The battle ended there.
The students of East Moon Academy were thoroughly convinced. No one dared challenge Ye Hao again, nor did anyone dare target the Ye Family's young men and women.
Li Lengxuan and Jiang Shaojie, who had grudges against Ye Hao, along with the young men and women of the Li Family and Jiang Family, were all ashen-faced and despairing.
They had thought that once Xia Zhangjian took action, he would be able to beat Ye Hao senseless. The result, however, was completely different from what they had imagined.
If the young men of the Li Family and Jiang Family had known that Ye Hao had once killed a Li Family steward with a single move, they would never have believed from the beginning that Xia Zhangjian could defeat him.
It was just that the young men of the Li Family did not know that the person who had killed the Li Family steward was Ye Hao.
Only a handful of people knew that Ye Hao had killed the Li Family steward.
At that moment, the young men and women of the Ye Family erupted into cheers, shouting Ye Hao's name at the top of their lungs.
"Ye Hao! Ye Hao! Ye Hao!"
Shouts and cheers rang out from the mouths of the Ye Family's young men and women.
On the Martial Arts Stage.
Seeing that no one dared challenge him anymore, Ye Hao figured they were all afraid. That saved him the trouble of constantly teaching these youngsters a lesson.
Ye Hao descended from the Martial Arts Stage and came to Ye Chen, Ye Feng, and the group of Ye Family youths.
When he saw Ye Chen and Ye Feng with swollen, bruised faces, their bodies covered in blood, and their bones injured as well,
a warm current surged through Ye Hao's heart. They had known they were no match for Xia Zhangjian, yet they had still fought him for the sake of their pride.
"Let's go home." Ye Hao spoke calmly, then left with the group of Ye Family youths and women. Wherever they passed, everyone instinctively made way for them.
On the way,
Ye Hao said calmly, "From now on, all of you should withdraw from school. There are people in the clan who can teach you cultivation, so there's no need to stay at East Moon Academy."
"Fine. School was meaningless in the first place. It's just that the elders said humans are social animals and that we should experience more different people and things. They also said that building good relationships with the academy's students would help after we left the academy. But now, I feel it's better to withdraw."
One of the Ye Family youths spoke.
The others nodded one after another as well. They felt that cultivating at the academy was nothing special and that they might as well stay at the Ye Family.
Ye Hao smiled faintly.
His main reason for having the Ye Family youths withdraw was his concern that someone might harm his clansmen.
His father had said that in less than a month, the sixteen-year period would be complete.
If his mother still failed to return to the Ye Family by then, his father's former enemies would certainly make a move.
His father had also told him that his mother was destined never to return, so a great battle was unavoidable.
Even now, Ye Hao did not know what enmity his father, Ye Wuchen, had with the various forces. It seemed that his father was unwilling to speak about it.
But it did not matter. He would find out sooner or later.
Now that his father had recovered to the Fifth Great Realm, he had gained some confidence in facing the various top forces. Once his father recovered to his former peak—and if he could advance another step—he would truly have nothing to fear from any of the top forces.
After returning to the Ye Family, Ye Hao chatted with Ye Chen, Ye Feng, and the others for half an hour before returning to his own residence.
He closed the door securely, took out the golden Daoist Tome, then brought out a writing brush and wrote some words on one of its pages!
The Daoist Tome was sentient but could not speak. Nor could it chat idly at will. Only when matters concerning the Great Dao and cultivation methods arose would the Daoist Tome respond.
Ye Hao wrote a line.
<Is there a cultivation method that can increase a person's comprehension?>
Although he had previously obtained the Tai Ling Jue, which could improve other people's spiritual root aptitudes, he could not improve the aptitudes of his clansmen. If he improved too many of them, the matter would inevitably be exposed.
He understood the principle that possessing a precious treasure invited disaster all too well.
But if there were something that could increase comprehension, it could avoid many problems.
If comprehension were maxed out, it would be no weaker than raising one's spiritual root aptitude to the highest level.
Spiritual root aptitude was innate. From birth, it granted affinity with a certain attribute, allowing one to understand it naturally while cultivating.
With high comprehension, however, one could make up for insufficient spiritual root aptitude. As long as one could thoroughly comprehend the Dao methods of an attribute, one could still break through to an extremely high realm.
Just then,
some words slowly emerged on this page of the Daoist Tome, each character radiating a faint golden light.
<The hundredth page is the Enlightenment Page. Open the hundredth page, and within any five-li radius, cultivators will have their comprehension increased tenfold! The longer they cultivate, the greater the increase in comprehension!>
Ye Hao's mind trembled slightly!
There really was a way to increase comprehension!
And this was only one of the nine Heavenly Tomes. What about the other eight?
For example, the Body Tome, the Time Tome, and the Soul Tome. Obtaining any one of them would let him cultivate by leaps and bounds.
It was just that he had no idea where the other eight Heavenly Tomes were. Perhaps they were in other worlds...
He had obtained this Daoist Tome in the Otherworldly realm. The other eight Heavenly Tomes might have been scattered in different places.
"There are many different worlds. Once my cultivation reaches a certain realm, perhaps I'll be able to travel to other worlds, including the world where I underwent Soul transmigration for a hundred years."
Thinking of those hundred years spent in the Otherworldly realm, an extraordinarily beautiful figure surfaced in Ye Hao's mind.
She had a tall, slender figure and an exquisitely perfect body, without the slightest flaw to be found.
Calling her beauty peerless would not be an exaggeration in the slightest. She was flawless, and even without saying a word, merely standing there quietly gave people a soul-captivating, bewitched feeling.
She wore a long red dress, her expression cold and detached, a frosty look in her eyes.
That woman was a demonic cultivator from the Otherworldly realm.
Her cultivation was unknown. All he knew was that she was extremely powerful.
She had once shared three years of love with Ye Hao, but in the end, she abandoned him and left. When Ye Hao had asked her why, the woman had coldly told him that she was undergoing the tribulation of mortal love, comprehending the seven emotions and six desires, all for the sake of advancing her cultivation another step!
Put plainly, Ye Hao had been nothing but a tool—a tool used by that demonic cultivator woman to cultivate the Dao!
After learning the truth, Ye Hao had been so furious that he had wanted nothing more than to imprison and humiliate her.
For three years, he had given her his true feelings, giving his homeless soul somewhere to belong. Yet he had never expected that his feelings had actually been toyed with?!!
After that, he never saw the demonic cultivator woman again.
From then on, Ye Hao no longer yearned for love. He felt it was meaningless.
After having his feelings deceived for three years, Ye Hao's heart was filled with fury.
"Once I Prove the Dao and Become Emperor, perhaps I'll be able to see you... Dong Moli! In this life, if I don't trample and humiliate you ruthlessly, I will never truly find peace deep within my heart!"
Ye Hao closed his eyes and began meditating, casting aside distracting thoughts and calming his heart.
After the time it took to brew a cup of tea, Ye Hao's heart had calmed.
Then he opened the hundredth page of the Daoist Tome and controlled it, causing the golden light of enlightenment—imperceptible to the naked eye and undetectable by others—to envelop the entire Ye Family!
The Ye Family had a total of eight hundred and fifty clansmen. Including the servants and maids, there were fifteen hundred people in all.
Ye Hao discovered that he could selectively bestow the effects of enlightenment upon the Ye clansmen. The maids and servants also received the effects of enlightenment, but they were extremely weak.
The maids and servants were ultimately not members of his clan, so Ye Hao bestowed only the residual effects of enlightenment upon them.
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