Unrivaled Medicine God, page 250
"Heh, over the top is it? I gave him a chance. It's he who didn't want it! Since that's the case, he will have to pay a corresponding price for this! I, Ye Yuan, don't stir up trouble for nothing, but I'm not afraid of trouble either!" Ye Yuan did not budge an inch.
When the other early-rank Alchemy Sovereigns and middle-rank Alchemy Sovereigns heard Ye Yuan's tone of speaking, they all secretly broke into a sweat.
Dan Chenzi and Ren Xingchun were both the Endless World's peak existences. Ye Yuan offending all of them, how coarse a nerve did this need?!
"What a fine not afraid of trouble! Your Tranquil Cloud Sect forcibly occupied my Wu Fang City's territory. I didn't even find you to settle the score and you come to be unbridled with me instead!" Ren Xingchun's fury became greater and greater. As he spoke, it deviated off topic already.
Wu Xuan saw the situation and felt anything but reassuring, so he hurriedly urged, "City Lord, this matter is still within the scope of control. The both of you each take a step back!"
"Humph! This punk is conceited and insolent on account of his ability! Even making light of this old man! Seriously too arrogant! I treat him as an honored guest, and he's actually so overbearing! Truly a brat who doesn't know the immensity of heaven and earth!"
Ye Yuan said coolly, "Heavenly Evil Sect committed evil deeds everywhere, but your Wu Fang City turned a blind eye to it. That's helping the wicked perpetuate wicked deeds! I helped you guys eliminate the evil and were in the wrong instead? People who train in alchemy should have benevolent thoughts. This Wu Fang City is hailed as the alchemy holy city. Hehe, isn't it overshooting the truth?!"
Cao Zheng was stupefied listening by the side. Their Cao Family did not say a word, but City Lord and this brat started seizing each other by the throat. What was going on here?
Everyone was rather bewildered too, not knowing why these two people were so hot-tempered.
Finally, it was still Dan Chenzi who came forward to be a peacemaker, "Gentlemen, calm your anger first. Actually, the 20 problems that Little Brother Ye resolved has immense contributions to my Wu Fang City's Alchemy Path's prosperity. It's just that the sense of propriety was not grasped well. Little Brother Ye, facing a great enemy at the moment, isn't us having internal strifes aggrieving our own and gladdening the enemy? In my opinion, the Cao Family let that Tranquil Cloud Sect elder go, and consider this matter passed too."
"Heh, how can it be so easy? The Cao Family must apologize to Grand Elder Skymaple!" Ye Yuan said with a cold smile.
"No way! He can be released. But an apology is impossible!" Cao Zheng refused straight away.
What a joke. How could a colossal family clan like the Cao Family apologize to a third-grade tiny sect's elder?
"Hehe, not apologizing works too. I don't need you to release the person. You all can close shop today, could it be that it will be closed every day in the future? From today onwards, I'll come here to solve questions every day, all the way until all of the questions on the seventh level are all solved finish!" Ye Yuan said with a cold sneer.
"Shameless boasting! Do you really think that by answering 20 questions, you will be able to answer all of the questions? Questions ranked further to the front, the greater the degree of difficulty! Conundrums that nobody could resolve in several thousand years can be resolved with just the likes of you?" Cao Fang said disdainfully when he heard that.
"You can very well give it a try!" Ye Yuan said coolly.
This sentence directly aggravate internal injuries in Cao Fang.
He questioned Ye Yuan previously. The result was that Ye Yuan directly answered all of the final 20 questions.
Now, Ye Yuan was still brimming with confidence. Was it possible that he really had such capabilities?
Impossible!
Question No.1 was simply heaven-defying to the max. Even Lord Chairman and City Lord were at a complete loss when they looked at it, let alone Ye Yuan.
Dan Chenzi and the rest naturally did not believe that Ye Yuan could answer all of the questions as well. But, being deadlocked here right now wasn't a solution either!
"Little Brother Ye, everybody each takes a step back. The Cao Family releases the person, and compensate your household's elder 100 thousand high-grade essence crystals. This got to be ok, right?" Dan Chenzi said.
But Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "I only want an apology! Essence crystals, as long as I want, I can have countless!"
