Chapter 101 Cauldron’s Might
Ye Fan didn’t have the slightest pity for Han Feiyu. He didn’t know how many times he hit the b.a.s.t.a.r.d, but in the end, even his hand was starting to feel a bit bruised before he tossed him on the ground. He then walked over to the others, and miserable cries immediately began to rise again.
“Ye Fan, don’t keep hitting them. They might die,” Zhang Wenchang said nervously.
“Don’t worry, their lives are all quite strong.”
Half an hour pa.s.sed before the place quietened down. All of the disciples had fainted.
Ye Fan looked at the old man running this misty small pub, and then also towards the other small pub owners. Only then did he stop and quietly ask, “The pub’s old people…”
“The people who run the small pubs here are all the same kind of people as me. They don’t have any talent and wasted half their lives, turning old without any accomplishments. But in the end, they don’t want to leave here…” Zhang Wenchang sighed.
Ye Fan nodded and quietly said, “Tell me about who these people are and I’ll see whether I can help you completely resolve this so you don’t need to suffer in the future.”
“You…you don’t need to, really don’t!” Zhang Wenchang shook his head repeatedly in alarm.
Seeing his plain and wooden old cla.s.smate, Ye Fan sighed. Gently patting his shoulders, he said, “I won’t mess around. Tell me about it in detail, or how will I handle the repercussions?”
Ye Fan carefully listened to Zhang Wenchang’s explanations before smiling coldly. “It’s just an older sister in the Spring of Life realm? They dare to be so unbridled and arrogant, even bullying their own sect members…”
Zhang Wenchang sighed, saying, “Where there’s light, there’s darkness. If there’s white, there must be black. It’s all the same. There’s no way for everyone to be good people, and it’s impossible for everyone to be bad people. Good and bad are intermingled, and even if you cannot bear to see it, all you can do is endure.”
Ye Fan wasn’t able to keep his mind calm. “I’ve beat these few people, and later I’ll get rid of Chen Feng’s sister. Seeing you hara.s.sed like this does not give me peace of mind.”
Zhang Wenchang was both moved and afraid. He stopped Ye Fan from saying any more. Looking around to check for people, he said, “You absolutely can’t. You don’t understand cultivation. You ate a sacred fruit that allowed your physique to surpa.s.s ordinary people and so you were able to beat these guys. But you have no way of imagining how frightening cultivators at the Spring of Life realm are…”
Ye Fan laughed, saying, “Don’t worry, I won’t be reckless.”
Zhang Wenchang’s expression suddenly changed. “Hurry and go. You can’t wait for them to awaken. Once they ask that woman to come over, it will become very troublesome. Even if Yiyi came to help, she would not be able to stop her.”
“If I were to leave like this, they would release all their anger at you.”
“That’s no problem, they don’t dare kill me. They can’t kill members of the same sect, or they’d pay with their life. You don’t need to worry about me so hurry up and leave!” Zhang Wenchang anxiously pushed Ye Fan, urging him to immediately escape.
Just at this moment, Ye Fan sensed that Han Feiyu and Chen Feng had awoken. He immediately loudly said, “Ok, since it’s like this, I’ll leave immediately.”
After saying this, he also heavily stomped his foot on top of Han Feiyu and Chen Feng’s faces a couple times. The two of them resisted shouting from the intense pain, pretending to be unconscious so they could secretly have someone intercept and kill him when he left.
“Hurry and go.” Zhang Wenchang urged him, anxious and nervous. “There’s a river outside the main gate. I remember that you seemed pretty good in water. Once you leave, jump into the water and drift with the flow. Try your best to stay under and hidden as much as possible, otherwise that woman will be able to find you quickly since she is able to fly.”
“Ok, that’s what I’ll do,” Ye Fan said loudly. He then turned and walked away, Zhang Wenchang following behind to send him off.
