"P-pack everything up?"
Steward Qian felt somewhat dazed, then gave a bitter smile. "My lord, th-this isn't such a good idea, is it? The Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce is extremely powerful in the Eastern Domain!"
He thought Ye Chen intended to rob the chamber of commerce.
After all, all the resources the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce currently held were worth tens of millions of low-grade spirit stones.
Even the ruler of the Clear Wind Kingdom might not be able to produce so many spirit stones at once.
Even if an old monster like Ye Chen could afford it, he couldn't possibly spend that much on such low-grade resources.
But at the thought of Ye Chen's terrifying strength, he dared not make any rash moves.
"I'll pay in spirit stones. Calculate how much they're worth!"
Ye Chen saw at a glance what Steward Qian was worried about.
Hearing this, Steward Qian was overjoyed.
He hadn't expected Ye Chen really to be here to buy resources rather than rob him. For a moment, he nearly wept with joy, wishing he could kneel and thank Ye Chen for the mercy of not robbing him.
He calculated the chamber's current stock, then respectfully presented a storage ring with a fawning smile. "My lord, all the chamber's current supplies are inside. The total comes to thirty-five million six hundred and forty thousand low-grade spirit stones. As our most honored guest, you need only pay thirty-five million low-grade spirit stones!"
Ye Chen motioned for Ye Yan to take it, then took out another storage ring and tossed it to Steward Qian. "It's all inside!"
Steward Qian took the storage ring. Seeing the heaps of low-grade spirit stones, his heart finally settled.
He hurriedly offered a platinum card. "My lord, this is our Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce's platinum card. From now on, whenever you shop at the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce, you'll receive a five-percent discount."
He wanted to offer a higher-tier card as well, but none were available in Feng City.
Seeing this, Ye Yan hurriedly accepted it for Ye Chen.
"Let's go."
With their purchases complete, it was time to return to the Ye Lineage.
Just as the two reached the entrance, a young man with an arrogant expression was about to enter the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce with a group of guards.
When the young man saw Ye Yan, surprise flashed through his eyes before his face twisted into a sneer. "Oh! Isn't this the young patriarch of Clearwater Town's Ye Lineage?"
"How do you have the money to buy resources at the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce?"
"Oh, right. How could that bunch of trash in your Ye Lineage afford anything here?"
"If you're here to earn spirit stones cleaning latrines, why not come to my house instead? We pay more than they do here, and I happen to need someone specifically to clean my cesspit!"
The guards all burst into laughter at his words.
At this, Ye Yan nearly exploded with rage.
The man before him was Zhang Wei, the son of Feng City's city lord.
Previously, he had hunted in Black Mountain, not far from Feng City, and killed a second-tier demonic beast.
Zhang Wei happened to pass by and wanted to seize the demonic beast, so he insisted that he had killed it.
Naturally, Ye Yan refused.
Zhang Wei flew into a rage. He hadn't expected anyone to dare defy him, so he ordered his men to beat Ye Yan and seized the demonic beast.
Afterward, every time Zhang Wei saw Ye Chen, he subjected him to all manner of humiliation, even using the city lord's influence to suppress the Ye Lineage.
Now, Ye Yan could endure no more and was about to teach Zhang Wei a lesson.
Suddenly, Ye Chen's indifferent voice sounded in his ears.
"Kill them all. I'll handle what comes afterward!"
Hearing this, Ye Yan felt completely reassured.
In the past, he hadn't dared resist because of the City Lord's Manor's overwhelming influence. Now that the ancestor backed him, he naturally had nothing to fear.
Zhang Wei was merely at the Second Heaven of Meridian Condensation, and he had only reached that level by piling up pills.
The guards were all experts at late Meridian Condensation.
But Ye Yan was a genius.
Naturally, they were no match for him and fell in defeat after only a few exchanges.
Ye Yan pressed his advantage and killed every guard.
Only Zhang Wei remained, his face bruised and swollen.
Seeing Ye Yan approach, Zhang Wei wet himself in fright, bright yellow liquid soaking his crotch.
"Wh-what are you going to do?"
"My father is the city lord! Y-you can't kill me!"
He stared at Ye Yan in terror while bracing both hands against the ground and scrambling backward.
Rage surged within Ye Yan. He clenched his fist and punched Zhang Wei in the face.
In an instant, squeals like those of a pig being slaughtered rang out without end.
Soon, Zhang Wei's entire face was a mangled mess of flesh and blood, and his life was gone.
The surrounding crowd was dumbstruck at the sight of Zhang Wei's gruesome death in the street.
Everyone knew perfectly well how much City Lord Zhang doted on Zhang Wei.
Otherwise, Zhang Wei would never have developed such an arrogant, domineering disposition.
Yet today, someone had actually beaten Zhang Wei to death in the street.
The city lord's fury was easy to imagine.
These two young men were finished, and so were the lineages behind them!
Yet just as they were about to leave this place of trouble, a tremendous crash came from the direction of the City Lord's Manor.
They could vaguely make out the entire City Lord's Manor being crushed beneath some unknown force.
Terrifying shock waves swept through the surroundings, lashing their bodies with pain.
When everything settled, everyone discovered that the nearby City Lord's Manor had already become a pile of ruins.
Everyone inside had died beneath that immense force.
At some point, two figures had appeared in the air above the City Lord's Manor.
A closer look revealed that they were none other than Ye Chen and Ye Yan.
Everyone was utterly horrified, their eyes widening like bronze bells.
Their throats bobbed as they involuntarily swallowed.
Clearly, those two young men had obliterated the City Lord's Manor with a single palm strike.
How powerful would one have to be to do that?
Surely only the lofty experts of the Origin Core Realm could accomplish such a thing!
At that moment, on the top floor of the Myriad Treasures Chamber of Commerce, Steward Qian gazed into the distance, taking in the entire scene at the City Lord's Manor.
An enormous palm print stood starkly amid the ruins of the City Lord's Manor.
His eyes were filled with shock and gravity.
Feng City's city lord was his equal in strength; both were experts at the Seventh Heaven of Xiantian.
To wipe out everyone in the City Lord's Manor with a single slap before he could even react-such strength surely lay above Origin Core.
He hadn't expected such a powerful expert to exist in a mere small secular kingdom.
"Someone, quickly investigate those two men's identities!"
"Yes!"
Behind him, a black figure slowly vanished without a trace.
At that moment, Ye Yan gazed at the ruins of the City Lord's Manor, his heart surging with fervor.
In the Ye Lineage, the elders had always taught them to avoid trouble whenever possible. As long as something didn't endanger the lineage, they should take a step back whenever they could.
Thus, even when Zhang Wei bullied him, he had never truly resisted.
Not because he didn't dare, but because he couldn't.
But all of this had changed completely after the ancestor arrived.
They no longer tolerated abuse and even took the initiative to strike. Such a thing had never happened in hundreds upon thousands of years.
Ye Chen stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at the devastation before him without a trace of emotion in his eyes.
"Remember this: whoever offends our Ye Lineage will be slain, however far away!"
"Do you understand?"
Those words rang out like great bells, shaking Ye Yan's heart and soul so deeply that he could not regain his composure for a long time.
He dropped straight to his knees and knocked his head against the ground several times before Ye Chen, tears streaming down his face. "This disciple understands! I will firmly remember your teachings, Ancestor!"
At that moment, a sentence inexplicably appeared in his heart: The ancestor is here, and now there is a clear sky above us!
The Ye Lineage would no longer be that small lineage anyone could bully.