The next day, early in the morning.
In the Wuding Tower, the ancestral hall of the Ye family, all the members of the Ye family in Yecheng entered the tower room on the first floor of the Wuding Tower one after another.
Wuding Tower is divided into four floors from bottom to top, and the first floor is a bright and spacious lobby.
The lobby can accommodate thousands of people at the same time. On the left side of the pavilion connecting to the second floor are the tablets of the ancestors of the Ye family. The incense offered there has never been a break, regardless of whether it is spring, autumn, winter or summer.
Just like before at the martial arts hall, the other four branches of the Ye family have already reached the first floor of the Wuding Tower.
"Second brother! I heard that Ye Long defeated Chen Xiong, the head of the Chen family?"
The speaker was Ye Ran, the third son of the Ye family. After he finished speaking, he looked blankly at his second brother Ye Hu and the other two brothers.
"Fourth brother! Have you ever seen Ye Feng defeat Chen Xiong personally?" Ye Chong's face was full of arrogance, and he continued, "Even if Chen Xiong was really defeated by that brat Ye Long, I dare to bet with you that Ye Feng must have used some tricks. Maybe Ye Long created this opportunity for Ye Feng for the election of the Patriarch!"
"Third brother, are you saying that Ye Long secretly defeated Chen Xiong, and then created the scene to pretend that he was defeated by Ye Feng?" Ye Ran suddenly seemed to know something, and spoke excitedly!
The third brother Ye Chong nodded, showing a disdainful smile, and looked at the second brother Ye Hu confidently, saying: "If you don't believe it, you can ask the second brother!"
Ye Hu listened to his three brothers discussing Ye Feng. When he heard what Ye Chong said, he nodded to them and said solemnly, "Fourth brother, fifth brother, and third brother are right. You are all experts in martial arts. Even though Ye Feng has undergone some surprising changes recently, who is Chen Xiong of the Chen family? He is the head of a great family. His martial arts skills are comparable to ours. Even if Ye Feng is more capable, he can't break through the third level of martial arts and defeat Chen Xiong in just one month!"
Whether it was Ye Ran or Ye Chong, they all believed in the words of their second brother Ye Hu.
Because among them, only Ye Hu and Ye Long can compete with them in martial arts, so this time they join forces to overthrow Ye Long in order to allow Ye Hu to sit on the throne of the head of the Ye family.
The reason why they resented Ye Long was that since Ye Long became the head of the family, he had cut off some of their ways of making money through stealing and swindling.
He also burned their goods in front of the people of Yecheng.
Those goods are a kind of chronic poison. Once people get addicted, it's like being stuck in a quagmire and unable to extricate themselves. Even if they spend all their money, they will still buy them to satisfy their addiction.
Ye Long was a righteous man and would not tolerate them harming others for their own selfish reasons, so he blocked their source of goods and burned their goods.
They were brothers with the same blood, but they became strangers and enemies because of money.
"Hmph! Since the eldest brother thinks so, it must be correct. You will all depend on me, Ye Ming, later!" Ye Ming, the fifth brother of the Ye family, who had been silent all this time, would have kept silent if he had not spoken. Once he spoke, the other brothers looked at him with admiration.
Just as Ye Ming finished speaking, Ye Hu frowned and said to them softly, "Stop talking, the elders are here!"
After saying that, Ye Hu led them out of the Wuding Tower to greet the elders together.
When they walked out of the Wuding Tower, they did not see the elders of the Council of Elders, but instead ran into Ye Longsan and his sons, as well as several guards, who were walking out of the Wuding Tower.
Just when Ye Long and his companions walked outside the Wuding Tower, Ye Long asked Ye Feng, Ye Tian and others to stop outside the tower as well.
Ye Tian and everyone else didn't know why his father asked everyone to stop suddenly. Only Ye Feng knew that the reason his father asked them to stay outside the Wuding Tower was to welcome the people from the Elders' Council.
"Second brother! The people from the Council of Elders didn't come, but a group of rabble came instead!" Ye Ran looked at Ye Long and others with disdain on his face and spoke in a contemptuous manner.
Hearing Ye Ran say that they were here to welcome the elders, Ye Long was shocked: "Thousand Miles Away, could it be that Ye Hu has also reached the level of Thousand Miles Away!"
"Hearing the sound from a thousand miles away!" is the Ye family's unique internal martial arts technique. Those who have mastered the skill must reach the ninth level of martial arts. Once they have mastered the skill, they can hear sounds from a thousand miles away with their naked ears.
Just now, I knew that the elders were about to arrive because of "Thousand Miles of Sound", so I asked everyone to stop and wait to welcome them.
Who would have thought that after such a short time, Ye Hu had reached the level of "sounding sound from a thousand miles away".
Ye Hu looked at Ye Long with a proud look on his face, and suddenly said: "The elder is here, everyone welcome the elder!"
After saying this, Ye Hu was the first to bend down, and said respectfully with everyone behind him: "The younger generation of the Ye family respectfully welcomes the elder!"
Just as Ye Hu bent down, a dazzling golden light first appeared in the cloudless sky, and then a group of auspicious clouds flew from the sky.
A majestic old man with a ruddy face, white hair and a youthful appearance, descended from the sky on a auspicious cloud and appeared in front of them.
The old man had just landed on a cloud and said excitedly, "Who just said welcome, this is a realm that can be heard thousands of miles away!"