The two of them had barely left before Chen Feng sat up, gnas.h.i.+ng his teeth in anger and saying, “You want to leave? It’s not that easy! I’ll have even your bones turned to ashes!”
At the same time, Han Feiyu also crawled up, resisting the intense pain from his broken bones, a killing intent soaring within his eyes. “Elder brother Chen, quickly ask your older sister to kill him. Actually, capture him so I can skin him alive, otherwise, I won’t be able to resolve this hatred!”
Ye Fan arrived at the mountain gate. Looking back at Zhang Wenchang, he said, “Don’t worry, there won’t be any issues. Hurry and go back.”
“Go quickly and take care of yourself!” Zhang Wenchang urged, his face worried.
“Ok, we’ll meet again!” Ye Fan started striding away.
That river outside the Jade Paradise’s main gate was very wide and rapid. He walked along the river path, not escaping, but instead walking very slow. He was waiting for his pursuer.
Currently, he was most confident in his speed. Every time he would use all his power to fly, his golden Sea of Bitterness would begin to madly surge. Thunder and lightning would appear, and his body would become submerged by a golden light as well as lightning. The sound of gales and thunder would explode out, and his speed would reach an inconceivable level.
“Even if I can’t beat them, I should still be able to escape…”
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Only half an hour pa.s.sed before the sound of someone streaking through the sky came from above the river, as many human figures could be seen rus.h.i.+ng over on rainbows.
“You want to just leave? It’s not that easy!” a blue-clothed woman gently shouted. Her sleeves fluttered in the wind as she descended in front of Ye Fan, blocking his path.
The other three people also flew over, cutting off Ye Fan’s retreat path, surrounding him. These four cultivators were all in the Spring of Life realm. Two men and two women, each in their twenties. None of them had kind expressions. The way they stared at Ye Fan was like they were staring at a dead man.
Ye Fan stared at the pretty blue-clothed woman in front of him. “Are you Chen Feng’s older sister?”
“Yes.” She looked coldly at Ye Fan. “Such a young age, yet you attack so viciously. If I let you grow up, who knows how many people will suffer a calamity because of you. Today I’ll uproot this disaster.”
Ye Fan didn’t become angry, saying, “What a joke. The answer to who is a disaster and who is vicious is something you should clearly know.”
The blue-clothed woman arrogantly looked down at him, saying, “Oh? A person who attacks others can still be just?”
“How could you not know what kind of person your brother is? Bossy and domineering, humiliating his own sect’s people and saying he wants me killed. And then after being taught a lesson, he then found you to come intercept me. What a good sister. It makes sense that you have the same mother, since your natures are so alike.”
“You! You’re asking for death!” She never thought Ye Fan would dare to contradict her, and her expression became extremely unsightly.
The three people beside her didn’t even place Ye Fan in their eyes. One of the men carelessly said, “Chen Yu, asking all of to come here with you is overkill. There was no need to have this many people come. Isn’t he just an ordinary mortal? What difference is there between him and an ant? Just kill him already and stop saying useless words.”
“Hurry up and settle this, there’s no need to waste my time.”
“I’m going to go back. A mortal like this can be killed with just a finger. Why did we have to come?”
The other two people were even more direct. They had long since considered Ye Fan a dead man.
“Don’t kill him. Leave him alive for me…” From upstream, Han Feiyu shouted out as he quickly rushed over.
Han Feiyu was holding his stomach, his mouth overflowing with blood as he also charged over. He gnashed his teeth in anger, saying, “He cannot be allowed to die too quickly!”
“Do you really already consider me a dead person?” Ye Fan looked at the four people surrounding him, then looking at the distant Chen Feng and Han Feiyu, a faint smile appearing on the corner of his mouth.
One of them sneered, saying, “Do you still think you can leave alive?”
A woman contemptuously said, “For a mortal like you, a drop of spit from me is enough to kill you. Killing you is no different than killing an ant.”
“Don’t be so disrespectful in your next life. Otherwise, you’ll die just like you will today,” the other man also ridiculed him.
