Chapter 37: Being Spied On

  The various big families in Lincheng gradually became lively, and as the end of the year approached, the family comparison was imminent. The older generation who were usually outside doing business for the family and the young juniors almost all rushed back to their respective families.

  The Ye family's compound was more lively than usual, all the legitimate and illegitimate children returned to the family yesterday, two days later is the family's year-end clan competition, young disciples gathered together, discussing this year's clan competition.

  One by one, the young disciples were excited, and the first prize was a low-grade extreme spirit medicine. This is the first time that the Ye family has taken out such a precious spirit medicine as a reward for the first place in the clan competition.

  "Brother Sheng, this time the clan competition is yours to lose, that's a low-grade spirit medicine of the highest quality! I'm congratulating you here." A disciple wearing light blue robes said with a flattering tone to Ye Sheng.

  "Hehe, whether or not I can get first place is still unknown. Xiao Shu's family, Yan Jie's cultivation has already reached the seventh stage peak, her strength is formidable, and I don't have too much confidence." Ye Sheng said with a smile, but his eyes showed deep disdain, clearly he had never considered Yan as a threat in his heart.

  "Ye Yan's strength is indeed powerful, but he's definitely no match for you, Sheng Ge." The illegitimate disciple flattered.

  Ye Sheng didn't think much of it, a cold glint flashed in his eyes as he gazed towards the foot of the mountain behind the large courtyard, saying to himself: "Ye Yan is not to be feared, the most dangerous one should be that person from Second Uncle's household, but for now, he has thoroughly become a useless waste."

  Ye Qing stood beside Ye Sheng, with a look of schadenfreude on his face. "He's just a waste of space, even if he temporarily got rid of his useless body for a while, now he's still a waste of space and soon will become a dead man."

  "It's nothing, even if he hadn't been crippled, judging from how he dealt with the Zhao family back then, he was at most a six-segment cultivator. To Sheng Ge, he's not even an ant that can be crushed to death at any time."

  "Haha, six segments? If not for his meridians being completely severed, this time the clan comparison would have definitely let him know the difference between trash and a genius!" Ye Qing laughed loudly. With the support of his father, Ye Xun, he had been continuously taking several low-grade superior spiritual medicines and had already reached the peak of six segments several days ago.

  "If it weren't for Father's repeated warnings not to go to the small courtyard in the back mountain, even if that useless person's tendons were all broken, I wouldn't let him lie comfortably on the bed and enjoy himself. Hmph!" As soon as she mentioned Ye Chen, Ye Qing's eyes were filled with hatred and coldness.

  At this moment, Ye Chen was meditating on the empty ground in the back mountain, and he had been cultivating like this for several days since returning from Wuming Town. Ye Yan hadn't appeared either, nor did she know that he had disappeared for a few days.

  The mountain was very quiet, with only Ye Chen alone. These days, he would use a low-grade top-quality spiritual medicine every day. Originally, the spiritual medicine needed to be decocted into a medicinal soup before it could be taken, because only in this way could the spiritual energy contained within be better absorbed.

  However, a few days ago, Ye Chen discovered another secret of the mysterious mark. If he stuck the spiritual medicine on his chest and then controlled the mark with his heart, he could absorb all the spiritual energy from the medicine in an extremely short period of time. The medicine that had its spiritual energy absorbed would also wither away and turn into dry, useless grass.

  In three days, Ye Chen practiced day and night, with a large amount of spiritual medicine as the foundation. The spiritual energy in his chest seal had never been depleted, nor did he need to spend time replenishing it in the depths of the rear mountain. His strength soared by leaps and bounds, almost to an extent that was hard for him to imagine.

  Three days' time, every day can awaken a cell particle, and every day he can increase the power of a fierce beast. According to past experience, it is inferred that from six segments to seven segments, sixteen cell particles need to be awakened.

  The enhancement of the physical boundary is actually an enhancement of power, and Ye Chen's upgrade to a realm not only enhances his physical strength but also awakens the micro-particles in his cells. Once he reaches the seventh stage of physical refinement, his power will reach a terrifying level.

  In the afternoon, Ye Chen still sat there, and the spiritual energy in his chest seal continued to flow into his body. Another cellular particle slowly grew larger, and his bone marrow also expelled layer after layer of dark, foul-smelling impurities under the cleansing of the spiritual energy.

  An hour later, Ye Chen got up and rushed towards the small lake, his body's stench making him extremely uncomfortable.

  Just after Ye Chen disappeared from the empty space of his cultivation, a beautiful figure appeared in the mountains behind him. She was tall and slender, wearing a pink qipao, with a pair of small leather boots on her feet, both sexy and lovely.

  Ye Yan quickly walked towards Ye Chen's cultivation place, *** full and plump breasts seemed to burst out of her clothes, her already well-developed figure was even more pronounced in the tight-fitting outfit, her body was extremely fiery.

  Ye Yan's appearance can be considered top-notch, her face is beautiful, and her expression has a bit of lovable charm, giving her a special temperament. Her black hair falls on her shoulders, with two strands hanging down in front of her chest. On her head, she wears a small braid made of silk fabric that wraps around her entire head. She looks like a pink flower fairy.

