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Chapter 533
🕑 Added 2025-05-14 04:00:05 +0000 UTC“Ah Yan, was that Great Sovereign Qingfen just now?”
“Great Sovereign Qingfen… What did the Great Sovereign say to you?”
Inside the Yu Family, only after a long moment did Yu Chao Long manage to speak. He couldn’t stop himself from asking.
Not just Yu Chao Long—several of the Yu Family’s old ancestors were the same way. They were all still lost in the shock of Marquis Qingfen’s personal arrival.
Everyone only saw Great Sovereign Qingfen say a few words to Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan answer a few words in return, but nobody knew the specifics.
Marquis Qingfen’s aura had been terrifying in the extreme.
Moreover, he had intentionally blocked them from listening.
So none of the Yu Family knew what was said between Marquis Qingfen and Lin Yuan.
“He said he’s taking me as a disciple.”
Lin Yuan did not hide it; he said it straight out.
At those words, the Yu Family’s old ancestors all took a deep breath.
Even with the composure of Ji Dao (Path-Clearing) experts, this still stirred them mightily.
It was not uncommon for Marquis Qingfen to take disciples. His various Qing Envoys roamed the Qingfen Domain and would bring back groups of talented individuals from time to time, having them join his ranks.
Most of these geniuses had the nine-sun aptitude; a small portion had ten suns condensed.
Ever since Great Sovereign Qingfen took charge of the Qingfen Domain, he had accepted many disciples. Taking new ones was perfectly normal.
But the process of Marquis Qingfen accepting disciples was: the Qing Envoys brought people back to Qingfen City, Great Sovereign Qingfen looked them over, and then they would be accepted.
Right now, though?
Great Sovereign Qingfen had come countless miles from distant Qingfen City, just to take Lin Yuan as a disciple right on the spot?
Ever since Great Sovereign Qingfen arrived in this domain, such a thing had never happened.
Even Feng Wanxing—Marquis Qingfen’s greatest disciple, who had condensed over seven hundred scorching sun seeds before five hundred years of age—had not received such a treatment.
“Ah Yan…”
Several of the Yu Family’s old ancestors exchanged looks. Had they not witnessed it personally, they would never have believed that Great Sovereign Qingfen would do such a thing.
At that level, taking disciples was generally just fulfilling the tasks assigned by the Liyang Ancient Kingdom.
After all, even if he took on a million disciples or ten million disciples, the odds that any would truly rise to stand on par with him were infinitesimal.
“What exactly happened…” The Yu Family’s old ancestors hesitated, not daring to pester him further, so in the end Yu Chao Long asked aloud.
Yes indeed—why would the lofty Great Sovereign suddenly descend from the sky?
And just as suddenly accept Lin Yuan as a disciple?
Moments earlier, all the high-level members of the Yu Family had been worrying about how to safeguard their clan’s bloodline against the looming rise of the Dongyang Family.
“Maybe because I’ve condensed a few more scorching sun seeds than most,” Lin Yuan answered.
In truth, that was the only reason. The “Liyang Nurturing Spirit Method” was directly spread by the Liyang Ancient Kingdom, and the scorching sun seeds it produced had an inconceivable effect on enhancing rule comprehension and even physical transformations.
Lin Yuan’s ten-plus thousand scorching sun seeds, within the domain of the Liyang Ancient Kingdom, might not be absolutely unique, but certainly they only appeared once in an unimaginably long span of ages.
“Scorching sun seeds… a few more?”
The old ancestors of the Yu Family mulled this over.
Yu Chao Long likewise contemplated what that might mean.
“Ah Yan…” Wei Chi Ling looked at Lin Yuan.
As his mother, she vaguely sensed what was coming next.
“Marquis Qingfen told me to prepare. He’ll take me away after a while.”
Lin Yuan spoke.
In fact, there was nothing much to prepare. Mainly, he had to say his goodbyes to everyone in the Yu Family.
“All right, all right…”
At last, the Yu Family’s old ancestors came back to their senses. Their spirits soared as they gazed at Lin Yuan.
After the initial shock and near disbelief, they remembered what it meant for Marquis Qingfen to come in person and accept Lin Yuan as a disciple.
Half an hour later, Marquis Qingfen’s figure appeared once more.
In reality, he had never left. He had been in the depths of time and space observing the Yu Family, or more accurately, observing Lin Yuan.
The most terrifying thing about Lin Yuan wasn’t that he had condensed over ten thousand scorching sun seeds before the age of five hundred.
It was that the entire time, Lin Yuan had done so completely on his own, with no guidance at all.
Even condensing scorching sun seeds involved many tricks and shortcuts that could greatly reduce the difficulty of forming them.
When Feng Wanxing, Marquis Qingfen’s chief disciple, first joined, he had only a little over a hundred scorching sun seeds.
In the end, under Marquis Qingfen’s coaching, he formed over seven hundred scorching sun seeds before reaching five hundred years of age.
Lin Yuan had never received even the slightest direction. One could only imagine how, once accepted under Marquis Qingfen and given related guidance, the number of scorching sun seeds he would have by five hundred might increase even further.
