"Now it's my turn!"
Ye Tianxuan flashed a toothy grin, a fierce aura surging around him.
In his past life as a supreme celestial emperor, when had Ye Tianxuan ever been bullied like this?
Even reborn in someone else's body with a cultivation level so low it was appalling, he was not someone just anyone could walk all over.
To have a grievance and not avenge it—that was simply not who Ye Tianxuan was!
We cultivators, what do we cultivate for?
One must defy the heavens, accomplish the impossible, and only then attain the Great Dao, standing above the Nine Summits!
Ye Zhengwen's heart skipped a beat.
For some inexplicable reason, the moment Ye Tianxuan finished speaking, Ye Zhengwen felt an ungrounded wave of terror, as if he had been locked onto by some peerless savage beast.
Ye Zhengwen opened his mouth, wanting to beg for mercy!
Right now, he could not possibly regret more his decision to come and seize Ye Tianxuan's pill. Who could have imagined that even after becoming a cripple, Ye Tianxuan could still make a comeback?
He regretted even more not having killed Ye Tianxuan before he swallowed the Creation Muscle-Regenerating Pill.
Ye Tianxuan brought his palm down with a slash.
The void flared with a fiery red hue, and in an instant, the entire sky was set ablaze!
A boundless sea of fire formed, pelting down upon Ye Zhengwen's head like a torrential rain.
Ye Zhengwen's aged face turned green.
He desperately wanted to curse!
And even more, he wanted to know where Ye Tianxuan had learned such an art.
This was already the third technique he had never seen before—one that the Ye Family did not possess.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The boundless flames crashed down like shooting stars, instantly engulfing Ye Zhengwen.
"Xuan'er!"
"He is your second uncle, after all."
Li Wanqing stepped forward, grabbing Ye Tianxuan as she tried to persuade him.
She looked her son up and down. If she were not so intimately familiar with Ye Tianxuan, and if his scent had not remained entirely unchanged, she would have thought her son had been replaced by a completely different person.
"Alright!"
Under Li Wanqing's gaze, Ye Tianxuan felt a bit uneasy and dared not meet her eyes any longer.
He deeply cherished Li Wanqing's care—something he had never experienced in his previous life—and he had no wish to ruin that feeling.
Li Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief.
No matter what kind of person Ye Zhengwen was, Ye Tianxuan still needed to stay within the Ye Family for the time being, and it was unwise to have a complete falling out with them just yet.
The flames dissipated, revealing Ye Zhengwen within.
Ye Zhengwen was charred black from head to toe, looking precisely like a roasted chicken. Every trace of his original appearance was gone as he lay motionless on the ground, leaving everyone guessing whether he was dead or alive.
"Elder Ye?"
"Could Elder Ye be dead?!"
"Impossible!"
Seeing Ye Zhengwen lying motionless, the people who had accompanied him began to panic!
They were all loyal followers of Ye Zhengwen; otherwise, they never would have tagged along.
Ever since Ye Tianxuan's father went missing, they had all thrown their support behind Ye Zhengwen's bid to become the head of the Ye Family.
If Ye Zhengwen died, all their plans would fall through completely.
"Relax, he's not dead yet."
Ye Tianxuan said calmly.
"Ye Tianxuan dared to commit insubordination and disrespect his elders! He must be captured, stripped of his cultivation, and locked in the ancestral hall to repent!"
Someone suggested!
They were terrified that Ye Tianxuan was too powerful and would snatch away Ye Zhengwen's position as family head, so they wanted to cripple Ye Tianxuan completely.
Only then could they rest easy.
"Which of you dares!"
Hearing their words, Li Wanqing immediately spoke up, stepping in front of Ye Tianxuan.
Having just witnessed the battle with Ye Zhengwen, Ye Tianxuan's strength had far exceeded Li Wanqing's expectations—he had actually won.
Yet such an intense battle was also a tremendous burden for someone whose cultivation had only just been restored; naturally, Li Wanqing had to shield her son from the wind and rain.
"Look at this!"
Li Wanqing flipped her wrist, revealing a token.
