‘Drive all these disrespectful outsiders away.’
The village chief spoke with a heavy tone.
Upon hearing the chief’s words, the dozen-plus members of the Village Guard Team immediately stepped forward together.
‘Gentlemen, you heard the chief.
Please leave. You are not welcome in our village.’
A middle-aged man with a burly build and thick limbs spoke, his voice booming like a great bell.
‘Everyone, given the situation, if we want to enter and take the Heavenly Immortal Soul Fruit, our only option is to join forces and fight our way in.
This time, no one should hold back.’
An Earth Immortal expert said solemnly.
Over twenty Earth Immortal experts had previously clashed with the five villagers, but all had held back their true strength, each nursing their own secret schemes and hoping others would take the lead and charge in with all their might.
The appearance of the Village Guard Team made these Earth Immortal experts realize that entering this small Mountain Hamlet would be rather difficult.
‘Good! Everyone, charge!’
The other Earth Immortal experts erupted together, surging forward.
This time, they held nothing back, each one attacking with their full power.
Boom! Boom!...
A fierce battle erupted between the two sides.
The moment the fighting began, the crowd was shocked to discover that every member of the Village Guard Team possessed the strength of an Earth Immortal!
‘How is this possible?
This little Mountain Hamlet is terrifying!’
All the outsiders who had barged in were utterly astounded.
A dreadful, intense battle had begun.
At this moment, led by several children, Ye Yunfei and Su Qingluo arrived at the end of the village and saw a crude ancestral hall built of stone.
However, this simple hall radiated resplendent divine light and an astonishing aura of energy. Obscure runes faintly rose from within the hall.
‘Big Brother, Big Sister, this is our village’s ancestral hall,’ said one of the little boys.
‘The Heavenly Immortal Soul Fruit should be here,’ Su Qingluo said softly.
‘Qingluo, let’s go in,’ Ye Yunfei said, knowing full well how desperately Su Qingluo desired the fruit.
‘Big Brother, you can’t go into this hall.
Unless you have Mr. Liu’s permission.’
A child nearby suddenly spoke up.
‘Mr. Liu?
Who is Mr. Liu?’
Ye Yunfei was taken aback by the boy’s words.
‘Mr. Liu is our teacher. All the children in our village go to Mr. Liu’s private school to learn from him,’ said another child.
‘Why do you need Mr. Liu’s permission to enter the ancestral hall?’ Ye Yunfei asked again.
‘We don’t know either, but even the village chief listens to Mr. Liu,’ said a little girl with two braids.
‘Mr. Liu is here!’
Just then, several children cried out simultaneously.
Both Su Qingluo and Ye Yunfei were startled and turned to look. A man in white robes was already standing silently not far away.
‘Be careful. This person is terrifying. I couldn’t sense his arrival at all,’ Su Qingluo transmitted her voice to Ye Yunfei.
‘Greetings, Mr. Liu!’
The several children all bowed respectfully to the man in white, seemingly both reverent and somewhat afraid of him.
‘All of you, return home now.
Review well the lessons I taught you yesterday. Tomorrow I will be checking your understanding,’ Mr. Liu said kindly.
‘Yes, sir.’
The children nodded obediently, then turned and left.
As they departed, they did not forget to bid farewell to Ye Yunfei and Su Qingluo.
‘You two, please leave. I know why you’ve come here, but I’m sorry to say, you cannot take anything from this place.’
Mr. Liu’s gaze, as calm as an ancient well, fell upon Ye Yunfei and Su Qingluo as he spoke blandly.
Hearing Mr. Liu’s words, Ye Yunfei and Su Qingluo glanced at each other, momentarily unsure what to do.
Having come all this way, they were, of course, extremely unwilling to just give up.
But this Mountain Hamlet and this Mr. Liu were utterly mysterious. If a real fight broke out, even though Su Qingluo was an Earth Immortal expert, she wasn’t confident she could defeat him.
‘Senior, the two of us came here mainly for the Heavenly Immortal Soul Fruit.
Qingluo truly needs it.
If it is at all possible, we ask for your forbearance and convenience.
Perhaps, we can offer something in return, as long as it is within our means.’
After thinking for a moment, Ye Yunfei spoke up.
Avoiding a fight was naturally the best outcome.
‘Qingluo?
Is that her name?
You came here… to accompany her to take the Heavenly Immortal Soul Fruit?
What exactly is the relationship between you two?’
Upon hearing Ye Yunfei’s words, the white-robed man looked Su Qingluo over and asked.
‘She is the woman I love.’
After a moment’s thought, Ye Yunfei stated directly.
In front of Su Qingluo, Ye Yunfei had always been this straightforward.
Although Su Qingluo currently seemed not to acknowledge their relationship, for Ye Yunfei, it did not affect his feelings for her. In his previous life and this one, Su Qingluo had always been his beloved; the emotional foundation was too deep!
‘This fellow… is too audacious…’
Hearing Ye Yunfei’s words, Su Qingluo originally intended to refute him, but another part of her deep inside immediately surfaced, filling her with joy and making her unable to utter a single word.
Ever since spending this time with Ye Yunfei, two selves within her had been locked in constant struggle. For the most part, it was actually the ‘her’ from the Tianxuan Continent and the Canghuang Realm that faintly gained the upper hand, much to Su Qingluo’s chagrin.
A distinguished master of the Reincarnation Palace was actually being thrown into disarray and rendered helpless by matters of love.
‘Oh?’
Mr. Liu’s perception was astonishingly sharp, instantly sensing the subtle and complex relationship between Ye Yunfei and Su Qingluo.
‘Interesting,’ Mr. Liu mused inwardly.
‘Young man, forgive my bluntness, but you are merely at the Emperor realm, while she is an Earth Immortal. The gap in strength is far too vast. How could she be the woman you love?
Do you think… you are worthy of her?’
Mr. Liu asked.
Hearing the question, Ye Yunfei was stunned for a moment, not expecting him to ask something like this.
‘My love is not measured by things like strength, status, or position.
In the past, Qingluo and I once lived together in a low-level Small World. At the beginning, she was a young lady from a great clan, but this difference in status did not affect the feelings between us. Later, as I grew stronger and stronger, my strength surpassed that of that great clan, even becoming the mightiest existence in that Small World. Yet none of these things affected the feelings between us in the slightest.
Afterwards, we both left that Small World and came to a relatively more advanced world. Qingluo was still a young lady of a great clan, while I still started from the very bottom of that world. Yet again, this difference in status did not affect the feelings between us.
I once again progressed step-by-step in that world, eventually surpassing the great clan Qingluo belonged to and becoming the mightiest existence in that world. Such a transformation not only failed to affect our feelings, it actually deepened them.
Throughout our past days, my feelings for Qingluo have never been mixed with irrelevant things like strength, status, or position.
They won’t be now, nor in the future.
Because this is the kind of love I pursue.’
After careful thought, Ye Yunfei spoke slowly and deliberately.
‘Therefore, Senior, as far as I’m concerned, between Qingluo and me, the only question is whether there is love or not. There is no question of being worthy or not.’
Ye Yunfei added.