You Can Actually Withstand My Sword!

At this moment, Song Qingxue was no longer as calm and arrogant as she had been when she first arrived at Ye Manor.

Instead, she was being extremely cautious and ingratiating herself with Ye Hao, even trying to please the two Lin Shige sisters.

Although the sisters' realms were far below hers, they had left a deep shadow in her heart over the past two days.

Even an existence as insignificant as an ant in her eyes could easily manipulate her when she had fallen on hard times.

Song Qingxue had lost every trace of her temper. It was as though two days had suddenly made her much more mature. She could not help recalling her days at the Song Family, then comparing them with her days at Ye Manor. The difference was like that between heaven and hell.

"Young... master, is the strength all right?" Song Qingxue asked cautiously.

Ye Hao's expression was indifferent.

Seeing this, Song Qingxue's heart gave a thump. She was terrified and asked in a trembling voice, "I..."

"Just keep pressing like that." Ye Hao spoke calmly, his expression no longer indifferent.

Song Qingxue breathed a huge sigh of relief, but even then, she could only continue cautiously, not daring to make any large movements.

After roughly a moment, Ye Hao rose and returned to his room. He then took out spirit stones and began cultivating.

Over the past two days, Song Qingxue had tried to suppress him with her power, only to be fiercely rebuffed. This had left his mind clear and untroubled.

He felt his realm loosening.

He had previously been at the eighth layer of the Qi Realm. After two hours of cultivation, Ye Hao's realm rose again. He was now at the Qi Realm's completion!

He was only one step away from breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm!

To break through to the Spirit Sea Realm, he had to compress his spiritual power until it could not be compressed any further. Then, it would rebound from the bottom. The more fiercely it was compressed, the greater the rebound, and the larger the qi sea he could open!

Different martial artists compressed their spiritual power to different degrees when breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm.

The firmer one's foundation and the higher the grade of one's Cultivation Method, the more spiritual power one could compress. As a result, the qi sea opened upon breaking through to the Spirit Sea Realm would be extremely vast!

Some people's spirit seas were like a single lake.

Some people's spirit seas were like ten lakes, or even a hundred!

Moreover, after spiritual power had been compressed without limit, its quality and strength would naturally be different as well.

Ye Hao was confident that if he broke through to the Spirit Sea Realm, then even if he were only at the first layer of the Spirit Sea Realm, he could crush experts at the ninth layer!

However, his ability to crush them was limited to martial artists from the Eastern Region. The Cultivation Methods used by people in the Eastern Region were of low grade, allowing him to cross many minor realms and crush ninth-layer Spirit Sea Realm experts.

If he faced someone at the same realm from an even stronger force beyond the region, his ability to fight across realms would not be as exaggerated as it was now.

Especially in the later realms—the gap between cultivators would grow smaller and smaller.

After all, experts capable of cultivating to the later realms were proof that their Cultivation Methods were not low-grade, and they themselves were martial prodigies.

But this was the Eastern Region.

Even if he faced people from the outer regions, Ye Hao was still confident.

"I should continue cultivating! The spirit stones I need to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm are no ordinary amount. Fortunately, Father gave me quite a few spirit stones."

Otherwise, even if he emptied the spirit stones of every force in East Moon City, they probably still would not be enough for him to break through to the Spirit Sea Realm.

It consumed far too many spirit stones.

Ye Hao cultivated at ease.

Meanwhile, Song Nanyu of the Song Family was inside the City Lord's Mansion. His brows were tightly furrowed. He had sent a voice transmission to Song Qingxue a day ago, yet Song Qingxue still had not replied.

This made him extremely anxious. He had no idea what had happened to Song Qingxue at Ye Manor.

Just then, his voice-transmission jade token stirred. His expression relaxed, and he hurriedly checked it.

Song Qingxue's voice then rang out.

Song Qingxue: Uncle Nanyu, the Ye Family really does have a Sixth Realm expert.

After hearing this, Song Nanyu's expression changed slightly, and a complicated look appeared in his eyes.

The Ye Family actually had a Sixth Realm giant...

