107: Chapter 107 The Sun Brothers

Upon hearing this, Ye Xiaowu and Ye Xiaosan stepped forward and put the Fire Cloud Crocodile's corpse and the three severed beast legs into their Storage Pouch to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the situation if a fight broke out later.

"How many are there in total?" Ye Xiaowu asked.

"I can only sense three people, but they have two Martial Ancestor experts among them," Ye Yisong warned. In reality, Ye Yisong saw a total of eleven people on the map, but to avoid exposing his secrets, he did not elaborate.

He did, however, expose all of the opponent's high-end combat power to avoid being at a disadvantage if a fight broke out later. The opponent had one Martial Ancestor expert hiding in the shadows, keeping a distance that was neither too far nor too close, seemingly prepared to play dirty.

"Friends, since you have arrived, there is no need to keep skulking about; come out and show yourselves." Just as the three were talking, five people had already crept up the mountain.

"Greetings, Fellow Daoists. I am Sun Chengan of the Sun Family in Cangjiang Prefecture," Sun Chengan introduced himself. "I was passing through this area and heard that a Yao Beast was causing trouble, so I came specifically to assist you two Fellow Daoists."

"That sounds better than it actually is; who helps others by sneaking around?" Ye Yisong thought with secret disdain.

"Oh, is that so? Is there another Fellow Daoist who is reluctant to come out?" Ye Xiaowu chuckled, looking at Sun Chengan noncommittally.

"Hmm? Where could there be anyone else? It is just the five of us," a trace of surprise flashed across the corner of Sun Chengan's eyes, but he quickly returned to normal.

"Is that so?" Although Ye Xiaowu himself had not sensed where the other Martial Ancestor was hiding, for some reason, he firmly believed that Ye Yisong would absolutely not sense it incorrectly.

"Sun Chengzong greets the two Fellow Daoists!" Just as Sun Chengan was about to quibble, Sun Chengzong revealed his figure himself and greeted the two, Ye Xiaowu and the other.

"Hmph! Finally willing to come out? I thought you were going to stay hidden in the shadows forever," Ye Xiaowu teased.

"Forgive my lack of insight, but I do not know which sect or Family you two experts hail from?" Sun Chengzong asked.

"No sect, no Family, just mere Loose Cultivators!" Ye Xiaosan said. This was what they had just agreed upon—not to report the Ye Family's name.

If they dared to make a move, they would mobilize the Family's Martial Ancestors to wipe these two out. Now that they saw it was the Sun Family's Martial Ancestors, they had even less pleasant expressions; they had long heard of the Sun Family's hypocrisy and had long been dissatisfied with them.

"Big brother, should we?" Sun Chengan transmitted his voice secretly.

"Wait a little longer." Sun Chengzong truly could not gauge the two's background and was afraid of provoking a powerful enemy for the Family; the unknown was the most terrifying thing.

"Two Fellow Daoists, if there is nothing else, please leave. This place has already been occupied by us two brothers first," Ye Xiaowu began to shoo them away.

"Hmph, hand over the Fire Cloud Crocodile, or don't blame us for being impolite," Sun Chengan said, unable to keep his composure.

A Disciple of the Sun Family had accidentally learned of the Fire Cloud Crocodile from a purchasing Disciple of Fire Cloud Stronghold. In order to verify the truth of the news, they had even lost three Martial Masters in Fire Cloud Stronghold, so how could they be willing to hand over the fat meat that was already in their mouths?

"Oh, you've finally said what's on your mind. I'd like to see how you plan to be impolite!" Ye Xiaosan and Ye Xiaowu simultaneously used their Divine Soul pressure against the eleven people opposite them. Sun Chengzong and Sun Chengan were fine, but those nine Sun Family Disciples could not bear it. If it were not for the protection of Sun Chengzong and the other, they would have long been unable to stand and would have knelt to the ground.

Conversely, Ye Yisong remained indifferent, relaxed, and at ease under the Divine Soul pressure of Sun Chengzong and the other. His eyes blinked repeatedly, as if he were watching a show.

Mere Grade 4 Mental Energy pressure wanted to make Ye Yisong make a fool of himself? It was not quite enough; who didn't have Grade 4 Mental Energy?

"Two Fellow Daoists have good means. Sorry for the disturbance, we are leaving." Sun Chengzong's pupils constricted. He glanced at Ye Yisong and led the Sun Family members out of Fire Cloud Stronghold.

