While Ye Qing was stirring up wind and rain in the Inner Court, the Outer Court was far from peaceful either.
First there had been Xiao Xiao with her twin martial souls, and then Huo Yuhao with his. Even though the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid had caused quite a stir, Huo Yuhao's revealed second martial soul, the Ice Crystal Ancient-Toothed Tiger, still attracted certain people's attention.
Yan Shaozhe, for instance, and Qian Duoduo.
But because of Ye Qing's presence, and because Huo Yuhao's second martial soul was not Ultimate Ice, Yan Shaozhe did not value him as highly as he had in the original story, nor did things escalate to a Sea God Pavilion Meeting.
Moreover, Yan Shaozhe had been agonizing over what gift to give Ye Qing when Qian Duoduo delivered himself right to his door. Yan Shaozhe took him for a hefty sum, fleecing the Soul Tool Department of quite a few rare metals, as well as securing a Level Seven Flying Soul Tool, a Soul Tool Shield, and three Invincible Shields.
He gave them all to Ye Qing.
It was all because of what Ye Qing had told Mu En back then: he wanted to learn more about soul tools. Yan Shaozhe had taken it to heart, so he fleeced Qian Duoduo of a great haul and gave it to Ye Qing as a gift.
It was one of his rare displays of generosity, though the things he used were not his own.
Ye Qing naturally accepted them. After all, he had earned them. He had already suppressed Ma Xiaotao's evil fire to the point that it hardly flared up anymore. Wasn't this precisely the compensation he deserved?
The generous gift Yan Shaozhe had given him was worth several million Gold Soul Coins. It truly deserved to be