Chapter 21 - A Tussle Between Ninth Stage Fighters (1/2)

Ye Chen scowled coldly at Yun Yixuan. He did not have a single reason to treat anyone from the House of Yun with anything resembling courtesy. After all, Ye Chen was sure that the crooks who had attacked and severed his meridian channels three years ago were people from the House of Yun, even though he had yet to uncover any solid evidence.

‘Oh, you watch your back. I’ll repay that debt in due time.’

“So, what should I be expecting from the three Lords of their respective Houses?” Ye Zhantian did not gesture to Qin Yu nor Yan Yin to take a seat. Instead as the master of the household, the Patriarch only minded his own seat, grabbed and sipped a cup of tea placidly, and did not address the two other Lords at all.

The House of Qin and the House of Yan had always been nothing more than lapdogs to the House of Yun, and Ye Zhantian was not in the mood to treat them as anything more than that.

Qin Yu and Yan Yin looked angry for a while, but they managed to grab their own chairs and sat beside Yun Yixuan.

“So, I heard that Brother Zhantian had just attained the Ninth Stage.” Yun Yixuan’s eyes were fixed squarely on Ye Zhantian. “Congratulations.”

Alas, Yun Yixuan and his envoy were here only to verify this piece of information!

“Oh, I didn’t know all of this was to congratulate me. I suppose I should say thank you,” Ye Zhantian replied flatly.

“I, for one, wonder about that little punk, Yun Yiyang. How’s his Concentrated Celestial Construct going, eh? This old man here hasn’t had fun with that for a while.” Ye Changxuan chimed in and ran his fingers through his long white beard. In terms of seniority, he was definitely a generation older than both Yun Yixuan and Yun Yiyang.

‘Some people do wear their age like a badge—as if it means anything,’ Yu Yiyang sneered in contempt as he thought.

“Well, thank you for your concern. My Big Brother’s Concentrated Celestial Construct has already reached its Fifth Grade. I’m very sure that he would make a breakthrough to the Sixth Grade soon and attain the peak of the Ninth Stage in the process,” Yun Yixuan replied arrogantly.

Once Yun Yiyang gets to the peak of the Ninth Stage, only his words would be treated as the law among the Eighteen Houses of Lianyun. After all, many could be training themselves earnestly for decades and yet never progress from the Mid-Ninth Stage to the peak. Every step becomes as hard as scaling a mountain once one reaches the Ninth Stage. Frankly, if it was not for this spike in difficulty, Ye Changxuan would not have been stuck in the early Ninth Stage for so many years.

Of course, no one could tell if Yun Yixuan was telling the truth or if that was just a power move.

“It’s a pity for someone renowned to be quite sloppy in his training! I remember how the House of Yun’s elders used to drag Yun Yiyang around just to train. If it wasn’t out of fool’s luck that he ate a Blood Fungus, he might still be in his Seventh or Eighth Stage even by now, no?” Ye Changxuan grinned, his eyes narrowed.

Every Ye clansman in the room burst into laughter.

Yun Yixuan was indignant. ‘I cannot believe they were still obsessed with this stupid issue!’ He fumed internally. ‘Ye Changxuan planned on telling the audience about every single story from the past today, wasn’t he? This old lout!’

He scanned the House of Ye’s younger crowd with a firm look, and they subconsciously cowered whenever the Ninth Stage fighter’s sharp gaze landed on them—all except for Ye Chen who stared back at him without any fear.

‘This must be Ye Zhantian’s third son, Ye Chen, isn’t it?’ Yun Yixuan thought. He remembered hearing about a boy who had been proclaimed as the most promising and talented amongst the younger generation between the Eighteen Houses. However, ever since the boy had his cultivation base completely voided by the Eighth Stage fighters from his own House, Ye Chen had been demoted to a good-for-nothing instead. Of course, that was until Ye Zhantian somehow managed to obtain a Nexus Pill for the kid, and now not only were his meridian channels all patched up, he even joined and won and a duel which made him the Successor Patriarch.

Well, let me see how powerful are, kiddo.

A surge of Ninth Stage Pressure emanated out of Yun Yixuan and silently snaked toward Ye Chen.

The young Successor Patriarch immediately felt a sudden load of gravity weighing down on his chest and churned the blood in his body. In retaliation, he revolved his own Celestial Chi to fight back the Pressure.

Yun Yixuan was surprised by Ye Chen’s response. Had it been any other Fifth or Sixth Stage acolyte being subjected to the brunt of a Ninth Stage fighter’s Pressure, they would have already broken down instantly. Yet here Ye Chen was; he fought back Yun Yixuan’s Pressure head-on and his body did not even shudder while doing so.