Chapter 68: Yan Jie, why did you want to do this?

  Rumble...

  As Jiang Xingyun's hands moved, a stone gate under the artificial hill slowly opened, and a large amount of gray dust flew up. When the gate was fully open, a two-meter-sized square passageway appeared, sloping downward, dark and profound, leading to an unknown place.

  Jiang Xingyun walked down the underground passage, his movements light and gentle, as if he was afraid of startling something. He walked for about twenty meters before a bright light appeared in front of him. It was a stone room with a tightly closed stone door. On the wall outside the room, a night pearl the size of an egg was embedded, emitting soft and gentle light.

  Arriving in front of the stone chamber, Jiang Xingyun changed his usual dignified demeanor and suddenly knelt down with a thud. His head was pressed against the ground for a long time without making a sound, as if he had frozen in place.

  It wasn't until much later that a hoarse voice came from within the stone chamber.

  "Cloudy, what brings you here today?"

  "Grandfather, the Jiang family will face great difficulties. Xingyun humbly requests that you take action to resolve this crisis." Jiang Xingyun continued to kneel and respectfully said.

  "Is there anyone in this city who can't handle the Jiang family?" The voice from the stone room said, "Could it be a cultivator from a cultivation sect? If so, taking action would be suicidal for me."

  "No, Grandfather, it's not someone from a cultivation sect, but rather someone from the Ye family of Lincheng," said Jiang Xingyun.

  "Hum! Trash!" A furious hum came from the stone room, causing Jiang Xingyun, who was kowtowing outside the stone room, to tremble all over.

  "The Ye family's hundred-year accumulation is nothing, what kind of expert can't you handle, yet because of the Ye family, I have to take action!"

  "Grandfather, calm down."

  Jiang Xingyun was terrified and helplessly said: "Today, I let my subordinate Grand General Zhao Wujie join forces with the three major family heads to send over a thousand elite troops to attack the Ye family. Unexpectedly, they were completely defeated, and the three major families lost ten elders, almost all of whom were killed by one person."

  "What?" The voice in the stone room was filled with surprise, saying: "The Ye family actually has such a character, could it be that they have already entered the first Life Spring of the Destiny Sea Secret Realm?"

  "It shouldn't be." Jiang Xingyun said: "That formidable person is a younger generation disciple of the Ye family, only in his teens, yet he's strong to this extent. However, he relied on physical strength to overpower and kill over ten powerful individuals, but I haven't seen him use spiritual energy to attack from afar."

  "Impossible! Do you think I'm senile? At the age of ten or so, even a once-in-a-thousand-years prodigy couldn't be this strong."

  "Yes, Grandfather is wise. That person was once a five-element cultivator who shook the inner courtyard of Tianfu Temple, but his meridians were also abolished by him, yet he didn't know why they recovered again. It's likely that there must be a treasure on his body, and he should have triggered the power of the treasure to make his combat strength stronger."

  "It's not should, it's must. Otherwise, how could he behead ten nine-segment peak experts at his young age?" The voice in the stone room trembled with excitement and said: "If I get such a powerful treasure, even the strong men of the Guardian Hall in the Imperial City will be unable to withstand me. My Jiang family may establish a great achievement, it's really the blessing of heaven for my Jiang family, hahaha!"

  "Grandfather, you've agreed to take action?" Jiang Xingyun said excitedly.

  "Hmm." The voice in the stone room said, "Since you dare to move against the Ye family, Ye Wen Tian is definitely not in the Ye family. And you will definitely seek help from the Wang City to eliminate any future threats. Have you already told Chu Wang about the treasure and had him send a strong helper from the Protector of the Country Hall to assist you?"

  "Grandfather, I..." Jiang Xingyun wanted to explain, but was interrupted by the voice in the stone room. "You're doing the right thing, I'm not blaming you. The strong ones from Wang City won't arrive for a while yet, otherwise you wouldn't have come here risking my wrath. Heh! As long as we get the treasure, the elder of the Guardian Hall won't need to return to Wang City either, and this crime will be pinned on Ye Wentian."

  "Grandfather, you have a broad vision and are skilled in strategy. I admire you to the extreme." Jiang Xingyun was overjoyed and his emotions were stirred up, as if he had already seen the day when the Jiang family would become powerful enough to rival the Wang City.

  "Alright, stop flattering me. You can withdraw for now. I'll naturally come find you later. Clean up the room I used to stay in." The voice from the stone chamber instructed.

  "Yes, I'll let you go first, and wait for your grandfather to come out." Jiang Xingyun was in a great mood and quickly walked out.

  At the same time, the three major family elders' halls were also performing this scene, with the three family heads kneeling and begging their ancestors to come out.

  From today, Lincheng has been quiet after the bloody battle between Ye's family and the three major families as well as the city lord's mansion. The three major families and the city lord's mansion are all silent, without any news leaking out, seemingly calm but actually hiding a turbulent undercurrent. The streets and alleys are all discussing this matter.

  People knew that the three big families and the city master's mansion would not let it go, although each of them had lost more than two elders, and even the family masters were killed outside the Ye family's mansion. However, there were still several elders in the three big families and the city master's mansion who had not come out yet. If they joined forces together, there would be over a dozen people, over a dozen nine-segment peak experts.

