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The moment those two people saw Ye Yuan, they had unfriendly looks.
Ye Yuan understood in his heart. These guys were probably the Fan Family’s guest retainers too, and they knew that his salary was twice of theirs, and were all rather aggrieved. From there, they gave rise to enmity towards him.
Beside Li Ji, there was even a young fiend race male.
He sized Ye Yuan up and said to Li Ji, “Li Ji, this is the expert that you said? He looks very ordinary!”
Li Ji rolled her eyes at him and said, “Fan Yu, just manage your people well will do! My people, don’t need you to bother!”
Fan Yu smiled and said, “Alright, alright, I don’t bother, I don’t bother! But you have to get it straight, this kid is so handsome. Later, some people will get jealous!”
Li Ji pursed her mouth and said, “They do themselves, what has it got to do with me?”
This Fan Yu was Li Ji’s biological elder brother.
Fiend race women’s status was low and not permitted to carry the surname.
Even if Li Ji’s looks were akin to a celestial maiden, there was no exception too.
Finished talking, she said to Ye Yuan, “Brother Source Night, Big Brother and I are going to take part in His Highness Ka Xin’s get-together. Why don’t you and Luo Qi and Pei Lan come together with us?”
Ye Yuan naturally had no reason to not consent and nodded his head to allow it.
…
Ye Yuan originally thought that the fiend race’s aristocrats did not understand literary pursuits and that the City Lord Manor was definitely very sloven.
But entering and taking a look, it made him completely change his understanding of the fiend race.
Fake mountains, pavilions, terraces, footbridges, running water, combined together, they were not the slightest bit inferior compared to human race residences.
“Wah! What a handsome little brother! Tsk tsk, everyone says that Younger Sister Li Ji is pure and noble, being; vastly different from our fiend race women. Looks like … you keep your own counsel!”
Ahead, a man and a woman came up to welcome them.
When that woman saw the Ye Yuan behind Li Ji, her two eyes immediately shone, a pair of beautiful eyes skimming on Ye Yuan’s body.
This woman was incomparably seductive. Her looks were actually around on par with Li Ji.
But that man’s gaze turned cold, his gaze when looking at Ye Yuan was full of ice-cold killing intent.
That woman’s words made Li Ji’s face flush and she spat, “What’s Elder Sister Lian Hua saying? Source Night is my newly recruited guest retainer.”
Lian Hua pulled Li Ji’s hand and said with a smile, “I understand! How can Elder Sister not understand?”
As she said, she moved close to Li Ji’s ear and said softly, “This Little Brother is really handsome, why not … lend Elder Sister to play for two days?”
Li Ji shot Ye Yuan a glance, her expression somewhat ugly as she said, “Elder Sister Lian Hua, if you carry on joking like this, Li Ji is leaving!”
The man’s brows furrowed and he was even more unhappy. But he still spoke up, “Lian Hua, it’s not that you don’t know Li Ji’s temperament either, stop joking around.”
This man had chiseled features and elegant brows, a rare handsome man of the fiend race.
It was just that compared to Ye Yuan, he was more than a notch worse.
This person was none other than precisely the City Lord Manor’s young lord, Ka Xin.
Lian Hua turned her head and rolled her eyes at Ka Xin and said, “My good elder brother, I’m helping you, how can you be so fierce to me?”
But Ka Xin ignored her and just said coolly, “Fan Yu, Li Ji, inside please.”
Before long, there were several fiend race disciples in opulent clothing who entered, and they said hello to Ka Xin, the two of them.
But when they saw the Ye Yuan behind Li Ji, each and every one revealed murderous looks.
Clearly, they all viewed Ye Yuan as Li Ji’s exclusive chunk of meat, their animosity surging greatly.
Ye Yuan only had Two-star fiend general strength but was able to become Li Ji’s guest retainer. They would not believe it even if you beat them to death.
In their view, Ye Yuan definitely got his position by relying on the virtue of his looks.