The Song Family's original plan had been that if the Ye Family had no Sixth Realm giant, they would flatten the Ye Family directly.

If the Ye Family had a Sixth Realm giant...

Then they would form a marriage alliance with the Ye Family.

Song Nanyu sent a voice transmission at this moment. "If we form a marriage alliance with the Ye Family, will the betrothal gifts they offer include a Mid-grade Earth-tier or High-grade Earth-tier Cultivation Method? Talk more with Ye Hao and try your best to obtain a higher-grade Cultivation Method."

Song Qingxue immediately sent back a voice transmission: All right.

Standing on either side of Song Qingxue were Lin Shige and Lin Shiyu. The sisters directly took away the voice-transmission jade token.

Song Qingxue fell silent.

One day later.

The giants of all the top forces in the Eastern Region learned that the Ye Family had a Sixth Realm giant. They had all received the news from the Song Family.

Some suspected that the Song Family and the Ye Family had secretly joined forces.

In short, they half-believed and half-doubted it.

Until the Ye Family's Sixth Realm ancestor showed himself, they would forever maintain that half-believing, half-doubting attitude.

For some time afterward, the entire Eastern Region became much quieter. However, as the Ye Family's Sixth Realm giant continued to remain unseen, more and more people began to harbor doubts.

The Song Family felt this most deeply. They sensed that something was not quite right.

Although Song Qingxue often sent back news, saying that the Ye Family truly did have a Sixth Realm giant, the Ye Family's Sixth Realm giant was simply cultivating in seclusion.

As for the Song Family's earlier demand that the Ye Family provide a Mid-grade Earth-tier or higher Cultivation Method as the betrothal gift, the Ye Family had rejected it!

The Ye Family's attitude was extremely unyielding!

They said that the betrothal gift had already been given sixteen years ago, and there was no such thing as giving another betrothal gift.

The Song Family had also proposed meeting the Ye Family's Sixth Realm giant, but the Ye Family rejected that as well, saying that the Ye Family's ancestor was cultivating in seclusion.

The Song Family later proposed meeting the Ye Family's Clear Mind ancestor, but the Ye Family rejected them again, with the reason that he too was cultivating in seclusion.

This left the Song Family deeply puzzled.

If the Ye Family had no Sixth Realm giant, they could understand the Ye Family's refusal.

But they would not even allow them to meet their Clear Mind expert.

They would not even allow them to meet a Spirit Sea Realm expert...

This made them unable to help suspecting that the Ye Family might not even have a Spirit Sea Realm expert.

If they did, why would they not dare show themselves?

"Do you think Qingxue might have been controlled? Could every word and action of hers be under the Ye Family's control?"

Song Yunfei, the Song Family Patriarch, frowned as he pondered.

"That is possible." An elder of the Song Family had deep, profound eyes as he said slowly, "It would be best to have people from the other forces go and probe them first. After all, our Song Family has two choices, so it would not be good to openly antagonize the Ye Family."

The Song Family Patriarch nodded lightly.

One day later.

A fifth-layer Spirit Sea Realm cultivator appeared in the sky outside Ye Manor.

The newcomer was a middle-aged man dressed in blue robes, with a long sword in his hand!

His expression was cold and stern. He directly swung a sword toward the direction of the Ye Family!

When this sword was unleashed, a sword radiance appeared, as large as ten adults. It formed a dazzling crescent moon, carrying a fierce aura as it swept horizontally toward the Ye Family!

Just as it was about to reach the Ye Family's buildings, Ye Hao appeared.

Ye Hao's expression was calm. He punched out, and terrifying fluctuations of spiritual power trembled continuously through the space, directly colliding with the crescent-shaped sword radiance!

Bang!

The crescent-shaped sword radiance shattered like fragile glass!

It then dispersed into the heavens and earth.

Seeing this, the blue-robed man's pupils contracted. He looked at Ye Hao in shock. "You can actually withstand my sword!"

He knew about Ye Hao. Ye Hao was only seventeen years old, yet he had previously displayed the strength to kill a Half-step Spirit Sea Realm expert.