Chapter 1792: Chapter 1659: Glory Returns
Whether on Earth or in the Xuan Realm, people all chase profit; even Saints are no exception.
Back when Ye Fan was still very weak, no one looked twice at him. They didn’t even know there was someone called Ye Fan in the Cultivation World.
Even after Ye Fan swept through the Qing Family of Qing Province with an Emperor Weapon in hand, people still didn’t really take him to heart. They only held back from making a move to seize his Emperor Weapon out of scruples toward the Immortal Academy and the Ling Family.
Later, Ye Fan single-handedly wiped out eighteen Saint Child Level geniuses, then suppressed even the strongest heir of the Di Clan. Only when he high‑profile auctioned off the Saint Heirs did the various Heroic Lords finally get a taste of his daring and methods.
But even then, those Heroic Lords still didn’t really take him seriously, thinking he only pulled it off by relying on an Emperor Weapon.
It wasn’t until Ye Fan, in the Emperor’s Secret Realm, crushed the younger generation including the Emperor’s son, that all sides’ Heroic Lords finally understood—the once utterly unknown Little Cultivator had already grown to an extremely terrifying level!
And this time, in the contest between the Human Race and the Demon Clan, Ye Fan took the field and turned the tide by himself, slaughtering Demon Clan geniuses until they didn’t dare step onto the stage, winning a thousand years of peace for Humans and becoming the hero of the entire Human Race!
You could say that in terms of reputation, Ye Fan today is already in no way inferior to them!
As for strength, give it a few more years and Ye Fan will be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with them, or even surpass them!
This rate of growth shocked them, and also made them sense that Ye Fan is very likely the protagonist of this golden great era.
The one and only protagonist!
That was what led to this scene of everyone scrambling to propose marriage.
In the main hall of the City Lord Mansion, Ye Fan’s Divine Soul almost became unstable, flooded by the divine consciousness voice transmissions from all the Heroic Lords.
If not for his Divine Soul having been tempered by Divine Soul Flames and becoming incomparably solid, if it were someone else they might have coughed blood on the spot, or even gone mad in serious cases.
"Dean, help me..."
Helpless, Ye Fan could only ask the Old Bastard for help, asking him to take him out of here and escape these Heroic Lords’ entanglement.
Receiving Ye Fan’s voice transmission, the Old Bastard smiled faintly, stood up and said, "Everyone, putting a junior in this position leaves him no way to choose. No matter how he chooses he’ll inevitably offend someone. I have a proposal: why don’t you all go back first, record the image of your pearl of a daughter in Divine Jade, then send it to the Immortal Academy and let him choose for himself. That way we avoid making things awkward for him.
Besides, feelings are something that require fate. It might be love at first sight, who knows, but before he’s even met the person, how do you expect him to decide?"
"That works too!"
The Heroic Lords thought it over and felt the Old Bastard’s words made sense, so they agreed one after another.
Only the Purple Smoke Pavilion Saint and the Moonlight Emperor, and the Old Pavilion Master of the Treasure Pavilion, sat there leisurely, looking completely unhurried.
After the Heroic Lords all left one after another, Ye Fan and the Old Bastard also walked out of the hall, and used the War City’s Transmission Array Platform to directly cross the Void and hurry back to the Immortal Academy to lay low for a while.
Other Immortal Academy disciples like Yaling, Sikong Po, Han Sandong, Hu Fei, and the others all followed them back as well.
"Ye, I’m really jealous of you. The Xue Clan’s pearl from the Northern Domain, Xue Bingbing, is basically a Fairy, and you actually didn’t agree. Heaven should strike you with five bolts of lightning!"
After finding out about the Heroic Lords of the great powers proposing marriage to Ye Fan, Hu Fei said angrily, his face full of indignation.
Having roamed the Northern Domain for years, he naturally knew the Xue Clan very well, and he’d long been drooling over that pearl of the Xue Clan.
Back then his grandfather Hu Tian had personally visited the Xue Clan Saint to propose marriage, but was rejected. Now, hearing that the Xue Clan Saint actually wanted to marry their pearl to Ye Fan, his heart shattered.
Especially after hearing that Ye Fan actually wanted to refuse, he pounded his chest and stomped his feet, repeatedly blaming Ye Fan for having no eye for beauty, that he absolutely shouldn’t refuse, until Yaling glared at him fiercely and he shut up with his tail between his legs.
It wasn’t just Hu Fei; the other geniuses also wore faces full of envy, jealousy, and hatred!
