Ye! Ri! Tian!

Many people had gathered around. Drawn by their love of spectacle and herd mentality, they saw the area around the academy's Martial Arts Stage packed with people and went over to watch the excitement as well.

Along the way, they learned of the grudge between Li Shaoyou, third on the Prodigy Ranking, and Ye Chen, ninth on the Prodigy Ranking.

It was all because Li Shaoyou's cousin, Li Lengxuan, had been beaten by Ye Hao, Ye Chen's clansman, yesterday!

Everyone watched with the mindset of enjoying a spectacle.

On the Martial Arts Stage.

With a vicious expression, Li Shaoyou was the first to charge at Ye Chen!

Ye Chen had long been filled with rage. His clansman Ye Hao had been bullied by Li Lengxuan for so many years, bullied until his personality had become quiet and withdrawn. Touching his clansman was no different from touching him!

Brimming with fury, Ye Chen charged forward.

Ye Chen was at the Seventh Level of Qi Condensation, while Li Shaoyou was at the Eighth Level of Qi Condensation!

One was ninth on the Prodigy Ranking, the other third!

The foundational strength of the Qi Condensation Realm was one thousand jin. Every breakthrough raised it by another thousand jin. In other words, Ye Chen's foundational strength was seven thousand jin, while Li Shaoyou's was eight thousand jin!

Qi Condensation Realm cultivators mainly relied on close-quarters combat, and such a gap in strength directly affected the outcome!

But martial cultivators all cultivated Combat Skills, whose primary function was to increase the power they unleashed!

Ye Chen cultivated the Ye Family's Yellow-grade High-rank Combat Skills, Mad Dragon Fist and Shadowless Leg!

Moreover, he had cultivated both to the Intermediate Stage!

They granted an additional three thousand jin of force!

That was equivalent to possessing ten thousand jin of strength!

Li Shaoyou had also cultivated the Li Family's Yellow-grade High-rank Combat Skills, and he had likewise reached the Intermediate Stage!

That was equivalent to possessing eleven thousand jin of strength!

Many people believed Ye Chen was bound to lose!

After all, in the Qi Condensation Realm, the most direct factor affecting combat strength was power. And Li Shaoyou was no weaker in either battle experience or combat awareness. By every measure, Ye Chen's defeat was beyond doubt!

Bang!

Bang!

The two exchanged blows.

Li Shaoyou let out a wild roar and took Ye Chen's punch head-on. He had predicted where Ye Chen would strike and had moved his spiritual energy to his chest in advance, allowing him to easily withstand the blow!

Then, moving with lightning speed, he channeled spiritual energy into his fist and smashed it viciously toward Ye Chen!

Ye Chen knew that the odds of his defeat were high, but even if he lost, he would make Li Shaoyou pay the price!

Three breaths later.

Li Shaoyou staggered back, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth.

Ye Chen, meanwhile, was bruised and swollen, his face covered in blood as he lay on the Martial Arts Stage.

His vision had turned blurry, yet Ye Chen did not utter a single cry of pain. His gaze was incomparably resolute. At the very least, he had defended the Ye Family's dignity! He had shown everyone that members of the Ye Family were not so easily bullied!

"Pah!" Li Shaoyou spat out the blood in his mouth, then looked at Ye Chen lying on the ground. "This is what happens when you dare oppose my Li Family!"

There were hundreds of onlookers beneath the Martial Arts Stage. Upon hearing Li Shaoyou's words, some felt fear, while others clenched their fists slightly, anger flashing across their faces as they felt the Li Family was far too arrogant!

But there was nothing they could do. They could only endure it.

There were also quite a few Ye Family youths beneath the Martial Arts Stage. Seeing Ye Chen beaten black and blue, his face drenched in blood, each of them glared in fury with tightly clenched fists, desperately wanting to rush onto the stage and give Li Shaoyou a brutal beating!

But they knew that even if they stepped onto the Martial Arts Stage, they would only be humiliated. Not only would they fail to beat up Li Shaoyou, they would also turn the Ye Family into the academy's laughingstock!

