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Zhou Ye shuddered, nodded his head rigidly, and he hurriedly turned around and left.
Ye Yuan looked at Qin Yan and said with a smile, “With your present strength, you shouldn’t fear me. Why do this?”
Qin Yan breaking through to Soul Sea was different from those ordinary martial artists. Although similarly First Level Soul Sea, his strength was much greater.
To Qin Yan, breaking through to Soul Sea was a qualitative leap. In this realm, it was the period for his potentially greatest burst to go forward.
Even the current Ye Yuan did not dare say to be able to beat Qin Yan as well.
Qin Yan said rather embarrassedly, “Junior Apprentice Brother Ye and I are destined to not be opponents on the same level. Don’t make fun of me anymore! I’m aware that Junior Apprentice Brother Ye slew a Soul Sea Realm expert by yourself. The Vast Heaven Inheritance this time, Junior Apprentice Brother Ye can probably charge into the sixth level. At that time, you’ll definitely soar to the heaven in one move!”
Ye Yuan was rather curious when he heard that and asked, “Oh? How do you know that I can charge into the sixth level?”
“The Vast Heaven Pagoda is a place that tests potential and strength. With Junior Apprentice Brother Ye’s talent, charging into the sixth level should be highly certain!” Qin Yan said.
“Then what about yourself?” Ye Yuan enquired.
Qin Yan seemed to have long had a prediction regarding this and said, “I have the confidence to charge into the fifth level. But I don’t have much confidence in passing the fifth level.”
Chapter 549. Prediction |
“Oh? I heard that the Three Sects already had no one make it to the fifth level for close to a hundred years. You’re actually so confident?” Ye Yuan asked.
“Heh, although this Qin can’t match up to Junior Apprentice Brother Ye, I still have some confidence after I look at myself. If it were before breaking through to Soul Sea, I really wouldn’t dare to say this. But now . . .”
Qin Yan’s words at the back were not said finish. But it was very clear he had absolute confidence in himself passing through the fourth level.
In the case of genius martial artists, they all had full confidence in themselves. This was the essential condition to become a powerhouse.
Qin Yan was indeed an outstanding figure among the Endless World’s junior generation. Him having this confidence was nothing inappropriate either.
If he did not have such confidence in himself, it was not possible to break through to the Soul Sea Realm very quickly after receiving stimulation from the incident with Ye Yuan.
“Huhu, then I’ll have to congratulate Senior Apprentice Brother Qin in becoming the number one person in a hundred years!” Ye Yuan said with a laugh.
“Dare not, dare not. With Junior Apprentice Brother Ye around, how can I dare to call myself the number one person? Furthermore, Guo Taoqun and Yin Yanhua are definitely unwilling to be left behind as well,” Qin Yan hurriedly said.
“En?”
“Turns out that Junior Apprentice Brother Ye doesn’t know yet. The two of them already broke through to the Soul Sea Realm before coming to Vast Heaven Mystic Realm.” Qin Yan knew that he had yet to receive the news when he saw Ye Yuan’s expression.
Regarding news of this aspect, Ye Yuan had always been slow.
Ye Yuan could not help chuckling when he heard this. “The three of you are following really tightly behind. But this way is good as well. Walking alone at the front is a bit too lonely.”
Qin Yan nodded and felt that what Ye Yuan said was correct as well.
But he came to his senses very soon. Wasn’t this person before his eyes the one walking alone at the front?
Even the current him did not dare say to surely beat Ye Yuan, let alone talked about going after the Vast Heaven Inheritance.
Second Level Sea Transformation and able to kill a Soul Sea Realm expert. This Ye Yuan was simply monstrous until it made people feel dread.
Actually, after being captured to be a hostage by Ye Yuan, Qin Yan was still very unresigned.
He was holding on to this grievance too; that was why he could break through to Soul Sea Realm so quickly.
But when he heard the news of Ye Yuan slaying a Soul Sea Realm expert alone, he could not invoke the thought of finding Ye Yuan to take revenge anymore.
His disparity with Ye Yuan was too great. Furthermore, this disparity would only become increasingly bigger.