Seeing those young masters’ looks, Luo Qi and Pei Lan, the two, exchanged a glance, both revealing gloating smiles.
Toward these hostile looks, Ye Yuan had a guileless look as well.
I’m just good-looking, and it’s my fault?
Who asked you all, these fiends, to all look like such disappointments to your parents?
After a round of small talk, someone suggested, “Your Highness Ka Xin, time is almost up. Let’s get to sparring?”
The fiend race loved fighting. This kind of gathering, it naturally could not dispense with fights.
But Ka Xin smiled slightly and said, “Sparring here and there daily, the few of us all know our backgrounds. Why don’t we change things up today, how’s that?”
The moment everyone heard, they immediately had their interest aroused.
“Oh? What kind of novelty does Your Highness Ka Xin have?”
Ka Xin smiled faintly and said, “A family’s strength isn’t just dependent on the few of us. The family guards’ strength is also very important. Why not today, everybody let their family guards compete? How’s that?”
The moment everyone heard, they immediately revealed a knowing smile.
This move was clearly targeted at Ye Yuan.
“Fine idea! What Your Highness Ka Xin said is right, the family guards’ strength represents a family’s strength to a very large extent!” The moment Ka Xin’s voice faded, someone immediately concurred.
But the moment Li Ji heard this, she panicked and was just about to speak, but she was held back by Fan Yu.
Fan Yu smiled and said, “What Your Highness Ka Xin said is right, Fan Yu agrees.”
“You!” Li Ji said angrily.
Fan Yu’s brows furrowed, shooting a fierce glare at Li Ji.
Li Ji’s entire body trembled but did not dare to speak anymore.
This kind of gathering seemed simple. Actually, it was also the venue for the various major families to contend in secret too.
Cowering at this time, that would utterly lose the Fan Family’s face.
Ka Xin smiled and said, “Since that’s the case, we have eight people here. Each person comes up with three household guards, battle in pairs, all the way until the three people are all eliminated. Uh … since it’s the household guards’ competition, let’s add a little more stakes.”
As he said, Ka Xin took out a small bottle. Inside was filled with a paste-like black substance.
The moment the guest house guards saw, a wave of exclamations immediately burst out.
“It’s the Blackjade Profound Spirit Ointment! This is a body-tempering holy medicine!”
“With it, I might be able to break through to Three-star fiend commander!”
“Heh, this Blackjade Profound Spirit Ointment is mine! Whoever dares to snatch with me, the outcome is death!”
…
Even Ye Yuan’s eyes lit up too.
This Blackjade Profound Spirit Ointment was a Two-star body-tempering holy medicine. His body-refinement realm had always been stuck at the grand completion realm of the first transformation and kept failing to break through.
With this Blackjade Profound Spirit Ointment, breaking through was a thing to be expected.
Lian Hua smiled sweetly and said, “Since Big Brother is so generous, I can’t be too stingy either, right? This Emerald Jade Metalheart Pearl will be my stake.”
“Hiss …”
Another wave of cold breaths being sucked in spread out.
Along with each and every one of the stakes being brought out, the group of house guards’ eyes all gave off envy, becoming incomparably fervent.
Chapter 1480. Lost Face, Right? |<
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In front of Ka Xin, eight treasures were placed.
Each article was a very rare item.
“These eight treasures will only be awarded to those three people ranked first! After everyone settles on the people going on the field, they are not to substitute. If they are defeated, they can continue to go up the next round. If they die, there can only be two people answering the challenge the next round, so on and so forth. Does everyone have any objections?” Ka Xin said coolly.
“None, none!”
“Naturally none!”
…
All of the household guards all waved their hands repeatedly, not having any objections towards Ka Xin’s words at all.
These kinds of rules were very rare in human regions.
But in the fiend race territory, it was commonplace.
Which fight did not have people injured, no loss of lives, would be a strange thing instead.
But wanting to kill members of the fiend race was not an easy thing.
The fiend race’s nucleus was the fiend soul. As long as the fiend soul was not exterminated, they could revive.
