"It’s time to leave!"
From a distance, Ye Yu urged Ling Tai onward.
The latter suddenly lifted his head, his gaze razor-sharp.
Fortunately, Ye Yu wasn’t paying him any attention. He stood there idly, inspecting the dozen or so Storage Rings in his hand.
"Hmm... the aura of a nouveau riche really hits you in the face."
Seeing this, Ling Tai abruptly turned around, grabbed the red fruits scattered on the ground, and stuffed them back into his mouth.
These fruits actually had a name—Soul Stabilizing Fruit.
They could steady a turbulent divine soul.
Though the effect was fairly ordinary, for Ling Tai, it was already enough.
In the earlier battle against the Extreme Moon Pavilion, the Great Elder Hua Nongying had nearly shattered his divine soul.
Then sealed him completely beneath the earth, intending to grind him to death with the power of the land veins.
Fortunately, the violent aura had preserved a sliver of his life at the very end.
But because his divine soul had been too severely damaged, he had become half-mad and delirious.
Now, with the help of the Soul Stabilizing Fruit, Ling Tai had finally regained clarity.
Looking at Ye Yu’s familiar figure, Ling Tai felt an overwhelming urge to kill him immediately—to completely eliminate the shadow in his heart.
But reason told him that doing so would be courting death.
Even after all this time, his injuries had not fully healed.
Thinking back to how Ye Yu had annihilated Gu Yuanzhen, Ling Tai felt fear from the depths of his soul.
So before his body returned to peak condition, he would not act rashly.
It was only a matter of a few days. He could wait.
The moment he sorted everything out, Ling Tai once again put on that “wise” expression and strode quickly toward Ye Yu.
"Big bro, I’m here!"
"Why are you shouting so loudly? I’m not deaf."
Ye Yu shot him a glare, then took out a divine fruit and two sugar pellets from his Storage Ring and placed them in Ling Tai’s hand.
"Eat all of these. Don’t just eat the candy. The fruit will help your injuries."
Hearing this, Ling Tai froze slightly.
A flood of images suddenly surged through his mind.
They were all scenes from when his divine soul had been unstable—moments when Ye Yu had been feeding him.
The feeling was... strange.
As if he had returned to when he was a chil—
Bang!
A dull thud shattered Ling Tai’s warm recollection.
A violent pain spread from the top of his head all the way down to the soles of his feet!
It was so intense that he felt like his entire body was about to split apart!
And the culprit behind it all was Ye Yu, standing right in front of him!
"What are you spacing out for every day? Can you stay a little more clear-headed?"
Ling Tai clutched his head with both hands, tears bursting out on the spot.
It hurt—too much!
He had just seen it clearly—Ye Yu had jumped up and smacked his skull.
Was this guy’s true form some kind of demon god? Why did he have such terrifying strength?
And why was he suddenly feeling dizzy?
And something warm was flowing down...
It seemed to be divine blood!
In the next instant, Ling Tai fainted on the spot.
Ye Yu looked at his right hand in confusion and muttered, "Looks like even Divine Sovereign Realm experts aren’t that tough."
What Ye Yu didn’t know was that, at the Ancient God Realm, his strength had already reached an unimaginably terrifying level.
Striking a completely defenseless Ling Tai with full force—who could possibly withstand that?
Two hours later.
Inside the Cui family main hall, Ye Yu sat in the seat of honor, while behind him stood Ling Tai, clad in a black robe.
Only, his head was now several times larger than before.
That was due to the thick layers of bandages wrapped around it.
To be honest, Ling Tai had never imagined that even after stepping into the Divine Sovereign Realm, someone could still crack his skull open.
It was utterly humiliating.
But compared to humiliation, what worried him more was—could this be a warning from Ye Yu?
Had he noticed that he had regained clarity, and deliberately used this method to remind him not to act recklessly?
Ling Tai’s mind was racing.
Meanwhile, Ye Yu wasn’t thinking that deeply. After checking the Cloud Nurturing Compass and seeing that Qi Yuan was still in seclusion, he couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed.
Looks like I came back too early.
If I had known, I would’ve returned later.
At that moment, a divine attendant came to report.
"Reporting to Acting Family Head Ye, that man from before has come again!"
Before the words had even fully fallen, a figure had already stepped into the main hall.
It was Yin Yu of the Extreme Moon Pavilion.
At this moment, his expression was ice-cold as he glanced to the side at the divine attendant.
He carried an aura of authority even without showing anger.
Ye Yu waved his hand, dismissing the attendant, then said softly, "Elder Yin, what brings you here today?"
Yin Yu laughed in anger. "What brings me here? You don’t know why I came?"
"I told you to send some Divine Stones and Meteoric Iron to my blessed land, and every time you had an excuse—either it was windy or it was raining."
"It’s been years! What, are you sending it to the lower Demon Realm or something? Are you playing me?"
"And that deadbeat—what kind of status does he have to copy my outfit? I told you to make him change, so why hasn’t he changed?"
After hearing this, Ling Tai couldn’t help but clench his fists.
Damn it—if you want to pick a fight, then pick one. Why are you pointing at me?
I’ve already got a stomach full of anger with nowhere to vent it!
Of course, these words remained only in Ling Tai’s thoughts.
There was no way he would dare say them out loud.
After all, Ye Yu was right there.
When it was time to endure, one had to endure. There was nothing shameful about it.
Ye Yu wasn’t particularly surprised by Yin Yu’s arrival.
The reason this old fox had come to discuss cooperation in the first place was simple—he had set his sights on the resources of the Cui family.
He wanted to take what was originally meant for the Divine Alliance and make it his own.
So in the very first month, he had issued an absurdly outrageous list of demands and told Ye Yu to prepare everything.
But how could Ye Yu hand over those resources so easily?
So he had made up all kinds of excuses to stall him.
At first, it was: the goods are being loaded, they’ll be transported soon.
Half a year later: the goods are on the way.
Another half year: they were robbed en route, the divine ship was sunk.
In short—whatever worked, he used.
Ye Yu had deliberately stayed away from the Cui family with Ling Tai, precisely to avoid Yin Yu.
If there was something to discuss, they could use a communication stone. There was no need to meet face to face.
That way, he could keep dragging things out indefinitely.
But he hadn’t expected Yin Yu’s information network to be this sharp.
He had barely returned, and the man had already come knocking.
Ye Yu seriously suspected that this old fox had set up some kind of surveillance formation near the Cui family.
Of course, none of that really mattered.
What mattered was—how to fool him into leaving.
"Elder Yin, calm down first."
"You asked for too much. Naturally, transporting it by divine ship takes time. And on top of that, you wanted me to keep it hidden—this really isn’t easy to handle."
"To be honest, you bear some responsibility too."
"The route you chose was too remote, which led to the divine ship being ambushed. I suffered heavy losses as well."
When it came to shifting blame, Ye Yu was an absolute master.
He directly began pinning responsibility onto Yin Yu.
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