Chapter 1472 - 1449: Hurts My IQ!
Ye Huan was quite surprised and felt a growing eagerness to try. If he could pull out this divine weapon, wouldn’t it mean that his chances of overcoming the sequence had increased significantly?
Although he didn’t believe he could definitely pull out the Xuanyuan Sword, given that it was a divine sword no one had extracted for millennia, trying wouldn’t cost him anything.
Next, Ling Wuye announced two final matters!
First, the fact that Ye Huan harbors three purest bloodlines is classified as the ultimate secret of the Ling Family. No one is allowed to reveal a single word outside the family without permission; if discovered, they will be beaten to death immediately!
Furthermore, the leak of the secret will implicate the entire family!
The family of the informant will be stripped of the Ling surname, reduced to mere dogs, turned into ordinary people, and thrown out of the central area of the Ling Family in the Endless Deep Mountains!
The people of the Ling Family took this rule seriously, deciding they would rather die than disclose it, realizing that the high ranks of the Ling Family are serious and that the consequences of angering them would be very severe.
The second major event announced by Ling Wuye was that he and the Grand Elder Ling Zhenhai would hold a disciple recruitment ceremony tomorrow at the Sword Tomb to accept a direct disciple!
This news was like a giant meteor, stirring up a thousand waves in the sea of the Ling Family!
Ling Wuye and Ling Zhenhai are the strongest and second strongest in the Ling Family, the true core existence of the family. Countless descendants of the Ling Family dream of becoming their disciples!
Because once you become their disciple, in the future, not only will you receive the best ancient martial arts resources and teaching, but you will also surely climb to the higher echelons of the Ling Family, changing your fate all at once!
However, the unfortunate fact is that for decades to a century, these two strong figures have shown no desire to take in disciples.
Even the first core disciple of the Ling Family, Ling Yao, who wished to become their disciple in the past, was outright rejected.
The seventh core disciple, Ling Fufu, experienced the same fate, attempting to master, but faced direct refusal.
No one expected that today they suddenly announced such a significant event of accepting disciples!
This excited countless Ling Family descendants terribly!
"Haha, when I go back today, I must prepare well, striving to present my best side tomorrow and be accepted as a disciple by either the Grand Elder or the Patriarch!"
"Heh, keep dreaming! Tomorrow the one who will be accepted under their tutelage will definitely be me!"
"Laughable, you two are just clowns; I am the future disciple of the Patriarch or the Grand Elder!"
A group of the Ling Family disciples left the martial field one after another to prepare for the awakening of their bloodlines in the hot springs tomorrow, find a suitable weapon at the Sword Tomb, and attend the disciple recruitment ceremony of the two strong figures!
They left all the way, fighting along the way.
Fighting until their faces turned red and veins popped, the air was thick with the smell of gunpowder.
For some reason, even when Ling Wuye and Ling Zhenhai left, there was nothing but hostility and displeasure in their gazes towards each other. As they parted, they each snorted angrily, almost coming to blows!
Ling Luzhou watched this scene, with a faint smile on his lips and a meaningful expression in his beautiful eyes, as if he had already understood the reason for the intense tension between Ling Wuye and Ling Zhenhai.
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In the Ling Family, the Council Hall.
Ling Wuye and a group of high-ranking members of the Ling Family did not return to their respective palaces to rest after the Ling Family test ended. Instead, they gathered in the council hall for an impromptu meeting!
In the Council Hall, many elders, as well as Ling Wuye himself, wore expressions of extreme embarrassment and shame on their faces!
"I already reminded you all the day before yesterday, advising you not to act rashly, and especially not to impulsively decide to compensate the Qin Family Alliance and the major families under their influence."
"And now, look at that, you arrogant old fogeys, every single one of you has been slapped in the face by Ye Huan’s talent and strength, as well as the reality."
"And Wang Feng, do you realize how ugly and disgusting your actions are? Clinging to our Ling Family is one thing, but you even tried to latch onto the leader of a hundred clans and become the mother-in-law of the leader of a hundred clans? Fine, let’s say you have ’ambition,’ but what the hell were you doing? Right up until the moment before Ye Huan’s bloodline was revealed, you were still berating and targeting Ye Huan! After his bloodline was exposed, you immediately ingratiated yourself with him, practically wanting to lick his shoes, making our Ling Family lose face entirely!"
"Originally, we could have harmoniously coexisted with Ye Huan, this Huaxia Dragon Child-level genius and future leader of a hundred clans, even hosting a grand homecoming ceremony for him. But now, thanks to your nonsense actions, Ling Family’s image in Ye Huan’s mind is deeply negative, evident by his lukewarm reaction to the position of the Young Master of the Ling Family!"
"Under such circumstances, attempting to get him to return to the Ling Family is practically impossible!"
Grand Elder Ling Zhenhai rarely participates in Ling Family meetings, usually retreating in seclusion in the cave abode in the mountains.
Today, he rarely attended the meeting and furiously scolded all the high-ranking members of the Ling Family, including Patriarch Ling Wuye, leaving them covered in metaphorical dog blood.
Ling Wuye and the elders could only hang their heads in extreme embarrassment, flushed red, with expressions that were extremely difficult, yet they did not dare to refute Ling Zhenhai.
There were reasons, of course, related to how right Ling Zhenhai’s criticisms were, but their reactions also showed that Ling Zhenhai holds very high status and respect within the Ling Family!
Ling Wuye and others were indeed filled with regret, almost to the point of tears.
Back when the high ranks of the Ling Family voted on whether to compensate the Qin Family Alliance, only Ling Zhenhai voted against it.
Ling Zhenhai then stated that it wasn’t that simple of a matter, as he trusted that Ling Luzhou did not give Ye Huan any forbidden drugs, suggesting they wait for Ye Huan to reach the Ling Family and then reconsider based on the circumstances.
At the time, they thought Ling Zhenhai was joking. Without forbidden drugs, how could Ye Huan, that bloodline-thin waste, defeat the Qin Family Alliance, all alone, at that?
They thought it impossible, but the outcome proved them wrong as Ye Huan’s bloodline was of the purest level, combining the purest Huaxia and purest Ling Sword bloodlines!
Facts showed that Ling Zhenhai’s judgment was correct. The Ling Family really should have carefully considered and based the compensation decision on the situation, rather than preserving face and ’graciously’ compensating the major families.
Ling Wuye, in that instance, felt absolutely foolish in his role as the Patriarch!
"Ah, I swear I won’t watch ’Pleasant Goat Eats Big Big Wolf’ anymore, damn it, that thing lowers intelligence!" Ling Wuye lamented, crying in his heart.