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While Yang Kai was still fretting, he heard a soft groan behind him and turned his head back to take a look there and saw Ye Jing Han sitting atop the boat with furrowed brows and a confused look plastered on her face.
She was a little confused by her current situation.
But, she quickly recalled what had happened before she got knocked out. She suddenly stood up and shouted, “Young Master Yang!”
“You finally woke up!” Yang Kai cast a glance at her and spoke calmly, “Don’t move around, you should first check your body and see if you have suffered any injuries.”
Upon hearing him, Ye Jing Han nodded and closed her eyes to observe the state of her body for a moment then opened them again, “I’m fine.”
She had just been knocked out by Hua Qing Si, and even though she was swept by the shockwaves of the Thunder-titled cultivator’s self-destruction, she hadn’t sustained any serious injuries. It was just her vitality that had gotten a bit feebler. Consuming some pills would be more than enough for her to make a full recovery.
“Yang Kai, where did that Elder Sister and the Big Stone Man go?” Ye Jing Han observed the surroundings, yet she couldn’t see Hua Qing Si or the Embodiment at all, so she couldn’t help but inquire about them.
“What Elder Sister and Big Stone Man?”
“Those…” Ye Jing Han was just about to describe them, yet she suddenly furrowed her brows and spoke with an odd look on her face, “Was it just an… Illusion?”
As she started mulling over the emergence of Hua Qing Si and the Embodiment, she felt like everything looked surreal, and she couldn’t help but suspect that she had fallen victim to an illusion.
“I used a special Secret Technique earlier to deal with those four; you must have seen an illusion because of it.”
“So that’s what happened!” Ye Jing Han let out a breath and said in self-mockery, “Young Master Yang, you’re endowed with remarkable abilities and I couldn’t provide any help to you. I’m really ashamed of myself.”
“Don’t brood over it, Blood Dagger’s so-called Four Ghosts are all quite strong. If you had meddled in the battle, you wouldn’t be alive right now.”
Upon hearing this, Ye Jing Han broke down into cold sweat and she realized the large disparity between Yang Kai and her.
The Blood Dagger’s Four Ghosts were all Third-Order Dao Source Realm cultivators and they had even used a Formation Technique to join their strengths together. In that state, they could fight evenly against an Emperor Realm Master for a time, yet they had all been killed by Yang Kai.
It was an amazing feat!
They were both Second-Order Dao Source Realm cultivators, yet the disparity between them was like Heaven and Earth. She couldn’t help but feel gloomy over this and she started longing for the great power possessed by Yang Kai.
She suddenly chuckled bitterly and she reached her hand back to rub her neck as she felt some slight pain on it. This was another point she was dumbstruck by!
She suddenly recalled how the ‘illusionary’ woman had knocked her out and she continued to have doubts, wondering if everything she had seen was real or not.
The rest of the road was crossed in silence!
Yang Kai had just suffered the attack of Four Ghosts, and it looked like Ye Jing Han was still in a low mood because of it. She didn’t bother him on the way and she just gave him some directions, then sat down on the boat to rest.
After around ten days, they finally saw a mountain range in the distance.
At this moment, Ye Jing Han stood up on the boat cheerfully and pointed at the mountain range, “Young Master Yang, this is the Thousand Leaves Mountain where my Thousand Leaves Sect is located. We’ll reach it in half a day.”
“En!” Yang Kai replied casually.
Ye Jing Han added, “I’ll send a message to my father, he must be worried about me.”
She had spent several months alone outside and her relatives would probably be worried about her. She had already returned safely, so she wanted to quickly get in touch with them.
Yang Kai didn’t pay heed to her and just sat at the front of the boat and observed the surroundings.
Ye Jing Han took out a communication artifact and inputted some information into it. Shortly after, she got a response.
After Ye Jing Han checked it, she couldn’t help but furrow her brow and a displeased look showed up on her face.
Yang Kai had detected that her expression had turned for the worse and he inquired over this, “What happened?”
Ye Jing Han pouted and grumbled, “My father asked me to participate in the wedding ceremony of Sky Crane City’s Lord with his new concubine. It’s so infuriating! If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have told him I had come back so I could avoid this troublesome matter.”
“It looks like you don’t want to go,” Yang Kai looked at her with a smile.
Ye Jing Han snorted coldly, “I don’t want to mingle with a man who betrayed his allies. If he wants to take a new concubine, then that’s his matter. Why does my father even bother with such a man, even sending our Sect disciples to this ceremony.”
