Chapter 52

Chapter 52: Cloud-White Robe!

 

Xiao Family.

Patriarch Xiao Feng sat in the main seat, with all the elders of the Xiao family gathered on both sides.

Xiao Feng stared intently at a black-clothed man standing below, “You say Xiao Bei was killed by that Ye Tianming?”

The black-clothed man respectfully replied, “That is correct.”

Xiao Feng asked with a gloomy face, “Describe their battle process.”

The black-clothed man respectfully recounted the battle between Ye Tianming and Xiao Bei. After hearing his account, the entire hall fell as silent as death.

No one had expected Ye Tianming to be able to kill Xiao Bei in single combat. It should be noted that Xiao Bei was six realms higher than Ye Tianming!

Six realms!

Yet he was defeated?

Xiao Feng’s face was as dark as water, his gaze as cold as ice.

The faces of the Xiao family’s powerful members also grew solemn. Ye Tianming had crossed six realms to kill Xiao Bei. If Ye Tianming were also in the Age Immortal Realm…

No one dared to think deeper.

Xiao Feng suddenly said, “We cannot let him participate in the Wan State Competition.”

Everyone nodded in unison.

Participating in the Wan State Competition, if he won first place, what would that mean? It would mean receiving focused cultivation from the Guanxuan Academy. At that time, major powers would certainly extend olive branches to Ye Tianming, and if Ye Tianming rose to prominence, he would definitely not spare the Xiao family in the future.

Most importantly, obtaining first place in Wan State would likely grant an audience with the legendary Guanxuan Sword Master. If Ye Tianming met the Guanxuan Sword Master, then the Xiao family…

None of them had imagined that someone from a lower-tier family whom they had looked down upon would turn out to be such a prodigy.

A Xiao family elder suddenly said angrily, “It’s all because of that Xiao Nu. If he hadn’t embezzled back then, how could things have come to this?”

Hearing this, the others also became angry.

If Xiao Nu hadn’t embezzled back then, the compensation offered by the Xiao family would certainly have been enough to persuade Ye Tianming. After all, they had offered quite a lot, but damn it, Xiao Nu alone took 99% and left only a hair for the other person…

Absolutely beastly!

The leading Xiao Feng suddenly said, “There’s no point discussing this now. The urgent matter is to prevent Ye Tianming from participating in the Wan State Competition.”

Everyone nodded. Although they were furious about Xiao Nu’s actions, they all knew that discussing it now was meaningless. They couldn’t kill one of their own for the sake of an outsider, could they?

An elder suddenly suggested, “Should we call Xiao Tian back?”

Xiao Tian!

The current heir of the Xiao family and their most prodigious talent.

Xiao Feng immediately shook his head, “Tian is now valued by the Young Master. This is our Xiao family’s greatest opportunity since our ancestors. We cannot let that bastard affect him…”

Hearing Xiao Feng’s words, everyone smiled.

Xiao Tian had now become part of the Crown Prince Faction at the main campus of Guanxuan Academy…

What is the Crown Prince Faction?

It’s a group of top-tier second-generation elites led by Yang Jia. They closely surround Yang Jia, centering around him, forming a terrifying power group. Everyone in it comes from top-tier families and sects. In the Guanxuan Universe, even first-class families are trying every means to get their young talents to join the Crown Prince Faction.

Now that Xiao Tian had become part of the Crown Prince Faction, it was undoubtedly a tremendous blessing for the Xiao family.

Xiao Feng looked at everyone, then said, “When the Young Master spared our Xiao family back then, I thought it was out of respect for our ancestors, but now it seems it might also have been for Tian’s sake. After all, Tian now calls the Young Master ‘big brother’!”

Xiao Tian was his son.

Everyone naturally understood what Xiao Feng meant. He was paving the way for Xiao Tian to become the future patriarch!

“Send a message to the Ancestral Universe!”

Everyone was shocked.

An elder asked incredulously, “Patriarch, do we need to disturb an ancestor to kill an ant?”

Xiao Feng stared at that elder, “We cannot give that young man any more chances. This time, we must eliminate him completely!”

Complete elimination!

In the hall, other elders also nodded, “How many families have perished because they underestimated their enemies? Our Xiao family cannot make this mistake. We must eliminate him completely.”

An elder said, “That bastard’s ability to reach this level in such a short time is extraordinary. He must have someone behind him!”

Xiao Feng stood up and said viciously, “Kill as many as there are, until his entire family is exterminated!!”

Qing State, Ye Family.

In the courtyard, Ye Nan sat cross-legged on the ground. His hands were folded on his chest. Around him, countless streams of spiritual energy converged and entered his body, but strangely, after entering his body, the spiritual energy automatically dispersed back out…

Because he had no dantian in his body, he couldn’t retain spiritual energy.

Ye Nan looked at a man in Taoist robes standing not far away. The robed man smiled and said, “Do you know why I haven’t helped you restore your dantian?”

Ye Nan replied, “Master must have profound intentions.”

