by Feng Yise
Ye Yuan's words made Jiang Taicang very agitated.
"But … just who on earth did this? I've inquired for many days and didn't find out either," Jiang Taicang said gloomily.
These few days, Cloudmarsh City was a meeting of wind and clouds, various factions mixing together like dragons and fishes jumbling up together. Experts in the city were as many as clouds. In comparison, their party was still a little weak.
Ye Yuan said, "Calculating based on the time, it shouldn't be Jian Wushuang. Looks like there's someone stirring things up in the dark. Forget it, can't guess then can't guess. Let's go and ask, and we'll know."
As he said, Ye Yuan got up and walked out.
Jiang Taicang was stunned and chased after to ask, "Milord, Taicang has already inquired for quite a few days but didn't find any clues either! Those few sellers also seemed to be unaware of the other party's background. Who do we go look for to ask?"
Ye Yuan said with a smile, "This Cloudmarsh City, who understands the situation in the city the best?"
Jiang Taicang shook his head stiffly.
Ye Yuan chuckled and headed straight out of the door.
Chapter 1042 - Old Man Han
When Ao Qian and the others all saw 'City Lord Manor,' these three big words, all of them could not help exchanging glances.
Cloudmarsh City's city lord was a very mysterious existence. The ones managing normally were all several deputy city lords acting on behalf. But barely anyone had seen before the city lord's real appearance.
Even an old monster like Ao Qian also knew very well that Cloudmarsh City's city lord was not to be provoked.
A land where wind and clouds met like Cloudmarsh City, even if it wasn't the Immemorial Medicine Garden opening, it was still a place that was extremely hard to manage.
Without some skills, how could one be able to hold down such a large city?
"Your Excellency, you wouldn't be …"
Jiang Taicang's words had yet to finish speaking when Ye Yuan already mustered up essence energy and projected his voice out.
"Old Man Han, an old friend came to visit. Why haven't you come out to welcome me?"
The moment these words were uttered, several terrifying killing intents instantly locked onto the few people.
Even an existence like Ao Qian had cold sweat pouring profusely at this time too.
Among these killing intents, there were definitely Void Mystic powerhouses. Once they had any unusual movements, the other party would give them a deadly blow without the slightest hesitation.
If in his top condition, Ao Qian naturally did not fear. But at the moment, his strength was too weak. If they were to really do battle, there was only a road that led to death.
"Your Excellency, w-we'd better leave!" Jiang Taicang was rather scared already and could not resist going forward to urge.
But Ye Yuan was calm and collected. It was as if he did not sense any killing intent at all.
After several breaths, a faint voice transmitted out.
"Come on in."
Ye Yuan smiled slightly and passed right through the city lord manor's array formation, and entered the city lord manor's rear-hall.
"Milord!"
Jiang Taicang and the rest were about to catch up when that killing intent suddenly became much more piercingly cold.
"You all wait outside!" a voice transmitted out faintly, revealing killing intent.
Ao Qian was rather indignant as he said, "Wait until this father of yours recovers his strength. See if you dregs still dare to be c.o.c.ky in front of me!"
Talking was talking, Ao Qian also knew that he did not have the capital to be arrogant at present. His only hope lay on Ye Yuan.
...
Ye Yuan followed the aura of that voice and arrived at a very covert courtyard in the rear-hall.
He did not stop and directly walked towards a corner of the courtyard.
The space around had an undulation. A massive transformation actually occurred to the scenery before Ye Yuan's eyes.
A thatched house, smoke curling up from the chimney.
Around the cottage was filled with some spirit medicines overflowing with fragrance. Looking at the grade, the lowest was also not beneath Tier 9!
If someone else came in, they would even think that they entered a treasure vault!
An old man wearing a straw hat on his head sat by the river and was actually fishing.
"There's tea in the pavilion, take it yourself. Don't startle my fish," the old man said without even turning around.
Ye Yuan smiled and was not in a rush either. He slowly came to a wooden pavilion and poured himself a cup to drink on his own.