Usually, even for a Saint Heir, it’s hard enough to marry a Holy Land pearl of equal status. Who’s ever seen something like Ye Fan’s case, where the other side delivers themselves to your door and lets you pick?!
Once news spread that Ye Fan and the others had returned, the entire Immortal Academy boiled over. From the elderly teachers at the top down to the academy disciples, they all came out to welcome them back.
News of the border battle had long since made its way back. Everyone knew that Ye Fan, by himself, faced off against the Demon Clan’s young kings, slaughtered them until they didn’t dare fight, and won the match for the Human Race.
"Ye Fan!"
"The pride of the Immortal Academy!"
"The hero of Humans!!"
When Ye Fan and the others appeared before the crowd, a tsunami‑like cheer erupted throughout the Immortal Academy.
The cheers shook the very Yun Xiao, and light shone on everyone’s faces.
Even some retired old teachers who had long cultivated their Mental Realm to the level of still water had moist eyes and were extremely emotional.
"No need to be so polite, everyone disperse. We didn’t really do anything."
Amid the crowd’s cheers, Hu Fei stepped forward, waving his hand as he spoke, looking for all the world like he was the one who’d made some heaven‑shaking contribution.
"Who are you?"
"You think we’re welcoming you? Shameless."
Everyone flipped him off in unison. One female cultivator shrilled, "Right, we’ve never seen anyone with such a thick skin!"
"Ahem... I contributed some Merit too!"
Hu Fei had a fantastic mentality and a face thicker than a city wall corner. He didn’t mind in the slightest, instead looking very pleased with himself.
Han Sandong was speechless, turning his face away with an expression that said, "I don’t know this guy."
You could say that after this battle, Ye Fan had already become the hero and pride of the entire Immortal Academy, worshiped by all disciples, becoming their goal and motivation to strive toward.
"Where’s Ye, huh? This King has arrived!"
With a wolf howl, a streak of silver light shot over from the distance. The Immortal Academy disciples hurriedly made way for it, afraid it would trample right over their heads.
"——"
Ye Fan was speechless for a moment. This Bai Yan wolf guy was still as flashy as ever.
But he was also extremely shocked. After a short time apart, this guy had grown even bigger. Two fist‑sized eyes shot out twin silver beams; the Demon Blood in his body was boiling, emitting thunderous rumbles.
"Awoooo..."
Seeing Ye Fan, the Bai Yan wolf let out an excited long howl, its eyes spraying forth flames like twin silver moons, a terrifying wildness flickering within, as its nearly two-meter-long claws slammed forward.
"You damn wolf, this is how you welcome me?"
Ye Fan was a bit stirred up as well, swinging out a golden palm to meet it.
"Bang!"
With a deafening boom, Divine Light shot in all directions, so bright the people nearby couldn’t open their eyes; many had no choice but to use their Protective Divine Gang to block that violent impact.
"Kid, I heard you’ve been pretty flashy, huh? Actually soloing the Demon Clan’s young kings, slaughtering them so hard the Demon Clan didn’t dare step on the stage, your name shaking the Five Domains!"
The Bai Yan wolf was extremely excited, its whole body radiating a powerful aura; it actually hadn’t fallen much behind Ye Fan, proving that during this period of time, it hadn’t been idle either.
Their way of greeting was rather special: a heavy collision, rocks tumbling, ground cracking, grass and trees snapping, the mountains shaking and the earth quaking.
"What good stuff did you sneak off to eat this time? How did you grow this fast?" Ye Fan was a bit curious.
"Don’t you slander this King. This King’s talent is outstanding, unmatched under heaven; cultivating fast is perfectly normal—what, you think you’re the only one advancing at a freakish rate?"
The Bai Yan wolf was desperately winking at Ye Fan, as if it really had snuck something good.
"Good stuff has to be shared!"
Ye Fan threatened the Bai Yan wolf via divine consciousness transmission: "Otherwise I’ll spread the word about what you stole and ate."
"I @!￥#￥..."
The Bai Yan wolf was speechless for a moment, then said, "I was just about to ask you what benefits you got off the Demon Clan. However you slice it, you gotta cut me in a share, right?"
"—"
Black lines appeared all over Ye Fan’s face.
After the man and wolf bickered for a while, the other Immortal Academy disciples all dispersed one after another.
Ye Fan’s battle record fired them up, and they all decided to risk their lives cultivating.
These people all felt the pressure as well; in the future Cultivation World, without some real strength there would simply be no way to survive, so they had to raise their power as quickly as possible.
