King of Creation-Chapter 58 - The Brave Volunteer

After the immense shock, Clan Leader Ye Tianqi was ecstatic!

Ye Zhen could easily defeat Ye Hao and even defeat the Grand Elder with one punch, and considering Ye Zhen was a year younger than Ye Hao, it only indicated one thing: Ye Zhen was an incredible genius, an even greater genius than Ye Hao!

Having landed back on the ground, the Grand Elder’s old face turned alternately blue and red, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, giving off an utterly embarrassed feeling, having been defeated and injured by a junior in public, and there was also a hint of him being caught off guard in the attack.

His old face was literally slapped resounding!

Looking at his three grandsons, only Ye Chao was relatively unharmed, while Ye Sheng’s arm was grotesquely twisted into a corkscrew shape, with an uncertain future of healing.

Ye Hao was also severely injured by Ye Zhen and spat blood, but, this was not the worst part.

The worst was the immense psychological damage inflicted on Ye Hao by Ye Zhen humiliating and devastatingly defeating him in public.

Looking at Ye Hao, lying collapsed on the ground with his head buried deeply between his legs, Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping knew his talented grandson was ruined.

If Ye Hao couldn’t come out of this psychological shadow cast by Ye Zhen, his life was over.

Thinking about his own disgraced third son, Ye Zhi’an, Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping’s anger flared up, leading him to anger and embarrassment.

“Come here, come here!

Ye Zhen, this scourge, defying and harming his kin, throw him out, throw him out of the Ye Clan, and throw out the ancestral tablets of his ancestors too, throw them all out!”

The man had gone mad, Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping had completely lost his mind.

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Several clan elders, including the Gold City Magistrate, shook their heads secretly, too irrational, too narrow-minded.

With Ye Zhen showing such genius prowess, not to mention that his conduct was blameless in reality, even if it were slightly flawed, no family would expel such a genius like Ye Zhen.

“Are you all deaf, did you not hear my words?” Grand Elder Ye Haiping furiously pointed at his confidants, shouting, “Are you deaf?

Quick, throw out this scourge, Ye Zhen, throw him out now!”

Clan Leader Ye Tianqi’s face darkened, and just as he was about to speak, a cold shout suddenly resounded from outside the ancestral hall.

“Oh wow, the Ye Clan has such nerve, even daring to expel a brave hero whom the Prefectural Governor intended to award!

Hey, the top position in the Outer Disciple Ranking of the Qiyun Sect, and you can expel him from the family?

You Ye Clan, really impressive!”

“The Prefectural Governor?” Gold City Magistrate Cen Shan suddenly stood up, hurrying forward to greet him.

Clan Leader Ye Tianqi hesitated, then led many clan elders to welcome him.

The arrival of the Prefectural Governor was a huge event, but just a few steps out, Ye Tianqi was dumbfounded.

“Ye Zhen is the first on the Heaven and Earth List of the Qiyun Sect?”

Watching as a large crowd of family members hurriedly knelt in welcome, and amidst the crazy ranting of the Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping, he was shocked, “The first on the Heaven and Earth List of the Qiyun Sect?

Ye Zhen is the first on the Heaven and Earth List of the Qiyun Sect?”

“Ye Zhen, you are the first on the Heaven and Earth List of the Qiyun Sect…

Is this true?” This question, asked by Clan Leader Ye Tianqi, was extremely difficult.

This news was even more shocking than seeing Ye Zhen defeating the Great Clan Elder with their own eyes.

The Heaven and Earth List of the Qiyun Sect was famous all over the world, and they of the Ye Clan, having disciples in the Qiyun Sect year-round, certainly knew the value and status of being first on this list.

“Er…

yes!” Ye Zhen nodded.

Ye Tiancheng had already been shocked into numbness.

He had thought the shocks his son had brought him were plenty, but time and again, he found that the shocks his son brought to him were just the tip of an iceberg.

All the Ye Family members were dumbfounded again!

First on the Heaven and Earth List!

The legendary first on the Heaven and Earth List of the Qiyun Sect, had actually emerged within their Ye Family!

My goodness, if Ye Zhen is the first on the Heaven and Earth List, then the previous issues with the second on the list seem like nothing!

“Ye Sheng, Ye Chao, how dare you spread rumors?” The Clan Leader Ye Tianqi, having realized what was happening, shouted angrily at the brothers Ye Sheng and Ye Chao.

“Scoundrels, what exactly are you hiding?

Ye Zhen is ranked first on the Earth List, why didn’t you tell me?” At this, even the deeply affected Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping lost his temper and started slapping them without giving them a chance to explain.

This, however, wrongly accused the brothers Ye Sheng and Ye Chao, because when they returned, Ye Zhen indeed wasn’t the first on the Earth List.

“Foolish!”

After cursing loudly, Ye Tianqi moved past the kneeling clan members to meet the Prefectural Governor, and Ye Zhen did not kneel either but went straight to meet him.

