Chapter 509: Ye Yuan's Outrageous Plan!

Seeing this, Wu Xuan couldn't help but laugh, "You little rascal, still keeping us in suspense. I can't do anything with you! Fine, fine, take a look first."

"Hah, if you don't know, you don't know. You're putting on a good act! Even if you're a high-level quasi-Dan King, so what? Over the past five years, more than ten Dan Kings have challenged Problem 136, including the City Lord himself, but none succeeded. And you think you can answer it?" Cao Fang sneered.

Although Cao Fang's words were unpleasant, the alchemists present secretly agreed with him.

Ren Xingchun and Dan Chenzi represented the highest level of alchemy in the Boundless Realm.

Problems they couldn't solve were essentially unsolvable, belonging to the category of conjectures.

Such conjectures were beyond the Boundless Realm's ability to solve.

But they didn't know that Ye Yuan's alchemy level had already surpassed that of the Boundless Realm.

Ye Yuan glanced at Cao Fang and said with a faint smile, "Third Young Master Cao, if I can solve Problem 136, I won't take a single spirit crystal from the reward offered by the Guild Leader. I'll give it all to the Cao family. How about that?"

Cao Fang squinted and asked, "What are your conditions?"

"Release Elder Tianfeng, and you apologize to him. How about it?" Ye Yuan said calmly.

Cao Fang had long expected this and sneered, "Hey, that old man failed the challenge and then slandered our Linlang Pavilion's reputation. He can't be let off lightly. Our Cao family has stood in Wufang City for thousands of years on the strength of our reputation. Letting him go isn't that easy! Unless that old man himself comes forward and admits he slandered the Cao family."

Seeing Ye Yuan's confident demeanor, Cao Fang refused to yield, using reputation as an excuse.

He thought Ye Yuan would fly into a rage, but Ye Yuan just nodded lightly and said, "Then there's no helping it. Third Young Master, you'd better hurry and gather the spirit crystals. I'm afraid your Cao family won't be able to come up with that many spirit crystals later."

Ye Yuan looked completely at ease, as if everything was under control.

To him, the 136 problems on the seventh floor were like a pile of dog shit.

Of course, that was only how it seemed to others.

In fact, these problems were indeed a pile of dog shit in Ye Yuan's eyes.

Ye Yuan's goal was simple: to challenge the Thousand Questions Wall until the Cao family went bankrupt!

The reward spirit crystals were managed by the Cao family, but they weren't left idle. The Cao family naturally wouldn't be so foolish; they would use these spirit crystals for other purposes.

But over the past few thousand years, for every alchemist who answered a question, the Cao family paid the full reward amount without a single mistake.

Even if the person who posed the question was already dead.

It was precisely because of this that the Cao family maintained their strong reputation.

Ye Yuan had learned on the way that the Cao family's reputation was deeply ingrained, so he didn't confront them head-on or question their credibility.

If he did, no one would believe him, and he would become a slanderer of the Cao family.

Even someone as powerful as Wu Xuan wouldn't dare question the Cao family's reputation, let alone Ye Yuan, who was of little consequence.

So Ye Yuan took a different approach: he would challenge the problems one by one until the Cao family couldn't produce enough spirit crystals on hand!

Ye Yuan didn't believe that even then, the Cao family would still refuse to release the man!

Ye Yuan dared to do this solely because of his overwhelming strength in alchemy!

Who else would dare to use such an extreme method?

Cao Fang took Ye Yuan's words as a joke and said calmly, "If you have the ability, make my Cao family unable to come up with that many spirit crystals! There are many alchemists watching here. Don't just talk; anyone can brag."

Many people chuckled at Ye Yuan's arrogant words.

"Heh, still young and reckless! Even if he can solve Dan Chenzi's problem, the earlier problems aren't so easy to solve!"

"Exactly! There's a limit to arrogance, isn't there? Over these thousands of years, only a little over a hundred problems have accumulated on the Thousand Questions Wall. If he solves them all, wouldn't that mean all the alchemy masters of these millennia aren't fit to tie his shoes?"

"Haha, it's understandable that a young man doesn't know his place!"

Ye Yuan didn't argue; he just nodded lightly and began examining the 135th jade slip.

Ye Yuan examined it quickly, barely glancing over it before putting it down.

Seeing this, others were even more convinced that Ye Yuan was just showing off.

Every problem on the seventh floor of the Thousand Questions Wall was extremely profound, and even understanding them took a long time.

Ye Yuan put down the jade slip in just a few breaths, without even thinking. How could he possibly solve it?

Even Wu Xuan was quite disappointed by Ye Yuan's actions.

Deep down, he certainly didn't believe Ye Yuan could solve these problems, but recalling Ye Yuan's performance yesterday, he somehow felt a glimmer of hope.

That was the real reason he had come!

Like Ren Dong, Wu Xuan had rewatched the recording of Ye Yuan's alchemy; it was beyond words to describe—truly miraculous!

Even he, a Dan King, couldn't achieve such a level of refinement.

Wu Xuan was curious: what kind of person could teach such an extraordinary junior?

Soon, Ye Yuan put down the 126th jade slip, meaning he had finished reading all the problems.

"Young man, these ten problems are all extremely difficult. You probably can't figure them out in a short time. Linlang Pavilion has private rooms and alchemy rooms; you can experiment while solving them," Wu Xuan reminded him.

He didn't believe Ye Yuan could solve these problems in such a short time.

When he had asked Ye Yuan earlier, he only meant to ask if there was any hope of solving them, not to solve them immediately.

The Guild Leader's problem had been studied by Wu Xuan himself for a long time, and he still occasionally revisited it, but he could never find a way in.

No matter how monstrous Ye Yuan was, he couldn't solve it that quickly.

But Ye Yuan smiled and said, "No need. Third Young Master Cao, please invite the advisory panel here. I'll answer them all at once to save trouble. Since Master Wu Xuan is here, he can be my witness."

"What? You want to answer now? There are over a thousand alchemists watching here. Don't mess with so many people!" Cao Fang was startled by Ye Yuan's move.

Ye Yuan smiled and said, "I want to answer in front of everyone; otherwise, wouldn't everyone miss a good show? Enough nonsense, I'll inscribe the jade slips now. Their appraisal will take a long time, so let's not waste time."