Chapter 21

Days passed. Ye Qi spent most of them cultivating and working out his physical body while taking the elixirs that should help him.

Although his progression in collecting soul force has been amazing compared to what he had used to collect, the fact that he is golden rank made it more demanding for him to break through.

Ye Qi was in no hurry anyway. He was on vacation, and he could cultivate day and night.

Four days have passed, Ye Qi opened his eyes while checking up his soul realm.

"15.000 soul force." He thought in himself and sighed. He is still the 1st-star Golden rank.

Ye Qi stood up and turned his face, to Ye Ziyun's courtyard.

The girl is trying to reach the Silver Rank in this vacation. Seeing that Ning'er is trying to catch up to her has motivated her a bit to cultivate more seriously.

Shrugging his shoulder, he decided to leave her having her time while he walked around the Mansion.

Probably he will pick up some book after eating some elixirs to enhance his physical body.

Speaking of the elixirs, as it seems, they play a huge role to make the women more mature. That's why you see the noblewomen, especially those who depend on pills more than their talent, more mature than others.

No wonder that Ning'er is quite tall compared to Ye Ziyun, given how many elixirs she was taking, or her boobs are bigger. Or that Shen Xiu has the craziest shape.

The same applies to the boys. Ye Qi has a muscled body and more developed for his age. Touching his crotch, he understood why people marry at an early age.

Anyway, Ye Qi, while sitting on the corner in horse position, noticed some movement in the soldiers around the castle.

A man was carried on a portable bed. That was a Black Gold fighter that belonged to his family. He seemed to had been attacked by some demon beast given the claws marks on his chest.

Meanwhile, Ye Qi heard a name that made him flinch a bit.

"Lord Ye Xiu has come back. However, Lord Ye Mo isn't back."

"He's probably with the city lord now. Lord Ye Mo should be continuing his researches outside the city and training."

His father is back here!

'Shouldn't he be with my Grandfather, outside?' Ye Qi thought while rubbing his chin. Then he remembered some detail from the Manhwa. He assumed that in some hours that he would get called to the mansion.

And it happened. In a half-hour, Ye Qi was invited to enter the main building of the City Lord mansion, which happened to be a large mansion.

Once Ye Qi entered, he saw a figure standing next to his uncle's.

Ye Qi gave a slight nod with his head.

"Father," he called.

Ye Xiu's grew eyebrows that were long shook as he opened his eyes widely.

"It had been a long time, and yet this how you welcome your father."

"I don't know a better way. Have you been well?" Ye Qi said as his eyebrow was risen slightly.

"Been good. How's your study. Are slacking in your workouts."

"Not near that." Ye Qi said. 'I have been busy trying to find some daughters-in-law.'

Making a slight smile, Ye Xiu turned to Ye Zong and asked. "Brother. Are you sure that this brat has reached Silver Rank?"

"Can't you tell that already?" Ye Zong replied as he examined Ye Qi.

"True. But he seems to try to hold back." Ye Xiu turned to Ye Qi.

"He was the most one to benefit from the Heavenly Sacred Borders."

"Ancestor Ye Yan seemed to be happy with us."

Ye Qi was listening to his uncle and father while staying away from their office.

"Is there something else?" Ye Qi said.

"Did you get cocky already?" the father asked his son.

"No, I have to cultivate." Ye Qi said, making Ye Xiu almost laugh.

"Good, I was worried that you won't reach anything with your yellow soul realm."

Ye Qi shrugged his shoulders.

"Ye Qi, you're right. There is something else why you are here." Ye Zong lifted his hand. Ye Qi saw him holding a book, an old one, with a brown leather cover.

"What's it?"

"Something my brother and father has found outside, next to the skeleton of an ancient warrior."

Ye Qi walked forward, took the book from Ye Zong's hands, and flipped the page.

'As I expected…'

"By the way father, how's my grandpa."

"While we have been discovering the ruins outside. I have come across a corpse of an ancient warrior with this book. I couldn't understand it, of course." Ye Xiu said while looking at Ye Qi, who was reading the book. "Anyway, Lord Father has said he had discovered something and he sent me back to the Glory City. The fighter that I had been with was ambushed by a demon beast, so I had to carry him back."

"Mm, I see…" Ye Qi seemed to be interested in the books detail.

"You can read it, can't you?" Ye Zong asked Ye Qi.

"I can. it's an array, a formation of inscriptions. Somehow, it allows one to control a ten thousand demon spirit in Dark Gold, and use them to attack. You can even combine their strength to take down a legend rank demon beast." Ye Qi flipped the pages. Ye Qi, although he knew about this beforehand, had to feign surprise.

"This. Taking down a legend rank demon beast! " Ye Zong opened his eyes widely, "can we start making them. Can you translate it?"