"Not only did you not die, your formations ability actually even improved a step further, truly a freak!" the old man said calmly.
Ye Yuan sipped tea as he smiled and said, "Old Man Han, you've been fishing by the river here for 50 thousand years, have you really caught anything?"
The old man used a hoarse voice to say, "What do you think?"
Ye Yuan said smilingly, "Those who are willing, takes the bait! It's just that this bait is yourself, right?"
When the old man heard these words, he finally put down the fishing rod and slowly walked into the pavilion. He then sat down opposite Ye Yuan.
"I didn't expect that you reincarnated, and even your heart realm became much keener! Recalling when you asked me the same question back then, at that time, you couldn't figure it out," the old man said.
Ye Yuan said, "Old Man Han, pretending you don't know anything in front o me? How can the matters that happen in this Cloudmarsh City escape your eyes and ears?"
Ye Yuan used merging into heaven and earth in the city before. This Old Man Han definitely already knew that he comprehended Heaven Man Unity long ago.
Old Man Han said smilingly, "Knowing is one thing, surprise … is another thing. Your soul force already broke through the shackles of cultivation realm. Looks like the rumors of your father obtaining a Divine Dao medicinal canon should be true."
The Medicine God's Soul Canon was an extremely hidden matter in the Medicine King Hall. Even Ye Yuan himself only knew after reincarnating too.
Ye Yuan did not think that these old geezers had long heard of it.
These old geezers were all very cunning. Every one of them was a real piece of work.
Only after reincarnating once did Ye Yuan discover that compared to this old man in front of him, there was likely still some gap!
Of course, this was just what he thought in his heart. On the surface, he was like an old well without ripples. He said coolly, "You don't need to broach the subject in a roundabout manner anymore as well. Otherwise, why do you think us Ji father and son ended up in such a plight?"
Ye Yuan's words were equivalent to covertly admitting the existence of the Medicine God's Soul Canon.
It was just that Ye Yuan being so scoundrelly made Old Man Han somewhat stunned in his heart. Did this boy really had something to rely on, or was his thinking too shallow?
Old Man Han could not help sizing up this rather unfamiliar face in front of him anew and suddenly discovered that he actually could not quite see through.
Although Ye Yuan's seniority was shallow back then, his alchemy Dao strength made the world submit. He naturally had the qualifications to be on equal footing with them, these old fellows.
But they all, these old guys, which one would appear as simple as on the surface?
Just take Ji Zhengyang as an example; he secretly cultivated the Medicine God's Soul Canon and refined a half-step divine pill. At that time, it astounded everybody.
While this Old Man Han was practically a peer of the same generation with Ji Zhengyang. His strength was unfathomable.
Ji Qingyun was actually just a piece of blank paper in front of him.
But when he looked at Ye Yuan again in this life, he actually felt as if a layer of veil was covering Ye Yuan, making him have a feeling of being amidst cloud and mist!
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br /> Finally, Old Man Han heaved a long sigh and said, "Looks like these short 20 years, many things happened!"
If say in his previous life, they all, these geezers, only brought Ye Yuan along for fun, now, it was different. Now, Ye Yuan truly had the qualifications to sit opposite of them!
Hearing Old Man Han's emotional sigh, Ye Yuan said with a smile, "You aren't moved?"
Old Man Han said, "Naturally moved!"
"Why not try to take it?"
"I have no confidence!"
Ye Yuan shrugged and said, "Fine then. Truly, the older the person, the smaller the guts. I already delivered to your mouth, didn't think that you're actually not eating! I even thought that I'd have to expend some effort today before I can make you open your mouth!"
Old Man Han could not help choking up when he heard that and huffed as he said, "You brat, still like this! You're at any rate a junior too, don't you know how to respect the elderly a little?"
Ye Yuan said, "I only respect lovable geezers. You, this geezer, are not lovable, so not respecting! However, you're a little more likable than Old Man Jing. Hence, that's why I'd sit here and talk with you."
Old Man Han said, "Speaking of Old Man Jing, you got to be a little careful. That geezer is indeed full of wickedness. He might be waiting for you somewhere!"
