806: Chapter 806 Return to Ruins!

Just like that... Bing Ling moved in and became a member of this household.

Ye Chen felt quite helpless about this outcome... After all, he had confusedly provoked a puppet spirit, and now he had to treat it as part of the family.

No matter how he looked at it... it felt very strange.

However, this arrangement was the best outcome for now.

The matter of this puppet spirit would just have to be put aside for the time being.

With Bing Lan looking after it, nothing should go wrong.

Bing Lan arranged for Bing Ling to stay in the guest room on the south side, right next to Li Qin.

Watching the scene of Bing Lan taking Bing Ling into the room, Li Qin couldn't help but poke Ye Chen's arm: "Younger Male Cousin, don't you think this scene is a bit eerie?"

"Eerie how?" Ye Chen looked at her, puzzled.

"Two Sister Bing Lans living together!" Li Qin lowered her voice.

"One cold and glamorous CEO, one fragile little white flower, and they look exactly the same. If people outside saw this, there's no telling how they might gossip about you."

"For example..."

"A sister duo for you?"

Ye Chen: "???"

Li Qin was on a roll and continued, "And who knows, this gossip might come true one day. What if you intentionally go into the wrong room or mistake one for the other? Wouldn't you succeed then?"

Ye Chen: "???"

No... was this girl intentionally trying to annoy him?

Look at that, was that even human talk?

It sounded like he was some kind of pervert!

As it turned out... Yan Qingwu nodded solemnly: "Mm... your speculation is quite right."

"Right?" Li Qin lifted her head triumphantly, like a victorious little hen, "That's what I think too!"

Ye Chen sighed helplessly and stood up to walk toward the door.

Yan Qingwu tilted her head to look at him: "Where are you going?"

"Going out for some air, taking a walk downstairs."

As soon as Ye Chen finished speaking, the door closed.

Yan Qingwu shrugged: "It seems he might not be able to wrap his head around it for a while."

"It's fine." Li Qin waved her hand, "When night comes, once he enters Sister Bing Lan's room, he'll figure it all out."

Yan Qingwu was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"Figure it out yourself." Li Qin smiled mysteriously, looking like an experienced veteran.

Yan Qingwu was confused.

Fine.

She started to not understand why Ye Chen had to enter Bing Lan's room at night to figure it out?

...

Once the elevator door closed, the hallway went quiet.

Ye Chen leaned against the wall of the carriage and let out a long breath.

Things had been happening one after another these past few days.

From the Nanxun fragment map to the human zongzi in the Greater Khingan Range, and then the suddenly appearing Bing Ling, he felt as if he had been pressed onto a rapidly spinning top, constantly on the move.

It wasn't that he was tired.

It was just... messy.

The way Bing Ling depended on him was exactly the same as when Bing Lan acted coquettishly toward him; he couldn't even tell if he was feeling guilty or soft-hearted at the time.

The elevator door opened.

Ye Chen walked slowly along the residential complex path with his hands in his pockets.

Before long.

He arrived at the large banyan tree in the center of the complex and prepared to sit for a while to think things through...

However, before his butt even touched the stone bench, he saw a black van driving in from the direction of the complex gate.

The next second.

The van stopped, and Great Elder Tantai Honghou stepped out.

When he caught sight of Ye Chen, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "Mr. Ye, what a coincidence, you're here!"

Ye Chen glanced at the van: "With such a grand display, you must be here to deliver the gold, right?"

"That's exactly it!"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou's face was full of smiles as he reached out to pat the cargo hold.

"That day, I returned overnight to report to the Family Head."

"The Family Head didn't say a word and told me to open the treasury and load the truck immediately."

"Actually, I should have arrived three days ago, but I ran into some small trouble on the road and was delayed for two days..."

Actually.

It wasn't because of any small trouble that he was delayed, but because the Dantai Family was conducting a final "verification."

They were verifying whether that cultivation technique was real or fake.

It turned out...

Everyone who had studied that cultivation technique had broken through one after another.

Consequently.

He had personally escorted the gold over at the first opportunity to prevent any misunderstandings by Ye Chen.

As he spoke, he beckoned toward the back of the van, and two disciples wearing the same style of short garments jumped out of the cargo hold.

Then.

Each of them carried two heavy wooden boxes in their hands.

Ye Chen looked at those four boxes and asked indifferently: "Just four boxes?"

He certainly wouldn't believe that the small treasury of the Dantai Family, one of the Five Great Families of the Kunlun Ruins, was only that small.

"How could that be!"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou chuckled, pulled a folded list from his pocket, and handed it over: "The four boxes are samples for you to look over first; the rest are still in the van."

