Chapter 1701 A Hundred Years Later

A single battle made his name known throughout the world!

The meteoric rise of Tianying swept through the ten cities of Lingnan like a gust of wind.

All four Divine Lords of Tianying survived unscathed, annihilating the four Divine Lords of Zhining.

Such an achievement was extremely dazzling!

Although there were differences in strength among the Divine Lords of the ten cities of Lingnan, their power levels were generally very close.

Under normal circumstances, in such a fierce battle, casualties on both sides were inevitable.

Yet not a single Divine Lord of Tianying was lost.

What did this mean?

It meant that the four Divine Lords of Tianying were overwhelmingly powerful, completely crushing those of Zhining Imperial City.

However, this was not what astonished the other imperial cities the most.

What shocked them most was that Tianying had produced an alchemist—one capable of refining the Supreme Jade Void Pill!

That was what truly made them green with envy!

The name Ye Yuan, along with Tianying, instantly resounded throughout the ten cities of Nanling.

What did it mean to have a genius alchemist who could refine the Supreme Jade Void Pill?

It meant that, as long as there were enough spiritual herbs, Ye Yuan could continuously create Divine Lord experts!

Yes, mass production!

This ability was simply maddening.

What did the ten cities of Lingnan lack the most?

Divine Lords!

But in Ye Yuan's hands, Divine Lords could be mass-produced—what an earth-shattering method!

The other imperial cities could only feel envy, nothing but envy.

Fortunately, although there were many Divine Lord realm cultivators, there were very few martial artists at the Half-Step Divine Lord stage.

Moreover, the spiritual herbs required for the Supreme Jade Void Pill were extremely scarce in the Lingnan region, and very few could actually gather them all.

Otherwise, the entire ten cities of Lingnan would truly be turned upside down.

Even so, Yunyu Imperial City offered a sky-high price of three hundred billion to invite Ye Yuan to refine the Supreme Jade Void Pill on their behalf.

Yunyu Imperial City was the strongest among the ten cities of Lingnan, with as many as five Divine Lord experts.

Only a city like Yunyu Imperial City could gather the spiritual herbs for the Supreme Jade Void Pill.

These spiritual herbs were extremely rare; if Ye Yuan had not gone to Chuanji King City, gathering them would have been extraordinarily difficult.

The total value of the spiritual herbs needed to refine the Supreme Jade Void Pill was roughly twenty billion, showing just how precious the pill was.

The three hundred billion sky-high price offered by Yunyu Imperial City was merely for Ye Yuan to perform the refinement.

They provided the spiritual herbs themselves.

But if Ye Yuan could succeed in refining it,

spending three hundred billion to obtain a Divine Lord was extremely cost-effective.

However, Ye Yuan still refused.

He naturally would not do something that increased the strength of other imperial cities.

But from that day on, the other eight cities frequently sent envoys to Tianying, seeking pills from Ye Yuan.

There was no help for it—the quality of the fourth-grade divine pills Ye Yuan refined was simply too good!

Once the Divine Lord realm experts of other imperial cities reached a critical point in their cultivation, ordinary pill quality could no longer meet their needs.

Previously, they could only get stuck at the bottleneck, slowly grinding away with time.

But now, they had another option: seeking pills from Ye Yuan.

As long as the experts of the eight imperial cities could obtain pills from Ye Yuan, breaking through was almost a certainty.

As a result, Ye Yuan's pills became extremely sought after, and one pill was hard to come by.

Of course, even for ordinary fourth-grade divine pills, Ye Yuan would not refine them casually.

He would not refine certain crucial pills for outsiders—that was his principle.

Moreover, the price for requesting Ye Yuan's services was exorbitantly high.

Yet even so, the threshold of the Ye residence was nearly worn down by visitors.

Thus, after the Golden Sword Alliance, Tianying became a very special entity.

Even the Cloud Imperial City would not lightly offend them.

