Chapter 207 – Onwards (2/2)
The butler had been serving long enough to tell when someone is prioritizing the family over their lives, he knew Ye Wei was the reason why the mansion was now often visited by the influentials.
“The Zhou Dynasty is vast, I am still not strong enough comparing to many. I have to travel when I am young so that I can become as great as Supreme Ye Yu!” Ye Wei exclaimed, tried to lift the wrinckles on Butler Fu’s face, to make the old man smile. “I will return, so I will need you to tidy and clean the room for me once in awhile!”
“Don’t tell me how to do my job!” The butler laughed and replied. ‘He is all grown up now…’
Minutes after, the Ye’s all stopped what they were doing, headed to the main hall and leaving trails of footsteps in the snow on the open hallways.
“Grandpa, these are blood of the late Supreme Ye Yu. It is extremely strong and can not be harvested by normal methods, sorry I didn’t have time to experiment with it. I am sure you can figure something out.” Ye Wei greeted the patriarch, discreetly handed over the vials and whispered.
“Thank you for coming everyone, I have something I would like to give to you all!” Ye Wei pointed at the scrolls he placed on the long tables. “I have refined the Falling Star form to low-level Earth grade, and selected twelve high-level Myst stances, you should all look at them and study them when Grandpa says you strong enough.”
He reached to his inside pocket an interspatial bag, emptied some of the contents on another table and said, “These pills should last ten years. Use them and do not take shortcuts while cultivating, Grandpa will be assigning these resources as fair as possible like he always did.”
“Learn to use these scrolls and arms, take them if you need to complete a high risk mission. Our family needs to grow and that means everyone of us will have to work harder.”
“Little Wei, are you sure about going to the Helian’s?” The Ye Patriarch took a deep breath, saddened and faintly nervous.
“Yes!” The young Runemaster nodded determinedly. “I need diversion, I need to see and experience the world. Without inspiration I will never breakthrough to returned prime level.
“Okay. I respect that. But when you are out there, please be careful. Remember, there is always sinister where there is good.” Ye Zhengqing patted Ye Wei’s shoulder, spoke in a worrying tone. “No matter where you are, what you face, this house will always be your home and root. These gates will always open for you whenever you decided to return!”
“Thank you so, so much Grandpa!” The young Runemaster closed his eyes and wrapped his arms around his grandfather.
“Little Wei, take care of yourself please!”
“Wei, if things don’t go your way, don’t push it! You can come back to rest any time you like!”
While his uncles and aunts bade farewell, his parents were speechless, walked up to join him next to the patriarch with wet eyes.
“We are so proud of you and we will miss you.” His mother whispered in his ears.
After a minute long hug, Ye Wei walked towards Ye Zhong. He punched his cousin’s shoulder and said: “Cousin Zhong, take care of everyone when I am away please!”
“Idiot, that goes without saying. Don’t be too reckless out there!” Ye Zhong nodded and slightly shuddered.
After bidding everyone goodbye, Ye Wei left the hall with master Yi. His master led him to one of the remote courtyards.
“Since you are heading off, I should fill you in.” Master Yi said in a gentle tone.
“The royal families work in a rotation, since thirty years ago, the Lins have been in charge of governing and general policy, the Huyan are controlling the Green Army, maintaining order within the borders and finally the Helians in charge of finance and exploration.”
“Although the Lins are in power, they are keeping a rather low profile, they have been spending their resources on expeditions together with the Helians instead of having a tight grip over the dynasty.” Master Yi continued.
“Huyans and Helians are not friends, they fell out a while back when the Green Army failed to report some treasure findings.”
Ye Wei frowned and said, “that means I should beware of the Huyans?”
Master Yi nodded, “You have been given a great opportunity but you’ve also been dragged into a very delicate and complex situation...”
The Master and apprentice paced in the courtyard and spoke about other related matters. About an hour later, Master Yi walked Ye Wei into a customized Runicle.
“Send me a message on the badge whenever you want to talk to me or need me, otherwise just let me know when you’ve arrived. I shall be at the capital in a few weeks, we can catch up then.” Master Yi proudly placed his arm around his legacy apprentice’s shoulder, said gently.
“Thank you for all these years of taking care of me, Master.” Ye Wei smiled, nodded and stepped into the luxury compartment.
Flakes of white were covering the sky and the ground, Ye Wei’s Runical took the quickest route out of town, the hovering vehicle left no trail on the carpet of snow.
Ye Wei sat in the warm seat on an exotic beast skin, looking through the walls with his will-force empowered eyesight. He gazed at his home town dressed in white, his eyes followed the main road out of town to the skyline afar as his mind wandered.