God-Like Prodigal (2)

"Ice Arrow Rain!!"

After speaking, Ye Lanyu waved her hand, easily releasing a relatively advanced area-of-effect magic, which was, as the name suggested, an upgraded version of Ice Arrows.

"Oh my god, how could I forget about this little ancestor..."

Now, that group of people regretted their actions, starting to feel incredibly foolish for forgetting about Ye Lanyu. Not only was she a charming and beautiful young lady, but she was also an absolutely powerful expert. Her ice magic had caused countless people to suffer.

In the academy's rankings of so-called experts, this little ancestor held a prominent position, someone ordinary people dared not offend. In front of her, these young masters were like ants; she could play with them however she pleased.

"I told you to leave quickly, but you had to get hurt to understand. People!" Ye Lang shook his head and sighed, then headed to the Alchemy Academy with his classmates.

Ye Lanyu, as usual, parted ways with Ye Lang at the edge of the Alchemy Academy to go to her own Magic Academy. As mentioned before, the Alchemy Academy was safe.

After similar incidents happened a few times, even the slowest person understood that if they wanted to bully Ye Lang while Tiger Girl was away, they had to get past Ye Lanyu. Some people had also carefully investigated who else was there after Ye Lanyu, and they were certain there was at least the Seventh Princess, Ye Lang's "fiancée."

Thus, they all gave up, at least on using brute force. They could only resort to tricky methods to get at him. However, they seemed to have overlooked Ye Lang himself. It was as if without anyone else, Ye Lang was just a piece of meat.

In the following years, Ye Lang's "low-profile" approach caused many to forget his existence. Those who were jealous of him before gradually grew up and matured in their thinking, no longer harboring the idea of bullying Ye Lang.

Time passed slowly yet swiftly. In these five years, which were neither short nor long, Ye Lang had basically mastered the alchemy of this world. Simultaneously, he developed his own unique alchemy, combining it with traditional Chinese medicine, pill refining, and other arts from the Martial Arts Treasury.

However, in front of outsiders, he remained a very ordinary alchemist, progressing alongside his classmates, neither particularly ahead nor behind.

It was precisely because of this that he became increasingly ordinary and less noticeable. He seemed to enjoy this life, cultivating martial arts, researching alchemy, and occasionally indulging in extravagant spending, living as leisurely as could be.

Of course, it was impossible to be completely unnoticeable. He often had actions that would draw everyone's attention, the most frequent of which was his extravagant spending, his almost god-like prodigality.

Today, someone had come to him again because of one of his extravagant spending sprees. At that moment, he was playing the piano and singing a little tune...

"My dear, how are you now? Where are you, what are you thinking? Why does your innocent face hold a trace of sadness? Tonight, I want to tell you, look at me years later..."

"Thirteen, are you thinking of Taiya again?" the visitor said to Ye Lang.

"No, I'm not thinking of her at all. I'm just singing casually," Ye Lang denied, shaking his head.

Five years had passed. They had expected Tiger Girl to return within two or three years, but after five years, there was still no news. The only certainty was that Tiger Girl had safely returned home, to her people.

According to reports from the Anna Mercenary Group, Tiger Girl was quickly greeted by a group of warriors from the Tiger Tribe upon entering their tribal territory, and they were escorted out of the territory at the same time.

Of course, the Anna Mercenary Group left only after confirming Tiger Girl was safe, which Tiger Girl had nodded in confirmation of.

During these five years, Ye Lang had also entrusted people to deliver letters to Tiger Girl. However, the only reply he received was a verbal message, saying that Tiger Girl asked him to wait for her for a few more years, as she had some matters to attend to. She also reminded him to take good care of himself.

"Stop pretending. You only sing and play the piano when you think of Taiya. Normally, even with a knife to your throat, you're too lazy to do anything," the visitor directly saw through Ye Lang's lie.

"Ahem, the weather is really nice today. Brother Seven, what do you need me for?" Ye Lang put away the piano. Yes, "put away," which was effortless with a Space Ring.

Brother Seven, the visitor, was Ye Lang's cousin, the seventh young master of the Ye family. He was now a high-ranking official in the empire, managing some affairs. Ye Lang wasn't sure of the specifics, but it seemed to be related to the empire's military factories or something similar.

"Oh, right, I almost forgot the important matter. Did you buy Mount Aras?" Brother Seven asked anxiously.

"Mount Aras? I don't remember. What's wrong?" Ye Lang's answer left Brother Seven speechless, though it was also within his expectations. He had known this kid would forget.

"I knew you wouldn't know! Hurry up and check your assets, see if Mount Aras is under your name," Brother Seven urged.

"Oh, let me look..." Ye Lang took out a large pile of items from his ring, covered in messy certificates, like land deeds, merchant association stock certificates, and so on. These were the results of his extravagant spending over the years. He owned an immeasurable amount of property, and it was unclear whether he made or lost money in the process.

Seeing this, Brother Seven could only sigh, marveling at how miraculous this "Thirteen" was. Despite his prodigal spending, his assets kept growing, and unexpectedly, important things would appear under his name, like this matter today.

Mount Aras was originally a barren mountain, situated in a remote location, a place no one paid attention to, so the mountain itself wasn't very valuable.

However, recently, the empire's surveying department discovered that Mount Aras possessed extremely rich strategic mineral deposits. They then began negotiating with the owner of the mountain, only to find that the mountain had long been sold by its original owner, and at an unreasonably high price.

Of course, the original owner was now crying and lamenting their regret. Their so-called high price was merely a drop in the bucket compared to the value of the mineral deposits.

The empire naturally didn't care about the original owner's regret. They simply asked who he sold it to. His answer was that he didn't know; it had happened several years ago, and the transaction was done through an intermediary, who could no longer be found.

The empire then became troubled. They began using various methods to search for the owner, but all efforts were in vain. Even offering a very high reward for the owner to appear yielded no results.

Normally, after a mountain like this changed hands, the new owner would register it with the empire, in case the certificate was lost one day and needed to be reissued.

However, this new owner had never appeared or registered, leaving no trace for them to follow.

Someone just said this chapter was missing. Sigh, I accidentally put it in a different section without noticing. My apologies!!