The Surprise Lin Yutong Brought

Hearing Old Luo's words, Ye Chen's brow lifted at once. He stared meaningfully at Lin Yutong and chuckled. "Oh? A reward that will satisfy me?"

Seeing this, Old Luo shot Lin Yutong another meaningful look.

But when Lin Yutong saw this, her face turned slightly red. Her vermilion lips parted, yet she did not say anything.

"Ahem!" Old Luo could not help coughing twice.

The shyness on Lin Yutong's face deepened. In the end, she lightly bit her silver teeth, took out a white Storage Ring, and said, "If Song Gongzi is willing to help, then the things inside will serve for now as Yutong's thanks to you. I... I will be very grateful to you!"

When Lin Yutong said that last sentence, a trace of disappointment immediately appeared on Old Luo's face.

Clearly, what Lin Yutong had just said was not what he had wanted to hear.

But there was nothing to be done. Some things truly could not be said aloud with Lin Yutong's personality. In this, she was completely different from her Heroine of a mother.

Ye Chen watched the master and servant pair with amusement, then reached out and accepted the Storage Ring Lin Yutong handed over.

This was a low-level ownerless Storage Ring, so Ye Chen could very easily inspect the items stored inside...

"Oh, there's actually one Sixth Grade Pill and three Fifth Grade Pills. I didn't expect this Young Lady Lin to be so generous."

As for the rest, there was also a scroll of Earth Grade Low-Level Skill, a scroll of an Ice Attribute Profound Grade Advanced Cultivation Method, and some precious Medicinal Materials and rare objects.

All in all, the things inside this Storage Ring were probably worth no less than ten million Gold Coins. If this were placed somewhere like the Northwest Continent, it would be an enormous sum.

Unfortunately, this was the Pill Region!

Here, as long as something had even a little value, it was almost impossible to measure it in Gold Coins. Especially at auctions and Trade Fairs, most transactions required barter, or direct payment with pills.

With just one glance, Ye Chen lost interest in these things.

In his own Storage Ring right now, he even had several Seventh Grade Pills, and he was certainly not lacking Sixth Grade and Fifth Grade ones. As for that Earth Grade Low-Level Skill...

Heaven Splitting Finger, Earth Tier Beginner Level, claimed to be the strongest single-target attack skill of the same tier. Once mastered, its power could even rival an Earth Tier Mid-Level Skill.

Among all types of skills, finger techniques had always counted as one of the rarer categories. Though cultivating them was somewhat difficult, in battle against others, they could produce an unexpected effect.

Unfortunately, the current Ye Chen only had the cultivation of a Three-Star Dou Grandmaster, so he could not fully unleash the power of this skill at all. Besides, successfully cultivating an Earth Grade Skill was not such a simple matter, so for the time being, Ye Chen would not cultivate it either...

Though the items were barely satisfactory, Ye Chen had merely wanted an excuse, so he did not nitpick and directly prepared to put them away.

But just as he withdrew his Soul Power from the Storage Ring, a special energy suddenly flashed past and vanished. And in that instant, Ye Chen's Soul Power actually could not help trembling...

"This is...!"

Ye Chen's heart shook, and wild joy flashed through his eyes.

Though he had already done his utmost to suppress the excitement in his heart, that sudden light in his eyes still drew the attention of the three people beside him.

At this, Lin Yutong let out a faint breath of relief in her heart.

It seemed the other party was very satisfied with the gift she had prepared. That way, she would not have to do as Old Luo had instructed and personally step onto the stage...

Thinking of this, Lin Yutong's face reddened again, and she hurriedly drove those embarrassing thoughts away.

As for Old Luo, he frowned slightly.

He knew everything inside the Storage Ring. Though there was a Sixth Grade Pill and a scroll of Earth Grade Skill, given the other party's identity and background, these things should not be considered too precious.

Could it be that he had guessed wrong, and this kid did not have any particularly powerful background?

Since Ye Chen had accepted the gift, that meant he had agreed to Lin Yutong's invitation. So after returning, Lin Yutong directly arranged accommodations for the master and servant pair.

After attending the welcome banquet Young Lady Lin had specially prepared for him, Ye Chen hurried back to his residence, then impatiently took out the thing that had stirred his Soul Power during the day.

It was a piece of black stone that looked perfectly ordinary...

Based on some information Ye Chen had obtained from Lin Yutong at the banquet, this black stone was something called Meteorite Stone. It was formed from meteorites that had fallen from the sky, and because it possessed a special energy that could filter and purify Dou Qi, helping those below Dou Wang cultivate, it counted as a very fine rare stone.

This thing had been specially prepared by Lin Yutong for Ye Chen because she saw that his cultivation was still only at the Dou Grandmaster level.

Unfortunately, not every meteorite could produce this kind of Meteorite Stone, so Lin Yutong had only obtained this one by chance. If she wanted a second one, there was none to be had.

This made Ye Chen sigh endlessly in his heart.

"Meteorite Stone, huh? Those so-called special energies are Star Power. They're just right for me to absorb. This is far better than simply relying on absorbing the scattered Star Power between heaven and earth at night! What a pity there's only this one..."

Holding the egg-sized black Meteorite Stone in his hand, Ye Chen kept shaking his head in frustration.

But there was nothing he could do. The only method now was to mobilize the Ye Family's strength to search and see whether they could find more of this thing.

One Meteorite Stone had provided Ye Chen with a full ten points of Star Essence, enough to equal a hundred days of his usual bitter cultivation.

Helplessly, Ye Chen looked at his Star Essence, which had already changed to 47 points, and could only put this matter away in his heart and leave it for later.

Time returned to half a day before the Wind Cloud Arena had just ended.

In a lakeside pavilion in the rear courtyard of Clear Moon City's City Lord Manor.

The red gauze hanging around it concealed the entire pavilion. As a fresh breeze blew past, one could vaguely see, on a soft couch in the center, a graceful, undulating figure lying there at an angle.

She wore a red see-through gauze dress that could not hide the beauty within at all. Her long, smooth black hair hung down over her chest, blocking the most beautiful scenery.

Such a beauty was naturally Clear Moon City Lord, Lin Qingyue.

Though she already had seven children, this Clear Moon City Lord's appearance looked almost no different from that of her daughter Lin Yutong, as if she were a Girl.

"You're saying a mysterious Strong Person suddenly appeared in the Wind Cloud Arena today, and his strength had reached the level of a Half-Step Dou Zong?"

A soft, seductive voice drifted out, making the middle-aged man bowing outside the pavilion unable to help swallowing.

"Yes, City Lord! And the other party seems to be a Youth's attendant, so this subordinate suspects they have an extraordinary background. I'm afraid they may also come from some major power in the Pill Region..."

"Is that so..." The lilting voice tugged at the heart. Clear Moon City Lord pondered for a moment, then said, "Leave this matter alone for now. Go call the four of them over. Tell them I have something to announce!"

Swallowing again, the man cast a veiled glance inside the red gauze, then lowered his head and said, "Yes. This subordinate will go at once!"