"Ye Hao was able to defeat Xia Zining at the Fifth Level of Qi Condensation. I wonder if he can defeat Li Shaoyou." A Ye Family youth clenched his fists, his gaze sweeping around in search of Ye Hao, but he did not see him.

Anxious, the Ye Family youth immediately left to find Ye Hao.

At that moment, Ye Hao was in his own small courtyard, teaching the sisters Lin Shige and Lin Shiyu how to cultivate.

Yesterday, he had brought the Lin Shige sisters back from the slave market. The two sisters had dutifully attended to him for half the night, and he had fulfilled his promise by teaching them cultivation!

After teaching the sisters how to cultivate, his mind became Clear once more.

By honoring agreements, fulfilling promises, and keeping his word, he could attain Clear Mind again.

As for the academy, he had no desire to go.

With his cultivation experience, East Moon Academy had nothing it could teach him. Unless something important came up, he would not go to East Moon Academy. There was no longer any reason for him to remain there.

Just then.

Urgent knocking sounded at the courtyard gate, accompanied by an anxious young voice. "Ye Hao, are you home? Ye Hao, are you there?"

Hearing the urgency in the other party's voice, Ye Hao felt somewhat puzzled. He walked over and opened the courtyard gate, looking at the youth. "What is it?"

The youth was only fourteen, three years younger than him.

Ye Hao remembered that the youth's name was Ye Paopao.

He was given that name because Ye Paopao's father felt that most people's names were too formal, so he wanted something with character.

Ye Paopao looked at Ye Hao and asked anxiously, "Brother Ye Hao, what realm are you at now? Can you beat Li Shaoyou at the Eighth Level of Qi Condensation? Brother Ye Chen was beaten by Li Shaoyou—his face was covered in blood, bruised and swollen."

Ye Hao asked calmly, "What exactly happened?"

"After we arrived at the academy this morning, we saw people from the Li Family and the Jiang Family blocking the academy gates, saying they were looking for you. We only learned everything afterward. We heard that Brother Ye Hao had been bullied by Li Lengxuan and Jiang Shaojie for years. After Brother Ye Chen and Brother Ye Feng heard about it, they wanted to get revenge! But then..."

Ye Paopao looked at Ye Hao anxiously. "Brother Ye Hao, can you beat Li Shaoyou?"

After hearing the full account, Ye Hao's expression darkened slightly. Then he said, "Let's go!"

The reason he had once been cowardly was that he did not want to drag his father, Ye Wuchen, into it.

Because he knew that if his father learned he was being bullied, he would definitely go to demand an explanation. But his father had no cultivation. If he went to demand answers, he would surely be viciously humiliated by the Li Family, just like the parents of the other students at the academy!

The second reason for his cowardice—

Was that he knew the people of the family would stand up for him. But the Ye Family was weaker than the Li Family, so he could only endure it. He did not want to implicate the family!

Of this, he was certain.

Because the atmosphere in the Ye Family was exceptionally good.

The young valued sentiment, the middle-aged valued profit, and the elderly valued righteousness. Though this saying applied to most people, the Ye Family was somewhat different. The Ye Family's youths valued sentiment, its elders valued sentiment, and the older generation loved the descendants of the clan dearly. They would never place profit first.

Ye Paopao followed Ye Hao at a brisk pace, saying anxiously, "Brother Ye Hao, can you beat Li Shaoyou at the Eighth Level of Qi Condensation? If you can't... if you can't..."

At that point, Ye Paopao suddenly wore a stubborn expression. Clenching his fists tightly, he said fiercely, "Even if you can't beat him! We still have to let them know that the Ye Family isn't so easy to bully!"

Ye Hao was distracted for a moment. Why did it seem that every son of the Ye Family was braver than he had once been?

Compared to them, his former self had truly been cowardly!

But he was no longer the Ye Hao of the past!

He lived up to his name—split the character Hao apart, and it became Ye! Sun! Sky!

If they refused to submit, then fight!