin Yuanshu!
Xin Yuanshu was the elder with the highest seniority and the highest realm. He naturally became everyone's pillar at this time.
Likewise a high-rank Quasi-Alchemy King, but Xin Yuanshu's strength was much more powerful than Shao Yun's. He had already advanced to high-rank Quasi-Alchemy King for decades. Although he was still not quite at Ouyang Yu's level, he was not far off.
About Ye Yuan, an Alchemy Master becoming a Pill Hall nominal elder, Xin Yuanshu obviously had quite a few veiled criticisms. Or else he would not have appeared here today.
It was just that he had always been respectful towards Grand Elder, so he did not voice out the entire time.
Xin Yuanshu naturally looked forward to Shao Yun challenging Ye Yuan. But did not imagine that he would actually lose.
This way, he was naturally pushed out by everyone.
Looking at the elders crowding over, Xin Yuanshu's eyes snapped open. Sweeping a glance across everyone, he sighed and said, "Fine then. This old man will take a trip down and have a crack at this Ye Yuan."
Xin Yuanshu was already old. Even if he was displeased in his heart, he was unwilling to do this sort of seeking to prevail over others.
While Shao Yun's strength was not on par with him, this fifth seat was absolutely not an undeserved reputation. Originally, he thought that he could capture the enemy easily, but did not think that such a thing would happen.
Such a strange situation, it was naturally the safest to invite the hall head to come forward. But this way, there would be no room left to maneuver.
Xin Yuanshu has lived in the Pill Hall all his life and had very deep emotions towards the Pi
ll Hall. Now that this matter involved the Pill Hall's honor, he had no other option but to throw his old face away.
A 200 plus-year-old man facing a 15-year-old youth. Even if he won, it would be winning unscrupulously.
If he lost, then his reputation would truly be lost.
If this were before, Xin Yuanshu would never really think of the word 'lost.' But with Shao Yun's incident as the herald, he did not have too much assurance currently.
Just as everyone said, this Ye Yuan was very peculiar.
The elders were initially worried that Elder Xin would be unwilling to stand up. Now that they saw him agree, they were naturally beside themselves with joy.
. . . . . .
Xin Yuanshu was not as arrogant as Shao Yun. When he arrived at the Earth Barracks, he directly knocked on the No. 72 door.
After Shao Yun's service, Ye Yuan's residence was already familiarized by the Pill Hall elders.
Before this, these elders truly would not be able to remember what number residence a core disciple was staying in.
The one who opened the door was still Lu-er. She only peeked her small head out and did not have any intention of letting Xin Yuanshu enter.
Xin Yuanshu was just about to speak when Lu-er took the initiative. "May I ask for this elder's name?"
Xin Yuanshu was dumbfounded, but he still reported his name. "This old man is Xin Yuanshu, the Pill Hall's Third Seat. I'm . . ."
Bang!
Lu-er shut the door before Xin Yuanshu even finished talking.
Xin Yuanshu was stunned at first before boundless humiliation and anger from embarrassment followed tightly!
Indeed, like master, like servant!
The master is so insensible, and the maidservant is the same!
Who treats guests this way?
Even if you, Ye Yuan, are really a Pill Hall elder, I, Xin Yuanshu, am also your senior, right?
Xin Yuanshu was just about to blow his top when the door squeaked open again.
This time, Lu-er poked out a small head plus an arm.
"Elder Xin is it? This jade slip is for you. Young Master says that you'll leave on your own after reading it." Lu-er was afraid that Xin Yuanshu would not read it, so she added on, "Uh . . . that Elder Shao Yun previously also left after reading the jade slip."