Condensing over ten thousand seeds by age five hundred was already beyond belief.
Marquis Qingfen couldn’t help but wonder what that total might reach.
“All set?” Marquis Qingfen asked gently.
He was typically cold and detached with others, disciples included, but to Lin Yuan, he couldn’t muster coldness.
“Yes, I’m ready.”
Lin Yuan nodded.
Members of the Yu Family felt a surge of emotion.
Just then—
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Three figures quickly arrived.
They were the tall figure, You Jue, along with Shi Song and the other Qing Envoy.
While Lin Yuan was saying farewell to his parents, the three Qing Envoys had gone out of sight.
“Your Lordship,”
You Jue bowed toward Marquis Qingfen, speaking softly: “We know that the Dongyang Family once acted against the Yu Family, and even launched an ambush on Yu Yan.”
He had barely spoken when You Jue flipped his right hand, and hundreds of people suddenly appeared. Among them were the Dongyang Family’s old ancestors, their patriarch, many high-level members, and even Dongyang Meng, who had been shining like a star in their midst.
Now, every person from the Dongyang Family was forced to kneel on the ground, the majority not even aware what was happening.
Moments earlier, they had been at their estate waiting for the three Qing Envoys to return, then blackness fell, and they found themselves here.
The Dongyang Family’s old ancestors had their suspicions. They had followed the three Envoys close to the Yu Family, seeing Marquis Qingfen descend upon it.
But they had no time to react before the Dominance-level Envoy, You Jue, took them all in one move.
“They acted against the Yu Family?”
“They attacked Yu Yan?”
Marquis Qingfen’s brow creased slightly. Invisible blue flames flickered through time and space. Everyone from the Dongyang Family felt as if they had plunged into a hellish furnace.
“Your Lordship, we see our mistake.”
“Please, Your Lordship, spare our lives.”
The old ancestors of the Dongyang Family showed fearful expressions. Even now, they did not know why Marquis Qingfen had come here, only that it was somehow linked to Yu Yan.
Otherwise, You Jue would not have specifically mentioned “attacking Yu Yan.”
Under these circumstances, the Dongyang Family’s old ancestors did not dare protest. They just begged for their lives.
“Marquis, please have mercy on us!”
“Yes, Your Lordship, we admit our wrongdoing.”
Others from the Dongyang Family joined in, pleading aloud.
With even the old ancestors begging for leniency, everyone else had no choice but to do so as well.
“Your Lordship, our Dongyang Meng is a ten-sun genius. This has been confirmed by the three Envoys. Your Lordship, spare us and we swear Dongyang Meng will devote herself to serving you.”
The leading old ancestor of the Dongyang Family trembled with apprehension.
Though Dongyang Meng had not formally joined Marquis Qingfen, she had already been recognized by the Envoys as a ten-sun genius. If not now, it was only a matter of time.
So, by bringing up this fact, the leading old ancestor hoped that out of regard for the future disciple, Marquis Qingfen would show leniency to the Dongyang Family.
“Marquis Qingfen?”
Dongyang Meng knelt among the crowd, looking up at the man standing there, hands behind his back, his face emotionless. She was still in total confusion.
Not long ago, she had been the child of destiny, so gifted that even the three Envoys regarded her in a different light.
Now, she was kneeling before the Yu Family, kneeling before Yu Yan, whose feelings she had once toyed with.
The sharp contrast between past and present rendered Dongyang Meng’s mind utterly blank.
Marquis Qingfen paid no attention to the pleas of the Dongyang Family, turning instead to Lin Yuan and asking, “Yu Yan, what do you plan to do?”
His meaning was obvious: the fate of all these members of the Dongyang Family lay in Lin Yuan’s hands.
“Yu Yan…”
The leading old ancestor of the Dongyang Family fixed his gaze on Lin Yuan as well, imploring, “Please spare us. If you pardon us, our Dongyang Family will do whatever the Yu Family asks.”
Members of the Yu Family swallowed hard. Even though they realized that Lin Yuan’s admission under Marquis Qingfen meant limitless potential, and that the Dongyang Family could no longer hope to stand on equal footing…
They never dreamed the day would come so swiftly.
Lin Yuan had not even departed yet, and the three Envoys had already seized the entire Dongyang Family, placing them here in front of Marquis Qingfen.
Now, in front of Marquis Qingfen, they were seeking Lin Yuan’s mercy?
“Spare you?” Lin Yuan looked at the assembled members of the Dongyang Family, pausing slightly at Dongyang Meng.
At that moment, tears brimmed in Dongyang Meng’s reddened eyes, and she looked at Lin Yuan in desperate appeal.
“It’s too late,”
Lin Yuan said quietly, shaking his head. The decision was already made in his mind.
The Yu Family and the Dongyang Family had always been mortal enemies, and the Dongyang Family had even tried to kill Lin Yuan.
With such enmity, Lin Yuan had no intention of sparing them.
As for Dongyang Meng? If this were the original Yu Yan, perhaps he might have let her go, even shown mercy to the entire Dongyang Family.
But Lin Yuan was not Yu Yan. He didn't have any feelings for this bitch.