Chen Yu’s blue clothes fluttered, the killing intent on her face gradually becoming restrained. “Killing him is truly beneath me. I’ll leave him for that little Han kid. This will also get rid of any gossip inside the sect.”
Seeing Chen Feng and Han Feiyu were about to arrive, Ye Fan shook his head and laughed. Sighing, he said, “Fighting over who gets to lose their life first.”
Just as he said this, Ye Fan suddenly charged towards one of the men three meters away from him. His palm heavily crashed down.
A mortal suddenly attacking was something they hadn’t prepared for. Ye Fan’s speed was too fast, just like a bolt of lightning, immediately arriving in front of that man and his slap sent him flying, just the sound causing the others’ ears to buzz.
BANG!
This strength of this blow was hard to imagine!
That man’s skull split open, his eyes full of fear and unwillingness. Even as he died, he didn’t understand how a mortal could be formidable enough to be able to kill him like this.
Another woman also let out a miserable scream as this happened. Ye Fan had taken out a golden tome that seemed to be enveloped by the golden divine flames of the sun. It slashed forward, completely cutting off her head. Blood spurted out as the dead corpse collapsed onto the ground.
This all happened in an instant. Ye Fan had completely finished off two cultivators within the Spring of Life realm. Chen Yu and the other man quickly retreated, each taking out their own respective weapons to defend themselves.
“This…” Both of their bodies turned cold. Never had they thought this young and delicate youngster would be this frightening, actually able to kill off two of their fellow disciples with just the raising of a hand.
“What you just said also suits yourself.” Ye Fan shook his head. “Not knowing how they died even in death…”
Chen Yu and that man’s expressions were both extremely unsightly. They didn’t say anything. Flying into the air, they were just about to run away.
Not far, Chen Feng and Han Feiyu were both completely dumbfounded. They couldn’t believe their own eyes. Their courage faltered when they thought of how two Spring of Life cultivators had died so suddenly and violently.
“You can’t run!”
Ye Fan’s golden tome rushed back into his body, and a golden small cauldron flew out instead. It was like a golden bolt of lightning as it chased the man.
Qiang!
Two metallic trills sounded, and the man’s two spiritual treasures were both smashed into pieces. The small golden cauldron stabbed through his head, and his lifeless corpse tumbled onto the ground.
The small golden cauldron didn’t stop there. It quickly chased after Chen Yu, bright and resplendent, completely unstoppable, continuously smas.h.i.+ng Chen Yu’s three spiritual treasures into dust.
“NO!” Chen Yu shouted in fear, displaying her divine abilities. A piercingly bright blaze flew out from her fingertip, charging towards the small golden cauldron. At the same time, she repeatedly made cutting motions, causing many lightning bolts to descend, filling the sky with dazzling light.
However, none of this could block the small cauldron. Its golden light seemed to blaze, becoming extremely dazzling and unstoppable, piercing through Chen Yu’s forehead. It left a thumb-sized b.l.o.o.d.y hole in her lifeless corpse, that then began to also fall from the sky.
The cauldron was bright and dazzling as it flew back, seeming to possess some kind of heavenly Dao charm.
“I’m looking forward to the time when it reaches the level of One Vessel Breaking Ten Thousand Obstacles!”
Light flashed, and the small cauldron once more entered Ye Fan’s body.
My golden Sea of Bitterness is different from other people’s. The amount of divine energy it can contain is many times. It hasn’t disappointed me… Ye Fan wasn’t very moved by this battle. As soon as he had seen these four people, he had known that he was definitely able to kill them.
Chen Feng and Han Feiyu were both deathly pale. They turned to leave, their legs trembling as they ran. The two of them were unable to even run straight. Their courage had already been broken by fear.
“Since you dare to come here, don’t leave.” Ye Fan arrived in front of them in just a couple steps. Reaching out his hand and pus.h.i.+ng, Chen Feng immediately died, smas.h.i.+ng heavily into the dust.
