Chapter 16

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"Father, what should we do?" Ye Hai frowned and asked.

"If the hundreds of years of our Ye family's foundation is destroyed in an instant, the clan members will inevitably scatter. At that time, the noble families who have grudges against us will surely take advantage of our downfall!" Ye Zhengqing sighed deeply, gazing into the void. The vast sky and earth seemed to have no room for a small Ye family.

"The land at Beishan Bay is our ancestral land, where generations of our ancestors are buried. Even if we are shattered to pieces, we cannot give in!"

Ye Wei stood behind the wall, listening to the conversation between Ye Zhengqing and the others, feeling particularly heavy-hearted. He had never known the family's predicament before, and now he realized that the family that had always provided him with protection was in such a dangerous situation.

"If there's no other choice, we can only agree to the Du family's challenge!" Ye Zhengqing slowly took out a gilded challenge letter from his chest. "Yesterday, the Du family sent someone to deliver this challenge letter, proposing that the young talents of the two families compete in three days. If we win, the Du family will no longer suppress our business. If we lose, we will have to sell the ancestral land at Beishan Bay to the Du family!"

"That's out of the question!" Ye Hai said anxiously. "Chong'er is only a Four-star Warrior, while the best of the Du family are all Five-star Warriors or above, and the strongest one, Du Yuehan, is already a Six-star Warrior!"

"Chong'er may not be able to shoulder such a heavy responsibility!" Ye Han said with a furrowed brow, as this was almost a certain defeat.

"In the coming days, I will train Chong'er separately. As a man of the Ye family, it's time for Chong'er to take on the responsibility. Even if we lose, we will have done our best!" Ye Zhengqing sighed, as the Ye family had been forced into a corner by the Du family, leaving no other choice.

Ye Hai and Ye Han couldn't help but feel disheartened.

"Additionally, we must make thorough preparations. If the Ye family really falls, there will surely be people who will take advantage of our downfall. At that time, we will send the younger generation to the Yang family in Ningcheng." Ye Zhengqing sighed, his expression particularly desolate.

"Father..." Ye Han clenched his fists tightly.

Ye Hai remained silent for a long time before saying, "If it really comes to this, there's nothing we can do. I'm not worried about the others, but I'm most concerned about my third brother's child, Ye Wei. The other children have decent talents, and even if they go to other noble families, they can at least make a living as guards. But Ye Wei only has a Red-level Sea of Consciousness. At the Yang family, he will likely face discrimination. In our Ye family, we can provide him with protection, ensuring he has a life of no worries, but in other families, Ye Wei's situation will be very difficult!"

Hearing Ye Hai's words, Ye Wei, who was hiding behind the wall, was shaken to his core. He could no longer hold back, and two streams of tears slid down his delicate cheeks.

Ye Wei had always thought that among his uncles, Ye Hai was the one who treated him the most strictly and had the worst temper. He had never liked Uncle Ye Hai, but he never expected that Ye Hai would care about him so much!

Ye Wei felt deeply guilty. He had always misunderstood Uncle Ye Hai. It turned out that Uncle Ye Hai's strictness was all for his own good!

"In the past, I was immature. As Grandfather said, it's time for the men of the Ye family to take on the responsibility! As long as I have a breath left, I will protect the Ye family! I will not let my uncles and clan members leave me, and I will not let my brothers and sisters drift away! I swear here!" Ye Wei took a deep breath, wiped the tears from his face, and turned away resolutely. His figure slowly disappeared into the darkness.

After a while, Ye Zhengqing announced the bet with the Du family at the family banquet.

Hearing Ye Zhengqing's words, the faces of the Ye family members suddenly turned extremely ugly. Ye Chong was the strongest among the young generation of the Ye family and was even well-known in Qingyue City, but he had no chance against the talented disciples of the Du family. The strongest of the Du family's young generation was already a Six-star Warrior! Ye Chong was only at the Four-star Warrior level, a gap of two levels!

"Our Ye family has no choice..." Grandfather Ye Zhengqing looked at the angry faces of the family members and sighed indifferently, seeming to have aged several decades in an instant.

"Unreasonable!" Little Aunt Ye Jingjing slammed the table and stood up, shouting angrily, "I'll fight the Du family!" Ye Jingjing's face was fierce, and her beautiful face was red, either from drinking too much or from anger.

"Father, is there no other way? Why don't you talk to Master Yi? If Chong'er accepts the challenge, he will surely lose. Beishan Bay is our ancestral land, where our ancestors are buried!" Ye Wei's father, Ye Yi, stood up and asked with a frown.

Qingyue City has three Divine Pattern Masters, and the most respected and prestigious among them is Master Yi. If Master Yi were to speak, even the Du family would not dare to refuse!

"Master Yi..." Grandfather Ye Zhengqing shook his head with a bitter smile. "Master Yi is of high status. Even the heads of the three major noble families in Qingyue City find it difficult to meet him. How could I, a mere person, meet him at will?"

"Grandfather, when will the Du family come?" Ye Chong, who had been silent, slowly stood up, his resolute face showing determination as he asked word by word.

For the sake of the Ye family's ancestral land, even if he dies in battle, he cannot lose! Ye Chong's fists clenched tightly, and among his peers, he was the strongest. He was the natural choice!

