Chapter 1557 - 1534: A Person With an Agenda
"Alright, the second day of the Hundred Family Competition is officially over!"
"Please exit in an orderly manner, and take your trash with you on your way out. Be a civilized Ancient Martial Artist of the Hundred Families!"
Divine Traceless, holding a microphone, said these final words, then returned to the main judging panel, planning to leave with everyone else.
At this moment, the Empress ran up.
About to speak.
"No way! Wait until the Hundred Family Competition is officially over tomorrow, and then you can see Ye Huan!" Divine Traceless said in an unyielding tone, then turned and left.
The Empress was extremely annoyed, unable to understand what Divine Traceless was thinking.
Yesterday, she wanted to find Ye Huan, but Divine Traceless refused her on the grounds that it would disturb Ye Huan’s preparation.
Now all the competitions are over, and she wants to see Ye Huan, still getting refused.
And there’s not even a reason for the refusal!
However, having been around for so long, the Empress knows that Divine Traceless is usually unserious, even somewhat absent-minded, but in critical matters, he’s the type who’s absolutely serious and meticulous.
The Empress furrowed her brows; perhaps today really was not suitable to disturb Ye Huan?
...
At the Tian Family arena, members of the Hundred Families were leaving one after another.
But none of the Patriarchs of the Hundred Families had left.
They all headed towards the Ling Family’s rest area.
With obsequious smiles, they blocked Ye Huan, who was preparing to leave the arena.
"What’s the matter?" Ye Huan asked coldly.
"Young Master Ye, here’s the thing."
"We all hold a considerable degree of admiration for you."
"You are a leading figure among the younger generation of the Hundred Families, and the strongest young Ancient Martial Artist in the world. Your talent is enough to make all of us submit in awe!"
Everyone fluttered their eyes and said!
"Just say what you have to say, don’t flatter me. I’m in a hurry," Ye Huan rolled his eyes helplessly, unwilling to waste time with their roundabout compliments.
Because, at this moment, after forcibly opening three dormant acupoints during the individual finals and maintaining the eight gates status for a long time while using a series of trump cards including the Azure Dragon Sword Formulas and Cyan Lotus Sword Technique,
his body was already exhausted and difficult to support.
Now appearing fine was merely enduring, but he was actually too weak and urgently needed to return to the camp to practice Heaven Opening to relieve the fatigue and emptiness of his meridians and body.
Cao Mengde and other Patriarchs of the Hundred Families laughed awkwardly and said, "Young Master Ye, here’s the thing."
"Previously, we had a misunderstanding about you, which led to some disrespect towards you and a misunderstanding between us."
"For this, we want to express our sincere apologies in hopes of winning your forgiveness and repairing the relationship between our families and you."
"Of course, mere words of apology are not enough to show our sincerity, so we brought gifts."
Cao Mengde turned his right hand, and a pearl jade appeared in his hand, smiling obsequiously as he handed the jade to Ye Huan!
The other Patriarchs of the Hundred Families imitated, smiling obsequiously and respectfully presenting the precious treasures their families had prepared to Ye Huan.
Ye Huan frowned; did these people think he had three heads and six arms to carry away so many treasures?
Moreover, he had no interest in these treasures at all.
Ye Huan planned to refuse.
At this moment, Ling Wuye’s voice reached Ye Huan through a voice transmission.
This reinforced Ye Huan’s determination to refuse and turned his expression chilling instantly!
"Sorry, I’m not interested in accepting your flattery, nor your gifts. After being enemies with me, you think that offering a few things will make bygones be bygones, is there such a good deal in the world?" Ye Huan said coldly, mercilessly dropping this statement and turning to leave.
As he passed by Sword of Impermanence, Ye Huan sneered coldly, "You don’t give gifts, but you want to give me a fake, trying to get through?"
Sword of Impermanence’s face changed instantly, "Young Master Ye, you misunderstood, I had no intention of passing off a fake. The one I have is the genuine Heirloom Seal of the Realm from the Qin Dynasty, I bought it for fifty thousand gold coins!"
Ye Huan let out a cold laugh, "If your information and intelligence were reliable, you’d know that I personally used the genuine Heirloom Seal of the Realm from the Qin Dynasty to activate the Emperor’s main hall buried for thousands of years and retrieved something from it."
"And that Heirloom Seal of the Realm is currently lying at my house."
"You claim yours is genuine? You have the nerve to say such things!"
Ye Huan finished coldly, turned, and walked away without giving the Patriarchs a chance to continue currying favor.
After Ling Wuye conveyed some information to him, he no longer wanted to accept gifts from these people.
This left the Patriarchs of the Hundred Families very disappointed.
The most disappointed had to be Sword of Impermanence.
Seriously, is the Heirloom Seal of the Realm in his possession a fake?
The genuine one is actually with Ye Huan?
Is Ye Huan just bragging!
Sword of Impermanence couldn’t believe it and turned to ask Jian Junlin, "Junlin, didn’t you personally appraise the seal? Is it real or not?"
"This... this..."
"I... I appraised it as genuine!"
"But... but..."
Jian Junlin had been sure that his treasure was genuine, but after hearing Ye Huan’s words, his heart pounded, and he wasn’t so certain anymore!
Sword of Impermanence cursed angrily, "Idiot! You idiot!"
With that, he hurriedly took out his phone and called the Intelligence Hall’s director of the Sword Family.
Many in the Intelligence Hall had been gathering information outside; if Ye Huan really used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm from the Qin Dynasty to enter the Emperor’s tomb, surely the Intelligence Hall would know!
Soon, the Intelligence Hall confirmed: No mistake!
Ye Huan indeed entered the Emperor’s tomb half a year ago and used the Heirloom Seal of the Realm to open the Emperor’s main hall!
This event had shaken the entire Ancient Martial Realm of Huaxia!
"Damn it! Such an important thing, why didn’t you report it earlier!" Sword of Impermanence’s eyes nearly popped out, his eyes bloodshot, with endless murderous intent and hostility exploding, questioning the Intelligence Hall staff angrily!
"Ah, this... we... we thought this wasn’t relevant to the Endless Deep Mountains, so we just filed it without reporting it..."
"A bunch of idiots, all of you!!!"
Sword of Impermanence was so furious he spat a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot.
However, before fainting, he forcibly gathered a burst of energy and slapped Jian Junlin into a pig-head shape, fainting together!
Jian Junlin, already heavily reliant on adrenaline to survive due to severe injuries, got knocked into Hell with this heavy slap!
The Sword Family entourage was even more despondent!
Failed to curry favor with Ye Huan, and instead offended him!
Trying to pass off a fake gift?
All blamed on Jian Junlin!
For a moment, the high-ups of the Sword Family burst into tears!
Patriarchs of the Hundred Families watching from the sidelines couldn’t help but sigh, feeling somewhat better that at least, unlike the Sword Family, they had not offended Ye Huan, merely had their gifts refused!
Little did they know, this entire incident was carefully observed by a certain watchful individual...