Ye Jing Han’s expression turned cold, “That man is just a treacherous and ungrateful scum. He only obtained the City Lord’s position thanks to our Thousand Leaves Sect’s support, yet he quickly sought another backer after he got it and didn’t put us in his eyes anymore. He had even chased off many of our already established industries in Sky Crane City. He’s just a vile man!”
Yang Kai wasn’t really interested in this matter, so he just inquired about it briefly then dropped it.
Ye Jing Han had also realized that it wasn’t really proper for her to grumble about this to Yang Kai and apologized, “Young Master Yang, I apologize, I let my frustrations get the better of me.”
“It’s no bother, there are many vile and infuriating people in this world,” Yang Kai waved his hand in response.
“Young Master Yang, just wait for a little while. I’ll notify my father, then bring you back to the Sect and arrange residence for you,” Ye Jing Han said then started composing a new message.
“You don’t have to bother,” Yang Kai grinned in response. “I’ll just take a trip with you there, it’ll be less troublesome and I’ll just take it for a brief outing to loosen up a little.”
Upon hearing this, Ye Jing Han spoke in delight, “Many thanks, Young Master Yang; if you experience something unpleasant during this situation, please don’t take offence.”
“It’s fine!”
Saying so, they adjusted the direction and headed off to Sky Crane City.
Sky Crane City was located three thousand kilometres from Thousand Leaves Mountain. It wasn’t a big city, but it was still a lot better than Maplewood City, and it could be said that it was medium-scale.
According to what Ye Jing Han had said, Sky Crane City’s City Lord Mansion had around a dozen Dao Source Realm Masters, including its City Lord, Luo Jin, who was a powerful Third-Order Dao Source Realm Master. Luo Jin wasn’t any weaker than some second-class Sect Masters in the vicinity, and he had been able to take a firm hold of the City Lord’s position with his power.
When Yang Kai and Ye Jing Han reached the city gates, they found it bustling with activity with many carriages loaded with goods waiting for their turns to enter the city. Those carriages were loaded with precious treasures and Yang Kai had even sniffed the odour of some pills and spirit medicines.
Those carriages were all decorated with festive ornaments, and they were obviously loaded with congratulatory gifts prepared by the local forces.
Sky Crane City was one of the most powerful forces within a hundred thousand kilometres, and all of this region’s Sects had to send delegations to congratulate the City Lord for taking in a new concubine.
The guards standing next to the gates were all spirited and delighted. They welcomed the guests with a smile, then inspected the goods before letting them pass.
Yang Kai and Ye Jing Han didn’t rush into the city and just waited at a spot a hundred metres or so from the city entrance. They were doing so because Ye Jing Han told him that disciples of the Thousand Leaves Sect would shortly arrive.
Ye Jing Han had gotten this assignment by pure chance. If she didn’t come back today, she wouldn’t have been given this hateful mission by Ye Hen.
She was still the Young Lady of Thousand Leaves Sect and it wouldn’t be unseemly for her to lead the group of envoys to congratulate the City Lord.
After they waited for a short while, Ye Jing Han’s eyes lit up and she pointed in a certain direction, “They’re here!”
Yang Kai gazed over there and saw a ray of light streaking across the sky, one that became clear as it approached. This was a ship-shaped Flight-Type Artifact with several cultivators in matching uniforms atop it. The person standing near the ship’s bow was looking around and upon seeing Ye Jing Han, he grinned and waved at her amicably.
Ye Jing Han responded in the same way as the ship landed shortly after. The man who had been waving at Ye Jing Han a while ago descended and waited for the others to disembark before he waved his hand and collected the ship.
“Ye’er, you’ve finally returned. If you didn’t come back, I would have gone to Maplewood City to look for you.” The man went toward Ye Jing Han directly then gazed at her affectionately with his bright eyes. He had ignored Yang Kai completely!
“Senior Brother Du Xian!”
Upon facing his ardent gaze, Ye Jing Han’s face got flushed and she couldn’t help but lower her head bashfully.
Upon seeing this, Yang Kai couldn’t help but smile. He had realized right away that these two had a ‘meaningful’ relationship.
One of the other men stuck his head out behind Du Xian and grinned, “Senior Sister Ye, you have no idea what Senior Brother has been like since you left for Maplewood City. He didn’t even get a proper meal and he wasn’t even in the mood to cultivate! He was scolded plenty of times by our Master.”