Ye Chen took the list and unfolded it. It was densely packed with numbers and weight units, and the Dantai Family's clan seal was stamped at the end.

A portion of it had even been directly deposited into a bank; as long as he held this list, he could withdraw it directly.

Ye Chen glanced at it twice and whistled: "Mm, I prefer trading with smart people; that way, there will be a next time for cooperation, right?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou's face lit up with joy upon hearing this.

There would be a next time?

In other words...

Ye Chen had acknowledged the Dantai Family as a friend?

This was definitely a great thing!

To be able to befriend someone like Ye Chen, who could casually repair a partial cultivation technique, was the Dantai Family's good fortune!

For a moment.

He hurriedly straightened his expression.

"Mr. Ye is absolutely right."

"My Dantai Family has been able to establish itself in the Kunlun Ruins for hundreds of years, relying on the word 'trust'."

"Moreover..."

"The set of 'Immortal Body' that you helped us complete—I tried it after I went back, and the effect was even better than I expected!"

"Even my nephew with the worst aptitude broke through because of it!"

"It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most worthwhile deal the Dantai Family has made in nearly a hundred years."

Ye Chen smiled and didn't respond, instead folding the list and putting it back in his pocket, and crouched down to lift the lid of one of the wooden boxes.

Golden light surged out instantly, making him squint.

He picked up a piece and weighed it in his hand, then nodded with satisfaction.

"The quality is good."

"Your family's gold refining craftsmanship is a bit better than that batch from the Ning Family."

Great Elder Tantai Honghou's face became even more radiant: "That batch from the Ning Family was rushed to make up the numbers, but we carefully selected ours, specifically picking from the vaults with the highest quality."

"Alright, alright, stop the nonsense."

Ye Chen put the gold brick back and closed the box lid: "I accept the goods; have your people carry them up."

"Alright!"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou nodded and immediately ordered his men to send them upstairs.

But he didn't leave.

Seeing this, Ye Chen raised an eyebrow and asked: "Do you have other business?"

"Heh heh!"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou said with an apologetic smile: "As expected, nothing can escape Mr. Ye's discerning eyes!"

Ye Chen rolled his eyes impatiently: "Stop the flattery, tell me the main point."

"You must already know about the Antarctic Martial Arts Competition in ten days, right?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou's face turned serious as he asked.

Ye Chen nodded: "I heard the reward is a bronze key."

"That's correct."

Great Elder Tantai Honghou took a deep breath: "But we received intelligence that it might be a trap aimed at you."

Ye Chen smiled: "I already knew that."

Upon hearing this, Great Elder Tantai Honghou did not feel shocked or strange.

Because.

If Ye Chen could casually modify an ancient cultivation technique, it was impossible for him not to have his own intelligence-gathering organization.

However.

He hadn't just come to bring this news.

Great Elder Tantai Honghou took a deep breath and continued: "Then do you know... that the people from the One Clan, Three Sects, Five Gates are secretly gathering aristocratic families and powerful experts from all over the world?"

Ye Chen shook his head indifferently.

"I don't know, and there's no need to know."

"Because trash is just trash in the end; gathering them together won't change the outcome."

Great Elder Tantai Honghou shook his head: "But this time it's a bit different; among the people they've contacted, there is also Guixu."

"Guixu?" Ye Chen raised an eyebrow, "What is that?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou looked left and right, confirmed that no one was around, then lowered his voice and said: "Guixu... is not a thing."

Ye Chen was taken aback, then chuckled.

"With the way you put it, are you insulting me or praising me?"

"Mr. Ye, I am serious!"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou smiled bitterly: "Guixu is not an ordinary faction; it is the clan of guardians of the bronze gate."

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow but didn't respond, instead gesturing for Great Elder Tantai Honghou to continue.

A trace of trepidation flashed in Great Elder Tantai Honghou's eyes.

"Legend has it that the bronze gate does not exist naturally; it was forged and sealed by the Guixu clan themselves."

"They have guarded the secrets of the bronze gate for generations, continuing from ancient times to this day."

"Only later, turmoil broke out within Guixu, causing all nine keys to disappear."

Ye Chen nodded thoughtfully: "Then this Guixu clan is very strong?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou nodded.

"Very strong."

"Legend has it that even if the Five Great Families of the Kunlun Ruins joined forces, they would not be a match for the Guixu clan."

"However, they do not interfere in outside matters, including matters within the Kunlun Ruins."

"That is why the power structure of the Five Clans, Eight Sects, and Thirteen Gates was formed."