Han Feiyu shouted in fear, “Don’t kill me!…I’m…”
“Who you are is of no use. Even your great uncle was killed by me.”
“What? You…” Han Feiyu’s face was deathly ashen, shouting in despair, “No!”
“Elder Han is waiting for you down below!” Ye Fan cleanly finished him off, using just one finger to kill him.
After cleaning up this area, Ye Fan had just stood up when he heard the sound of someone coming from the horizon. An old elder with a rather young face, possessing an immortal air down to his bones was quickly flying over with Zhang Wenchang.
“Thank the heavens that you’re all right!” Zhang Wenchang was very moved, quickly running up and saying, “I asked Elder Yun Ma to come, he’ll send you off.”
Ye Fan was very touched, smiling and saying, “Don’t worry, my life is very strong.”
“You…” Just at this moment, Elder Ma Yun’s expression abruptly changed. Smelling blood, he looked at Ye Fan and said, “You managed to kill them all?!”
“They wanted to kill me. I had no other option, but to strike back,” Ye Fan calmly replied.
This old man was not completely unfamiliar to Ye Fan. Three years ago, it was he who had taken Liu Yiyi and Zhang Wenchang to the Jade Cauldron Paradise, and it was also he who had first seen through Ye Fan’s Ancient Desolation’s Sacred Body.
“You…” Elder Man Yun might possess an immortal air all the way to his bones and appear far beyond mortality, but even he revealed a bit of killing intent now.
“Elder Ma Yun, I’ve always respected you. From the first time I met you, I’ve felt that you are a benevolent senior. I hope you don’t disappoint me. Right and wrong are something I think you should clearly understand.” Saying this, Ye Fan slowly rose into the air, golden divine flames igniting around his body. He was like a G.o.d overlooking the earth. He continued, “With my speed, you won’t be able to block me.”
“You…can cultivate?!” Elder Man Yun’s expression was shocked. He muttered to himself, “You have the Ancient Desolation’s Sacred Body. There shouldn’t be any way for you to cultivate…and you’ve even reached the Spring of Life realm. Could this be the divine effect of the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Land’s sacred fruit? This cultivation speed…is simply terrifying.”
“It was just luck.”
“Do you want to enter my Jade Cauldron Paradise?” Elder Ma Yun’s expression became hopeful.
“I appreciate your kindness. I am too accustomed to being easy-going, so I’m not suitable to enter any sect.”
Elder Ma Yun sighed in disappointment. “Looks like we all made a huge mistake that time by not letting you into our sects…”
“Elder Ma Yun, how are you planning on dealing with today’s situation?” Ye Fan calmly asked.
Below, Zhang Wenchang was completely stupefied. He looked at the dazzling golden light enshrouding Ye Fan in a daze, feeling as if this was all rather hard to believe.
“I know those people’s natures,” Elder Ma Yun muttered to himself for a while before saying, “You…can go.”
“Many thanks, senior,” Ye Fan continued, saying, “I wish to bring Wenchang with me.”
“Are you worried for him?” Elder Ma Yun shook his head, saying, “At the beginning, after I brought Wenchang and Yiyi back within the sect, I didn’t pay them enough attention. Today I will accept Wenchang as my disciple. No one will dare to humiliate him after today.”
“Then I am relieved. Many thanks, Elder Ma.”
Below, Zhang Wenchang seemed as if he was in a dream, feeling as if none of this could be real.
“I hope senior won’t speak to anyone about my situation.”
Ma Yun nodded. “I understand.”
Ye Fan descended onto the ground, arriving in front of Zhang Wenchang and saying, “Goodbye. I will come see you in the future.”
Zhang Wenchang continued to silently look up where Ye Fan disappeared for a long time after he left.
