Chapter 28
Translated by Usagi
Ye Tao’s speed, internal strength fluctuations, and muscle contractions were all revealed by Ye Xing’s superb mind scan.
In addition, following his movements, Ye Xing’s superbrain instantly calculated Ye Tao’s attack trajectory, strength, and follow up as well as exposing his flaws.
Ye Tao and Ye Xing’s brute strength were very similar, now that Ye Xing knew every move and even the flaws, was Ye Tao truly still his opponent?
However, Ye Xing did not recklessly fight with Ye Tao, in order to avoid Ye Tao’s fist, he had to defend and break through to counterattack.
Ye Tao felt depressed, he was feeling exhausted and even though his attack speed had reached his limit, Ye Xing did not bother to use his fists to retaliate, but instead dodged all of his attacks.
No matter how fast Ye Tao attacked, Ye Xing’s body was like a general, prepared and ready. At just the right time, Ye Xing dodged to the side and Ye Tao’s Roaring Tiger Fist merely hit empty air.
Ye Xing’s Bone Crushing Fist’s offensive power was truly overwhelming, after only a few strokes, it broke through Ye Tao’s defense, hitting his chest.
Ye Tao was blown away by Ye Xing’s punch, his situation was even worse then Ye Fan’s as he flew ten meters back before crashing into the ground.
Ye Xing had calculated the distance and strength of his blow so that Ye Tao rolled and stopped right at Ye Ying"s feet.
Such an action was tantamount to giving Ye Ying a strong slap to the face.
After Ye Tao bore the brunt of Ye Xing’s punch, he couldn"t breath and he tightly held his chest as his face revealed a look of pain. Even after 35 breaths of time had pa.s.sed, he had yet to fully recover.
Blue veins protruded from Ye Ying’s neck and his hand angrily trembled from within his sleeves as he looked at the injured Ye Tao in front of him.
Due to his memories of Ye Tiannan’s strength, today, he told his disciples to pick upon Ye Xing and Ye Feng. However, the end result was that both of his disciples were completely defeated by Ye Xing.
However, even though Ye Fan and Ye Tao were defeated, Ye Ying’s heart burned with an anger that he could not vent upon anyone.
As an elder of the main family, he does not want to personally act and fight with a younger disciple. If he did, it would completely destroy this old man’s face(reputation)!
Find a stronger main family disciple to come and teach Ye Xing a lesson?
How? Ye Xing has created such a large scene and proved himself to be more powerful than Ye Tao! If the another main disciple lost and Ye Xing won, it would merely add to his momentum, which is completely the opposite of Ye Ying’s goal.
In fact, Ye Ying who told Ye Tao to teach Ye Xing a lesson has turned into a complex situation. Ye Tao being at the 4th layer of Wudao lost to Ye Xing, whose pride remains undamaged as well as establishing an unwanted record that would become a glorious deed in his life.
Ye Ying now felt a strong regret as it was clear Ye Xing knew that his strength was stronger then Ye Tao’s. Why did he take his disciples to become stepping stones of Ye Xing? To boost Ye Xing’s arrogance?
“Elder, can my fate of two star mandate of heaven be considered to be decent?” Ye Xing said, smiling, once again slapping Ye Ying’s face.
At this time, a shocked Ye Fan quickly ran past Ye Ying to help the injured Ye Tao up.
Ye Ying looked at his two injured disciples, listened to Ye Xing’s words, and his eyes involuntarily twitched.
In the end, in order to maintain an elders bearing, he could only hold back his anger from exploding within his heart. Maintaining a balanced tone Ye Ying spoke:
“Your strength is very good, especially your inner strength. A normal warrior could never achieve such a level even after expending a large effort. It seems you are born with divine strength, the canteens need such a talent to help them. You are a.s.signed to the canteen and are responsible for carrying water for it!”
Ye Ying could not see that Ye Xing’s strength was so overbearing because he practiced ruthlessly and refined more than just one hundred bones. It was certainly his own training with the aid of some precious bone strengthening herbs, not being born with the gift of divine strength.
If Ye Xing said so, he might be thrown into the water and eaten for benefits, so he would bear with it, even if it was the worst of the Ye family work. (TL: Okay to be honest I’m not sure about the eaten thing XD, but it’s something like they would cook him or drown him. )
“Thank you, elder!” Ye Xing gifted him a smile then returned to stand with the other new disciples.
At night, he settled in with the Ye family. The main family brought over the necessities such as the new disciple manual that described the various departments, variety of work and the consequent treatment within the Ye family
No matter what department, what job, or what level of treatment, the study of martial arts was same all around. In the main family, they give you a Middle grade method for star cultivation and if you break through from the 4th layer of Wudao, you receive a reward. You can get valuable herbal medicines as well as the ability to enter the Wu Court and view the martial art secrets for an hour...
Regardless of star fate or treatment, as long as you cultivate and achieve the 5th layer of Wudao, or beat elite disciples of the 5th layer of Wudao, you can upgrade yourself to the ranks of an elite disciple and enjoy the finest treatment.
Ye Xing’s main purpose of coming to the Ye family was to learn advanced martial arts, he did not care about anything else.
His ambition was to cultivate and to become a Sacred Martial Artist, a peerless master. His end of the road was definitely not within the Ye family, nor within the city of Tian Cang. His future lies in the broader skies.
(TL: Sacred Martial Artist is basically the unreached level above Wu Dao(Martial Arts), or Wu Sheng(Scared Martial Arts. Please go ahead and say if you prefer Wu Dao and Wu Sheng or Martial Arts and Sacred Martial Arts)
So whatever he has to go through in order to improve, Ye Xing did not care!
Ye Tao and Ye Fan were both defeated by Ye Xing. The image of main family disciples beating new disciples only to be defeated by Ye Xing was un-erasable from their minds.
