Yang Fire Ancient Altar

The four-year-old girl did not have the mischievous troublemaking of a brat. She was at the age when she was most irresistibly endearing; holding her was like holding a little kitten, making one's affection overflow despite oneself.

Of course, in a world like Dou Qi Continent, dominated by battle and strength, even a tiny four-year-old had already reached the age when she should begin coming into contact with cultivation.

Besides, she had a genius older brother who could read and write at half a year old, and by two could recite the family's Medicinal Scripture backward from memory!

Unfortunately, when little Xinlan was born, there had been no special phenomena like stars shining brilliantly or the sun and moon losing their light. After her birth, she had behaved just like an ordinary child, unremarkable and without any distinguishing traits...

That had left Ye Lan, who had been full of anticipation, just a tiny bit disappointed.

But if he knew that this daughter of his truly would have a "perfectly ordinary" talent in the future, then that originally tiny disappointment would probably expand without limit.

At this thought, Ye Chen could not help frowning slightly.

His own appearance might have given the Ye Family of this world an infinite possibility of rising again, but for Ye Xinlan's growth, it was not necessarily a good thing...

After all, whether in any film, television drama, or novel, they all told us one truth: living for a long time under the dazzling halo of a loved one could very likely nurture a twisted heart.

Ye Chen did not want his Younger Sister to become a psychologically twisted great villain in the future...

As he pondered to himself, Ye Chen could not help thinking, Looks like I'll have to find an opportunity to improve the little girl's talent...

Of course, this improvement could not be as simple as merely strengthening her body and speeding up her cultivation. It had to be from the inside out, giving the little girl a true chance to become a Strong Person!

There was also the matter of sending this girl outside once she grew a little older. It would save her from staying in the family all the time and constantly having to face the odd looks, intentional or not, from the Clan Members.

"Jia Nan Academy is pretty good. When this girl breaks through to Dou Zhe, I'll send her there. Once she becomes a Dou Wang, she can come back. With that kind of strength, she'll at least look decent in the family..."

Thinking of Ye Xinlan's schooling experience at Jia Nan Academy in the Original Work, Ye Chen felt that this was indeed a pretty good idea.

Moreover, by that time, perhaps he would also be able to find a method to thoroughly transform her. It would kill two birds with one stone.

At this thought, Ye Chen could not help nodding to himself, feeling that his arrangement was simply too perfect!

Little did he know that his abnormal appearance—frowning in worry one moment and looking gratified the next—had directly left Song Chun'er and her daughter in the Outside World utterly confused.

In the end, Song Chun'er, as his Mother, could not hold back. She slapped Ye Chen right on the forehead and said reproachfully, "You little thing, why are you falling back into your old habit again?"

Since childhood, Ye Chen had easily fallen into this kind of self-absorbed imagining, so Song Chun'er did not find it strange. All it took was one slap from her, and she guaranteed he would immediately wake up!

Sure enough, Ye Chen, who had been slapped awake by his own Mother, could not help twitching the corners of his mouth...

"Still not cute at all..."

As for his Mother's habit of resorting to her hands at the drop of a hat, Ye Chen also had an endless headache over it.

However, he could not tell his Mother about the things he had just been thinking, so Ye Chen directly changed the subject and began chatting with his Mother about all kinds of interesting things from all over.

After ending the loving mother-son interaction with his Mother, Ye Chen went straight to the location of the Ye Family's Yang Fire Ancient Altar, to meet the true person in charge of the Ye Family—his Grandpa, Ye Zhong...

Ye Chen's identity determined that he could not leave the family and Ye City at will like the other Clan Members. So if he wanted to go out and travel, he absolutely had to obtain his Grandpa Ye Zhong's agreement.

The Yang Fire Ancient Altar was located deep within the Ye Family. After walking out from the Family Head's courtyard, about ten minutes later, an extremely remote gravel plaza appeared before him.

At the center of that plaza stood an altar that looked somewhat ancient. The huge stones used to build the Altar were covered in the marks of time. Clearly, this Altar had existed for quite a long time.

Walking closer to the Altar, one could discover that the light here was especially bright. And the closer one drew to the Altar, the hotter and purer the energy between Heaven and Earth became. Beams of light that seemed almost tangible poured down from the sky, and after being reflected by the smooth stone walls, all gathered upon a pitch-black stone stele at the center of the Altar.

Ye Chen had seen such a scene many times already, so he was not surprised.

Moreover, after continuous modifications over the past few years, there were now some specially made medicine-refining platforms around the Ancient Altar, all connected to the center of the Ancient Altar.

Unfortunately, if the Yang Fire had not died out, the Ye Family's Clan Members could use these medicine-refining platforms to refine medicine with the Yang Fire...

But now that the earth fire did not emerge and the Yang Fire had gone out, that scene of dozens of people gathered around the Ancient Altar refining medicine would probably not appear for the next few years.

After passing through those medicine-refining platforms and the surrounding stone walls specially used for isolation, the environment of the entire Yang Fire Ancient Altar seemed even more secluded and quiet.

At this moment, in front of the pitch-black stone stele at the center of the Ancient Altar, a thin figure was sitting cross-legged, one hand still placed upon the stone stele.

"Grandpa..." After walking closer, Ye Chen could not help speaking first, startling awake the old man sitting cross-legged.

Ye Zhong looked as if he had only just noticed Ye Chen's arrival, and said with a look of realization, "Oh, it's Chen'er."

Looking at that withered, thin face that had aged countless times more compared to five years ago, Ye Chen felt as if his entire heart had been fiercely stabbed...

These past few years, the pressure the entire family had placed on the old man before him had truly been too great!

Clenching his fists, Ye Chen became even more resolute in his heart.

"Grandpa, have you discovered anything unusual?"

Ye Zhong shook his head slightly...

His palm exerted a little force, and the stone stele slowly shifted aside. A pitch-black hole roughly the size of a head appeared before the two of them. It was precisely the Earth Eye within this Yang Fire Ancient Altar.

As the stone stele was pushed aside, it was as though something had been activated. The stone walls around the Altar immediately began to move slowly, then formed a circular stone wall that surrounded the Altar and the grandfather and grandson within so tightly that not even water could pass through. From the outside, all that could be seen was a towering, ancient stone wall.

And as this circular stone wall took shape, the surface of the stone wall also seemed to gradually become smooth. More and more beams of light were reflected back by the mirror-smooth stone wall, finally converging at the Earth Eye. The blazing white light was extremely dazzling.

Unfortunately, at this moment, no flame appeared at the Earth Eye, so there was also no fuse capable of igniting the Yang Fire...

"Sigh... the flame within the Earth Eye is always there and not there, and the longer time passes, the weaker the flame becomes. In the future, it may even disappear completely!"

At this point, the furrows around Ye Zhong's forehead deepened.

"If we still can't find a solution, then my Ye Family's Yang Fire Ancient Altar may truly become useless!"