4 Chapter 4

"What do you want?"

Ye Qi's lips twitched, seeing that his future nephew with a group of guys, crossing his arms and looking at him.

"You dare to ask!" Shen Yue exclaimed.

Ye Qi looked at the young master, from the other family.

Shen Yue was a blue-haired man, with handsome features. He was tall for his age, just as Ye Qi.

If there is one thing that was known, it would be that if they were to fight, nothing would be considered, since the two of them are young masters from equal families.

"No, I'm just figuratively asking."

Ye Qi answered with sarcasm, looking at the 3 people with Shen Yue. After seeing the height of these people and their clothes, it would be easy to tell that they are commoners and students from the older classes.

"Tsk, tsk."

Shen Yue clicked his tongue. "You know, Ye Qi. I've seen how you grabbed Ye Ziyun's hand that day. You know that I've, because of you, spent my savings on something useless, which only led me to deal with the commoner girls. Do you know how lewd it's to hold her hand in front of me?" He said, with a hit on anger. Shen Yue made it look like that Ye Ziyun was already his wife and Ye Qi took her hand in front of him.

"First of all. What you have to do with all of this. She's not your girl. And second, fuck off. I don't want to make a bad impression on your aunt. Respect your future uncle, kid."

Ye Qi answered.

Unknown to him, by addressing yourself as someone's uncle, a cultivator would take it as a figural insult.

Ye Qi only meant it as literal fact, though.

Shen Yue furrowed his eyebrows, glaring angrily at Ye Qi. The guys with him had their lips twitch.

"Very well. You insulted me first. You won't blame me then." Shen Yue said, veins appearing on his forehead.

"When did I?" Ye Qi raised his eyebrows.

He didn't even start insulting yet. Now that's it. This guy clearly is here for troubles. Ye Qi would disciple his future nephews if he had to.

"Get him." Shen Yue pointed with his hand forward.

They weren't in a public place. Just at a corner next to the walls of the institute. Most of the students by this time would be either eating or touring at the market. There weren't many eyes to witness what will happen.

When he saw the commoner old boys moving, Ye Qi channelled his soul force to his body.

Although Spiritualists show strength when they fuse with a Demon Spirit, it doesn't mean that they can't be like fighters.

There are fighters as well who cultivate soul force because they can't integrate with Demon Spirits — those can use techniques according to the attribute of their soul realm, and as strong as any fighter can be.

Ye Qi, who was trained from his young ages and drank expensive elixirs, felt a bit excited to fight. The kids who came to him were commoners in older classes. They were between 1 start to 3 Stars Bronze Rank fighters.

When the first one appeared in front of him, Ye Qi sneered at him. It's time to use the young master card. But first, he wanted to do this.

The commoner froze in his place, seeing such sneer.

Clenching his fist, Ye Qi punched him in the face. The commoner fell on his back with blood flowing out of his broken nose.

"What are you waiting for! Get his ass beaten up!" She Yue yelled at the two. They are 15 years old, yet they got one of them beaten.

Afraid from their young master, the two Two-Stars Bronze Rank fighters charged at Ye Qi. Although that he may be a 3rd-Star Bronze rank fighter, he is still one person, and one person has two arms, two legs, and one brain.

However, unknown to them, Ye Qi had a very strong soul force compared to non-spiritualist to them, which would increase his speed, reaction speed, and the fatality of his fist.

Nonetheless, he is still one person.

But, Ye Qi has one more power at his disposal.

The most powerful abilty.

The power of the young master.

"You dare to go against me, from Snow Wind Family" Ye Qi has a crazy sneer, eyes sharp focused on the two guys. "I will have your family's members in the front gates to face the demon beasts. As for you two, I'll send some elder to cut your heads."

The two fighters froze in their place, looking at the purple-eyed person, who just went angry all of the sudden.

They were shaking, hearing such a strong threat, and they froze.

They started to think, and their hearts almost stopped beating.

That's right. What they are doing. Ye Qi is a son of 5 Stars Black Gold Ranked, and his brother is a genius in a spiritualist class. If they had done anything to him, they would be punished severely. Even if their families were to get killed, no one would miss them, because they are commoners.

As they were frozen, Ye Qi clenched his fist and gave a punch to one guy, sending him flying away.

It feels good to use the power of the young master, honestly.

"What are you doing!" Shen Yue yelled from the side. These coward commoners. Do they think that the situation was over? "If you don't do a thing. I would be the one to apply his threats."

The remaining one looked at Ye Qi with eyes full of tear. He is between two young masters. The commoner thought about it. The Sacred Family people are known to be more evil in Glory City. Closing his eyes, he lifted his arms and dashed and Ye Qi, leaving his guard open and inviting the second young master to hit him.

