The two sat opposite each other.
Ye Xuanwei had already rushed in front of him. He needed to explain this matter clearly to Qi Zhiheng in order to have a better chance of winning the man.
Ye Hanyuan said, "I was a disciple of the Shenmu Sect before, but I didn't join voluntarily because my parents were both disciples of the Shenmu Sect."
“I understand. I know who your ancestors were. But how did you end up in the Slaughtering God Sect? Did you flee to avoid punishment?” Qi Zhiheng remembered that his disciple had said he killed the brother of the person who came to cause trouble. It was possible that he was expelled for killing a fellow disciple.
Ye Hanyuan was a little embarrassed and felt that he had been rambling on: "This needs to be explained from the beginning."
Ye Hanyuan recounted the ins and outs of her life over the past ten years.
His father was born into the Ye family of the Shenmu Sect, which was the lineage of Ye Yunchuan. Ye Yunchuan was a fourth-level alchemist, and it was from his generation that the Ye family began to occupy a place in the sect.
Ye Yunchuan entered the Shenmu Sect at a young age. Due to his good aptitude, he married his master's daughter. His master was not a very powerful alchemist, only a level three alchemist, but he was already a good master for Ye Yunchuan, who was only at the Qi Refining stage.
Later, Ye Yunchuan obtained the inheritance of a pill refiner in the ruins of a Nascent Soul cultivator, and from then on, his talent began to show. After returning, he had a different idea: rather than passing on his inheritance to disciples in the future, he would rather have a son himself. So he and his wife had their first son.
The first son was not very talented. After he reached the Golden Core stage, he took a concubine and had two sons and a daughter.
When he reached the Nascent Soul stage, he married two concubines, who bore him two sons and a daughter.
With Ye Yunchuan taking the lead, his sons also inherited his fine tradition and had sons!
And so the Ye family came into being.
Ye Hanyuan's father is the grandson of Ye Yunchuan's fifth son.
Ye Yunchuan had many descendants, so he didn't care much about them. Ye Hanyuan's father was killed while exploring a secret realm. Ye Hanyuan was only eight years old at the time.
Ye Hanyuan's original name was Ye Xuanqing. Among his descendants, he possessed excellent talent, reaching the third level of Qi Refining at the age of eight. Such talent inevitably attracted jealousy from his cousins and targeting from their parents. Ye Hanyuan and his mother were both only at the Qi Refining stage. Without his father's protection, they struggled within the Ye family. His mother then remarried, this time to his father's cousin, Ye Hongkun. A woman who had remarried naturally could only become a concubine.
Ye Hanyuan was also brought inside with his mother. After all, they were all descendants of the Ye family, so the Ye family ancestors naturally wouldn't say much. However, Ye Hanyuan's life was not easy.
First of all, his mother was a concubine, and there was also the first wife there, who also had a son.
Ye Hanyuan's talent is among the best in his generation, and he has been recognized by his ancestors. As a result, he stands out in front of Ye Hongkun's family. No one is happy if their stepson is more outstanding than their own son, so Ye Hanyuan's situation is awkward.
Besides cultivation, Ye Hanyuan is also making great progress in alchemy, which makes his older brothers very dissatisfied. They are always being told by their parents to work harder.
For Ye Hanyuan's mother to gain a foothold in her new family, she would inevitably need to have a child with her trusted husband.
Ye Hanyuan was outstanding enough that his ancestors bestowed many rewards upon him, but most of these rewards were left to Ye Hongkun's two sons from his first wife. In order to please her husband and his first wife, Ye Hanyuan's mother generously gave the things that originally belonged to her sons to Ye Xuanwei and his brother.
Even without good resources, Ye Hanyuan was far more outstanding than his two brothers. By the age of twelve, he had already become a cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining, a remarkably rapid advancement. His ancestors had bestowed upon him three pills for cleansing essence and marrow, perfectly suited for disciples in the Qi Refining stage. Taking them over three months would maximize their effects. If Ye Hanyuan were to consume all of these pills, it would undoubtedly increase his chances of reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.
Ye Hanyuan didn't publicize the matter, because he knew that once it was exposed, he wouldn't be able to keep the pill. He took one pill as soon as he got it, and kept the other two.
Over the years, he would often secretly hide things, without even his mother knowing. Once his mother found out, all the things would end up in other people's hands, which was something he didn't want to see. After all, his two brothers hadn't treated him well, and he wasn't so shameless as to rush to give them away.
However, a servant who served the ancestor had already informed the two brothers about this matter. Naturally, the two brothers would not take the initiative to ask Ye Hanyuan for the reward, but they would intentionally or unintentionally mention Ye Hanyuan's reward to Ye Hanyuan's mother.
At this time, Ye Hanyuan's mother was already pregnant, but the child had not yet been born. Before her own child was born, she naturally wanted to please her stepsons, so she went to ask her son for things for her stepsons.
His mother's purpose was also very clear: in the future, he would still have to rely on his own husband to make a living. If her son was too outstanding, he would be disliked in this family.
