Slowly, Ye Ling finally came in front of the female cultivator.
Looking over at her, he was stunned for a moment, drool forming in his mouth.
What the heck!
She’s too beautiful!
Regaining his composure, he turned to look at the man lying in front of him, shivering in fear as he looked up at Ye Ling.
So this is the guy who poisoned her with the aphrodisiac?
He’s not even as good looking as me, tch!
Thinking of this, he asked in a domineering voice, "What were you trying to do here?"
Qiao Fan gulped, his face a bloody mess as he stuttered out with an angry expression on his face, "D-do you know who my grandfather is-"
*Thwack!*
But before he could finish, Ye Ling slapped him in the face, taking care not to use any Spiritual Energy and controlling his strength, yet Qiao Fan was still sent flying a dozen meters away.
"I don’t care if your grandfather is the Heavenly Emperor or the Immortal Ancestor. Why were you trying to assault this young lady here?" He asked once again, his tone of voice still extremely assertive.
At this moment, Qiao Fan couldn’t help but think.
This fellow is only in the First Stage of Foundation Establishment Realm, then why is he so much stronger than me, someone at the Second Stage of Foundation Establishment Realm!?
It doesn’t make any sense at all!
Not to mention, he isn’t even intimidated by the mention of my grandfather! Who doesn’t know me or him around here?
"Wh-Who are you!?" Qiao Fan mustered up the courage and shouted at Ye Ling, blood foaming at his mouth.
"You don’t need to know." Saying this, he stepped closer towards him which instinctively made Qiao Fan retreat as well.
He released his aura, instantly pining Qiao Fan to the ground.
Th-this...!? Who is he, really!?
The female cultivator watching all of this was also extremely shocked, and didn’t utter out a single word.
Ye Ling turned to look at her, still suppressing Qiao Fan into the ground.
"Miss, you decide what should be done with this fellow." He said, his eyes full of confidence on the outside, but he was having perverted thoughts inside.
The female cultivator shook her head repeatedly before saying, "Senior, his background is too great for us to deal with. Please spare him as to not further escalate things."
She was afraid of the consequences that would follow if the person in front of her killed Qiao Fan. No matter how shrewd, he was still the grandson of her sect’s First Elder.
If it was revealed that she had something to so with his death, then not just her, her mortal family back in the outside world would have to suffer the consequences too.
"If you say so..." Retracting his pressure, Ye Ling stepped aside from Qiao Fan, who was struggling to even stand up.
"Get out of my sight, right this instant." He ordered, which Qiao Fan complied almost immediately.
"I’m extremely grateful for your help, senior. My name is Yun Qingqing, and I’m an Outer Disciple of the Harmonious Jade Sect." She said, cupping her fists and bowing slightly.
From the fight just now, she understood that this senior was at least in the Foundation Establishment Realm. That was why she was treating him as such.
However, she was very uneasy regarding Qiao Fan even now.
What if he told his grandfather about what happened here? Should I have said yes when senior asked me whether he should kill him or not?
However, at this moment, her face flushed as her legs started shaking, making her unable to stand straight.
I forgot that the effects of that aphrodisiac have still not yet worn off completely!
Seeing her in such a state, Ye Ling could no longer hold back and shook his head, grabbing her shoulder as he said, "You seem quite troubled there. Let me help you out."
Yun Qingqing didn’t even have the energy to do anything, and only nodded slightly.
...
2 days later.
Ye Ling walked out of the cave, completely refreshed from his and Yun Qingqing’s activities in the past two days.
His smile only widened as he checked the screen floating infront of him.
[The first mission of the chain mission has been successfully completed. 30 Spirit Points have been added in the host’s inventory. You can pick them up anytime.]
Inventory was the space where everything he received from the Heavenly Devil System would be stored in. But he couldn’t store them in once again after he had taken them out, and he couldn’t store anything inside at all that wasn’t from the system.
So Qingqing really fell for me, huh? My charm is truly endless!
He thought smugly.
"Hey, this is a chain mission, right? Then there should he a next mission after this, shouldn’t there?" He asked, placing his right hand under his chin.
[Of course, host. The second mission of the chain mission is: Join the Harmonious Jade Sect!]
