Chapter 78 Resolving the Dispute
Ye Fan had already engraved the image of the three-foot two-handle circular cauldron within his heart. But as he was refining the Divine Symbols within his Sea of Bitterness, it became progressively more difficult. Just melting the nineteen Divine Symbols and condensing them together took an extremely long time.
In the end, his nineteen Divine Symbols slowly melted together, forming a pea-sized golden ball. But no matter how he tried to cast it, he was unable to change its shape into anything resembling a cauldron.
Ye Fan tried many times, but let alone forming the shape of a cauldron, he was unable to even add any designs onto it. As expected, forming a cauldron was extremely difficult.
However, he didn’t become anxious. After all, he had only just started. In the future, there would be time to continue polishing it. This was an extremely difficult and long process. It wasn’t just him; other people might have it even harder.
The sky darkened. Ye Fan hunted down a badger and returned to the small restaurant. Just as he sat down, the old man placed a table full of food and drink in front of him, its fragrance extremely attractive.
Little Tingting had changed into new clothes, her red little face covered with sweet smiles. Two adorable dimples appeared on this little girl’s happy face. Her expectations for her happiness were extremely low. Having food and no longer being bullied by other was already enough to satisfy her. Moreover, now she even had new clothes to wear!
“The Li family panicked and retreated today. They now have many guards up as if guarding against something, or maybe everyone,” said the old man.
“What’s going on?” asked Ye Fan.
“The Li family has an enemy tens of kilometers away from here. That family also has people cultivating. Since these two powerful families are near each other, they naturally do not get along. The Li family suspects that it was them who set fire to their nineteen carriages and goods. They sent people to scout for information, but the result was that one of their managers was captured and the remaining people were all beaten senseless and sent running back.
Ye Fan lightly smiled. “Originally I planned on tormenting them more a bit, but this will save me some trouble. This ensures that they won’t be able to bother us or have the energy to go doubt others. We’ll let these two oppressive families be suspicious of each other.”
Ye Fan asked for the details of the situation. During the night, he stealthily snuck out of the small town, going directly to a villa tens of kilometers away.
He silently snuck in. Although this family had people outside cultivating, none of those people were currently here standing guard. To Ye Fan, that basically meant it was unguarded. He used over an hour’s worth of time searching before finding a person who was tightly bound within a firewood room.
“Are you Manager Zhang?”
The firewood room’s person was basically as Uncle Jiang had described him. He immediately responded in a high voice, “It’s me. Who are you?”
“Manager Zhang, I’m here to save you.” Ye Fan walked over and broke the strings binding him. “Your family’s young master came back from the Hazy Light Paradise. This time he wants to completely exterminate the Wang family.”
“What…?” Manager Zhang was extremely shocked. “Who are you?”
Ye Fan’s voice immediately became cold. “Calm down. Your family’s young master personally came with a couple of his fellow disciples. I am one of them.”
“I pay respect to Lord Immortal.” Although Manager Zhang managed to hear that the other person’s voice was very young, once he found out it was a cultivator, he immediately started to act like an inferior.
“There’s no need to pay respects. Right now there’s something I need you to do. Listen carefully.”
“Please speak Lord Immortal.”
“There are several buckets of oil here. Go outside and set a fire. Once the fire has started, loudly shout that your family’s young master is about to exterminate their entire family.”
“Ah, then won’t I be killed by them?” Manager Zhang wasn’t thinking of anything else, only focused on how he could keep his life.
“Don’t worry, we’ll guarantee your safety. We just want to slowly torment them a bit and let the Wang family’s people fear for death.”
“Good! I’ll go set the fire. When the time comes, I’ll charge in with Lord Immortal to kill them.”
Ye Fan patted his shoulders, and with a profound meaning saying, “You’ll obtain great merit!”
Being praised by the immortal right in front of him, Manager Zhang’s passion immediately soared. The fierce attitude he displayed when bullying his neighbors made its appearance, and he charged out of the door with several buckets of oil.
Ye Fan took the broken rope from the ground, turning and disappearing into the darkness.
Not long later, flames began to soar from the villa. There were four or five places that had been simultaneously ignited. Manager Zhang’s shrill voice rang through the dark night, “Bastards of the Wang family, your lair has been set on fire by me! Prepare to be completely exterminated by my family’s young master!”