Even if Marquis Qingfen had not appeared, in just a few decades or centuries, when Lin Yuan recovered his full strength, he would have likewise trampled the Dongyang Family in passing.
“I’ll leave it to Your Lordship,”
Lin Yuan said.
“I understand.”
Marquis Qingfen nodded.
If Lin Yuan had truly wanted to spare the Dongyang Family, he would have said so directly. That kind of statement, delivered in front of them all, would have garnered him even greater prestige.
But Lin Yuan did not say it.
Instead, he handed the decision back.
He was effectively pronouncing the Dongyang Family’s doom.
“Dongyang Family.”
Marquis Qingfen cast his gaze upon them. Intangible blue flames ignited from the depths of time and space, reducing all members of the Dongyang Family, body and soul, to ash in a flash.
Shhh…
The blue fire traced lines of causality, reaching every corner. The strongest among the Dongyang Family, particularly their Ji Dao realm old ancestors, possessed various life-saving methods. Even if their true forms were destroyed, they could sometimes “revive” elsewhere.
But Marquis Qingfen gave them no such chance. Through causal connection, his blue fire spread, burning anything bearing the Dongyang Family’s name.
After a few breaths, the blue flames subsided.
“The Dongyang Family no longer exists in the Qingfen Domain,”
Marquis Qingfen said.
“Thank you, Your Lordship,”
Lin Yuan spoke at once.
“It’s nothing.”
Marquis Qingfen waved his hand lightly.
“Come. Let’s go.”
He looked at Lin Yuan with a gentle smile.
“With your talent and aptitude, you shouldn’t stay buried here.”
“Yes.”
Lin Yuan nodded.
Swish…
With the slightest exertion of Marquis Qingfen’s mind, he and Lin Yuan vanished from sight.
“They’ve gone,” the three Qing Envoys said, standing there while breathing a tiny sigh of relief.
“Let’s go home, too,”
You Jue said, steadying himself and glancing at the other two Envoys.
“I’m afraid from now on in the Qingfen Domain, even our senior brother might not have the final say.”
Main Universe.
Mysterious Emperor Secret Realm.
Lin Yuan sat cross-legged.
Within him, the internal universe stretched vast, now 12 million light years across.
“That should just about do it.”
The red-clothed young girl watched this immense internal universe with a solemn expression. Although it was far smaller than the main universe in pure scale, in terms of time-space stability and rule functioning, it fully surpassed the main universe. Overall, it was practically on par with the main universe in some aspects.
Hoo…
Lin Yuan’s figure emerged. Moments ago, he had finally replicated and integrated all those universe construction methods embodied in the runes into his internal universe.
“My internal universe…”
He carefully sensed the interplay of powers within it.
As its creator, he could sense the extraordinary power it now contained—power so fearsome that an ordinary Dominance realm being would be helpless before it, disintegrating in an instant.
Even a Dominance realm pinnacle like Cang Weiyang would be crushed by raw force.
“So this is an internal universe close to that of a Chaos Venerable?”
Lin Yuan was delighted. Of course, a Chaos expert’s battle potential did not come solely from their internal universe. Still, for a Path-Clearing being like him to own an internal universe of such a level was truly outrageous. He could treat nearly all Dominance realm lifeforms like pigs for slaughter.
Apart from a rare few special Dominance beings—such as that chaos draconic beast on Guming Chaotic Continent—Lin Yuan was essentially invincible against Dominance.
“It’s far stronger than I expected,” the red-clothed girl thought to herself. When integrating the rune-based universe construction, it still had to match the particular state of one’s universe.
Clearly, Lin Yuan had done a flawless job, so perfect that even she could not find a single flaw.
“Next, you can refine the jade gourd,” the red-clothed girl said to Lin Yuan.
Only after one’s internal universe had merged all the constructions from those runes would it be qualified to refine the jade gourd.
Now, Lin Yuan clearly could.
Once he refined it, Lin Yuan would gain full command of the legacy the jade gourd’s creator had left behind—a thirteenth-rank time lifeform’s groundwork legacy.
Merely the small part of that legacy used for guidance had brought Lin Yuan’s internal universe this far. As for the true inheritance that lay ahead…
Mysterious Emperor Secret Realm.
Lin Yuan opened his eyes.
A crystal-clear jade gourd hovered before him.
“Let’s refine it.”
Right away, Lin Yuan extended a trace of internal cosmic power into the jade gourd, initiating the refinement.
The moment he began, Lin Yuan estimated it would take about ten years to finish.
To maintain the process at full speed, he placed the jade gourd directly into his internal universe, letting it soak in the infinite ocean of his universe’s core power.
Refining the jade gourd did not consume much of his focus; it was not as demanding as reconstructing a universe. It was more like a grinding process.
After that, Lin Yuan raised his right hand, revealing a golden box.
Its surface looked worn and ancient. After countless years, there remained a faintly stamped, intricate mark in the lower right corner.
This was the treasure from the Mysterious Emperor lineage, bought by Lin Yuan at the Thousand Treasures Festival on Guming Chaotic Continent.
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