The final outcome exceeded everyone’s expectations. No one had imagined the golden doll would be so overwhelmingly powerful that even the wielder of a heaven and earth artifact was directly suppressed. Just where had this madman come from?
But the golden doll gave them no answer. He walked up to Ruoshui and signalled that she could leave now.
At this moment, naturally no one dared trouble Ruoshui and her group anymore. They each retreated several steps, watching the golden doll and the others depart. Ye Chu and his companions naturally followed along!
Long after the group had left, the empire’s prince, buried in the soil, finally burst out from the ground. His entire body was covered in mud. His face was extremely gloomy.
This trip to the general’s tomb had yielded nothing at all. Even the great cultivators he had painstakingly recruited were crippled because of this. Thinking of Ruoshui and that seemingly deranged golden doll, his brows furrowed tightly. He had no idea where such a person had come from.
Qing Wenting walked side by side with Ye Chu. She looked at the golden doll chatting with Ruoshui ahead and asked curiously, “Is he from Qingmi Mountain’s Wuxin Peak?”
“You are interested?” Ye Chu glanced at Qing Wenting with a sly smile. “You had better think carefully. Your future life might consist only of gold ingots.”
“Get lost!” Qing Wenting wanted to kick Ye Chu to death. She stared at him with a dark expression. “Do not think I do not know. You could have expelled the killing aura without kissing her. Tell me, if I mention this to that woman, I wonder how she would treat you.”
Ye Chu’s heart skipped a beat, but he pretended to remain calm and refused to admit anything. “At that moment, only a kiss could draw it out. Do you think she would believe your rumour?”
Ye Chu naturally would not confess his little ulterior motive. This was a woman even the old madman addressed as grand martial aunt. If she truly learned of that small thought, Ye Chu did not believe he would have any good days ahead.
No matter how Qing Wenting guessed, Ye Chu would deny it to the death.
“Cowardly man!” Qing Wenting raised her long eyelashes. A look of contempt appeared on her peerlessly beautiful face. Her red lips curled slightly as she muttered under her breath.
Ye Chu naturally would not fall for Qing Wenting’s clumsy provocation. Fearing she might probe further on this topic and notice something, he walked over to the golden doll and Ruoshui.
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Ye Jingyun’s beautiful eyes watched the three walking side by side. Her heart remained unsettled for a long time. She could not help asking Pang Shao beside her, “What is their relationship with Ye Chu?”
Pang Shao glanced at Ye Jingyun’s long, sensual legs. When he saw the cold glint in her eyes pierce towards him, he quickly looked away. He sighed inwardly, “Ye Jingyun’s legs are damn seductive,” before answering. “How would I know? You should ask Her Highness the Saintess. She knows more.”
Qing Wenting saw her friend asking and shook her head. “I am not entirely clear on their relationship either, but Ye Chu and they should come from the same place.”
“So they are from the same sect? Where does Ye Chu study under?” Ye Jingyun could not help asking in surprise. Her mind was filled with criticism. She thought: With Ye Chu’s character, someone was actually willing to accept him as a disciple?
Moreover, the other side had nurtured someone as terrifying as the golden doll, turned a scoundrel like Ye Chu into someone capable of defeating Ye Yuanwang, and added a mysterious goddess-like woman whose depth could not be seen. The sect Qing Wenting mentioned was terrifyingly formidable.
“A very mysterious place. I have never been there myself. I only heard about it from the elders in my sect.” Qing Wenting could not evaluate Qingmi Mountain’s Wuxin Peak either. She could only give a general summary.
Ye Jingyun fell silent. If even Qing Wenting called it mysterious, then it must truly be mysterious. Thinking of Ye Chu’s past actions and his current strength, Ye Jingyun could not help letting out a soft breath.
The fortunes of life were truly endless. The scoundrel and trash everyone had once despised and scorned had actually reached such a day.
In just three short years, he had grown to this level, far surpassing Ye Yuanwang, who was hailed as a prodigy of the capital. Moreover, if Ye Chu truly came from a mysterious sect, no one could look down on him as they once did.
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Ye Chu naturally did not know he had stirred countless thoughts in Ye Jingyun’s heart. His gaze turned to Ruoshui. Even from just her side profile, the soft and beautiful lines were still breathtakingly stunning.
“When are you returning to Wuxin Peak?” The golden doll finally withdrew his thoughts from Ruoshui and looked at Ye Chu.
Ye Chu thought for a moment and said, “As soon as possible!”
He had not obtained the cultivation method he needed this time. Ye Chu could only return to Wuxin Peak. But he could not help thinking of the black iron in his qi sea. When the black iron had entered his body earlier, his primordial spirit had trembled intensely. The stimulation to his primordial spirit had been immense. He still did not know what it was!
The golden doll looked Ye Chu up and down, then nodded. “Not bad. Going down the mountain once and reaching the fifth level of the Innate Realm, plus possessing a great cultivator’s technique to defeat a Primordial Spirit Realm cultivator. It seems you obtained a great cultivator’s Primordial Spirit True Source.”
“You knew?” Ye Chu’s expression instantly darkened. This bastard had been there during his fight with Ye Yuande. What infuriated him was that the fat man had not stepped in, letting him suffer quite a bit.
“Do not look at this God of Wealth with murderous eyes. This God of Wealth was busy distributing wealth to the poor masses of the world. How would I have time to care about your life or death? If grand martial aunt had not been here, at most I would have dug a pit for you after you died.” The golden doll gave Ye Chu a disdainful glance. His gaze then shifted away from Ye Chu and back to Ruoshui. “Um, grand martial aunt, there is actually something I still need to ask you!”
“Hm?”
The golden doll did not answer directly. Instead, he shouted towards Qing Wenting. “That girl with the saintess crown, and the few cultivators behind you, all come over.”
Qing Wenting and Ye Jingyun exchanged glances. They brought several great cultivators and walked to the golden doll’s side, unsure what this somewhat deranged fat man wanted.
Ye Chu and Ruoshui were also puzzled. They could not help looking at the golden doll.
Once everyone had gathered, the golden doll finally spoke. “Actually, the reason I came to the general’s tomb this time was twofold. First, to welcome grand martial aunt. Second, to see if I could enter the general’s tomb myself. I never expected grand martial aunt had already broken in.”
Ye Chu and Ruoshui directly ignored the first reason. They knew the second was the golden doll’s true motive.
The golden doll noticed Ye Chu and Ruoshui’s dismissive glance. He felt his thoughts had been seen through. He glared fiercely at Ye Chu. “What are you looking at? Believe me or not, I will make your eyes grow into gold ingots!”
But when Ruoshui’s gaze turned towards him, his scolding quickly subsided. He gave an awkward laugh. “I searched through a massive amount of ancient texts back at Qingmi Mountain. In the end, I found a possibility.”
At this point, the golden doll could not help growing excited.
“What possibility?” Everyone was surprised. They wondered what could make the golden doll so thrilled.
The golden doll took a deep breath. Only then did he speak. “Did any of you see something like a piece of black iron in the tomb?”
With those words, only Ye Chu’s heart jolted violently. Black iron? This dead fat man knew what it was?