Ye Yuan said smilingly, "Since I have a second chance in life, this score naturally has to be settled one by one. Old Man Jing not coming to find me, I'll go and look for him anyway. Alright, meeting an old acquaintance today, emotions are rather agitated, speak less crap. You should know my intentions for coming, say it out straight."
Old Man Han nodded his head and said, "Speaking of which, it's your old friend too, Fiendblade Mountain, Yue Xinping! Remember to be more light-handed, don't stir up too big of a commotion."
Chapter 1043 - Growing Dizzy with Success
Only when they saw Ye Yuan walk out of the City Lord Manor without a scratch did Ao Qian and the rest let out a sigh in relief.
"Milord, are you alright?" Jiang Taicang asked worriedly.
"What can there be? Aren't I perfectly well? Come, let's go and settle scores!" Ye Yuan said.
Jiang Taicang was stunned and said, "Milord, you know who's playing tricks?"
"Of course, otherwise, what did I come here for?" Ye Yuan said.
Jiang Taicang had a look of worship as he said, "Milord, this Cloudmarsh City's city lord is incredibly mysterious! This old man is also considered a veteran already, but I really don't know what kind of person this Cloudmarsh City's City Lord is!"
Wu Luo who was by the side nodded and said, "There are actually Void Mystic powerhouses guarding his gate for him; this city lord is definitely not an ordinary existence!"
Ye Yuan said smilingly, "Old Man Han just likes to pretend to be mysterious. Actually, it's no big deal either. Have you guys heard the title of Alchemy Fanatic before?"
The moment these words were uttered, Ao Qian was still alright, but Wu Luo, Jiang Taicang, and Ruan Shuangzhou all turned pale with fright.
"Cloudmarsh City's City Lord is the Alchemy Fanatic, Han Jing, whose name shook the Divine Realm 50 thousand years ago?" Jiang Taicang yelled out at the top of his voice.
"Rumor has it that 50 thousand years ago, after him and the present Void Divine King had a great battle, he vanished. I didn't think that he actually became Cloudmarsh City's city lord. Furthermore, it's 50 thousand years in one go!" Ruan Shuangzhou exclaimed.
"Yeah! Senior Han Jing only used a thousand years to reach peak Alchemy Emperor. At that time, the Divine Realm was incomparably stirred …"
Jiang Taicang said halfway and stopped.
He suddenly recalled that his own lord seemed to be even more freakish and only used 300 years of time to break through to peak Alchemy Emperor.
After another 200 years of acc.u.mulation, he could already debate on Dao shoulder to shoulder with Han Jing, this kind of peerless powerhouse.
Ye Yuan said with a smile, "Old Man Han is indeed an unparalleled genius. His strength is not beneath my father's and mine! But these old fellows, when you have more contact with him, you'll discover that they are all just a bunch of guys deliberately mystifying things. This way, it would make people feel that they are very mysterious, with a feeling of inscrutability and enigma. Actually, it's also just that."
Hearing these words, everyone could not help being speechless.
Wanting to uncover their mysterious veil, one at least also had to have strength on equal footing with them.
Otherwise, who would care about you!
The rankings in the martial arts words were incomparably strict. Strength falling short, one would forever not be able to integrate into that circle.
Just take the previous life's Ji Qingyun, his friends and enemies were basically all the Divine Realm's pinnacle-most existences.
Even ordinary divine king powerhouses did not have the right to speak with him either.
Ye Yuan waved his hand and looked at everyone as he said with a smile, "Come on, if that bunch of fellows is sensible, this matter is also considered over. If not sensible, then I'll have to trouble you all a bit."
Seeing Ye Yuan's eyes that harbored ill-intent, a blast of cold wind hit Jiang Taicang and the rest from behind.
These eyes felt like a wolf eyeing a sheep.
"M-Milord, w-what do you want to do?" Jiang Taicang said weakly.
"You guys will know at that time."
