Supreme Simplicity Sect, Xu Yan!

"Master."

Ye Chen and Yang Yang came before Lin Ye and cupped their fists respectfully.

"Ye Chen, Yang Yang, you've both broken through to the Body Forging Realm. It's time you went down the mountain to gain experience," Lin Ye said.

Go down the mountain to gain experience.

Both were startled, though not overly surprised. Sect disciples going out to gain experience was an established rule, and it also offered chances to obtain fortuitous opportunities. Naturally, they were interested too.

"Yes!" they both answered.

"You'll have tasks to carry out on this trip." Lin Ye immediately assigned them their tasks. "First, spread word of the Black-Yellow Sect's mighty name, so more people know of us. Also, punish the wicked and protect the innocent. Even if sect disciples are committing evil, you must kill them. Of course, when you kill someone, don't mention the Black-Yellow Sect's name..."

"Master, we understand," the two said.

"Good, as long as you understand. Take these."

Lin Ye took out two Body Forging Realm puppets and some Spirit Stones. "These Body Forging Realm puppets are just right for you now. Once you're stronger, they'll be useless. If you really run into danger, use them to hold your opponents off while you escape."

Body Forging Realm puppets!

Both gazed at them eagerly. These were treasures they had always wanted, but they were too expensive. They hadn't expected their master to give them two Body Forging Realm puppets for their journey.

"Thank you, Master." The two thanked him and took the Body Forging Realm puppets.

Afterward, Ye Chen and Yang Yang left the sect.

At the foot of the mountain.

Ye Chen asked Yang Yang, "Fourth Junior Brother, where are you planning to go?"

Yang Yang spread his hands. "I'll just wander around. I was an orphan to begin with, and my only family is Xiao Ya. She's doing well in the sect now, so I don't need to worry about her. I'm planning to travel around, cultivate, and see if there are any other fortuitous opportunities. What about you, Eldest Senior Brother?"

"I'm planning to go home first, then decide what to do."

"All right. Let's part ways here, then!"

The two fellow disciples, Ye Chen and Yang Yang, parted at the foot of the mountain.

After parting with his fourth junior brother, Ye Chen returned to Black Spirit Town. The residence that had belonged to the Ye Household now belonged to someone else, so he wandered around for only a short while before leaving.

"Father said the Ye Household's new home was somewhere around Binyang Mountain."

Back then, the Ye Household hadn't made firm plans and had only settled on living somewhere in that area, so they couldn't give him an exact address.

He immediately headed for the Binyang Mountain area. It wasn't too far from here, but it wasn't close either, being about six hundred li away. After all, if they had settled too close, Xu Yan could easily have found them if she came back searching for their whereabouts.

"Xu Yan!!!!"

The very thought of that name filled Ye Chen with rage. He wanted nothing more than to kill that vicious woman, and Xu Yan's master was definitely no good either. On the strength of a single word from a new disciple, she had crippled him. Could someone like that be a good person?

He didn't know who she was or which sect she belonged to, but as long as Xu Yan became famous in the future, he would surely be able to find out.

"I'll go to Binyang Mountain first."

Ye Chen set off.

Chu Kingdom.

The Supreme Simplicity Sect, one of the three great four-star sects.

It was a women's sect, though not everyone in it was female. The sect also had a large number of male servants. These servants counted as menial disciples and waited on the female disciples, doing all the dirty and exhausting work, while the female disciples' task was to cultivate and improve their strength.

The Supreme Simplicity Sect had six peaks. Within Supreme Yin Peak.

Xu Yan was cultivating, swallowing pill after pill as her body underwent tremendous tempering. She had already reached the Body Refining Ninth Layer and was only one step away from breaking through to the Body Forging Realm.

Boom!!!!

Xu Yan's body completed its transformation, her flesh gaining tremendous strength as a tremendously powerful presence radiated from her.

"I've finally broken through to the Body Forging Realm. I reached it in just a few short months. Back then, even the strongest person in the Ye Household was only at the Body Refining Realm. In my eyes, they were no more than ants."

But the thought that she had once been a maidservant in a Lineage of such ants was undoubtedly a disgrace. Her goal was to become the Supreme Simplicity Sect's saintess. If others learned of such a blemish, she would have no hope of becoming saintess at all.

Just then, a figure appeared beside Xu Yan and nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad. You broke through to the Body Forging Realm so quickly. Your aptitude is excellent, as expected of someone with a Mystic Asura Physique. Unfortunately, I couldn't secure the Supreme Yin Body Refining Technique for you. If I had been able to obtain a low-grade earth-level Cultivation Method like that, your strength now would far surpass what it is."

This was Xu Yan's master, Li Xuansu, an elder of the Supreme Simplicity Sect's Supreme Yin Peak at the Innate Seventh Layer.

"Master, I'm already very satisfied to be able to cultivate the high-grade mystic-level Mystic Yin Body Refining Technique," Xu Yan said, lowering her head.

Satisfied?

How could she possibly be satisfied? She wanted to cultivate the Supreme Yin Body Refining Technique too, but she couldn't obtain it, and there was nothing she could do.

The Supreme Yin Body Refining Technique was a low-grade earth-level Body Refining Cultivation Method that could only be cultivated by someone with a special physique. Her Mystic Asura Physique barely qualified her to cultivate it, but it wasn't the Supreme Yin Physique best suited to the technique. If she had a Supreme Yin Physique, she could cultivate the Supreme Yin Body Refining Technique outright and be raised as a saintess.

In short, her aptitude was still a little lacking.

"Master, I would like to go down the mountain to gain some experience," Xu Yan requested.

She had already broken through to the Body Forging Realm. Such strength was nothing in the Supreme Simplicity Sect, but in Black Spirit Town, she would undoubtedly be all but invincible. She wanted to eliminate the Ye Household.

"That's fine. Your cultivation at the First Layer of the Body Forging Realm isn't high, but as long as you don't provoke disciples of major sects and take care, you should be fine. If you run into trouble, simply give them the Supreme Simplicity Sect's name. Here in the Chu Kingdom, the Supreme Simplicity Sect is one of the three great four-star sects. No one has dared offend us."

"Yes, Master."

Xu Yan was thrilled and wanted nothing more than to descend the mountain immediately.

Afterward, Xu Yan packed her things, and her master gave her some life-saving treasures before letting her leave.

The Binyang Mountain area.

After arriving, Ye Chen asked around, inquiring about things like where a new Lineage had appeared. After some inquiries, he quickly pinpointed the Ye Household's location.

On the shore of Liuyang Lake.

Ye Chen arrived to find a Ye Household estate there. They had only come here recently, buying some farmland, establishing an estate, hiring servants, and running some businesses.

He came to the Ye Household estate and soon spotted several familiar faces.

"Cousin Ye Quan, Steward Liu."

Ye Chen walked over and called out to them.

By now, Ye Chen's bearing and physique were very different from before, but his face was still recognizable. Only when he drew closer did Ye Quan and Steward Liu confirm his identity.

"Cousin Ye Chen."

"Young Master Ye Chen."

The two excitedly came over to greet him.

"Come on, let's go home." The two led Ye Chen back to the estate.