C9 Nocturnal conversation between father and son

Ye Yang opened the door, and the person who came in was Ye Yang's father, Ye Lingtian. Ye Yang turned around and carried over a chair for his father to sit on, and poured a cup of tea for Ye Lingtian and passed it to him, "Father, why are you looking for me so late?"

Ye Lingtian took his cup and had a sip: “I found out something about what you asked me to check out. In the past few days, he had met with a mysterious person from the capital for several times. His whereabouts were always mysterious, and it should be a secret. But that mysterious man's identity hasn't been confirmed yet …”

"From the capital?" Ye Yang pondered for a moment and asked, "Have you guys figured out their goal?"

Ye Lingtian shook his head: "No, in order to not alert them, my men did not dare to approach them. According to my subordinate, that mysterious person is most likely a Master Level expert."

"Oh, that's alright. It's more important that we know who our enemies are now, and the rest is less important. Oh right, Father, how is our relationship with Zhao Family now? "

"Zhao Family? In the past, we did not get involved with them at all, and for some reason, half a year ago, other than dealing in gambling houses and brothels, they actually started doing business with medicinal herbs, and they had plenty of sources of goods and stole a lot of our customers. Our Ye Family is also powerless to do anything about it.” The cultivation and marketing of medicinal herbs was also a pillar of the Ye Family. So Ye Lingtian frowned when talking about this.

"He-he, looks like they work along both lines, how malicious," Ye Yang said with a cold smile.

"Yang'er, I know that you've grown up, and I can't see through you anymore. But I hope you know that I am your father, and that I will help share your burden, so don't keep all of your secrets in your heart. If something were to happen to you, how can I face your mother?” Speaking of Ye Yang's mother, Ye Lingtian's tiger-like eyes dimed, and his face was filled with dejection.

"Father, you're thinking too much, it's actually not that big deal. Someone tried to kill me, and I've finally managed to think things through for the past few days. As for not telling you about it, it's because I'm afraid that my guess isn't accurate enough." Ye Yang saw that his father was sad, and quickly changed the topic.

"Hmm? You said you already know who hurt you?" Hearing these words, Ye Lingtian was immediately attracted and asked.

Ye Yang nodded his head, "Yes, the one who knocked me out that day was the Fourth Elder, and he was just the executor. I have no enmity with him, so he must have a huge motive in wanting to kill me. We need to know who's behind him."

"Today, I had a small conflict with the third young master of Zhao Family in the marketplace, and he accidentally leaked some information. I think that Zhao Family is also one of the chess pieces left behind by the mastermind. Of the two chess pieces, one is in the light while the other is in the dark. The mastermind had a deliberate plan.”

"But I don't understand. What in the world is our Ye Family worth trying so hard to scheme against us? However, the arrival of Yu Qing today, has allowed me to be suddenly enlightened." With that said, Ye Yang did not continue. He raised his teacup and took a sip.

Hearing Ye Yang's words, Ye Lingtian was also secretly shocked, and said with a frown: "I never thought that this matter would be so complicated, but Yang'er, now that you could clearly analyze this matter, meaning you have truly grown up. But I still don't understand why you must fight Ye Yun to the death. With your current strength, it's not wise at all, so I'm very worried."

"He-he, for the sake of verification, please forgive my rudeness," as he spoke, he punched towards Ye Lingtian.

Ye Lingtian was startled, for he did not understand what Ye Yang meant, and casually blocked the fist with his palm.

"Bang!"

A loud rumbling sounded while Ye Lingtian shouted in surprise: “The Fifth Empyrean! Yang'er, your cultivation finally improved!” he hugged Ye Yang, and his thick and strong arms actually trembled a little. Leaning on Ye Lingtian's broad shoulder, Ye Yang's eyes reddened, and for the first time, Ye Yang experienced what father’s love was.

"Good, this is great. From now on, whoever dares to call my son trash will be beaten into a piece of trash. Your attack just now didn't seem to exert its full strength. Come, use your full strength. Let your father see how powerful your full strength can be. If it is not satisfying, even if everyone scolds me, I won't let you duel Ye Yun" Ye Lingtian laughed openly. Now that Ye Yun had recovered his ability to cultivate, he wasn't willing to let Ye Yang take the risk. He didn’t care about others’ censure and gossips.

"Full strength?" Ye Yang was a little hesitant.

"Right, use your full strength. If you can use the Stone-breaking Fist, it would be better," Ye Lingtian said as he remembered giving Ye Yang a low grade Yellow Rank cultivation method, Stone-breaking Fist. However, he didn't know if Ye Yang would be able to learn how to use it in such a short time.

Being forced into a corner, Ye Yang had no choice but to circulate his Qi in his Dantian, condensing the Genuine Qi on his fist.

“Bang.”

With a loud sound, Ye Yang's fist and Ye Lingtian's palm fiercely collided. The airflow scattered in all directions, and the tea table at the side was blown away, smashing into pieces on the wall.

Ye Lingtian obviously did not expect that Ye Yang had already completely grasped the Stone-breaking Fist, and had even less expected that Ye Yang's strength was so great, to the point that his body trembled from the impact, and he could not help but take a step back.

