“Don’t forget about me!” Ye Xiaobai raised his thumb. But he now only equipped his bow without the combination of his glaive.

“Who are you?” Li Ling curiously asked. She had never seen a person with animal ears and tail, much less the legendary beasts. She stared at those special features with great interest.

“Me, you can say that I came to this place because of fate?” the young woman smiled. But then she seriously introduced herself.

“But you two can call me Yue. Come, let’s stop them from advancing any further.” When Yue spoke like that, an enormous snail appeared at the frontline, exactly at the barrier that protected them from the beast that held the power of Culture Core and above.

“Then Sister Yue must be proficient in using glaive!” said Ye Yingyuan when he saw her hands that had some calluses.

Ye Yingyuan exchanged glanced between Ye Xiaobai and Yue. He felt that something was going on but he would resolve this once the security was certain.

Then a large quake shook the hive. This time, Li Ling smiled happily, showing that anything that she had planned previously really happened according to her will.

Then a beeknight appeared from the inner place of the hive, landed itself beside Li Ling and salute politely to her.

“This subordinate was sent to inform that the beasts also charge through the base of the hive!” said the beeknight. Li Ling just nodded her head as if she satisfied with the report.

“What are you doing previously?” asked Ye Yingyuan.

“Simple, just take a precaution against a small but annoying infiltrator. You still remember the beasts emergence years ago right?” Li Ling proudly raised her head, her face showed her pride.

Ye Yingyuan just followed her and nodded his head. He also tried to fight a weaker beast that slipped through the barrier and played with the link that connected him to his sword. The sword was able to move on its own, moving its body to slash the beast

“There’s a warehouse that usually keeps the harvest from the fields that became the target of those kinds of beasts even though the security there was the tightest! My father investigated that there is a beast that able to produce a liquid that can melt the solid wall of the warehouse. Therefore I studied hard if someday I will encounter them again. To think that the beasts also came here.”

Li Ling then said again to the beeknight to summon their leader here as well. It was because the beeknight also reported that those kinds of beasts were already eliminated.

Then the beeknight retreated, while the rest of them just waiting there.

“Ha!” Li Ling struck again. This time, she used the saber to defend her position rather than to attack. She was still feeling unwell after she forced herself to kill some beast with her own hands.

“Are you still new to this?” Yue asked in a friendly tone. But to her surprise, she also saw that Ye Yingyuan still toying with the unlucky beast that had to encounter the sword.

Li Ling nodded her head but her gaze was still locked to Ye Yingyuan. Actually, she felt jealous for Ye Yingyuan because he calmly faced the beast and even killing them like removing the grass in the field.

‘But he did not know the reason for his own emotion at the moment. What should I tell him?’ she also traced the sadness inside his eyes but could not even help him. This made her stress increase.

Another beast entered the barrier and now they were mid-stage Foundation Establishment at the least. But then another strike came from Ye Yingyuan as he returned the sword to his side.

And also a rain of arrows that came from Ye Xiaobai that stood behind. When there was nothing, he could just shoot an arrow and then the hidden danger was eliminated. Other than that, he shot the arrows to support his cousin.

Soon, a figure appeared and because of its steps that the groups could detect him.

“Hahaha. The Queen of Yellow Bees, you better let me have a taste of that being!” a beast that could talk and already made its appearance near the barrier now. It had the form of a bull but he carried his body with his two legs.

“How dare you call Her Majesty with such rude words!” finally, the leader of the beeknight Jack appeared with furious expression all over his face.

The weapon appeared from his hands, forming a large lance as he gripped the hilt. Then a large amount of energy blasted the air around him!

“Pierce!” just one word Jack uttered but the lance turned to become the most deadly driller for those beasts even the barrier temporarily allowed it to bypass and hit more than a dozen of those beasts.

“You..how can this strike able to pass the barrier!?” even with the understanding of human language did not mean that the bull could comprehend what had happened to him.

“Fool, this barrier already existed but Her Majesty just suppressed it to the lowest level. Now that there are some punchbag for those kids to train, why still prohibit the low-leveled enemy not to enter this place?”

‘So that was why some of the beasts that only have the power equal to us can enter the barrier. Maybe there are more things that I don’t know.’ Ye Xiaobai opened his mouth.

‘But truthfully there is a certain order for the formation to specifically deal with the human. I heard that those demonic sects also have such method.’

Perhaps if he had not entered the barrier in time, he would have become meat paste or anything that you did not want to see. Other than that, his eyes never left the young woman that took his glaive.

He then recalled what she had said earlier. It was something that only the two knew about.

‘You better give it to me!’ Ye Xiaobai originally did not notice it at first but when he focused his attention on the belt that she was used, his eyes turned cold.

‘No!’ but the refusal from her made him more impatient. There was something that he did not tell anyone yet. The part where he ventured outside and unexpectedly meet someone.

‘I don’t care but you must give me the belt otherwise, I will not be polite to you.’ Every second he saw that belt was worn by someone else other than that person made him furious. Why did she wear that belt in particular!?

‘But..but this is what my previous master gave me. I don’t know if he agrees that someone else than me touch the belt.’ But when Yue wanted to protect her belt, Ye Xiaobai viciously removed it at that very second.

‘You!’ but they could not let out any voice and the event happened too fast.

