214: Master, don't treat me like a human being, train me to death!

However...

Just as Nether Spring thought he was about to succeed in his escape... Ye Chen, as if he had eyes in the back of his head, casually flicked his right hand backward.

"Whoosh!"

A silver needle shot through the air.

The next second.

Nether Spring, who had already run over ten meters away, suddenly stiffened!

He looked down in disbelief at the location of his Mingmen point on his lower back.

There, a silver needle as thin as a cow's hair had sunk into it.

Immediately after.

A strange sense of numbness exploded from the Mingmen point like a plague, instantly spreading to his entire lower body!

"Argh—!"

Nether Spring let out a miserable scream. His legs instantly lost all strength, and he collapsed limply to the ground like a pile of mud with its spine removed.

He tried to struggle, wanting to circulate his True Qi to force out the silver needle, but that numbness not only sealed his mobility but also acted like countless fine chains, imprisoning his energy center as well!

To the point that... he couldn't even sever his own meridians!

Two Dragon Group experts instantly swept over, pinning him down firmly from both sides, quickly searching him and putting him in cuffs.

In an instant.

The supreme leader of the Black Prison's Dark Crow, an Earth Realm powerhouse, was dragged back like a dead dog and thrown in front of Xuanyuan Huo and Ye Chen.

Xuanyuan Huo nodded and gave orders to those behind him.

"Take him away."

"Keep him under strict supervision, in solitary confinement."

"I will interrogate him personally."

"Yes!" Following the response, Nether Spring was dragged away.

Once the person was escorted away.

Xuanyuan Huo looked at Ye Chen, a look of approval appearing on his majestic face.

"Young Friend Ye, this time, it's all thanks to you."

"Only then could the Wang Family, a malignant tumor that has occupied Yanjing for decades, be uprooted so cleanly and decisively."

"Those matters in the Southeast District..."

"The involvement is too broad, and the water behind it is too deep. Our Dragon Group has been investigating in secret for a long time, but we were always hindered by various resistances, making it difficult to completely tear that web apart."

"I didn't expect that as soon as you arrived, you would tear the web apart and drag the weaver out completely."

Indeed.

With a big fish like this, they naturally wouldn't be completely without wind of it.

However, they lacked evidence.

But they never expected... that Ye Chen would actually use 'brute force' to solve it.

Ye Chen waved his hand, his expression calm.

"Elder, you overstate it."

"If people don't cross me, I won't cross them."

"They tried to take my life time and again; I was merely forced to fight back and, in passing... did something that should be done."

Upon hearing this, the look of admiration in Xuanyuan Huo's eyes grew stronger, and he couldn't help but nod.

"What a 'something that should be done'!"

"Not claiming credit, not being arrogant, having a scale in your heart, and moderation in your actions."

"Young Friend Ye, having you in the Dragon Group is the Dragon Group's fortune."

Bai Wanqing, who was standing nearby, also stepped forward slowly.

"Elder, if you had come even a step later, I'm afraid we would have truly been 'finished' tonight."

"The Wang Family even brought in tanks. If not for Ye Chen's astounding methods that diverted the shelling, the consequences would have been unimaginable."

Hearing this, Xuanyuan Huo laughed heartily and patted Ye Chen's shoulder.

"That's impossible!"

"Even if this old man hadn't come, with Young Friend Ye's ability, dealing with this group of jumping clowns would have just been a bit more effort."

"Nether Spring, the supreme leader of Dark Crow, an old monster at the early stage of the Earth Realm, has cultivated a set of sinister and poisonous techniques. Even an ordinary mid-stage Earth Realm expert would have a headache seeing him."

"But in Young Friend Ye's hands, tsk tsk..."

"He was defeated quite decisively."

Chu Niubi also snapped out of his excitement at this moment. Hearing Xuanyuan Huo praise Ye Chen, he immediately felt a sense of shared glory, puffed out his chest, and chuckled.

"That's a must! Look at whose Master he is!"

"Could the Master I, Chu Niubi, acknowledged be an ordinary person?"

Xuanyuan Huo heard Chu Niubi call him Master for the second time and couldn't help but turn to look at Ye Chen, his gaze becoming a bit strange: "Young Friend Ye, this kid... really took you as his Master?"

Ye Chen rubbed his brow helplessly.

"With such a big commotion at the airport, a helicopter pulling a banner, and a public kneeling slide..."

"If I didn't agree, he would probably chase me through the entire Yanjing city calling me that."

"This reckless personality of his can't be stopped."

