"Sigh, Young Master Ye is really going to fail this time!"

"He's practically volunteering to make a fool of himself. I genuinely feel embarrassed for him."

"Enough about that. Let's wait and see Ye Huan's disgraceful defeat. It's not every day you get to witness a Huaxia Saint's humiliation."

The crowd, watching as Ye Huan and Xiao Qingming registered, continued their mocking chatter.

Many laughed like pigs, eagerly anticipating the scene of the Huaxia Saint losing face right before their eyes.

"Young Master Ye, are you... are you sure this is okay..." On the way back to the Xiao Family's resting area, Xiao Qingming gritted her teeth. The crowd's belittling words made her lose some confidence in Ye Huan.

"Don't worry."

Ye Huan casually waved his hand, remarkably calm.

From the conversations, it was clear there were many experts among the contestants this time.

The stronger the opponents, the more interested he was in competing.

If it were just an easy win without effort, it would surely be boring and meaningless.

Seeing Ye Huan's calm demeanor, Xiao Qingming breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

As the two returned to the Xiao Family's resting area, a tall, lean young man with sharp features, dressed in a pale yellow robe, walked over with a smile.

Seeing this man, many from the Xiao Family showed intense hostility in their eyes!

The man returned a contemptuous smile, full of arrogance, as if he didn't even regard the Xiao Family.

He walked straight up to Ye Huan and greeted him with a smile, "Hello, Young Master Ye."

Ye Huan frowned slightly, sensing this person was somewhat familiar.

Beside him, Xiao Yu froze for a moment upon seeing this man, then her face turned extremely dark, and her eyes burned with fury!

Meanwhile, the man bowed slightly, showing respect to Ye Huan before smiling amiably, "Young Master Ye, please allow me to introduce myself. I am Xiao Family's first Ancient Martial Medical Technique genius, forever a god in the Ancient Martial Realm of Huaxia—Direct Disciple of Di Lin, Xiao Mingxuan."

This guy is Xiao Mingxuan?

Ye Huan's eyes narrowed slightly, his pupils emitting a penetrating light full of profound meaning, "Are you really Di Lin's Direct Disciple?"

"Of course." Xiao Mingxuan lied without batting an eye, his acting impeccable.

"But I've heard that Di Lin only has one Direct Disciple, and this Direct Disciple doesn't seem to have the surname Xiao. What's the matter with that?" Ye Huan asked coldly.

At this moment, Xiao Mingxuan's back was instantly drenched in cold sweat, but his performance remained flawless. He naturally responded, "That's because my original surname is Di."

"Your original surname is Di?!" Xiao Yu suddenly interjected, her face filled with rage!

"Yes, indeed. What of it?"

The man looked at Xiao Yu arrogantly, sneering.

His dismissive tone made Xiao Yu's complexion even worse, as if she was restraining rage, her fists clenched so tightly that her bones cracked audibly, her voice deeply low, "Who is your mother?!"

"Huang Yueshuang."

When Xiao Mingxuan revealed this name, Xiao Yu's anger exploded, tears welled in her eyes, and she raised her hand!

"Stop!"

Xiao Zhan, terrified, angrily shouted, preventing Xiao Yu from slapping Xiao Mingxuan's face!

He was so angry he could explode. What a mess this was, first Ye Huan overestimating himself, "insisting" on participating in the competition with Xiao Qingming to challenge Xiao Mingxuan, and now Xiao Yu wanted to slap Xiao Mingxuan's face!

Damn, daring to slap the face of the Xiao Family's first genius, that's courting death!

"Brother, he's the illegitimate child of Di Asura! Di Asura promised me he'd cut ties with Huang Yueshuang, but he secretly remained involved with her and even fathered a son!" Xiao Yu's eyes shimmered with tears, stamping her foot in indignation.

"Listen, clean up your mouth, I'm Di Asura's son, not an illegitimate child! You—homewrecker—really audacious, ruining my parents' relationship, and you keep going on and on! Shameless!" Xiao Mingxuan's face twisted, shouting angrily! 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

"You..."

Xiao Yu wanted to retort but was stopped by Xiao Zhan's scolding, "Enough, let's go!"

While angry, Xiao Zhan as a brother, knowing his sister suffered such grievances, was furious too.

But helplessly, Xiao Mingxuan as the first genius of the Xiao Family already had a powerful status, and with his newfound identity as Di Asura's son, his stature increased even more. With the Xiao Family's current size, being enemies with him was nothing short of seeking death!

Facing Xiao Mingxuan, no matter how much anger one harbored internally, one could only swallow it!

Xiao Zhan forcefully dragged the deeply unwilling Xiao Yu away!

Full of resentment, after being dragged over thirty meters away by Xiao Zhan, Xiao Yu turned her head, fixated on Ye Huan for a moment, her eyes showing no hatred directed at Ye Huan, but seemingly contemplating something...

...

"Mr. Ye, you should know the surname of the direct disciple of the elder Di Lin, right?" After Xiao Zhan and Xiao Yu left, Xiao Mingxuan continued to speak.

