by Feng Yise
But a series of lamenting still sounded out in the crowd. They were clearly all very regretful.
At this time, a person suddenly shouted in a clear voice, "Master Ye, Yan Mu is willing to wait upon you carefully. Even if it's just to be a little medicine boy. Master Ye, please grant my wish!"
Looking carefully, it was precisely that Alchemy King who was the first to pose a question to Ye Yuan on the first day.
This Yan Mu was a peak Alchemy King expert. Among so many alchemists here, he was an extremely daunting existence too. He actually requested to be a little medicine boy for Ye Yuan. It was truly rather ludicrous.
Yet, not a single one out of the 100 thousand alchemists present felt that it was unexpected as if it was something so natural.
But Yan Mu's actions also reminded everyone. For a time, many people followed him to do so.
"Master Ye, I'm willing to slave for you as well!"
"My skin is solid and thick and can take lugging. Master Ye, please take me in!"
"I'm willing to be a bed-warmer little maid for Master Ye! Master Ye, please take me in!" shouted a female alchemist shrilly.
This woman already reached middle-age but had some good looks.
Except that her saying this incurred a bout of loud laughter.
"Hahaha! Old Hag Ding, you're too old to even be Master Ye's grandmother. To actually still want to be his bed-warming maid!"
"Even if this old lady is any older, I'm a woman too! Moreover, I'm a woman who ages pretty well! Master Ye is full of vigor and vitality and is clearly still a v.i.r.g.i.n boy. He just needs a maid like me to warm his bed! How can those little girls wait upon him be better than me?"
This old lady Ding had no qualms and restrictions at all, daring to say anything.
Ye Yuan also sweat profusely in his heart when he heard it. Finding such a bed-warming lass, he could not endure it.
Ye Yuan waved his hand and said, "Everybody's good intentions, this Ye appreciates it. But this Ye is not used to being served by people. This matter of a medicine boy, better forget about it. Now that a formidable enemy lies ahead, it's precisely the time for everyone to render your services. This Ye hosted a forum to give sermons in order to raise everybody's strength. If everyone has the heart, you can join the City Lord Manor and offer help for the Endless Alliance. Since everybody regards this Ye highly, this Ye can promise everybody that each time this Ye returns to Wu Fang City next time, I'll host a forum and give a lecture once. As for the time gap, this Ye dare not guarantee."
Hearing Ye Yuan's words, these alchemists could not help feeling disappointed.
But many people also secretly made up their minds to definitely join the City Lord Manor tomorrow. At least this way, they could be a little closer to Master Ye. Perhaps there might be the opportunity to consult Master Ye on problems.
Ye Yuan's requirement towards accepting disciples was extremely high. Although there were some among these people whose talents were not bad, it was still too far away from Ye Yuan's requirement.
Wanting to become Ye Yuan's disciple, one at the b.a.r.e minimum had to reach Xiao Ruyan's and Ren Dong's level.
With these people's talent, they were clearly not just a level inferior.
Among these people, just the Alchemy King experts were a large bunch. But the accomplishments of the vast majority among them would halt here.
Such strength, how could Ye Yuan possibly expend painstaking effort on them?
But Ye Yuan not needing them did not mean that the City Lord Manor did not require them.
His old man was now the City Lord Manor's Young Lord. He was bound to inherit Wu Fang City in the future. Ye Yuan naturally have to gather some forces for Ye Hang.
One could only imagine that the City Lord Manor's door's bottom frame would be trampled broken tomorrow.
In the past, the Cao Family could use the Thousand Query Wall to gather alchemists. Now, Ye Yuan's status actually already surpassed the status of the Thousand Query Wall.
After all, no matter how strong the Thousand Query Wall was, it had no way of letting 100 thousand people's strength increase either. But Ye Yuan accomplished this.
After these alchemists listened to five days of his lectures, their strength more or less had some improvement.
One individual's strength increase might not have much use. But 100 thousand alchemists' strength all increasing, this was a very terrifying force.
