1460 The Nine Death Trials; Member of the Ye Clan (1/2)
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'Now… I need to cultivate… I have to improve myself to an upper grade.' Ye Xiao clearly knew what he should do.
The Nine Death Trials was the obstruction of the way out from the Land of Wrecked Dreams to the outside world. It wouldn't be easy to go through all the nine trials.
The entire world spent a great deal of resources to keep the Land of Wrecked Land out of the real world. All they wanted was to let these men without dreams live and die in peace. They had to make sure nothing went wrong.
When somebody chose to enter the Land of Wrecked Dreams, he automatically took the protection from the East Sky. As one had received the protection from the East Sky, it would be improper to go out and stir up some disturbance in the world again… It just wouldn't be easy!
The fatty frankly told Ye Xiao that all those who wanted to go out for their dreams again died in the Nine Death Trials. No exception.
”You can have a dream in this world.”
”You can chase after it, and fight for it.”
”When you feel powerless and hopeless, when you decide to give up, you have an opportunity to live the rest of your life in peace. All you need to do is to enter the Land of Wrecked Dreams. In the Land of Wrecked Dreams, you will find the peace you need for the rest of your meaningless life.
”You have lost your dream, so you should humbly live a normal life and stop thinking too much about the outside world.”
”It is a virtue to always know where your place is.”
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Things in this steamed buns shop were all done. Ye Xiao made sure that there was nothing else he could learn from the fat shopkeeper anymore, so he gave the smallest piece of the Star Trace Iron he had to the shopkeeper as a gift. The fat shopkeeper got his face entirely turned red and almost passed out.
He wasn't frightened or something, but was just too shocked with joy!
He had his own story.
The fat shopkeeper had been working hard for a lifetime, but it wouldn't be enough to earn even one purple spirit coin.
However, ten thousand purple spirit coins were not enough to buy a tiny piece of Star Trace Iron!
Star Trace Iron was some priceless special metal in the world!
For the cultivators in the Human Realm Upon Heavens, it had to be extremely lucky to own a piece of Star Trace Iron, and it was not just about money.
People thought so because the Star Trace Iron was special and rare. One-tenth of the small piece of the Star Trace Iron that Ye Xiao gave the fat shopkeeper was enough to make a normal weapon into a divine weapon!
To enhance weapons was the most normal thing the Star Trace Iron could do!
What made the Star Trace Iron so valuable was that a tiny piece of the Star Trace Iron that was made into the weapon could turn the weapon into a material with memory. No matter how badly the weapon got damaged, all it needed was time to recover. It didn't need to be reforged and it would become new again!
Its power would not be decreased at all! It was amazing!
That was why the Star Trace Iron was so important and valuable. One tiny piece of the Star Trace Iron could lead to a massacre in the world because people would fight for it.
The fat shopkeeper never expected that he could get such a great treasure as a return because all he had done was merely offering Ye Xiao some food and told him some common knowledge in this world. The fat man was so touched and his eyes were filled with warm tears. That was why he respected Ye Xiao so much afterward.
As a return to Ye Xiao's generousness, the fat shopkeeper offered Ye Xiao a room in his home. Clothes, food, and drinks—the fat shopkeeper gave Ye Xiao everything he needed.
Ten days after, Ye Xiao decided to go for the Nine Death Trials. The fat shopkeeper kindly dissuaded Ye Xiao from the terrible trials, but Ye Xiao didn't listen.
He had made up his mind to try to get through the trials in the Land of Wrecked Dreams!
”Fatty, you were once an experienced cultivator in the martial world. You know how a precious stone can land its innocent possessor in jail. The Star Trace Iron will not be well used in this place. If you have a child someday, and you don't want him to stay in the Land of Wrecked Dreams, tell him to come to find me with that Star Trace Iron!”
”My name is Ye Xiao. You better remember it!
”I will only recognize that Star Trace Iron, not the person who had it!”
Ye Xiao said to the shopkeeper, and suddenly his eyes shined sharply as if he was challenging the entire world with his sword. ”I promise! My name, Ye Xiao, will be famous in the Human Realm Upon Heavens! I am sure!”
