Chapter 559: Elixir Dawn

Time slips by, and before we know it, the assessment time for the Dan Tower's Five Great Families has arrived.

The assessment venue for the Five Great Families is a grand hall specially built within the inner precincts of Holy Dan City.

Of course, this assessment is not secret; it is semi‑public.

Some qualified factions will rush here to watch when the assessment begins.

After all, the positions of the Five Great Families are constantly on countless people's minds.

Everyone knows this is one of the best shortcuts into the upper echelons of Dan Tower.

Once a faction clings to the great tree that is Dan Tower, its fame will explode overnight.

Hence many factions seeking to infiltrate Dan Tower's upper levels pay close attention to this so‑called Five Great Families assessment.

However, this time the other factions eyeing the Five Great Families' spots have lost more than half their momentum.

Because the Ye family, which was about to be expelled from the Five Great Families, reportedly recruited a seventh‑rank peak‑level alchemist's son‑in‑law.

Among the other four families in this assessment, few can likely stand a fight with them.

And as long as the Ye family isn't kicked out of the Five Great Families, they have no chance to rise.

When Lin Feng and the two women followed Ye Zhong to the vast, overwhelmingly grand assessment hall...

... they found it already packed with a sea of dark heads.

Moreover, from time to time, waves of seemingly influential crowds breach the hall's tightly guarded entrance and make it inside.

"Let's go."

Ye Zhong stared at the massive hall, his fist in his sleeve trembling slightly, and exhaled lightly as he said.

This place is etched deeply in his memory!

Every previous assessment left him with a profound humiliation.

As his words faded, Ye Zhong was the first to stride toward the hall's entrance.

Seeing this, Lin Feng and his two companions followed closely.

Ye Zhong's party, suddenly emerging from the crowd, quickly attracted the surrounding onlookers' attention.

"Look, it's actually members of the Ye family."

"I wonder if the Ye family really found a prodigiously gifted son‑in‑law."

"Yeah, but I hope it's false; if the Ye family fails this time, our clan might become a new member of the Dan Tower's Five Great Families."

And when they saw the family crest on Ye Zhong's chest, whispered gossip erupted instantly outside the hall.

After all, rumors about the Ye family's legitimate daughter's fiancé have been rampant these past days.

First they repelled Cao Dan of the Cao family, then they intimidated Bai Eagle and his party of the Bai family.

Meanwhile, these rumors continued to spread throughout the Dan Realm.

Later, someone even dug up the identity of the Ye family daughter's fiancé.

He once fought a senior elder of the second‑star Dou Zun rank in the Great Battle of Burning Flame Valley and defeated him.

As these events fermented, Lin Feng's reputation in the Dan Realm grew ever larger.

By now, virtually every cultivator in Holy Dan City who isn't in seclusion has at least heard of Lin Feng's name.

"The Ye family has arrived!"

The guard, upon seeing Lin Feng and Ye Zhong's party, let out a booming voice that resonated through the hall.

Amid the guard's loud shout, Lin Feng's group entered the hall.

As soft light poured down, illuminating their bodies, Lin Feng also sensed that…

Within the hall, gazes laden with various meanings were cast toward them.

Raising his eyes slightly, Lin Feng's gaze swept quickly across the hall.

At this moment, many silhouettes sat and stood on the seats surrounding the hall.

Among them were even some Dou Zun‑level elites, clearly from fairly strong factions or families.

As for the myriad gazes from all directions, Ye Zhong paid them little heed.

He knew most of them were hoping the Ye family would fail the assessment.

That would clear an excellent spot for them.

"Up front is the Dan, Bai, Qiu Four Great Families; you've probably already seen some of them."

Ye Zhong led Lin Feng and the two others to the seats where the Ye family sat, whispering an explanation.

Hearing this, Lin Feng's eyes followed the direction and indeed saw several seats at the front of the hall.

However, those four seats now only held members of three families.

Among those three families was Bai Eagle of the Bai family, whom Lin Feng had met before.

Beside the Bai family's spot were people wearing family crests Lin Feng had never seen.

He guessed they must be the Qiu family.

As for the group near the center, Lin Feng recognized their crest as that of the Dan family.

Yet the most eye‑catching was a petite young woman among the Dan family.

The girl seemed not much older than Ye Xinlan, her delicate frame slender, her beautiful cheeks unusually pale, giving off a faintly sickly aura.

What attracted Lin Feng, however, was not her graceful body.

Nor was it merely her youthful possession of Dou Huang‑level power.

Rather, within his half‑step into the spiritual realm, he vaguely sensed…

…a strange suction continuously emanating from the girl's delicate body.

This suction cannot draw Qi; it specifically absorbs souls!

If someone with weaker strength or soul power rashly approaches that girl…

I'm afraid the soul would be sucked out of the body in an instant, then that girl would completely devour it.

"What a strange constitution; the reason I can devour souls is because I possess the Falling Heart Flame. But she can directly devour others' souls, strengthening her own soul power. Could she be Dan Chen?"

Lin Feng stared at the girl with blazing eyes, silently speculating in his heart.

After all, in his memory, only Dan Chen possessed such a defying constitution.

The girl's soul power was also quite formidable, and she quickly sensed Lin Feng's astonished gaze.

After her pretty face flushed slightly, she suddenly seemed to recall something,

Then she quickly hid behind a man standing nearby, daring not to meet Lin Feng's eyes.

Seeing Lin Feng's unblinking stare fixed on the Dan family side, Xiao Yixian and Ye Xinlan also followed his gaze.

Hum!

Realizing Lin Feng was looking at that Dan family girl, Qiong Bi let out a light hum.

Immediately, the two women simultaneously extended a jade arm and gave Lin Feng's waist a hard pinch.

Sss~

The sudden attack on his waist made Lin Feng gasp a cold breath in pain.

Although with Ye Xinlan's Battle King strength, she could not inflict any real damage on him now.

But as a Battle Sovereign strongman, Xiao Yixian was different; it truly hurt!