Chapter 41

Ye Lingyue was only at the fifth level of body tempering, and dealing with a silver-clawed eagle king was already very dangerous for her. A fourth level spiritual beast also appeared! After hearing this, Ye Gu’s expression turned more serious.

“Grandpa, to be honest, I didn’t kill that spiritual beast. When I fell into the cave, I was unconscious for two days. When I woke up, I saw that the monster had died inside the cave.” Ye Lingyue hid the fact that she had encountered a golden-masked man.

“It seemed someone strong had visited that cave. However, Lingyue, it’s already a great fortune that you killed the silver-clawed eagle king,” Ye Gu exclaimed in amazement.

“Grandpa, there is one more thing. During the mountain hunt, we found that the Song family used this type of arrow.” With Ye Lingyue’s hint, Ye Sheng took out a few 50% dark iron arrows and passed them to Ye Gu.

After Ye Gu saw the arrows, his expression changed immediately. He immediately called Ye Fengyun and Ye Fengcheng over to discuss.

Both Ye Lingyue and Ye Sheng moved back, understanding their intentions.

“Father, there is something weird about this. The Song family’s iron extraction technique has never been as good as ours. How are they able to make such a sharp arrow?” The moment Ye Fengyun saw the dark iron arrows, he furrowed his eyebrows tightly.

“Big Brother, it probably wasn’t the Song family who made this arrow. They probably made use of their high-quality iron ores from the Seventh Northern Hill and hired a large merchant organization in the county city,” Ye Fengcheng scoffed. “However, the Song family’s good days are already over. We won the mountain hunt this time and the mining rights of the Seventh Northern hill would be ours for the next three years.”

The Seventh Northern Hill mining areas were the most resource-abundant. It also had the largest mining mountain in the entire Seven Star Mountain. It was only after the Song family got hold of the Seventh Northern Hill mines that their mine trade became comparable to the Ye family.

Throwing the Seventh Northern Hill away meant that the Song family had lost their right arm.

“Things are hard to predict. You two keep a close eye on the Song family in the next few days. We must make them hand over the Seventh Northern Hill mines as soon as possible.” Staring at those arrows, Ye Gu furrowed his eyebrows tightly. He had a strong gut feeling that things would not be that simple.

After Ye Fengcheng had left the main hall, he saw Ye Qing standing at the side with his head down.

“You useless thing. You couldn’t even win a fool. If your older sister was around, how can that good-for-nothing show off?” Even though they won the mining rights to the Seventh Northern Hill, the thought that it was all because of Ye Lingyue made Ye Fengcheng feel anger swelling up within him.

That Ye Fengyu had overshadowed him since they were young. How can the useless thing she gave birth to be stronger than his son?

At the mention of his older sister, Ye Qing looked even more depressed.

His father only cared about his older sister, Ye Liuyun. To his father, he was nothing.

“It’s good that Liuyun will return after six months. When that time comes, we’ll see how that Ye Lingyue can continue to be so arrogant…” Ye Fengcheng scoffed as he ignored Ye Qing.

In Qiaochu Wing, Ye Lingyue explained the entire situation of the mountain hunt to Ye Fengyu.

“Lingyue, you were able to win the mountain hunt this time because of luck, not because of your capability. From tomorrow onwards, I will double your cultivation training. Apart from going to the quarry, I won’t allow you to frolic around.” Seeing that her daughter had returned safe and celebrated, Ye Fengyu wore a smile on her lips.

However, in the next second, she worried about Lingyue once more.

Ruthless people comprised the Song Family. With Song Han’s death and losing the rights to mine at the Seventh Northern hill mines, the Song family would definitely put the blame on her daughter, Lingyue.

It was hard to avoid hidden and silent attacks. If she was as strong as she was back then, she wouldn’t be afraid of the Song family. But at the moment, her body… At this thought, Ye Fengyu furrowed her eyebrows tightly and wore a frown.

“Mother, why are you furrowing your eyebrows again? Is your illness acting up again? I just learned a massage technique. How about I try it on you?” Ye Lingyue said as she pushed Ye Fengyu into her room.

“You little girl. How did you learn so many things?” Ye Fengyu knew that her daughter was obedient, so she followed her daughter’s wishes and laid down.

Ever since she got injured quite badly, her bones and veins would throb in severe pain every spring and autumn. But after drinking the Hundred Fruits Wine that Ye Lingyue had brought back, her body grew more agile and it ached less. Nevertheless, regaining her original strength was still impossible.

Ye Fengyu laid on the bed. The first massage technique that Ye Lingyue used on her was called Tui Na massage, which was a loosening pinch and pull massage that Immortal Hongmeng left behind.

Throughout the massage, Ye Fengyu closed her eyes in comfort. It was only then that she knew that her daughter wasn’t lying. After a while, sleepiness overwhelmed her and she fell into a deep sleep.

Seeing this, Ye Lingyue quietly used her cauldron breath.

After Ye Lingyue had absorbed some medicinal effect of the Bright Sun Ginseng, she realized that the cauldron breath had grown fairly stronger and even grew to a size of a small thumb when it was just as thin as a hair strand before. Moreover, controlling it became easier, too.

Before, the Qian cauldron’s cauldron breath could only see black spots in Da Huang’s body and couldn’t see through a human body. This time, Ye Lingyue wanted to see if it could see the black spots in the human body.

After the cauldron breath had entered Ye Fengyu’s body, in Ye Lingyue’s mind, the fog she saw before seemed to be swept away and it slowly showed a portion of Ye Fengyu’s body condition.

It thrilled Ye Lingyue. But she calmed down and focused on controlling the cauldron breath to swim towards Ye Fengyu’s body.

“This is?” Ye Lingyue realized that her mother’s body was still considered healthy. However, there were many black spots on several of her major acupuncture points.

No matter the sizes or color, the black spots were a lot more serious than what she saw on Da Huang before.

“It’s them. They are the ones that caused Mother to suffer so much in the last few years,” Ye Lingyue said in her mind.

However, because there were too many black spots, Ye Lingyue couldn’t remove all of them in one go. Hence, she decided to start swallowing the black spot at her dantian.

When the cauldron breath approached the black spots, it attacked ferociously. It was about an hour later that Ye Lingyue finally kept her cauldron breath, and by then sweat had covered her forehead.

The cauldron breath had completely swallowed the black spot that rested on Ye Fengyu’s dantian.

When Ye Fengyu woke up and saw her daughter’s exhausted face, Ye Fengyu felt guilty. She was too insensitive as a mother. How could she forget that her daughter had just returned from the mountain hunt? She should have asked Lingyue to go and rest first.

“Mother, try to feel if your body feels better.” Swallowing the black spot in Ye Fengyu’s body was a lot more difficult than saving Da Huang, but Ye Lingyue wanted to know if it was effective as soon as possible.

Ye Fengyu breathed in quietly and realized that her body felt more energetic than before. It also didn’t feel as difficult to use her elementary force as compared to before, so she was both surprised and elated.

Seeing Ye Fengyu’s expression, it also thrilled Ye Lingyue. It seemed like as long as she used the cauldron breath to swallow the black spots a few times more, her mother had a chance of recovering her cultivation!