Therefore, Ye Ying avoided continuing the testing of the strength of the new disciples, and began to directly arrange the new disciples standing behind Ye Xing. He avoided a disaster and sent the group of disciples to pack and a.s.semble.
“Ye Heng, Practice Hall! Go cultivate!”
“Ye Feng, Medicinal Hall! Tend to the crops!”
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“Ye Sheng, Mining Star Hall! Go mine!”
“Ye Yuan, Practice Hall! Go Practice!”
“Ye Qing, Practice Hall! Go Practice!”
“Lu Shuang Ling, Medicinal Hall! Tend to the herbs!”
“Ye Feng, The Canteen! Chop firewood!”
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Soon, Ye Ying marked the jobs of the new disciples down. Those with five star mandate of heaven weren’t given work and were sent directly into the Practice Hall to practice martial arts. The rest of the disciples were a.s.signed their own positions, and had to complete their daily a.s.signments before they could practice.
As the grandson of Ye Nan, Ye Feng was honored to be a.s.signed to the canteen to chop firewood, and carry water for the canteen, he had no disagreement with the a.s.signment!
After Ye Ying distributed all of the new disciples. Ye Weihong made a concluding statement addressing all of the disciples:
“For many of the Ye family, work is necessary. Some positions are easier than others, and you might get a bit tired of your jobs, but this is normal. You pour position is distributed and honored by the qualifications of Elder Ye Ying and are both fair and just!”
Ye Weihong exuded earnestness!
“In order for the Ye family to be powerful, the less talented need to pay so that the more talented disciples can have their mind only focused on practicing. While your positions are not that great right now, do not harbor resentment. There are opportunities available to you.”
“Whoever cultivates to the 5th layer of Wu dao, or beat elite disciples at the 5th layer of Wudao will be promoted to the elite disciples and enjoy the highest treatment. The sun will eventually shine on you, if the light does not rise for you, it is not because the Ye family is unwilling to train you, but because you are not a fine enough piece of material…!”
After the lengthy speech, Commander Ye Weihong spoke of a topic that Ye Xing was interested in:
“Next, we will let you learn the law from my family that produces talents, Mysterious Cyan Method. The Mysterious Cyan Method is a top power method of the middle grade, and can allow for 6 meridian channels to be opened through practiced. Compared to the inferior power method you have learned, just by learning a fragment, your cultivation speed will become much faster!”
“Now a copy of the power method is being distributed to all of you. You all have an hour’s time to learn here. They cannot be secretly kept, copied, or taken away. You only have one hour, one hour later we will collect the copy of the secret law!”
A new disciple asked: “An hour? If we cannot remember it, how do we learn the law?”
Ye Weihong replied: “On the first, eleventh, and twenty-first day of the month, there are additional teaching elders available. Those who do not remember, or do not understand, can attend the lectures that these elders will hold at these times.”
Ye Xing mouth revealed a small smile. An hour? For him, no matter how complex the Mysterious Cyan Method was, in a short amount of time he could recite the entire Method from to start to finish word by word by mouth.
Quickly, a messenger handed out the copy of the Mysterious Cyan Method out to the disciples, each person received one book.
This so called less talented group were not expected to have the ability to completely comprehend and learn the Mysterious Cyan Method. Even if these disciples learned this power method, since it was fragmented, they would not be able to get 6 meridian channels open.
In addition, for these children born outside of the main family in even worse conditions, where have they ever seen such high-level exercises?
Therefore, when the copy of the Mysterious Cyan Method was given to the new disciples, each of the disciples found it very difficult to read it and memorize the content.
Unlike his peers, only Ye Xing had a calm demeanor. Utilizing the scanning of his super-brain, each page was ingrained within his memories and would never be forgotten.
After a short time, Ye Xing read and memorized the entire Mysterious Cyan Method. His super-brain used it’s ability to gain further insight into the practice and details of the Mysterious Cyan Method and casted a humanoid projection within Ye Xing’s mind. Following the given fragment of the Mysterious Cyan Method, the super brain continued to improve the fragment given to it.
In almost no time at all, the super-brain began to perfect the Mysterious Cyan Method. Ye Xing followed the instructions and opened a Seventh meridian… an Eighth Meridian.. A Ninth meridian…
The Mysterious Cyan Method’s way of cultivation was very complex and extraordinary, living up to it’s name of being mysterious. His super-brain continued to deduct and develop the method, and soon it reached the ability of opening Ten Meridians.
After the Tenth meridian channel was opened, only then did the advancements slow down and come to a halt.
The main Ye family’s Mysterious Cyan Method can open 6 meridian channels, still more than his perfected Evergreen Method meridians.
However, with Ye Xing’s perfected Mysterious Cyan Method, he can up a full 10 meridian channels to cultivate. Compared to the original Mysterious Cyan Method, while it is not ten times faster, is large upgrade from the former.
Having the ability to open ten meridian channels already surpa.s.ses the Middle Grade power methods. In fact, it can be considered as good within the Top Grade power methods.
Ye Xing had received the top grade power method better than those used extraordinary cultivators within Tian Cang City. Although his mandate of heaven only has two stars, he can feel an astronomical amount of energy from them.
Therefore, in the Tian Cang city, his practice speed will definitely not be weaker than the others. It will only be faster, and faster by a large margin.
Ye Xing tried out the perfected Mysterious Cyan Method to cultivate for a bit. Suddenly, star power surged and enveloped him thickly. With the ten meridian channels working at the same time to absorb the power of the stars, it could only be described as incredible.
In just a small period of time, Ye Xing felt his third ring become completely lit with star energy as well as a shadow of a fourth ring begin to develop.
Ye Xing’s rise to prominence in Tian Cang city is not far away at all! Cheer him on!