When Yue Li and Zishu Qingyun were walking towards the imperial capital Jiuding City, each of them was followed by two elders, a dozen mystics, and a large number of people and carriages, which was a very spectacular sight.
Ye Xiangyang is leaving.
He smiled and said to Chunhong and Xiaocheng: "I am leaving home. Please take good care of the master and the mistress for me and worry more about the things at home."
Chunhong's eyes were a little red, and she tried hard to hold back her tears. The young master was leaving to go to the capital of the empire to take part in the Mid-Autumn Festival martial arts examination. As long as he could make it into the top three, the Ye family would regain the position of Marquis Zhenhai that had been lost for a hundred years.
When the young master was at home, he never scolded them, never acted like the young master, and always treated them as his own family. As long as they lived in our house, they were part of our family and we were all relatives.
Such words rang in Chunhong and the others' ears again and again.
The young master said this and did this.
How could Chunhong not feel grateful
"Master, you will definitely be victorious from the start and achieve immediate success, becoming the top scholar in the martial arts exam."
Ye Wentian smiled as he looked at his child. He couldn't be more satisfied with the child. The child exceeded his ideals in every aspect. "Child, a good man has ambitions. While you are young, go all out and work hard. Don't worry about home."
Tang Wan'er had a look of reluctance on her face, but she couldn't say it out loud. She could only smile slightly and stretched out her hand to pull the wrinkles on Ye Xiangyang's clothes to smooth them out: "Don't be too stubborn. Come home when you have time. Mother will pray to the Buddha and God for you every day."
Ye Xiangyang is leaving, which affects the hearts of countless people in the Ye family.
The head of the family, Ye Yongqing, the five elders, three group leaders, hundreds of mystics, and hundreds of the younger generation followed behind Ye Xiangyang to see him off.
Ye Yongqing said with emotion: "Child, the hope of our Ye family lies in you. Success, failure, honor and disgrace all rest on your shoulders. Whether you succeed or fail, you are the most outstanding descendant of our Ye family. Remember, your last name is Ye."
Ye Yongqing ordered: "Come here, bring the wine."
A servant brought over a red jade tray with a wine pot and three wine glasses on it.
Ye Yongqing picked up the wine pot, filled three glasses with wine, picked up a handful of soil from the ground, and slowly sprinkled it into the wine. Then, he picked up the wine glass and said, "My child, even if you go to the ends of the earth, your roots will always be in our Ye family. You will always be a member of our Ye family."
After drinking three cups of wine, Ye Xiangyang said goodbye to everyone in the family, mounted his unicorn, and headed towards the west gate with Yun Jianhan.
Glancing from afar, he saw that the thousands of people at the gate of the Ye family were looking in the direction he was going, and no one was going home. Ye Xiangyang suddenly felt warm in his heart.
The family originally planned to let the first elder and the fifth elder follow, but Ye Xiangyang disagreed. He thought that if they followed, it would not be considered as his own experience, and experience has always been one's own business.
The imperial examinations will only start on the 15th day of the eighth month during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now the first month has not come out yet, and they are protecting us. We can’t do this or that. What are we doing in these seven or eight months? It’s just suffocating people to death.
According to Ye Xiangyang's plan, he and Yun Jianhan took off their family clothes, disguised themselves as ordinary mercenaries, and went to Daxing Yunlin in the southern part of Daxing Prefecture to train for three to five months.
Daxing Yunlin is vast. It is said that no one knows how vast this forest is, and no one can fully explore the secrets of this forest. There are countless monsters living in it, and even powerful creatures at the Xuanzu level.
After training in Daxing Yunlin for a few months, his and Yun Jianhan's strength will increase again, and they will be able to compete with the younger generation of the nine states, four great families, and seven powerful families of the Jiuzhou Empire.
The Jiuzhou Empire has a population of hundreds of millions and is home to many talented people. For this imperial examination, the geniuses selected from all over the country gathered in the capital Jiuding City. According to their current cultivation, if they want to take the lead and win a good ranking, they will probably have to pay a huge price.
What's more, the four great families, the Yu family of Daxing Prefecture, the Fang family of Fengxiang Prefecture, the Wu family of Beilu Prefecture, and the Han family of Tianhe Prefecture, have stood in the Jiuzhou Empire for nearly a thousand years and have an unparalleled deep heritage. It is unknown how powerful their descendants can be.
The seven wealthy families of the Kyushu Empire are intertwined and, relying on their own economic strength and enormous influence, have created one miracle after another in more than two hundred years.
The younger generation gathers in the capital, and any negligence or pride will be the road to one's own death.
Once they arrived in the capital, it would be a waste of time to create trouble out of nothing, so Ye Xiangyang insisted on not having a protector, a horse was enough.
On the way, the two men changed into mercenary clothes. The clothes were a little cold, but fortunately they were handsome, dignified, and martial artists, so such clothes did not make them look shabby, but instead showed a special flavor.
We had to sleep in the open air and suffer from hunger and thirst along the way.
After ten days and two thousand miles of travel, we finally arrived at a small town on the edge of Daxing Yunlin.
The town is not big and is called Shagang.
As they walked into the city, they saw martial artists carrying weapons along the way, some in twos and threes, some in groups of ten or eight, and some in groups of varying numbers. These people were fierce, some fierce, some ugly, and some vicious, with different appearances.