Hence, unless the strength disparity was very great between fiends, otherwise, losses of life would not appear.
These household guards were all grand completion Two-star Fiend Generals. Whoever wanted to kill another fiend was not that easy of a matter.
Coming to this kind of occasion, the four great families’ disciples were all contending in the dark. Who they brought were naturally the experts among their household guards too.
And the one and only make do Two-star Fiend General was Ye Yuan.
This intention of targeting was seriously too obvious.
The competition was a total of three rounds. In other people’s view, the likelihood of Ye Yuan making it past three rounds alive was virtually zero.
A household guard who got his position by relying on his looks, how much strength could he have?
“Starshine, the three of you have to perform well in a while! I see that everyone’s strength is all very formidable. So you guys mustn’t bring down the reputation of City Lord Manor!” Ka Xin said to a household guard beside him with a profound meaning.
This Starshine had followed Ka Xin for a very long time. So how could he not understand his meaning?
As long as he ran into Ye Yuan, he must kill him.
“Your Highness rest assured, Starshine will definitely go all out and not disappoint your highness,” Starshine bowed his body and said.
While on this side, Li Ji whispered to Ye Yuan, “Brother Source Night, if you’re not a match in a while, just take the initiative to admit defeat! Big Brother there still have quite a few experts. Our Fan Family won’t lose.”
Li Ji was not worried about Ye Yuan being directly insta-killed. After all, he was able to kill Lang Ge, his strength already did not lose to ordinary grand completion Two-star fiend generals already.
But these household guards in front, none of them were mediocre.
Lang Ge’s strength was not totally enough to look at in front of them.
The reason why Li Ji solicited Ye Yuan was taking fancy on his potential, and not eyeing his strength.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, “Miss Li Ji rest assured, Source Night knows what to do.”
…
“It’s all this damn burden, making us unable to get those treasures! If not for this brat dragging down, we can definitely win!” Luo Qi said hatefully.
“Kid, if you have the balls, don’t land in our hands in the future. Otherwise, you’ll get it!” Pei Lan gritted his teeth and said.
There was a small-scale practice field in this courtyard. After coming to the practice field, Luo Qi and Pei Lan bared their teeth at Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan swept a glance over him and said indifferently, “Hope that you guys don’t drag me down in a while.”
“Drag you down? Hahaha, what a joke! If not for drawing close to Miss Li Ji, do you think you have the qualifications to stand here?” Luo Qi said with a cold laugh.
Ye Yuan rolled his eyes and said, “Idiot!”
“What did you say?!”
Luo Qi exploded right away. Luckily, Pei Lan still knew some sense of propriety and hurriedly pulled him, saying, “Alright, alright, now isn’t the time to be quarreling! Whatever there is, go back then resolve it!”
Luo Qi shot a fierce glare at Ye Yuan and said, “Remember it for me, you’ll get it when we go back! Don’t think that you can be lawless and unbridled with Miss Li Ji covering you!”
The Capone Capital City’s four great families were the Ka Family, the You Family, the Mo Family, and the Fan Family.
The Fan Family’s opponent in the first round was the You Family’s You Nie’s household guards.
When the three people saw this scene, their eyes revealed looks of contempt and said with a light laugh, “Heh, luck is really good, drew three idiots. Haven’t even fought yet and they are in-fighting first.”
“Haha, Young Master You Nie is also Miss Li Ji’s pursuer. Just now, he instructed to definitely exterminate this punk!”
“Leave this kid to me, I’ll definitely send him on his way!”
“Heh, Na Qi, you really know how to pick on an easy target! Move faster! Hurry over and help us when you’re done!”
“Right!”
The three people chimed in one after another, already directly sentencing Ye Yuan to death.
This three-people battle rules, the very start was three-versus-three.
If there was one side who was defeated or had deaths, the victor would be able to join the other two groups, forming a two-versus-one situation, all the way until one side was defeated!
