Chapter 1 (1/2)

Chapter 1 – Dragon Shaped Jade PendantTranslated by: OMAEdited by: OMATLCed by: OMA

Poplar Town.

In a room on the second floor of the Emerald Jade House, a pair of coquettish girls sat on Yang Chen’s lap. Yang Chen whipped out a few silver bills slapped them on the table and laughed delightfully.

Once the two girls saw the bills, their eyes immediately shone with light, and hurriedly rubbed their b.r.e.a.s.t.s on his arm, slyly laughing. “Master Yang, you sure are very generous…”

Just at this moment, the door suddenly slammed open. A servant rushed to the young man’s side, and in spite of the sweat, stooped low to the youth’s ear and said, “Young Master Chen, Third Aunt’s husband has pa.s.sed away!”

The servant’s name was Xiao Huang, Yang Chen’s most trusted aide, accompanying his side for many years.

Yang Chen’s face suddenly went expressionless, only recovering after a while, brushed his sleeves, stood up, and left the area. The servant’s expression was sorrowful, but could not keep up with Yang Chen’s footsteps.

Walking on the street, Yang Chen thought: “Although this devil of a father died in an intoxicated manner, surpa.s.sing even me when drinking, but he is barely forty years old, he could still live another ten years, so how did he suddenly kick the bucket today?”

Increasing his pace, he very quickly arrived in the Yang residence.

Poplar Town had two families in power, the Bai family and the Yang family. The Yang family was in control of close to half of all of Poplar Town’s resources, hence achieving the name of the second power.

Usually a person born to such a family is one’s fortune. However, in Yang Chen’s case it was not so.

During his younger days, the Yang family founder was known for having a great innate talent, his martial skills were immeasurable, and in Poplar Town he had built up his foundation. The Yang family quickly expanded and achieved success, giving birth to countless children.

Yang Chen’s mother is of the older generation and is the third daughter, with a genius talent, which everybody in Poplar Town knew. However, Yang Chen’s father became a son-in-law living with his wife’s family. Yang Chen did not know how flirtatious his father was during his younger days, but as far back as he could recall, his father was drinking wine all day long, in a muddy daze, abandoned in a crude cottage, wasting his life away.

As the father was useless, the unlucky son was also implicated. Hence Yang Chen’s position was not essential in the great Yang family. Not only did other people give him the cold shoulder, but even his own mother pretended not to have given birth to him. As such, he led a carefree life and had an unrestrained disposition. With the reputation of the Yang family, he got by with wasting his life away drinking and eating merrily, by dominating men and conquering women, leading a pretty good life.

Ignoring the cold gazes from the gate guards, Yang Chen entered the Yang residence.

The Yang family courtyard was filled with pavilions, beautiful flora, displaying the elegance and history of the great family.

Not even a few steps away there were two people who were walking over. The first was a white robed, tall and largely built, stern young man. It was Yang Chen’s second uncle’s eldest son, his cousin Yang Zhan.

Behind Yang Zhan, stood a distant cousin called Chen Liu. He had an ugly disposition, hunchbacked, and looked towards Yang Zhan with flattery.

When he arrived in front of Yang Chen, Yang Zhan suddenly blocked Yang Chen’s path.

“I hear that your useless father finally kicked the bucket.”

Yang Zhan mocked Yang Chen, his face full of ridicule.

Yang Zhan had a decent reputation in Poplar Town, at the age of only 17, he had already broken through and entered the realm of the fourth dragon pulse, his achievement was considered as splendid.

Yang Chen in comparison to the rest of the outstanding youths in the Yang family, was never considered to be even in the same league.

Ever since they were small, they have had access to innumerous amounts of resources, and secret intermediate martial techniques, as for Yang Chen he never had any of these.

His mother did not bother with him, and other people were even less likely to give him anything. When he was younger, he partic.i.p.ated in an intra-family compet.i.tion and showed off his incredible cultivation speed, stunning the crowd and earning himself a period of fame. However, without access to martial techniques, coupled with his lack of apt.i.tude to improve, and even not practicing cultivation, he never managed to break through the first Dragon Pulse Vein, not being able even to enter the first level of Dragon Pulse Realm.

Yang Chen had practiced in secret before, but without martial techniques and guidance, even improving a little was extremely difficult.

“Why are you keeping quiet? I said that your dad is someone useless, you refuse to accept that fact?”

Standing in front of Yang Chen, Yang Zhan looked down upon him with ridicule in his eyes.

This kind of bullying, it’s not as if Yang Chen has never encountered it before. Although Yang Chen has quite a reputation outside, but when he returns back to the Yang family he is considered to be equal to a dog. He knows his own place in the family, so he constantly endures and lets things slide by. But today, perhaps it was because of his father’s death, even though he looked calm on the surface, his heart was extremely vexed.

“Move out of my way!”

Inhaling deeply, Yang Chen coldly said as he raised his head to look at him.

“My dear younger brother, how can you speak to your elder brother so rudely, could it be that you are resentful towards me? You did not learn martial cultivation, while tarnishing the Yang family name. As your elder brother, isn’t it a natural thing for me to discipline you a little bit?

Yang Zhan laughed as he said that. Not waiting for Yang Chen to dispute, he threw a punch hitting Yang Chen’s stomach and left, sneering.

Yang Chen cried out in pain and collapsed to the ground.