"Not entirely clear. It should be soon." Ye Bufan said to Ye Qingcheng.
After arriving in the capital, Ye Bufan was directly led by Nangong Yi to the underground city, where he stayed for over a week.
Bidding farewell to Ye Qingcheng, Ye Bufan smoothly exited the City Lord's mansion. He had to admit that the entire underground city was quite vast. Besides the well that Nangong Yi had initially taught him, there were several other ways to exit.
As soon as he reached the surface, Ye Bufan made a call to Chu Mengyao.
Upon seeing Ye Bufan's call, the other party was overjoyed.
"Where are you now?" Chu Mengyao asked. "I haven't been able to contact you for this past week, and you've been worrying me to death."
Hearing this, Ye Bufan's heart warmed, and he told Chu Mengyao about the underground city.
"After listening to what you've told me, I'm becoming increasingly aware of the gravity of the matter you mentioned," Chu Mengyao said. "I hope your trip to the Jin family will be smooth and safe."
"Miss Chu."
As they were chatting animatedly, Huangfu Yujia's voice sounded from the side. Chu Mengyao was startled. Reluctantly, she chatted with Ye Bufan for a few more sentences, hung up the phone, and went back to her tasks.
Ye Bufan took a deep breath and called Jin Yuchen.
"Mr. Ye, you've finally called! I haven't been able to reach you all week. If you didn't answer, I would have prepared to return to Jinhe," Jin Yuchen exclaimed excitedly.
"Prepare yourself. Tonight, we'll pay a visit to the Jin family together," Ye Bufan said. "It's time to resolve this matter."
"Alright! Where are you now? I'll come pick you up," Jin Yuchen replied.
Ye Bufan sent Jin Yuchen his location. Jin Yuchen then sent a car to pick up Ye Bufan and take him to his family's hotel.
At the hotel, Ye Bufan retrieved the scrolls he had obtained from the ancient tower from his spatial jade pendant. Starting from the tenth floor, there was one scroll per floor, totaling five scrolls.
The first scroll contained a Yellow-grade low-tier sword technique. The second scroll was Yellow-grade mid-tier, and so on. By the fourteenth floor, he had obtained a Profound-grade mid-tier sword technique.
These techniques were nothing in Ye Bufan's eyes. The techniques left to him by Lin Xiaoyao were far superior to those obtained in this ancient tower.
Currently, the ancient tower's primary benefit to Ye Bufan was in accumulating combat experience and the accelerated passage of time, greatly speeding up his cultivation.
Ye Bufan even felt that he might break through to the Core Formation stage before breaking through his bottleneck.
If someone from the cultivation world were here and heard Ye Bufan's thoughts, they would surely find it unbelievable. Ye Bufan was nineteen years old and would be around twenty before breaking through his bottleneck. A Core Formation stage cultivator at the age of twenty would be considered a monstrous genius anywhere. This was also the most crucial reason why Lin Xiaoyao accepted Ye Bufan as his disciple – Ye Bufan's physique and talent.
Ye Bufan put the scrolls back into his spatial jade pendant. He had already figured out how to use these techniques.
Time trickled by. Under the instigation of Ye Bufan and Jin Yuchen, news of Ye Bufan's appearance in a hotel in the capital began to spread online again.
Almost everyone could guess that Ye Bufan's purpose for this trip was the Jin family in the capital.
However, this time, some people noticed a very interesting situation: the hotel where Ye Bufan was staying was actually a hotel under the Jin family's banner.
"Holy crap! What's going on?"
"Could it be that the Jin family is backing down to Ye Bufan? Or is Ye Bufan sending a signal to the Jin family?"
Almost everyone leaned towards the Jin family backing down to Ye Bufan.
Upon hearing this news, Jin Xu, the current patriarch of the Jin family, immediately sent people to investigate what was happening, why Ye Bufan had checked into a Jin family hotel, and why Jin Xu himself didn't know about it.
Soon, the people from the Jin family in the capital finished their investigation. At this moment, Jin Yuchen's name also surfaced.
"Jin Yuchen! He's Jin Feng's son." Jin Xu clenched his fists tightly, then slumped onto the floor like a deflated ball moments later.
"Patriarch!" an old servant quickly stepped forward to support Jin Xu.
"I was too soft-hearted back then and didn't eliminate them completely. I never expected them to return to the capital today." Jin Xu thought back to past events, grinding his teeth in hatred.
"Patriarch, there's no turning back time. What we need to do now is think about what to do," the old servant reminded him. "Haven't you already gone to see the Old Ancestor? Otherwise..."
The old servant's eyes darted around, and he whispered a few words in Jin Xu's ear.
"Your method is good. I'll go and complain to the Old Ancestor right now. Let's see who the Old Ancestor helps then!" Jin Xu said, preparing to rush out.
However, as soon as he exited the main gate of the mansion, he was stopped by a young man.
Jin Xu was about to lash out, but upon seeing the person clearly and those behind him, his face paled in shock. Without a second thought, he ran back into the stronghold.
"Patriarch! What's wrong?" the old servant asked, puzzled as Jin Xu had just left and immediately returned.
"We can't leave," Jin Xu gritted his teeth, looking at the other person. "Your cultivation is high, hurry and go find the Old Ancestor, quickly!"
The old servant was slightly taken aback, then sensed a powerful aura approaching, causing his heart to tremble and a sense of dread to arise from the depths of his being.
After the old servant left, Jin Xu roared at the surroundings, "Blood Guards of the Jin family, where are you?"
Before long, over thirty masked figures in blood-red training uniforms appeared from all directions. Each of them held a long saber, ten of whom were Great Martial Venerables, and twenty were Martial Venerables.
"Form the array! Meet the enemy!"
Under Jin Xu's command, these individuals quickly took their positions, forming a saber array, their gazes fixed in the direction of the main entrance.
"These are the Blood Saber Guards, also known as Blood Guards, that Jin Xu has secretly cultivated over the years. Each one is a death warrior. It seems that after seeing you, Jin Xu is completely terrified," Jin Yuchen said. "This is his last trump card."
"No! He has one more trump card; he just left through the back door," Ye Bufan said.
Upon hearing this, Jin Yuchen smiled and said, "If he doesn't leave, the Jin family might not be entirely under my control, and I won't be able to 'discuss' a few things with the Old Ancestor."
"Let's go." Ye Bufan led Jin Yuchen into the Jin family mansion. As soon as they entered, a scent of blood wafted towards Ye Bufan with the wind blowing through the compound.
The Blood Saber Guards, each of them tempered in mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Their clothes were dyed red with the blood of those they had killed.
Smelling the scent, Jin Yuchen's stomach churned...