139: Chapter 139 The Turmoil After the County Martial Arts Examination

Ye Yisong overwhelmed all competitors and won first place in the Cangjiang Prefecture Examination tournament, truly refreshing everyone's perception of him.

In the early stages of the tournament, most Martial Artists believed that first place in the Cangjiang Prefecture Examination would be decided between Wang Xianliang and Young Master Qi. After all, these two were the only Martial Masters among the participants who had realized a Martial Dao Seed. The result, however, was unexpected, with Ye Yisong taking first place.

When news arrived of Ye Yisong's dominance in Shuinan County, everyone merely assumed that the small county of Shuinan lacked talent. As for the legendary, god-like Azure Lotus, they simply thought the Martial Artists of Shuinan County were ignorant and had been frightened by Ye Yisong.

Once they saw it with their own eyes, they threw all their wishful thinking to the winds. Have you ever seen a single Azure Lotus blow up a Late Stage Martial Master? Have you ever seen someone withstand a Grade 3 Killing Formation with just one Azure Lotus? Have you ever seen a single Azure Lotus sweep through the entire Prefecture Examination tournament?

Looking back on the past few days of the Cangjiang Prefecture tournament, Ye Yisong's strange Azure Lotus brought everyone too many spectacular moments.

It also made them more determined that if they encountered Ye Yisong in the wild, they must avoid his edge, and it would be best to give him a wide berth.

Under the orders of Official Wu Tian, all the Martial Artists who advanced to the top 100 of the Prefecture Examination returned to the arena.

Seeing that only thirty-four of the top fifty Martial Artists in the Prefecture Examination remained, those ranked in the bottom fifty could not help but sigh, feeling the impermanence of the world. Sometimes, a temporary failure did not mean anything; only those who survived to the end were the winners.

"Congratulations to everyone for advancing to the top 100 in this Prefecture Examination." Official Wu Tian changed from his previous cold expression, looking gently at the eighty-four people on the arena. After stamping the admission tickets of all the Martial Artists with the Governor's official seal, he immediately announced the time for the craft assessment: "You may return to rest for now, and return here in seven days to conduct the craft assessment."

The results of the Martial Examination at all levels must be stamped with the official seal of the local government head to be recognized by the higher-level government. Before Governor Sun Rui left, he specifically left his official seal with Vice Prefect Wu Jin.

"Yes, thank you, Official Wu." Everyone bowed and thanked Official Wu Tian, especially Martial Artists like Wang Xianliang, who had received help from Official Wu Tian during the competition, were the most sincere.

"Mm, you may all go!" Official Wu Tian nodded, signaling that everyone could leave on their own.

The eighty-three people subconsciously cleared a path for Ye Yisong, letting him go first. The Ye Family members also benefited from this, leaving the arena a step ahead and returning to their lodgings in the first wave.

"Hahaha, my good grandson, you have really brought honor to your grandfather!" If one were to ask who was the happiest among the Ye Family, it had to be Grandfather Ye Tuantu. When he saw Ye Yisong defeat his last opponent, his face had blossomed with a smile, and he still hadn't stopped smiling.

"Thirteenth Brother, I love you to death!" Ye Yiguang threw himself forward, hanging onto Ye Yisong, and tried to gnaw on Ye Yisong's face.

Startled, Ye Yisong hurriedly pushed him away. This kid hadn't even wiped the rouge off his lips, yet he had the nerve to kiss him. Bah, even if Ye Yiguang didn't have rouge on his lips, Ye Yisong wouldn't let him kiss him.

Is Ye Yisong's face meant for a man to kiss?

A beautiful and gentle little fairy would be more like it.

"Yiguang, stop messing around, get down." Ye Yitian used both hands to pull Ye Yiguang off Ye Yisong. "Thirteenth Brother, you're truly awesome. I'd like to see what the people from the Wei Family and Wang Family have to be arrogant about when they see us in the future."

"Exactly, so what if they realized a Martial Dao Seed? Didn't they still lose to our Ye Family?"

