I am a high-level martial arts master.

Dusk, the sun sets behind the western mountains.

Ye Li stood in front of the south gate of Guangming City, looking at his uncle and aunt's family in front of him.

"Uncle, Aunt, this parting may mean we won't see each other again for years."

Ye Li said solemnly, "Take care of yourselves. Be content and live a life of wealth outside. I will bring you back home in glory when I achieve great success."

After saying that, he looked at Wang Qianshi beside him and said, "Uncle, please make sure to take the three of them to a safe place."

"Don't worry, my dear nephew. We'll be traveling along the official roads, escorted by body tempering realm bodyguards hired by the caravan. There won't be any problems," Wang Qianshi assured him, then gave the handsome young man in front of him a deep look.

He simply couldn't describe the shock he felt yesterday when Ye Li came to his door to thank him for the Body Tempering Pill.

Breaking through to the Body Tempering Realm within two months—that speed, even excluding those unseen figures in legends and stories, is top-tier talent in Guangming, and he has a good chance of reaching the peak of the acquired realm!

At this moment, Wang Qianshi was extremely grateful for his investment strategy.

So when he heard that Ye Li wanted to ask him to send his uncle and aunt to his city so that they would not be implicated, he decisively assembled a caravan of merchants the next day and prepared to set off.

Parting is the most sorrowful time. Ning Qiu sighed softly and looked at Ye Li without saying a word.

Ye Duo clung to Ye Li's waist reluctantly, while Ye Cunmang looked at his nephew and said:

"You must take care of yourself too. If you find it too hard, then don't practice martial arts. The most important thing is for your family to be safe. Your father had an accident back then because he was too brave and aggressive. Be careful when you are alone in the city."

Ye Li nodded silently: "Nephew is brave and reckless, which has implicated the family. Don't be stingy with the hundred taels of silver. Don't worry about the money; more will be sent in later. The continuous flow of money means that nephew is safe and sound."

"We're family, why are you talking about being implicated? It's us who have implicated you," Ye Cunmang sighed softly.

His entry is simply "White Calculator," and he barely made a living by keeping accounts at a counter in the first half of his life. He was unable to offer any help to Ye Li in the face of her difficulties.

As an ordinary person, he has a clear understanding of his own abilities.

He knew perfectly well that his own life experience, based on earning only a few taels of silver a month, was insufficient to offer any guidance to his nephew in his current life.

All he could do was curl up and trust Ye Li's choice, letting him venture out and explore the path that best suited him.

Meanwhile, I will not attract any attention on my nephew's path forward, and try my best not to drag him down.

"Brother Ye Li, I can't bear to part with you." Ye Duo buried her head in her chest and said in a muffled voice, still tightly clutching the colorful windmill that Ye Li had given her.

Ye Li also touched the girl's hair with some reluctance: "Bear with it for a few years. When Duo'er grows up and Brother Ye Li is invincible, I will bring you back."

"When you come back, you'll see the entire city of Guangming covered in windmills!"

With her childlike and impulsive nature, Ye Li's promises quickly made her eyes light up, briefly forgetting her reluctance to part and looking forward to that prosperous scene.

After a few more words, the two sides finally parted ways.

Ye Li watched silently as the three merged into the caravan, gazing at the departing figures of the merchants, remaining silent.

He knew perfectly well that if this kind of parting were in a fantasy novel, the next time they met would probably be dozens, or even hundreds of chapters later.

At that time, it will be a completely new scene.

Watching the long caravan disappear from sight, Ye Li slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. In the end, he still lacked strength!

After gently loosening his joints, Ye Li turned and headed east of the city.

Now that the weakness has been exposed and there are no more worries, one can naturally make a name for oneself in the city without fear of harming one's family.

First, he needs to go back to the Azure Dragon Gang!

Ye Li has been very busy these past two days.

Busy with spiritual practice, busy with social interactions.

They needed to ask Wang Xian's father, Wang Qianshi, to escort the family to a safe area in another city, and they also needed to get in touch with Elder Yang Shichang through Feng Yue.

Only in this way could he use this as a springboard to get in touch with the gang leader, Zheng Tong!

Zheng Tong, at the half-step Xiantian realm, is currently one of the top three martial artists in Guangming!

Whether Ye Li wants to protect himself or become stronger, what could be a faster way than getting on the gang leader's good side?

As an organization whose influence encompasses most of Guangming, the Azure Dragon Gang possesses a variety of martial arts techniques that Ye Li could not match by collecting them on his own.

He still clearly remembers the scene on the day he joined the gang, when Feng Yue distributed ordinary martial arts techniques to each disciple as if distributing a picture book.

Although these are just basic martial arts techniques that can be purchased for twenty taels of silver.

But the gang must be hiding some more profound secret manuals that can be used for body tempering or cultivation in the acquired realm.

If one wants to obtain entries through cultivation techniques and gain a position to rival the Li family, leveraging external forces is essential.

After leaving the Azure Dragon Gang for several days, Ye Li returned to the gang.

However, this time he did not go to the area for new members, but to the guild leader's mansion, which is the core area of ​​the guild!

As soon as one approaches the perimeter of the mansion, a chilling and menacing aura washes over them.

The high walls built of bluestone stand majestically like an iron wall, and the gate of the mansion, lacquered in vermilion and studded with copper, is as heavy as a mountain. On both sides, stone lions crouch with ferocious fangs and their eyes, inlaid with red gold, gleam with a cold, hard light in the twilight.

The four guards on duty were clad in black armor, their qi and blood as solid as a rock, all having reached the perfect stage of body tempering.

When the guard's hawk-like gaze swept over the token at Ye Li's waist, his expression softened slightly; it was Elder Yang Shichang's personal token.

Having received arrangements for Ye Li's arrival from Yang Shichang as early as yesterday, Ye Li easily entered after showing his token.

Stepping into the gang leader's mansion, a wide-open space suddenly appeared before me.

The courtyard is devoid of delicate flowers and willows; instead, pine trees perch on the artificial hill, and the stone path is paved with a single piece of hemlock wood, exuding an aura of iron and steel.

At the far end of the reception hall, a tough, iron-willed man with a face like cast bronze and cheekbones like those sculpted by a knife and axe came into Ye Li's view.

It was only at this moment that Ye Li saw the face of this gang leader for the first time.

Zheng Tong sat imposingly in his armchair. Seeing Ye Li enter the main hall, he spoke in a deep voice, "Shi Chang told me you wanted to see me?"

Before Ye Li could speak, Zheng Tong immediately said, "If it's about the Li family, you can leave now. They won't dare to cause trouble!"

Having said that, he gazed at Ye Li, quietly awaiting the young man's reply.

Standing before the gang leader, Ye Li took a deep breath and said with a composed yet respectful demeanor:

"Reporting to the leader, I have come for two reasons: first, to present a gift to the leader, and second, to congratulate the leader!"

"Oh? What did you say?"

Ye Li's words caused Zheng Tong's expression to shift slightly, and his heart to stir: "What is this gift, and what is this joy?"

"OK, we're halfway there!"

Ye Li breathed a sigh of relief when Zheng Tong spoke to him.

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