Ye Meng's blood boiled at the story of Ye Luo's earth-shattering battle against Klaist outside Saint Masente's homeworld starfield, and how he had calmly and gracefully departed in the face of so many Elf Race experts. How he wished he could have stood beside Ye Luo then and shared in the Overmind's glory. Sadly, not only had he not been there, but when Ye Luo first set out for Koprulu, he had not even been qualified to accompany him.
Although Ye Luo had told them that he did not bring them along because he feared Inte would grow suspicious—after all, the more confident Ye Luo appeared in going alone, the less Inte and the others would dare touch him without proof that he was the Overmind—Ye Meng might have been a rough man, but he was no fool. If they had all reached level thirty, Ye Luo would never have brushed them off with such words. He would have simply taken them through the wormhole...
So, in the end, Ye Meng blamed it all on his own lack of strength. After Ye Luo left, he shut himself away every day to train, as though possessed...
Obsessed people could not take advice from others at all. Ye Chao feared that Ye Meng's relentless day-and-night training would cause problems, and even tried to divert his attention with battles against other Star Sea Behemoths. Yet he failed every time. Ye Meng was dead set on comprehending third-stage awakening. No matter what Ye Chao did, he remained unmoved—seclusion, seclusion, seclusion...
The other Ye family brothers were infected by his attitude as well. One after another, they shed their playboy ways and began entering long periods of seclusion.
Of course, Ye Luo knew nothing of this. But if he had, he would only have been