Eastern Region's Poisonous Barrier!

Ye Hao ignored Xia Zhangjian and left with Song Qingxue and the other two.

Only when Ye Hao and his group were gone did Xia Zhangjian dare to stand up.

The City Lord's family remained silent.

Xia Zining, standing in the crowd, couldn't help but fall silent as well. So much had happened in just over a month. At this point, she too had to look up to Ye Hao.

Ye Hao treated the events here as a minor interlude and continued to stroll through East Moon City with the other three.

After strolling for over an hour and observing the changes in East Moon City, Ye Hao and the other three returned to their family.

Upon returning home, Ye Hao went to the courtyard where Ye Wuchen resided.

Ye Wuchen and Qiao Qingxue were sitting opposite each other, separated by a table with tea on it.

After three days, Qiao Qingxue's condition had stabilized somewhat, but the two still hadn't managed to be together.

Ye Wuchen felt that Qiao Qingxue was too pitiful. Her family had been destroyed, and she had been humiliated by the Lord of Great Zhou for sixteen years, much of which was because of him.

Ye Wuchen had always treated Qiao Qingxue like a sister, but seeing how much suffering she had endured for him, he no longer wanted to see her suffer. He wanted Qiao Qingxue to be his woman.

However, Qiao Qingxue felt she was tainted and unworthy of Ye Wuchen, and absolutely refused to be with him.

For her, being able to be Ye Wuchen's sister was already enough.

Ye Wuchen no longer insisted, merely asking Qiao Qingxue to stay with him from now on.

Qiao Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief. She felt this kind of relationship was good. If she were truly with Ye Wuchen, she would feel immense pressure.

Ye Hao arrived at this moment.

After chatting about family matters for a while, Ye Hao asked Ye Wuchen, "Has your realm shown any signs of loosening?"

"I feel it has loosened a bit. I still have some unfinished business. Once that's done, I might be able to break through to the Martial King Realm," Ye Wuchen said calmly. "I plan to set off with Qingxue tonight and head to the Great Zhou Royal Family to kill some people who deserve to die. Also, I want to meet the Great Zhou's Martial King."

Ye Hao nodded gently, not saying much.

That night, Ye Wuchen took Qiao Qingxue to the Great Zhou Royal Family to settle some karma.

Meanwhile, Ye Hao stayed at home, meditating and quietly waiting for his father's return.

However, he found it difficult to calm his heart, fearing that something might happen to his father.

Although, theoretically speaking, Ye Wuchen, who had cultivated the Dao Heart Cultivation Method, should have no problem fighting a Martial King at the ninth level of Spirit Gathering, crossing a major realm.

But as one's realm advanced, those who could cultivate to the Martial King Realm could not possibly be ordinary Heavenly Prodigies.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be only a handful of Martial Kings in the entire Eastern Region.

Coupled with the fact that he had never witnessed the true strength of a Martial King, and had no reference point, he couldn't help but worry about Ye Wuchen.

"You three come here and distract me," Ye Hao said faintly, addressing the three people in the adjacent rooms.

Soon, Song Qingxue and the other two walked over and knelt on the ground.

By dawn, Ye Wuchen and Qiao Qingxue had returned.

Ye Hao's heart relaxed, and he quickly went to check on Ye Wuchen, wanting to know what had happened last night.

Ye Wuchen's expression was somewhat indescribable. He sighed faintly, "Last night, I fought the Zhou Family's Martial King. I only used one move, and he died..."

Ye Wuchen was completely stunned.

He had thought Martial Kings were terrifying, but he never expected that he would kill one with just a single move...

The Martial King of the Great Zhou Royal Family had shown no ability to fight back against him.

He recalled how his Ye Family had been on high alert when facing the various top forces of the Eastern Region before!

And the result was just this?

Ye Hao was also taken aback. A dignified Martial King couldn't even withstand one move?

"Dad, don't the Ask Sword Sect and the Xu Family have a deep enmity with you? Why not go all the way and destroy them now? Then you can focus on breaking through to the Martial King Realm," Ye Hao suggested.

"That's exactly what I intend to do." A cold glint flashed in Ye Wuchen's eyes. After giving a few instructions, he immediately headed for the Xu Family, a thousand-year-old aristocratic family...

In the span of a single day.

Most of the Xu Family members died at Ye Wuchen's hands. The Xu Family's Martial King Ancestor couldn't even withstand a single move from Ye Wuchen and died directly.

The Ask Sword Sect was also annihilated on the same day.

With immense strength, Ye Wuchen carried away the spirit veins from the Xu Family, the Ask Sword Sect, and the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty's underground.

Spirit meridians could infinitely generate spiritual energy and were extremely valuable.

As long as one possessed a spirit meridian, it was equivalent to having an inexhaustible supply of spiritual energy, although there was a fixed amount of spiritual energy produced annually.

Because Ye Wuchen killed the Martial King Ancestors of three top forces in less than a day and night, the people from other top forces were all terrified!!!

"Quick! We must offer a grand gift this time to satisfy the Ye Family! Otherwise, we will be doomed!"

The top powers' hearts trembled. Although they hadn't caused any substantial harm to the Ye Family, they had plotted against them. They feared Ye Wuchen would hold them accountable, and if he did, they would all be annihilated!

For a time, people from the major top powers immediately visited to offer congratulatory gifts.

Ye Hao did not appear this time; instead, the young men and women of the Ye Family went to receive them.

The young men and women of the Ye Family gave them no pleasantries. They simply told them to put down their gifts and get lost as far as possible.

Ten days passed in the blink of an eye.

For the Ye Family, it was a period of peace, and the entire family was filled with laughter and joy.

Ye Hao and Ye Wuchen sat facing each other in a room.

"A few days ago, I went to the westernmost part of the Eastern Region. There's a large poisonous barrier there. It's very difficult to cross it and go to the outer regions," Ye Wuchen said calmly.

Deep within his eyes, a hint of dejection flashed, along with a touch of longing.

Sixteen years.

He had been separated from his wife for sixteen full years. If he couldn't cross the poisonous barrier to reach the outer regions, he would likely never see his wife again in this lifetime.

Although he cultivated a method to prove the Dao and become an Emperor, his cultivation required immense resources. The resources in the Eastern Region alone were insufficient for him to achieve this.

It was even extremely difficult to cultivate to the peak of the Martial King Realm.

While the Eastern Region had some spirit veins, and as long as spirit veins existed, spiritual energy could be born indefinitely, the spirit veins in the Eastern Region were all low-grade.

Low-grade spirit veins produced a fixed amount of spiritual energy each year, equivalent to a million low-grade spirit stones!

And he himself had consumed one hundred million low-grade spirit stones just a few days ago when he broke through to the Martial King Realm. His Qi Sea was simply too vast; every breakthrough required an enormous number of spirit stones.

If his wife hadn't left him a large quantity of spirit stones, he might not have even been able to break through to the Martial King Realm.

Ye Hao couldn't help but fall silent...

Cultivation required a vast amount of spirit stones. Without spirit stones and spiritual energy, no matter how high the grade of his cultivation method, he couldn't reach a higher realm.

Without leaving the Eastern Region, his realm could at most break through to the Martial King Realm...

After pondering for a moment, Ye Hao said calmly to Ye Wuchen, "Focus on cultivating for now. This poisonous barrier didn't appear without reason. Perhaps there's a secret to it."