Him suppressing Ye Yuan by a major realm did not seem to have the slightest hint of advantage to talk about at all.
Moreover, with Ye Yuan’s potential, his cultivation speed would only be faster than him!
. . . . . .
Accompanying Ye Yuan to tour one round, Qin Yan followed Ye Yuan back to the place where those major powers gathered.
When Guo Taoqun saw Ye Yuan, he immediately came up to greet warmly. He sai, “Haha! Junior Apprentice Brother Ye, you actually came together with Qin Yan. I just asked City Lord, His Excellency, and was just about to go find you!”
Ye Yuan’s impression of this easy-going Guo Taoqun was not bad. He said with a smile, “Having not met for several days, Senior Apprentice Brother Guo improved again. Congratulations!”
“Sigh, isn’t this still all thanks to you? If not for you stimulating Qin Yan, Fairy Ice Cloud and I wouldn’t be stimulated by him either! I, Guo Taoqun, only submit to you, Ye Yuan, alone. Qin Yan this punk beating me, I’m not convinced!” Guo Taoqun said smilingly.
“Humph! No matter what, I won this time too!” Qin Yan said with a cold snort.
These two people were natural foes. Being together, they would argue within three sentences.
“So what then? Now, everybody is about the same again. If you’re not convinced, let’s just come and compete for one round!” Guo Taoqun said without yielding at all.
“Alright. What’s the use of fighting and showing off? If you have the strength, why not spend it on the Fierce Gale World martial artists!” Yin Yanhua came over here at this time too and broke off the pair’s intense confrontation.
With Yin Yanhua opening her mouth, the two people both shut their mouths sensibly and did not argue anymore.
Ye Yuan naturally perceived the delicate relationship between these three people and did not expose it either. He said with Yin Yanhua with clasped hands, “Congratulations to Fairy Ice Cloud for breaking through to the Soul Sea Realm.”
This Yin Yanhua had an icy appearance. Ye Yuan could not be too polite with her either and just lightly congratulated.
Yin Yanhua greeted with folded hands at the lower right side and said icily, “I’ve incurred Junior Apprentice Brother Ye’s ridicule.”
“Hahaha! Little Brother Ye came. I was just betting with Old Ren earlier saying that you can definitely charge to the sixth level!”
Qin Hongtao came over to welcome with a loud laugh. Coming over together with him was still Ning Yixian, Jing Xuan, as well as Ren Xingchun and the rest.
These people were all the sects’ old ancestor level figures. For the sake of their juniors, they all put down the important things in their hands and came to the Vast Heaven Mystic Realm.
The matter of the alliance, these old ancestors determined the general direction. The remaining stuff naturally had other people to do.
Their most important thing apart from their own cultivation was to groom junior descendants.
Behind Qin Hongtao even tagged along that Zhou Ye. When he heard Qin Hongtao’s words, his face swelled to a purple color, secretly looking at Ye Yuan from time to time.
What kind of situation was this?
His own old ancestor was actually calling this boy his little brother?
Wasn’t this messing up the seniority?
Zhou Ye was thrown into confusion. But there was one point which he was very clear about. Qin Yan really was not joking around with him earlier!
This Ye Yuan was really not someone he could afford to offend!
These several old ancestor level figures were on such close terms with Ye Yuan, calling him little brother one after another. The more Zhou Ye listened, the more intense the chill deep in his heart.
He was quietly praying for Ye Yuan to not rat on him to his old ancestor. Otherwise, with his old ancestor’s temper, he probably would not spare him.
Zhou Ye started to listen to the few people converse on tenterhooks.
“Huhu, Old Ancestor Qin views me so high. If I don’t make it to the sixth level, I wouldn’t have the face to come out of the pagoda,” Ye Yuan responded with a laugh.
“Heh, Little Brother Ye don’t need to be humble anymore. My family’s stinking brat already said that he can make it to the fifth level. You charging to the sixth level is absolutely fine!” Qin Hongtao said with a guffaw.
