by Feng Yise
These storage rings, just take it as a bit of thanks then.
Ye Yuan did not give Qin Shao a chance to speak, directly maneuvering the sword and flying away.
Watching Ye Yuan's profile disappear into the horizons, Qiu Shuisheng said with a sigh, "This guy isn't to be trifled with! Once provoked, one will probably have nightmares every day."
Jin Yu nodded his head and said, "Avenging grievances when there are grievances, avenging enmity when there is enmity, repaying kindness when there is kindness, acting according to his nature, not violating his consciousness. This is the Dao of Might! This Ye Yuan, a measly Wu Meng Capital City probably can't trap him!"
Qiu Shuisheng came in front of Qin Shao and said with clasped hands, "Brother, apologies! Previously, my words have offended, please don't take offense!"
Qin Shao said coolly, "No harm! This guy's strength is too baffling. Not truly exchanging blows with him, you forever won't know how strong he is!"
Qiu Shuisheng secretly nodded, deeply acknowledging Qin Shao's words too.
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The Hundred Cities Smelting Trial was set as a year. The remaining time, all of the outer-court disciples sunk into a nightmare.
A devil who rode the wind and rode a sword might appear beside them at any time, reaping their lives.
They all knew Ye Yuan's prowess. At the start, they all found a place and hide, not daring to come out.
But later, they discovered to their dismay that no matter how they hid, Ye Yuan could always accurately find their locations.
Hence, a massacre unfolded in the outer-court region.
Later, those people seriously could not live on in the outer-court region and could only escape to the inner-court region one after another.
However, Ye Yuan rode the sword to flow. Even when inner-court disciples saw him, they could not do anything to him at all.
Of course, there were those with good luck too, finding their senior brothers and sisters, before barely managing to preserve their lives.
In a blink, a year's time was up. The Hundred Cities Smelting Trial was already drawing near its end.
Chapter 1406 - Ownership of the Four-star Divine Pill
On the altar plaza, one figure after another was being transported back,
During previous trials, the later it was, the fewer people sent back.
But this time, there were still people being transported non-stop.
"You still ran into that malefic star in the end?"
"Isn't that so! No idea what method that guy used either, I clearly already hid very covertly, but was still found by him!"
"Me too! This malefic star is too vengeful. I was very far away from him at that time. There was no chance to make a move at all and he still didn't let me go."
"You don't know it. Later on, as long as everybody sees him, they directly crush the jade pendant. This malefic star kills on sight, completely unreasonable."
An outer-court disciple was just transported back, so he started chatting with his fellow disciples who were finished off by Ye Yuan previously.
Upon mentioning Ye Yuan, each and every one of their faces all revealed an extremely depressed look.
In the entire plaza, several thousand students taking part in the trial were virtually all talking about Ye Yuan.
The Hundred Cities Smelting Trial this time, Ye Yuan alone shone in the limelight.
Virtually everyone lived in his shadow.
At this time, a virtual image descended from the sky. It was precisely Xuan Ling!
Xuan Ling's gaze swept slightly and said nonchalantly, "The hour has arrived! Everyone return!"
Finished talking, he flicked his sleeves grandly. All of the altars flickered with light, summoning all of the remaining people back.
Ye Yuan just felt a blur before his eyes and returned back on the altar once again.
"How is it, Ye Yuan? You wouldn't … really have finished off everybody, right?" Little Fatty asked curiously.
When Ye Yuan challenged everyone, he settled Little Fatty down in a concealed place.
He knew that the Qin Family would definitely target him. If he brought Little Fatty by his side, it would definitely be very dangerous.
Now, the trial ended. Little Fatty came back together with Ye Yuan and did not know what happened in the outside world.
"Junior Apprentice Brother Xie, your relationship is the closest with Junior Apprentice Brother Ye. You actually don't know his earth-shaking record?" A Wu Meng's inner-court student poked fun at him.
Little Fatty looked at Ye Yuan in surprise and said, "Y-Y-You … really did it?"
