Chapter 5

Ye Zong pinched the centre of his eyebrows and said "Ye Han, you may leave. We shall talk it out and give them their reply tomorrow."

Ye Han walked out of the hall and he clearly saw the smug faces of all the elders sitting there. Ye Han went to the tree he always sat on.

Then a face he recognised, came running to him and asked "Ye Han, were you surprised? I wanted to surprise you and see your happy face."

It was Xiao Ning'er and she was really happy, expecting a great reaction from Ye Han. He looked at her and his face didn't show happiness. Ye Han ruffled her hair and Ning'er asked "Ye Han, are you not happy about the marriage proposal? Do you not like me?"

Ye Han sighed and said "Ning'er, you are still small and haven't interacted with anyone except me and Ye Ziyun. That's why you feel this way."

Listening to Ye Han sat that what she had wasn't love and doubt her feelings, she had tears from her eyes and was about to cry.

"She is still a little girl. She will have to grow up to learn about all these." Ye Han said in his head and looked at Xiao Ning'er.

He wiped her tears and said "Ok Ning'er, I have an idea that will be better for both of us." Ning'er listened to him with full concentration.

Ye Han continued "You are still a small girl. So, I will accept the engagement, but we will officially get engaged at the age of 14, only if you agree to the marriage at that time.

Since you will be old enough to take your own decisions and think about what is right and what is wrong, we will come to a conclusion then. If you say you still want to marry me, I will do so and if you say no, I will take the responsibility and cancel the marriage. What do you think about this?" asking Ning'er's thoughts at the end.

Since Xiao Ning'er though that her love was genuine and she wouldn't change her mind about him, she immediately agreed. Also, 13-14 was the age where most girls get married, so she didn't have a problem.

As for Ye Han, he thought "When she grows up, she will find someone she loves and forget about me. She liked Nie Li in the show and she had dreams about him from Nie Li's previous life, so even the butterfly effect shouldn't be of much trouble in this case."

Xiao Ning'er sat on Ye Han's lap and said "Yay...I am Ye Han's fiance." and Ye Han just smiled and ruffled her hair.

After a while, Ning'er went back home and, Ye Han visited Ye Zong and explained about the conditions and Ye Zong understood Ye Han's intentions. It could also make the elders relax and prevent them from planning something against him.

Ye Zong said "Although this might be a good solution to this problem, you should still think about the weight your words carry, in the future. You may leave."

When Ye Han returned to his room, Ye Ziyun was waiting for him near the door and turned to him when she heard his footsteps.

She said "Brother, did you really accept her marriage proposal?" and Ye Han said "Ziyun, there is a lot going in the real world and it is a pain in the ass."

"Brother, don't use vulgar words like that." Ye Ziyun said and Ye Han chuckled before walking to his bed and laying down on it.

Ziyun sat near him on the bed and asked "Brother, are you really going to marry Ning'er? Will you forget about me after that?"

"It's decided. I am going to spend more time cultivating in the training grounds than here. What is up with these kids?" Ye Han said in his head and said to Ye Ziyun "How could I forget about my cute and lovely sister?" pulling her cheeks and making her struggle to free herself.

She then went back to her room after talking to him for a while and Ye Han immediately went to sleep.

The next day, he ran to the training grounds early morning and said to Ye Ziyun "I am training how to fight and am close to enlightenment. I will play with you evening."

He cut the playing time to only once and went to the training grounds. He met with Yang Xin and brought herbs from her.

Yang Xin asked him "Young master Ye Han, what happened to you yesterday? You didn't come to get herbs."

"I had to deal with a lot of shit and lot of shitty people in my family. What about you? Are you making a good progress in your cultivation?" Ye Han asked as he was helping her cultivate by giving her tips.

He obviously wasn't going to share pill recipes or cultivation techniques to a person he only met for 2 weeks and doesn't even interact much.

She replied "Great, I am already close to breaking through to the silver rank. Your pointers about the time to cultivate and how long I should cultivate, really helped me stabilise my cultivation and continue cultivation."

"Well, I could help more of you let me look at your cultivation technique, but you wouldn't." Ye Han said and Yang Xin replied "Young master Ye Han, you also wouldn't reveal your cultivation technique to me if I asked. You should also know that cultivation techniques are secrets of everyone if they got it from their family. Now if you will excuse me young master, I have work to do."

"Ok. Just do what you were doing. I will get to my training." Ye Han said and Yang Xin nodded before going back to her herb hunting. After a while, she went back to her room and started cultivating, while Ye Han was training his Yami Yami no Mi powers.

He used the Black vortex, covering his hand with the dark flames/smoke thing and pulled a stone towards him. This time, unlike before, came to him fast and hit his hand.

If he hadn't cultivated, he would have already broken his arm, or dislocated it. "Cultivation is really a way to Godhood. I can't believe it even increased my devil fruit powers while also strengthening my body." Ye Han said and undid his Back vortex.