In the crowd, Cao Zheng gave a melancholic sigh. He said, "With this boy around, there is no longer the chance for my Cao Family to rise up within a thousand years! After this, Wu Fang City will be monopolized by the Ren Family! But offering the Thousand Query Wall to the Ren Family was the most correct thing that this old man did! This boy's alchemy strength is too terrifying. He definitely had some staggering fortuitous encounter!"
"Father, after today, I plan to enter closed-seclusion for a period of time. My gains these few days have been considerable. Ye Yuan's lectures opened up a brand new Alchemy Path for me. After the seclusion this time, I'll definitely have breakthroughs!" Cao Kun said.
Cao Zheng's eyes lit up, and he said, "Good, good! Kun-er, whether or not my Cao Family can persist, will be up to you! As long as you can break through to become a peak Alchemy Sovereign, you can definitely protect my Cao Family's legacy for a thousand years! Of course, the prerequisite is not to have conflicts with the City Lord Manor, understood?"
Cao Kun nodded and said, "Father, rest assured. Your child has engraved the matter in his heart. For as long as your child lives, I absolutely won't have any hint of conflict with the Ren Family! Furthermore, I have a feeling that Ye Yuan insisting on rejecting the position of Young Lord, his father Ye Hang's, future accomplishments definitely won't be beneath mine!"
"En? You have this feeling too? This boy seems to be impulsive when doing things. Actually, in the end, you'll discover that everything is within his grasp! That Ye Hang's age is still much younger than yours. His potential isn't exhausted yet. How his future accomplishments will be is really hard to say!" Cao Zheng said with a grim expression.
. . . . . .
Ye Yuan stirred up a storm in the entire Wu Fang City these few days. The astonished ones were not just those alchemists. The shock in Ren Xingchun's heart was not the slightest bit lesser than the others.
He thought over and over again and still decided to come and find Ye Hang to inquire about Ye Yuan's affairs.
"Honorable Son-in-Law, did Ye Yuan he . . . have some lucky encounter before?"
After talking aimlessly for a long time, Ren Xingchun finally turned the topic to Ye Yuan.
But his form of address towards Ye Hang had already unknowingly changed into 'Honorable Son-in-Law.'
Ye Hang was a clever man too. He obviously knew that his position today was all given to him by Ye Yuan.
But there was no logic of a father being jealous of his son in this world. His son being promising, he was more than happy.
As for Ren Xingchun's change in attitude, Ye Hang was naturally happy to see it.
Wasn't the reason why he came back to Wu Fang City for the sake of this situation today? It was just that Ye Hang never expected that the one who helped him to fulfill his wish was not himself but his son.
However, Ye Hang secretly resolved his heart too, to definitely cultivate well from now on. He must break through to the Alchemy Sovereign Realm within ten years.
Otherwise, he would become Wu Fang City's biggest joke.
"Lord Father-in-Law, Ye Yuan he told me before that he once obtained a pinnacle major power's legacy in his dream before! I originally thought that he just obtained the Northern Domain's, a certain major power like Father-in-law's inheritance. I even suspected for a period of time that it was Lord Father-in-law yourself. But looking at it now, it's probably not that simple," Ye Hang said.
Ren Xingchun's eyes glimmered, and he said solemnly, "Looks like Ye Yuan's fortuitous encounter already surpassed the Endless World this small world!"
"Lord Father-in-Law's meaning is . . . the Divine Realm?"
Even though Ye Hang already had surmises it long ago, it still felt immensely heavy to say out these two words.
His own son actually obtained the inheritance of a Divine Realm major power. This lucky encounter was sufficiently heaven-defying!
However, thinking about his son rising up from the tiny little State of Qin, probably only such an explanation made sense too.
Ren Xingchun nodded his head and said with a solemn expression, "In my view, that powerhouse who taught in the dream is likely an extremely formidable existence in the Divine Realm too! Ye Yuan's alchemy level is not just as simple as surpassing Alchemy Sovereign!"
Ye Hang was slightly apprehensive in his heart. How powerful was extremely formidable, he really could not gauge.
In Ye Hang's view, Ren Xingchun was already powerful until it made people feel suffocated. How powerful did that Divine Realm major power's strength have to be?
