Cultivation: the Rise of a Live-In Son-In-Law-Chapter 374 - 372: Before the East Cang Stele, Pointing the Sword at First Place!
Jiang Lingyue finished her three-part denial in one breath and clenched her fists, as if cheering herself on for her statement.
Hearing this, the corners of Jiang Qingge’s mouth slightly curled up, and she said, "Lingyue, I don’t think I... asked that many questions."
Jiang Lingyue: "..."
It seems... yes!
Oh no, it’s over!
With just a simple question from her sister, she managed to trick her into revealing everything!
Thinking of this, Jiang Lingyue felt deflated like a punctured balloon and weakly said, "Sister, then what do you want to ask?"
"Come with me first, let’s go somewhere else to talk, it’s not very convenient here." Glancing around at the bustling crowd entering and exiting the town, Jiang Qingge turned and walked towards the outskirts.
Behind her, Jiang Lingyue wore a face full of despair.
If she had known the situation would turn out like this, she should have said she was busy on the mountain and had no time to come out.
Now, she felt her sister must have noticed something.
After all, she was so smart, and her sister was undoubtedly smarter. Ever since they were young, her sister’s mind had always been sharper than hers.
Watching Jiang Qingge’s figure disappear from the town, Jiang Lingyue composed herself and quickly followed her.
Moments later, the two sisters had left the small town and arrived in a small grove a few miles away.
"Wow, you’re already at the Postnatal Fourth Layer, not bad." Looking at her sister, Jiang Qingge smiled. When she left home, her sister was only at the Postnatal First Layer.
Rising three ranks in less than a year was quite a good pace.
"Hehe..." She instinctively chuckled a couple of times, but soon Jiang Lingyue realized something was amiss.
How did her sister know her current level?!
Ordinarily, without being a cultivator, one couldn’t tell another’s level at all.
Moreover, low-realm cultivators couldn’t discern a high realm’s cultivation unless the latter actively released their aura.
So, the question arose: how did her sister accurately know her current cultivation level?
"Sister, how did you know?" Jiang Lingyue, not one to hide things well, immediately asked curiously.
"I’ll slowly explain it to you..." Jiang Qingge smiled and said slowly.
...
On the other side, as time passed, night fell.
Perhaps due to people frequently going up the East Cang Stele at midnight, even at night, people in East Cang Plaza didn’t disperse as quickly as usual.
Late into the night, there were still small groups of people sitting around the plaza.
Seeing this situation, Lu Ye could only shake his head helplessly.
No matter what, tonight, he was determined to make it onto the list.
In any case, once he successfully made it onto the list, the commotion from the top three light beams would attract others; he was merely giving these people a head start now.
Subsequently, Lu Ye found an open space, just like others, and sat down with Youluo to quietly await the new day.
Finally...
As dawn broke, the charging progress of the Myriad Dao Pavilion rose slightly. Lu Ye opened his eyes and glanced at Youluo across from him.
"Master, husband, you go to the list; I’ll handle things here." Youluo, still in her black robe, spoke softly with a hint of killing intent.
"If anyone dares to make a move..."
Unless they have a life-saving forbidden technique!
Otherwise, it’s not so easy to escape from her hands.
Nodding, Lu Ye got up from the plaza and walked straight towards the stele representing the most outstanding under-fifty individuals in East Cang for a thousand years.
As Lu Ye approached the stele, he immediately drew some attention; people glanced over.
"Oh, who is this? Looking at him, he seems to want to make it onto the list?"
"Judging by the direction he’s headed, that seems right... but the East Cang List includes the most outstanding cultivators under fifty in a thousand years; even Fang Zhiyu of the Celestial Profound Sect is only in the twenties, it’s not that easy to make it onto the list."
"You can’t say it so absolutely. To strive for the list means the person has ambition. Take Chen Beixuan, Young Master Chen, now second on the East Cang List, for example... Who would’ve believed he could rise from the twenties to second in less than half a year?"
Upon hearing this now-famous name in the Eastern Territory, many in the plaza nodded.
Indeed!
If not for the existence of the second name on the East Cang List, who would believe someone could advance as if on a rocket?!
Meanwhile, among the crowd, a cultivator at the Postnatal Ninth Layer, nearing the Innate Realm, suddenly felt something amiss.
He stared at the unassuming man approaching the East Cang Stele.
"Something’s off, I feel like I’ve seen him somewhere before."
"You’ve seen him? Who is he?" someone nearby asked.
It was a middle-aged man at the Postnatal Ninth Layer, dressed in a gray shirt, searching his mind for a matching face but finding none.
Then, somewhat embarrassed, he said, "I might be mistaken, but I really feel like I’ve seen him... he dresses similarly to how Elder Chen Beixuan appeared that night when he went to the list!"
After that list-taking, when the protective light dissipated, Lu Ye instantly used a body technique to disappear.
Thus, most ordinary martial artists didn’t get a chance to capture Lu Ye’s masked appearance.
As people murmured in low voices, Lu Ye had already reached below the East Cang Stele. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂
Looking up at the hundred-meter-high stele with the top name, Lu Ye’s eyes remained calm, without a ripple.
Although he was a Mortal Grandmaster Fifth Layer, Lu Ye didn’t intend to reveal all his strength to the world.
Sometimes, keeping a trump card can be the key to turning danger into safety.
He planned to suppress himself to a Mortal Realm Grandmaster Fourth Layer, matching the realm when Xiao Changqing took the top spot years ago.
After all, Lu Ye also wanted to see how strong this name, which had lingered for centuries, really was among Mortal Realm Grandmaster Fourth Layers.
If he, at the same layer, couldn’t surpass it, it would mean that his mastery at this level was even more terrifying.
"Xiao Changqing..."
He murmured softly, and his gaze instantly became sharp.
On the path of cultivation, if one admits to being inferior to others at the same level, fearing a name from centuries ago, how could they strive for advancement in the future?
This kind of opportunity to let a heart demon grow, Lu Ye would never easily give.
Instantly, he suppressed his strength to the Mortal Realm Grandmaster Fourth Layer.
In the next moment, the cultivators still in the plaza saw...
A man’s silhouette rose into the air from the base of the towering East Cang Stele!