"Good, good, good." Grandfather Ye Tuantu said 'good' three times. As the leading Elder for the Ye Family this time, he could not show favoritism. He cast an appreciative look at the twenty-three Disciples of the Cangjiang Ye Clan who had advanced to the top 100. "You are all excellent as well. There will be heavy rewards after returning to the clan."

"Tuanzhang, let's go, let's return to the Ye Family Villa to rest first," Grandfather Ye Tuantu said to the old man beside him.

"Good." Patriarch Ye Tuanzhang was also overjoyed. This time, two members of the Shuinan Ye Clan had also advanced to the top 100 of the Prefecture Examination: Ye Jiejing and Ye Jielu. In particular, Ye Jiejing had even entered the top fifty, washing away the century-old humiliation of the Shuinan Ye Clan.

After returning, he would have to burn more incense for the Old Ancestors, asking them to bless the Shuinan Ye Clan with generations of talent and to carry forward the Shuinan Ye Clan.

Grandfather Ye Tuantu glanced proudly at Wang Jingcheng and Wei Chengyue not far away, humming a little tune, and holding his good grandson Ye Yisong's hand, walked with large strides toward the Ye Family Villa.

"Hmph, the Ye Family really got lucky, actually producing a monster like Ye Yisong," Wang Jingcheng said sarcastically.

"Indeed, I didn't expect the Ye Family to be hiding so deeply. If not for the Prefecture Examination, we wouldn't have known that another person among the Ye Family Martial Masters had their Mental Energy Breakthrough to Grade 4." Wei Chengyue was lost in thought, his eyes cold enough to send a chill down one's spine.

"Tell me, is that old man He really that capable? He's already taught several Grade 4 Mental Energy Martial Masters," Wang Jingcheng said with a sour tone.

"Coming from the Prefecture City Wang Mansion, he certainly has some skills." A piece of important information was inadvertently revealed from Wei Chengyue's mouth.

"The Prefecture City Wang Mansion?" Wang Jingcheng was clearly hearing this for the first time, and said with a look of surprise: "Someone from the Wang Mansion, how did they end up at the Ye Family?"

Wei Chengyue was clearly unwilling to say anything more, and changed the subject: "Brother Wang, come sit at my place, how about it?"

"I couldn't ask for more," Wang Jingcheng accepted readily.

... In the No. 2 small courtyard on the second level of the Ye Family Villa.

Grandfather Ye Tuantu, Grand Elder Ye Ronghui, and Ye Yisong were sitting around a small tripod, eating the flesh of a Grade 4 Demonic Beast cooked in the small tripod with great relish.

Among the three, it was mainly Ye Yisong who was wolfing it down; Grandfather Ye Tuantu and Grand Elder Ye Ronghui did not eat much.

After several days of fighting, the Spiritual Qi in Ye Yisong's body had long since been mostly consumed, and the speed of recovery was far behind the speed of consumption. The pure power of the Grade 4 Demonic Beast flesh just happened to replenish the massive consumption in Ye Yisong's body.

"Yisong, have you already realized a Martial Dao Seed?" Grandfather Ye Tuantu looked at Ye Yisong with a smile and asked tentatively.

"Yes," Ye Yisong answered subconsciously. After it slipped out, he realized that the surprise he had prepared had been casually tricked out of him by Grandfather Ye Tuantu.

"Grandfather, how did you know?" Ye Yisong asked doubtfully. He carefully sorted through his own memories; he hadn't told anyone about this.

"That Azure Lotus of yours, engraved with Talismans, is too eye-catching." Grandfather Ye Tuantu explained. Ever since Ye Yisong's Azure Lotus perfectly avoided Wang Xianliang's attack and precisely found the gap in the Saber Qi attack, it had already attracted the attention of those with ulterior motives.

Even among Martial Ancestor experts, few could achieve this.

Breaking through head-on, any Martial Ancestor expert could do, but to achieve what Ye Yisong did, the difficulty was several levels higher.

"Good child." Grand Elder Ye Ronghui also looked at Ye Yisong with gratification, and his rough hand patted his head. "Rest well these few days. After the Prefecture Examination, the Old Ancestor has prepared a big gift for you."