The Wang family immediately burst into chaos. There were women wailing and men angrily cursing. People quickly charged towards Manager Zhang with bright swords within their hands.
At this moment, Manager Zhang seemed extremely excited. With the support of an immortal, he didn’t have any fear, lighting up another four or five blazes.
When the Wang family saw this, their eyes immediately turned red as they angrily charged at him. Their bright blades were especially eye-grabbing when they contrasted with the flames reflecting upon them.
Only now did Manager Zhang feel afraid, as the immortal had still not appeared beside him. And by now there was no way for him to run. He screamed in fright, only just managing to turn away one step before being beheaded, his blood bubbling out, and his eyes wide open in resentment.
Seeing Manager Zhang die, Ye Fan stealthily retreated back, but he didn’t leave. Within the chaos, he set over a dozen more blazes, the flames turning half the sky red.
Only then did Ye Fan run away, blinking away in the darkness.
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The next morning, the news finally arrived at Clearwind Town. The Li family was immediately shaken.
“Half the Wang family’s villa was burned to the ground?!”
“What? It was Zhang Shun?”
“Son of a bitch, I’ll kill your whole family, Zhang Shun!”
The Li family’s people were all panicking. Assembling all their able-bodied men, they prepared to deal with Wang family’s retaliation.
The Wang family naturally had to release their rage from having half their villa be burned to ashes. That very day, they burned down the Li family’s shops, stealing their gold and silver, and collecting all their guards to attack Clearwind Town.
That very day, two families fought an intense and bloody battle right outside Clearwind Town. Both sides took casualties, and neither of them could try to explain what was going on. All they could do was use their blades and blood to settle this.
Only at dusk did both parties withdraw. It was very clear that this matter could not be concluded so simply, so there would definitely be blood flowing over the next few days.
That very night, more of the Wang family’s people came and broke into Clearwind Town, setting the Li house on fire. If they hadn’t long since set up guards, the Li house might have been completely burned down. Even though they had guards, many of the rooms were still burned down, and the entire night was restless.
Clearwind Town’s people were very merry though. The Li family had oppressed them every day, so they had long since become hated by the people. It was simply that no one dared to stand against them. Now the thing that none of them dared to do was happening.
When Uncle Jiang saw all this, he couldn’t help but be worried. But Ye Fan smiled, saying, “You don’t need to be anxious. These two families aren’t good people. It’s just two dogs fighting each other.”
The old man nodded, saying, “Child, in the future avoid doing such things as much as possible…” He was somewhat worried for Ye Fan, seeing an eleven-year-old easily provoke these two families into fighting as he wished, he was afraid that with his heart darkened, he might walk onto the evil path.
Ye Fan immediately gently laughed, saying, “Uncle, don’t worry. I’ve never been one to hurt others. I would only treat people like this if they deserved it.”
“The Li family’s cultivators should be returning soon.” The old man became sentimental, thinking back to his own son.
“I agree. With such a huge situation occurring within the Li Family, they definitely sent people to the Hazy Light Paradise to pass on the news.”
“Even if such a thing didn’t happen, the Li family’s cultivators would most likely also return.”
“Why?” Ye Fan didn’t understand.
“The reason the Li family’s expenses are so high is mostly because they are collecting spiritual medicines to give to their cultivators. They seemed to have collected something called a “Source” just a couple days. It’s said that a person collecting medicines deep within the mountains found it within an ancient cave. It seems to have some sort of immense benefit to cultivators.”
Ye Fan’s heart immediately shook!
According to ancient texts, when heaven and earth merged with Qi to give birth to all living things, vegetation thrived and creatures grew powerful. Spiritual medicines were uncountable and even many Sources were formed. These amber-like crystals had a huge amount of Life Qi sealed within them, and some rare Divine Sources had some tyrannical living creatures from heaven and earth’s beginning sealed within them. Such a Divine Source could offer an endless Life Qi once it was extracted.
“The Li family has truly delivered a great present to me by finding a Source within the ancient caves deep within the mountains!” Ye Fan’s face lit up with a bright smile.