Gao Wu: I became the minor villain that the protagonist was about to destroy.

Before long, Shang, who was cultivating, was brought over by Ouyang Jing.

Li Fantian sized up Shang, and Shang was also sizing up Li Fantian.

"The predatory trait... does such an overpowered trait really exist in this world?"

[Plunder: Each day, you can separate the characteristics from five corpses, selecting one portion to keep for yourself. With each breakthrough to a new realm, you can plunder their meridians for your own use.]

Shang nodded and immediately activated a portion of the characteristics he had acquired, a bolt of lightning condensing from his right hand.

An energy shield then appeared in front of them.

Li Fantian's eyes widened upon seeing this: "You really have such an unreasonable talent. Welcome to Sky Screen."

"Alright, it's getting late. Let's talk about it tomorrow. I won't stay here; I'll find somewhere else."

"Yes, Lord Earthly Branches Envoy."

After seeing Li Fan off, Tian Shang asked, "He's closer to me than I thought."

Ouyang Jing said, "This is also my first time meeting the Twelve Earthly Branches officials. However, this Lord Li doesn't seem to have any airs, but we still can't overstep our bounds."

"Those who can become members of the Twelve Earthly Branches have blood on their hands that we cannot compare to; each of them possesses the power of a provincial earthquake realm."

"It's in the provincial earthquake zone..."

Early next morning

Ye Ming felt a tremor while still asleep. He slowly opened his eyes and found that it was still a bit dark around him. He checked the time and it was only 6 o'clock.

"Which bastard disturbed my peaceful dream?"

Ye Ming reluctantly opened the door and followed the direction of the tremor, eventually arriving at the underground battlefield.

As soon as the door opened, I could feel the menacing aura emanating from Yujiro.

However, Yujiro was in a very sorry state at this moment, and his opponent was Li Wuyou, who was holding a gourd of wine in his right hand and drinking wine with a relaxed attitude.

"Seriously, do you guys have nothing better to do this early in the morning?!"

Li Wuyou burst into laughter upon seeing Ye Ming: "Hahaha, my good disciple, you're awake!"

"Your partner is just too enthusiastic and insists on fighting with this old man. I can only grant his request."

"I must say, he is truly brave, with extremely high talent, powerful characteristics, and superb skills."

"It even possesses psionic techniques that I've never seen before. This little place of yours has truly given me a great shock."

Ye Ming looked at the two of them speechlessly: "Is this your reason for disturbing my sleep?"

At that moment, Yujiro stood up from the dented metal floor, and a complete demon face was carved beneath him.

"I have lost this time. Once I have improved my skills, I will seek your guidance again, sir."

"Haha, it's alright, it's alright. I really like the energy of young people. Just call me 'Uncle' from now on. Calling me 'Grandpa' makes me sound old. Although I'm of age, I don't look that old!"

"My dear disciple, why don't you come and do some morning exercise too?"

Looking at Li Wuyou's lewd face, Ye Ming was about to refuse when a fighting desire arose within him. He quickly activated his own special ability, and the desire immediately dissipated.

But at that moment, the desire to fight surged up in his heart again.

Screen turn

Just like Yujiro before, Ye Ming was now embedded in the metal ground, his previous desires completely gone.

"You old geezer, what did you just do to me?"

After taking a sip of wine, Li Wuyou said calmly, "It's just a little application of the Asura Path, to stimulate the fighting desire in people's hearts."

"Impossible! I clearly activated my special ability; I should be immune."

"That's true, but I used the power of humanity to temporarily sever your special characteristics."

Ye Ming's eyes widened immediately.

"And this feature can even be cut off!!"

"Of course, humanity understands cause and effect. If you and I were at the same level, it would take a considerable price for me to sever your cause and effect. But for now, it's very simple."

"Wow! How can someone have such a foul-breaking ability!"

With a wave of his right hand, Li Wuyou instantly healed the wounds on Ye Ming and Yujiro, as if nothing had ever happened.

Under Ye Ming's shocked gaze, Li Wuyou explained, "This is the Heavenly Pivot Dao, which can quickly repair injuries."

Ye Ming flashed and arrived next to Li Wuyou.

"Teach me! I really want to improve!"

However, Li Wuyou shook his head when he saw Ye Ming's eager eyes for improvement.

"Tch, stingy! And... and he calls himself a master."

"It's not that I don't want to teach, but that I can't. This is an opportunity I obtained in the Dimensional Court, and I cannot pass it on. If you want to learn spiritual energy techniques, I can teach you the Body Tempering Technique."

"Yuan Ting can actually have such good stuff?!"

"Of course, as long as you have the opportunity and the ability, you can acquire abilities that you never expected."

"However, the dangers inherent in this kind of ability to touch upon cause and effect and rules are not something that ordinary people can bear."

"Of all the abilities of the Six Paths, I was the only one who survived the trip to the Dimensional Court."

"Moreover, a secret realm of that level might not even form for hundreds of years."

"Tch, this is boring. I'm going to eat. I don't need to train today. This is enough for me."

"Don't panic, my good disciple. With your current level of cultivation, you might even encounter some good things in the Yuan Court. Don't be discouraged."

Ye Ming waved his hand: "Then we'll talk about it when we meet."

After the group finished their breakfast, they went about their business. A short while later, a luxury car pulled up in front of the company.

Soon the guards at the gate came to report.

"President, the Luo family has arrived."

At this moment, Ye Ming was still being nagged by Li Wuyou. When he saw someone coming to report, he immediately got away.

"The Luo family?!"

"We shouldn't have any connection with the Luo family whatsoever."

Guo Haihuang nodded: "There has been no contact whatsoever. According to the information provided by the Chu family, the Luo family is the only dominant family in Luoxia City, and it is said that there is an extremely powerful family behind them."

"There was once a powerful family surnamed Wang who provoked the Luo family. In just one night, the entire Wang family was wiped out of Luoxia City."

"It was precisely because of this incident that the other major families became fearful and even warned their younger generations not to provoke anyone from the Luo family."

After thinking for a moment, Ye Ming said, "Let's invite them in."

A moment later, a man who looked like a butler walked in.

Ye Ming asked, "I wonder what brings the Luo family to my humble place?"

"Hello, Chairman Ye. I am Wang Lin, the butler of the Luo family. It is like this: in a few days it will be the birthday of our Luo family head. This is the invitation."

After accepting the invitation, Ye Ming asked with some doubt, "A big birthday celebration?"

(Could this be some kind of plot development? I haven't had any conflicts with the suspected chosen one I encountered recently, have I? Could it be that one of my subordinates has messed with someone again?)