The interactions between small worlds and the Divine Realm was too little. The Lower Realms simply had no way to obtain the Divine Realm's news.
The more this was so, the more the Lower Realm martial artists felt that the Divine Realm was incomparably mysterious.
But it was indisputable that the strength of those Divine Realm major powers was totally not what they could imagine.
"About Old Hai's evaluation of Ye Yuan being so high, it is most likely he's eyeing that major power behind Ye Yuan too. Otherwise, with his boundary, even if Ye Yuan was any more talented, it's also impossible to address him as brothers."
Ren Xingchun was no fool. After knowing Ye Yuan's details, he was not far off from Qi Hai's thinking as well.
Ye Hang was not concerned about these though. As long as Ye Yuan could be safe and sound, he would be satisfied.
Of course, his son becoming a Divine Realm major power's successor, Ye Hang was naturally very proud.
His son was so outstanding. Ye Hang as a father naturally could not lose face for his son either. At the very least, he had to stand at the pinnacle of this Endless World!
And now, Ye Hang finally knew how heaven-defying the two cultivation methods Ye Yuan imparted him was.
That was absolutely the Divine Realm's powerful cultivation methods. If he still could not reach the pinnacle with a treasure mountain, then that would be too useless.
"This matter, the lesser people know, the better. Or else, I'm afraid there will be people with ill-intent towards him. But I reckon that those few old fellows from the Three Sects more or less have some conjectures. It's just that they don't dare to confirm it. Tomorrow, I'll personally bring Ye Yuan to Vast Heaven Mystic Realm. The City Lord Manor's affairs will be passed to Yujie and you," Ren Xingchun said.
Ye Hang nodded his head and said, "Lord Father-in-Law, rest assured. Ye Hang knows what to do."
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The next day early morning, Ye Yuan bid farewell to his parents and headed for the Vast Heaven Mystic Realm with Ren Xingchun.
In the past, this Vast Heaven Mystic Realm was monopolized by the Three Sects. Even Wu Fang City did not dare to stick their fingers in.
But this time, the Vast Heaven Mystic Realm was opened up to everybody. It let those martial artists who originally did not see hope have the chance to advance shoulder to shoulder with the geniuses.
And this time, Wu Fang City's young talents, including Ren Dong and Cao Fang, had the qualifications to join in too.
The Vast Heaven Mystic Realm was at a place adjacent to the Three Sect's forces. There was still a considerable distance away from Wu Fang City.
But Ren Xingchun rode on a profound artifact ranking spirit boat and only used three days to reach.
The Vast Heaven Mystic Realm had long already become an item kept in the Three Sects' bags. Hence, there was completely no danger in here.
By the time Ye Yuan's party arrived, there were already several hundred people waiting in the mystic realm.
Each time Vast Heaven Pagoda opened, there were merely 300 slots.
Actually, each time it opened, the slots of the Three Sects were all not used up. Only this time, did the Three Sects fill the slots to the brim, which was also 300 people.
This time, the Three Sects opened up the Vast Heaven Pagoda. Many of the itinerant cultivators who fulfilled the conditions naturally did not wish to miss it either. The Three Sects underwent a round of screening and selected 50 itinerant cultivators who fit the requirements.
The various Northern Domain major factions excluding the Three Sects also picked 100 genius martial artists. Ye Yuan and the others, their names were naturally among the 100 too.
The remainder 150 slots, the Three Sects had 50 people each.
Counting it, it was actually still the Three Sects that occupied the absolute position.
But this could not be blamed on them either. Who asked the Three Sects' might to be the greatest in the entire Endless World?
To be able to enter the mystic realm was already the greatest grace to other people.
Upon entering the mystic realm, Ye Yuan saw a huge pagoda far away, towering and grandiose.
Such a great distance away and Ye Yuan could clearly sense the archaic and mysterious aura coming from the pagoda.
Ye Yuan was slightly apprehensive in his heart. This Vast Heaven Pagoda was absolutely not ordinary!
It was just uncertain what on earth was inside this inheritance, to actually be able to let Lu Linfeng that old punk reach such a boundary!