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Fiendblade Mountain was not a super holy land. But in terms of strength, it was not much weaker compared to super holy lands either.
Originally, Fiendblade Mountain was just a Rank One Holy Land whose strength was quite strong. But a thousand years ago, their holy land produced a peerless genius who actually broke through to the realm of Void Mystic!
Ever since then, Fiendblade Mountain's status skyrocketed, even approaching super holy lands.
Yue Xinping's life-long wish was to let Fiendblade Mountain become a super holy land.
However, the Eight Great Super Holy Lands, each one of them was a force with extremely profound foundations and was not that easy to be replaced.
In these 100 thousand years, there were quite a few Rank One Holy Land that produced Void Mystic Realm powerhouses before. But those truly able to reach super holy land were extremely, extremely few.
Ever since Fiendblade Mountain produced a Yue Xinping, they had always been rampant and domineering when doing things. In these 1000 years, they had done quite a number of wicked deeds.
Over a hundred years ago, Yue Xinping had once requested a pill from Ji Qingyun, but he was rejected by Ji Qingyun with stern words. This matter made him brood over it.
Ever since then, their enmity towards the Medicine King Hall was very strong.
At this moment, Yue Xinping was currently being pleased with himself at Fiendblade Mountain's stronghold.
"Hahaha! Doesn't Ji Qingyun that punk wants Ancient Spirit Center Fragrant Grass and Jadegreen Sacred Flower Stamens? I'll collect it all for him, see how he still refine pills! You all watch closely for me, although these two kinds of spirit medicines are scarce, with the Immemorial Medicine Garden's abnormal happenings, it might still appear again. As long as it shows up on the market, immediately bring it in for me!" Yue Xinping said with a loud laugh.
"Yes, Mountain Lord! We've already sent out the manpower. As long as we receive news of these two kinds of spirit medicines, we'll purchase them right away!"
The one talking was Yue Xinping's right-hand man, peak Divine King, Yu Rongwei.
These few years, Yue Xinping groomed a large batch of experts for Fiendblade Mountain. The inflation in strength was very impressive.
In comparison, the temperament of an upstart also became increasingly distinct. Things like exterminating entire clans would happen at the slightest provocation.
"Heh heh, at the thought of Ji Qingyun, that punk's hopeless look, this seat is incomparably satisfied in my heart! Jian Wushuang
that punk is really dumb, to provoke Ji Qingyun without even understanding the situation. He deserved to be pummeled!" Yue Xinping said with a laugh.
Not that he was afraid of Ye Yuan. Even if Ye Yuan had a divine artifact in possession, with his Void Mystic Realm strength, he was fearless too.
Furthermore, the intel that he obtained was more comprehensive than Jian Wushuang.
Ye Yuan expended too much divine essence in the great battle the last time. Most likely, the divine artifact could not be used more than a few times already.
But he more or less still had some dread towards divine artifacts. It was just perfect; after Ye Yuan suppressed Zuo Qing and released news about wanting these two kinds of spirit medicines, Yue Xinping had a flash of inspiration and secretly purchased these two kinds of spirit medicines, not giving Ye Yuan the slightest chance.
"Haha, Mountain Lord is brilliant! That punk probably never would have dreamed that it's us buying the spirit medicines in secret! It's simply nothing more than wishful thinking for him to want to obtain these two kinds of spirit medicines before the Immemorial Medicine Garden opens!" Yu Rongwei said with a laugh.
Yue Xinping nodded and said, "Although that brat has a divine artifact, his strength is still too weak. If my conjectures are right, he's definitely finding these two kinds of spirit medicines to help those two subordinates of his to refine medicinal pills. This way, his assurance of entering the Immemorial Medicine Garden will also be several points greater. But now … hahaha!"
The more Yue Xinping talked, the more delighted he got. He could not refrain from letting out laughter.
Back then, he was given a good scolding by enumerating his wrong-doings, saying that he committed all sorts of wicked deeds, and was unworthy to receive medicinal pills, such and such.
And even destroyed all of the spirit medicines that Yue Xinping found painstakingly to his face!