Ways To Be Powerful

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

He looked at his daughter with great concern as he was scared that she was too upset by the news.

“Tang Tang, what… what did you say?”

Ye Qingtang sat on the chair and stared at the three astonished people.

She said slowly, “As a girl, of course I understand it is embarrassing for my engagement to be annulled. However, since Young Master Duan is the heir of the family master, it’s understandable that he needs to focus on the prestige of his family. I am not suitable to be the mistress of the Duan family.”

Ye Qingtang paused and continued.

“Father, think about it again. I’ve always been weak. When I had the spirit root, my ability could be considered high. No one would dare to challenge me. However… now I lost my spirit root. If I still request to marry over to the Duan family, it would make their whole family unsatisfied. I don’t have the ability to defend myself anymore. Why do I have to go over just to be mocked by others? Even though Young Master Duan’s words were not pleasant to listen to, he said them for my own good.

Ye Qingtang sounded very calm. None of her sentences were said out of anger. It seemed that she really did believe whatever Duan Tianrao explained.

Ye Ling was stunned. He did not imagine that Ye Qingtang would say so.

Previously, it was the Duan family who came over to ask for the engagement when Ye Qingtang’s spirit root just emerged. Now, right after Tang Tang’s spirit root was broken, they claimed that her daughter was extremely ugly. It seemed as if it was the Ye family who was forcing an engagement with the Duan family.

Duan Tianrao smiled after hearing what Ye Qingtang just said. He was pleased that she understood the situation. Ye Xun also felt pleased that Ye Qingtang knew what was the right choice to make.

Ye Ling’s face was still clouded.

Duan Tianrao continued to speak as Ye Ling remained silent for quite a while.

“It’s rare that Tang Tang is so sensible. Uncle Ye, a few days later, it’ll be the day for the greatest families of Lin Town to gather and worship the Heavenly Dao. I am the heir of the Duan family, so my fiancé needs to go with me to turn the Heaven-Spinning Wheel. Only a person with a Connate Level Five ability or above can turn that wheel. Do you think Tang Tang’s current ability will be enough for her to turn that wheel?” Duan Tianrao said.

“If she can’t, the prestige of Duan family will be damaged in front of everyone.”

“Get out! Now!” Slamming the table violently, Ye Ling shouted at Duan Tianrao and pointed towards the main door.

Enough was enough. He would not allow this bastard to continue to humiliate his daughter.

He would not allow the Duan family to humiliate his daughter in such a way.

Duan Tianrao frowned but decided to keep quiet after seeing how furious Ye Ling was.

“Uncle Ye, you should figure this matter out by yourself. Whether you agree or not, I am going to annul the engagement in front of everyone in a few days when we worship the Heavenly Dao. I shall leave now.” Duan Tianrao waved his hand insincerely and turned around.

“Take all your things back! Our Ye family does not need such rubbish!” Ye Ling said.

Duan Tianrao’s mouth twitched. He signaled his servants to bring everything out and walked out of the hall.

Ye Xun immediately followed up and said to Ye Ling, “Father, we cannot forget our manners. I shall go and send Young Master Duan off.”

Ye Xun caught up with Duan Tianrao without waiting for Ye Ling’s reply.

Witnessing Ye Xun’s misplaced hospitality, Ye Ling looked towards Ye Qingtang, who kept quiet all along, with indignation.

“Does this Ye Xun understand the situation? Duan Tianrao greatly humiliated you today, yet she still wants to send him off?” Ye Ling said.

Ye Qingtang was totally unconcerned by Ye Xun’s actions and instead focused on peeling her orange.

“Father, if she wants to send him off, just let her be.”

There was no way Ye Xun did not understand the situation.

That would be a joke. It was hard to find a person in Lin Town who was smarter than Ye Xun.

Ye Ling was not aware that Ye Xun and Duan Tianrao had been secretly together since long ago. It was most likely Ye Xun who told Duan Tianrao the news of Ye Qingtang’s broken spirit root. If not, how could he have come over so early to annul the engagement?

Even though Ye Xun was an adopted daughter, she was very good at observing situations. She never liked her position as an adopted daughter of the Ye family even though the family had never treated her unfairly at all. It was definitely Ye Xun who told Duan Tianrao about Qintang’s broken spirit root.

In her previous life, not long after Duan Tianrao annulled the engagement, he announced that he was going to marry Ye Xun in front of the greatest families of Lin Town that had gathered for the blessing day,

She was there, and everyone in Lin Town began discussing the annulled engagement. As a result, Ye Qingtang faced great pressure and went over to try to convince Duan Tianrao to change his mind. However, she witnessed the ‘good news’ between Duan Tianrao and Ye Xun with her own eyes. She herself then became the target that everyone sneered at.

