Ye Qiubai already had the strength.
Now that someone wanted to harm him, he would naturally root them out one by one.
Huo Qingming looked at Ye Qiubai with a complicated expression and took a pill before finally stabilizing his injuries.
Only then did he speak. "Ye Yan."
Hearing this, Ye Qiubai frowned slightly.
As far as he remembered, he had no grudge against this older cousin of his at all.
Even if he did, it would not have been a mortal feud.
The only possibility was that Ye Yan had seen his talent recover and surpass what it had once been, and did not want him to return!
Something had happened to the Lineage!
Ye Qiubai then looked below, but found no sign of Ye Yan. Presumably, he had already fled.
After that, Ye Qiubai encountered no further obstacles.
Few dared to climb onto his platform to challenge him.
After all, he could defeat even Huo Qingming. Why would they go up there to invite humiliation?
In the end.
Ye Qiubai was confirmed as a participant in the academy exchange with the other three regions a month later.
At the same time, he received generous rewards.
An Azure Spirit Pill and a Mansion-Breaking Pill.
Both pills could help one's cultivation advance as quickly as possible.
The Mansion-Breaking Pill, in particular, could help someone break through from Golden Core to the Purple Mansion Realm.
Both pills were extremely precious in the outside world.
They could even spark a scramble to snatch them!
Yet Ye Qiubai was somewhat disdainful, because compared to those pills his master had given him, these two pills...
Their quality was far too inferior!
The Cottage.
Lu Changsheng was being lectured by a group of elders.
The Martial Hall elder said, "Listen, you brat. Since you can clearly teach an outstanding disciple like Ye Qiubai, why don't you take in a few more?"
The Sword Hall elder said, "Taking in more disciples would be a contribution to our academy, too."
Helplessness covered Lu Changsheng's face. While agreeing with the elders, he was also thinking that once Qiubai returned, he absolutely had to teach that brat to keep a lower profile.
How could Qin Tiannan, standing nearby, fail to understand Lu Changsheng? Seeing his expression, he could not help laughing aloud.
"Elders, once I've figured out my own cultivation, I'll naturally take in disciples."
Hearing this outside the door, Ye Qiubai could not help feeling bewildered as well.
In his eyes, his master's cultivation was surely like the Celestial Person State, unfathomably profound.
He could produce the Primordial Sword Scripture, refine pills of such quality, and casually paint something filled with such Sword Dao Concept.
And you're telling me you haven't figured out cultivation?
"Oh? Qiubai is here?"
"Then we'll be leaving. Changsheng, remember what we told you!"
Before leaving, Qin Tiannan left behind a storage ring.
"The crimson wood heavenly gold is inside. I won't ask what you want it for, but you'd better use it sparingly, brat."
After they had all left.
Lu Changsheng put away the storage ring before turning to Ye Qiubai and asking, "What is it?"
Ye Qiubai told him about Ye Yan, then explained his own suspicions as well.
Hearing this, Lu Changsheng pondered before saying, "So, you want to return to the Ye Lineage?"
Ye Qiubai nodded.
Lu Changsheng glanced at him and said, "But you should know that showing yourself now might touch the nerves of those forces that want to kill you."
Ye Qiubai naturally knew this.
Especially once they discovered that his talent had recovered, they would certainly want nothing more than to eliminate him.
One could say.
If Ye Qiubai returned now, it would be very dangerous.
It would not even be an exaggeration to call Heavenly Origin City a dragon's pool and tiger's den now.
But...
With determination in his eyes, Ye Qiubai said, "He is my father, after all.
"Besides, the Sword Dao should advance without hesitation. When it is time to face something, I cannot retreat."
If he retreated at a time like this, it might damage Ye Qiubai's Dao heart.
Lu Changsheng nodded slightly, then waved his hand and said, "All right, go. But break through to the Purple Mansion Realm before you leave."
Ye Qiubai nodded. He had already touched the threshold of the Purple Mansion Realm before this.
Now, after the academy tournament, Ye Qiubai had gained new insights and could break through at any moment!
Afterward, Ye Qiubai returned to his room, took the Mansion-Breaking Pill, and prepared to break through.
Lu Changsheng, meanwhile, went to the cliff.
He took out one material after another.
Seeing this, the Willow Tree nearby could not help asking, "Are you setting up the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Grand Array?"
Lu Changsheng nodded. "But I'm still missing one ingredient: water from the Yellow Springs River to serve as the array spirit."
"How is that difficult for you?"
The Willow Tree's branches swayed gently in the wind as he said in an ethereal voice, "You've already comprehended the Sword Dao Law. Why not just break open space and borrow some from the Nine Nether Underworld?"
Lu Changsheng had great faith in the Willow Tree's words.
After all, this Willow Tree had already existed when the universe formed.
When chaos first parted and the primordial world first appeared.
No one knew how long this Willow Tree had existed.
"But isn't using the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Grand Array to guard this place rather like using a great talent for a trivial task?
"You should know that the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Grand Array is one of the ten great killing arrays of High Antiquity. It can slaughter all things in heaven and earth."
Lu Changsheng said indifferently, "It's fine. I don't plan on going out to roam the world anyway.
"Besides, if that disciple of mine causes trouble someday and brings it to my doorstep, I can still use this array to hold them off if I can't beat them."
The Willow Tree: "..."
Is there anyone in this world who can beat you?
Immediately afterward, Lu Changsheng began setting up the array.
With a step, he flew into the air.
He flipped his palm, and array flags shot out one after another!
Countless strands of power of Dao Law covered each of these array flags!
There were nine times nine, eighty-one array flags in total, spread across different parts of the mountain peak!
At once, streams of power of Dao Law shot into the sky!
With a wave of his hand, Lu Changsheng directly sealed off the presence here.
At the same time, the various materials directly became the array's foundations!
This alone was enough for countless streams of death Qi to begin drifting about!
Even Ye Qiubai was startled into coming out of his thatched hut. He looked at Lu Changsheng in midair, his face filled with alarm!
"What array is Master setting up...? It hasn't even taken shape, yet it already has such heaven-destroying, earth-annihilating might!"
Ye Qiubai believed that even if those elders and the dean, Qin Tiannan, came here in person, they would be unable to withstand this power of destruction!
Now, only an array spirit was missing before the Nine Nether Yellow Springs Grand Array could be fully completed!
Lu Changsheng took out a sword and slashed at the empty space before him!
Instantly, an enormous rift was cleaved open in the void!
Wisps of nether death Qi continuously seeped out from within.
Then Lu Changsheng's figure flashed, and he swept straight into the rift.
The rift closed.
Seeing this, Ye Qiubai returned to his room.
After the second day.
An astonishing presence burst from the room!
The Purple Mansion Realm!
Then, leaving behind a letter, Ye Qiubai picked up his wooden sword and headed down the mountain.
Heavenly Origin City.
The Jiang Lineage.
An exceptionally beautiful woman wore an icy expression.
Beside her, a lavishly dressed man said, "Stop thinking about it. So what if he joined the Hidden Dao Academy and recovered his talent?
"Return to the Setting Sun Dynasty with me. When I ascend the throne one day, you will be the empress."
The woman was none other than Jiang Chan.
She nodded and walked forward.
The man smiled, took Jiang Chan's hand, and boarded the vessel behind them.
Then the enormous ship soared into the sky and left Heavenly Origin City...