Ye Hanyuan was surprised that his mother already knew about this, but since the pill was related to whether he could establish his foundation, he was naturally unwilling to hand it over.
Ye Hanyuan's mother was very uncomfortable that her son, who had always been obedient to her, suddenly became rebellious. From then on, she felt even more strongly that her son would no longer care about her.
She tried several methods, including crying and kneeling, but unfortunately, her behavior over the years had worn away most of the affection between her and Ye Hanyuan, and Ye Hanyuan firmly disagreed this time.
Ye Hanyuan's mother was unwilling to give up what Ye Xuanwei and his brother wanted. There happened to be a secret realm that was suitable for them, who were at the Qi Refining stage, so they asked Ye Hanyuan's mother to persuade Ye Hanyuan to enter the secret realm.
Inside the secret realm, the two brothers, along with their guards, attacked Ye Hanyuan.
The two brothers were extremely ruthless towards Ye Hanyuan. Not only did they damage his meridians and spiritual roots, causing his cultivation level to plummet to the second level of Qi Refining, they also shattered his sea of consciousness with a soul weapon. With his sea of consciousness shattered, it was extremely difficult for him to use his soul power, so he could forget about alchemy.
After learning about his current state, Ye Hanyuan was filled with despair and only wanted to drag his two brothers down with him.
When Ye Xuanwei's elder brother saw that Ye Hanyuan had become a cripple, he brazenly went up to try and snatch his storage ring. Unfortunately, he wasn't careful enough, and Ye Hanyuan killed him while he was trying to grab the storage ring! Then he quickly fled.
However, Ye Hanyuan was seriously injured and hadn't run far before he struck the flowing river with a palm strike.
The saying "Those who survive a great calamity are destined for good fortune" is true. After Ye Hanyuan fell into the river, he followed the river and entered a riverbed that no one had ever discovered before. At the bottom of the river, he obtained a root-shaping grass, which was originally a spiritual herb for those with extremely poor aptitude to use in alchemy. Eating it could improve the aptitude of one's spiritual roots.
Since Ye Hanyuan couldn't refine pills right now, he directly consumed the spiritual herb. After consuming the Root-Shaping Grass, his spiritual root was repaired, and his sea of consciousness was also partially repaired. However, the original range of his sea of consciousness was only one-tenth of its original size, and his cultivation level dropped from the seventh level of Qi Refining to the second level of Qi Refining!
After he disguised himself and returned to the secret realm, news of his murder of his elder brother had already spread, and the people of the Divine Wood Sect were already searching for him.
Ye Hanyuan didn't have much on him. The two pills had already been taken when Ye Xuanwei, his elder brother, tried to steal his storage ring. At that time, after killing someone, he only had time to grab his own storage ring; the pills were still in the other party's hands before he fled. Because Ye Xuanwei was ruining his reputation everywhere, he couldn't return to the Divine Wood Sect.
After leaving the secret realm, Ye Han quietly departed with the other sects. He was unaware of what happened next, but he did learn about his mother. Since his mother was pregnant with Ye Hongkun's child, Ye Hongkun wouldn't do anything to him.
After that, he changed his name from Ye Xuanqing to Ye Hanyuan, and when the sect was selecting disciples, he entered the Lushen Sect.
He had his reasons for joining the Slaughter God Sect. The Slaughter God Sect was ranked above the Divine Wood Sect and was known for protecting its own. Ye Hanyuan thought that as long as he could establish himself in the Slaughter God Sect, even if he was exposed in the future, the Slaughter God Sect might still protect him.
However, due to the damage to his spiritual root and the injury to his sea of consciousness, he did not stand out in the test and barely made it into the inner sect. However, he was not considered outstanding among the many excellent disciples and was not selected by any of the leaders.
For five years after joining the sect, he devoted himself to cultivation and alchemy, but his soul power ultimately limited his alchemy path. Fortunately, his cultivation level was gradually increasing.
He originally thought it would take many years to fully restore his sea of consciousness, but unexpectedly, when he was nearly seventeen years old, he encountered someone in the sect choosing a disciple, and a rather special one at that.
Ye Hanyuan chose to stay and become the disciple of this Golden Core cultivator. At the time, he was unaware of the cultivator's strength. His main reason for wanting to enter the Pill Peak was that many of the pill-making books there were not even circulated within the sect; only disciples of the Pill Peak could access them. He thought that even if this master was truly incompetent, he could still borrow the books from the Pill Peak to learn about pills.
Moreover, the resources available after entering the peak are vastly different from those available to ordinary inner disciples. With access to resources and knowledge from books, coupled with his innate talent, he should be able to achieve his goals much faster!
I never expected that my master, whom I didn't think much of, would actually have some skills!
Not only did he teach them alchemy, but he also gave them a lot of pills to take! He also gave them some pill formulas generously. Ye Hanyuan found a pill formula that could repair his sea of consciousness, so after Qi Zhiheng finished teaching, he used the remaining time to refine the pills and take them to repair his sea of consciousness.
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