“Ye family, you said that your body will be formed by Ye family right?” Alice then asked Manstein. Seeing the seriousness in both their face, Manstein would not dare to conceal it.

“Yes, the first time I came here someone from Ye family actually became my temporary home. Not only the cultivators from their family spared me but they also let me stay and even now they wanted to make me a body.” Manstein explained.

“As expected of the family with surname Ye. They always the one who would aid someone and even spread the kindness around them. I bet that the city they resided must be peaceful and even live in harmony.” Wang Yu commented and admiration could not be concealed from his eyes.

“What a heaven defying luck, Senior Manstein. To encounter my biggest savior when I was down. Let’s see them!” Alice got spirited because of that.

At the yard in the Ye Residence, a young man with dozens of items floating around him like a satellite rotating their planet was fighting with a boy with flames covered his body!

The young man had various items at his disposals such as the spears, swords, some strange bells, some zither and dozens of bows with its arrows! He made them move according to his wish and he seemed like some executioner.

“Come!” Ye Yingyuan once again ignited the flame and his body was coated in it. Red fire enveloped him and formed clothes that act as a defense and at the same time could give him the offensive power.

“Then try this!” the spears shot while the bows launched their arrows. The more deadly zither then released a certain sound wave which could shake the entire house and the bells echoed so loud that it affects the energy in the surroundings.

Facing the attack, Ye Yingyuan then released a portion of his flame to surround his legs. This fire then formed a cycle to protect Ye Yingyuan from all side!

“Ring of Fire.” The flame then formed a wall before closed all the side including the top part which previously exposed. Fortunately, this went as Ye Yingyuan expected. The spears turned to ashes when it touched the red flame and that also the same for the arrows.

“But those troublesome sounds can break my defense though.” Because of this, Ye Yingyuan could not do anything much to it. Of course, Ye Xiaobai realized this point and increased the speed of the attack that used sounds.

Still unaware of anything, they battled again and again.

“It’s someone with body constitution!” exclaimed Alice. Manstein surprised that she could recognize it with a glance. He could not even understand why she recognized it so quickly.

“Yes, and I also feel that this place really a residence of them. I can even feel their smell directly now that we are outside.” Commented Wang Yu.

“Who do you think will win?” Manstein asked. He wanted to try the Intelligence Assistance Device due to curiosity and the last bit of hope that after his leaving, this device held something that he expected.

The medallion shone and then the monotone sound could be heard by Manstein.

-No capabilities to scan. Failed!-

-The data gathered from the movement which the owner recognized as Ye Yingyuan and Ye Xiaobai showed strange movement and energy that had never seen in the device’s memory. Recording...-

“Can you explain about this recording a bit? I recall that I only create this crappy device before but never add this function.” Realizing that the device started to record the movement of both the fighter.

“Ah, she modified the Recording Jade into that medallion?” even Wang Yu surprised to hear and see the result himself. In this world, there was one item that most rich people or cultivators could use and that was the Recording Jade.

Of course, that item was named as such because of its function to record whether it movements, sounds or even the energy from cultivators.

“Recording Jade, has she mined the original stone and then after some process found the potential of this stone?” Manstein clearly understood that Alice found the worth of this jade during her long stay here.

“Oh, please. It’s just my lucky invention, nothing else. Besides Brother Wang, you told me that the vessel creation method was stolen by him right?” Alice then asked something which made the mood turned downhill.

“Yes, it was precisely this...this person that give me the book. But to memorize the content of it in a short time.” Wang Yu almost did not believe what Manstein said earlier about he could remember all the content of the book at one glance.

“Of course he is. But let’s see this spar first.” Alice then wondered who would win.

Ye Yingyuan could not dodge the attack that came from the air. But when he saw his sword that also had chains attached to it, he suddenly had some idea. He smirked to Ye Xiaobai who had launched his sound attack.

But at the same time, Ye Yingyuan also hit the chains with each other. Clashing metal with another created sound but it was much weaker than the strike.

“No, this will not do.” The strike only reduced a little but the effect still there. Ye Yingyuan could only defend from the attack without counterattack.

“What’s wrong? Can’t handle this much of my strike?” Ye Xiaobai then asked. His expression still showed the same indifference towards him. The sound strike really dealt a good hit without the other party resisting much but that was the reason why this could not do well.

“Sound, to eliminate the strike that boy must either make the louder sounds or make the space around him turn into a vacuum ones.” Wang Yu said.

“There are some techniques that have the effect of affecting surrounding air with its own sound. Or if someone reaches the Nirvana Body stage, create a space barrier around the body.” Alice also said.

Manstein heard what they had said but could not say a thing. ‘Well, they’re a league that I cannot reach now.’

In the end, Ye Yingyuan lost. The barrier then removed and everyone had to return to their place.

“Now I need to return to my temporary place. Do you want to follow me?” Manstein asked Wang Yu. Right now they remained at the same position from the place they got out from.