Everyone was directly speechless. This Ye Yuan was simply impervious to neither hard nor soft tactics!
"That Skymaple answered the question wrongly and even slandered my Cao Family's reputation. I didn't kill him directly is already showing leniency! You actually still want us to apologize?" Cao Fang challenged.
Ye Yuan suddenly beamed and said, "Is that so? Then how about we invite grand elder out to confront in court? If Elder Skymaple answered wrongly, I, Ye Yuan, will return this 400 thousand essence crystals intact, and apologize to your Cao Family! But, if Elder Skymaple's answer was correct, what then?"
With this, Cao Fang was thrown into a fluster.
He never would have imagined that the matter would develop to such a state. Now, it could not be controlled any longer.
Right then, Zhu Jiang suddenly sighed with melancholy and said, "Sigh, Brother Cao Zheng, this matter is the fault of the three of us. To think that it would stir up such a mighty uproar. This Thousand Query Wall's consultation team elder, I, Zhu Jiang, have no face to carry on holding the post. Brother Cao better finds somebody more competent."
With Zhu Jiang saying this, Liu Yun and the other person also requested to resign from Cao Zheng.
The news that Cao Zheng got was that somebody was causing trouble in Exquisite Jade Pavilion. But he was not clear about the whole story of the incident.
Hearing Zhu Jiang's words at this time, how could he still not understand what was going on?
Only to see him casually fling a hand, landing a slap on Cao Fang's face as he said coldly, "You wicked son! Turns out that everything was stirred up by you! You actually used the Cao Family's reputation to do this kind of low-grade thing! I'll exterminate you!"
Chapter 514. Storming out of the Room |
Cao Fang was sent flying out directly. By the time he crawled up, half of his face was swollen like a pig's head.
Ye Yuan looked at this scene with a cold smile and was very disdainful in his heart.
That slap looked very impressive. Actually, it did not employ essence energy at all. Cao Zheng merely used the strength of the physical body.
Hence, Cao Fang's face looked scary, but it was just receiving some superficial wounds.
Of course, not only Ye Yuan saw through it, the other big shots naturally could discern it too.
It was just that at this sort of time, there was obviously no one who would come forward to expose it.
"Grandfather, I . . ."
Cao Fang hugged his face and was just about to speak, but he was cut off by Cao Zheng who said, "Why aren't you quickly releasing the person yet and apologizing to Little Brother Ye? The Heavenly Evil Sect's matters, even City Lord didn't say anything. Is there a need for you to care about other people liking salty carrots? Go back and face the wall to reflect. Cause trouble for me again and you better be careful; I'll waste you!"
Same as Ren Dong, Cao Fang grew up under Cao Zheng's protection since young. Cao Zheng had never hit him like this before. This made Cao Fang feel very wronged.
However, although Cao Zheng's words were said out very viciously, it actually did not hurt nor itched. It even sowed discord between Ren Xingchun and Ye Yuan's relationship a little without leaving any traces.
Ren Xingchun this person as the City Lord, what he relied on was not scheming and plotting, but it was incomparably tyrannical methods.
Not only was his Alchemy Path strength preeminent, but his attainments in the Martial Path were also exceedingly high. He belonged to a different class of existence among alchemists.
In Wu Fang City, all those who refused to give in to him, he had always used bloody methods to suppress them.
Actually, he originally planned on being a mediator coming here today. Little did he think that because of his fiery temper, he would actually clash with Ye Yuan.
In truth, Ye Yuan being able to answer the Thousand Query Wall's seventh level's questions was immensely beneficial to them, fellow alchemists.
But Ye Yuan's means were too domineering. This kind of directly dropping in to smash the place action would directly affect the Wu Fang City's position in the alchemists' hearts.
Ren Xingchun as the City Lord had no choice but to come forward to stop Ye Yuan.
But how could Ye Yuan be so easy to get along with? It was fine if he talked nicely. Yet, Ren Xingchun just had to have a commanding tone, directly aggravating Ye Yuan's opinion of him.
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Before long, Skymaple was finally brought out.
When Ye Yuan saw Skymaple's slightly miserable looking appearance, he knew that Skymaple most likely suffered considerable hardships in this short while. The fury in his heart involuntarily soared higher.
