Obtaining Top Art on Family's Extermination Night

"He did more than just visit."

Chen Yan poured a cup of wine and said with a cold smile:

"Ye Wucheng wasn’t his original name. He changed it himself later.

"He felt he had achieved nothing—his Martial Arts weren’t as good as Ye Wufeng’s, and his intellect was far inferior.

"Later, someone—I don’t know who—told him that the reason he’d achieved nothing was that Ye Wufeng’s brilliance was too dazzling.

"If he could just kill Ye Wufeng, the world’s attention would finally fall on him."

"Oh?"

Fang Shuwen sensed there was more juicy gossip to be had:

"So, the brothers turned on each other?"

"No."

Chen Yan shook his head.

"He was unwilling, and he didn’t dare."

Ye Wufeng was too strong. Comparing Ye Wucheng to him wasn’t quite like a firefly to the bright moon, but the gap between them was still enormous.

He thought the idea that killing Ye Wufeng would draw everyone’s eyes to him made a lot of sense.

But Ye Wufeng was his younger brother. He was unwilling to kill him, nor did he dare...

Because if he dared to try, he would be the one to die. Then, at his funeral, everyone’s eyes would indeed be on him.

He tormented himself over this, wallowing in self-pity and even letting himself go. The bitterness in his heart was indescribable.

Finally, it occurred to him. Besides Ye Wufeng being too dazzling, the main reason he had achieved nothing was that he was in the Northern Domain.

As long as he remained in the Northern Domain, people would never see past Ye Wufeng.

In the end, he left the Northern Domain and came to the Eastern Domain.

"He wanted to establish a second Sword God Palace in the Eastern Domain."

As Chen Yan spoke, he seemed to be holding back a laugh.

"Unfortunately for him, while the Eastern Domain Martial World is known for its tolerance, his actions were tantamount to an invasion of the Eastern Domain by the Northern Domain.

"Especially to the Seven Great Sects, this was a brazen provocation.

"But the Seven Great Sects, in the end, follow the rules. They didn’t expel him by force; they simply came to his door to issue challenges.

"Although Ye Wucheng had achieved nothing in the Northern Domain, his brilliance completely overshadowed by Ye Wufeng, his own Martial Arts were not actually weak.

"After some discreet probing, the Seven Eastern Sects discovered that only their respective Sect Leaders could definitively defeat him.

"Thus, on the day of the challenges, Ye Wucheng suffered six consecutive defeats.

"Any momentum he had managed to build was instantly crushed into the dust.

"The members of the Seven Sects didn’t say much at the time. They simply turned and left, which was their way of letting him save face."

Fang Shuwen understood what Chen Yan meant.

The Seven Sects would never allow someone from the Northern Domain to establish a sect in the Eastern Domain. Suppressing Ye Wucheng with six consecutive defeats was their way of telling him to back down before things got ugly.

If he had dared to actually establish the Sword God Palace in the Eastern Domain, the next time they wouldn’t have shown mercy. It would have been total annihilation.

However, Ye Wucheng was unwilling to leave just like that.

Since the righteous path was closed to him, he decided to walk the crooked path—the Demon Dao.

He pretended to leave the Eastern Domain, only to sneak back in secret. Relying on his advanced Martial Arts, he gathered a group of heretics and deviants.

He could no longer use the name Sword God Palace, so he simply founded the Blood Demon Palace.

He styled himself the Blood Demon Ancestor.

He deluded himself into thinking he could carve out a new path and build his own legacy.

The Seven Eastern Sects were already sworn enemies of the Demon Dao. With Ye Wucheng in charge, the Blood Demon Palace acted without restraint, taking huge, reckless steps. It was as if Ye Wucheng had finally unleashed his true nature; thinking he was hidden in the shadows, he acted without scruples, unlike the more cautious Hundred Ghosts Hall Master.

As a result, he soon felt the full force of the Seven Eastern Sects’ dominion over the Eastern Domain Martial World.

The Blood Demon Palace’s headquarters was located by the Seven Eastern Sects in less than three months, and a joint extermination campaign was launched.

In that one battle, the various masters of the Demon Dao in the Eastern Domain naturally suffered devastating losses.

The Blood Demon Palace itself was completely wiped out. And Ye Wucheng... was captured alive.

When the Seven Sect Leaders of the Eastern Domain saw that the Blood Demon Ancestor was none other than Ye Wucheng, they were all left speechless.

But things having come to this, there could be no mercy.

Just as they were about to cut him down with a single strike, Ye Wufeng unexpectedly appeared and saved Ye Wucheng’s life.

"It was actually quite a coincidence."

Chen Yan spoke of this little-known tale from the Jianghu as he drank his wine:

"From what I know, the reason Ye Wufeng appeared at such an opportune moment was that, just before the Seven Sects besieged the Blood Demon Palace, Ye Wucheng was feeling smug about his accomplishments. So he sent a letter to his younger brother, far away in the Northern Domain, inviting him to share in his joy.

"But as soon as Ye Wufeng read it, he knew his brother was about to cause a catastrophic disaster. He didn’t even have time to worry about the Sword God Palace.

"He rushed all the way from the Northern Domain and found the Blood Demon Palace based on the letter’s contents. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

"Finally, in the nick of time, he saved Ye Wucheng.

"That Little Brother Lin was right. Ye Wufeng is petty and extremely protective of his own.

"No matter what Ye Wucheng had done, he was still his older brother. In his eyes, it wasn’t for outsiders to discipline him.

"Right then and there, the Northern Domain Sword God was about to unleash his might...

"But unexpectedly, the Seven Sect Leaders were all present. They attacked together, and in just two or three rounds, the Northern Domain Sword God was sent running for his life.

"In the end, by suffering grievous injuries and exhausting countless life-saving tricks, he barely managed to drag the half-dead Ye Wucheng back to the Northern Domain.

"In fact, ever since then, Ye Wufeng has been in complete opposition to the Seven Eastern Sects.

"It’s clearly recorded in my Heaven-Reaching Pavilion that after that incident, the Northern Domain Sword God came to the Eastern Domain three times to cause trouble for the Seven Eastern Sects.

"He believed his humiliating defeat back then was unfair because the Seven Eastern Sects had used their superior numbers to bully him."