Ye Qi could obviously tell this. He lifted his foot and kicked the fighter on his stomach, sending him flying and rolling on the ground until he passed by Shen Yue. The commoner lied down, pretending to sleep, his eyes half-closed. He wanted to see how the resolution.

Obviously, Shen Yue would get his ass beaten now.

"Hey get up." Shen Yue yelled. He looked between his sleeping subordinates and yelled again. "I'm not paying for you to sleep, get up!"

"Your luck is over."

Shen Yue knew that he was fucked up when he heard these chilly words. Although Shen Yue was a genius from the Sacred family, he is still a Rockie cultivator, and he is not a fighter at all. Ye Qi, who has been practising as a fighter from a young age, had a very strong body in comparison.

"If you beat me now, remember that in the future that I would cultivate to surpass your rank as a spiritualist. By then, you don't want me to pay back." Looking at the equal in height boy, Shen Yue forced a smile.

That was his last resort.

Ye Qi paused for a second. Shen Yue sighed in relief when he saw Qi staring at him with eyes widely opened.

"Now, you understood—"

"So what." Qi found it really funny. Is it the fate of everyone who has a powerful cheat to be challenged in cultivation based worlds? That was so ironic because as he is now, Ye Qi is better cultivator and fighter. How can his nephew be so naive? That's unacceptable. He needed to teach him a lesson for his aunt sake.

"Excuse me?" Shen Yue didn't believe what he just heard.

"Even if you cultivated in the future. What can your family do." Ye Qi smirked and stood up in front of the blue-haired young master. "And even If you got stronger, it would be in the very far future. By that time, you can do nothing, unless you wanted to provoke a war between two major families."

"I'm a direct son to the patriarch." Shen Yue felt cold sweat on his back. This, this is the presence. He needed to get his ass out of here.

"You are not the heir." Ye Qi cracked his fists. "Both of us has an equal statute."

It was well known that Shen Yue was a son of many direct descendants of the patriarch. The only reason he is chasing after Ye Ziyun was to guarantee his position within the Sacred Family.

"Can you let me go pleased?" Shen Yue bit his teeth, looking at Qi's eyes.

"No, as your uncle, I have to teach you how to see a Mountain Kai —"

"Mountain Tai, I believe you mean."

"Did I allow you to correct me!" Ye Qi frowned. How was he supposed to remember every Wuxia line? "And you forgot to call me senior."

"Come on, they used to say that before the ages of the darkness."

Shen Yue turned to run away. But he was too slow as Ye Qi held him from his collar. Using his inhuman strength, which isn't something worth mentioning in this world, Ye Qi lifted Shen Yue and slammed him on the ground, making him lose consciousness. He had to make sure not to kill him, just give him a slight beating. He didn't want to provoke someone who has the Dark Guild behind them.

Unless he reaches the level of Legendary or gets the Temporal Demon Spirit Book, Ye Qi needed to act like a kid who fights another kid. He thought that Shen Yue wouldn't mention something embarrassing such as getting his ass kicked. When he looked at Shen Yue on the ground, he sighed. This would only be considered as a kid fight.

"Behave like a good nephew." Ye Qi patted Shen Yue, who was groaning in pain as he lied on the ground. "Next time, I won't be as soft."

Very soon, someone came and took Shen Yue to the nurse. By that time, Ye Qi had left and gone to the market.

Ye Ziyun was there, waving her hand at him and smiling. He smiled back. When he started walking aside her, she noticed how he was smirking.

"You look to be happy. Did something happen?"

"Yes, you can say." Ye Qi lifted his head.

"Is it Xiao Ning'er?" Ye Ziyun said what's in her head.

Ye Qi lifted his eyebrows before staring at her pretty face. "No," he shook his head, showing honesty here.

Teasing, she was getting bolder. "Don't you think she is pretty?"

"I do. I just prefer mature ones."

Ye Ziyun opened her eyes widely, blushing when she saw him lifting his head. What does he mean by that? Ning'er has a chest of grown-up woman… what would that make Ziyun by then.

"Ouch, why did you hit my shoulder." Ye Qi held his shoulder.

"Use proper language, please." She said, turning her face.

Ye Qi just chuckled, before wandering the market to make a list of what to buy, before going back to the mansion, to his courtyard.

Sitting in the middle of his courtyard, Ye Qi took off his robes and decided this time to take a better sitting position to cultivate. The last time, he had felt his legs getting numb because he had cultivated while lying on his back.

