54: Chapter 54 Green Lotus

"If you could unleash a Martial Ancestor-level strike while only at the Early Stage Martial Master realm, that would be unimaginable. You probably wouldn't be able to leave the Family for the next few decades."

"Those old geezers would be watching you every day, waiting for a chance to take you out."

"Didn't the Formation on the martial arts arena claim it could withstand a Martial Ancestor's strike? How did it shatter just like that?" Ye Yisong asked, puzzled.

"That fellow surnamed Sun can't change his stingy ways. He probably didn't replace the Spirit Stones in the Formation in time, causing its power to drop, which is the only reason you managed to break through the Formation's defensive spiritual light," Ye Jiesheng explained. "He's got a headache coming. Saving on those few Spirit Stones—let's see how he fixes this High Grade Level 3 Heavy Earth Luminous Formation now."

"Father, do you know the Magistrate of Shuinan County?" Ye Yisong asked.

"We used to team up for missions in the Outer Sea. He took advantage of me more than once," Ye Jiesheng said.

Ye Yisong thought to himself: Given Ye Jiesheng's style, he probably never managed to get the better of Magistrate Sun Nanyu, which is why he's held a grudge to this day.

"The fact that I broke the Heavy Earth Luminous Formation... people won't take that seriously, will they?" Ye Yisong asked worriedly.

The Cangjiang Ye Clan had only managed to gain a foothold in Cangjiang Prefecture City in the last hundred years, so it was inevitable they had made some enemies. He didn't want to be specifically targeted by these people because of a misunderstanding.

Besides, he could imagine that if anyone came to intercept and kill him, based on this standard, it would at least be a Martial Ancestor expert doing it personally. Ye Yisong's small arms and legs couldn't withstand the attack of a Martial Ancestor expert.

"Probably not. Anyone with half a brain would realize after the fact that it was an issue with the Formation itself. The ones to worry about are the simple-minded ones." Ye Jiesheng originally wanted to comfort Ye Yisong, but then thought it might be better to scare him a little to keep the kid from getting too reckless.

"You're kidding, right? Doesn't that make me very dangerous?" Ye Yisong said, sounding scared.

"That's right. At the very least, be careful for a while," Ye Jiesheng said.

"Father, do you have any other trump cards? Like Level 5 Talismans or Level 5 precious armor? Share some with me so I can feel at ease, right?" Ye Yisong said, finally revealing his true intentions.

"You brat, playing mind games with your old man now?" Ye Jiesheng realized.

"If you don't have Level 5, you surely have some Level 4, right? Share a few with me. Who knows when I might need them?" Ye Yisong continued shamelessly, showing no sign of the fear he had just displayed.

"Get lost. Do you want the flesh off my bones too?" Ye Jiesheng scolded with a laugh.

"Alright then!" Ye Yisong tried to slip away while he had the chance.

"Come back!" Ye Jiesheng shouted. He had almost been played by this kid, and they hadn't even talked about the real business yet.

"Tell me, what's going on with that Green Lotus of yours?" Ye Jiesheng asked curiously.

Only Ye Jiesheng dared to ask him this. If anyone else tried to ask, Ye Yisong would definitely beat them to death. Er! Only limited to those below the Martial Ancestor realm!

Ye Yisong obediently came back and sat down, carefully explaining: "I haven't fully figured out what's going on either."

"The day I had my Breakthrough to Martial Master, a nine-petaled Green Lotus inexplicably appeared in my Dantian. I didn't even notice it at first."

"Later, when I was inadvertently using internal vision on my body, I discovered this Green Lotus inside me."

"Now I can summon it out to attack others like a Spiritual Qi bomb. And let me tell you, it's quite powerful."

Upon hearing this, Ye Jiesheng said bluntly: "Don't resist. Let me see where it is in your Dantian."

As he spoke, he probed his Divine Sense into Ye Yisong's body and observed carefully. After a long while, Ye Jiesheng looked at Ye Yisong as if he were an idiot and asked: "Where is there a Green Lotus? Are you trying to trick your old man?"