Mercenaries have bad tempers and aggressive attitudes. They will fight each other if they disagree with something. They will duel in the streets, show off their weapons, and cause blood to splatter every five steps. There are many battles of life and death.
This is the world, this is the outside world, we must learn to not be surprised.
It is close to Daxing Yunlin, the only city within dozens of miles. Martial artists who come to this forest to hunt will stay here for a period of time.
Ye Xiangyang and Yun Jianhan went to a larger teahouse, stored the horses behind the teahouse, and went in to have tea. They did not go there to have tea, but to find out the news about Daxing Yunlin.
As expected, the teahouse was bustling with people:
"Brother, have you heard? Tomorrow is the time for the trials for the children under the age of sixteen from the Yu and Yuan families in Daxingzhou."
"Hehehe, I heard about it. Otherwise, why would I come here? The Yu family is one of the four major families in the empire, and the Yuan family is one of the seven major families in the empire. The collision between the younger generations of the two major forces is shocking."
"How do they conduct the trial?"
"Each family will select 30 people and send them to Daxing Yunlin to stay there for half a month. Whoever kills a valuable monster will be the winner."
"Oh, what are the rules?"
"Yes, as long as no one is killed and no one is intentionally disabled, they can do whatever they want when the two sides meet, as long as they don't steal or fight violently."
"The children of the big families all have their own training methods. I heard that many of them are at the level of Xuanshi at the age of sixteen. I don't know if it's true or not."
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At this moment, the sound of horse hooves was heard outside the door. A team of forty or fifty people came in, all wearing sky blue brocade robes, with the family emblem on the left chest, with the word "Yu" written on it.
Speak of the devil and he shall appear. As soon as I mentioned the competition between the Yu family and the Yuan family, the Yu family arrived at the door of the teahouse.
An old man with a white beard floated into the teahouse, clasped his fists and said to all the people drinking tea in the teahouse: "My fellow martial artists, this teahouse has been reserved by our Yu family. All the money you spend drinking tea here today will be charged to our Yu family. Please give me a favor."
The teahouse owner quickly said, "Gentlemen, gentlemen, this is the rule every year. When the trial comes, the Yu family will stay in our teahouse. I hope you will forgive me. Gentlemen, I will not charge you for today's consumption. Can you please make room for me?"
Many mystics left quietly.
The Yu family is one of the four major families in the Jiuzhou Empire. There is no false reputation behind their reputation. It is said that many young people under the age of sixteen have the cultivation level of Xuan Master, not to mention this old man, who is at least a high-level Xuan Master, or a Xuan General.
Some Xuanshi-level martial artists stared at the old man angrily and came out of the teahouse unwillingly. As the people in the teahouse gradually came out, only a greasy and dirty old man and Ye Xiangyang and the other three were left.
Ye Xiangyang and the other man originally wanted to leave, but they blocked the door and couldn't get out.
A group of heroic young men walked into the teahouse. The leader was a handsome man with a proud face. He frowned as he looked at the three people in the teahouse and said, "Uncle San, why are you so fussy when doing things?"
The old man with a white beard bowed respectfully to the young man and said, "Young Master, the door of the teahouse is narrow, so we have to leave one by one. Don't worry, I will clean it up for you."
After saying that, he turned around and said to Ye Xiangyang and the other three, "Three of you, please give me some face. If you need anything, I will definitely lend a hand."
A mysterious force pressed towards the three people.
The green mysterious power, like a mountain or an ocean, surged endlessly, bringing with it a power that could collapse mountains, crack the earth, and shatter spirits, as it pressed down directly.
Ye Xiangyang felt that the aura that this old man casually emitted had a force of more than a thousand pounds. It seemed that the force he used did not exceed one-third of his strength.
This man is definitely an old man at the level of a general. His status in the Yu family must not be very high, otherwise he would not be so respectful to the young man in the lead. From this, we can infer how powerful the Yu family is.
The greasy and dirty old man who was drinking tea smiled faintly: "The Yu family's Qingyuan Finger, a high-level Xuan-level martial arts technique, is indeed extraordinary, but it is probably not appropriate to use it to bully an old man like me."
His body flashed, and a golden mysterious force counterattacked towards the old man of Yu family. The old man didn't even have time to react, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"Bo Ruo Jin Guang Fist," the old man from the Yu family's voice was trembling. He quickly withdrew all his breath, and his face became more respectful.
The dirty old man, covered in grease and eating a chicken leg, smiled and said, "Yu Qinghe, since you are here, why don't you meet me?"
From behind the Yu family's team, an old man with a dignified demeanor came over. He was dressed in gorgeous clothes and had the Yu family's logo on his left chest.
"Master Boluo, it might be inappropriate to hurt someone when meeting them, right?" Yu Qinghe had no aura at all. Ye Xiangyang felt that this old man was even more oppressive than the old man from the Yu family who had just reached the level of a Xuan General.
"Haha, Yu Qinghe, today I, an old man, will tell you again that the conditions proposed by the prince last time were very sincere. I wonder how your Yu family thinks about it." He took a bite of the chicken leg in his hand. "If there is no satisfactory response within ten days, the prince will no longer think about your Yu family."