"I can, for sure." Ye Qi closed the book. "But, the array's key to use the formation should belong only to our side. Who knows when someone is a spy to the Dark Guild."

Providing ten thousand demon spirit wasn't hard since the founder of the Glory City had brought hundreds of thousands of black gold demon spirits. Unfortunately, no one can use them. But with this formation, one can find a use for the spirits.

Ye Qi remembered the novel and the Manhwa.

In the original work, Nie Lie had been using this formation as a way to blackmail the Snow Wind Family to hand Ye Ziyun. Which, of course, resulted in troubles when a sudden Demon Horde appeared. Nie Lie, when he had gained Ye Ziyun, the Snow Wind Family was able to make 5 arrays around to protect the Glory City.

If he gave the formation to his family, they would be able to complete it in no time around Glory City.

Ye Qi knows about the butterfly theory. Although he is acting low profile, relatively, he doesn't know how much he had changed. After all, he had killed the Dark Gold members at the ruins. Shen Xiu had fallen for him and all.

The Demon hordes can come later, or they can come back early.

It would be better to have a guarantee to protect his city.

"Since when you were this smart." Ye Zong stroke his chin and examined Ye Qi." True, the formation should be instructed secretly around the city, starting from the mansion. Don't you agree brother?"

"Agree. Brat, since when could you understand things." Ye Xiu had heard things about Ye Qi, how all of the sudden he became a genius and all, from his second wife. He hadn't believed it at first, but now he does.

"Ever since I entered the school. It's a spiritual talent." Ye Qi said. "Understanding the meaning behind the word without understanding the word itself." That was honest and lying at the same time. As Ye Qi had understood many books, naturally, he would understand the language that's used with them.

"Great, great. We should celebrate with this then." Ye Zong said.

"Excuse me," Ye Qi said. "I think we shouldn't until we finish the formation."

"Ha? You are too worried." Ye Zong said.

Ye Xiu just shook his head. "We can just celebrate coming back safe."

"You can do whatever you want." Ye Qi said. "It's better to relax, I'm just saying. Now, if you excuse me."

As Ye Qi was about to bow and leave, the City Lord was faster to speak.

"Ye Qi, by the way, it's not all." Ye Zong said.

Ye Qi stopped and looked at his uncle. "What's it?"

"You remember the pot you were curious about?"

"You mean, the dark pot…"

"It's called the Nightmare Demon Pot." Ye Zong said, "that what they had said in the expedition."

Ye Zong took a storage ring from his pocket and handed it to Ye Qi.

Ye Qi held it and inserted his consciousness inside of the spatial ring, and he saw a dark pot in the middle of the space.

"It was like you had said." Ye Zong continued. "Around the pot, there is some pressure that should help one cultivate faster. Though, it's not very strong. Other than that, I don't see other use for it."

"I just wanted to study it." Ye Qi held his smile.

Finally, a treasure to create the perfect Demon Spirit for him.

One must know how rare is a Demon Spirit that has an attribute related to time or space.

Until now, all the Demon Spirits that are available within the glory city and its surroundings may or may not match him.

Ye Qi could only nod. He then said. "By the way. Do we have some Demon Spirits with a Time-Space attribute?"

"That's a very rare one." Ye Xiu said.

"Do you want to fuse with a one? There aren't many who had such a spirit across the history of tens of thousands of years." Ye Zong nodded.

"If I'm not wrong, the only demon spirits that have such attribute are useless ones." Ye Xiu said.

"Oh, you mean that. I have forgotten their names. Their only function is to seal space." Ye Zong rubbed his chin. "It's only useful against someone who is planning to escape using a treasure. Other than that, it's useless demon spirit."

"Tsk." Ye Qi clicked his tongue. "Still, since it's useless, I would like to have some of them."

One can always study the pot and find tricks. With eyes that can see the past and the present, the mind can predict the future.

"You can have that." Ye Zong said. "Just ask the elder responsible for keeping the dark gold spirits. Don't use them all. We may need them within the formation. After all, they can be used to counter space-time demon beasts."

"I understand."

"Hey, brat." Ye Xiu called.

"Yes, father."

"Don't forget to translate the array book first." Ye Xiu said.

"Don't worry. I'm aware of its importance." Ye Qi already has the translation in his brain.

Ye Xiu nodded. "And tell your mother to prepare me some bath. And send Ye Hong here."

"Alright." Ye Qi opened the door and closed behind him, leaving the two Black Gold spiritualists behind him.

'The only good thing about wuxia based worlds are their women.' Ye Qi lifted his head as he closed the door behind him.

Looking at the storage ring, Ye Qi could only smirk. "A family can be good sometimes." For sure, without his family, he won't have a priceless time with Ye Ziyun like he is now and finds the pot at the same time.