That inner-court student laughed and said, "More than just did it! Ye Yuan challenged the entire Zuo Xiang Capital City's outer-court 15 people with his sword alone, completely annihilating the other party! Then, under the circ.u.mstances where he did not rest, he defeated the hundred cities' number one person, Jin Yu! Following which, under the circ.u.mstances where he was seriously injured, he killed until everybody threw away their helmets and armor, running wildly all over the place!"
When he spoke, he intentionally raised his voice.
Next to them were Zuo Xiang Capital City's students. Hearing these words, each and every one of them was depressed until they wanted to vomit blood.
When Wu Meng Capital City's students heard this, they all guffawed with laughter.
This time, they really walked with their heads held high!
The Hundred Cities Smelting Trial took place once every 300 years. Every time, Wu Meng Capital City was targeted by Zuo Xiang Capital City, losing very tragically.
But this time, Ye Yuan alone won back some ground, directly shaving them bald. How could this not make them feel great?
But at this time, Little Fatty jumped up all at once, pointed at Ye Yuan, and said angrily, "You are really too treacherous! I said that I wanted to go together with you, but you just refused! Such a spectacular sight, Lord Fatty, I, actually missed it! Sniff, sniff …"
Little Fatty had an aggrieved look. Clearly, he was regretting missing such a grand occasion immensely.
"If you went, you might already be a corpse!"
Lin Xiu's voice suddenly sounded out behind Little Fatty, making him jump in fright.
"Xiu … Senior Apprentice Sister, where … did this come from?" Little Fatty said puzzledly.
Lin Xiu let out a sigh and briefly recounted the incident of Qin Yuanlong sneak attacking Ye Yuan.
"Pooh! The Qin Family's people are indeed all still so shameless! To actually do such a shameless thing! Doing this sort of thing in the Hundred Cities Smelting Trial, they have utterly lost their face! Everyone says not to wash your dirty linen in public, but they are good, directly making it known throughout a hundred capital cities!" After Little Fatty finished listening, he spat indignantly.
Ye Yuan did not turn back and he was able to feel that there were several murderous gazes at the back.
Little Fatty clearly saw it too. Eyes glaring, he said disdainfully, "What? Did this kind of thing that will leave a stink for a thousand years and still don't let people say? If you have the capability, come and bite me!"
Qin Tian's gaze sharpened and he said in a cold voice, "Damn fatty, I've remembered you!"
"Yoo, threatening Lord Fatty? Did Lord Fatty grow up being frightened?" Xie Jingyi said without showing weakness in the slightest.
By the side, Lin Xiu's brows furrowed but did not say anything.
"Qin Tian, you shut your mouth for me! This matter won't end because of Qin Yuanlong's death. Your Qin Family must give the academy an account!" by the side, Thundercry said in a solemn voice.
After that day, Thundercry pursued Qin Yuanlong for two months, finally executing him under his palm.
Although Qin Yuanlong shouldered all of the blame that day, even an idiot knew that this matter could not get away from the Qin Family.
Qin Tian's face fell and he controlled his temper and said, "Teacher Thundercry, since Qin Yuanlong has a
lready turned his back on the Qin Family, what he did has nothing to do with my Qin Family! Isn't it rather biased for you to do so?!"
Thundercry smiled coldly and said, "Heh, how this matter will be ruled, that's City Lord, His Excellency's business! But the events here, I'll report them truthfully!"
Qin Tian could not help choking up when he heard that and could only stop speaking.
Clearly, Qin Yuanlong's actions already thoroughly infuriated this teacher.
At this time, Xuan Ling's voice sounded out once more, saying slowly: "Alright, the Hundred Cities Smelting Trial this time ends here. Now, I'll examine your storage rings and distribute the rewards for this trial."
While talking, Xuan Ling's gaze actually looked over at Ye Yuan's side; no one knew if it was consciously or unconsciously.
Not seeing him take any action either, all of the storage rings broke free of the students' body on their own, flying in front of Xuan Ling.
With just a glance, Xuan Ling finished checking all of the storage rings and called out: "Inner-court disciples' first place, Yong Dang Capital City's Bi Tianzhou, obtained a total of 621 stalks of Tier 2 spirit medicines!"
