C23 Peaceful heart

Hearing Li Chengfeng's words, Ye Yang's heart immediately tightened. “I always do things flawlessly and, nothing should be left. But…is he testing me?”

Ye Yang pretended to be puzzled and said, "Wasn’t Zhao Zihao missing? Besides, it was normal for those as devoid of conscience as him to disappear. Perhaps God was in a good mood and accidentally took him away.”

"Nonsense, do you really think that you've done it flawlessly? Do you think I’m the mayor of Eight Desolations City for show?" Seeing that Ye Yang was pretending to be stupid, Li Chengfeng laughed and scolded.

"Did you really kill Zhao Zihao?" Ye Lingtian was also shocked. When his son went out to kill someone, he, the father, actually had no idea about it, and even sneered at the victim. He couldn’t help feeling both angry and amused.

Ye Yang did not know how Li Chengfeng detected it, but Li Chengfeng did not seem to be angry. Seeing that he cannot deny anymore, Ye Yang simply admitted what he had done.

Ye Yang said with a serious expression, "Mm, in truth, I don't want to kill him. It's just that I've recently learned a Divination Technique, and I told him about his fortune that day. I found that he would lose his life in a short time. But after half a day had passed, he still hadn't died. How embarrassed was I at that time. Didn't this mean that my prophecy was incorrect? So I decided to go for broke, and at night I found his place, and then…nothing. "

The two men were stunned for a moment, and then they started laughing out loud together. Ye Lingtian reached out and patted the back of Ye Yang's head, "You only know nonsense, and never behave properly. Tell us what has happened seriously!"

Ye Yang had no choice but to recount the whole story, from they had a conflict in the marketplace on that day to Zhao Zihao leaked something out when he was about to leave, which attracted Ye Yang's attention. Until the last, Ye Yang knew the whole conspiracy that schemed by Zhao Zihao-led gang.

"No wonder you asked me to invite Meng Bai over. At that time, I thought that you were making a big fuss out of nothing," said Ye Lingtian with a sigh. Meng Bai was at the General-level who had disguised himself as a Disciplinary Elder that day. He was also a good friend of Ye Lingtian.

"As expected of a young hero, to think of such meticulous plans at such a young age, then you future accomplishments must be limitless." Li Chengfeng said as he laughed.

Ye Yang laughed bitterly: "Uncle Li, are you praising me or scolding me? How can I be praised as make meticulous plans? If it wasn't for you helping out at the end, I would have gone to see the King of Hell."

“You don't have to belittle yourself. Even we old fellows, who have been fighting for so many years, may make mistakes in the battlefield. Not to mention you. You're still young, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to hone your skills in the future.”

Li Chengfeng patted Ye Yang's shoulder, and continued, "And today, you surprised me greatly. Other than your talent, methods, and intelligence, I also saw an extremely precious thing: you were born with a peaceful heart."

"A peaceful heart? I don't understand, but the most important thing for martial cultivator is not that he needs an active and ambitious heart, right? "Ye Yang was truly puzzled this time, and there was no need to pretend.

"Determination in martial arts indeed requires an unyielding and ambitious heart. But without a peaceful heart, your heart will lose strength."

"A peaceful heart, what exactly is it?" Ye Yang asked.

"You must have killed quite a number of people in the past few days. Not to mention others, even the Lone Great Thief Lu Qingfeng died in your hands. Logically speaking, your aura of killing should be overflowing from your body."

"Because if a person killed someone, the aura of death and resentment would stick to the killer and form a type of aura on the martial cultivator’s body. That aura is called the aura of killing. The amount of the aura of killing in your body depends on the cultivation of the person you killed. With your Spirit Condensation level cultivation, killing a warrior-level martial cultivator means that your aura should be hard to conceal. "Li Chengfeng said slowly.

Was there such a thing? Ye Yang had heard about that when some officers that had fought in Vietnam before gave them military training, just a glance at them would make their entire bodies tense up and sweat profusely.

“Could this be the aura of killing? If I also have this kind of aura, wouldn't I be able to scare the enemy out of his wits with just a glare? I even don’t have to fight anymore. Or could it be like Zhang Fei in the past, just a loud roar was enough to frighten the enemy?” He thought.

"Uncle Li, do you mean that I do not have the aura of killing?" He couldn't hide the disappointment in his voice. Wouldn't it be a waste of strength to kill so many people?

Ye Lingtian could not bear any longer. The brat actually thought the aura of killing was a good thing. He shouted out, "Listen carefully. Don't interrupt!"

“You brat, how can I describe you?” Li Chengfeng had been fighting for the empire throughout his life, and had never thought that he would one day be as tireless as an old scholar. He was really not used to it. "The aura of killing is not as good as you think it is. It will make people around you uncomfortable. Moreover, too much that aura will produce an Inner Demon when you try to break through a bottleneck, resulting in you failing your advancement."

"Thus, every martial cultivator, other than normal cultivation, will also spend time to calm his heart and dissolve his aura of killing. In this way, they would waste some precious time to cultivate. But you, on the other hand, are not included in this list."

"Does it have something to do with a peaceful heart?" Ye Yang said.

"Yes, most of martial cultivators will more or less feel fear, anger, excitement, regret, and many other negative emotions after killing people. At this time, the aura of killing will stick to these emotions, and as more and more people he kills, the accumulated aura will become denser and denser. It affects a person's emotions, and thus forms an Inner Demon. But I realized that you don't have to worry about that at all. It's really great." Li Chengfeng praised.