”Young master, take care!” The fat shopkeeper nodded and said, ”If I have a boy or a girl, I will tell him or her to find you. Only the Star Trace Iron proves my child. I won't forget!”
Ye Xiao solemnly nodded.
Before Ye Xiao said anything, the fat shopkeeper gave him a cloth bag and pushed it into his hands. ”Young master, here are one hundred white spirit coins in it. As you know, I am not a capable man. I am weak in cultivation, and I am not a successful businessman either… Here. One hundred white spirit coins are all I have.
”Please accept it. In fact, these coins don't mean a lot to me in this Land of Wrecked Dreams. Don't look down upon me, please. I have lived my part in the martial world before. I am not ignorant.”
”One more thing. I asked my wife to make two buckets of steamed buns… Take them. I know you have a spatial tool, so just put the buns into it. Whenever you are hungry, just eat some. It's steaming hot yet.”
”Take care, Young Master.”
”You too, my friend.”
Ye Xiao didn't refuse those things. He just put them into the Boundless Space without hesitation, and then turned around to leave the town.
The fat shopkeeper kept watching him off for a long time with a pair of profound eyes.
The shopkeeper's wife walked close to him slowly, looking at Ye Xiao's back, and said, ”Do you think he can make it?”
”Yes! I am sure he can!” The fat shopkeeper seemed to be sure.
”Did he… What he said… Is it real? The Star Trace Iron is something great. I know. However, for people like us, living in the Land of Wrecked Dreams, it is not certainly more valuable than the white spirit coin. Do you really think it is worth giving him all you have?”
”Yes, I do. Why not? You and me, we are people without dreams. Well, our child is not!”
”Oh? So… You really want our child to find him? Wasn't it just a nice word? I thought you were just saying it for being polite!”
”I meant every word I said! Of course, I do!”
The fat shopkeeper took a deep breath and said, ”The Star Trace Iron doesn't mean much for people in this place, but not everybody in this world can be this generous! He just gave me a piece of Star Trace Iron!”
”Well…”
”What? What we should do is to have a baby as soon as we can! We must work harder on it! Do you understand?”
Then he laughed loudly and held his wife's waist with one arm. The wife was flirtatiously grumbling, and then the couple had entered their room.
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”Is it you? Do you want to go for the Nine Death Trials?”
A man in golden armor, who seemed to be an officer, stared at Ye Xiao with no facial expression.
”Yes, I do.”
”What is your name?”
”Ye Xiao!
”Age?”
”Nineteen.”
”What? Nineteen? Are you just nineteen years old?” The officer in golden armor exclaimed. There was finally an expression on his face.
In the Human Realm Upon Heavens, many people knew how to stay young. It was easy to even stay looking like a child by cultivating some special martial arts.
However, cultivators who appeared too much younger or older than they truly were must be extremely powerful or utterly weak in cultivation. People with strange looks were always weird cultivators with weird techniques. They could be powerful with their weird techniques, but also could be weak. All they had were their special appearance!
Ye Xiao had a pretty face. A young man like Ye Xiao in the Land of Wrecked Dreams was most likely a pretty boy who was weak and did fraud for life. That was why the officer in golden armor wouldn't show respect to Ye Xiao!
However, it was a totally different situation now since the officer knew that Ye Xiao was just a nineteen years old boy. After all, it was reasonable that a nineteen years old man looked pretty. It didn't mean he was weak, and it didn't mean he did fraud for life!
”I am nineteen!”
The officer in golden armor was surprised, so he asked, ”You are nineteen years old… How did you end up here in the Land of Wrecked Dreams? Did you experience anything too miserable to live on for? How did you lose all your dreams before nineteen years old?”
”It was such a weird thing that such a young man would lose dreams for life.”
”For people in the Human Realm Upon Heavens, a nineteen years old young man was not much older than a baby. In fact, he was just a kid in this world. How could a man who had just started his life already lose his hope for the rest of his life? How could a man this young escape the reality and hide in this place?”Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
”Do you think I wanted to come here? I was thrown down here! I was set up…” Ye Xiao helplessly explained.
”Bone age test!” The officer didn't seem to believe Ye Xiao. He just didn't buy the reason.