Ye Lingtian was extremely shocked. One must know that he was a martial Master at the third Empyrean who trained in the High Profound Rank cultivation methods – Lion Tiger Art, and his power was much greater than an average practitioner of the same level. Even if they were caught off guard, they couldn't possibly be forced back by a kid who wasn't even a martial cultivator at the fifth Empyrean of Spirit Condensation. If word of this got out, it would definitely cause a huge uproar.

"Excellent! Your strength alone is enough to contend against ordinary martial cultivators. This time, I will be relieved to see you go for the duel. If your mother knew that you are such a genius now, she would definitely be extremely happy." As he finished speaking, he had already started to choke.

"Father, who is my mother? I remember you saying that you would tell me when I have the strength?" Ye Yang had always had a big doubt in his mind, because in his memories, there was no trace of his mother at all.

"Child, continue to cultivate diligently. When you become stronger, until you become much stronger than me, I will tell you. If you knew earlier, it wouldn't be good for you," Saying that, he patted Ye Yang's shoulder as he walked out of Ye Yang's room.

Looking at Ye Lingtian's lonely figure disappear from the door, Ye Yang felt a stabbing pain in his heart. What exactly was it that could cause a man as resolute as Ye Lingtian to feel so sad?

When he thought about how Ye Lingtian had reached the realm of Martial Master at the Third Empyrean when he was twenty years old, and how he was supposed to be a person with great hopes of surpassing the barrier and reaching the Martial Emperor realm, he didn't expect that he wouldn't be able to advance even an inch in the next ten years. Was it possible that this was related to his mother?

Taking in a deep breath, he calmed himself down. Martial cultivator cultivation was a heaven-defying affair, and the biggest taboo was agitation. It was very easy for one's cultivation to go berserk. After calming down, he murmured, "Strength is the most reliable thing in this world. Without strength, even if you own something, it can be taken away at any time!"

Lying on the bed, with a flip of his body, he touched a hard object. Reaching out his hand to touch it, he discovered that it was the bone piece he had bought in the adventurer's market.

After returning, he forgot about this matter completely. He hastily turned around and placed the bone piece on the bedside while carefully examining it. However, after looking around for a long time, he still couldn't find anything. He placed the bone piece on the lamp, then heated it up and roasted it. Later on, he even put it in the washbowl and soaked it, but there still wasn't any change.

"Could it be that I was mistaken? This is not a treasure at all, but when my spiritual sense scanned through it, it clearly produced a reaction! Right, the spiritual sense!" Ye Yang patted his head, scolded himself for being stupid, and quickly calmed down, gathering all of his spiritual sense onto the bone shard.

The bone piece immediately produced a bizarre fluctuation as a powerful message entered Ye Yang's mind following the appearance of Ye Yang's spiritual sense: Dragon-elephant Dark Golden Body, a Earth Rank, advanced cultivation method; it can help with Blood Coagulation, Muscle Refinement, Bone Tempering and Viscera Strengthening.

After a while, the information in the bone piece disappeared without a trace and there were no longer any soul fluctuations. It seemed like this bone piece was a strange inheritance artifact of the cultivation methods, but it was already useless now. He casually placed the bone piece to the side and digested the information in his mind.

The Dragon-elephant Dark Golden Body had a total of four realms: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Dark Gold. Every time he leveled up, the strength of his body would increase significantly. When he reached the Bronze level, it would be no problem for him to snatch the sharp blade with his bare hands.

The strength of the fleshly body was extremely important to a martial cultivator. In future battles, the survivability of the body would greatly increase. Ye Yang's power was astonishing, and his body was strong. He fit the best conditions to train in the cultivation methods. To Ye Yang, this was no different than obtaining a Heaven Ranked cultivation method.

Generally, a normal martial cultivator could only cultivate one kind of cultivation methods, but the Dragon-elephant Dark Golden Body was different. He did not cultivate the main cultivation methods, but rather the secondary cultivation method. Therefore, there was no conflict with the Deicide Tactic, so Ye Yang could learn it without worry.

However, what made Ye Yang a little depressed was that he could not learn the Dragon-elephant Dark Golden Body at all, because the lowest requirement of the method was to have body strength of more than 2500 kilos. Otherwise, the body's strength would not be sufficient. Forced training could cause muscle damage and may even lead to disability.

Ye Yang did not dare take the risk, even in terms of Tianwu Empire, the Earth Rank method could be considered as extremely rare and valuable, so it was normal to require one to have high levels of cultivation. According to the contents of the cultivation method, it should have been prepared for the other profound practitioners. This was because the physical body of the experts of Master Level had a strength of more than 2500 kilograms. Seeing that it was a steamed bun, but he could only drool, Ye Yang had no choice.

With great difficulty, Ye Yang managed to pull his mind away from the Dragon-elephant Dark Golden Body. He opened the window, and saw the dark clouds filling the entire sky outside, and the entire Eight Desolations City was shrouded in darkness. A smile flashed across his mouth: "The weather is so good tonight, if I don't do something, wouldn't I be sorry to the God?"

Returning to his room to change into some night clothes, he put on his mask and looked at himself in the mirror. He then chuckled, "Thank God for covering the moon and giving me the chance to take my revenge!" He then turned back and disappeared in the darkness.