The robed man smiled, “Of course I do. During this time, I’ve only let you read books without practicing cultivation because I wanted to first broaden your horizons and mind.”

Ye Nan remained silent. During this time, he had been reading books given by the robed man every day. After reading those books, he realized how small he was. In his original understanding, Guanxuan Academy was undoubtedly a godlike existence, but after reading so many books, he discovered there were forces even more terrifying than Guanxuan Academy!

The robed man suddenly said, “Starting today, you can begin cultivation.”

Ye Nan was overjoyed.

The robed man looked at Ye Nan, “You have no dantian, so why limit yourself to the individual…”

Ye Nan’s eyes lit up, “Master means I should merge with heaven and earth, not store spiritual energy, but directly use it when needed?”

The robed man’s eyes flashed with approval, “Your perspective can be even broader.”

Ye Nan hesitated, then said, “The entire universe?”

The robed man stared at him, “It can be even broader.”

Ye Nan was stunned.

The robed man smiled, “Whether heaven and earth or the universe, everything is within the ‘Dao’. So why go through all that trouble? Isn’t it better to directly merge with the Dao, achieving everything in one step?”

Ye Nan was surprised, “Master, this… would the Great Dao be willing?”

The robed man smiled faintly, “You are my disciple. Merging with this universe’s Great Dao is its honor. How could it be unwilling?”

As he spoke, he waved his sleeve, and a scroll floated in front of Ye Nan, “This is the ‘Dao Treasury’. Inside are nine Great Dao sources: ‘True Dharma Appearance’, ‘Dao Dharma Body’… If you merge with just one, among the younger generation in this universe, except for Yang Jia of the Yang family, no one will be your match.”

Ye Nan opened the scroll and saw a line of ancient characters: True Dharma Appearance: Dharma body ninety thousand zhang tall, head touching the sky, feet treading the netherworld, connecting earth to heaven…

Ye Nan read with surging excitement. Then, as if remembering something, he quickly closed it and asked, “Master, can my brothers Ye Zong and Tianming also learn this?”

The robed man’s eyes flashed with complexity, but more with gratification. He smiled slightly, “They have their own opportunities. You don’t need to worry about them.”

Ye Nan hesitated, then nodded, “Alright.”

But in his heart, he had already decided that if Ye Zong and Ye Tianming didn’t have better opportunities, he would share this ‘Dao Treasury’ with them.

He was the eldest brother and had to consider his younger brothers’ futures.

The robed man smiled, “After you complete the cultivation of the ‘Dao Treasury’, you can establish your own Dao and become an ancestor. Your senior brothers and sisters ahead of you took at most three hundred years, so you need to work hard and not be the last one.”

Ye Nan earnestly replied, “Disciple will not disappoint Master!”

Back mountain.

Bang bang bang…

In the back mountain, a series of muffled sounds continuously echoed, and the ground trembled slightly.

Ye Zong was currently punching a cliff wall repeatedly. The wall was being bombarded with flying debris, his power terrifying.

His hands were strange, as if cast from gold.

In this manner, he forcefully leveled the small mountain with his fists.

After Ye Zong stopped, he took a deep breath, then suddenly leaped up and slammed both fists into the ground.

Boom!

Where he landed, a huge crater formed, and the surrounding ground split into countless fissures, extremely terrifying.

Ye Zong charged toward the distance, throwing punch after punch, each more terrifying than the last. In this way, mountain after mountain was destroyed by his fists, and his punching power seemed to stack, each punch stronger than the previous. In the end, just a single punch wave could easily reduce a large mountain to dust…

Not far to the right stood an old man in black robes. The black-robed elder stood with a bent waist, respectfully watching Ye Zong, his eyes full of fanaticism and worship.

After a thousand years, he had seen again the legendary: Invincible Fist.

The Invincible Fist, once the highest martial art ranked first in their world, comprised 99,999 punches. Each punch represented a different Dao, each stronger than the last. When reaching the 99,999th punch, 90,000 Daos would merge and combine. At that time, just a trace of punch light would be enough to destroy billions of star systems!

Back then, his master Ye Zong had used this set of punches to break through countless eras, break through the literary and martial academies of the Ancient Philosophy Sect, break through the Temple, break through the Heavenly Court… Through countless eras, never once defeated, until finally meeting that person…

Thinking of that person, the black-robed elder’s eyes immediately showed solemnity.

He slowly closed his eyes, and a memory sealed for a thousand years came rushing back like a tide.

A thousand years ago.

In some vast universe, a bare-chested man stood in the starry sky. The man looked almost identical to Ye Zong. He was nine feet tall, with a straight spine like a sword or spear, with shoulder-length hair, wild and domineering. Bare-chested, his muscles were like steel, as solid as mountains and rocks. An invisible pressure emanated from him that even ninth-level Breakthrough Realm masters couldn’t withstand!

At that moment, the long-haired man opened his eyes. At the edge of his vision, a man approached, wearing a cloud-white robe…

He was a sword cultivator!