Ye Yisong said in surprise: "It's right there in the Dantian!"

Ye Jiesheng refused to believe it and checked repeatedly several more times, but still gained nothing, so he helplessly gave up the search.

In the end, the two determined that only Ye Yisong could see its existence; no one else could.

This discovery made Ye Jiesheng even more envious of Ye Yisong. What a miraculous Cultivation Technique. He urged: "Don't tell anyone about this. If others ask, just say you condensed it yourself. They can't see it anyway."

"Alright!" Ye Yisong agreed. He knew Ye Jiesheng had his best interests at heart, to save him from being targeted by others.

"What about the colors of the Green Lotus petals?"

"I'm not very clear on that either. I only know that every time I have a Breakthrough by one star, the petals gain another color, and for every additional color, the attack power increases by one point," Ye Yisong said.

And he calls that not clear? That's perfectly clear!

This kid really has a great chance of fighting above his rank in the future. Once he becomes a Nine-Star Martial Master, with the Green Lotus and secret techniques, his attack power will have reached twice that of a normal Martial Master.

"You just go around throwing such a miraculous Green Lotus here and there; what were you thinking? And why didn't you wait until the Prefecture Examination in August to reveal it? By revealing it so early, you've given others a chance to guard against it. How are you supposed to use it as a trump card now?" Ye Jiesheng said, frustrated by his son's lack of foresight.

Ye Yisong couldn't explain that he was just imitating a certain Emperor Xiao from his previous life; otherwise, he wouldn't have known how to use this Green Lotus either.

It was just a sudden flash of inspiration. He had thought of that big shot and tried using it, and let's just say, it worked quite well.

He wondered if, when he had his Breakthrough to Martial Ancestor, he would get a few more Green Lotuses. Maybe then he could try combining them to see what kind of power they would have.

"Hehe, it just happened that way. Besides, by August, your son's strength will only have improved even more. Among the Martial Masters in Cangjiang Prefecture, if I dare to rank second, no one would dare to rank first," Ye Yisong said shamelessly.

Ye Yisong had this confidence. In a few months, his strength could reach the Nine-Star Martial Master realm. He hadn't even finished the Medicinal Pills given to him by those big shots yet.

With this Green Lotus, he didn't have to worry about the dangers of pill toxins at all. After a certain amount of time, the Green Lotus would completely eliminate the Impurities in the Spiritual Qi.

"Go, go, go. Give you an inch and you take a mile. Rest well for a few days and bring me back the double first place in the Shuinan County Martial Examination, so those old fogeys can see it," Ye Jiesheng said, truly shooing him away this time.

"Father, just you watch!" Ye Yisong said.

Patriarch Li Hu had been watching over Li Yuan for a day and a night, silently wiping the sweat that kept beading on Li Yuan's forehead.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Li Yuan coughed weakly a few times and slowly opened his eyes. The first thing he saw was his grandfather Patriarch Li Hu's aged face.

"Yuan'er, you're awake," Patriarch Li Hu said excitedly.

"Grandfather..." Li Yuan called out weakly.

"Don't talk yet. Just lie still and focus on recovering," Patriarch Li Hu said.

Li Yuan shook his head and said, "Grandfather, I'm much better. Can you tell me what happened afterward?"

"Alright, alright, Grandfather will tell you," Patriarch Li Hu said, looking at Li Yuan with heartache.

Patriarch Li Hu emphasized how Magistrate Sun Nanyu had saved Li Yuan with the Profound Heaven Heart-Protecting Pill, and also told him about Ye Yisong's subsequent attack, which had even shattered the Formation's light curtain.

He also talked about the aftermath of the martial arts competition, where the Cangjiang Ye Family had swept the top three spots.

"Our Family owes the Magistrate too big a favor," Li Yuan said.

The preciousness of the Profound Heaven Heart-Protecting Pill was already well-known; it was a life-saving miracle medicine for anyone below the Level 4 Martial Artist realm.

"That brat from the Ye Family was too ruthless. He was trying to beat you to death!" Patriarch Li Hu said angrily.

"It's not entirely his fault," Li Yuan said quietly.