Only when she looked at the young man’s facial muscle moved in an indescribable trace, could not differentiate between laughing or crying did she finally knew something.

‘Are you really young master's friend? Young Master Jiang?’ just when Yue mention that name that Ye Xiaobai let out a sob, very low but her animal ears got that sound effortless.

‘So you are someone that he knows...’ murmured Ye Xiaobai before he continued what he wanted to say, ‘ I’m sorry! If you really resent or if you even have the slightest hate in your heart, I am prepared for it.’

That was the only thing he could confess to her. Rather than feeling shameful, Ye Xiaobai felt that he was responsible for all of that. If someday someone or his relative truly wanted to settle the issue then he would accept it.

“It’s okay.” What could Yue do at that moment? She just comforted him and then asked one more thing.

“Then I will tell you one thing. I’m also inherited his technique with glaive! So I shall help you from now on!” that was said with spirit and determination.

“Why!? Why did you even want to help me? To help someone like me? To help the person that abandoned his friend!? It’s not sensible!” feeling lost, Ye Xiaobai just placed the belt beneath him.

“Did you not remember what Young Master said when you are with him?” that was the only question before she left with his glaive.

‘This glaive structure and the reason behind its production. Looks like I should follow him closely. But why do I also see something in him?’ that was only in Yue thought before he saw the young boy in front of him that also shared similar feature with Ye Xiaobai.

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Bam!

Just at the time when the beasts that equivalent to Culture Core early stage appeared at the most outside of the hive perimeter, something just broke the entire chamber!

Panting hard, Ye Qingcheng finally out! He could feel his entire body storing massive strength in every cell his body had.

“Little Yuan, Cousin!” he tried to just shouted like usual but suddenly the entire room trembled, the entire space shook with great intensity.

And at the same time inside the door that previously sealed, two people walked in a dark tunnel. No light source could be found at that place but one of the figures emitted bright light from its body.

“So he finally awakens.” Manstein nodded happily for a good cause. The first was because the awakening of the ancient bloodline meant that the next step of the joint plan between The Queen of Yellow Bees, Theresa and Alice would yield the better result.

“Truly strange, why did strange and extraordinary things keep happening at a fast pace in this tiny place?” the figure was the vessel that Wang Yu used to match the timing.

“I don’t know either but will she be fine?” ever since Alice helped the process, she entered the medallion and never got out.

“As long as we accomplish this matter, we can stay calm for a while. A short rest if I say.” Wang Yu said with a thought lingering in his mind.

“Then what recent news is there for us to know?” this was the important question for Manstein for he did not have anything like information network. Other than that, the movement of the majority would certainly affect the minority.

But the act that they, as a part of the larger cluster of society did would also affect the major power the same. It was contradicting but that was the truth.

“Oh, too many to say. Some disciple says that The Cleansing Ancient Sect now make their move against their enemies. Other than that, there was also the large movement at Seven Color Sect that every person now take notice of it.”

“Then what about that person?” the only thing that really mattered for both Manstein and Wang Yu is the person who caused the huge change in the entire cultivation world. Not only that person ruined the plan to open the Universe Gate but also made it unstable and now the person was gone when his had done his deeds.

“Him!? Well, I think that anything that he associated with already became the legend now while the rest, like me and Alice, became the villain ones. That is how the winner writes their history.”

Wang Yu had always remembered the day where their world should have opened with the discovery of Universe Gate.

“And I know that the invasion from another world was caused by him that day!” Wang Yu wanted to say more but Manstein stopped it.

“It’s all already happened and even with the power the world gave you, no one could revert back time. Alright, so is the thing in front of us the item?” after walking for so long that they chatted along the way, they finally arrived at their destination.

There was a black-watered fountain with its black stone wall covered the entire border of its location.

Manstein just inhaled like when he was outside but then he felt the abundant qi just from the air alone!

“What is this thing!?” the fountain and the density level of qi around it made it like a perfect place for someone to meditate, drowned in its greatness.

“Forbidden Fountain. The Tenth Rank treasure of our time. But...” Wang Yu’s vessel now looked around before his gaze turned cold.

“..looks like someone really wanted to take it away by force. I bet it’s someone from that person’s side!”

Manstein then understood what he wanted to say. He saw those broken signs just around the fountain. Even if someone could store the treasure and sealed it to prevent someone from taking it but eventually, one day it would be found no matter how good you hid it.

“If we assume that the only person who can do all this knows the passage of this place, as well as the entire hive of the yellow bees then the only one that can do all of this are...”

Just as Manstein thought about the beasts that could undergo stealth mode, a flash that drew an arc appeared in the dark! Something attacked him.

Then another flash appeared but this time, Wang Yu moved with its physical strength alone to stomp the ground. The stomp itself was no more than to show off but actually, he used the wave of the stomp to detect the opponent.

‘Something that comes out of habit.’ Thought Wang Yu.

Then there was an electrical current in front of the two. Wang Yu then cast a protection layer for both of he and Manstein before a figure with a scythe in its two front legs appeared at their sight.

“What are you, Nightstalker King want from The Forbidden Fountain?” Wang Yu sneered. When the stealth mode of this kind of beasts was done or if they could be detected early on then dealing them become more easier.

“Shouldn’t you appear outside with the rest of your kind? Then why did you appear at this place?”