Ye Yuan just smiled. Instead, he turned to Ren Xingchun and said, “Old Ancestor Qin guessed that I can reach the sixth level. I wonder what City Lord, Your Excellency, was saying earlier?”
Ren Xingchun smiled too and did not reply to Ye Yuan’s words.
Ning Yixian interjected, saying, “This Old Man Ren is shrewd and planning something bad. Just now, we forced him to take a stance. But he just won’t say. Maybe in his heart, Little Brother Ye making it to the seventh level isn’t without the possibility too!”
Of course, this was just Ning Yixian’s joking words.
In his heart, even though Ye Yuan was monstrous, this Vast Heaven Inheritance was even more monstrous.
To be able to make it to the sixth level was already the number one person in a thousand years for the Endless World.
How could the seventh level be barged inside that easily?
One had to know that up until today, just a mere scanty three people made it into the seventh level.
It was not that he did not believe in Ye Yuan, but this was the Vast Heaven Pagoda! It was too perverse!
Zhou ye was filled with fear listening to these few people chatting all this while, but Ye Yuan did not give him a single glance from start to finish as if he was like air.
After chatting for a period of time, Zhou Ye discovered that Ye Yuan seemed to have really forgotten about him. His tightly wound nerves finally eased up slightly.
Right at this time, an enormous rumbling sound suddenly came from the pagoda body. The dark pagoda body suddenly gave off a hundred thousand foot light, blinding until everyone could not open their eyes at all!
Creak.
Vast Heaven Pagoda’s bottom-most level gigantic door slowly pulled open . . .
Chapter 550. The First Level |
“The Vast Heaven Pagoda opened!”
“Haha! To think that I still have the opportunity to enter the Vast Heaven Pagoda in this life! Thinking about it really makes people agitated!”
“Success or failure hinges on this one action! I must stand out above the masses!”
The Vast Heaven Pagoda’s abnormal activity aroused commotion from those sects and itinerant cultivators who were taking part for the first time.
Compared to them, the Three Sects’ disciples appeared rather calm.
A light screen poured down from the top of the pagoda, akin to quicksilver spilling over the ground; it was an incredibly grand sight.
The pagoda body being swept by this light screen, it actually displayed out rows of names!
Ye Yuan focused his gaze. It was only to see a name inscribed at the most conspicuous place: Li Fantian.
Affixed on top of this name was the eighth level. He was also the one and only martial artist who made it past the seventh level and entered the eighth level in these ten thousand years.
Ye Yuan continued looking down. There were three names under the seventh level.
The first name was called Luo Yanqing. The second name was called Zhuo Fei.
And the third name was shockingly Lu Linfeng!
“This old punk was likely a legendary figure in the Endless World back then too. It’s just that with the passing of time, his legend has already been gradually forgotten by the later generations.” Ye Yuan sighed in his heart.
Actually, the primary reason why Lu Linfeng was forgotten by the Endless World was still that of the Grand Yan True Sect’s destruction.
Otherwise, with the Grand Yan True Sect’s legacy, no matter how useless, they would also be the overlord of a region in the Endless World too.
As for after the sixth level, the names were densely packed. It was also uncertain how many there were. Ye Yuan was no longer interested in looking anymore.
Ye Yuan coming to the Vast Heaven Pagoda this time, the lowest target was also the seventh level!
If he could not even match up to Lu Linfeng, then what right did he have to get involved with those turbulent waves in the Divine Realm?
But Ye Yuan was also very curious about which era those figures Luo Yanqing and Zhuo Fei were from. Ye Yuan unexpectedly had not heard of them before.
Logically speaking, they could make it to the seventh level, they should absolutely not be unrecorded nameless people.
“Looks like the mighty current of time buried countless geniuses in oblivion! Even if Lu Linfeng roams unobstructed in the Divine Realm right now, there might not be people who can remember him years later.” Ye Yuan sighed quietly.
Ye Yuan suddenly discovered that beside the names, there was still a patch of blank light screen, but he did not know what use it had.
