34 20 - Can't Believe I Forgot About This Guy...!

After the changes with Yang Xin were done, Ye Ziyun had opted to also do the same and pressed the 'Yes' button. Yang Xin was of course amazed at the sight as well and thought (So that's what was happening to me...?) As for the voyeur soul that was observing them, Xiao Bai had long since noticed its existence and informed Fang Lin of it. Knowing that the soul was actually the ancestor of Ziyun's family, he chose to ignore him instead as he couldn't really do anything even if he wanted.

Not that he would anyways... and if he did, there would be 2 scary existences that he would have to overcome. Those two would of course be Xiao Bai and Ning'er. It goes without saying that Xiao Bai is the strongest among them while in the case of dealing with a remnant soul such as the Snow Wind family ancestor... Ning'er would be scariest of them all. Soul... Zanpakuto... 'nuff said.

After finishing up with the 'Summons Contracts', Fang Lin bought Yang Xin the 'D-Perfect Memory' skill which was perfect for her occupation as an alchemist. Since it was a really cheap skill which costs only 1,000 AP, he also went ahead and bought it for the other 3 girls as well because... why not? Too bad that Yang Xin really did have to leave soon because of her duties. No matter how much she wished to stay, as long as they're still in this world, in Glory City, she had obligations to fulfill. Not to mention that favor that Fang Lin had asked of her.

Getting thousands of weapons and armors though... it confused her at first why Fang Lin wish to accomplish with that. Now that she's got the knowledge of the 'System', she finally understood and would be putting much more effort into this task than before. The question now is.. what's the best way of hiding this move as much as possible from the other high ranking families and especially Sacred Family.

After watching Yang Xin left the Heavenly Border, Fang Lin right away started utilizing his long range observation magic in order to look for the Thunder God's Meteorite Sword. Since he was looking for weapons to convert into EP, this sword should fetch quite a few points. He of course thought about letting one of the girls use it instead however the answers he received from them was basically 'No thanks since It doesn't suit me'

"Hm... this place is even bigger than I had originally expected. It actually took almost 20 minutes to locate it. Well, no time to waste..." said Fang Lin as he lead the girls towards the sword's direction. The lingering soul, Ye Yan, was startled upon realizing the direction that they're heading to. (Impossible... probably just a coincidence) thought Ye Yan as he continued his observation of the group.

The thing that he saw earlier definitely impressed him. If any among them had great talent and potential, he wouldn't mind taking that person on as his apprentice. As a peak existence like him offering mentor and student relation, they would no doubt be endlessly grateful! But first.. let's observe them some more in order to truly see how powerful they are.

(Although... it's a bit strange that I can't sense through some of their cultivation level. The only two whose level I could sense were that shortest little girl and the other little girl that left earlier. After that light show however... I could no longer sense their levels. Some sort of disguising technique...?)

Lost in thought, Ye Yan almost lost sight of Fang Lin's group as they started to increase their moving pace. Snapping out of it, Ye Yan was now sure that their direction was no mere coincidence. They are definitely heading towards the Thunder God's Meteorite Sword!

(NO! I mustn't allow these youngsters to find that sword! It would definitely be a big loss to Glory City if these budding talents were to be destroyed now!) thought Ye Yan in a panic.

"HALT!" With no other choice, Ye Yan chose to reveal himself and hastily shouted at the group to stop.

On reaction, Fang Lin and the girls stopped in their tract and turned towards the voice. What they saw was the soul of Ye Yan floating a bit away and looking at them with a stern countenance. Neither of them were surprised by Ye Yan's being there of course as Xiao Bai had told everyone of him earlier. What they were surprised however... why was he stopping them all of a sudden when he was content with just observing?

Suddenly, an awkward silence descended upon the area as 4 pairs of eyes were gazing at Ye Yan questioningly. 😕❓

Due to it being too sudden, Ye Yan actually hadn't thought of what to say to them at all and ended up just staring right back. If he still had a body, his cheeks would be definitely be twitching and flushed red from embarrassment right now.

"Yes...? Can we help you?" Not wanting to be delayed anymore, Fang Lin broke the silence and proposed a question to this lingering soul. Seriously though... the heck does this guy want? They're busy people that have things to do here...

*cough*

"Youngsters, I must advise you to not continue on in this direction." Not wanting to embarrass himself any longer in front of his possible future disciple(s), Ye Yan simply gave them a warning. While at it, he also put on an air of a wise and mysterious senior, but respectable senior.

"Oh, you mean the Thunder God's Meteorite Sword? Don't worry about that. We know what we're doing. Thank you for the kind advice senior, but we're in a hurry you see..." Knowing what Ye Yan was hinting at, Fang Lin decided to be straight forward with the guy so save everyone's time. With his piece said, he gave a respectful bow towards Ye Yan and once more, began running along with the girls.

Stunned at Fang Lin's immediately acknowledgement and refusal, he couldn't react in time to stop the group as they went headlong towards danger. Left with no other choice, Ye Yan followed them and all the while kept trying to persuade the group to not go that way which was for the most part, largely ignored. Heck, the incessant nagging actually started to annoy the group a bit.

After a bit of traveling, the pressure exerted on the group due to the many demon spirits started become strong enough that Ziyun was having a bit of trouble resisting. Noticing this, Fang Lin called a break and urged Ziyun to revolve her cultivation technique and start training there. Barely a minute had passed when Ziyun had leveled up to [Lv40], officially becoming a Gold Rank expert.

Fang Lin and Ning'er of course didn't cultivate as they wanted to let Ziyun take all the EXP in order to catch up to everyone else. As she was now a part of the 'System', there no longer was any such thing as a need to build a 'solid foundation'. The only thing she needed was EXP EXP EXP and even more EXP! It's just too bad that cultivation techniques only increased the individual and not the whole group. If the EXP was shared and all of their groups cultivated at once...

