Chapter 168: Alarming the Higher-Ups, the Human Ceiling Arrives in Person!

"No, don't!" Ning Zhengrong was unreconciled, terrified.

"I did it all for the Ning Family, you can't treat me like this!"

"Boom!"

Ning Wande slapped out with his palm, sending Ning Zhengrong flying several dozen meters, the kind that spits blood repeatedly!

"For the Ning Family?

Having you is truly a blessing for the Ning Family!" His eyes glared with three parts anger!

Once Ning Zhengrong was taken away.

Ning Wande remembered something, and issued another order.

Thoroughly investigate all of Ning Zhengrong's actions over these years!

"Good, very good!"

"Three years ago, Ning Zhengrong actually bribed a civilian Martial Artist to poison Ye Bai's only relative?"

"And it was Hundred Poison Spider Toxin, that kind of deadly poison that, once triggered, not only kills the poisoned person, but also kills any non-Martial Artist near the corpse on the spot?!"

"Is he an idiot? Could he not have guessed that for a dignified Grandmaster Realm powerhouse to go to such great lengths to kill an ordinary person, it must mean Ye Bai's background is not simple?!"

Upon learning of all the incidents Ning Zhengrong had committed, Ning Wande was even more furious!

Ning Zhengrong was, shockingly, also the person who had instigated Xue Yi back then!

Because Ye Bai was already a Ranked Martial Artist at the time, Jiang Renyi had overlooked the fact that the Hundred Poison Spider Toxin could also kill those around him!

"Yuan'er, you did very well this time! If it weren't for you, our Ning Family would have truly gone down the wrong path this time!"

"After this matter is over, you shall take the position of the Ning Family Head successor!"

Ning Wande looked at Ning Yuan on the side, his expression quite kind.

Without Ning Yuan, he would never have realized that a student who had just graduated from Martial Arts High School was already an existence the Ning Family could not afford to offend!

"Grandfather, forget it..."

However, upon hearing this, Ning Yuan's expression only became more complex.

He had only guessed that Ning Zhengrong wanted to kill Ye Bai more than once, because thinking carefully, whether it was the Evil Spirit incident or the Ranking Tournament incident, the primary target seemed to be Ye Bai.

But he hadn't expected that Ye Bai's background was actually very extraordinary!

It was not at all what he had initially thought—just an ordinary student with good grades!

"Hmm? Yuan'er, are you in a bad mood?

Let Grandfather guess, it couldn't be that you and Ye Bai were already at odds, right?"

"And the result is that time and again, the facts tell you that the gap between you and Ye Bai is huge, so huge that you have no choice but to bow your head?" Ning Wande asked.

"Mm..." Ning Yuan did not deny it.

"Alright."

Ning Wande's gaze flashed, and he issued another order.

Soon, a document bag was delivered inside.

"Yuan'er, make peace with yourself...

Ye Bai, you cannot compete with him, and you shouldn't compete..."

Ning Wande glanced at the contents of the document bag, sighed long again, and handed the document bag directly to Ning Yuan.

He had originally only wanted to investigate the past between Ye Bai and Ning Yuan.

As a result...

"This?!" Seeing the item inside the document bag, Ning Yuan's pupils shrank violently!

It was a Jade Pendant...

A Jade Pendant that Ye Bai had reported lost at the Martial Artist Association a month ago...

So, for the past month, he had actually been causing trouble for the benefactor who had saved him twice?!

His suggestion to take down Ning Zhengrong shouldn't have been out of pressure from the situation.

Rather, he already owed Ye Bai!

"I am inferior to Ye Bai!" Ning Yuan was completely convinced!

"It will be night soon; even if Ye Bai has SSSS-ji Talent, his upgrade should be ending soon.

Yuan'er, will you come with Grandfather to wait outside Wangxing Pavilion?" Ning Wande said.

"Okay!" Ning Yuan agreed.

The two of them arrived at Wangxing Pavilion together.

And then...

It was ten o'clock at night!

"Um, Grandfather, why hasn't Ye Bai's talent upgrade ended yet?" Ning Yuan couldn't help but ask.

"You ask Grandfather, but who is Grandfather to ask..."

The shock in Ning Wande's eyes, however, was even greater than Ning Yuan's!

Before investigating the matter between Ning Yuan and Ye Bai, he actually didn't know how long it would take for the Mending Heaven Stone to upgrade to SSSS-ji Talent.

The reason he said Ye Bai would wake up soon was because he had relied on years of accumulated connections, plus the disclosure of Ning Zhengrong's actions and information on the Ning Family's decision, to finally inquire about it from a high-level official in the Dragon Guard.

After all, he had to send Ning Zhengrong, who had repeatedly tried to kill Ye Bai and Qin Churan, to Ye Bai as soon as possible.

As a result, it still hadn't ended!

The only explanation Ning Wande could think of was that Ye Bai's talent was even more terrifying than the Dragon Guard had estimated!

"Could it be that Ye Bai is the first person in history...

That even those four cannot compare to?!"

……

However, compared to Ning Wande.

"Um, Officer Sima, how come Ye Bai... hasn't woken up yet?"

"Can I say that I don't know either?"

Inside Wangxing Pavilion No. 38.

Sima Cheng was actually the most shocked person of all!

You have to know, the reason he said it should be over in a dozen hours or so.

Was because he had been traumatized by the experience and didn't dare to estimate how long Ye Bai's talent upgrade would take anymore!

But in reality, Sima Cheng felt in his heart that Ye Bai didn't need such a long time to complete the upgrade at all.

Because the Mending Heaven Stone consumes forty thousand Merit Points worth of Spirit Stones every hour, which is already four times the consumption of all previous geniuses!

Just calculating the time for that fourfold consumption alone, it has already been sixteen hours!

