by Feng Yise
Ye Yuan originally planned on parting ways with this group of people after coming to Jewelhill City.
As for Liang Wanru's life-saving grace, he would naturally repay it in the future.
But now, he could not quite feel reassured about Liang Wanru. He could only enter the Liang Family together with her.
Actually, Zhang Shun hoped for Ye Yuan to leave. He was very apprehensive towards Ye Yuan right now. Furthermore, along the way, the things that Ye Yuan saw were too many. It might be detrimental to the second miss.
But Ye Yuan wanting to enter the Liang Family, he really did not have a reason to refuse.
With Miss Wanru around, it was also useless if he rejected it.
When Liang Wanru saw Ye Yuan say so, her eyes revealed a look of pleasant surprise.
"Hurray, hurray! For Brother-In-Law to be able to enter the Liang Family, it's really excellent! As the younger sister, I'll definitely repay your life-saving grace properly!" But Liang Wanrong agreed with a cheerful expression.
Zhang Shun glanced at her and sighed helplessly.
This little lass, does she really think that Ye Yuan is so easy to deal with?
Him entering the Liang Family, whether it was catching a turtle in a jar, or inviting a wolf into the house, it was really hard to say!
Chapter 1296 - Husband and Wife Devising a Stratagem
"Little Brother Ye, all thanks to you for this trip! Otherwise, this Liang really wouldn't know how to face my two daughters anymore."
"Family Head is too kind, this Ye just knows some beast taming arts, and just happened to come in handy during the beast tide. Want to really thank, it should also be this Ye saying it. If not for Miss Wanru, this Ye would already be a corpse exhibited in the wilderness right now."
"Haha, Little Brother Ye is too humble! Since Little Brother Ye has nowhere to stay, then stay in the Liang Family first. When Little Brother Ye finds a place to stay, it's not late to move out then as well."
"Then I'll have to impose on Family Head."
Liang Mingyu was evidently a sly old businessman at a glance, very worldly-wise.
But his strength was not weak. He was a middle-stage Grotto Profound Deity Realm powerhouse.
These words sounded courteous, but it gave Ye Yuan a faint sense of alienation.
Even though Ye Yuan saved Liang Wanru and sister, Liang Wanru also saved Ye Yuan and even gave Ye Yuan to eat the Profound Essence Pill.
After listening to Zhang Shun's report until the end, Liang Mingyu could not help feeling pain.
In Jewelhill City, the Profound Essence Pill was a life-saving medicinal pill.
He also knew that he owed Liang Wanru quite a lot these few years. Hence, that was why he left this medicinal pill to her for preserving her life.
He did not expect that his daughter actually gave it to a stranger.
But speaking of which, if not for this daughter being kind-hearted, saving an inconsequential Ye Yuan, she would probably have already perished in the belly of demonic beasts at this time too.
This was also considered kindness begets kindness!
But, toward this Ye Yuan whose background was unknown, Liang Mingyu held a little caution.
He doted on his eldest daughter very much and could not bear to make her upset, that was why he agreed for Ye Yuan to stay.
Later on, finding a reason, he was planning on chasing Ye Yuan out of the Liang Family. He did not wish to raise a cripple at home.
Actually, the intent of chasing away was already very clear in his words. He hoped that Ye Yuan could be a bit sensible and take the initiative to leave himself.
He did not expect that Ye Yuan actually pretended not to understand and climbed up along the shaft, lingering in the Liang Family.
Ling Mingyu was unhappy in his heart, but he naturally would not show it on the surface.
With his means, wanting to chase a cripple out of the Liang Family was too easy.
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In a room, Liang Wanrong had watery eyes, lodging a complaint in front of a fat-headed and large-eared woman.
This fat lady was precisely her mother, called Wang Pianran.
It was just that this woman was completely mismatched with the 'Pianran' two words, giving people an extremely disgusting feeling1.
For this kind of woman to be able to give birth to a beauty like Liang Wanrong, it was also all thanks to Liang Mingyu.
But in the Liang Family, Liang Mingyu really did not dare to offend this female bigshot.
Back then, the Liang Family fell into a crisis and was almost destroyed.