"Three days from now!" Grandfather Ye Zhengqing looked at Ye Chong, who seemed determined to fight to the death, and said with some concern, "Chong'er, do your best. If you lose, you lose. No one will blame you, but you must not act rashly. You are the strongest among the young generation of the Ye family and have a good chance of surpassing me. In the future, all the younger brothers and sisters will need your care!" Grandfather Ye Zhengqing was worried that Ye Chong might do something foolish and earnestly advised him.

"Okay! Grandfather, Father, Second Uncle, Third Uncle, Little Uncle, Little Aunt, I'll take my leave first!" Ye Chong nodded, feeling heavy-hearted, and walked out of the hall.

"Big Brother!"

Ye Wei watched his cousin leave, clenching his fists tightly. The fate of the family was in his cousin's hands, and Ye Wei could imagine the immense pressure and the heavy burden on his cousin's shoulders.

From a young age, Ye Chong had always taken good care of him. When Ye Wei was found to have a Red-level Sea of Consciousness, Ye Chong had patiently comforted him.

For the sake of the family, his cousin might risk his life, but what about himself? Was he going to hide in a corner and watch everything happen silently?

"No, I must do something! I will not allow anyone to plot against the Ye family, and I will not allow anyone to harm my cousin Ye Chong!" Thinking about how he had perfected the Triple Tide Palm, turning the Low-grade Spirit-level Triple Tide Palm into a Mid-grade Spirit-level technique, and how Miss Ziyuan had received the cleansing of Heavenly Dao power and advanced to the Warrior realm, Ye Wei felt a surge of inspiration. He believed he could perfect the technique his cousin was practicing, greatly enhancing his cousin's strength!

"I must try, no matter what!" Ye Wei slowly raised his head and quietly clenched his fists.

After the family banquet, Ye Wei followed his father and mother out of the hall and returned to their courtyard.

"Xiao Wei, you must be tired from the walk from Nansheng Academy. Get some rest early," Father Ye Yi patted Ye Wei's head and said with a somewhat low voice.

"Okay, Father, Mother, you should also get some rest early!" Ye Wei nodded obediently, returned to his room, and his parents also went to their rooms.

As the night deepened, the lanterns hanging in the corridors and walkways emitted a faint light, and the entire Ye residence was quiet, seeming somewhat desolate. A gentle breeze blew, and the leaves that had rustled all day seemed to be tired.

In the silence of the night, the stars gradually faded, and only the lonely full moon gazed at the quiet night from afar. Stepping into the night, bathed in moonlight, Ye Wei quietly pushed open the door and walked towards his cousin Ye Chong's courtyard.

Cousin Ye Chong had already grown up and did not live with his parents. He had his own courtyard. When Ye Wei walked to his cousin's courtyard in the night, he found that Ye Chong was indeed practicing hard in the courtyard, just as he had imagined.

"How long has Cousin Ye Chong been practicing?" Ye Wei looked through the door crack and saw that Cousin Ye Chong was enveloped in a layer of misty white fog.

The white fog was the result of evaporated sweat!

Cousin Ye Chong repeatedly performed the High-grade Spirit-level technique "White Tiger Slaughter," causing his mental and elemental energy to be consumed, making his breathing rapid and his face pale.

The High-grade Spirit-level technique is the highest-level technique that a Warrior can perform. "White Tiger Slaughter" is the strongest among the sixteen High-grade Spirit-level techniques of the Ye family and is also the technique that Cousin Ye Chong is most skilled at.

Even among High-grade Spirit-level techniques, there are differences in strength: ordinary High-grade Spirit-level techniques, first-class High-grade Spirit-level techniques, peak High-grade Spirit-level techniques, and the strongest forbidden techniques!

Because forbidden techniques cause significant damage to the body and mind, even though they are powerful, almost no one dares to practice them.

"White Tiger Slaughter" is a first-class High-grade Spirit-level technique, and its power is quite impressive!

Under the faint moonlight, Ye Chong was performing the "White Tiger Slaughter" technique, with complex and mysterious patterns floating around his body.

Faintly, these patterns seemed to form a snow-white tiger!

Even standing outside the courtyard, more than ten meters away, the white tiger's shadow gave Ye Wei a strong sense of oppression, making it hard for him to breathe, cold sweat trickling down his back, and a chill running up from his feet to his head, enveloping him in a sense of fear.

But Ye Wei's expression remained unchanged, calm and heavy, his eyes fixed on the white tiger's shadow floating above his cousin Ye Chong's head through the door crack.

A shadow of a mountain appeared in his Sea of Consciousness, and a faint golden thread slowly moved in the red-glowing Sea of Consciousness. At this moment, a faint golden light appeared in the depths of Ye Wei's pitch-black eyes.

"The 'White Tiger Slaughter' technique consists of 136 patterns. In the 'White Tiger Slaughter' technique performed by Cousin Ye Chong, there are two problematic nodes. When elemental energy flows through these two nodes, the speed is clearly much slower!" Ye Wei's eyes became extremely bright, like brilliant stars in the dark night sky.

If these two errors are corrected, the power of Cousin Ye Chong's 'White Tiger Slaughter' technique will surely increase significantly. I can help my cousin perfect the technique!

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