Chapter 2947: Chapter 2921: Probing (Sixth Update)

Among these twenty-one survivors, aside from the two disciples from the Ye family’s lower branches and Ye Chen and Ye Lingtian, the rest are disciples from the three major factions.

Counting Ye Sheng, there are seven people in his line, and they are the disciples with the purest Ye family bloodline.

In the line of Ye Tanzhu and Ye Niang, including themselves, there are five people each. Now, after a series of internal strife, Ye Tanzhu is dead, two disciples from the lower branches are dead, and six disciples from Ye Sheng’s line are dead.

In the recent counterattack, only Ye Niang remains in her line.

In the entire Ye Family Ancestral Land, thirty talented Ye Clan cultivators entered, but now, only eight remain.

Ye Chen, Ye Lingtian, Ye Sheng, Ye Niang, and four disciples from Ye Tanzhu’s line.

From the moment Ye Niang suddenly lashed out, her disciples mercilessly and decisively struck down the disciples from Ye Sheng’s line, to the current collaboration of the survivors from Ye Sheng and Ye Tanzhu’s line in retaliation—this situation has truly been full of twists and turns.

As one wave subsides another rises, amidst all the twists, the most disadvantaged... are still Ye Chen and Ye Lingtian.

One is held captive; the other is undergoing the Heavenly Dao baptism, unable to resist.

"See, I’ve told you, playing spy for too long, always scheming, you’ve forgotten the most important thing."

Ye Chen seemed to have anticipated the recent changes, he sighed lightly, "No matter how their people fight internally, ultimately it’s a clash between the first-in-command and the second-in-command, whoever wins or loses, it’s all for the Ye family.

But it’s different for you. You came and immediately killed, all those with the purest Ye family bloodline from the main branches, how can that be okay?

Even though Ye Sheng and the others are a bit foolish, they aren’t so foolish as to not see your intentions. You want to uproot them.

Under the destruction of the master’s nest, there won’t be a single egg left unbroken. Even though they are not from the same branch, they will band together to clear out external forces. What kind of discussion does that need?

Isn’t it just a matter of a glance!"

"Shut up!"

Ye Niang’s face was full of cold frost. She indeed miscalculated, but it wasn’t Ye Chen’s place to criticize her as a prisoner. Her voice was icy, filled with strong resentment, "Don’t forget, even if they killed my men, you still can’t survive!"

"That’s where you’re wrong."

"Hmm?" Ye Niang felt a twinge of unease in her heart, sensing something was off.

"Do you know? I was actually very surprised. With your many years of infiltration into the Ye family without being discovered, and even becoming one of the core disciples, you shouldn’t make such a foolish mistake."

Ye Chen looked at Ye Niang, and when their eyes met, he suddenly gave a mysterious smile.

"But I really couldn’t imagine why you naively thought that by controlling my mind and threatening my divine soul, you’d be able to hold me hostage. Didn’t your old witch Ling Yun ever tell you that I’m not an ordinary opponent?"

Before he even finished his sentence, Ye Niang’s mind was suddenly shocked, and her view instantly became hazy...

As she touched Ye Chen’s brow, a light from the Nine Nether suddenly flickered out!

Like the eye of a demon, it opened at this moment!

Demon Illusion Eyes!!

A moment of distraction is fatal for high-level cultivators.

By the time Ye Niang quickly adjusted and regained her clear divine soul, Ye Chen, who was held by her, had long freed himself and was standing a few meters away, watching her with an amused smile.

"I thought at first that you hid behind me because you were worried about being hit by my pupil skill. But I never imagined that when success was within reach, you’d become so careless and conceited. It seems you’re not much different from those Heavenly Dao Palace elders you mentioned."

These words were nothing short of an insult to Ye Niang.

Not long ago, when she had just succeeded, she had laughed mockingly, nearly stating outright that even the old witch Ling Yun overestimated Ye Chen, and that those Heavenly Dao Palace colleagues who dealt with Ye Chen before were all useless.

To her surprise, within a blink of an eye, the situation reversed, and these words were returned to her by Ye Chen.

"I truly regret not killing you outright!"

Ye Niang gritted her teeth, her whole body tense. At this moment, whether it was Ye Sheng’s people or Ye Chen, their eyes were all fixed on her.

"You think just because I showed a flaw, you’re all that capable." Ye Chen stood with his arms behind his back, his expression calm, "Do you really think you had any chance of killing me when you suddenly lashed out as soon as you got close to me?"

"What... do you mean!" Ye Niang’s face flushed with anger, as if realizing something, her beautiful face quickly filled with disbelief, "Did you suspect all along that I wasn’t a disciple of the Ye family?!"

"Not that certain, but somewhat suspicious."

Ye Chen shrugged, saying, "From the first time I met you, Ye Tanzhu, and Ye Sheng, your adept social skills left quite an impression on me.

At that time, there was a dispute between Ye Sheng and Ye Tanzhu, and you mediated between them; later, Ye Sheng tried to recruit Ye Lingtian, and when it failed, you mediated again calmly.

For someone who takes care of others’ faces and is good at mediation, smooth and amiable, yet later, you tried to recruit Ye Lingtian in front of Ye Sheng and Ye Tanzhu, isn’t that somewhat contradictory?

At that time, Ye Sheng and we were at odds, and recruiting Ye Lingtian in front of him went against your usual image."

"Just because of this, you started suspecting me?" Ye Niang’s eyebrows were tightly knit.

"Merely puzzled, not yet suspicious."

Ye Chen dusted off his clothes, leisurely circled around Ye Niang half a circle.

There was no hurry anymore; the situation within the Ancestral Land had stabilized, and as long as Ye Sheng and those four disciples from Ye Tanzhu’s line weren’t foolish, they wouldn’t act against him or Ye Lingtian anymore.

Now, everyone has a common ’external enemy.’

He said calmly, "What truly made me wary of you was when I defeated Ye Tanzhu. At that time, everyone was curious about my identity and background, except you. Not only were you not curious, but you also genuinely complimented me.

Subsequently, you actively approached us and talked about the ancestral rites—rewards, the chief, and so on. If I’m not mistaken, you were trying to probe me and Ye Lingtian from that moment.

Unfortunately for you, such probing only made you expose yourself faster.

The final confirmation of your problem came during the Bloodline Test. You and your master subtly guided others’ thoughts, using Ye Sheng’s ’aversion’ and ’jealousy’ towards us to have me undergo a bloodline test as well.

Perhaps others wouldn’t notice, but don’t forget, at the time of the bloodline test, I was initially just an observer."

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