It was all thanks to Wang Pianran marrying over, the Liang Family and Wang Family joining in marriage, that they survived the crisis.
Wang Pianran considered herself to be the savior and was very domineering in the Liang Family.
"Mom, you aren't aware. That punk knows how to cast evil arts and cheated this daughter bitterly! I suspect that the beast tide this time was summoned by him originally. He definitely took fancy on Liang Wanru, that s.l.u.t's looks, and deliberately tried to ingratiate himself to her! Fortunately, Daughter was astute, otherwise … otherwise … Mother, you probably can't see Rong-er anymore! Sniff, sniff …"
Liang Wanrong pounced into her mother's embrace, crying her eyes out.
She gave embellishment to the events during the trip for Wang Pianran to hear.
Wang Pianran doted on this daughter like crazy in the first place. Even if she did not add colored details, she also would not be courteous towards Liang Wanru and Ye Yuan.
Seeing her daughter cry so mournfully, she was even more livid with rage, the flesh on her face piling together.
"Rong-er, you rest assured. Mother will definitely seek justice for you! It's fine if that brat was a little sensible and leaves, but since he came to the Liang Family, then he only has one path to hell! Also, that s.l.u.t, looks like Mother was still too lenient towards her normally. This time, I have to make her remember it well!"
A cold light shone in Wang Pianran's gaze, and she shouted, "Come, men!"
A maidservant entered fl.u.s.teredly and greeted with folded hands at the lower right side, saying: "Madam!"
"Call Liang Mingyu over for me, at once! Immediately!" Wang Pianran said sternly.
"Yes, Madam!" The maidservant was clearly very scared of this fatty, hurriedly scrambling away.
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"Liang Mingyu, let me tell you, that brat who's surnamed Ye must die! Otherwise, I'll bring Rong-er back to the Wang Family tomorrow!" Wang Pianran said fiercely.
Liang Mingyu felt his head swell, fed up with this woman to the extreme.
Back then, he was left with no other choice that he married this fat and ugly woman.
Although he made it through the hurdle, it was also considered to have invited a wolf into the house.
This woman was just like a mad dog, aggressive and overbearing, taking herself to be the Liang Family's matron, wanting to stick a hand into everything.
It was also precisely because of so that Liang Mingyu missed his former wife, Liang Wanru's mother, even more.
Similarly, a woman, but why was the difference so great?
But even so, he could only swallow his grievances and said with difficulty, "This … This isn't too nice, right? After all, Ye Yuan saved our two daughters. If he dies in the Liang Family for unknown reasons, who would still dare to do business with our Liang Family in the future?"
Wang Pianran's expression turned cold, and she said, "Liang Mingyu, don't give me that! As long as you make him die unbeknown to gods and ghosts, who would know that there was this matter? Just a cripple, would somebody be concerned that this world lost a cripple? Heh, saved our two daughters? Perhaps, that beast tide was summoned by him in the first place?"
Liang Mingyu's eyes narrowed. He really had not thought of this possibility before.
When Wang Pianran saw this, she suddenly changed her tone and said, "Liang Mingyu, that punk's beast taming abilities are extraordinary! As
long as you can pry open his mouth …"
Wang Pianran had a sinister look, her face very proud of herself.
Even though she had a large head and big ears, she was not stupid.
In reality, Wang Pianran's deviousness was much deeper than Liang Wanrong.
Otherwise, one what basis could she suppress the head of a family, Liang Mingyu?
When Liang Wanrong spoke of Ye Yuan's beast taming ability, she had the idea already.
Ye Yuan, a cripple, was actually able to control a late-stage rank one Devilheaven Giant Elephant.
If this kind of method was obtained by the Liang Family, then the Liang Family would be able to become Jewelhill City's number one great family in one leap!
There were quite a number of divine beasts inside the Myriad Beast Forest. Randomly catching a few over, this combat strength could not be overlooked too.
Liang Mingyu's entire body trembled. The greedy look in his eyes could not be concealed anymore.