"It's indeed Bi Tianzhou! Yong Dang Capital City is too strong. The inner-court has Bi Tianzhou, outer-court has Jin Yu. These two people are simply unsurpassable existences!"
"Heh, that's in the past! Didn't Ye Yuan emerge this time? Jin Yu has already lost to him."
"No idea how many Tier 1 spirit medicines Ye Yuan obtained in the end. Five stalks of Tier 1 spirit medicines can offset one stalk of Tier 2 spirit medicines. Wonder who the Four-star divine pill this time will end up with!"
"Should be Yong Dang Capital City still, right? No matter how formidable Ye Yuan is, it's also just one person. Yong Dang Capital City has more people than just Bi Tianzhou! Even though Jin Yu was defeated, the inner-court disciples' total amount of Tier 2 spirit medicines is also quite a lot."
...
After Xuan Ling announced Bi Tianzhou's results, it immediately aroused a wave of speculation.
Actually, the inner-court's first place and outer-court's first place did not have any suspense. The only suspense was the ownership of this Four-star divine pill!
In terms of value, five stalks of Tier 1 spirit medicines naturally could not compare to one stalk of Tier 2 spirit medicine.
But in this smelting trial, the difficulty in obtaining Tier 1 spirit medicines was not too different from Tier 2 spirit medicines.
5-to-1, this ratio was what everyone could still accept.
At this time, Xuan Ling continued, saying, "Yong Dang Capital City obtained 2126 stalks of Tier 2 spirit medicines in the end! 1000 stalks of Tier 1 spirit medicines!"
Chapter 1407 - The City Lord's Attitude
"It's indeed still Yong Dang Capital City's foundation that is deep! Their might is not just because of Bi Tianzhou alone, but it is their overall strength being powerful."
"For Wu Meng Capital City to want to surpass them, the difficulty is likely quite high."
"No idea how many people Ye Yuan killed either, and just how many spirit medicines he has in his hands."
...
Everyone was very curious about just how many spirit medicines Ye Yuan had on hand.
According to the ratio of 5-to-1, Ye Yuan needed to reach at least 10 thousand stalks of spirit medicines and above to have a possibility of winning.
This figure was unimaginable in the past Hundred Cities Smelting Trials.
After Ye Yuan obtained the storage rings, he would transfer the other people's spirit medicines all into his own storage ring.
Hence, nobody knew just how many spirit medicines he acquired either.
Right then, Xuan Ling slowly opened his mouth.
"Outer-court's first place, Wu Meng Capital City's Ye Yuan, obtained a total of … 21,300 stalks of Tier 1 spirit medicines!"
The moment Xuan Ling's voice faded, the entire plaza burst into an uproar all at once.
According to the ratio of 5-to-1, the spirit medicines that Ye Yuan alone obtained, surpassed Yong Dang Capital City's by one-fold!
"Just how many people did this guy kill?!"
"Didn't expect it! I really didn't expect it! Wu Meng Capital City actually produced such a freak!"
"So strong at late-stage Grotto Profound already. When he breaks through to the Heaven Glimpse Realm, what would it be like?"
"Before the Hundred Cities Smelting Trial this time, probably nobody would have thought that Wu Meng Capital City could obtain first place, right?"
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They all did not know that Ye Yuan killed a total of 2000 people in these last three months!
Even if each person only had ten stalks of spirit medicines in their hands, adding it up also had 20 thousand in number.
With Ye Yuan's sword maneuvering flight plus the extensiveness of Dustless's divine sense, he was simply ever-victorious under this kind of situation.
Even if you hid any more covertly, as long as you entered Dustless's detection range, it could not escape a death word.
Xuan Ling waved a hand, three streaks of light flew out.
Two of them flew toward Ye Yuan, the other flew toward Bi Tianzhou.
"These are your rewards!" Xuan Ling said coolly.
In front of Ye Yuan were two jade boxes. One of them was a little smaller, the other slightly narrower.
Clearly, the smaller one was that Four-star divine pill, while the narrower one was naturally the Weeping Spirit Fruit.
About the function of this Weeping Spirit Fruit, Ye Yuan had heard Dustless say before too, it was indeed good stuff.