Ye Xun was very cunning and alert. In Ye Qintang’s previous life, Ye Xun became the mistress of the Duan family and showed her support to the Great Elder. Using her intelligence, she became the right-hand man of Ye You in the days to come.

Ye Qingtang suspected that the chronic poison in Ye Ling’s food was placed in by Ye Xun secretly.

After all, Ye Xun always hid herself very well. Ye Qingtang did not suspect her at all until the relationship between Ye Xun and Duan Tianrao was known.

Ye Ling treated Ye Xun as another one of his dear children and took good care of her all the time.

On the day her spirit root was stolen, Ye Qingtang was led by the Great Elder and Ye You to a place with no one else around, where the act then happened. All these could be credited to Ye Xun, who failed to keep her appointment with Ye Qingtang.

Now as she thought over the details again, Ye Qintang realized that Ye Xun was just a poisonous snake, a detestable traitor, that the Great Elder had placed near her.

“Tang Tang, I’m sorry that you had to go through all these tough situations one after another. I should not have agreed with the engagement from the Duan family back then.” Ye Ling sighed heavily.

“But at least you don’t need to go to turn that Heaven-Spinning Wheel anymore.”

Ye Ling was also worried that Ye Qingtang might not be able to turn the wheel with her current strength. Now with the engagement annulled, the Ye family would not send Ye Qingtang in order to prevent people from mocking her.

Turn the Heaven-Spinning Wheel?

Ye Qingtang raised her eyebrows.

How was Duan Tianrao so sure that she could not turn the wheel?

She needed to go the worshipping of the Heavenly Dao now as it seemed.

What was the worst that could happen without the spirit root? She needed to let Duan Tianrao and everyone in Lin Town witness whether she was truly incapable or not!

Ye Qingtang put away her thoughts. She smiled and shook her head. “As long as father is here, I won’t grieve.”

She did not even care about Duan Tianrao that much as long as Ye Ling was safe.

“You silly girl, I cannot be with you for your whole life. You’ll have to marry someone eventually.” Ye Ling touched Ye Qingtang’s hair lovingly. His health was deteriorating over the years. If not because of that, the Great Elder would have never been able to control the Ye family.

Ye Ling could not predict when he would pass away. The thing that he worried the most about was Ye Qingtang’s safety.

On the other hand, Ye Qingtang knew about Ye Ling’s concern. In her previous life, she was too depressed over Duan Tianrao to notice the abnormality in Ye Ling at all. Only after the Great Elder had asked assassins to kill Ye Ling and frame the Second Elder who just finished his seclusion, Ye Qingtang then realized that Ye family was not the one that she remembered.

Ye You took away her supreme-grade spirit root and was selected by the sect masters of the Chao Sect and the Yunxiao Sect. She was accepted as the direct disciple under the sect masters. The Great Elder was sending Ye You to the Yunxiao Sect now, so there was still some time before the Great Elder returned. Ye Qingtang must finish her preparations in this period of time.

The real battle would start when the Great Elder returned.

Ye Qingtang estimated that the Great Elder would return in half a month’s time. Around the same time, the Second Elder, who always supported Ye Ling and cared for Ye Qingtang, would finish his seclusion.

The Second Elder was the most powerful person in the Ye family. The Great Elder would not dare to kill Ye Ling and Ye Qingtang in his presence.

In Ye Qintang’s previous life, the Great Elder killed Ye Ling secretly and framed the Second Elder, effectively eliminating the Second Elder as well. Ye Qingtang then lost two of her greatest supporters in the Ye family. If she had not run away quickly enough, she would have been killed by the Great Elder in Lin Town as well.

All her suffering in her previous life happened after the Great Elder returned. This time, Ye Qingtang would not allow the same thing to happen again.

Whether it was her father or her second uncle, she would protect both of them!

She would return the enmity of her previous life a hundredfold back to the Great Elder.

Ye Qingtang’s heart was heavy up to this point.

“Father, can you ask someone to help me buy some herbs?” Ye Qingtang asked suddenly.

“Of course. What do you need? Just write them down, and I’ll ask someone to go and get them for you.” Hoping that she would not be too depressed from what happened with Duan Tianraok Ye Ling tried to satisfy every need of Ye Qingtang.

Ye Qingtang nodded and then wrote a long list of herbs to Ye Ling.

The first thing Ye Qingtang needed to do was to figure out the identity of the chronic poison in Ye Ling’s body.

Ye Ling’s true strength was equal to, or maybe even greater than, that of the Great Elder. It was the poison that the Great Elder had placed every day that caused Ye Ling’s health to deteriorate and his strength to decrease.

The Great Elder would not have been able to assassinate Ye Ling successfully in the previous life if not because of that.

Her father would regain his original strength only if the remaining poison was cured. If her father’s strength returned, even if the Great Elder wanted to do something, he would not be able to fight her father.