  "Huh, isn't Brother Chen here? Nang said he was cultivating in the back mountain, didn't she?" Seeing that Ye Chen's figure was nowhere to be seen on the empty ground, Ye Yan felt puzzled and her eyes scanned around, suddenly noticing the specks of stains on the ground.

  "What is this?"

  Ye Yan walked to where Ye Chen had previously sat, and suddenly a strong smell wafted over, causing her to wrinkle her elegant eyebrows. Her eyebrows then relaxed, and a smile appeared on her beautiful face as she muttered to herself: "Has Brother Chen's cultivation improved again? It really surprises Sister."

  Ye Yan turned around and quickly walked towards the direction of the lake. A distance of over ten miles was nothing but a few minutes for her, and when she arrived at the lake, she suddenly froze, and then a beautiful face blushed to the roots of her ears.

  He thought Ye Chen was still bathing in the lake, but unexpectedly Ye Chen had just swum to the lakeside and stood up, revealing a robust physique that didn't look like a 14-year-old boy at all, but rather a 16 or 17-year-old young man.

  Ye Yan's face flushed with a hint of shyness, her heart racing more than twice as fast as before. All along, she had treated Ye Chen like a little kid, and given their relationship as cousins, it was said that even if she saw Ye Chen naked, Ye Yan shouldn't have reacted this way.

  But for some reason, Ye Yan had a strange feeling in her heart, and the current Ye Chen was completely different from the past Ye Chen. It seemed as if she was facing not her own cousin, but a familiar yet strange adult man, this feeling made Ye Yan's heart feel embarrassed.

  However, she quickly suppressed the shyness in her heart and forced herself to treat Ye Chen as a child. When Ye Chen walked completely out of the lake and onto the shore, Ye Yan took a deep breath and walked out from between the trees.

  Ye Chen walked up to the shore, looked down at his own body, those full muscles, streamlined lines, made him extremely satisfied, and he couldn't help but do a few bodybuilding poses, looking very showy.

  "Pfft!"

  Suddenly a crisp laughter sounded, Ye Chen's heart was startled, and he looked up to see Ye Yan walking slowly towards him, with one jade hand covering his mouth and letting out a gentle laugh.

  "Yan Jie you..." Ye Chen suddenly jumped up like a rabbit, his hands covering his lower body with lightning speed, his legs tightly closed, and his face was extremely embarrassed.

  "What's wrong? You little brat, you're shy now, huh? Your sister has seen your body countless times, and when you were younger, I even helped you bathe. Ye Yanjiao walked over with a smile, her face flushing red as she gazed at Ye Chen's embarrassed expression, a hint of teasing in her eyes. She glanced at the spot where Ye Chen was covering himself and said, "But, it didn't used to be this big, huh? I didn't know that little brother had really grown up and become a young man."

  Ye Chen: “......” A head of black thread, extremely depressed in his heart, Ni Ma was flirted with by a woman, making him, a big man, very embarrassed.

  "Yan sister... uh, can you please turn around and let me get dressed first?" Ye Chen's pose, covering his body with a bent waist and clamped legs, was really awkward. This time he had lost big time, and this nominal older sister of his had seen everything.

  "Why did sister turn around?" Ye Yan smiled lightly, a hint of softness flashing in her eyes, walked to the edge of the large bluestone and picked up Ye Chen's clothes, her face stern, seriously saying: "Take your hands away, stand properly, sister will dress you."

  "Yechen was taken aback, almost choked, and looked at her with a puzzled expression, saying uncertainly: "Yan Jie, what did you just say?"

  "I told you to stand still, sister is helping you get dressed, what's wrong?" Ye Yan's expression didn't change, she looked at Ye Chen with a pair of beautiful and gentle eyes, saying definitely.

  "Uh... I'll do it myself, Sister Yan, can you turn around? Ye Chen had the urge to burrow into the ground because the place that was covered up had shamelessly hardened. If he really did as Ye Yan said and removed his hand to stand up straight, then the awkwardness of a certain place would be revealed without reserve in her eyes."

  "Less nonsense." Ye Yan's face turned stern, and under Ye Chen's unguarded state, she suddenly brushed aside his hand, holding the clothes to put them on him. But her movements froze in mid-air, and Ye Chen was also stunned there.

  That one root was violently trembling in the air, jumping up and down, so thick that you could even feel the heat emanating from its surface.

  Ye Yan's face turned red for a moment, then quickly returned to normal. She stretched out her jade-like hand and slapped Ye Chen's raised buttocks with a loud "slap", causing Ye Chen's whole body to shudder violently, almost letting out a cry.

  "Not honest, and actually dared to have wild thoughts in front of his sister." Ye Yan glanced at a certain place and withdrew her gaze, putting the clothes on Ye Chen's body and fastening his belt for him. "The clothes are wet, let's go back and change them, it's uncomfortable to wear."

  Ye Chen felt his face burning, it was the first time in twenty years that he had encountered such a situation. He looked at Ye Yan and said weakly: "Yan sister, your thinking is really avant-garde, but can you please not be so shocking in the future? Little brother's heart is not good, it will burst."

  Ye Yan chuckled and said: "Brother Chen, are you saying that I'm being frivolous?"

  "No, little brother didn't mean it that way..." Ye Chen broke out in a cold sweat.