In both the True Profound Continent and the Black Water Kingdom, martial artists enjoy special treatment, such as those in the True Essence Realm, who may meet officials without bowing.

“Prefectural Governor, you have misunderstood, misunderstood.

How could we drive out a valorous man like Ye Zhen?

We haven’t even had time to focus on his training,” Clan Leader Ye Tianqi hurriedly explained.

“The words just now, could it be that the Prefectural Governor misheard?” Captain Guan Ping of the County Prefecture’s icy voice rang out, “Ye Zhen is my sworn brother, and I didn’t expect him to be treated so poorly in the Ye Clan.”

Upon hearing this, Clan Leader Ye Tianqi’s forehead began to sweat profusely, as the two most powerful figures in Wusan County had come to support Ye Zhen.

Especially the Captain Guan Ping, who was in charge of military affairs, publicly claimed to have a life-saving bond with Ye Zhen.

My god, this made Ye Tianqi feel dizzy.

The fact that Ye Zhen was either the first on the Earth List or had the support of the two county giants would alone have deterred the Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping from mistreating him.

Now, all this burst out at once!

The Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping on the martial arts stage turned completely silly!

He had originally thought that Ye Zhen was a grasshopper he could crush with one foot.

Later on, he realized that this grasshopper was fierce and strong, and eventually, he discovered that Ye Zhen, this grasshopper, was unbelievably strong and even managed to injure him.

But now, the Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping realized he was wrong.

Ye Zhen was not the grasshopper he could crush with one foot; rather, he was!

“It was one of our clan elders talking nonsense because he had been agitated,” Ye Tianqi reluctantly found an excuse.

“Such irresponsible talk, this person who can’t distinguish right from wrong, can still be a clan elder?” The Wusan County Governor said, deciding the fate of the Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping.

Upon hearing this, the Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping’s body weakened and he nearly collapsed.

Originally, even if he had been somewhat confused in his conduct, Clan Leader Ye Tianqi wouldn’t dare to do anything to him, at most weakening some of his authority in the clan.

But once the Prefectural Governor spoke up, his fate was sealed.

Because he had offended the Prefectural Governor and truly became a clan member who damaged the interests of the Ye Clan!

“Ye Zhen, for your cooperation with Captain Guan in suppressing bandits, I specially grant you the title of Valorous Man!

With this title, all the taxes and obligations on your family’s land can be exempted!”

Having said this, the Prefectural Governor emphasized once again, “This is limited to your father and son’s Ye Family, not the entire Ye Clan, do you understand?” The last sentence, however, was addressed to the Gold City Magistrate.

Many members of the Ye Family, upon hearing this, were immensely frustrated; some even began to harbor deep resentment towards the Great Clan Elder.

Without his disruption, the title of Valorous Man would have benefitted all in the Ye Family through their association with Ye Zhen.

But now, that was all gone.

Next, in the presence of all Ye Clan members, the Prefectural Governor awarded Ye Zhen a bounty of 5,000 silver for eliminating bandits.

This 5,000 silver, although not of much significance to Ye Zhen, made almost all the other Ye family members green with envy.

5,000 silver!

Many people wouldn’t earn that much in over a decade, and yet Ye Zhen earned it so easily.

Seizing an opportunity, Ye Zhen had a brief exchange with Captain Guan Ping and understood that the Prefectural Governor had personally come to the Ye Clan to award Ye Zhen after hearing that he had killed Guo Shanfeng and that Ye Zhen was number one on the Qi Yun Sect’s Earth List.

With the arrival of the Prefectural Governor, the Ye Clan’s Clan Meeting proceeded even more grandly, and the martial arts meeting was reconvened.

However, after Ye Zhen’s earlier battle, there was no suspense left in this martial arts meeting.

The youths who previously disrespected Ye Zhen had quickly come to admire him immensely.

In no time, Ye Zhen replaced Ye Hao and became the idol of the new generation of clan youths.

Unsurprisingly, Ye Zhen won first place in the martial arts contest, and the bottle of True Essence Pills, which the Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping had painstakingly prepared for his grandson Ye Hao, ended up in Ye Zhen’s pocket, significantly boosting his cultivation in the True Yuan Realm, a resource no one would complain about having in abundance.

With the Prefectural Governor and Captain Guan Ping’s presence, the Ye Family’s Clan Meeting went incredibly smoothly, and the status of Ye Zhen and his father Ye Tiancheng within the Ye Family radically changed.

After the Clan Meeting ended, the Clan Leader immediately opened the family temple and announced the following two important matters of the Ye Clan.

“Great Clan Elder Ye Haiping is incompetent and will no longer hold the position of clan elder; we are revoking all of his administrative powers within the clan.”

“The position of Great Clan Elder will be taken over by Ye Zhen’s father, Ye Tiancheng!”

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