Ye Qi met Ye Hong on the way, who was cultivating next to his house. He pointed to him and said, "father wants to see you."

"What, the father is back!" Ye Hong stood up. "When, where?"

"Good morning." Ye Qi replied with sarcasm. He then felt something odd. "Wait. You've broken through, the Golden Rank?" he felt his aura.

"Yes."Ye Hong only nodded, mind absent.

Ye Xiu, his father, surely would compare him to his brother and would like to see his progression. Although Ye Hong reached the golden rank thanks to Ye Qi's methods that were given to the family and the elixirs, he is still afraid of facing his dad. It can be a duo to the harsh childhood, some can say.

Ye Qi chuckled. "Don't be nervous. He won't eat you."

"Hey! Do you even know what eats you mean?" Ye Hong yelled.

"You tell me what it means."

"Tsk. Cheap Bastard." Ye Hong clicked his tongue.

"I'm a bastard." Ye Qi only laughed and went away, back to his place.

After Ye Qi went to his courtyard, the first thing he has done was to pick up a large amount of money.

Since his family has been doing businesses and giving him his share for a quite long time, Ye Qi has accumulated a lot of wealth that he can't even count. That happened in the weeks he spent within the sub realm.

Looking around, He saw a fighter, a dark gold one, guarding.

"You." He called.

The guard turned into a blur as he appeared next to Ye Qi.

"Yes! Young master."

"Take this much and buy all of the Demon Spirits you can find, in all of the shops."

When the guard held the storage ring and inserted his conscious inside it, he opened his eyes widely, not believing how much wealth is there. "Young master! Are you planning to buy the whole Glory City's spirits?"

"Don't be absurd. They won't buy all of the spirits. Most of the sellers need hundreds of years to finish their stock. Besides, try to negotiate. You can take the rest if you do a good job." Ye Qi said, offering a prize for the guard so he can shut up.

"Yes, young master!"

The guard then jolted outside the mansion, buying everything on his way.

Ye Qi went to the place where his family is keeping their demon spirits and took ten spirits with the time-space attribute, which can seal the space.

After waiting for an hour or so, the guard came back, saying. "Young Master, half of the sellers are praying for you to have a long levity, while the others are biting their nails in frustration."

Ye Qi ignored the new set of clothes and took the storages ring from the guard.

"You are dismissed." Ye Qi said as he turned and walked.

-x-X-x-

"Finally."

Ye Qi sighed.

He had just finished making and sending the translated version of the array, personally to the City Lord before burning that version. Now, he can be safer if a sudden demon horde happened.

Ye Qi, honestly, as he is now, is more expert in making inscriptions than his mom, given the experience he has gotten from the creator of the Ten Thousands Demon Spirit array. Ye Qi, for sure, using the experience of that man, can create his inscriptions and knows how to do researches.

Anyway, that would be left to think of later. Now, Ye Qi has to test the Nightmare Demon Pot. In the middle of his house, there was a pitch-black pot. When a spiritualist gets near it, he will feel a strong pressure on his soul. It can be used to train or cultivate, but its effects aren't as impressive as pills.

Whatever. Ye Qi has planned to experience it and see where it leads.

After all, he prefers not to waste his time.

It doesn't matter if he gets a useless Demon spirit, while he can reach a great level just by ascending in the levels themselves.

"Let's see your past, little buddy."

Ye Qi teased as he looked at the pot, his eyes turning silver.

Ye Qi started seeing hints of its past, and how in many years no one knew how to use it.

Wait for a second, some knew exactly how to use it.

This artefact was crafted in this world.

Ye Qi, just now, knew how to make it, use it, and most importantly, hot the pot grows stronger.

"I see. It makes the spirits eat themselves. When it fails, the pot would destroy the spirits and absorb energy from them to improve itself.

"The pot would use the energy to force the fusion process of the spirits."

Ye Qi rubbed his chin.

"The more one destroys spirits within it, the more energy in the pot, and thus, it gets stronger."

"But how can one destroy a demon spirit…"

Ye Qi suddenly snapped back.

Opening his eyes widely, he took the Meteoric Thunder God's sword out of his storage ring and held it.

This sword had absorbed and destroyed thousands of demon beasts and absorbed their spirits.

It can be used to destroy its souls.

Ye Qi took a group of demon spirits out of his storage rings and decided to do some tests at first.

Each time he places nine demon spirits, they would fuse, before producing a new demon spirit, which possibly has absorbed the other spirits, or it had born from mixing them.

Anyway, mixing spirits with the same attribute gives a spirit from the same attribute, and if one mixes ones with different attributes, they can give birth to a different one.

The success rate is one of nine." Ye Qi murmured. "The higher the growth rate, the lower the success rate."

This rate can be increased.

Ye Qi, all of the sudden, took the stones that seals the demon spirits and began to unseal them.