“Enough of your babbling!” Du Xian glared at him with a smile in his eyes.
Ye Jing Han pursed her lips and said in a low voice, “This is unacceptable… You must still cultivate…”
Du Xian looked affectionately at Ye Jing Han and said softly, “I have been trying to cultivate… but, I couldn’t calm down, I couldn’t stop thinking about someone.”
“And who… was that….” Ye Jing Han’s body trembled as her cheeks flushed even more.
“Who else could it be but you!?” A sneaky man butted in and continued, “Senior Sister Ye, I have also missed you, I missed you so much that I couldn’t get proper sleep at night…”
Saying so, he put on a pained look and started twisting around, which incurred a peal of laughter from the other disciples of the Thousand Leaves Sect.
“Wu Ma, get lost!” Du Xian stretched his hand and struck Wu Man’s head. The latter couldn’t help but lower his head and grumble, “You can do whatever you want, but we can’t even flirt a little? How can you be so unreasonable? Senior Sister, you must seek justice for me.”
Ye Jing Han spat and spoke, “You deserve it, who told you to keep jabbering on and on? Senior Brother, you must teach him an unforgettable lesson.”
Upon hearing this, a dejected and dismayed look surfaced on Wu Ma’s face.
Yang Kai had just been observing this from the side and found the disciples of the Thousand Leaves Sect to be pretty interesting, feeling that they all had close ties with each other. He couldn’t help but chuckle and sigh slightly. The smaller a Sect, and the more precarious its situation, the more united its disciples would be, but once a Sect grew larger, then they would start trying to outwit each other and they would even put on fake acts of civility.
At this moment, Du Xian finally noticed Yang Kai and a surprised glint flashed past his eyes. Cupping his fists, he introduced himself, “Du Xian of Thousand Leaves Sect greets this friend, may I ask for your noble name?”
Thx
Meow
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Again to slow
Du Xian of Thousand Leaves Sect greets this friend, may I ask for your noble name?”
Yk : i am the bone of my sword…
Unknown to death, nor known to life…
Looool
pretty badass line
So yk is his own alter ego from the future?
Another filler 🙁 Thanks for translation!
I bet that the new concubine city lord is taking is someone yang kai knows, and the concubine is being forced by this city lord and yang kai will help both the new concubine and the thousand leaves sect, in the end the thousand leaves sect will reclaim the city entirely.
And the concubine is most likely that monster lord woman from yang kai’s star field whose name I forgot.
This ain’t spoiler or anything but I know this momo motherfucker well since I have read up till this point, so I can predict this bastard’s writing style.
Although I hate you talking like that about the author but yea agree with this prediction
so it’s reunion time?
True, I was really wondering when Yang Kai would start searching for the rest of the crew. He should have at least said something to Azure Sun and Maplewood City to help search.
Chi yue, from monster race
Bruh if uve read ahead and ur spoiling fuck u
We were just speculating but you just had to go ahead and spoil the storyline, with extra details, congratulations. You must be dun at parties ha?
@Saiyukies
Also since you read mtl why the fuck are you still reading this? Just to spoil us? You motherfucker!
This is exactly what will happen hahaha
Nhaaaa, someone in that position can’t marry a woman “lower” than them. She was 3rd KR, while he’s 3rd DS. there is no way she reached more than 1DS, so no match. (if we follow the logic so far)
Buuuuut, it’s still highly probable lol.
Also, how can you tell it’s filler? LASTGUNSLINGER
Is there another source to read about this story? 👀
She had heavenly spider something bloodline in her if I remember correctly, so she might make a good dual cultivation partner or something, or the city lord is pervert and since she is an exotic monster race beauty he is interested in her.
Let us not that forget she is also star master, so the author is most likely to use the star source plotline in her, should she really turn out to be the new concubine.
Also there are mtl but I truly advise against reading any kind of mtl, if you read just to know what happens in the story, and do nor care about prose and other things then you can read mtl I suppose.
But, imho, any self-respected human being should not read mtl or whatsoever. Mtl just destroys the joy od reading in exchange for knowing the story ahead.
She isn’t a star master tho. The only two star masters were Yang Kai and Ai Ou right?
I get that people want to know whats going to happen but what brings joy in reading martial peak is not reaching the end but the friends we made along the way. Definetly don’t go for Mtl, you will only regret it imo.
Apologies, but Chi Yue is not a Star Master. Of the group that went through the Star Corridor, only Yang Kai and Ai Ou were Star Masters. It was specifically mentioned that fact sped up the gathering of starlight for those two and how the rest were jealous.