"Can I take your words as you saying that I view human life as grass and do not feel the slightest bit of burden?" Ye Yang was a little depressed. Could it be that I really had the potential to become a killing Demon King?

"You are not wrong, but there is one thing: When you killed your opponents, you were firm in your conviction and had no conflicts in your mind. That is why you were not stained with the slightest bit of killing aura."

Then, Li Chengfeng looked at Ye Yang seriously and said, "But being calm isn't always the same. If one day you kill an innocent person, or someone you think you shouldn't kill, then you will develop contradictions and have other negative emotions. Then, your peaceful heart will be broken. So in the future, you must remember not to kill the innocent and be arrogant and despotic."

Seeing how serious Li Chengfeng was, Ye Yang quickly replied, "Ye Yang will definitely remember Uncle Li’s words. Furthermore, look at my face, you see, my forehead and chin are both full, showing that I’m blessed by God. Then, how can I indulge in killing people?”

"You brat, you were talking about telling fortunes just now, but why do you turn to practicing physiognomy?" Li Chengfeng originally wanted to teach Ye Yang keeping a peaceful heart, but who knew that Ye Yang's words didn’t follow the usual pattern.

“Physiognomy and divination are intertwined, right? As the Ye Family's Young Patriarch, in the future, I will definitely make a great coup. How can I not comprehend by analogy?” Ye Yang said as he giggled.

Li Chengfeng's train of thought was completely disrupted by Ye Yang. What he wanted to teach Ye Yang had completely forgotten. He was a martial king in cultivation, but in terms of communication, he was really not good at it. He had had nothing more to say only after those few words.

Li Chengfeng and Ye Lingtian looked at each other, and both of them seeing the helplessness in the other's eyes. Even Ye Lingtian also knew less and less about his son.

From the silence and low-spiritedness in his impression to recently Ye Yang had shown the clam and wisdom when exterminating the hidden traitors.

From his decisiveness and ruthlessness a few days ago when killing people to today he had shown the high-spiritedness and vigorousness of the young.

Logically speaking, the Ye Yang in front of them suited the style of a teenager, but with so many different images before, no one knew which one of them was the real Ye Yang.

Seeing the two men staring at him in a daze, Ye Yang felt a little uncomfortable. He coughed and said, “Don't look at me like that. I am destined to rise one day, so if you want to look at me, there will be many opportunities in the future. After all, we are all acquaintances.”

Ye Lingtian was unable to hold it any longer. He reached out and slapped the back of Ye Yang's head, scolding him, "Brat, all these years, why have I not found out that you're actually a narcissistic person?"

Seeing Ye Lingtian reaching out to pat himself, Ye Yang did not dodge, nor did he want to avoid it. He liked this feeling of kinship a lot. Ye Lingtian highly lifted his hand, but he just gently touched Ye Yang’s head.

Ye Yang said with a bitter face, "The crux of it is that I've only recently found myself to be so outstanding."

"You!"

"Alright, alright. Ye Yang, stop playing tricks on me. I called you here today, on one hand, to notify you to go to Tianwu Academy, and to see you attitude." Li Chengfeng stopped Ye Lingtian's domestic violence.

"Go, I'll definitely go. Where can I find such a good thing?" Ye Yang agreed without even thinking. You must be joking. Who will foolishly refuse this excellent opportunity!

"Ok, as for the second matter, Uncle Li does not have any good stuff, but after fighting for so many years, I have collected a lot of trash. Why don't you choose some and take some back as gifts?" Li Chengfeng called them trash in mouth, but pride was totally demonstrated through his eyes

When Ye Yang heard it, he was immediately elated. This mayor is so generous. Li Chengfeng had fought in wars for many years and had countless of spoils of war. How could anything he collected be trash? Compared to Li Chengfeng's collection, the Ye Family's Battle Skill Pavilion was truly trash.

Without waiting for Ye Yang to speak, Ye Lingtian suddenly stood up and said, "No, Brother Li. We don’t dare to accept such a heavy gift."

A martial king’s treasury was so valuable. Ye Lingtian could not feel at ease to receive such a great favor without any reason.

"I told Ye Yang to pick the item, not you. Don’t be that restrained. Furthermore, Ye Yang kept calling me Uncle Li, so as a senior, why can’t I give him a present? Could it be that Brother Ye is looking down on me?" Li Chengfeng pretended to be unhappy.

"But …"

"There's no 'but'. It’s decided. Come with me to the treasury, Ye Yang. Battle skills, cultivation methods, and weapons are up to you." While talking, Li Chengfeng pulled Ye Yang out of the outer room and into a warehouse.

In the warehouse, Li Chengfeng pressed his hand on a wall and a stone door opened up, revealing an underground passage.

After walking in the passage for about the duration of burning out a joss-stick, they finally saw a tall stone door at the end.

The stone door was covered with strange patterns. Although Ye Yang did not understand, yet he knew that this was a forbidding rune carved by an Inscription Master, and only the one knowing the real method can open it.

Li Chengfeng extended his hand and pressed down on different parts of the stone door for seven times, and then the quaint stone door slowly opened.

Looking inside the door, Ye Yang's eyes immediately lit up.