Chapter 1: Severe Consequences

  "Elderly, hurry up!!"

  "Ah, we're going to fight them, elder, you guys hurry up and leave!!"

  "Elder, hurry up and avenge us."

  "Avenge us!!"

  Although Ye Fan had given the order to annihilate, there were still a few people who escaped from the encirclement of tens of thousands of people and ran to the central high platform of the square, desperately attacking Ye Lin and others, and surprisingly trying to rescue Ye Chong and others.

  "You're asking for trouble!!"

  Ye Lin and others were all furious, their movements became even more swift and fierce, wanting to cut down these few bastards.

  However, this time Ye Chong and his team brought some good players. Although they couldn't match Ye Gu Cheng's swordsmanship, with their peak refining period strength, they could still withstand a few attacks from Ye Lin and the others.

  It was these few moves that were blocked, Ye Chong and the four brothers of the Mei family quickly gathered together, looked at each other, and all looked at several subordinates who were beheaded by Ye Gu Cheng and others with full eyes of hatred. Suddenly, they rose up, released their true energy, reduced their body weight to the lightest, and then flashed outwards like lightning.

  "Don't worry, son, I will avenge you."

  "The Ye family, our Tianlong Society will definitely wipe you out."

  Ye Zhongren is gone, but his bitter and poisonous oath still lingers above the Bell Tower Square.

  "Ye Lin, I, Mei's brother, will never let you off the hook. One day, we'll come to settle the score for my fourth brother's broken arm."

  Mei's eldest also sent a resentful and venomous voice from afar.

  "Go after him!!!"

  Ye Gu Cheng killed a strong martial artist with one sword strike and then leaped up to chase after the five people who had already escaped.

  Ye Fan's eyebrows slightly furrowed as he said, "Don't chase anymore."

  Ye Gu Cheng's body flashed and he appeared beside Ye Fan, asking: "Why?"

  Ye Fan turned his head towards the battlefield and said, "Ye Lin's body is no longer usable."

  "What?" Ye Gucheng was shocked, turning his head to look over, only to see Ye Lin spitting out a mouthful of blood, while Xing Tian had already rushed over and was supporting him with his sturdy body.

  "Master Ye Lin, are you alright?!"

  Ye Gu Cheng hastily rushed over and anxiously asked.

  Ye Lin smiled faintly, his face pale, and didn't even wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth. "It's nothing, I just used a secret technique earlier and my body was counterattacked by it." As he spoke, he turned his head to look around, weakly asking: "Quickly investigate how much our Ye family lost this time, see if there are any fish that slipped through the net?"

  Protecting the Ye family is Father's lifelong wish, and Ye Lin cannot let the Ye family be destroyed in his own hands.

  "Alright, I'll go investigate now."

  In the end, Ye Gucheng was just a member of a branch family of the Ye clan and couldn't be considered a true direct descendant of the Ye clan. Moreover, when he was very young, it was discovered that he had the Red Blood Heavenly Gift, making him a martial arts waste. In desperation, he wanted to end his life, but at that time, Ye Yunfei happened to pass by and saved him. To guide him, Ye Yunfei spent a year teaching him swordsmanship, hand in hand. It was because of this that Ye Gucheng later followed Ye Yunfei's instructions, focusing on cultivating his sword skills without any distractions, pouring all his heart and soul into the way of the sword, which ultimately led to the current Ye Gucheng.

  So, in the entire Ye family, Ye Gu Cheng admired Ye Yun Fei the most. Without Ye Yun Fei, there wouldn't be the current Ye Gu Cheng. Now that Ye Yun Fei is missing, he has truly regarded Ye Lin as his own young master. If not for these three or four years spent cultivating sword skills in the Eastern Sea, perhaps no one in the Ye family would have dared to mock and ridicule Ye Lin like this.

  However, Ye Gucheng did not know that Ye Lin's current situation was extremely bad, far worse than the injury caused by the backlash of his own secret technique.

  "Dragon God, how's my current injury?"

  Although his body was his own, he believed that the Purple Golden Dragon God probably understood his injuries better than he did himself, so he couldn't help but ask the dragon god.

  The Purple Golden Dragon God had been silent for a long time, and Ye Lin was not in a hurry. He knew that his injuries were definitely very serious, and even the Purple Golden Dragon God needed a long time to give an accurate answer. Sure enough, after a long while, the voice of the Purple Golden Dragon God came: "It's very bad, you almost completely ruined your body."

  Ye Lin's heart sank, but he still didn't muster up the spirit to strongly laugh and say: "It's nothing, the Ye family is what my father protected his whole life, I cannot let it be destroyed in my hands, therefore, no matter how great the cost, it is worth it."

  "The Purple Golden Dragon God said to Ye Lin, 'Originally, you borrowed three drops of the Divine Dragon's blood and forcibly merged your own ancestral bloodline into the Ye family's ancestral vein. Originally, if nothing unexpected happened, this would have been enough, even without possessing the purple imperial blood, it would be similar to having it. However, this time you used the ancestral vein to summon Ye Tian's will, engaging in a great battle with the cultivators of the Qi Refining stage, severely injuring your body's yuanqi. The Ye family's ancestral vein is too powerful and cannot be endured by your severely injured body. To prevent you from completely losing the Ye family's ancestral vein, I used all my power as the Purple Extreme Heaven Yang to merge the entire Ye family's ancestral vein into your heart.'"