Ye Yan who now stayed quiet as he didn't want to interrupt a junior's cultivation was actually quite astonished at the sight in front of him. The speed at which the little lass absorb and refine all the demon spirits was akin to a black hole swallowing everything without end and it seemed that... the absorption speed is increasing even more as time pass!

Looking at Ye Yan's visage, Fang Lin couldn't help but smirked a bit as he could probably guess what was on his mind. If he could actually the rate of her level increasing, he would definitely be even more shocked. Heck, he might even get a heart attack even though he didn't have a physical body. Once more looking at Ziyun, her level seemed to have already reached [Lv49]. Just one more push and she'll advance to the next mortal rank.

After feeling that her training speed had slowed down to a crawl, Ziyun stopped cultivating and the group once more began advancing to their destination. Ye Yan who was still following behind the group was strangely quiet as he began to give looks of intrigues towards Ziyun.

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After an unknown amount of time passed in their journey, the group had finally made it to their destination. Right in front of them was their target, the Thunder God's Meteorite Sword. The amount of demon spirits in the area however was really staggering that Ziyun was once more put under great pressure just by being in the area.

Even without being told, Ziyun knew what to do and right away began to revolve her cultivation technique to absorb and refine all the demon spirits. With previous experience, this time her absorption speed was even faster than before as her level had another rapid increase. 50... 51... all the way to 59 before the stopping right there.

"Not bad at all, Yun'er. To think you've already reached this level so quickly. Makes me a bit jealous with how much we suffered for a year to get to where we are..."

The first thing Ziyun had heard after opening her eyes, was the voice of a lamenting Fang Lin. She couldn't help but giggle at this and said "What are you saying... this is possible only thanks to you, Lin~😊" Fang Lin only smiled slightly at her answer before pulling her into a light hug and gave a peck to her cheek. "So how does it feel to be at the peak level of the Gold Rank?"

Just as Ziyun was about to give her answer, she was interrupted by an astonished shout of Ye Yang, whom they had completely forgotten was there because he had been so quiet for so long.

"Impossible! This little lass has reached the peak of gold rank at such a young age!? Little girl, what is your name and which family have you descended from?" shouted Ye Yang in shock before asking for her identity. Suddenly being asked, she felt unsure of whether or not to answer especially since she didn't know the real identity of this person. Looking at Fang Lin's face, he only nodded lightly, indicating that it was alright to tell him.

"Un. This junior's family name is Ye and given name is Ziyun. I am a descendant of the Snow Wind Family and pays respect to senior" Her formal City Lord's mannerism was unintentionally revealed as she introduced herself. As someone of stature, she was of course well versed in formal greetings with those of distinguished and noble status so this wasn't really any surprise for Fang Lin and the rest.

Hearing the 2nd part of her introduction, Ye Yan was shocked at what he heard. Suddenly, he began to laugh boisterously as joy filled his figurative heart.

"Bwahaha! I see I see... so you are one my, Ye Yan's descendant! Of course it isn't strange at all for you be such a genius!" Ye Ziyun couldn't believe what she was hearing. 'His' descendant? Could this crazy old man that was stalking them for awhile now actually be... her ancestor? Rather feeling awe and respect like one normally would after meeting their ancestor, Ziyun on the contrary was feeling really embarrassed. (No way no way. My ancestor is definitely not a stalker...!!)

Before she could recover from her shock, Ziyun heard another question uttered out by the 'self-proclaimed' ancestor of the Snow Wind Family.

"Girl, rejoice! For I Ye Yan have decided to take you as my personal student! There couldn't be a better teacher for you! Now kowtow and gratefully accept me as your teacher!" shouted Ye Yan jubilantly.

And on reflex due to her slight rejection of Ye Yan, her answer was of course "I respectfully decline, senior. Thank you for your consideration."

Hearing such a quick refusal as if she didn't even think about it, Ye Yan almost fainted from shock even though it shouldn't even be possible.

"H-how disrespectful! Did you not hear who I am!? Back in my time, many would beg and grovel just to get the chance of some guidance from me and yet.. yet... you!"

Seeing that this 'ancestor' of her's still hadn't given up on taking her as a student yet, Ziyun was about to once more reject his offer when suddenly, she felt a hand grasping her shoulder. Looking at the source, it turned out to be Fang Lin which confused her a little. Why was stopping her refusal?

"This... Senior Ye, my Yun'er will gladly accept your offer to be your student. She doesn't need help in cultivation however and what she... no what we need is someone to teach us in the way of combat. A powerful Legend Rank expert such as your esteemed self would undoubtedly be rich in experience. And that... is something that my wives and I are severely lacking in even though we have high cultivation level."

Without giving Ye Yan any chance to refuse, Fang Lin kept firing words after words at the poor old man until he accepts them all, Yang Xin included whenever she had the time to come join them. Fang Lin really wanted to hit himself over the head for forgetting about this old man even though he had 'Perfect Memory'. Guess he was too focused on getting a new 'Summon'... With his help, they would definitely prosper when it comes to combat training and the plus side, he doesn't even need to do any summoning...!

He didn't notice it, but when Fang Lin offhandedly referred to the girls as his wives, they couldn't help but blush shyly while feeling very happy all the same. When the girls mentioned this to Yang Xin later on, she felt so happy that she tackled Fang Lin onto the bed and started another round of intense 'PAPAPAPAPA' game. Ning'er and Ziyun had happily joined them of course after putting the asleep Xiao Bai in another room.