This Weeping Spirit Fruit was a heaven and earth spiritual item, containing massive spiritual energy inside. It was even much stronger than ordinary medicinal pills.
Consuming a Weeping Spirit Fruit was equivalent to a hundred years of bitter cultivation!
Ten Weeping Spirit Fruits could let Ye Yuan break through to grand completion Grotto Profound no matter what.
Ye Yuan put away the two items and said to Xuan Ling with clasped hands, "Thank you, Lord Xuan Ling!"
Xuan Ling gave Ye Yuan a deeply profound glance and said with a smile, "That's what you all deserve! Ye Yuan, you're very good. When you leave the capital city in the future, you can come to Heavenly Eagle Imperial City to find me."
Xuan Ling's words made everyone's expression turn austere.
Heavenly Eagle Imperial City, that was the administrator of Wu Meng Capital City!
Its might was simply what they all could not imagine.
To these students, their lifelong wish was to enter Heavenly Eagle Imperial City.
In their mind, Heavenly Eagle Imperial City was a holyland-like existence.
These Hundred Cities Smelting Trial had been held for no idea how many times, but Lord Xuan Ling had never said such words before.
But this time, he made an exception and opened his mouth!
This showed that he really had the appreciation of a talent stirred.
At this time, all the students used extremely envious gazes to look at Ye Yuan.
Even Bi Tianzhou's gaze also had an additional trace of weird look.
"Alright, the Hundred Cities Smelting Trial this time ends here. You all go back then!"
Xuan Ling finished talking, kneading seals with both hands. The hundreds of altars activated at the same time. Everyone's figures disappeared from the mystic realm.
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After the Hundred Cities Smelting Trial, the news of Wu Meng Capital City seizing first place spread throughout the entire Wu Meng Capital City very quickly like the wind.
Wu Meng Capital City's strength had always been unremarkable among these hundred cities.
Not considered very weak but also absolutely not considered strong.
Hundred cities' first place, this sort of thing, had never been related to Wu Meng Capital City.
But this time, Wu Meng Capital City actually overpowered Yong Dang Capital City, becoming the h
undred cities' first place.
This news was too exciting.
"Ye Yuan is really too awesome! He sent Wu Meng Capital City up to the throne of first place with his power alone!"
"Still remember when he just entered the academy back then, everybody still thought that his strength was weak. Didn't expect that just ten years or so passed, he already soared to the sky with one bound."
"He even defeated Jin Yu. In Grotto Profound Deity Realm, he no longer has any opponents, right?"
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Within the academy, there were people praising Ye Yuan everywhere.
Back then, even though Ye Yuan defeating Qin Shao was astonishing, that was just Wu Meng Academy's internal affairs.
But now, it was different. Ye Yuan obtained first place in the Hundred Cities Smelting Trial, completely with a sweeping attitude.
In the City Lord Manor, a middle-aged man with a dignified appearance sat in the hall.
In front of him was the academy head, Wen Yiyang, and Thundercry.
Thundercry bowed his body, recounting the incident of Qin Yuanlong assassinating Ye Yuan, saying indignantly, "City Lord, the Qin Family is simply too much! No matter what grievances they have with Ye Yuan, using this sort of method to deal with a Grotto Profound Realm student seriously makes people despise!"
Actually, the enmity between the Qin Family and Ye Yuan, everyone was aware of right and wrong.
The Qin Family was used to being overbearing. They could not stomach the smallest bit of offense.
Wu Meng City Lord said coolly, "Wen Yiyang, what do you think?"
Wen Yiyang clasped his hands and said, "City Lord, Ye Yuan is a genius hard to come by in 100 thousand years. His significance to our Wu Meng Capital City is self-evident! The Qin Family was indeed a little too much this time."
Wen Yiyang as the academy head, for such a genius to be able to be produced under him, he naturally cherished Ye Yuan immensely.
The Qin Family's actions had already touched his bottom line.
Wu Meng City Lord fell into a long silence. Wen Yiyang and Thundercry did not dare to say anymore. The two people exchanged a glance, both seeing the puzzlement in the other party's eyes.