Sitting on a wooden comfortable chair, he opened his mouth and started breathing slightly, chanting the Time-Space cultivation method. A grey aura wrapped him, as the soul force was being absorbed from the air. His aura was growing stronger with each passing moment. The muscles in his body were tensing up with each passing minute. After a couple of hours, Ye Qi's hair floated up.

Crack…

The sounds of a glass getting break could be heard from his body. Ye Qi opened his eyes all of the sudden, as his soul realm grew big all of the sudden.

<<100 soul force>>

The energy around him was getting absorbed to his body in a faster rate. He didn't need a crystal to tell him that he reached that mark. Qi just reached the first level for someone to become a Demon spiritualist.

Although Bronze Rank spiritualist couldn't integrate with Demon Spirits, they can be still considered as good fighters. They can use their energies to use inscriptions. Ye Qi didn't want the excitement to draw him out of the mood of cultivation. He closed his eyes again and continued chanting.

After some hours, it became night again. Ye Qi opened his eyes, feeling so refreshed. His eyesight felt better all of the sudden. Opening his palm, visible energy danced there. That was a good clue that he can get his energy out of his body, which meant that he is a 1st Star Bronze Rank spiritualist now. However, that had been achieved some hours ago.

Going to the crystal he kept in the corner of his room, he poured his soul force there. The river appeared on the crystal's glass. Ye Qi was surprised that the river now had a vortex inside.

But whatever, to his main focus. His soul force jumped up to 160.

Wait…. Although the results were too good. Ye Qi noticed something.

The rate at which he was gaining soul force became slower a bit, didn't it?

Yesterday, his soul force jumped almost +80 points.

But today, it was only 70.

That was a sign most won't worry about. But it would be better to deal with things like this now.

'Didn't the main protagonists cultivate faster as time progressed,' he thought about Nie Lie, the original one?

He then realised it. 'To cultivate faster, one needs more recourses.'

Nie Lie was a lucky person who gets his hands on good resources each time. Not to mention, he had a vast knowledge of Alchemy.

Alchemy. It was so good to progress faster. However, in this world, Glory City is suffering from the lack of pill recipes.

That was only due to one fact. The ancient recipes were lost after the demon hordes.

After the Darkness Ages -- the ages where the demon beasts annihilated the empires -- humanity took the remaining of the books from the empires and lived in the Glory City, which had been established 1000 years ago.

After 1000 years, the humans were venturing in the ruins, getting books from ancient empires and the kingdom's ruins. However, because most of the people in Glory City not knowing the ancient languages, the ancient knowledge was lost.

After living in Glory City, people were more focused on gaining political power, and for the fact that Demon Beasts hordes were always there, the people didn't pass the ancient languages.

"The eyes of the present and past…"

Ye Qi murmured to himself. That skill of his, it allow him to see the past of the things and understand the intent behind the ancient words.

That was the first Time-Space skill he had got.

Unlike the people from Alchemy Association, who had few people doing researches to gain back those recipes, Ye Qi can learn them easily if he is willing to spend time.

Ye Qi stood up and opened the door of his courtyard. He went to his mother's office, where she was busy making inscriptions for the people of his family.

After greeting her, and getting asked to give her a kiss on the cheek, she asked him, "Yeye, what are you doing here."

"I've told you not to call me that." Ye Qi smiled at the young woman.

Just seeing her face, and knowing her age, it made it hard to see her as a mother figure. Probably like a bigger sister would be more appropriate.

"Shy, aren't you?" She held a brush and turned to the scroll, moving very slowly and carefully. "If there is nothing, then I'm busy for now. We can talk tomorrow."

"Well, in fact, there is something." He scratched his chin and turned his eyes.

Snow Wind family was the ruling family of Glory City. Not to mention that they were direct descends for the Snow-Wind Spiritual God. They should have a great foundation. Ye Luo stopped what she is doing and stared at his face.

"I need books, about Alchemy, from the family's library. It would better if they were written in the languages of the previous empire." He said. "Can I get them?"

"Mmm… do you even know ancient languages?" She asked. She herself barely knew extra one, since her job was to search about inscriptions.

"I can always learn." He shook shoulders.

"Sure, I can get you that. But I prefer to do that in the morning," she then went back to work on the scroll. "If you allow me, I'm busy tonight."

"Thanks, love ya," he stated before closing the door behind him.

Facing her office with his back, he let a long sigh. Apparently, he would be visiting the library of the institute as well.

After eating a big meal, Ye Qi went back to his courtyard and sat down on his chair, closing his eyes again, before cultivating.

Before going to the institute tomorrow, it would be preferable if he could the max benefits from the time he has now.

Time is gold after all.