C35

Chapter 35 - Heading to the Capital

Tianwu Empire, Eight Desolate City Ye Family. The plaza was filled with A disciple of the Ye Family, and their faces were filled with excitement as they watched the eight people on the stage, their eyes filled with envy.

This eight disciples, three women and five men, had all broken through and become cultivators. Today was the big day when they were leaving for the imperial city, and eight young disciples of the Ye Family had just broken through and obtained the qualifications to take the Tianwu Academy's test.

The eight of them couldn't hide their excitement on the stage. Originally, they had no hope of participating in this year's assessment, but a month ago, when Ye Yang returned and brought back the Green Spirit Fruit, everything had changed.

The entire Ye Family was immediately in an uproar as they quickly gathered their alchemists and used three days to refine more than ten Green Spirit Fruits into Spirit Gathering Liquid. Although the Ye Family had more than a hundred disciples, each of them received three bottles.

Because of the gentle nature of the Green Spirit Fruit, which could be consumed with ease and courage, A disciple of the Ye Family's cultivation level suddenly shot up like a bamboo shoot after a spring rain. Until today, there were a total of eight disciples with solid cultivations who had broken through to the Martial Disciple realm, and Ye Qingxuan had even broken through to the Second Sky of the Nascent Soul Stage.

And A disciple of the Ye Family who had reached the ninth stage of Qi Condensation had a total of twenty-seven people. It could be said that the Cyan Spirit Fruit would be a decisive factor in the future rise of the Ye Family.

"Swish!"

A bird's cry broke the silence of the plaza as a flying magical beast with a wingspan of over fifteen meters fell into the plaza.

This was a Class II Magical Beast Iron Feathered Hawk, its wings were like iron, and its claws were sharp enough to easily shatter rocks and boulders.

As the Iron Feathered Hawk descended, a black-robed youth, who was sitting on its back, entered the eyes of the crowd.

This person was Ye Yang. Currently, he appeared to be even deeper, and his aura was even more stable. There wasn't a single hint of leakage from his eyes. His bright eyes seemed to be able to see through everything.

Ye Yang had tamed Iron Feathered Hawks on the way home, which was thanks to Poison Heart Demon Emperor. The broken sword had shattered his soul, leaving him with a portion of his skills, "Seed of Slave" was a technique that allowed Ye Yang to enslave a demon beast with a lower soul power.

All of the A disciple of the Ye Family in the arena bowed towards Xing Lidao. Some of the disciples even trembled, unable to conceal the excitement in their hearts.

Currently, Ye Yang's prestige amongst the Ye Family's youths was definitely higher than his father, Ye Lingtian. A large portion of people had already taken Ye Yang as their idol.

Ye Yang returned everyone's salute and said to the eight people on the stage, "You eight will follow me to pay my respects to the City Lord, then we will fly together to the imperial capital!"

He turned around and said to the A disciple of the Ye Family below the stage: "It's not a bad thing that you all can't participate in this year's selection. At the next Tianwu Academy selection, there will definitely be a place for you all."

The Tianwu Empire's selection was held once every three years. Since Ye Yang and the others had managed to make it to this year's competition, it could be said that they were fortunate and unlucky, because their cultivation was at the bottom of this year's competition. If they didn't have any special abilities, it would be difficult for them to stand out amongst the numerous geniuses.

As for the majority of them, they were all qualified to participate in the next selection. At that time, their cultivations would become the most powerful thing they could rely on.

Seeing that the few of them were standing on the back of the Iron Feathered Hawk, the Iron Feathered Hawk gave the order and soared into the sky, flying straight for the City Lord's Mansion.

"We respectfully send you off, Young Patriarch!" A disciple of the Ye Family shouted in unison.

"I'll be counting on all of you, brothers and sisters. I believe you will not let me down. Goodbye!" Iron Feathered Hawk had already turned into a black dot in the sky. Ye Yang's voice was still clearly transmitted into everyone's ears.

In a pavilion in the Ye Family, Ye Lingtian let out a sigh as he watched the Iron Feathered Hawk fly away.

The Second Elder nodded and said, "It is the eagle that will spread its wings and soar in the sky one day. We can only learn to let go."

In front of the City Lord's Mansion, the arena that had a radius of five kilometers, had three flying magical beast s prepared and ready to go.

Li Chengfeng stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the people in front of him. There were nine Ye Family members on the three demonic beasts, five from the Zhao Family, and only two from the Gu Family.

"The Ye Family's disciples will split into three people and go to the Gu Family to sit together with them. Ye Yang, you sit together with me," Li Chengfeng said.

The four flying magical beast headed towards the capital like this.

Li Chengfeng's mount was a powerful Rank 4 Magical Beast, the Lightning Eagle. After Ye Yang sat down, he did not speak and cultivated silently.

Li Chengfeng glanced at Ye Yang. Even though he didn't know what had happened to Ye Yang, ever since he returned from his experiences deep in the mountains, he had been training with all his might.

Li Chengfeng and Ye Lingtian had asked Ye Yang before, but Ye Yang refused to say it. He only said that his time was very precious and could not be wasted.

However, he knew that this time, Ye Yang had received a huge shock during the Mountain Trials, and even his usual glib personality had changed by a lot.

"Ye Yang, stop cultivating for now and listen to what Uncle Li has to say to you," Li Chengfeng said.