The old man was none other than Elder Jin who had appeared in the Ye family last time. He stood beside Ye Long, looking expectantly at the heads of the other branches of the Ye family except Ye Long.
Elder Jin looked at Ye Hu and his party with expectation, and suddenly said with satisfaction: "Qi follows the heart, the heart follows the qi, the heart and qi are united, the inner family has reached the realm of cultivation! My Ye family is really full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers!"
The reason why Elder Jin felt so gratified was that when he came in front of them, he felt that in the direction of Ye Hu and his group, there was an aura of great inner cultivation in the air.
He didn't pay attention to Ye Feng and others who were also in that direction. His attention was all on Ye Hu.
"In reply to Elder Jin! Just now, my second brother brought us to the outside of the tower to greet you, Elder Jin!" Ye Ran looked at the joy on Elder Jin's face and spoke excitedly.
"It's really Ye Hu! Yes, you can hear this elder coming from a thousand miles away with your naked ears. This is the realm of the great inner family who has practiced to the level of hearing a thousand miles away! The Qi follows the heart, and the heart and Qi are one. Very good!" Elder Jin praised Ye Hu highly. After saying three good words in a row, he began to step into the Wuding Tower.
Seeing Elder Jin praising Ye Hu highly, Ye Hu followed Elder Jin into the Wuding Tower with joy on his face.
Ye Ran, Ye Chong and Ye Ming were even more excited. They walked into the Wuding Tower with their heads held high in front of Ye Long and others.
"Oh! How can you, Ye Feng, be so ignorant of the respect for elders and juniors? Why did you bump into me? I am your fifth uncle!" Ye Ming deliberately bumped into Ye Feng when he walked into the Wuding Tower while there were many people around.
After he bumped into Ye Feng, he scolded him loudly in front of Elder Jin with a righteous indignation.
Ye Ming deliberately wanted to destroy Ye Feng's image in front of Elder Jin, with the ultimate goal of ruining his performance in this election for the head of the family.
Ye Feng could not stand Ye Ming's slander, and said confidently: "Humph! You know who bumped into whom just now. Where is my fifth uncle? Let me tell you, I, Ye Feng, don't have an uncle as shameless as you!"
In front of everyone, Ye Ming heard Ye Feng humiliating him like this, his face changed immediately, and he said fiercely: "Ye Feng, I know that you are arrogant because of your martial arts skills, so you dare to disrespect your uncle and openly confront him, but today you don't even see that Elder Jin is here, you ignore the hierarchy of the Ye family like this, do you still have Elder Jin in your eyes?"
Hearing Ye Ming's vivid and confident words, Ye Feng stared at him with cold eyes and said, "Ye Ming, don't go too far! Otherwise..."
Seeing Ye Feng's angry face, Ye Ming pretended to be wronged and said, "Elder Jin, you saw and heard it all! Ye Feng actually relied on his martial arts to scold even his uncle! Elder Jin, please help Ye Ming!"
Ye Hu, who was standing aside, looked at Ye Ming with a deliberately unhappy expression, and said in a pretentious manner: "Ye Ming, do you still need to trouble Elder Jin for such a small matter? Ye Feng, a junior, dares to do this to you. As his uncle, you have the right to teach him how to behave!"
After Ye Hu finished speaking, he respectfully said to Elder Jin in the hall: "Elder Jin, please decide whether what this junior said is correct!"
Elder Jin glanced at Ye Feng and fell silent.
From Elder Jin’s expression, Ye Hu knew that his silence meant tacit consent.
Facing Ye Ming and Ye Hu's words and actions, Ye Long hurriedly said: "Elder Jin, Elder Jin..."
"Ye Long! Stop talking..." Elder Jin rejected Ye Long mercilessly.
Ye Long looked at Elder Jin's cold and ruthless face, frowning and worried about Ye Feng's situation.
Ye Ming, who had just been pretending to be serious, found out that Elder Jin tacitly allowed him to teach Ye Feng a lesson.
His expression suddenly changed, his face was full of anger, he looked at Ye Feng with disdain, and said: "Ye Feng, since you are the one trained by Elder Jin, let the younger generation teach you how to behave. Today, I, Ye Ming, will teach you how to behave!"
Faced with these sudden changes in the lobby, Ye Feng sighed in his heart.
He was not sighing because he was afraid of Ye Ming, he was sighing because this family seemed so glorious on the surface, but was actually as evil as the devil on the inside.
Confusing right and wrong!
At the same time, after knowing that Elder Jin tacitly agreed that Ye Ming could teach Ye Feng a lesson.
Ye Hu, Ye Ran, Ye Chong and others looked at Ye Long and Ye Feng with smugness and arrogance on their faces.
"Ye Feng is really a fool who doesn't know how to live or die. He dares to compete with my fifth brother! He doesn't even know when he will die!"
"We have been frustrated for so long, now we can finally hold our heads high. Without Ye Feng, what else can Ye Long use to compete with us for the position of successor to the family head!"
In the minds of Ye Hu and others, even if Ye Feng defeated Chen Xiong, he would never defeat Ye Ming.
Although Ye Ming is the fifth oldest among the brothers in the family, his martial arts skills are comparable to those of his other brothers except Ye Long and Ye Hu.
Moreover, before Chen Xiong was defeated by Ye Feng, Chen Xiong had suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Ye Ming.
Therefore, in their hearts, they all believed without a doubt that Ye Feng would definitely be defeated by Ye Ming.