The token was forged from some unknown material, emitting a faint luster with mysterious power pulsing through it.
The Li Family Token!
Upon seeing the token in Li Wanqing's hand, the members of the Ye Family instantly stopped in their tracks.
The Li Family was by no means some minor clan like their Ye Family.
Had Li Wanqing not eloped with Ye Tianxuan's father all those years ago, the two families would never have had any intersection whatsoever.
Now that the Li Family Token had been produced, not a single one of them dared to take another half-step forward.
The Li Family had always held great hostility toward the Ye Family; provoking them would give the Li Family a direct pretext to strike at the Ye Family.
Yet wasn't Li Wanqing banished from her family by the Li Clan?
How could the Li Family Token be in her hands now?
They suspected that Li Wanqing might have stolen the token, but they lacked the courage to ask.
"What a wonderful show!"
A taunting voice drifted over as several figures slowly approached from the distance.
Leading the group was a young man in a long robe, leisurely shaking a folding fan. He was flanked by several maidservants, giving him a deeply flamboyant air.
One of the maidservants peeled a grape and fed it to the young man with her mouth.
It was a sight to arouse envy!
"Ye Tianxuan?"
The young man walked closer, closed his folding fan, looked Ye Tianxuan up and down, and asked with a tone of absolute certainty.
"The Li Family Token?"
"Doesn't the Li Family's reach go a bit too far? This is the territory of Cangbei City. Powerful as the Li Family may be, stretching your hand into our Wang Family's territory—isn't that showing a complete lack of respect for us?"
The young man glanced at the Li Family Token, let out a light, cold laugh, and tapped his palm with the folding fan, utterly dismissing the Li Family.
He had every right to be this confident.
Wang Yueshan!
A direct descendant of the Wang Family!
The Wang Family and the Li Family were powers of equal standing in the Northern Region.
While others might fear the Li Family, the Wang Family certainly did not.
The expressions of the Ye Family members could not have been uglier.
This was their own Ye Family estate, yet Wang Yueshan had barged right in with his people, paying them zero respect as if the Ye Family members were the outsiders.
And yet, the Ye Family members dared not say a word.
Filled with anger, they kept silent!
Ye Tianxuan remained silent, instead casting his gaze toward the elderly man standing behind Wang Yueshan.
The old man was half-hunched over, his face covered in wrinkles, looking as though he had one foot already in the grave.
Yet from this old man, Ye Tianxuan sensed a crisis of life and death.
This was an entity capable of threatening him!
"Ye Tianxuan, will you obediently surrender, or are you waiting for me to make a move?"
Wang Yueshan wore a smile, his words dripping with arrogance.
No one present found it surprising.
Because he was a member of the Wang Family.
Furthermore, he was a genius of the Wang Family!
Though Ye Tianxuan had displayed formidable strength, not a single person believed he could possibly be a match for Wang Yueshan.
Ye Tianxuan felt a headache coming on!
This was the trouble left behind by his predecessor, who had killed a collateral descendant of the Wang Family, thereby bringing the wrath of the Wang family down upon them.
Ye Zhengwen had already regained consciousness. Having nearly been beaten to death by Ye Tianxuan, he had felt too humiliated and kept up his fake faint on the ground.
Now, seeing the Wang Family arrive with the clear intent of taking Ye Tianxuan away, boundless joy welled up inside him.
So what if Ye Tianxuan was formidable?
He had brought this upon himself by provoking the Wang Family. Once dragged off to the Wang Family, they would certainly not let Ye Zhengwen off easily either.
This actually saved Ye Zhengwen the trouble of doing it himself.
Li Wanqing wore an expression of deep worry.
She had been able to secure pills from the Li Family only because she was a daughter of that house, but the Li Family had never once acknowledged Ye Tianxuan.
The Li Family would never stick their necks out for Ye Tianxuan!
This seemed to be a dead end!
"Do you think staying silent means you can dodge this?"
"I've been more than reasonable, and I hope you won't toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit!"
Wang Yueshan lightly shook his folding fan.
Ye Tianxuan's prolonged silence was deeply irritating to him!