Chapter 38: The Fearsome Ye Yan

  Her face was slightly smiling, and a loving expression floated in her eyes. She said softly: "We are siblings with blood ties, let alone sister seeing your body to dress you up, even if the sister sleeps with you on the same bed, what's wrong with that? This is the sister's love for her brother, do you understand?"

  Ye Chen looked at those eyes full of affectionate color, and a warm current rose in his heart. Although Ye Yan rarely appeared in his dreams in the past, Ye Chen could be sure that Ye Yan must have been extremely fond of the useless Ye Chen back then, otherwise he wouldn't be treating him like this now.

  "Yan sister, little brother knows you're good to me." Ye Chen's heart was moved, but he didn't know what to say either. He pulled Yan's hand and walked over to the big green stone to sit down. "Yan sister, did you come find me for something?"

  "Can't sister come to find you if nothing's wrong?" Ye Yan glared at Ye Chen with a bad temper, and then those eyes suddenly became deep and profound, saying: "Chen brother, have you been cultivating in the back mountain these past few days?"

  "Uh-huh." Ye Chen nodded, a hint of a smile rising on his face, and asked: "Yan Jie, what's up?"

  "It's nothing, the family member who went to Ying City to purchase the spiritual medicine has returned, but the spiritual medicine was secretly stolen." Ye Yan said calmly and lightly, as if she were talking about something extremely ordinary. However, her beautiful eyes inadvertently glanced at Ye Chen, taking in all of his reactions.

  "Was it robbed?" Ye Chen was stunned, and after a moment of stupidity, he turned his head to look at Ye Yan and said, "How is this possible? In all these years, has such a thing ever happened? Two seven-peak strongmen and a group of six-peak masters, how could they let someone rob the spiritual medicine so easily?"

  "They were drugged in the unnamed tavern of the unnamed town." Ye Yan said lightly, gazing at the sparkling lake surface, the gentle breeze blowing her hair into disarray, a few strands sticking to the corner of her mouth. "The master is now ranting and raving in the family hall, hehe."

  "Have you been robbed?" Ye Chen sneered, "Anyway, I won't get any of these spiritual medicines, and the ones your family provided to Sister Yan are just some low-grade medium-quality spiritual medicines. It doesn't matter to us, but some people... hehe, their hearts must be bleeding."

  "It's not just our Ye family." Ye Yan didn't respond to Ye Chen's words, her gaze still fixed on the rippling lake surface as she said quietly: "This time, the Zhao and Guo families, as well as the City Lord's Manor, who went to Ying City to purchase goods, except for the Duanmu family, were all robbed clean on the road. Moreover, not a single person from the Zhao, Guo, and City Lord's Manor who went to purchase spiritual medicine returned. If it weren't for the horses that knew the way back, stained with blood, returning to Lin City, perhaps even now, several families and the City Lord's Manor would still be unaware of the robbery of the spiritual medicine."

  "This is really good news, it's rare to see them suffer a loss, this time the damage is severe, it can be said that they have been bled once. Haha! Ye Chen laughed loudly and continued: "I don't know who has such great skills, not only did they rob all the spiritual medicine from the three major families and the city lord's mansion, but also killed so many of their people."

  "It's indeed impressive, between Lin City and Ying City, excluding the families within the two cities, there are no other families with such strength. It's likely that this time it was a lone individual who made the move, a powerful lone individual." A glimmer of light flashed in Ye Yan's eyes, and then he turned his head to look at Ye Chen, saying: "The spiritual medicine has been robbed, and this time the first prize reward for the family competition, the low-grade extreme spiritual medicine, is gone. Younger brother Chen, do you still want to participate?"

  "Hehe, for me, the reward of winning isn't that important, so I won't participate then, to avoid exposing my meridian recovery." Ye Chen said.

  Ye Yan smiled and said, "Sister doesn't want to participate either, but she has no choice. Only by ranking high in the family competition can we get the family's strong support. With my current cultivation level, I need a large amount of spiritual medicine. Those low-grade middle-quality spiritual medicines have completely lost their effect on me. There are still six months until the Lin Cheng Grand Competition. Before that, Sister must break through to the eighth stage or higher in order to have a chance to stand out in the competition and be eligible for consideration by the two great blessed lands that come to select disciples."

  Ye Yan said, looking at Ye Chen: "Chen brother, your cultivation has made rapid progress in this period of time. Sister is really curious, how did you do it? In the family, you didn't get any support from spiritual medicine, but your cultivation speed is faster than anyone else in the family."

  Ye Chen remained silent for a while before saying: "Yan Jie, this is little brother's secret, I'll tell you later."

  "Heh heh, sister didn't necessarily want you to answer. Since the moment you disappeared for half a year and suddenly appeared at the family gate, I've had this strange feeling that you're completely different from before, like two different people." Ye Yan said, seeing Ye Chen's mouth move slightly as if wanting to say something, Ye Yan smiled lightly, "Don't deny it, sister has been in contact with you since childhood and understands you too well. A person can change everything, but the things deeply hidden inside won't change, and you... nothing is the same anymore. I suppose Nang'er, who's always by your side, must have discovered this long ago, right? Only that little girl is stubborn, no matter what you become, you're still the only young master in her heart."