[Mission rewards when completed:
50 Spirit Points.
A new system function to obtain Spirit Points.
Punishments when failed: the chain mission will be broken and the host will have to wait for some time again before a new one appears.]
"A new way to obtained Spirit Points!? I’ll definitely do it! But will those old farts from above even allow it..."
Just as he was thinking of this, he suddenly received a voice transmission.
"Saint, orders from above have come. There is a sect called the Harmonious Jade Sect located around here. You must join that sect and quickly rise through the ranks. We’re leaving this vicinity with all the flying ships because of some special matter. Further information will be provided to you once you join the Harmonious Jade Sect.
"Huh? What the..."
Looking somewhat surprised, Ye Ling couldn’t help but look at the floating screen in front of him again.
The system...it already predicted that it will happen and assigned such a mission to me?
I wonder if it’s possible to attain such prowess to be able to divine everything through Immortal Cultivation?
These are the heights I want to achieve!
He sighed softly before returning to the cave.
...
3 and a half years later.
Eastern Continent.
Eternal Peak.
Tian Yongheng stabilized his cultivation base as he looked at his status panel in front of him.
[Name: Tian Yongheng]
[Race: Mortal]
[Lifespan: 125/3329]
[Cultivation: Third Stage of Innate Realm.]
[Constitution: Five-Elemental Divine Spiritual Physique.]
[Bloodline: Jade Pure Bloodline (Descendant of the Celestial Venerable of Primordial Beginning).]
[Innate Talent(s): Sword Heart, Primordial Meridians and Primordial Bones.]
Tian Yongheng was able to breakthrough so quickly because after his last breakthrough, he had obtained five bottles of Innate Pills from the system.
After using more than three of them, it was possible to breakthrough much faster than before.
[Congratulations to the host for breaking through to the Third Stage of Innate Realm.]
[Obtained the Rank-5 Dharma Artifact, Bright Moonlight Robe.]
[Bright Moonlight Robe: Defensive Dharma Artifact. A robe made using the Bright Moonlight and the Moon’s Essence, with a special fabric called the Lunar Silk, a type of silk that is only produced during a Lunar Eclipse and must be extracted from the Spirit Qi filling the world with caution. It is passive and can negate all kinds of negative effects including poison etcetera.]
Immediately, a beautifully embroidered white-silver robe appeared in front of him as it shone brightly.
I definitely needed something like this. My Purple Silk Robe is completely useless right now.
Thinking of this, he changed and wore the Bright Moonlight Robe in an instant.
With how bright and beautiful the robe was, Tian Yongheng looked even more beautiful, yet handsome at the same time in it.
He finally stood up and decided to take a stroll outside and check the current situation.
Right now, there were nearly 50,000 disciples in the Eternal Peak. Almost a thousand of them were in the Foundation Establishment Realm, and around 5,000 in the Acupoint Opening Stage, while the rest were all Qi Condensation Realm cultivators.
Due to this, Tian Yongheng had temporarily sealed off the entrance of the Eternal Peak so that the number of disciples don’t exceed their current limits.
This amount of workforce was extremely large, and it required a lot of Spirit Stones to sustain them all. But Tian Yongheng’s investments in the past few years were not in vain, as many Rank-1 and even Rank-2 Alchemists, Artifact Masters, Talisman Masters, Formation Masters etcetera had appeared in the Eternal Peak.
Although the ratio of a Rank-1 cultivator in any profession among all the cultivators was only 1:10 while for Rank-2, it was 1:100, they still made great profits, and the rest were also improving very quickly.
Right now, the annual revenue of the Eternal Peak was 7,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones and 500 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones. If all the expenses including the salaries of all the 50,000 cultivators in the Eternal Peak and investments were cut from the annual revenue, the Eternal Peak will still make a profit of a few hundred Low-Grade Spirit Stones and around 30 or 40 Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
By Tian Yongheng’s estimations, in the next ten years, the ratio of cultivators in the Rank-1 of their own profession will be around 1:5 while the Rank-2 will be around 1:70, which will be a major factor in increasing the annual revenue.
These were the benefits of doing risky investments and creating a faction!
He wanted to create a business empire in the cultivation world!