"Big brother, are we just giving up like this? Didn't Yang'er and the others die in vain?" Sun Chengan said unconvinced. "Big brother, this was originally discovered by us first. Your five-star Martial Ancestor strength suppresses that four-star Martial Ancestor, and I am enough to fight that three-star Martial Ancestor to a draw. The remaining kid is nothing to worry about. Why are you afraid of them?"

"Yeah, Uncle, if you and Uncle An hold off those two Martial Ancestor experts, and we catch that kid, given their protective attitude toward him, I'm not afraid they won't surrender."

"They are people from the Ye Family." One sentence from Sun Chengzong blocked everyone's persuasion. He didn't know Ye Xiaowu and the other, but he recognized Ye Yisong. His exploits in Shuinan County had already spread throughout the entire Cangjiang Prefecture.

The Ye Family was indeed an existence they could not afford to provoke!

"Big brother, I am not reconciled." Sun Chengan was still unconvinced, his eyes rolling around. "So what if it's the Ye Family? I'm not afraid. We..."

"Put away your little schemes." Sun Chengzong interrupted Sun Chengan, "Do you believe that if we left a little later, we would all be done for here today?"

Looking at this troublesome younger brother, Sun Chengzong's head ached. One day, he would pay the price for his own stupidity.

...

"Wow, I rushed here to support you, exhausted, and you have the leisure to roast meat here." General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng descended from the sky. He had just been in the Family, in closed-door cultivation, and had finally broken through his Bottleneck to become a four-star Martial Master. Before he had time to adapt to his new power, he was sent by the Affairs Hall Elder to support the three of them.

He had just flown five hundred miles in one breath, which had exhausted him. General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng took the largest piece of meat himself and began to eat it in big mouthfuls. As soon as he took the first bite, he noticed something wrong: "You guys are too extravagant, roasting Grade 4 Demonic Beast meat to eat directly."

"Hehe, didn't we just hunt a Grade 4 Fire Cloud Crocodile that had just broken through not long ago?" Ye Xiaowu said generously, "Eat freely, there is plenty of meat!"

"What?" General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng thought his ears were failing him. Since when were Grade 4 Demonic Beasts so easy to kill? It was not easy to find a solitary Grade 4 Demonic Beast. Demonic Beasts were not stupid; they generally lived in groups of three or four. Given the hardness of their physical bodies, without seven or eight Martial Ancestor experts participating in the hunting operation together, there was no way to finish them off!

Perhaps during the battle, there would even be casualties, which would be even more counterproductive!

"Xiaowu, give me one thousand jin, I will return it to you in a few months." General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng, while eating the roasted Yao Beast meat, stuffed the uncooked Yao Beast meat into his Storage Pouch, not being polite at all.

He did not forget to ask for some benefits, staring at Ye Xiaowu and asking for one thousand jin right off the bat. The three hundred jin of Yao Beast meat allocated to General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng by the Family had been eaten by him in less than a month, and he would have to wait until next January to reapply.

As for what he said about returning it in a few months, just listen to it and leave it at that.

"Brother Feng, I don't have much either. Take this five hundred jin first, and we'll talk when you finish it." Ye Xiaowu took out five hundred jin of Yao Beast meat with a pained heart, knowing that this was like throwing meat buns at a dog—gone forever—but he had to repay the debt of saving his life.

He was already secretly calculating in his heart that he would have to hide from General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng for the next few years; this big spender on cultivation was someone he could not afford to be fleeced by.

After deboning this Fire Cloud Crocodile, they only got over five thousand jin of Yao Beast meat. Ye Xiaosan and Ye Xiaowu got the bulk of it, with two thousand jin each, while Ye Yisong got one thousand jin because of his final killing blow.

"Hmph, look at how stingy you are." General Affairs Elder Ye Jiefeng weighed the piece of meat in his hand, satisfied, and put it into his Storage Pouch. While sitting and eating meat, he had already figured out the ins and outs of the whole matter. At this moment, he asked puzzledly: "The matter has already been resolved, why didn't you report it, causing me to run so far?"

"We didn't expose our identities, fearing that the hypocrite from the Sun Family would launch a sneak attack on us. Besides, Brother Feng, aren't you curious about how this Fire Cloud Crocodile broke through to Grade 4?" Ye Xiaowu pointed to the red sandstone cave below and said.