When Skymaple saw a bunch of Alchemy Sovereign experts present, he could not help sucking in a deep breath and came to Ye Yuan's side.
"Hehe, my Tranquil Cloud Sect came to Wu Fang City for the sake of the Endless World's safety, but we received such a treatment! Looks like we were hallucinating that the other party is willing! Forget it! Your Cao Family's apology, I don't need it either. Grand Elder and I will leave Wu Fang City right away to avoid being an eyesore to everyone! Grand Elder, let's go!"
As he said, Ye Yuan pulled Skymaple and was just about to leave.
When Ren Xingchun saw this scene, he wanted to stop Ye Yuan but was stopped by Dan Chenzi.
Dan Chenzi shot Wu Xuan a look, signaling him to make a move. Dan Chenzi then said to Ren Xingchun, "Old Man Ren, you don't add more to the discord. This boy is clearly somebody who can be persuaded by reason, but he's not a person to be cowed by force. You continue like this and the Endless Meet in two days most likely can't commence anymore."
Hearing these words, Ren Xingchun's slowly rising fury was ultimately pressed down.
And in this short while, Ye Yuan already left the Exquisite Jade Pavilion. Wu Xuan followed out closely behind too.
He darted a look at Dan Chenzi and said vigilantly, "You this old punk, what devious ideas are you planning again? Your Alchemist Association stands aloof above worldly considerations. Even if the Fierce Gale World really attacked over here, they wouldn't dare to do anything to you either. Don't say that you're doing this for the sake of the Endless World too!"
Dan Chenzi let go of Ren Xingchun and said with a faint smile, "For it is good, not for it is fine as well. Could it be that you aren't interested in this young man? In my opinion, his knowledge in alchemy likely far surpasses yours and mine!"
Ren Xingchun gave a cold snort and said, "If now isn't extraordinary times, this old man would definitely interrogate this stinking brat with torture well! Even if his alchemy knowledge is any greater, he's merely a Sea Transformation Realm. Could he still overturn the heaven?"
Dan Chenzi said with a smile, "You this old fellow, always being hot-tempered. You don't just look at this boy being unbelievably obstinate. If it wasn't this special period at present, he might not be so high-profile either. This boy is soft and gentle even with his rough ways that he showed us; at the same time, he isn't easy to get along with."
Ren Xingchun snorted coldly, but then he turned to Cao Zheng and said, "What a splendid thing your Cao Family did! I don't care about you guys smashing your signboards. But if it threatens Wu Fang City, don't blame this old man for turning hostile on you!"
Cao Zheng's expression was slightly kind of ugly as he nodded and said, "City Lord rest assured. This incident, the Cao Family will definitely deal with it well!"
Although the Cao Family's bedrock was incomparably solid, under Ren Xingchun's rule, Cao Zheng had to tuck his tail between his legs to behave properly too.
Infuriating Ren Xingchun, nobody would gain anything good out of it.
In this Wu Fang City, it had already been very, very long since anyone dared to challenge Ren Xingchun's authority. Looking from this angle, Ye Yuan could already be considered Wu Fang City's number one person.
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"Ye Yuan! Please wait! Please wait!" Wu Xuan chased after Ye Yuan out as he yelled at the top of his voice.
Ye Yuan halted his footsteps when he heard that and gave Wu Xuan and bow and said, "Today, many thanks to Master Wu Xuan for helping me out of my predicament. This kid bears it in my heart. Next time, if there's the opportunity, this kid will definitely repay generously."
Today, if not for Wu Xuan being present, how the outcome would be was really hard to say.
Wu Xuan laughed and said, "Huhu, you're too serious with your words. If not for coming to the Exquisite Jade Pavilion today, I'll most likely regret it for the rest of my life! Seeing you refined pills yesterday, I even gave rise to the thought of taking a disciple. Only seeing your means today did I know that I was rash. In front of you, how can I bear the word master?"
Only when he saw Ye Yuan's performance today, did Wu Xuan know why Ye Yuan was completely uninterested in him yesterday.
What he knew, Ye Yuan knew all. What he did not know, Ye Yuan knew too.
