"Xiao'er... are you just going to let him go like that?"
Outside the ancestral hall, Ye Zhantian watched the figure gradually disappear into the mountain forest, a trace of lingering concern in the depths of his eyes.
Although Ye Xiao had excavated Ye Fan's Supreme Bone, Ye Zhantian still felt they should cut weeds and eliminate roots by killing Ye Fan outright.
"Grandfather, I have my own arrangements for this matter, so please don't interfere. By the way, lend me the key to the Ye Family treasury."
Ye Xiao smiled brightly and held out his hand to Ye Zhantian.
As the saying goes, when you are at home you rely on your parents, and when you go out... naturally you rely on your parents' wealth.
Since Ye Xiao had now bound the Myriadfold Return System, he naturally needed to carry more spiritual treasures and fortuitous encounters on his person to prepare for any emergencies.
"Very well."
Ye Zhantian sighed softly. Although he did not understand what Ye Xiao was doing, he gave his absolute support to any decision Ye Xiao made.
If Ye Fan really dared to take revenge on Ye Xiao, Ye Zhantian would smash him to death with his own hands.
*Tsk, you beat the junior and out comes the senior. This is starting to feel right...*
Time passed!
When Ye Xiao returned to his bedchamber and looked at the Qiankun Ring in his hand filled with divine treasures and spiritual materials, a contemplative look instantly flashed through his eyes.
Less than a month remained before the Divine Child War.
And during this single month, he could fleece Gu Mingyue a total of four times.
As a villain, Ye Xiao was acutely aware of the mortal danger he would face.
Therefore, he planned to extract some life-saving trump cards from Gu Mingyue.
Before that, Ye Xiao still had seven days he could use for cultivation, which was just enough time to fuse with that Innate Dao Bone.
"System, fuse the Innate Dao Bone."
With a stern shout from him, the aura of the Great Dao surged powerfully around his entire body.
At this moment, he had no intention of concealing this Innate Dao Bone whatsoever, letting the innate Daoist rhymes rise into the air and gradually envelop the entire Ye Family.
"Rumble."
A deafening thunderclap suddenly resounded across the entire heaven and earth.
Clouds boiled and mists glowed, and the Great Dao chimed in unison.
The illusory figures of ancient Great Emperors and True Immortals suddenly appeared above the Ye Family's ancestral land, their entire bodies covered in runic patterns, towering as high as ten thousand zhang.
Under the dumbfounded gazes of all the experts of the Ye Family, those emperor shadows and immortal shadows actually knelt down toward the Ye Family in unison.
Great Emperors bowed their heads, and immortals chanted scriptures.
This scene instantly startled the entire Three Thousand Dao Prefectures.
Countless ancient figures stepped out from the earth and imperial tombs, raising their heads to look in the direction of the Central Holy Prefecture.
Such astonishing portents were something even these immortal sects' Immortal Masters and undying great teaching's Saint Lords had only seen once in their lives, leaving their hearts filled with curiosity and dread.
Tianxuan Dao Prefecture, Gu Mingyue stood before the imperial palace clad in a brilliant red phoenix robe, her gaze indifferent as she looked toward the direction of the Holy Prefecture.
Calculating the time, in her past life it was right before the Divine Child War that Ye Xiao had excavated a clan younger brother's Supreme Bone, allowing him to display might that shook the world during the war and successfully seize the position of Divine Child.
Not only that, but the very first thing he did upon becoming Divine Child was to cripple all the Ye Family successors, causing the nine branches of the Ye Family to completely crumble and fall apart, putting up a front of harmony while harboring totally different views.
"Ye Xiao, it seems you haven't changed at all."
Gu Mingyue lowered her head to look at the eighth-grade fortune pill in her hand, the chill in her eyes intensifying.
Yet the moment she turned around, her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.
Standing before her was a petite yet extremely voluptuous young woman in green clothes, looking at her with a half-smile.
"Is Mingyue troubled by something? Could it be because of that Ye Xiao? I've heard that this Longevity Young Master is quite a flirtatious playboy, so Mingyue mustn't let him deceive you."
"Oh."
Gu Mingyue walked straight down the city wall and headed toward the imperial palace.
"Hmph, it seems I must find an opportunity to test this Ye Xiao and let Mingyue see his true colors."
The green-robed girl pondered for a moment, a trace of mischievous cunning suddenly flashing through her cyan pupils.
Dafan Buddha Prefecture, the summit temple.
An aged monk with snow-white eyebrows that swept down to the ground suddenly put down the wooden fish in his hand and looked up at his disciple before him.
"Amitabha, Liansheng, your heart is in turmoil."
"Master..."
