#359 - Chapter 359 The Most Unreliable Ancestor

South Cloud Continent, atop the Star Observation Pavilion.

Mu Qianyuan remained silent for a long time, finally digesting everything that had happened.

“If you weren't my ancestor, couldn't you be a bit tougher? You sold me off without saying a word?” Mu Qianyuan looked at his ancestor.

“What do you mean 'sold'? The Star Observation Pavilions across the world are all one family. Lianyun Continent is basically stable already, and you're idle anyway, so you might as well come help Senior Brother Yun manage South Cloud Continent,” Yuan explained.

Mu Qianyuan glared at his ancestor, annoyed. He always thought his ancestor was unreliable, and now it turned out he really was.

He sold him off without a second thought.

“Mu Qianyuan, you're very capable. Why don't you take care of South Cloud Continent as well?” Ye Kong said, looking at Mu Qianyuan.

“I…”

“Alright.” Mu Qianyuan nodded, seeming to understand something.

If I take care of South Cloud Continent, wouldn't South Cloud Continent be under my control then?

When the time comes, I'll create a Star River Sect and unify South Cloud Continent as well.

“Mu Qianyuan, with me, Ancestor Yun, here, you can go ahead and do it without worry. If you do well, you can come to my South Cloud Continent and become a Star Observer,” Yun said, trying to win him over.

“This junior will definitely do my best to quell the chaos in South Cloud Continent!” Mu Qianyuan solemnly cupped his hands.

“Yun, Mu Qianyuan is my grand-disciple. I'm just lending him to you for a while. You can't detain him,” Yuan said, looking at Yun with a displeased expression.

“I know. The Star Observers of each continent have clear divisions. I'm just borrowing him for a period,” Yun said nonchalantly, somewhat envious of Yuan.

This idiot Yuan actually has such an outstanding descendant. It's really unreasonable!

As for me, my descendants are getting dumber with each generation!

If the Star Observation Pavilion didn't abstain from worldly affairs, it would have been destroyed long ago.

Ah, so tiring!

Mu Qianyuan, I need to think of a way to keep him in South Cloud Continent, so he can be of use to me.

Yun pondered in his heart, thinking about how to keep Mu Qianyuan.

Ye Ling glanced at Ye Kong. Do you think I'd believe that?

“Lord Ling, how can you leave the ground?” Yun walked to Ye Ling's side, saying in surprise.

He only came to see Ye Ling after dealing with the matters at hand.

Ye Ling glanced at him indifferently and said coldly, “I ask you, who am I?”

“Lord Ling!”

“My identity.”

“Earth Mother True Monarch!”

“Say it again?”

“The spirit of all things!” Yun honestly spoke Ye Ling's true identity.

“Um, I've already told you everything. Can you take the sword off my neck now?”

Only then did Ye Ling return the long sword to Ye Kong, looking up at Yun: “Tell me, what else do you know that I don't?”

“I don't even know what you know, I don't know how to say it,” Yun said, spreading his hands.

Ye Ling looked at Yun and said slowly, “Then I'll ask you something, and you answer it.”

“Lord Ling, you're making things a bit difficult, aren't you?” Yun said, retreating repeatedly.

“Yuan, seize Yun for me!” Ye Ling shouted at Yuan.

Yuan pressed Yun to the ground with one hand.

“Yuan, I'm your senior brother, you unfilial son, what do you want to do? Let me go!” Yun struggled on the ground, shouting.

Among the thirteen fellow disciples, Yun's martial strength was the weakest.

“Senior Brother Yun, if I don't listen to Lord Ling, I'll get beaten,” Yuan said honestly.

“Besides, Lord Ling gives me meat to eat, I listen to her.”

Mu Qianyuan facepalmed when he heard Yuan's last sentence.

Hopeless, my ancestor is hopeless.

He was bought off with a single meal, is he really that cheap?

“Yun, I ask you…”

“I don't know,” Yun refused decisively.

“It seems you won't say anything unless you suffer a little,” Ye Ling said calmly, looking up at Yuan.

“Yuan, do you still remember how I taught you to deal with demon beasts?”

Yuan nodded and said, “I remember, remove the head and peel the skin, take out the internal organs, sprinkle with cumin, and then roast it on the fire rack.”

Ye Ling then looked down at Yun and said, “Tear off your head, roast your body and feed it back to you.”

Yun couldn't help but tremble all over when he imagined that scene.

“Lord Ling, you can ask, I, Yun, will definitely tell you everything I know and answer every question,” Yun said solemnly.

“Actually, there's nothing much to ask. I already know what I need to know. I just want to ask, is your Star Observation Pavilion suppressing something? Or rather, guarding something?” Ye Ling looked at Yun with sharp eyes.

“There's nothing being guarded!” Yun said expressionlessly.

Yuan scratched his head, pondering: “I remember, when I was sleeping, Master seemed to have said something.”

“And he also put something in the Star Observation Pavilion.”

“Yuan, you remembered wrong!” Yun shouted.

Yuan immediately reacted and released Yun.

“Right, right, right, I remembered wrong, I remembered wrong. Senior Brother Yun, don't mind, Lord Ling has been kind to me,” Yuan said with a simple and honest smile.

Mu Qianyuan looked at Yuan's reaction, then looked at Yun, and shook his head, sighing.

Ah, Yuan, you simpleton, you seemed to say nothing, but you actually said everything.

As long as you're not an idiot, you'd guess that there's something in the Star Observation Pavilion.

However, what exactly is in the Star Observation Pavilion?

Why haven't I ever discovered it?

Ye Ling looked at Yuan and Yun with sharp eyes, questioning: “Really nothing?”

“Really nothing!” the two said in unison.

“Fine, then you swear, you haven't lied to me, or you'll be hunted down by all things!” Ye Ling said in a deep voice.

Yuan and Yun exchanged glances. Once this oath is spoken, it's over.

“I'll go first, you say what I say later,” Yun gave Yuan a look, conveying the message, then stood out.

“I, Yun, swear, if I go against the will of heaven and deceive Lord Ling, then I will be hunted down by all things!”

“I am willing to swear…”

The two made their oaths.

Ye Ling nodded slightly upon hearing this.

“Ye Ling, do you want to play in South Cloud Continent for a while, or go back?” Ye Kong looked at Ye Ling.

He was just accompanying Ye Ling out to play today, he was just a bystander the whole time.

“Let's play for a while, there's still time anyway,” Ye Ling said indifferently.

Yun's face stiffened when he heard that Ye Ling wanted to play for a while longer.

If you want to play, go play somewhere else, please don't play in my South Cloud Continent, okay?

Ah, forget it.

“Mu Qianyuan, you go to the Star Observation Pavilion to take over first, and then help me pacify South Cloud Continent,” Yun said to Mu Qianyuan.

“Ancestor Yun, I've already taken over, and I also understand the situation in South Cloud Continent, but I still need to make a trip to understand the relationship and power distribution between all the sects,” Mu Qianyuan said, cupping his hands.

Yun looked at Mu Qianyuan with some surprise when he heard Mu Qianyuan's words, and threw him a golden token.

“Take this golden token, with this token, it's as if I'm personally there. If the major sect leaders don't give you face, you can take out this golden token!”

He knew that Mu Qianyuan was new and hadn't gained a foothold yet, so he might be targeted by the major sects.

“Thank you, Ancestor Yun!” Mu Qianyuan thanked him.

Yuan took out a lump of iron and threw it to Mu Qianyuan.

“This lump of iron can also represent me.”

Mu Qianyuan: …

【Ding, detecting the arrival of a Child of Destiny, please go and subdue them, Host!】

The system's cold voice echoed in Ye Kong's ears.