Chapter 2

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The low-profile carriage quietly left the back door of the Ye clan. It was plain without the Ye clan’s flag and logo. No one knew that the son of the richest man, Ye Tian, was sitting inside. Neither did anyone know that he was the future heir of Ye clan in the chamber of commerce.

Ye Xuan sat in the carriage, pretending to sleep.

The power system in this fantasy world was divided into Sun, Moon, Star, Heaven, Earth, and Human Realms. Each major stage was divided into nine small stages. The lowest was level 1 of Human Realm, and the highest was level 9 of Sun Realm. One who broke through Sun Realm would be considered to become immortal.

At this moment, he was at level 2 of Human Realm, and even this level was the result of the original owner’s hard work of consuming a large number of rare treasures and forcefully cultivated.

If other cultivators took the treasures, they could at least cross a few levels. However, for the original owner, it only changed from 0 to 2. There was not much change at all, which was enough to show how crippled his spirit root was.

“I was too careless!”

Ye Xuan was filled with regret. If he’d known this would happen, he wouldn’t have promised Ye Tian to break through to Earth Realm. Now that he thought about it, it was simply impossible.

Ye Tian must’ve known this, and so he readily agreed. In any case, he knew that Ye Tian wouldn’t be able to complete the task and would obediently come back to inherit the family business a year later.

“What a good move to advance by retreating! It’s said that people in business are more scheming, and Ye Tian was extremely scheming.”

After all, the original owner had used so many precious materials to reach level 2 of Human Realm, but now he only had a million spirit stones. It sounded like a lot, but his expense was like running water, not to mention that training was a money-burning matter.

If he wanted to rely on these one million spirit stones to buy resources to increase his cultivation, then why didn’t he just stay at home? Why did he have to come out and make a living?

“Sigh, the road is long. I haven’t even taken half a step.”

Just as Ye Xuan was thinking about his future path, he felt a violent bump and almost fell out of the carriage.

“What happened, Uncle Sun?”

“It seems like the carriage has been tripped.”

Ye Xuan lifted the curtain and looked down. Someone had set up an inconspicuous roadblock below. If a passing carriage was not careful, it would easily fall. This was obviously man-made.

However, when he looked around, he found that he was far away from the bustling urban area. There were big trees everywhere, and weeds were overgrown. He could only hear the chirping of insects and birds.

“It’s the wilderness, who would be bored enough to put this here?”

As soon as Ye Xuan said this, he realized that something was wrong. He suddenly had a bad premonition and hurriedly urged, “Uncle Sun, run!”

However, it was too late. The sound of horses’ hooves came from behind. From the sound, there were probably more than a dozen people.

When Ye Xuan left home, he only brought this old man but no one else. Ye Tian said that he was going out to explore, not to enjoy life. There was no point of bringing so many people.

He didn’t even arrange a bodyguard for Ye Xuan. He just wanted to make Ye Xuan back off.

Ye Xuan understood his thoughts, but he didn’t fall for it. He was also unyielding, so he brought along Uncle Sun and left with the money.

Uncle Sun had traveled a lot when he was young. He quickly realized what had happened and his face turned pale, “Young master, sit tight.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the carriage shot out like an arrow. If it wasn’t for Ye Xuan’s quick reaction and holding onto the cabin next to him, he would have been thrown out.

Ye Xuan’s eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at Uncle Sun as if he was looking at gold.

Poor Uncle Sun, with his age, he felt uncomfortable under Ye Xuan’s gaze. He couldn’t help but say, “Young master, why are you looking at me like that?”

“Uncle Sun! No, I should call you Elder Sun. I can tell you’re not a simple person just by your driving skills. As the only child of Ye clan, how could father let me go out alone? He must have arranged for an expert like you to follow me…”

Uncle Sun looked ordinary and had no cultivation. In fact, he was like an old man in a ring, bracelet, or jade pendant in the fantasy novels that Ye Xuan had read in his previous life.

His identity wasn’t ordinary. He usually didn’t make a move, but when he did, he would definitely be able to kill everyone present in seconds. He would only appear when the main character was in danger and turn danger into safety.

Uncle Sun couldn’t help but interrupt Ye Xuan, “Young master, I don’t understand what you’re saying. I’m just good at driving.”

Ye Xuan was stunned. He looked at Uncle Sun several times and saw that he didn’t seem to be lying.

This wasn’t going according to the routine at all!

The bandits behind them were riding on horses, so they were naturally faster than Ye Xuan and Uncle Sun. They caught up very quickly.

“The people in front, listen up. If you stop the carriage now and hand over the spirit stones, I might consider letting you go.”

This group of people looked like frequent robbers, so Ye Xuan didn’t believe their nonsense. But if this continued, they would catch up sooner or later, and it would be hard to tell whether he would live or die.

He didn’t want to die before he could succeed, but he had nothing on him except for the one million spirit stones.

Ye Xuan immediately came up with a plan.

“I can give you the spirit stones, but these are all I have.”

Ye Xuan threw out a large number of spirit stones, and with the speed of the carriage, the spirit stones fell behind like rain, leaving the bandit gang dumbfounded.

They had seen people spending money like it was dirt, but they had never seen someone scattering spirit stones like this.

The group of robbers immediately started fighting over the items like crazy.

Uncle Sun’s eyes widened, but he saw that Ye Xuan’s movements were extremely familiar, as if he had done it thousands of times. After all, he had done this in his previous life.

“I got this first!”

“Nonsense, I was the one who picked it up.”

“Sixth brother, you’ve secretly picked up so many but you’re still unsatisfied!”

The group of robbers was busy picking up spirit stones, so they didn’t care about Ye Xuan. Ye Xuan and Uncle Sun could even hear the sound of their arguments, and there were even signs of a fight.

Uncle Sun was thoroughly convinced, “Young master is really smart.”

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for activating the ‘Be Prodigal To Become Stronger’ system!]