“Although you are a bit wooden, you’re a kindhearted and sincere person. It’s a blessing...” Elder Ma Yen walked over and patted his shoulders. He then also looked up at where Ye Fan had left, standing there in a daze. Who knew what he was thinking about.
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Two days later, Ye Fan heard that the Ancient Desolation n.o.ble Jiang Family and Flickering Light Sacred Land had joined hands and were about to enter the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Land. As soon as he heard this news, he quickly rushed over there.
That terrifying area forbidden to life was located in the very middle of Yan, making it possible to enter it from any direction. But since the Jiang Family and Flickering Light Sacred Land had settled on one route, the cultivators who heard this news also picked that direction to use.
Several days pa.s.sed, but the Jiang Family and Flickering Light Sacred Land’s powerful cultivators were still just waiting in a small town outside the great mountains without the slightest intention of moving. The other cultivators could only also dither about outside the great mountains.
Ye Fan had originally wanted to enter alone, but after learning about a couple matters, he had coldly sweat and decided to follow the Flickering Light Sacred Land and Jiang Family.
“Let them first confront the dangers. I’ll stay behind them and take advantage.” The sacred medicine was too enticing to him. No matter how many dangers, he had to go collect them. His greatest advantage was that he had consumed one of the sacred fruits and could avoid the forbidden land’s curse.
Outside the great mountains, many new faces continuously appeared as various Eastern Wastelands’ cultivators continued to arrive here.
Ye Fan had constantly been wandering around these few days, obtaining many valuable pieces of information.
Back in the day, a certain immortal sect Sacred Land attacked the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Land, with the result that they were annihilated. After this, the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Land became even more frightening to cultivators. It could suppress all divine abilities and power, and even powerful experts were practically turned into mortals.
“This might be a great opportunity for me!” Ye Fan wasn’t afraid, his eyes filled with clear divine light.
Another half a month pa.s.sed without the Jiang Family or Flickering Light Sacred Land taking action. It seemed as if they were waiting for something.
This day, Ye Fan saw Zhou Yi, w.a.n.g Ziwen, Lin Jia, and Li Xiaoman in the distance being escorted by the Jiang Family and Flickering Light Sacred Land’s powerful cultivators into the small town.
Ye Fan frowned. He knew that these two parties had probably learned the four of them had once entered the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Land. They most likely wanted to learn a bit about them, bringing them in together.
“They died, they died, all of them died…” A white-haired old madman outside the mountains was both crying and laughing at the same time, continuously repeating a few words.
Ye Fan walked up to him and asked, “Senior, what are you saying?”
“Died, died, they all died. As long as they entered the forbidden land, none of them could survive…” Both laughing and crying, he crazily said, “I’ve already seen the scene of rivers of blood and mountains of bones…”
“You…” Ye Fan was completely bewildered.
“Hurry and go back, or you’ll also die…” This white-haired old madman cried and laughed, saying, “Endless withered bones, mountains of corpses and seas of blood. It…comes again…”
Ye Fan was baffled, not understanding at all.
Just at this moment, an old woman silently appeared, looking at that old madman in a daze, muttering to herself, “Could it be him? Six thousand years ago, didn’t that matchless immortal sect Sacred Land that was at its peak have all its powerful cultivators annihilated within the Ancient Desolation Forbidden Land? How could I see him again…?”
When Ye Fa heard this muttering, immediately feeling a big headache.
“Endless withered bones, mountains of corpses and seas of blood. It…comes again…” The white-haired old madman constantly switched between crying and laughing, walking back and forth around the area outside the great mountains.
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Translator notes:
At this point, the novel has entered its VIP section on Qidian, meaning that only paying subscribers would have been able to read chapters from this point onwards on that website. The author has a note here about how he’s going to try to release more and better chapters in order to quickly fill up the VIP section. He also asks for your support, which I also ask for ^.^ This chapter was over 5500 characters in Chinese. His average chapters are 3400~ characters, which is already considerably more than some other novels (which average 2000 characters).