"I've heard of it."

Ye Huan smiled faintly, inwardly sneering, he had already determined that Xiao Mingxuan was a con artist with a forged identity.

The direct disciple of elder Di Lin, isn't that Huan, with the surname Ye?

How does that have anything to do with the surname "Di"?

At the same time, he realized why Xiao Mingxuan seemed familiar to him.

It turns out Xiao Mingxuan is the illegitimate son of Di Asura, no wonder his features are like they were carved from the same mold as Di Asura.

Interesting.

Ye Huan squinted his eyes into a thin line, not exposing Xiao Mingxuan's fake identity of being a "Disciple of Di Lin", wanting to see what this illegitimate son of Di Asura was up to.

Everything that happened just now, including the conversation between Xiao Yu and Xiao Mingxuan, Xiao Mingxuan being Di Asura's son yet bearing the surname Xiao, Xiao Yu's reaction upon recognizing Xiao Mingxuan, and Xiao Zhan's strange level of despair, all made Ye Huan's intuition tell him that the rapid decline of the Xiao Family in recent years was not as simple as it seemed!

This ancient martial medical competition might also only appear calm but is actually rife with undercurrents!

"Yes, the disciple of Di Lin indeed bears the surname Di, that is me, Di Mingxuan."

Xiao Mingxuan discreetly wiped his forehead sweat, just now when Ye Huan said the disciple of elder Di Lin doesn't bear the surname Xiao, it made him think Ye Huan knew Di Lin's disciple, almost scaring him to pee.

Fortunately, Ye Huan had only heard of it, not met Di Lin's disciple.

Moreover, he was lucky that Di Lin's disciple happened to bear the surname Di as he expected, otherwise he would have been exposed, that was dangerous!

Xiao Mingxuan breathed a sigh of relief, then smiled and tentatively asked: "Mr. Ye, if I may, is the effort you spend on practicing ancient martial medical techniques far less than what you spend on ancient martial arts strength?"

Ye Huan didn't conceal and candidly replied: "Correct."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Mingxuan was secretly delighted, thinking, it was indeed so!

With Ye Huan being so young and his time so limited, how could he possibly devote a lot of effort to ancient martial medical techniques while also rigorously practicing ancient martial arts strength?

In the aspect of ancient martial medical techniques, he could still completely outdo him!

Finding that he could surpass the Huaxia Saint in a certain aspect, Xiao Mingxuan's heart was utterly elated, yet he didn't show it and said persuasively:

"If that's the case, Mr. Ye, I think it's better not to participate in this competition."

"Although I believe your talent in ancient martial medical techniques is extraordinary, the disciples from various major medical families, especially led by me, have fully devoted themselves to practicing ancient martial medical techniques and have achieved great accomplishments and received countless recognition."

"In comparison, you've put not as much effort into ancient martial medical techniques, facing us, your chances of victory are slim."

"Moreover, perhaps you don't know, joining you in the competition is Xiao Qingming from the Xiao Family, who is deemed a 'genius', yet whose level in ancient martial medical techniques can be described as 'worthless', she will just be a hindrance to you..."

Before Xiao Mingxuan could continue, Xiao Qingming interrupted in humiliation and anger: "What are you saying!"

"What, did I say anything wrong? Aren't you worthless?" Xiao Mingxuan turned to look at Xiao Qingming and contemptuously retorted.

"You…"

Xiao Qingming was enraged and embarrassed, gritting her teeth, yet couldn't refute!

Because her level of ancient martial medical techniques was indeed very poor!

She, as the Xiao Family's top genius, couldn't even rank among the younger generation in the ancient martial medical world, many people could crush her.

This also shows how far the Xiao Family has declined and how difficult it is to rescue them...

"Mr. Ye, see, if you compete with Xiao Qingming, this worthless one, she will definitely be a burden, dragging your scores down!"

"I don't know what kind of tactics the Xiao Family used to lure you as a reinforcement to compete alongside her on their behalf, but I can clearly tell you, the Xiao Family is no longer the Xiao Family of old! They can no longer uphold the title of a top ancient martial medical family, at most they are a second-rate family!"

"If you insist on competing on behalf of the Xiao Family, the results might not meet your expectations, leaving you disappointed!"

The implication in Xiao Mingxuan's words, like the Feng Family referee at registration, was to persuade Ye Huan not to compete.

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that Ye Huan really hadn't spent much effort on ancient martial medical techniques, but Ye Huan had practiced the world's strongest ancient martial medical technique—"The Heaven and Earth Revival Acupuncture Technique" in just three months!

His foundation in ancient martial medical techniques also quickly improved with the strengthening of his ancient martial arts strength.

It's no exaggeration to say that Huan's medical skills now are strong enough to rank in the top three of Huaxia's five great national doctors!

Even Di Shitian was amazed at Huan's talent in ancient martial medical techniques back then.

"No need." Ye Huan put his hands in his pockets, indifferent: "Whatever result I achieve, you need not worry about."

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PS: My condition has been poor these last two days...

Let's start with two updates, I'll sort out the outline, there might be another update later.