What would he use to teach Ye Yuan?
Recalling it now, yesterday was really making a really big joke.
"Master Wu Xuan is an Alchemy Sovereign experts. Master this word is naturally deserving," Ye Yuan said with a smile.
Actually, in front of Ye Yuan, who could be deserving of this word? It was just that Wu Xuan helped Ye Yuan. Ye Yuan would naturally show appreciation.
Wu Xuan hurriedly waved his hands and said, "Haha, if you don't mind, just call me elder brother. Master this word is absolutely undeserving!"
Ye Yuan was not pretentious either and nodded with a smile as he said, "Since that's the case, Ye Yuan will accept deferentially than to decline courteously. Elder Brother Wu Xuan, Grand Elder and I will return to the Tranquil Cloud Sect right away. If you have time, you can come and visit often."
Wu Xuan hurriedly said, "Younger Brother Ye, City Lord just has this temper. You don't try to gain face back with him! Speaking of which, he made Xu Zihui fuss around you these few days. It's also considered to be very considerate already. Moreover, if it wasn't for Xu Zihui coming to find me today, I couldn't have arrived in time either, don't you agree?"
Ye Yuan nodded his head. He was actually just putting on a show to take that old man down a notch. He obviously would not really leave.
"Fine then. This is on account of Elder Brother's face here!" Ye Yuan hesitated for a bit and said.
Chapter 515. Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew |
"Haha! That's how it should be! Come, come to my place to have a chat. Elder Brother there has the highest grade Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew. Today, us brothers shall not return without getting drunk!"
Wu Xuan put his arm around Ye Yuan and pulled him hard, like really becoming good friends despite a great difference in age.
Ye Yuan had no choice and could only say goodbye to Skymaple and leave with Wu Xuan.
As an Alchemy Sovereign expert, Wu Xuan's residence was naturally very luxurious.
Wu Xuan brought Ye Yuan to a small courtyard, took out two jade small wine bottles, and showed them off. He said, "This Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew is of the highest grade among wine. In this city, only Fu Yunjing that old man knows how to brew it. I pestered him endlessly before getting six bottles from him. Today, if not to entertain this Younger Brother, Elder Brother, I, wouldn't bear to drink!"
Ye Yuan said with a smile, "Elder Brother entertaining like this, wouldn't it put Ye Yuan to shame?"
"Hey, what's there to be ashamed around? To be able to make friends with Younger Brother, I'm more than happy! Come, come, come! Quickly taste it!"
As he said, Wu Xuan was just about to pour the wine for Ye Yuan. Ye Yuan was stupefied and said, "Uh, drinking it like this?"
This time, it was Wu Xuan's turn to be in a daze. He asked, "Not drinking like this? How else can it be drunk?"
Ye Yuan chuckled and said, "Old Brother secured this Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew, but you don't know it's drinking method. Isn't it a waste?"
Wu Xuan said in surprise, "Eh? Hearing the meaning of Younger Brother's words, you've drunk this Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew before? According to what I know, in this Endless World, it seems like only Fu Yunjing that old man knows how to brew this wine! Hang on, you talk about how this wine should be drunk first."
Ye Yuan said with a smile, "The Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew has a total of five grades: low-grade, middle-grade, high-grade, top-grade, as well as the highest level heaven-grade. According to the difference in level, the wine ware will not be entirely the same too."
Ye Yuan brought the tiny wine bottle to his nose and sniffed before continuing, "This bottle of Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew should be a low-grade. It should be matched with wine cups made from Southern Sandalwood to be able to bring out the taste."
"Oh? Why is this so?" Wu Xuan had a curious look as if he had discovered a new continent.
As far as he knew, Fu Yunjing that old punk indeed still had even better Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew, but had never been willing to take it out to show others, let alone say asking for it.
After Wu Xuan drank a low-grade Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew once at Fu Yunjing's place, he could not forget that taste anymore. Hence, he ran over daily to beg Fu Yunjing for a few bottles.
At first, Fu Yunjing still did not agree. Later, through Wu Xuan's hard and soft tactics and his incessant pestering, he finally could not take it and Wu Xuan six bottles.