In her previous life, even though Ye Qingtang lost her spirit root, she was not depressed all along. She studied and practiced manufacturing, array formation, elixirs, and everything that could help her become more powerful.

She memorized the ancient medicine recipes, and she could make any Spirit Pill if she wanted.

She only needed ten days at most to clear the poison in her father.

But now…

This emptiness was replaced by another power slowly. That warm and wet feeling was exactly how it felt when the spirit root was still inside her body.

Ye Qingtang opened her eyes wide in disbelief. A small spirit root was growing slowly inside her body again.

Even though the size of the spirit root could not be compared with the supreme-grade one she used to have, the fact that a new spirit root was growing made Ye Qingtang extremely excited. From her past experiences, she knew how difficult it was to cultivate without a spirit root.

Ye Qingtang spent three hundred years in her previous life trying to find ways to restore her spirit root in order to catch up with Ye You, but all her efforts were to no avail.

Only God would know how precious it was for Ye Qingtang to have the small spirit root growing inside her again!

“Ye You, you shall wait for my revenge!” Ye Qingtang touched her lower stomach gently. Her eyes were brightly lit with the flames of revenge.

Around the same time Ye Qingtang’s spirit root was restored, a man who sat on the Paragon seat opened his eyes suddenly in the Antiquity Palace. A blackish-green light sparkled in his eyes.

“Your Highness?” Mu Su who was standing at the bottom of the palace noticed the sudden behavior of the man and came forward.

The handsome man raised his eyes and looked outside the palace into the endless darkness, and his eyes shimmered.

“Set off to Lin Town now.”

Mu Su was stunned. “Your Highness, is it…”

“The Heart of the Demon God has appeared,” the man said.

He felt the familiar aura again after so long.

The Heart of the Demon God finally appeared again…

He would take back everything that belonged to him!

The next morning, Ye Qingtang woke up and was full of vigor. Having her spirit rook back, she was in an extremely good mood. As long as she took care of the spirit root, she would be able to fight against Ye You in the future.

Ye Qingtang felt more confident about her revenge now that her spirit root was restored. Her plan was also altered accordingly.

She needed to deal with the Great Elder, but she did not forget that her real enemy was Ye You.

But now that Ye You was selected as the disciple of the Yunxiao Sect by the sect master, Ye Qingtang also needed to enter the sect to be qualified to fight Ye You!

Ye Qingtang had a plan up her sleeve. She put on her veil and walked out.

Even though she restored her appearance, she did not plan to let others know about it so soon.

Seeing Ye Qingtang leaving her room, Ye Ling walked towards her worriedly. To his relief, it seemed that his daughter was not affected majorly by the annulment.

Ye Qingtang noticed her father and turned towards him.

“Father.”

Ye Ling nodded slightly. His eyes were filled with sympathy.

“Father, do you know about the Third Young Master of the Si family, Si Bai?” Ye Qingtang suddenly asked.

“Si Bai?” Ye Ling was stunned for a second.

The Si family was one of the greatest family clans in Lin Town. Unlike with the Duan family, the Si family was always not on good terms with the Ye family. Si Bai’s mother died during labor, and it was found out that she was poisoned secretly. The Si family suspected that it was the Ye family that poisoned her.

If not thanks to the help from the Duan family for the past few years, Ye family would have been in a fight with the Si family due to the resentment between the two families.

Nevertheless, the two families were still not in good terms with each other.

The Si Bai that Ye Qingtang mentioned was the Third Young Master of the Si family. He was the favorite grandson of the Elder of the Si family clan. Si Bai was talented, and his spirit root was comparable with the supreme-grade one of Ye Qingtang. He was the number one genius in Lin Town. However, Si Bai had been affected by the poisoning of his mother’s as well, causing Si Bai to have a weak body ever since he was born.

There were master physicians that had mentioned that Si Bai would not live over 18 years. As such, the Si family spared no effort trying to extend the life of their Third Young Master, the most precious member of the Si family.

Ye Ling, having no idea why Ye Qingtang mentioned Si Bai, said, “Si Bai’s condition has been not very stable recently. I heard that the Si family even invited Master Physician Xu over, but it did not seem to help.”

Master Physician Xu was a famous master physician in Lin Town. Countless people tried to seek for his help, but he rarely helped them. It all depended on his will to save a person.

It was apparent that the Si family had spent a lot of effort to invite Master Physician Xu over.

Ye Qingtang nodded as if thinking of something and said, “Father, I need to go out and buy something. I shall leave first.”

Ye Ling stared at Ye Qingtang with confusion.

What happened?

Why did Ye Qingtang want to go out alone?

Was this a dream?

It was well-known that Ye Qingtang was not willing to go out because of her birthmark. Even if she left the house, she would be inside a palanquin to hide herself from the public.

How come today…

Ye Qingtang suddenly changed?