  "The Ye family has produced an extraordinary talent."

  "A useless body that couldn't cultivate in the past is now so powerful. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, even if my father told me, I wouldn't have believed it."

  "The three major families have been dormant for a long time, how can they be easily dealt with? There must be many nine-segment peak elders in the family. I think that by tomorrow at the latest, the three major families and the City Master's Mansion will gather all the strong people together to deal with the Ye family. I don't know if the little young master of the Ye family, who is like a demon god, can turn the tide again."

  Many people in the tea house in the city were talking in low voices.

  "This time, the three major families and the City Master's Mansion are going to be thoroughly defeated. Didn't you see that the young master of the Ye family slaughtered the elder of the Ninth Segment Peak as if he was chopping cabbage? It's really terrifying. Even if they gather all their experts together tomorrow, it's not certain they can handle him."

  "I doubt it, Ye family's young master may be formidable, but he is only one person, and will eventually become exhausted. If he were to face the siege of a dozen or so 9th rank peak experts, I fear he would be unable to cope, and perhaps this demonic genius will fall tomorrow. Ah, what a pity, otherwise our Lin City might also have been able to make a name for itself like Nameless Town because of one person."

  "It's still unclear who will kill the deer, so let's not make any rash guesses. Let's wait and see what happens tomorrow. I actually hope that Young Master Ye can slaughter all those guys from the three big families."

  "Shh! Keep your voice down, how dare you say such things, don't you want to live?"

  The three big families and the City Lord's Mansion, Ye Chen didn't know but could guess their reactions, and the discussions among the people of Lincheng were also affirmative, after all, such a thing had never happened in Lincheng before.

  At this time, Ye Chen was sitting in the wooden bathtub, suffering from the torture. Ye Yan's hands were soft and delicate, as if they had no bones, stroking Ye Chen's skin, making his heart flutter with nostalgia.

  "Yan Jie, you've washed enough, go out first." Ye Chen's face was slightly red, with sweat dripping from his forehead.

  Ye Yan looked at Ye Chen's sweaty face, covered her mouth and smiled, withdrew her hand, tossed the silk handkerchief to him, saying: "It's almost done, if we don't leave now, a little guy is going to have a nosebleed, hehe."

  Ye Chen was extremely embarrassed and really wanted to pull her over and slap her plump, upright buttocks hard. However, he couldn't do that, the atmosphere was already ambiguous enough, if he did that again, he feared he would really do something. Moreover, deep down in his heart, he still had a lot of respect for Ye Yan, otherwise, he wouldn't be so depressed in front of her time and time again.

  "Yan Jie, why haven't you left yet?" Seeing that Ye Yan had no intention of leaving, Ye Chen urged.

  Ye Yanbai glanced at Ye Chen and said: "Sister, why are you leaving? Since you've finished washing up, hurry out and I'll help you dry off and get dressed."

  "Uh... never mind, I have hands and feet, can't always ask you to help me with everything, Sister Yan, why don't you go out first?" Ye Chen said with a bitter smile.

  "No way, today you have to listen to your sister." Ye Yan was unmoved, and instead seemed to have discovered something, looking at Ye Chen and saying: "What? Did you have bad thoughts when I was washing you earlier, now you don't dare stand up?"

  Ye Chen, that's a sweat, a big beauty bathing herself, any man would be excited, and your hand is intentionally or unintentionally rubbing against her skin, isn't it?

  But this was something Ye Chen absolutely couldn't say out loud. At this moment, Ye Chen deeply understood that anything he said would be wrong, and he couldn't even stand up, or else it would truly be embarrassing to death. The only thing he could do was remain silent, silently sitting in the wooden bucket without moving, waiting for somewhere to lower its flags and drums.

  "Hmph! You little guy is still competing with your sister, huh?" Seeing Ye Chen sitting silently in the wooden bucket, motionless like an old monk, Ye Yan got angry and reached out to pull him, wanting to drag him out.

  She pulled hard, but Ye Chen didn't budge. Ye Yan's hands suddenly exerted a great deal of force, and Ye Chen only felt an enormous pulling force coming from her before he could even react. His entire body flew out of the wooden bucket as if it had wings, and Ye Yan hadn't expected that Ye Chen wouldn't put up much resistance to her pull. As a result, his entire body pressed directly against hers.

  "Ah!"

  Ye Yan's face turned bright red as she felt a hard, hot object pressed against her softest spot, and for an instant, her eyes flashed with shame and anger.

  Ye Chen did not expect that such a thing would happen, and coincidentally, he was pressed against Ye Yan's place. He was stunned, the two of them stared at each other, their faces both red.

  Ye Yan suddenly burst out laughing and looked at Ye Chen with warmth in her eyes, saying: "Younger brother Chen, do you like bullying your sister?"

  Ye Chen shook his head, forcing the turmoil in his heart to subside, and looked into Ye Yan's eyes, asking very calmly, "Yan sister, can you tell me why you want to do this?"

  Ye Yan's expression suddenly froze, her eyes also became complex, she stared at Ye Chen for a long time without making a sound.