"Heh heh, wifey is truly my better half! Ever since marrying wifey, my, Liang Mingyu's development these few years, has become smoother and smoother! Now, there are even hopes of becoming Jewelhill City's number one family!" Liang Mingyu said with an excited look.
Ye Yuan's life and death, he did not care. What he minded were just Liang Wanru's thoughts.
But now, Wang Pianran's words completely roused the ambition in his heart.
Beast taming arts capable of controlling a late-stage rank one divine beast, how could it not make people drool with envy?
Compared to Jewelhill City's number one family, what did Ye Yuan's little life count as?
Wang Pianran said proudly, "That is, of course! I know that you still miss that dead ghost these few years, but you also didn't think it over properly. If there wasn't me, Wang Pianran, how can you have the time to contrast past misery with present happiness?" Pianran means 'light'/flutter.
Chapter 1297 - One Star Heavenly Mark Pill!
Ye Yuan was completely unaware that the Liang Family already viewed him as a fat lamb, planning on assassinating him.
What he had a headache over currently was how to repair his divine essence and let himself recover essence energy.
Divine sea damaged, essence energy utterly lost; Ye Yuan was unable to refine pills at all.
Unable to refine pills, his divine sea would be unable to recover.
This was an endless loop, making his head swell.
Of course, Ye Yuan could be said to be a complete layman towards medicinal pills right now.
The him who triggered Heavenly Dao with Alchemy Dao was a complete and utter layman here.
The current Ye Yuan was sitting in the dark!
"Senior Dustless, I wonder if you have any ways to resolve my current predicament?"
Ye Yuan was helpless and could only turn to Dustless for help.
After all, Dustless followed Heavenly Empyrean Immortal Grove and traversed the Heavenspan World unobstructed. The things that he knew were far more compared to him.
Dustless said huffily, "Know to ask this old man for help now? Back then, I told you not to flaunt your superiority. Now, suffered the fruits of your own evil deeds, right?"
Ye Yuan chuckled, smiled slightly, and said nothing.
Dustless' punch landing on cotton, he could not help billowing his beard and glared as he said, "Kid, not that I'm scaring you, but your current condition is basically considered crippled already. Not that there's no method, but for you to want to repair the divine sea, it at least has to wait a hundred years too."
But Ye Yuan's eyes lit up and said, "It's good that there's a way. What does a hundred year's time count for?"
Dustless said with a cold smile, "Heh, a hundred years is certainly nothing to you. But that little friend of yours can't wait a hundred years!"
Ye Yuan's expression instantly became ugly, and he said, "Senior, what do you mean? Could it be that the Soul Suppressing Pearl can't even maintain Lingxue's spiritual consciousness for a hundred years' time?"
Dustless was also helpless as he said, "If I'm at my heyday, forget about 100 years, even a million years isn't an issue either. But my current state, I can at most last for another ten years, and I'll fall into a slumber again."
Ye Yuan's heart thumped, not expecting that Dustless's condition was actually bad to such an extent.
He drew a deep breath and said, "Senior, I wonder how can I let you recover strength?"
Dustless sighed and said, "The three great empyrean spirit treasures are connected by blood with Heavenly Empyrean Immortal Grove. Upon Immortal Grove's death, the three great empyrean spirit treasures will suffer severe damage. Hence, that's why this old man fell asleep. Although you let this old man wake up, if you can't provide sufficient nourishment for this old man, this old man will still decline, all the way until I fall asleep. Originally, absorbing the Deathsoul Tree, it's also not to the point of falling asleep so quickly. But sustaining the vitality of that little friend of yours needs to consume quite a bit of strength. In my current state, I can at most still last for ten years!"
Only then did Ye Yuan know how serious the state of affairs were.
Once Dustless fell asleep, he would not be able to maintain Mu Lingxue's spiritual consciousness, and she would die.
Want to let the Soul Suppressing Pearl keep on sustaining, that will require an endless supply of nourishment!
But in his current condition, where would he go to provide nourishment?
Everything had to wait for him to recover his strength before talking.
A ten-year period was merely a snap of a finger in the Heavenspan World. One could not even raise their cultivation by a trace.
This point, Ye Yuan had known long ago.
The cultivation of the martial artists here was easily calculated with 100 thousand years.