Ren Xingchun seemed to have perceived Ye Yuan's puzzlement and explained, "Nobody knows this Vast Heaven Pagoda's origins. It was if before this Endless World formed, it was already standing here. For close to ten thousand years, this Vast Heaven Pagoda has experienced several dozen factions, but it ultimately stood firm and immovable. For close to ten thousand years, the talented martial artists who entered inside were as many as several hundred thousand. But just a mere one individual could make it to the eighth level! And the vast majority of the martial artists can't even make it past the fifth level! However, just by completing the fifth level one can already obtain unimaginable benefits."
Ye Yuan became interested when he heard and asked, "Oh? What kind of benefits are there?"
"Cultivation methods, martial techniques, medicinal pills, weapons, so on and so forth. The more levels passed, the more generous the rewards obtained. The martial techniques obtained from Vast Heaven Pagoda, even if it's just a Tier 1 martial technique, are all very heaven-defying! After cultivating them, it's virtually sweeping across those of the same rank!" Ren Xingchun said.
These things, Ye Yuan actually paid no attention to it. His cultivation methods and martial techniques are already sufficiently heaven-defying. Without the need for the cultivation methods and martial techniques inside, he could also full well sweep across those of the same rank.
"Apart from this?" Ye Yuan asked.
Towards Ye Yuan's reaction, Ren Xingchun was not surprised. He was aware of Ye Yuan's strength. These things simply had no attraction to him.
"Concept comprehension!" Ren Xingchun said.
Ye Yuan's eyes lit up. "En? How so?"
"What the specifics are like, I have no knowledge as well. But I know that any martial artist who make it past the fifth level and entered the sixth level virtually all ascended to the Divine Realm later! But in these recent thousand years, there has yet to be anyone who made it to the sixth level. There are quite a number of people who made it to the fifth level though. But they ultimately still failed on the verge of success. These recent hundred years, there's not even a single person who made it to the fourth level!" Ren Xingchun said with a bitter smile.
The Endless World's these hundred years was too disgraceful as well. To actually not even have a single person who made it to the fourth level. No wonder their strength was weak until like this.
But this had to do with the Three Sects monopolizing
resources and all as well. If these slots had been evenly distributed to the other factions and itinerant cultivators, perhaps there might be awe-inspiring geniuses that appeared.
This method of closing their doors to the world ultimately cause talents to drop to zero.
Ye Yuan nodded slightly. Presumably, that Lu Linfeng should have comprehended the Concept of Formations Path in this Vast Heaven Pagoda. That was why he soared to the heaven in one leap.
It was just that Ye Yuan was curious about what kind of existence created this Vast Heaven Pagoda.
When Lu Linfeng was in the Lower Realms, his comprehension of concepts already far surpassed the Endless World, this small world. And he only made it to the seventh level. Then, the things in the eighth level and ninth level should be able to reach the level of the Divine Realm!
Why would such an existence show up in the Endless World and leave a legacy?
Chapter 548 - Not Someone You Can Afford to Offend
Along the way, Ye Yuan continuously sized up the huge pagoda. The more he looked at it, the more extraordinary he felt it was.
Approaching the front, Ye Yuan said to Ren Xingchun, "Old man, you go and say hi to them. I'll stroll around myself."
Regarding Ye Yuan's form of address, Ren Xingchun was already used to it long ago.
If he tried to gain back face with Ye Yuan, Ren Xingchun would have long exploded in anger.
Ren Xingchun also discovered that Ye Yuan was very interested in Vast Heaven Pagoda. He nodded his head and said, "Alright. You go alone then. There are a few of my old friends over there. I'll go and say hi to them. Dong-er, Cao Fang, you guys follow me to greet several seniors."
After Ren Xingchun left, Ye Yuan strolled around the Vast Heaven Pagoda by himself.
Only after staring in close vicinity did Ye Yuan discover that he actually had no way of discerning what kind of material this pagoda was forged with!
Although Ye Yuan did not dabble much in the path of refining, with his horizons, he still knew most of the materials in the Divine Realm.