The female monk named Liansheng flushed slightly, her snow-white kasaya glowing with a pure Buddhist light right down to her tender pink little shaved head, which was suffused with a faint blush.
"Enough. Whether it is a calamity or fate, it depends on your own fortune. You should descend the mountain now."
Huangtian Ancient Prefecture, a tall woman wearing a golden phoenix robe stood with her hands behind her back atop a mountain peak.
Her facial features were peerlessly beautiful, and her temperament was dignified and poised—a ripened, seductive charm that penetrated straight into the marrow of her bones.
"So the ancestor's prophecy was true..."
Following her soft murmur, nine white tails seemed to gently sway behind her, exuding a natural, seductive allure.
Central Holy Prefecture, an old blind man wearing coarse clothing and holding a bamboo stick walked out onto the street and suddenly furrowed his brow.
"The Immortal Remains have descended, and calamity has begun. This must be the first of the Ten Taboos, the White-Clothed Calamity of the World. The age of great contention starts from this..."
He shook his head, walking unsteadily and muttering some strange things as he headed in the direction where the Immortal Remains had appeared.
...
Meanwhile, the entire Ye Family had already plunged into a boiling uproar.
The elders of the nine branches stepped out of their great halls one after another, gathering before the ancestral hall.
Even with their cultivation strength, under the concealment of such dense innate Daoist energy, they had failed to truly trace its source.
At this moment, the entire Ye Family ancestral land resembled a primal land of chaos, with heavenly secrets evolving and immortal contracts present everywhere.
"Who is it?!"
"They aren't in the ancestral hall—could it be an awakening of their own bloodline?"
Only Ye Zhantian wore a calm expression, though he harbored a trace of inner bewilderment.
The momentum of such a portent was far too much more powerful than the Supreme Bone.
Even he could not determine at this moment whether this portent had been triggered by Ye Xiao or not.
"Hum."
At that very moment, a deafening hum suddenly echoed from within the Ye Family ancestral land.
An aged figure stepped forward, his body emaciated like a ghost or fiend.
Yet with a single step he took, astonishing blood qi suddenly surged around his body.
And his withered, shriveled body actually gradually expanded, transforming into a giant ten feet tall who descended from the heavens.
"Rumble."
An indescribable sage's intent suppressed downward with a crash, directly flattening the elders of the nine branches onto the ground.
Even within Ye Zhantian's aged pupils, a dense flash of wariness flickered.
A Saint Realm expert!!
He had not expected that this portent from the Ye Family would actually awaken a slumbering Saint Realm ancestor.
"Ye Zhantian, Patriarch of the Ye Family, pays respects to Patriarch Futian."
As Ye Zhantian bowed deeply, a dense wave of shock instantly flashed through the eyes of the nine branch elders.
The ninth ancestor of the Ye Family, Ye Futian—the primeval Dominant Body!!
It was said that back in the day, this Dominant Body ancestor had relied on his physical combat strength to beat true dragons to death, stubbornly withstand Supremes, and shatter an ancient world.
"My Ye Family actually produced a true dragon in this generation? I just don't know who this Qilin Divine Child actually is..."
Ye Futian sighed with emotion, blood qi surging from his mountain-like, muscular body and resounding in unison with heaven and earth.
"Hehehe..."
Beside him, Ye Chongyang, an elder from the Dominant Body branch, let out a chuckle.
With the Divine Child War imminent, the Saint Realm ancestor of the Dominant Body branch had actually emerged from seclusion.
Because of this, the winning odds for their branch were undoubtedly much greater.
"Hmm? You know who brought down this portent?"
Ye Futian frowned slightly as he looked at the foolishly grinning Ye Chongyang beside him and asked in a deep voice.
"Reporting to the Ancestor, I do not."
"Slap."
Following the sound of a crisp slap, Ye Futian directly waved his hand and struck Ye Chongyang across the face, sending him flying away on the spot.
"If you don't know, what the hell are you grinning for?"
For a full seven days, the immortal shadows and emperor shadows in the sky above the Ye Family gradually receded.
At this moment, Ye Xiao's eyes suddenly snapped open. He lowered his head to look at the Innate Dao Bone emitting seven-colored divine light on his chest, a faint smile playing at the corners of his mouth.
At this moment, he could sense that an indescribably terrifying power was evolving within this Great Dao bone.
If his guess was correct, this should be the innate divine ability of the Innate Dao Bone—the true taboo power!!
[Ding, warm prompt: The seven days have passed, and Gu Mingyue's return reward count has been refreshed.]
"Oh?"
Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow slightly, looking at a dazzling, golden-golden precious armor in his hand, a brilliant smile instantly blooming on his face.
As a villain, naturally your own dog's life is what matters most.