Deity Realm powerhouses were merely the Heavenspan World's ants too.
Only by cultivating to the Divine Lord Realm could it be considered to have minor accomplishment.
Ye Yuan s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath and opened his mouth to say, "Senior Dustless, what's the method that you speak of just now?"
At this very moment, Ye Yuan himself was already at the ends of his rope, and could only place hopes on completing the method that Dustless mentioned as soon as possible.
Dustless being so unhappy was also because of this reason.
He had a way, but for the current Ye Yuan to want to complete this method, that was virtually something impossible!
He gave a drawn-out sigh and said, "In the Heavenspan World, there's a kind of pill refining method called Formation Dao Pill Refinement! Right now, your divine essence is completely gone. Only with this channel, can you refine medicinal pills. With your divine sea's degree of damage, a low-grade Tier 1 divine pill, One Star Heavenly Mark Pill, is sufficient already. It's just too bad that both your essence energy realm and Alchemy Dao already broke through to Deity Realm, but your Formation Dao didn't! Moreover, you're completely clueless about divine pills. The refining difficulty of divine pills is completely not what mortal-grade medicinal pills can compare to! Forget about 10 years, even if I give you a hundred year's time, you might not be able to refine a One Star Heavenly Mark Pill too!"
The mystic grade medicinal pill that had once let Ye Yuan command the winds and clouds in the Immortal Grove World, it merely became the mortal-grade medicinal pills from Dustless' mouth presently.
It was not that Dustless looked down on Ye Yuan. In fact, he already regarded Ye Yuan very highly.
How could Heavenly Empyrean Immortal Grove's pill formulas be so easy to refine?
If ordinary alchemists were able to refine, Dustless would not be so desperate too.
This Jewelhill City had alchemists who could refine the Profound Essence Pill. Worst come to worst, hand the pill formula over to the other party, it could always succeed.
But the problem was, this One Star Heavenly Mark Pill, ordinary alchemists could not refine it at all.
The Profound Essence Pill was not even fit to carry shoes in front of the One Star Heavenly Mark Pill!"
The Profound Essence Pill, as long as one's realm reached, refining was not hard.
Although a One Star Heavenly Mark Pill was a low-grade Tier 1 divine pill, it required profound understanding towards Alchemy Dao to be able to refine it.
Skill being lacking, it was pointless no matter how high the realm.
Ye Yuan mused for a moment and said with a solemn expression, "Senior, for the average person to become an initial-rank One Star Alchemy God, how long does it normally take?"
The Alchemy God Realm was divided into nine stars. The Profound Essence Pill and One Star Heavenly Mark Pill both belonged to Tier 1 divine pills. One Star Alchemy God could refine already.
Of course, one was an initial-rank Alchemy God, while the other was a high-rank Alchemy God.
Dustless said, "The Alchemy Dao that you understood is merely just a portion of the Heavenly Dao which Immortal Grove comprehended! You were able to trigger the Immortal Grove Heavenly Dao. But in front of the Heavenspan World's Heavenly Dao, it's not worth mentioning at all! In the Heavenspan World, Alchemy Dao is even more extensive and profound! For ordinary people, even if their Alchemy Dao talent is exceedingly good, it requires a thousand years' time too, before they can have a preliminary grasp of the medicinal pill's refinement, and become a One Star Alchemy God! Hence, in the Heavenspan World, the status of alchemy gods are even higher than in the Immortal Grove World!"
Ye Yuan drew a cold breath when he heard that. Only now, did he know how precious that Profound Essence Pill was!
Ye Yuan merely used 300 years' time to cultivate to peak Alchemy Emperor back then.
Now, wanting to cultivate to initial-rank One Star Alchemy God actually required a thousand years' time!
Furthermore, this was even just the most elementary level initial-rank One Star Alchemy God.
Refining a One Star Heavenly Mark Pill, an ordinary initial-rank One Star Alchemy God definitely would not do.
Even though Dustless did not say, Ye Yuan reckoned that wanting to reach the level of being able to refine a One Star Heavenly Mark Pill, it probably needed at least over 2000 years' time too!