Xuanyuan Huo was first stunned, then couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! So that matter was true!"

"This kid from the Chu Family, in order to enter my Dragon Group, really used every means possible, even throwing away his face!"

He laughed for a while, then looked at Chu Niubi, who was staring at him expectantly, and deliberately put on a stern face.

"However, Young Friend Ye, the rules of our Dragon Group cannot be broken."

"Even if you are his Master and enjoy the highest recommendation rights, the assessment process that needs to be followed cannot be skipped at all."

"This old man... will not go easy on him."

Upon hearing this, the smugness on Chu Niubi's face instantly collapsed, and he began to wail.

"Grandpa Xuanyuan! You can't do this!"

"Although I, Chu Niubi, was a bit of a hoodlum before, I haven't done anything truly heinous or outrageous, right?"

"At most, it was street racing, hitting the bars, chasing girls..."

"That was all consensual! I never used force!"

"How come when it comes to you, it's like guarding against a thief?"

Xuanyuan Huo glanced at him and slowly spat out a sentence: "Being weak is the original sin."

Chu Niubi: "???"

Xuanyuan Huo continued.

"The Dragon Group is not a playground, much less a place for you descendants of prestigious families to get a gold-plating."

"It directly faces the darkest, most dangerous, and most beyond ordinary imagination things."

"Without corresponding strength, going in is just seeking death, and it will also implicate teammates."

"However..."

He changed his tone, his gaze sweeping between Ye Chen and Chu Niubi.

"If you can truly step into the gates of the martial path under Young Friend Ye's guidance, even if it's just a glimpse of the threshold and laying a solid foundation..."

"This old man can make an exception and give you a chance to participate in the special recruitment assessment."

"As long as your performance in the assessment meets the standard, the gates of the Dragon Group will be open to you."

As far as he knew... Chu Niubi was a waste when it came to cultivation.

Let alone entering the ranks of martial artists; he probably couldn't even master those house-playing things like Taekwondo or Karate from the secular world.

This thing requires talent.

If talent is zero, no amount of messing around will help.

But in Chu Niubi's ears, this was undoubtedly good news!

Wasn't it?

His eyes widened, and he asked excitedly.

"Really?"

"Grandpa Xuanyuan, you can't lie to me! Your word is your bond?"

Xuanyuan Huo stood with his hands behind his back and said indifferently: "I, Xuanyuan Huo, am a man of my word."

"Thump!"

Chu Niubi turned around and knelt directly, grabbing Ye Chen's sleeve tightly.

"Master! Dad! Dear Dad!!!"

"Did you hear that? Grandpa Xuanyuan has spoken!"

"I don't need to take all those messy tests; I just need to step into the martial path! As long as I can get through the door!"

"This time you must help me!"

"You must help me!"

"Train me to death! Don't treat me like a human!"

"As long as you don't train me to death, then train me to death!"

"Whether I, Chu Niubi, can stand tall as a man in this life, and whether I can enter the Dragon Group to bring honor to my ancestors, all depends on you, Master!!!"

That look!

That posture!

It was as if if Ye Chen didn't agree, he could perform a show of hugging his thigh and crying until dawn on the spot.

Ye Chen was shaken until his head spun, the veins on his temples throbbing, and he yanked his sleeve back.

"Stop shaking!"

"Then you consider that an agreement?"

"Agree my foot."

Ye Chen rolled his eyes in annoyance, "You really have no martial arts aptitude at all; I can't do anything about it either."

Hearing this, Chu Niubi's face was full of unwillingness.

"No..."

"Master, you can't be like this!"

"Grandpa Xuanyuan has already spoken, why do you still say I have no aptitude at all?"

Seeing this, Xuanyuan Huo's eyes flashed, and he said.

"Young Friend Ye."

"Why be so absolute?"

"Aptitude is certainly important, but sometimes..."

"There may not be a way to adapt."

"For example, the younger sister of the Bai girl, Bai Shanshan."

"I've seen that child too; her bone structure is average. In the past, she would definitely not have been a candidate to step into the martial path."

"But just two days ago, I received news..."

Xuanyuan Huo looked at Ye Chen.

"Under your guidance, she is already able to make objects an arm's length away move slightly."

"This is truly stepping into that rank. Although it's not the traditional martial path, it's still a path of the extraordinary."

Ye Chen's brow furrowed slightly.

Only he and Bai Wanqing knew about Bai Shanshan's matter.

How did this Xuanyuan Huo know?