1460 The Nine Death Trials; Member of the Ye Clan (2/2)
'You were thrown to the Land of Wrecked Dreams from the sky?'
'Well, if you told me that you have an older heart, and your mind is over your age, I may believe you. If you told me that you have given up life already because you have seen through everything, I may believe you. How can you expect me to believe that you were thrown down to this place from the sky? It can't be more absurd! Why don't you make up a more unbelievable story?'
'Do you know how powerful one has to be to throw somebody down from upon the clouds? Will it kill you if you don't lie?'
When the bone age test was done, the result astounded the officer in golden armor.
'He is nineteen!'
'He didn't lie!'
However, the officer still didn't believe Ye Xiao was thrown down from beyond the clouds.
After all, it was difficult to believe it!
However, there was no way to prove it anyway, so the officer went on for the next step!
”Identity certificate.”
”Well… I don't have it…”
”You don't have it?”
The officer stared at Ye Xiao and said, ”How come you don't even have an identity certificate?”
Ye Xiao was helpless, and he said, ”I… Well… If I tell you that I am new to this world, that I have just ascended from the lower realm… would you believe me?”
”Bullsh*t! Cut your f*cking brag, will you? Why don't you tell me that you just saved an entire realm from a calamity, so you are enhanced by a great power?”
The officer stared at Ye Xiao and said it while shouting, ”You are nineteen years old! That already makes you a genius! Now you want me to believe that you ascended from the lower realm as a nineteen years old boy? You little bastard! Lie to me again, fool me around one more time, and I will cut you in slices! I would love to know how it feels to kill a genius! Do you think I dare or not?”
Ye Xiao was awkwardly speechless. 'Damn it. You are damn right I saved a world. I saved a whole world from a calamity, but I am not sure if I have that great power on me or not…'
'This is exactly the awkward situation people say about how a scholar having a debate against a simple-minded soldier. I just can't explain it clearly.' As Ye Xiao looked at the officer in golden armor, he clearly knew that the officer was a lot more powerful than him. After a second thought, he decided to use the same story that he made up to fool the fat shopkeeper, so he said in a deep voice, ”My family is a great family in seclusion. I came to this place only because of some family business… Come on… I haven't been out before. It is my first time to leave my clan, and my families threw me to this place to strengthen my will… I personally don't want this at all…”
”A great family in seclusion? Your name is Ye Xiao, so you are from the Ye Clan?”
”That's right.”
”Well, I have never heard of Ye Clan…” The officer humphed and said, ”I see. You are trying to sound important to me. Cut the bullsh*t now. I have no time to play your stupid game. Now, do you really want to go for the Nine Death Trials? Fine. Go over there. You can go by yourself! Get through the nine trials, then leave on the other side and get rid of the restraint of the Land of Wrecked Dreams…”
The officer pointed a direction.
”What if I fail?”
Ye Xiao asked.
Ye Xiao knew that he would definitely die if he failed to pass the trials. However, as the former Xiao Monarch, the Young Lord Xiao, he had enough experience and wisdom to know that there was always something he could learn in some unusual way, so he asked it all the same!
”If you fail? Well, you will leave!” The officer in golden armor said.
He was entirely speechless now.
The officer actually gave such an unbearable answer, which Ye Xiao did not expect!
Of course, he would leave, whether he passed the trials or not…
If he passed, he will leave the Land of Wrecked Dreams. If he failed, he will leave the living world…
The officer in golden armor kept staring at Ye Xiao when Ye Xiao left for the trials. He didn't stop watching Ye Xiao until he disappeared at the entrance of the trials.
The officer had watched him for a really long time.
”Chief, this young man talked a lot. I feel that he was telling the truth. What do you think?”
”It is not just your feeling. He did tell us the truth.” The officer in golden armor bitterly smiled and said, ”I sneered on purpose, and I was a little annoyed at first. This young man must be thrown to the Land of Wrecked Dreams by some great figure. The look in his eyes… This man is not a man without hope… I don't think he can fake that look in his eyes.”
”Well, should we…”
”No need.”
”He will go through the Nine Death Trials on his own.”
The officer in golden armor shook his whiskers and blandly said, ”A man should go alone on his own path of life.”
”If he survives, it is his fate that guides him to live.”
”If he dies there, it is his destiny that leads him to death.”
”We have no rights to interfere, and we don't need to.”
”That's it.”
The officer in golden armor spoke with a voice that was loud and deep like thunderclaps. It sounded unarguable!
In front of Ye Xiao, there was a gate.
In fact, it was more like a hole in the dark than a gate.
That was the entrance of the Nine Death Trials.
The officer kept watching Ye Xiao until he disappeared at the entrance.
…
After about one hour, the officer was still lost in thoughts outside the entrance of the Nine Death Trials.
'Is there a Ye Clan that is in seclusion?'
'The Ye Clan? Ye Xiao?'
The officer was still thinking about it. 'A man got thrown down from beyond the clouds? Somebody threw him down? Somebody left him in this place, the Land of Wrecked Dreams? What a coincidence!'
'He said he was set up. Was he?'
'If he was, whoever set him up must be incredibly powerful… Even the Sky Net wasn't triggered? This must be something important!'
The officer couldn't think it through. Personally, he believed that Ye Xiao was telling the truth. However, considering how abnormal what Ye Xiao said was, he couldn't believe what Ye Xiao said. That was why he was confused.
The vice-captain, who stood beside the officer in golden armor, suddenly got enlightened, and said, ”I remember! There is a Ye Clan among all the family clans in seclusion.”
”Is there? Is there really?” The officer turned around and stared at the vice-captain.
”Yes. Well, it is not exactly a family clan. In fact, there is a great mighty figure whose name is Ye.” The vice-captain seemed to be respectful, and said, ”Chief, do you remember the story? About a hundred thousand years ago, there was a mighty figure rising up in the world. The man united and conquered the broad land among the four skies and challenged the overlord of the Glaze Sky…”
”What?” The officer in golden armor seemed to be frightened.
That story circulated widely among high-level cultivators in the world. How could the officer in golden armor didn't know about it?
”That man… He fought against the overlord of the Glaze Sky for three full days and got defeated in the end. As a result of his failure in the fight, he made a vow that within a hundred thousand years after that fight, people from his family clan would never show up in the Human Realm Upon Heavens!”
The vice-captain said in a low voice, ”There are books about this story. The name of that great mighty figure is Ye. His full name is Ye Hongchen!”
”Ye Hongchen!”
The officer's face turned green.
”That's right. Ye Hongchen. His family clan must be the Ye Clan. What else can it be?”
”That is him… most likely…”
The vice-captain looked pretty serious, and he said, ”If the books are right, the one hundred thousand years have already passed now.”
”People of the Ye Clan returns to the Human Realm Upon Heavens… Isn't it… Isn't it quite a possible thing to happen? It is very possible to happen, isn't it?”
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