"Uncle Li, please speak." Ye Yang opened his eyes and said.

"It's a good thing that you went all out to cultivate like this, but you must have a certain level of understanding when it comes to everything else. If it's too much, you should understand, right?" Li Chengfeng said worriedly.

Ye Yang smiled. "Don't worry, Uncle Li, I will take good care of this situation, it's just that I don't have much time." Ye Yang's cultivation was already at the Fifth Heavenly Layer, but compared to the War Emperor's, it wasn't worth it.

However, he could not speak of the bitterness in his heart. If people knew that his goal was to reach the Martial King within three years, they would definitely think that he had been possessed.

However, every time Ye Yang thought back to the moment when Chu Yanran split up her hands, that depressing scene, Ye Yang's heart would hurt like needles.

He could keenly feel that Chu Yanran did not reject him, and because of some unknown reasons, she had no choice but to reject him.

Ye Yang could clearly feel that even though she's an Emperor expert, she's in great pain.

"Alright, you decide your own matters. What I want to tell you is, when you enter the Tianwu Academy, there are some enemies that you need to watch out for," Li Chengfeng said a little sternly, especially the words "enemies".

Seeing Ye Yang's confused face, Li Chengfeng explained the situation to him, allowing Ye Yang to come to a sudden realization.

The Tianwu Empire had a total of sixteen cities and was only one of them. However, in terms of population density and mineral resources, the Eight Desolate City was ranked at the bottom.

The Eight Desolate City only had a population of more than four million, but the other cities have at least a few tens of millions, so the powerful Nan Licheng has a population of over a hundred million.

But this Nan Licheng's City Lord, Mu Shixiong was actually his rival. His brother Mu Shiying had coveted Li Chengfeng's wife and set up an ambush, making a move on the two of them. In the end, he was killed by and his wife.

After that, when Li Chengfeng's wife passed away, Li Chengfeng joined the empire. He went on a crazy campaign against the Uda Empire and made a meritorious war achievement, becoming loved and respected by the Emperor, so the Mu Family could only endure this for now.

Li Chengfeng had suspected that the death of his wife was a trap set up by the Mu Family, but due to the lack of evidence, he was unable to make a move against the Mu Family.

After the two nations stopped fighting, the battle between the Mu Family and Li Chengfeng did not stop.

Every year in the Tianwu Academy, the students of the Eight Desolate City would be suppressed to the point where they couldn't even lift their heads.

As for those with violent personalities who couldn't stand being provoked, they would often be beaten half to death, some even crippled, in the arena.

The Tianwu Academy was outside of the empire, and was not governed by the laws of the empire. Inside the Tianwu Academy, there were its own rules.

No one cared about the injuries exchanged between academies. If it was a competition on the arena, as long as no one was killed, everything would be in accordance with the rules.

Every time Li Chengfeng came to the Tianwu Academy, he would be ridiculed by the Mu Family, causing him to be filled with anger but he had no place to vent it off.

In the battlefield known as Tianwu Academy, Li Chengfeng could be said to have lost miserably.

After introducing the opponent's situation, Li Chengfeng's expression became a bit heavy as he said, "This time's Tianwu Academy's recruitment is different from the usual. There are a lot of talented people, so you must be careful in the future."

"The first person was Guan Yanxue, who came from Scarlet Earth City. She is seventeen years old and has the cultivation of the fourth stage of Division. Her attack power is astonishing."

The second person is Lan Caidie, who came from the Windy City. This girl is only fifteen years old, but is already at the fifth stage of the Division. Furthermore, her Innate Qi is a rarely seen wind attribute, so her attacks are as fast as wind.

The third person is called Ye Yuhan. He is seventeen years old from the Flying Snow City, has a cultivation at the fifth stage of the Division, and his true energy is different from the water attribute — Ice attribute.

"And the last one was Nan Licheng, named Mu Bai, eighteen years old, with a cultivation at the ninth level of the Division. His true qi is of the fire attribute and his talent is extremely high.

After saying that, Li Chengfeng sighed, although he was mortal enemies with Nan Licheng, but he could not help but be amazed at how talented Nan Licheng was, as the Eight Desolate City was incomparable to him.

This time, there were a total of one hundred and twenty-seven people that were chosen by Nan Licheng and seventeen people just based on Division alone.

"Ye Yang, with your current cultivation of Fighter 5-dan, can already be considered a genius. But compared to them, you're still slightly inferior. Most importantly, they have the advantage of age and resources."

Especially Mu Bai, you definitely cannot fight him head on. You are younger than him, so in two or three years, you will definitely be able to defeat him. The current you has to learn to endure, "Li Chengfeng said sincerely as he patted Ye Yang's shoulder.

He was worried that Ye Yang, who was young and overbearing, would suffer greatly from the provocation.

Ye Yang nodded with a humble expression, as if he was being taught a lesson. However, he did not agree with it in his heart. A bunch of little brats, it's best not to provoke me. Everyone is fine, my time is precious, but I don't have time to waste.

But if some blind fellow provoked him, he wouldn't mind letting them know why the flowers were so red.

When it was almost nightfall, the group stopped flying and went to a relay station to rest. Just as they entered the relay station, a voice that was neither cold nor hot said, "I didn't expect that this Eight Desolate City would have so many talents. I wonder how many of them could pass the test, or if even one of them could not make it through."