Hence, if there was an expert whose strength was especially outstanding, they would gain a huge upper-hand.
Na Qi looked at Ye Yuan and said with a scornful look, “Wake up, kid, you have no chance to admit defeat!”
Ye Yuan rolled his eyes again and said speechlessly, “Why are there so many idiots?”
“Heh, razor-tongued brat. In a while, watch how you die!” Na Qi said with a cold smile.
You Nie watched his scene rather interestedly and said to You Dan beside him with a smile, “Big Brother, do you think this punk will directly admit defeat every round?”
You Dan smiled and said, “Do you think Ka Xin will let him get off the stage alive?”
You Nie’s gaze was dark as he said, “Reckless and blind thing, to actually dare have designs on Li Ji! I hope that Na Qi directly finishes him off!”
“First round battle, begin!” at this time, the City Lord Manor’s household guard directly shouted.
Swoosh!
The voice had yet to fade, only to see a streak of cold light flash past!
Na Qi’s body was clearly still standing on the spot, but the cold light already passed through Ye Yuan’s body.
When You Nie saw the situation, he could not help bursting into laughter, “Hahaha! He’s too weak! Couldn’t even block one move! Li Ji, this household guard of yours is seriously too weak!”
But very quickly, You Nie’s loud laughter turned stiff there. Because he discovered that nobody was chiming in with him at all.
This laugh was so awkward.
You Nie did not understand. Looking toward the practicing field again, his smile immediately turned stiff on his face.
No idea when, Ye Yuan and Na Qi actually changed positions!
And Ye Yuan was completely unscathed!
“J-Just now, that was an afterimage?”
In a blink of an eye, the two people actually teleported, changing positions.
This indicated that what he saw earlier were both afterimages!
Forget about Na Qi, why was … Ye Yuan the same too?
You Dan shot a helpless glance at his younger brother and said with a sigh, “Told you to cultivate more long ago, but you wouldn’t listen! With this, you lost face, right?”
Fortunately, everyone was in the midst of shock.
Everyone did not expect that a middle-level Two-star fiend general could actually keep up with a grand completion Two-star Fiend General’s speed!
Furthermore, speed was clearly Na Qi’s forte.
Although You Nie’s strength was the weakest among this group of people, he was, at any rate, a grand completion Two-star Fiend General.
Even he could not keep up with Na Qi’s speed, but Ye Yuan kept up!
“Could it be a fluke?” Ka Xin frowned and said.
But Lian Hua wore a smile on her face and said, “Tsk tsk, seems … rather interesting! I’m becoming more and more interested in Little Brother[1]!”
Na Qi’s move failed to carry out, his expression was sullen to the extreme.
“Terrific lad, go to hell!” Na Qi roared and rushed over toward Ye Yuan.
[1] Little Brother here is actually closer to Oppa.
Chapter 1481. Sleepy |
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Na Qi and Ye Yuan, the two people’s figures moved quickly, their speed swift to the extreme.
You Nie watched until his eyes were dazzled, only feeling one afterimage after another made his entire person dizzy.
You Nie was a true-blue silkpants. Although he had a grand completion Two-star Fiend General cultivation realm, his strength was far lacking.
His visual prowess could not keep up with the two people’s speed at all.
Na Qi had two claws worn on his wrist. A hundred claw strikes came out in a blink of an eye.
But each time, it would brush past Ye Yuan.
Each time, it was missing that little bit.
The claws scratched here and there around Ye Yuan, but could not touch him. This drove Na Qi crazy.
“Damn fellow, attack if you have the capabilities! What kind of ability is it considered to dodge and hide?”
On the practicing field, came Na Qi’s roar.
“This is what you said.” Ye Yuan’s figure moved swiftly, but his words were calm.
“Rubbish, of course I said it! If you have the capabilities, fight openly! Do you, a pretty boy, only know how to dodge?” Na Qi bellowed angrily.
Pfft!
A sharp sword directly pierced Na Qi’s head, grounding his fiend soul into smithereens.