  "People are bound to change, and after experiencing too many things, they will change even more." Ye Chen said.

  "Does Second Uncle know?" Ye Yan said quietly.

  "I know." Ye Chen replied casually.

  "Sister doesn't know what happened to you during those six months, but this change in you is what sister has been expecting all along." Ye Yan's expression seemed a bit dazed, she turned her head and looked into Ye Chen's eyes, staring for a while. "The black bow in Second Uncle's study room, have you used it before?"

  Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat, Ye Yan's eyes were so deep and profound, like the endless starry sky, making people involuntarily want to sink in, had she discovered something or was she suspecting something?

  "I used it, just a few days ago I saw that bow in my father's study was special and had great power, so I brought it with me into the depths of the back mountain." Ye Chen said with a puzzled expression, then looked at Ye Yan with an astonished look, "Yan sister, how did you know I used the Black Chen Bow?"

  Ye Yan didn't answer Ye Chen's question, but instead looked at him quietly, a hint of loss flashing in her eyes. "Chen brother, have you ever considered your sister as the closest person to you?"

  "What you said, sister Yan, I have always regarded you as the closest person to me." Looking at the loss in Ye Yan's eyes, Ye Chen felt a sense of guilt and smiled.

  "Ah!" Ye Yan let out a soft sigh, gazing at the ripples on the lake's surface. "The Black Chen Bow has not been used for twenty years. Today, I went to Second Uncle's study and found that the Black Chen Bow was stained with killing intent - the kind of killing intent that comes from taking someone's life. Brother Chen, are you still going to hide it from your sister?"

  Ye Yan's voice was tinged with a hint of resentment, a hint of sadness, and a hint of worry.

  Ye Chen's whole body shook, and a complex light flashed in his eyes. He fell silent, Ye Yan was also silent, the two were quiet and soundless, with only the sound of the wind blowing gently in their ears.

  Ye Yan's intelligence and astuteness far exceeded Ye Chen's expectations. Without a doubt, Ye Yan not only suspected that the theft of the Lingyuan medicine was done by Ye Chen but had almost confirmed it. Ye Chen could not have imagined that his nominal elder sister would possess such terrifying intellect, able to directly pinpoint him as the target based on just this tiny clue. To think that even if Ye Chen were to shout from the rooftops that he was the one who slaughtered several powerful families and stole the Lingyuan medicine, no one would believe him.

  Killing so many masters and snatching the spiritual medicine, unless one has the strength of the eighth peak, it is absolutely impossible. So, Ye Yan can suspect Ye Chen, it's conceivable how terrifying her intelligence is.

  Fortunately, Ye Yan was not only not his enemy, but also loved him so much, otherwise it would be enough to give Ye Chen a headache.

  The two remained silent, neither of them speaking. At this time, Ye Yan suddenly stood up and turned to leave directly. Ye Chen's heart was anxious, he grabbed her and pulled her back to sit beside him again, bitterly smiling: "Yan Jie, are you angry?"

  "There isn't," Ye Yan said lightly.

  "Alright, I did it." Ye Chen said helplessly, then reached into his pocket and pulled out a storage bag, opening it to reveal the fragrance of spiritual medicine wafting out, refreshing one's mind and spirit.

  Ye Chen handed the storage bag over to Ye Yan and said, "All of the spiritual medicine from the three major families and the City Master's estate are in here."

  Ye Yan's face flashed a hint of shock, although she had already confirmed that it was Ye Chen who did it. However, hearing him personally admit it and seeing the spiritual medicine in the storage bag made her still feel somewhat stunned. What did she see? Over a dozen low-grade top-quality spiritual medicines were quietly placed in the storage bag, with nearly two hundred low-grade high-quality spiritual medicines. This was simply a heaven-sent resource, enough to allow someone to cultivate from the first stage to the ninth stage peak.

  Her face was flushed with excitement, her lips slightly parted, and her eyes shone with a mixture of shock and thrill. Her beautiful complexion had taken on a delicate pink hue, making her look like a ripe peach that seemed to invite everyone to take a bite.

  "Is this little spiritual medicine going to shock my sister Yan into this state?" Ye Chen's face floated with a hint of a smile, and he reached out to hook around Ye Yan's round and jade-like chin, teasing: "Beauty, there's a share for you in here too."

  "Ugh, be honest with me." Ye Yan slapped away Ye Chen's hand and her expression turned serious. "You're really reckless, have you thought about what would happen if we fail and they recognize us or something goes wrong? How sad would Er Uncle be, how difficult it would be for Nang'er, and how distressed I would be!"

  "I know Yan Jie cares about me, isn't that nothing? Besides, how could I do something without being sure?" Ye Chen said nonchalantly.