“What choice do I have?” Wang Yu followed only because of the existence that followed after Manstein so he had no choice. Then Manstein moved to the room where Ye Yingyuan now recovered his energy.

Of course, when he returned to the soul realm, the figure of Alice also tied to him and after some time, Ye Yingyuan visited him. Seeing the additional person in this familiar place made him cautious but after seeing Manstein that positioned himself beside her, he calmed down.

“Are the preparation for that completed? Hah, now I owe a big debt to your family.” Manstein said when he saw Ye Yingyuan.

“Hm.” Ye Yingyuan nodded before asking, “By the way, who is she?”

The appearance of Alice made Ye Yingyuan confused. But for some reason, Ye Yingyuan felt the familiar energy from her which made him wonder.

“She? Oh, right you are also here. She is Alice, you can say that we are a colleague in the same place.” Replied Manstein. Hearing the preparation already completed, the only thing that he had to worry now was whether the process and the after effect safe or not.

“Wait, I think I have seen her somewhere.” Ye Yingyuan then thought for a while before he gasped in surprise when he saw Alice again.

“No way, no way. This woman must be not ‘The Goddess of Artifact’ right?” Ye Yingyuan hesitated to ask but in the end still did it. “So you really someone from Ye family! How lucky, how lucky.” Alice smiled when hearing the title ‘The Goddess of Artifact’.

“What is this about? Can you please tell me about that in general?” Manstein now found that Alice had involved deep during her stay here.

‘Maybe some of the refinement for items and artifacts were created by her?’ thought Manstein before he took a glance at Alice. She also looks at him before grinning with some strange expression surfaced.

“The thing is, once I saw a picture of the most important figure for our family. This was stored at the deepest place within the book and there, the book mention about this woman which became our savior at the time of the families' crisis.” Ye Yingyuan told the source where he got the information from.

“Not only that but the person also influence the world together with so many people but what surprise me was it also included someone that became the number one person in this world but when I checked the history books from various sources, the only thing that I got was that particular person’s name without even mentioning a single thing about her.” Ye Yingyuan then shrugged.

“Are you really the one?” Ye Yingyuan then became stiff when greeting Alice. He could feel the strange sensation when she was near.

“Well, all the members of Ye family indeed call me that in the past. But to still keep the records about me, I think that I can do a favor here.” Alice then looked at Manstein. Ye Yingyuan also followed her gaze to only see the figure of the man with his confused expression.

Now Ye Yingyuan realized some of the truth. ‘So Elder Brother really is ‘The Goddess of Artifacts’ colleague!’

-

Their discussion really went smoothly that Ye Yingyuan forgot the passage of time for the time being. Meanwhile, Li Ling brought some soup with many spiritual vegetables and even the water was filled with the energy.

Actually, she went to the kitchen to practice her cooking skill with her energy. And yes, there was such a way recorded on the library in the residence and Li Ling had read those.

‘It is said that the cooking with the energy from your cultivation base can increase the effect of the energy absorbed and also the taste of the food.’ That was why she had done all this hard work. Even the maids at the residence at first trying to prevent her from working in the kitchen but in the end they let her.

Then she placed the soup which filled the bowl to the floor when she saw Ye Yingyuan sitting on the floor and closed his eyes.

Then slowly, Ye Yingyuan opened his eyes. ‘They both tell me to see the person outside.’

Actually, Ye Yingyuan realized that the person in waiting must be Li Ling. But Alice also mentioned the Foundation Pillar that he had now needed the repairing and stabilizing before creating his second pillar.

“You made some food again? Why don’t you leave it to the maids and instead focus on your training?” asked Ye Yingyuan. As someone who had interest in the cultivation and moreover the profoundness behind it, Ye Yingyuan did not really know much about the ordinary thing like this case.

“This is not just some food! Look, there are some good ingredients mixed in it. This is what you can with those herbs and also this soup can increase your energy.” Li Ling said with high spirit.

“Did my mother tell you something different like a new topic?” suddenly Ye Yingyuan remembered the important matter that almost arrived and he was afraid that Li Ling did not know about it.

“No, she only said that a new member of Ye family soon will appear! I wonder who he is. Oh, did you know someone that used items to fight?” Li Ling then pondered about the person she had met last night.

“Oh with items and artifacts then that person is surely my cousin, Ye Xiaobai!” exclaimed Ye Yingyuan. “Remember when I told you that he is the one that acted strangely just like your brother? That person is the one I often speak about.”

“So he is your cousin.” Li Ling then thought about something that only she could hear and know. ‘He has the same problem as me before but it is slightly different.’

“Yes, then can I eat it?” Ye Yingyuan pointed the hot soup that released a thin white mist with a fragment of energy within it.

“Then eat it.” Li Ling nodded while glanced at Ye Yingyuan with her gaze. It really made Ye Yingyuan restless and disturbed when he wanted to eat so he said, “Don’t stare at me! I feel strange you know.”

“Don’t care about me, just taste it!” Li Ling pursed her lips.