Chapter 97

On the other side.

Within Mount Yunwu, where the Ye family resides.

Ye Yu Hong looked at the message sent by Ye Qingxuan, his expression dazed for a moment.

After a long while, Ye Yu Hong sighed:

"In the blink of an eye, a hundred years have already passed!"

He and that little fellow Ye Qingxuan had not seen each other for a full hundred years.

Recalling his initial thought of placing the Ye family's hope for a breakthrough on Ye Qingxuan, Ye Yu Hong couldn't help but chuckle.

Now, his understanding of Dongxuan Fudi cultivators far exceeded what it was back then, so he naturally knew the difficulties of being one.

He did not take the resources produced by the First Order Dongxuan Fudi that Ye Qingxuan had contracted to heart, because he no longer held any hope for Ye Qingxuan.

It was not that he didn't trust Ye Qingxuan, but ever since he had fully understood Dongxuan Fudi cultivation, Ye Yu Hong already knew the approximate output of a First Order Dongxuan Fudi.

Those few resources could not provide any substantial help to the Ye family.

However, Ye Yu Hong still prepared to make a personal trip to the Xuantian Sect.

He wanted to exchange all his resources for Spirit-Enhancing Pills to cultivate the Ye family's new generation of descendants, and while he was at it, visit the Ye family's ancestor, Ye Zhaoyang, to see if he could obtain any help.

Because the Ye family was already far from what it used to be; the time had come when they had to seek help.

After making up his mind, Ye Yu Hong arranged the family affairs, sent a reply to Ye Qingxuan, and then hurried toward the direction of Qingmu Fucheng.

A hundred years had passed, and the number of cultivators in the Ye family had decreased rather than increased.

Ever since the Outer Realm Battlefield was opened to the outside, a large number of cultivators from the Di Xuan Realm had flooded into the Outer Realm Battlefield, seeking opportunities to advance further.

The Ye family's cultivators were naturally no exception.

After all, for cultivators from small forces like the Ye family, only the Outer Realm Battlefield offered them the possibility to break free from the shackles of their aptitude and obtain further advancement.

As the head of the Ye family, Ye Yu Hong had no way to forcibly restrain them.

In the span of a hundred years, a full third of the Ye family's cultivators had fallen on the Outer Realm Battlefield.

Especially the Ye family's Foundation Establishment cultivators, who lacked sufficient combat experience.

When the Outer Realm Battlefield first opened, a large number of the Ye family's Foundation Establishment clansmen fell on the Outer Realm Battlefield.

Even after learning from experience and the survivors beginning to act cautiously on the Outer Realm Battlefield, they could not withstand the fact that their cultivation bases were too low, so the number of fallen continued to increase.

Even if some had been tempered by the Outer Realm Battlefield and successfully broken through to the Purple Mansion Realm, the Ye family also had Purple Mansion Elders fall on the Outer Realm Battlefield.

The Ye family only had a dozen or so Purple Mansion cultivators; they did not have a massive base number like the Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Even if all the Purple Mansion Elders fell on the Outer Realm Battlefield, it might not necessarily be enough to exchange for one Golden Core cultivator.

Therefore, after suffering huge losses, and following internal discussions within the Ye family.

In the following time, the teams the Ye family sent to the Outer Realm Battlefield for tempering were basically led by two Purple Mansion Elders, with Foundation Establishment cultivators going in batches to take turns.

In this way, although the harvest had decreased, the losses had also decreased significantly.

But this method did not mean it was foolproof; the crises of the Outer Realm Battlefield sometimes could not be avoided just by relying on numbers.

If they encountered some shameless bandits or natural disasters with a wide range of impact, there was still a risk of falling.

So, after nearly a hundred years, although the Ye family's cultivators had been tempered and their combat power and cultivation bases had greatly improved.

In the last few years, one Purple Mansion Elder was even lucky enough to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

But because too many cultivators had fallen, the Ye family's base of Foundation Establishment cultivators had almost suffered a gap, and they urgently needed auxiliary cultivation elixirs to nurture the younger generation of cultivators.

This situation was also a microcosm of other small forces.

The Outer Realm Battlefield held no small amount of opportunity, but this opportunity also required sufficient strength to grasp.

The Outer Realm Battlefield was much more dangerous than the interior of the Di Xuan Realm.

Within the Di Xuan Realm, some cultivators might still have some scruples.

But once on the Outer Realm Battlefield, all order was gone, and it relied entirely on the persistence deep within a cultivator's heart.

