novelaction Chapter 378 Ge Yuan
Chapter 378 Ge Yuan
Chapter 378 Ge Yuan
The two elders of the Heavenly Evil Sect watched these disciples quietly, satisfied smiles on their faces. After all, the higher the quality of the disciples they recruited, the greater the rewards they would receive.
"Silence!" one of the elders said using his spiritual power, and sure enough, the entire square fell silent.
"The ranking battle begins tomorrow. Go back and get some rest today. You may all leave now," the elder of the Heavenly Evil Sect said, waving his hand.
As the crowd began to disperse, Bai Ke was about to leave when he suddenly heard someone call out to him.
"Brother, please wait!" a very fat man said hurriedly.
"Do I know you?" Bai Ke said calmly.
The fat man, not embarrassed at all, continued, "Hehe! Brother, let me introduce myself. My name is Ge Yuan, and I am from the Ge family of the Central Killing Domain."
There are five major families in the Central Killing Domain, one of which is the Ge family. The reason why the Ge family has been able to stand firm in the Central Killing Domain is not because of the cultivation level of its members, but because of its extremely large wealth and extensive network of connections, which is truly unbelievable.
Legend has it that once, a cultivator in the early Mahayana stage offended the Ge family. At the Ge family's command, dozens of non-Mahayana stage cultivators from other families directly tore the early Mahayana cultivator to pieces.
From then on, very few dared to directly oppose the Ge family.
"Oh, just say what you have to say." Bai Ke said with an extremely arrogant attitude, completely ignoring Ge Yuan's words.
"Haha, let's chat over here, please, brother!" Ge Yuan said with a smile, his chubby face beaming.
Bai Ke wasn't afraid of his intentions and followed him directly. They arrived at an extremely luxurious restaurant, one of the top restaurants in Rakshasa City.
"Brother, please take a seat!" Ge Yuan said, having booked a luxurious room for the entire night.
Upon seeing that it was Ge Yuan, the waiter immediately greeted him with a beaming smile. Ge Yuan then tipped him some spirit stones and told him to bring out all sorts of delicious dishes.
"Just say what you have to say," Bai Ke said calmly, sipping his drink.
"Haha, you're certainly a straightforward person, brother! Alright! Then I'll get straight to the point. Actually, I don't have anything special to say, I just want to get to know you and make some good connections," Ge Yuan said with a smile.
"Just help me out in tomorrow's battle, that'll do," Ge Yuan continued.
Bai Ke smiled, and after a while said, "Why did you choose me?"
Ge Yuan said with a smile, "I have watched all of your matches, brother. You only need to make one or two moves to win. You have plenty of energy to spare. You are only eighteen years old, but you should already be at the Nascent Soul stage. Your future is definitely limitless."
"Oh? Then I wonder, what kind of help can you give me?" Bai Ke continued to ask.
Ge Yuan smiled and took out two cultivation manuals and a piece of armor.
Bai Ke shook his head. Ge Yuan continued to take out many treasures, but Bai Ke refused them all.
"Brother, isn't this a bit too much? Isn't that a bit greedy?" Ge Yuan said, sweating profusely.
"Haha, no need, you just need to do me a favor," Bai Ke said.
Ge Yuan quickly said, "Please speak, brother."
"I just want you to make me a background information document about my origins!" Bai Ke said.
"This... is no problem at all. May I ask what you need this for, brother?" Ge Yuan asked with some confusion.
"Hehe, don't worry, you don't need to worry about anything. I guarantee it won't do any harm to your Ge family or the others," Bai Ke said.
Ge Yuan thought about it seriously for a moment and stared at Bai Ke, saying:
"Aren't you afraid I'll leak this, brother?"
Bai Ke looked at Ge Yuan and said, "I believe you will agree."
"Very well! Since that's the case, I can't let you down. May I ask how I should address you?" Ge Yuan asked.
"My name is Ke Bai!" Bai Ke said.
Ge Yuan was somewhat puzzled. This person possessed such high cultivation and was so young; how come he had never heard of him before? Perhaps the surname Ke wasn't his real name?
Even so, Ge Yuan still said warmly, "I've heard so much about you!"
Bai Ke chuckled inwardly. It was a name he'd just made up. If you reversed your own name, you'd never even heard of it, let alone something like "I've heard so much about you."
As expected of a member of the Ge family, Ge Yuan and Bai Ke soon became quite familiar with each other.
The two talked with great interest, just like old friends.
"Brother Ke, tomorrow is the ranking competition for new disciples of the Heavenly Evil Sect. Are you confident that you can get into the top three?" Ge Yuan asked.
"Haha, Brother Ge, your mere top three ranking is nothing to brag about!" Bai Ke said, feigning arrogance.
"Oh? So Brother Ke is quite confident. It seems you have big ambitions. Could it be that you want to become a true disciple?" Ge Yuan said with admiration.
Bai Ke smiled, his mind already made up. He planned to infiltrate the upper echelons of the Heavenly Evil Sect to find out where the mysterious force was and what its intentions were.
After a few rounds of drinks, Ge Yuan said mysteriously, "Brother Ke..."
Tomorrow's ranking competition is supposedly a free-for-all. Even though Brother Ke is incredibly strong, he still needs to be careful.
"Hehe, it seems your Ge family is indeed well-informed," Bai Ke said casually.
Seeing that Bai Ke didn't seem to care, Ge Yuan became even more curious about Bai Ke's strength. His intuition, honed over many years of experience, told him that this person might not be a simple Nascent Soul cultivator.
The two ate and drank, chatting and laughing. Ge Yuan consciously tried to find out more about Bai Ke, but Bai Ke dodged and evaded his questions one by one.
The next morning, all two hundred people arrived neatly in the square of Rakshasa City, without exception. Ge Yuan naturally followed Bai Ke there as well.
“Very good, everyone is here. Follow me!” one of the elders said.
The elder waved his hand, his fingers moving in a series of hand seals, and activated a flying magical artifact. This was specifically used by the Heavenly Evil Sect to recruit new disciples, not for the elder's personal use. Of course, it was far inferior to Bai Ke's Lingyun Ferry.
People entered the room one after another, and some who had never seen the world were even more amazed.
Bai Ke used his spiritual sense to discover that most of the two hundred-plus people were at the Golden Core stage, with only three at the Nascent Soul stage, including himself. Ge Yuan's talent was mediocre; although he was at the late Golden Core stage, it was only because his family had used pills to boost his cultivation.
After flying for about an hour, the spirit boat came to a stop.
"In this ranking competition, each person will receive one jade token. Rankings will be determined three days later based on the number of jade tokens held. Participants are not permitted to leave the canyon below; violators will be executed!" an elder declared.
No sooner had the words left his mouth than someone said ominously, "What if someone isn't strong enough and dies inside!"
The elder said expressionlessly, "Life and death are predestined, wealth and honor are determined by fate."
The man became even more excited upon hearing this. Upon closer inspection, he recognized the young man named Ye Tong, whose cultivation level appeared to be at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, as if he were still hiding something.
After the words were spoken, some people seemed very excited, while others were somewhat afraid, but they dared not act rashly due to the elder's strength.
One of the well-dressed young men said fearfully, "I want to quit! Let me go back!"
The elder didn't even look at them before slapping one of them to death with a single blow, and slowly said, "Once the arrow is released, there's no turning back. Does anyone else want to back out?"
Everyone shook their heads, showing even greater fear of the elder.