The total duration is equivalent to other geniuses using the Mending Heaven Stone for more than three days!

And it still isn't over!

"But I think what we should be concerned about right now is not how much longer it will take for Ye Bai to complete his talent upgrade..." While his eye twitched, Sima Cheng suddenly took a deep breath and said!

"What do you mean?"

"My older brother transferred the Spirit Stone reserves from all the cities in Jiangnan Prefecture this morning. The last batch arrived ten hours ago. The total amount was much more than I thought, nearly seven hundred thousand Merit Points worth of Spirit Stones."

"And now, the remaining Spirit Stones are only enough for Ye Bai to use the Mending Heaven Stone for another two hours..."

"Then what are we waiting for? Keep transferring them!"

"The problem is, we can't transfer any more!"

"Transferring Spirit Stones from other prefectures requires going through procedures, which takes at least two days!!"

Sima Cheng was on the verge of tears!

"Officer Sima, I still have eleven thousand Merit Points, see if you can buy Spirit Stones with them..." Li Qingqing stood out at this moment.

"I have forty thousand Merit Points here too." Xi Qian also appeared.

Since Li Qingqing started upgrading her talent yesterday, she had actually been guarding outside Wangxing Pavilion No. 38 the whole time.

She had originally intended to wait until Ye Bai's talent upgrade was finished to pay back the consumption Li Qingqing had incurred to Ye Bai.

"We can't buy them...

If we could buy them, our Jiangnan Prefecture Military Department would have scraped enough together even if everyone just chipped in a little..."

Sima Cheng felt even more helpless!

Drained, it was truly drained!

No one could have imagined that the entire Jiangnan Prefecture would be insufficient to support one person's talent upgrade!

He had also contacted Sima Kong several hours ago.

"We can only hope that the remaining Spirit Stones are enough for Ye Bai's talent upgrade..." Sima Kong had been incredibly helpless at the time too!

"What?!"

"Then what should we do?"

At this moment, Liu Qingtian's expression changed!

Li Qingqing's expression changed as well.

Qin Churan, who had woken up not long ago and was also guarding here, likewise had a change in complexion.

"Oh my goodness..."

"Is this disciple of mine trying to defy Heaven?"

Even Zui Xiaoyao, who had been lying on the ground drinking for a day, got up at this moment, hanging the wine gourd that never left his side back onto his waist.

His expression was uncontrollably grave!

It was not just because the Spirit Stones for Ye Bai's upgrade were running out.

It was also because this Wine Sword King had the same thoughts as Liu Qingtian before.

So what if Ye Bai exposed the fact that his talent grade was high? With him here, and with his agreement with Ye Sanjian, the people from that organization wouldn't dare to act recklessly!

"But if Ye Bai's talent is more than SSSS-ji..."

"Then things... will be different..."

"But thinking about it carefully, as the child of those two, it seems normal for him to be a bit of a monster..."

"The most urgent matter is to let Ye Bai's talent upgrade successfully first!"

After further thought, Zui Xiaoyao temporarily suppressed the agitation in his heart.

Then he made a phone call.

"Hello, Brother Sun, it's me, Xiaoyao."

"Why aren't you calling me 'that guy surnamed Sun' anymore? When have I ever been so disrespectful to you?"

"Anyway, Brother Sun, let me tell you, the student I dug up this time is truly remarkable. As long as you sponsor me a few Spirit Stones... not much, just forty thousand Merit Points worth will do."

"I'm dreaming? Don't be like that. You have so many lovers, try borrowing from them. If that really doesn't work, find a way to take out a loan..."

After the call ended.

"What a huge loss. For eighty thousand Merit Points worth of Spirit Stones, not only did I put in the tuition I just asked for, but my sword is gone too, and I won't have money to buy wine for a long time..."

"This guy surnamed Sun is really something. I told him not to go around taking loans from those evil cults, and now look, in a critical moment, he's completely unreliable!"

Zui Xiaoyao's heart was bleeding.

It was all for his own disciple!

The child of those two!

"I have requested eighty thousand Merit Points worth of Spirit Stones, which can sustain my disciple for another two hours!"

Sensing the expectant gazes of Sima Cheng and the others, Zui Xiaoyao did not reveal a hint of anything unusual.

"I have just contacted Magic City Martial Arts University and my family; they can also temporarily send over forty thousand Merit Points worth of Spirit Stones," Xi Qian added at this moment.

"Three hours... that's still not enough!"

However, upon hearing this, Sima Cheng felt a sense of relief in his heart.

But he still wore a nervous expression!

Intuition told him that since Ye Bai had not yet finished his talent upgrade at this time, if nothing unexpected happened, something unexpected would still happen!

And sure enough.

Although the Spirit Stones arranged by Xi Qian and Zui Xiaoyao were delivered within two hours.

In the blink of an eye, the final batch of Spirit Stones worth forty thousand Merit Points was also filled into the Mending Heaven Stone!

A total of nine hundred and forty thousand Merit Points worth of Spirit Stones had been consumed!

Yet it still had not filled the consumption for Ye Bai's upgrade of 【Reset】!

"It's over..."

Sima Cheng even fell to his knees with a "thump."

Because he had already foreseen Ye Bai's talent upgrade failing!

Thereby causing irreversible damage to this unprecedented prodigy who had the potential to reach the Emperor-level!

However.

It was precisely at this moment...

"Ring-a-ling!" Sima Kong called!

"Good news!"

"I reported Ye Bai's situation earlier today!

Furthermore, this matter not only attracted high-level attention from above, but they also specially approved a massive amount of Spirit Stones!"

"This matter even alarmed one of the top four! He will personally deliver the Spirit Stones to Jiangcheng!!"