  Ye Lin's heart sank once more, but he still held onto a glimmer of hope and asked: "Merging with the Heart?"

  The voice of the Purple Golden Dragon God came again, saying: "Yes, the heart is the central hub of all blood vessels in the body, and it is also the source of power for all blood in the body. Your Ye family bloodline can only truly recover if you fully integrate it into your heart. From now on, you will have the opportunity to truly restore it." Pausing for a moment, the Purple Golden Dragon God continued: "However, from now on, I'm afraid you'll have to regain your original cultivation speed. Of course, every time you break through a major boundary, your bloodline will also break through with you. Perhaps by the time you cultivate to the Life and Death King Realm, your bloodline may even enter the Divine Blood Realm ahead of schedule. This could be a blessing in disguise for you!"

  Upon hearing this, Ye Lin's dejected attitude vanished instantly. In his heart, he smiled and thought: "It was worth it, totally worth it. Dragon God, thank you, I really want to thank you."

  Originally, Ye Lin forcibly merged his own source blood into the ancestral bloodline of the Ye family, so that Ye Lin could truly possess the innate talent of imperial blood. However, the consequence of doing so is that if he wants to further improve his bloodline, it would be extremely difficult, and he must rely on the collective blood essence released by all members of the Ye family to nurture his bloodline, in order for it to evolve again. Even if 1.3 billion members of the Ye family were to submit to the Ye family, the blood essence released would still be distributed among the entire family, with those holding higher positions receiving more. However, even that would only amount to one ten-thousandth of the total blood essence of the Ye family, and it's impossible for it to take effect in a short period of time. Only the starlight released by the spirits of deceased members of the Ye family is truly obtained by all members of the family.

  But now it's different, because the Purple Gold Dragon suddenly took action, completely merging the Ye family's ancestral vein into its own heart. Although it can't make itself instantly possess the Emperor's Blood Talent, it uses this as a source point to give Ye Lin's bloodline a powerful growth potential. This benefit is naturally that Ye Lin's bloodline evolution will be even faster.

  "Haha, don't you know who I, the Purple Gold Dragon God, am? Even in ancient times, who didn't know of my name, who wasn't aware..."

  Before the unequal purple golden dragon god finished speaking, Ye Lin hastily interrupted, saying: "Alright, alright, I know your reputation is renowned and unmatched in the world."

  This is also a major problem that Yelinde discovered on Zijinlongshen after being together for so long, which is being too showy. It's as if he thinks everyone in the world knows his name and fears him. Every time he hears him muttering to himself, Yelin can't help but want to laugh.

  Xing Tian had been accompanying Ye Lin all along, watching him with concern and tension. Seeing that he was frowning at times and looking bitter at others, but now suddenly beaming with joy, Xing Tian's heart skipped a beat as he hastily asked: "Young Master, you're really alright, aren't you? You haven't gone mad, have you?"

  Although Ye Lin was very weak, after hearing what Xing Tian said, he also had a black line on his face, and retorted: "You're the stupid one!"

  "How can you still laugh?"

  "How can I not laugh?"

  Ye Lin's face turned darker and darker, he was so angry that he wanted to beat the bastard up, but thinking of his current physical condition, he gave up and asked patiently instead.

  "Oh, how's your injury now, young master?"

  As long as he's not stupid, in Xing Tian's heart, Ye Lin is not only the young master but also a brother. For his brother, he naturally cares.

  "My injury?" At the mention of his injury, Ye Lin still couldn't furrow his brow, but he told Xing Tian the truth.

  As for his own secrets, although he hadn't told Xing Tian too much about them, neither had he concealed them from him.

  "What? Bloodline degeneration?" Xing Tian was shocked and lost his color upon hearing Ye Lin's words. To a large extent, the strength of one's bloodline is related to the strength of their innate talent, which in turn affects what level they can reach later on. Moreover, advancing one's bloodline is the most difficult thing to do; otherwise, aristocratic families wouldn't place such importance on the strength of their bloodlines.

  "Alright, don't make a big deal out of it, I'm asking you, how did your strength become so powerful?"

  Ye Lin is now thinking that it's unfair to be held back, why should he, with his physical realm strength, challenge the Qi Refining stage cultivators and end up with a degenerated bloodline, while Xing Tian, Ye Fan, and Ye Gu Cheng have nothing to worry about?

  "I? My strength has broken through again and reached the first level of Qi Refining." Xing Tian pointed to his own nose, somewhat embarrassed.

  "What?" Ye Lin had never noticed before, but after hearing Xing Tian say so, he was truly shocked. He hastily opened his Magic Eye of Illusion and indeed, he couldn't see through Xing Tian's realm at all now.

  This is too fast, thinking of this, he quickly turned his head towards Ye Fan, and indeed, Ye Fan must have cultivated some secret method. The strength he showed when he tested earlier was only at the Yuan Dan stage, but now that Ye Lin used the Magic Eye to look, he couldn't see through it at all, and he must have already reached the Lian Qi stage, no wonder his strength is so fierce.

  "Grandma's, it turns out I'm the only one pretending to be a hero!"