He placed 50 spirits, golden rank ones in the pot. Of course, they didn't fuse, since it requires nine and the use of a specific hands seal.

Ye Qi held the meteoric sword. Using his sword intent, he waved the sword and used its lightning to destroy the spirits, turning them into a soul force that filled the room.

Although the pot was absorbing the energy to itself, some of the energy leaked to the room.

"Wait a minute. This energy can nurture the surrounding with soul force." Ye Qi said, his amulet shining, as he opened his soul realm to capture the leaving energy. Though, absorbing a huge amount of soul force can be harmful if one's level is too low.

Anyway, once the pot was done from absorbing energy, Ye Qi placed more demon spirits and began destroying them one by one.

In the end, 90% of the spirits had been destroyed, and the pot had some inscriptions shine around it.

Ye Qi smirked.

If one knew what kind of inscriptions that are scripted on the pot, they would know why Ye Qi is smiling.

The creator has put a high-level inscription array around the pot to force the fusion. However, they needed to be nurtured for the pot to reach its potentials.

Using the other ten per cent to test the new improvement in the pot, Ye Qi has noticed that the success rate now is 7 of 10, and that's when it comes to creating a god growth rate demon beasts.

The success rate was crazy that Ye Qi wanted to sacrifice more demon spirits. However, it wouldn't be wise, since he can't reach the God Growth rate. First of all, the spirits have to grow from poor to ordinary and average, good and excellent and all, before reaching the God growth rate.

"At least, It's less adventurous to mix the spirits as they are."

Ye Qi goal is simply to find a way to have a mutated Demon spirit that matches his soul realm. It would be better if he made the Devil Shadow spirit evolve its abilities or mutate.

Anyway, for someone who is going to cultivate the law of space-time, he is bound to reach the spiritual god, which gives a more powerful body than a demon beast at the same stage.

Ye Qi soon has ended up mixing the demon spirits he has. And he ended up with 100 that has the growth rate of God.

"I have ten beasts with time attribute."

Ye Qi murmured to himself. He was thinking if he should risk the rest of the demon spirits he has.

Looking at the side, Ye Qi noticed that people were instructing the inscription array, and it was morning!

Shit, a day or two has passed!

Well, being busy and having the ability to work for a month without getting tired can make one loses his sense of time.

When Ye Qi looked outside of the window, he noticed that some people were cultivating next to his house.

"Hey! What are you doing here!" Ye Qi screamed.

One of the people opened his eyes.

"Somehow, young master, the soul force in this place seemed to be rich. So we decided to cultivate."

"Leave guys." Ye Qi said. Since his stature is higher as a direct descendant of the family, he can order them.

"Why?" One of them flinched.

"You know the source of this energy?" Ye Qi asked.

That one shook his head.

"See, it's yang energy that I have been releasing with the technique, The Monkey's Hands Climb the Pillar."

Another spiritualist, who had been benefiting greatly from the soul force around, turned and looked at Ye Qi.

"What kind of techniques is this young master."

All of them were curious. Was he using the sun to produce energy?

"Have you seen a monkey climbing a tree?" Ye Qi said. All of them nodded.

"Now, try to imagine that tree is made of the meat, covered by white skin, and it's very soft. At its end, there are red leaves, and at its beginning, there are two big rounded fruits."

After a pause, all of them had their faces turn green.

"What you have been absorbing as a result of what happens when a man is young and horny and single." Ye Qi, who was leaning on his window, said leisurely. "I feel digested seeing you now. That woman is an exception." Ye Qi said, pointing to one purple-eyed girl, who was blushing here.

The annoying bunch stood up, turned, and left without saying an extra word.

"What annoying guys." Ye Qi shook his head. He then looked at the people who were making the array here, Ye Zong and Ye Xiu in their middle. As it seems, it won't take too long to finish it.

"I will go back to mix my spirits." Ye Qi said, now it was time to try to end up with some spirits with the time-space attribute. Some spirits would be left for the girls, of course.

"Wait for a second, young master!" a maid called all of the sudden.

"What?" Ye Qi turned his face to the woman, who had an anxious expression on her face.

"Young master. The court is inviting you to sign a contract. The letter is sent by Shen Fei, who has said he has fulfilled his part, and all it needs is your blood for the deal to be activated."

"Mm…" Ye Qi has a smirk. It's time to see Shen Xiu and her nephew. "By the way, how much is left for the martial arts tournament that belongs to the Sacred family."

The made took some time to think before her eyes lit up. "It's about 2 days."

"Great." Ye Qi smiled. "To hit three birds with one rock."

The maid only looked confused at his face. Ye Qi's expression has a mix of lust, love, and the desire to beat someone. 'How can this all mix on one man…'

"You can go." Ye Qi said, before entering his room again