Returning to the Ye Lineage

Inside Holy City, at the city lord's residence.

In a secret chamber, Ye Chen fed Ye Tian an immortal pill.

In truth, Ye Tian's injuries were not serious.

Because of his connection to the Ye Lineage, Ye Tian had suffered a great deal.

And Ye Tian really was someone Ye Chen took a liking to.

So Ye Chen decided to bring him into the Ye Lineage and help improve his constitution.

Nearby, Holy City's city lord stood respectfully, his heart filled with unease.

He already knew the identity of the man before him.

More importantly, this was a ruthless man who had destroyed the Heavenly Origin Holy Land with a mere raise of his hand, while he himself was an elder of that holy land.

He did not know whether he would meet the same end as the holy land.

After settling Ye Tian down, Ye Chen turned and looked indifferently at Holy City's city lord.

"Do you know why I spared your life?"

At these words, Holy City's city lord finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with a bitter smile, "I do not. Please enlighten me, Senior!"

"I examined your divine sense just now!"

Ye Chen's words frightened Holy City's city lord into a cold sweat.

His divine sense had been examined without him noticing a thing?

Just how powerful was this senior's divine sense?

Ye Chen glanced at Holy City's city lord and continued, "All these years, you have opposed taking action against people surnamed Ye, and your character is reasonably decent."

Then Ye Chen's gaze pierced straight into Holy City's city lord. "That is why you survived!"

Holy City's city lord hurriedly bowed in thanks. "Thank you for sparing my life, Senior."

After weighing his words, he said with feeling, "The Ye Lineage's forebears fought through blood for our human race. They were our race's guardian deities. How could we dare forget? It is just that our strength is too meager, and there are many things we are powerless to do!"

Ye Chen's gaze seemed to pierce through endless space, falling upon some unknown place. "No wonder Tian Yuanzi sent you to guard this tiny Holy City despite your being a Saint Realm expert!"

Then he looked back at Holy City's city lord, his gaze burning bright. "Your strength is decent. Would you be interested in becoming a steward of my Ye Lineage?"

Within a faction, a steward was only one rank above a disciple.

Where would a Saint Realm expert not be a lofty figure? Even in the Ye Lineage's former heyday, Saint Realm experts had been true members of its upper ranks.

Yet in Ye Chen's words, he could only be a steward.

Had anyone else said this, Holy City's city lord would certainly have swept his sleeve in anger. After all, to any Saint, this was an enormous insult.

But these words came from Ye Chen. Whether out of guilt or some other reason, he agreed with a bitter smile. "I am willing to contribute what little I can to the Ye Lineage!"

Ye Chen smiled in satisfaction. "One day, you will be glad you made this decision today!"

"Let's go. Come back to the Ye Lineage with me!"

Then the three vanished from the secret chamber.

Clearwater Town, Clear Wind Kingdom.

By now, Clearwater Town had already become an enormous city, and its name had been changed to Ye City.

The entire city stood imposingly beside Black Mountain, like a young primordial behemoth.

Ever since the Ye Lineage took control of the Clear Wind Kingdom, it had poured countless resources into building this massive city.

To curry favor with the Ye Lineage, many factions had sent people bearing resources. Even Azure Province Academy had contributed a great many experts and resources.

Through the efforts of all these factions, it had finally attained its present grandeur.

Martial artists streamed endlessly through the city. Xiantian cultivators walked everywhere, Origin Core cultivators were as plentiful as dogs, and even experts at Spirit Refinement and above could be seen.

This was something no one would have dared imagine in the past.

At that moment, in the very center of Ye City, deep within a magnificent residence, Ye Chen sat quietly cross-legged.

As soon as he returned to the Ye Lineage, he had someone receive Holy City's city lord and Ye Tian, while he went to the secret chamber himself.

The Ye Lineage's pace of development was fairly decent.

Most of its members had now reached the Xiantian realm, and Ye Xuan and the other higher-ups had all successfully advanced to Origin Core.

The Ye Lineage's members all had fairly decent aptitude. Their realms had been low in the past because they were constrained by resources.

Now that they had an ample supply of resources, it would have been difficult not to improve quickly.

But to him, this pace was still too slow.

He could not wait that long.

On this return, he intended to thoroughly transform the Ye Lineage.

First, though, he would see what the system had rewarded him with.

Before leaving the Heavenly Origin Holy Land, he had used up all the check-in days he had accumulated lately, but he had not paid attention to what rewards he received.

Opening the system's backend, he found an additional ten billion top-grade spirit stones, thousands of Earth Grade cultivation techniques and martial skills, over a hundred Heaven Grade cultivation techniques and martial skills, more than ten Saint Grade cultivation techniques and martial skills, and one Emperor Grade cultivation technique.

In addition, there were vast quantities of Earth Grade and Heaven Grade pills, and even some saint medicines.

These resources exceeded what an ordinary holy land possessed.

Together with the Heavenly Origin Holy Land's resources, they would last the Ye Lineage a very long time.

But these things were still not enough.

Then he casually released his divine sense, instantly covering the entire Eastern Domain.

The Eastern Domain spanned untold hundreds of millions upon millions of li. An ordinary Great Emperor could not possibly cover it completely with divine sense.

But the strength of Ye Chen's divine sense already surpassed that of ordinary immortals. Never mind the mere Eastern Domain-if he unleashed it at full strength, he could probably cover all of Heavenly Profound.

This was talent!

This was being a cheat!

Beneath the coverage of his divine sense, the entire Eastern Domain seemed to have no secrets.

Every secret realm and ancient ruin lay beneath his gaze.

At that moment, the powerful beings within the Eastern Domain's secret realms and ancient ruins all sensed something.

They looked up at the sky, their hearts and souls trembling.

"Wh-what is this?"

"Heavens, how could such powerful divine sense exist?"

"Th-this couldn't be an immortal's gaze, could it?"

"Spare me, Immortal! Spare me, Immortal!"

"..."

Deep underground somewhere in Holy Province, an enormous white dragon lay coiled.

On closer inspection, this immense dragon, like a primordial behemoth, had no physical form.

Its entire body had formed from exceptionally pure Spiritual Qi.

Even a trace of Spiritual Qi leaking from its body could greatly benefit a Saint Realm expert.

"A top-grade spirit vein!"

Ye Chen's heart leaped with joy.

This was a rare treasure indeed.

His divine sense instantly surged toward the dragon.

The dragon seemed to sense something and immediately woke with a start, its white eyes filled with panic.

Top-grade spirit veins generally develop spiritual intelligence. This one seems highly intelligent. It is probably already fully mature!

The more mature a top-grade spirit vein was, the purer the Spiritual Qi it released, and the greater its benefit to a martial artist's cultivation.

Ye Chen grew even more delighted and increased his speed further.

Just as the dragon was about to flee, a figure within its body slowly opened his eyes.

His gaze was unfathomably deep, and he gave off no imposing presence, but the laws of the imperial Dao enveloping him were so dense they would not disperse, faintly showing signs of stirring the laws of the Heavenly Dao.

Sensing that someone actually dared covet his spirit vein, his anger surged, and he sneered inwardly. You have no idea what death is!

Then he stepped forward and bellowed,

"What scoundrel dares act so brazenly here!"