“After you all enter, the light screen will display your names and the level you are at. This Vast Heaven Mystic Realm doesn’t have any danger. But once the mission fails, you’ll be transported out by the pagoda. Your names will disappear with it too. Furthermore, inside the mystic realm, all the pain is real, even if it’s death!”
Ye Yuan looked sideways. Qi Hai already arrived beside him since who knew when.
“Old Hai, why did you come?” Ye Yuan said in surprise.
“Huhu, Little Brother Ye clearing the Vast Heaven Pagoda, how can I not come and bear witness to this historical moment? In this thousand years, you’re the martial artist with the greatest hope of charging to the sixth level! But sadly, time waits for no one. If your boundary could increase some more, you might have hopes of making it to the seventh level!” Qi Hai said with a slight pity.
In the end, it was still that Ye Yuan’s current boundary was too low.
His present strength was at best also just around the strength of Qin Yan and the others. If counting in potential, Qi Hai’s judgment of Ye Yuan was the same; it was entering the sixth level.
If Ye Yuan could break through a few more realms, Qi Hai’s judgment of Ye Yuan would naturally be much higher.
But this Vast Heaven Pagoda was clearly harder the further back. The seventh level was already the limits that everyone could understand!
Except that everybody including Qi Hai all did not know that the lowest target Ye Yuan set for himself was the seventh level!
“Haha! Since Old Hai thinks so highly of Ye Yuan, I have to take on this sixth level no matter what!” Ye Yuan said with a laugh.
“Huhu, this old man will wait and see! Alright, it’s almost time. You guys should enter!” Qi Hai said.
Ning Yixian said in a loud and clear voice, “The Vast Heaven Pagoda is already open. Everybody has to put in more effort when you’re inside! My Endless World’s future is resting on you all! But this old man will get the unpleasant things out of the way first. Opening up the Vast Heaven Pagoda this time is for the sake of my Endless World’s future and in order to resist the Fierce Gale World’s invasion. After you guys come out from the Vast Heaven Pagoda, you must join the Endless Alliance and serve the alliance! In the future, when the Fierce Gale World is defeated, we’ll naturally give you guys back your freedom!”
“Alliance Chief Ning, we’ll definitely put our best foot forward and serve the alliance!”
To these itinerant cultivator martial artists, this was an opportunity that only came once in a lifetime.
Once someone’s talent showed itself, founding a sect in the future was something easily accomplished too.
Ning Yixian said, “Alright, you all enter from the entrance by yourselves!”
Under Ning Yixian’s command, the group of martial artists all flew over to the entrance scrambling over each other, especially those itinerant cultivator martial artists.
To them, this was a great opportunity for the carp to leap over the dragon gate.
Furthermore, to be able to get selected, these people’s strength were all preeminent among the itinerant cultivator martial artists. There were people with exceptional talents. They were naturally unwilling to fall behind others.
Ye Yuan bid farewell to the group of old ancestors and also followed the group and flew into the pagoda.
. . . . . .
Entering the Vast Heaven Pagoda, the scenery before Ye Yuan’s eyes suddenly changed. It was as if he had arrived at a different world.
Ye Yuan had yet to land on his feet, and he saw a blur in front of him. A shadow attacked towards him.
But the speed of this shadow was as slow as a snail in Ye Yuan’s eyes.
Ye Yuan casually pointed a finger, and that shadow collapsed to the ground with a bang.
Looking closely, it was a Tier 2 demonic beast.
“Huhu, Junior Apprentice Brother Ye’s luck is really booming. To actually bump into a demonic beast right after entering,” said Guo Taoqun who came to Ye Yuan’s side with a wide grin.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, “Just a Tier 2 demonic beast. Not worth mentioning. It’s just . . . the mission of this first level isn’t to hunt demonic beasts, right?”
Guo Taoqun smiled too and said, “Junior Apprentice Brother Ye is indeed astute. Actually, the missions in the first three levels are all to hunt down demonic beasts. It’s just that the ranks of the demonic beasts are different. This first level only has Peak Tier 2 demonic beasts. What we need to do is to breach the blockade of the Tier 2 demonic beasts, and then we are to find the entrance leading to the second level to reach the next level!”