And there was a rumor that Tianying's Grand Elder Ye Yuan and Lingnan Inspector Jiang Yutang were on excellent terms!

This rumor made everyone cautious, not daring to harbor any designs against Tianying.

Where there's smoke, there's fire—who knew the truth?

The key was that Jiang Yutang himself had never come forward to clarify!

Since the Golden Sword Alliance, Ye Yuan's prestige in Tianying was unmatched.

And he had essentially become an absentee manager.

Now, the affairs of the Alchemy Tower and Martial Tower had been handed over to Ruoxu and Ning Zhiyuan.

Ruoxu now dared not utter a single word of dissent against Ye Yuan.

As for Ning Zhiyuan, with Zheng Qi and Leng Yu both breaking through, he smoothly became the Grand Elder of the Martial Tower.

Every so often, Ye Yuan would hold lectures at the Alchemy Tower.

At those times, even Xuan Yu and Ruoxu would sit quietly below like obedient schoolchildren.

Finally, one day, as Ye Yuan was lecturing, the wind and clouds suddenly stirred—Xuan Yu attained enlightenment!

Thus, Tianying gained another Divine Lord.

And a five-star Alchemy God at that!

The only five-star Alchemy God in Lingnan!

Unfortunately, Xuan Yu's title as a five-star Alchemy God was somewhat undeserved.

Five-tier divine herbs were too scarce in Lingnan; Xuan Yu simply had no way to research five-tier divine pills.

Still, a five-star Alchemy God was a five-star Alchemy God—his strength far surpassed that of a four-star Alchemy God.

A hundred years had passed in the blink of an eye. One day, a figure drifted down into the Ye residence, laughing heartily: "Haha, young friend Ye Yuan, this old man has come to beg for some wine again!"

Ye Yuan came out to greet him, smiling: "Brother Jiang, you've been visiting quite frequently lately! My Hundred Flowers Celestial Wine can't withstand such drinking."

Hundred Flowers Celestial Wine was a fourth-tier spirit wine Ye Yuan had created, made from the essence of a hundred kinds of spirit flowers and brewed with a secret method.

Not only did it taste excellent, but it was also greatly beneficial to martial artists.

A single pot of this wine was worth a fortune.

Ever since Jiang Yutang learned that Ye Yuan had this wine, he would come by from time to time to beg for a few cups.

Over time, he became a regular at the Ye residence.

As the outside rumors said, the relationship between these two was indeed extraordinary.

The reason, naturally, lay with the Supreme Jade Void Pill.

Jiang Yutang had requested a top-grade pill, but Ye Yuan gave him a great surprise—a divine-grade one!

A divine-grade Supreme Jade Void Pill—even in the imperial capital, it was something money couldn't buy!

The pill's effects were naturally extraordinary.

Jiang Yutang had sought the pill for his niece, and after taking it, she naturally broke through to the Divine Lord realm.

And like Ning Tianping, her Divine Lord realm was not ordinary; the pill's effects would last for many years.

Now, the pills Ye Yuan refined contained his chaotic power, and the divine-grade Supreme Jade Void Pill was in no way inferior to the previous Void Spirit divine-grade pills!

From then on, Jiang Yutang regarded Ye Yuan as a close friend.

And Jiang Yutang understood that it was not Ye Yuan who was reaching above his station; perhaps he himself was the one reaching above his station.

With Ye Yuan's talent, he would not be confined to the ten cities of Lingnan in the future.

The ten cities of Lingnan were barren lands with scarce resources; there was little room left for him to develop here.

After a cup of Hundred Flowers Celestial Wine, Jiang Yutang was greatly pleased and said to Ye Yuan with a smile: "Brother, what do you think about the matter I mentioned? With your talent, staying in Lingnan is a waste. The imperial capital is where you can truly spread your wings!"

Ye Yuan's expression darkened, and he sighed: "I know you mean well, Brother, but let's wait a little longer."