I would rather read the wiki than read mtl of anything. Tried mtl apotheosis once, couldn’t finish a chapter for how bad it was
^^
Oh I forgot it was ai ou who was the star master, i thought yang kai gave that chick the refinement method and she was the other star master.
In this case heavenly spider source /blood or city lord being a perv is most likely should the situation turn out like that.
Why do people say this stuff is filler? It’s world building. You can’t have conflict without stakes. You can’t have stakes without characters and situations you don’t care about. You can’t care about the people and stuff in the world unless the it’s introduced and made interesting.
If YK just went from cultivation to fight to cultivation to fight to cultivation to fight…. It would soon get uninteresting and stale. I find this new set of characters and setting to be quite interesting, and immediately care about them and the situation here because of it.
It is filler that is all there is to it, been there done that. Not that there being filler chapters is bad but it is the execution that is repetitive.
As for “If YK just went from cultivation to fight to cultivation to fight to cultivation to fight…. It would soon get uninteresting and stale. I find this new set of characters and setting to be quite interesting, and immediately care about them and the situation here because of it.”
I also do not like fight/cultivate cycle but this novel almost entirely consists of this cycle, there is never a serene slice of style like comprehensive cultivation cycle either.
The author just brushes things of with little to no mention about cultivation. It has been 2.3 k chapters almost but we still don’t know for example the lifespan of realms they are always conflicted each other almost. Also I will not even delve into the lack of world building, still what kind od place is this star boundary is not explained, if it is a flat plane of existence or something like that? It is too lacking lately.
Btw, did you start reading the novel from start or sis you come from manga?
The whole chapter starts at artifact finishes at in front of city. Not a single development but lots of unnecessarily long explanations. It is for laying foundation for what will gonna happen I get it but for example instead of doing this whole episode they could have done when they were at the banquet in whispers while getting more action to episode.
I am not saying without fight or cultivation it is filler but without development it is filler. Literally nothing happened this episode. Oh previously I said action not in fight sense but advancement both in means in characters or story. And you know from the style of the author he will give brief explanation every time people reappear even if it just a sentence.
So imho this was kind of wasted episode.
Thanks for the chapter this king was late
Ryu don’t speak ill about my friend momo behind this king back apologise then I’ll think about using only 1 percent of my slow fist heaven fallen asleep
Junior you dare!
Immediately kowtow to this father 3 times and call me daddy, then gouge your eyes, cut your arms and then I might leave your corpse intact.
Hmm, there is always a higher mountain, what thing is a slow fist.
Hahahaha
Dare you say
Do you think you can scare me ,my slow fist is enough for me to become great emperor
Want me to use my full strength,oh sorry the heaven begged me that not to use mighty fist
I kinda agree that the concubine would be someone YK knows. However for it to be the one from his home star is kinda unlikely for her lack of cultivation realm. It might be the one that they met in the corridor, or I don’t remember what was it called, then escaped with him from the first sect he was forced to join. Then again.. I don’t see a point in that reunion either.. scaling the options it is likely to be the former xD
Yeah that girl is an option too but, I am not sure if you yang kai would get involved in the city lord’s business in that situation. Since they do not have a deep bond or relationship for yang kai to risk it.
As for why I am thinking yang kai would clash with the city lord and his mansion, it is the rule of fiction..
Russian author Anton Chekhov had the famous Gun principle in storytelling and he said
“One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.”
In this chapter, the mentions of the evil and wicked city lord and his mansion is definitely the loaded rifle, so it should fo off at some point but what will cause it to go off we can only speculate.
hahaha..some of these are spoilers…don’t speculate if you have read further ahead…
let some people have their fun in their guess games
Thanks for the chapter babes
I never read further ahead, just going with the flow of this no-brainer cultivation novel honestly:)
I am assuming from what you wrote that you went ahead and read mtl and some of what we speculate are true as expected. At this point it as I said a no-brainer thing, just shut your brain off and enjoy reading these kina novels otherwise they fall apart lol
Thx
So let me get this straight. You sent your daughter out to look for some rare cultivator that deals with the dao of space, that person has the ability to change your families fortunes for the better, she actually did the impossible and found him and brought him back, and the first thing u do is send her to some wedding for someone the family doesn’t even care about..
Yep makes sense
Time to teach some to write 死亡 (I hope Google translate got this right)