When facing benefits, not everyone could hold onto their bottom line. Nowadays, on the Outer Realm Battlefield, some had already completely fallen and listed cultivators from the Di Xuan Realm as hunting targets as well.

Only disciples from major forces could make these people have some scruples.

Disciples from major forces not only had high cultivation bases and strong methods, but they were also the group with the most hidden trump cards and the greatest power.

Therefore, very few people would make a move against disciples from major forces, because the probability of flipping over was too high.

Those who were targeted were basically loose cultivators and people from small forces.

Ye Yu Hong's trip to the Xuantian Sect was secondary to taking thirty percent of the resources from Ye Qingxuan's Dongxuan Fudi; visiting his own ancestor to seek help was the main purpose.

At this time, Ye Yu Hong did not yet know that Ye Zhaoyang had been severely injured and was in seclusion healing, and it was highly probable that he would not be able to see him.

Sure enough, when Ye Yu Hong arrived at the Xuantian Sect, he first went to Ye Zhaoyang's cave dwelling, but did not see Ye Zhaoyang.

Thus, Ye Yu Hong, with a sense of confusion, followed the hints given by Ye Qingxuan and hurried toward Ye Qingxuan's Dongxuan Fudi.

By the time Ye Yu Hong arrived at the Qingxuan Dongxuan Fudi, Ye Qingxuan had already been waiting for a long time in the stone pavilion outside the Dongxuan Fudi with the two brothers, Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu.

Sensing Ye Yu Hong's arrival, Ye Qingxuan stood up, brought Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu to the edge of the stone pavilion, and looked at the newly arrived Ye Yu Hong with a light smile: "Family Head, long time no see! Hahaha!"

Ye Yu Hong was stunned as he looked at Ye Qingxuan before him. After sizing Ye Qingxuan up for a while, a look of surprise appeared in Ye Yu Hong's eyes, and after a long time, he slowly said:

"Qingxuan, it seems this Dao of Dongxuan Fudi cultivation is very suitable for you!"

Not seen for a hundred years, the change in Ye Qingxuan's temperament was truly too great.

If it weren't for the fact that Ye Qingxuan's appearance hadn't changed, Ye Yu Hong really might not have been able to recognize him.

At this time, the two brothers Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu behind Ye Qingxuan stepped forward together and said respectfully:

"Zhaohang, Zhaoyu, pay respects to the Family Head?"

Ye Yu Hong, hearing this, looked at Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu, and hesitated:

"You two are the brothers Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu? How did your cultivation bases improve so quickly?"

Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu were less than thirteen years old when they left the Ye family, and their appearances had changed quite a bit now.

Ye Yu Hong did not recognize the two at the first moment.

Moreover, now that the brothers Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu were under Ye Qingxuan's cultivation, they were both already at the peak of the Purple Mansion Realm.

They were only one step away from the Golden Core Realm.

Therefore, Ye Yu Hong initially did not think of the two people behind Ye Qingxuan as the brothers Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu.

Hearing Ye Yu Hong's inquiry, Ye Zhaohang and Ye Zhaoyu looked at Ye Qingxuan with fiery admiration in their eyes and said in unison:

"All of this is thanks to the Young Master's cultivation!"

Hearing this, Ye Yu Hong looked at Ye Qingxuan, and the confusion in his eyes deepened.

He really couldn't understand how Ye Qingxuan, who looked like he was only in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, had managed to cultivate two people with three-element spirit roots to the peak of the Purple Mansion Realm in such a short time.

It was not that Ye Yu Hong didn't know about those elixirs that directly boosted cultivation bases.

It was just that the cost of such elixirs was too high, and even the Ye family could not continuously supply such elixirs for clansmen to cultivate up to the peak of the Purple Mansion Realm.

One either didn't take such elixirs, or once taken, one could not stop.

Because once one stopped taking such elixirs and cultivated on one's own, the purity of the spiritual power would be insufficient, affecting one's original cultivation speed.

Therefore, in the Ye family, any disciple with three-element spirit roots or higher was forbidden from taking such elixirs.

As for disciples below three-element spirit roots, the Ye family held an attitude of neither supporting nor opposing.

But the Ye family itself would absolutely not take the initiative to supply such elixirs to the clansmen.

It was not that they were worried about such elixirs affecting the future of the clansmen—after all, most of the Ye family's cultivators had a very low ceiling, so there was no talk of affecting anything—the main issue was that they couldn't afford the supply.

In this era where hegemon-level forces suppressed everything and there was no need to worry about the disaster of clan extermination.

Taking such elixirs for cultivation was, for the family as a whole, more harmful than beneficial.

(End of chapter)