The stone immediately dropped down and, he then bent down, placed his hand and used Black hole.

The dark flames thing spread around him and it started sucking in all the stones and trees around him. Ye Han was also able to feel the pull and he could tell that it had increased a lot from before. This is after his body had already strengthened from his cultivation.

"I feel like I am carrying 100 kilograms of weight." Ye Han said and immediately undid the move. He sat down on the ground, breathing heavily, and said "This black hole is getting more dangerous slowly. I have to take care when I use this move. I am literally a sitting duck while using the move. It is taking me everything just to resist the pull."

He then brought out a bamboo bottle and drank water. While drinking, he remembered something. Ye Han immediately put the bottle back in his spatial ring and stood up.

He said "I still haven't the move 'Liberation'." and focused on his darkness power inside him. The dark flames came out and rose up, forming a ball above him.

From it, crushed trees, which turned into twigs, crushed stones, which turned into pebbles, and a lump of flesh came flying out.

He looked at the lump of flesh and almost puked. He then looked at it closely and found the tow pair of horns which were barely recognisable. It was the body of the Horned Sheep.

Ye Han looked at the things and the empty space around him and said with a sigh "I feel like, this body has nerfed the Yami Yami no Mi. Blackbeard was able to literally suck an entire village and control the liberation as to how he wants them to come out.

He can also control his darkness flame to make them take any shape and use liberation. I feel pathetic loosing to a villain from a show I was watching. I can't complain though, I am literally in the world I read online."

Ye Han then went to cultivation since he knew that it could strengthen even his devil fruit powers. He sat down near a tree to escape the hot sun and begun chanting the words of the cultivation technique.

The Indigo color aura around him appeared again and it started rising up, slowly growing as time went by.

Ye Han cultivated for hours and he then finally opened his eyes. He tried to move his legs, but they ended up like before. He stretched his legs with the help of his hands and sat there to recover.

He looked at the sky and saw the orange red sky, which meant it was sunset and he had cultivated for long. He said "Well, it was worth it though. This technique is really crazy with how fast it is helping me grow. I am already at 2-star bronze rank and at my age, it is impossible in this world, but I can speed up the process with pills though." thinking about all the pill recipes he had in his head.

Knowing that growing stronger fast is the most important thing in this world, he decided that he will use pills to speed up the process. So, he waited there till he could walk again and went to the closest medicinal store to buy the materials needed for the pill making, which were cheap and easy to find items in the city.

He took them and went straight to his room, because he was making pills for the first time in his life. He also brought a small pill making cauldron that was cheap, so that it wouldn't be a big loss to him even if he ended up damaging him in the pill making process.

He went through everything in his head on how to make the fire, how to control it, how to control the ingredients and how to merge them. With the knowledge ready in his mind, he made some hand signs and the flame lit up.

He used his soul force to move the ingredients into the cauldron and controlled their distance from the flame, but when he tried to bring them a little bit closer to the fire, the fire would burn off the ingredients and make them look like coal.

"Ok, ok, failure is the most important thing in an experiment and you can consider it as your first success. Since I now know what to do, I can just keep the ingredients from burning." Ye Han said optimistically and he didn't know at that time, that this statement was false.

He tried again and failed. He tried four more times before running out of ingredients and he failed all the four times. Ye Han said "Looks like today isn't my lucky day. Let us start fresh tomorrow." and went to bed.

The statement 'It isn't my lucky day today' slowly turned into 'I have no talent in pill making' in just a week, as he spent the whole week trying to make pills and only ended up wasting time and money.

He sat down near the cauldron and kicked it hardly to tumble it down. He sat on his bed and said "I guess everyone should their own job. I don't think I can make pills, so I should go to someone who can, and the only one I know who can make pills, is Yang Xin."

He then opens the door and calls for his maid. She enters his room after a while and asked "What can I do for you, young master?"

"I would like to investigate on a person and would like to know who is the correct person for this job." Ye Han said and the maid was surprised. She immediately hid her emotions and said in a professional tone "As far as I know, there is a restaurant in the Northern part of the city. I heard people talk about how they can get any information from them if you have enough money."

"Alright, thank you. You know what to do after this, right?" Ye Han asked in the end and the maid replied "Yes young master, I shall keep my lips sealed about this."

"You better do or else, you can forget about your lover who works in the inn down the street." Ye Han said and it made her open her eyes wide open and clench her fist before bowing to him and leaving.

As to how Ye Han knew about it, he saw them make out in a room in the inn, without even closing their windows. Ye Han didn't intend to see there, but her face caught his eyes and he just had to enquire to know all about them.

This way, he doesn't have to worry about his maid leaking his secrets about his cultivation or any other thing he might do in his room.

Ye Han then headed to the restaurant and since it was already dark, he didn't have to cover himself much. He just walked to the restaurant and approached a waitress and said "I am looking for something that isn't on the menu." It wasn't any secret code or anything, but it did help the waitress understand his intentions.