After staying at the academy for three days, the Heroic Lords of the various major forces all came chasing to the Immortal Academy, bringing along their own precious daughters or images recorded in Divine Jade, wanting Ye Fan to at least take a look at their jewels.
Ye Fan immediately felt his head swell. These people were at least the Saints of their great powers, yet they were pestering him like this, forcing him to make a choice?
However, this had been the Old Bastard’s earlier suggestion; the Immortal Academy couldn’t stop these people from coming, and could only use delaying tactics, stabilizing them first and talking later.
"I’m seriously consumed with envy, jealousy, and hate..."
When word spread that those Saints were all here to propose marriage to Ye Fan, the entire Immortal Academy was shaken once more. Everyone knew they wanted to hitch Ye Fan, this future Great Emperor, to their own clan’s war chariot.
This time, even the Ling Family Ancestor, Ling Yunzhi, came. He had no choice; if Ye Fan really married into another major force, he would, without a doubt, receive the best treatment, and all kinds of Cultivation Resources would be funneled toward him.
At that point, the Ling Family’s hope of winning Ye Fan over to recognize his ancestry and return to the clan would truly go up in smoke.
Ye Fan’s impression of the Ling Family was bad to begin with. All these years, not only had the Ling Family never offered him any help, they had repeatedly tried to kill him and take back the Emperor Weapon.
"Headmaster, help me out here..."
With all the Heroic Lords relentlessly pursuing him, Ye Fan had no choice but to seek out the Old Bastard again, asking him to make an exception with the Imperial Academy, letting him enter the Emperor’s Secret Realm early to hide out, and then later go to the Xing Kong Gu Road together with everyone.
"I really don’t get what’s going on in that head of yours. These great powers rarely intermarried in the past, all to avoid breaking the balance of the Cultivation World. Yet now they all want to marry into you, and you still show this kind of attitude. I truly don’t understand." The Old Bastard said with a laugh.
"That’s their business. I won’t marry into any force. I can only dodge for a while first." Ye Fan said.
"You can’t keep running forever either. Even if you go to the Imperial Academy, you think they won’t be able to find you?" the Old Bastard said.
"Then I’ll spell it out clearly for them: I won’t marry into any force, save myself the trouble of offending people!" Ye Fan stated bluntly.
"Forget it, don’t say anything yet. Let’s hang their appetite for a bit, let our Immortal Academy shine in the limelight a few more days."
The Old Bastard squinted as he laughed, then said, "As for going to the Emperor’s Secret Realm, tomorrow you go find Lan Yingfei and have him take you to the Transmission Platform."
"Many thanks, Headmaster!"
Hearing this, Ye Fan let out a breath and cupped his fists in thanks.
"You are a disciple of my Immortal Academy, the pride of my Immortal Academy, and even more so the hero of the Human Race and a key figure for the future. What’s this little favor worth thanking for?"
The Old Bastard teased him, then casually reminded, "But you kid can’t let glory go to your head. You’ve got to keep pushing, keep working hard, and strive to ultimately Prove the Dao and become Emperor!"
"This disciple will definitely give it his all!"
Ye Fan nodded. He could see the hopes the Old Bastard had pinned on him.
After leaving the Forbidden Land where the Old Bastard was in seclusion, Ye Fan ran right into the Bai Yan wolf sneaking around nearby, and couldn’t help being stunned.
"Ye, how is it? Did that old codger agree?"
The Bai Yan wolf knew Ye Fan wanted to go to the Emperor’s Secret Realm of the Imperial Academy to lay low, and ran over to ask.
"We leave tomorrow. Today we still have to be careful, can’t let those Heroic Lords get suspicious." Ye Fan said.
"Don’t worry. With the Concealing Heaven Array Patterns I gave you, unless it’s Quasi-Emperor Level, no one will be able to sense your aura."
Speaking up to this point, the Bai Yan wolf paused, then continued, "But this time when you go to the Emperor’s Secret Realm, you have to bring me along. Otherwise, even when you traverse the Void, those Supreme Saints will still be able to sense you. Only with me at your side can their old senses be blocked."
"Aren’t you just trying to get into the Emperor’s Secret Realm to cultivate? You make it sound like you’re doing it for my sake." Ye Fan curled his lip and said, "Courtesy demands reciprocity—I’ll bring you to the Emperor’s Secret Realm."
"Good!"
Hearing this, the Bai Yan wolf grinned from ear to ear, greed filling its eyes.
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