Ye Ling felt that her daughter had become another person after her spirit root was broken. She was totally different now.

“Then… be careful outside.” Ye Ling was concerned about Ye Qingtang’s safety, but seeing her newfound independence, he was more relieved than worried.

After Ye Qingtang left the Ye family, she walked to the Si family slowly.

Ye Qingtang had heard about the Third Young Master of the Si family in her previous life. He was really an incredible genius. The Si family had tried all ways to extend his life, but he was only able to live to 25 years. Si Bai was extremely famous and reputable, and even Ye You did not dare to offend him. However, eventually Si Bai passed away, and Ye You took the chance to terminate the entire Si family along with the Ye family.

To prevent similar situations from happening, Ye Qingtang was going to extend Si Bai’s life!

However, she was not just a kind person who wanted to offer help. She wanted to make a deal, one that could get her into the sect, with the Si family.

Anyone not in the sect was as weak as an ant. One could only be considered truly strong after they stepped onto the Path to Heaven and entered the sect. Only then, they would be able to learn high level skills and cultivate their spirit roots. Without joining the sect, one could never reach the Paragon level no matter how much talent they possessed

The difference between a person in the sect and a normal person was insurmountable. Once a person entered the sect, they were entirely different from normal people.

Any inner sect disciple had the power to dominate a part of the world.

As such, it was extremely difficult to enter the sect. Simply being in the greatest family clans like the Ye family, or even the royal family, was not enough to qualify. It was easier to learn to fly through the skies than to qualify to enter the sect.

Ye You was recognized by the sect and was able to enter thanks to the supreme-grade spirit root she had snatched from Ye Qingtang. From there, Ye You learned millions of skills in the sect and reached the Paragon level. In contrast,Ye Qingtang in her previous life put in a lot of effort in her training and eventually reached the Paragon level as well, but her abilities were still completely incomparable to Ye You’s.

However, now that she was given a second chance…

Ye Qingtang raised her eyes and stared at the door of the Si family. A cold smile appeared on her face.

The Si family was able to introduce people to the sect. If she could seize the opportunity and enter the sect, she would be one step closer to defeating Ye You!

This was what Ye Qingtang needed the most. It was the first step to her revenge towards Ye You.

The servants of the Si family blocked the way as they saw Ye Qingtang.

Ye Qingtang raised her eyebrows slightly. She smiled and spoke the first sentence that would change her fate in this life. “Tell your master, I have a way to save your third young master."

Master Si frowned and stared at the handsome young man in the hall. His eyes were full of concern. It was heartbreaking for him to witness how pale the young man was. He then asked Master Physician Xu, who was monitoring the pulse of the young man.

“Master Physician Xu, my third grandson’s health…”

Master Physician Xu was more than fifty years old, and his skills were renowned in the world. However, he shook his head. “The poison in the third young master Si was obtained when he was a fetus. The poison is deep inside him, and it is impossible to remove.”

After hearing Master Physician Xu’s words, Master Si’s face was as white as a sheet. His heart dropped to the bottom of the valley.

Meanwhile, Si Bai sat on his chair and adjusted his sleeve calmly. His nonchalant attitude made it seem as if he did not care how long he had to live. Instead, he tried to comfort his grandfather. “Grandfather, I’m alright. You don’t need to worry that much.”

Seeing his grandson’s pale face, Master Si felt as if a knife were being twisted in his heart. He felt immense resentment.

“Alright? How can you be alright? If only the Ye family didn’t bribe someone to poison your mother when she was pregnant, she wouldn’t have died, and you wouldn’t have to suffer from the ice toxin as a result!!”

“Grandfather, there’s no evidence to prove that the Ye family poisoned my mother…” Si Bai sighed softly.

Master Si sneered. “Evidence? If there were evidence, I would’ve wiped out the entire Ye family long ago. How would I be able to tolerate their unbridled behaviors!”

Si Bai kept quiet.

At that moment, one of the Si family’s servants rushed in and repeated the words that Ye Qingtang had said outside.

“She has a way to save my third grandson?” Master Si mocked in anger. “The Ye family is getting more and more presumptuous! I haven’t troubled them at all, and now they dare to come to me!”

“Good! Good! Good! Let her in! If she cannot save my third grandson, I’ll use the Young Lady of the Ye family to settle my resentment!”

Si Bai frowned as he knew how resentful his grandfather was towards the Ye family.

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“Grandfather, the Young Lady of the Ye family is still very young…” Si Bai said.

“Grandson, you don’t need to care about this. I know what to do,” Master Si replied in a deep voice.

Si Bai sighed as he could not persuade his grandfather. He looked towards the entrance of the hall as if he was thinking about something.

Soon, a servant of the Si family led a young lady with a veil into the hall.

When Si Bai’s sight was on the young lady, he was stunned for a moment.