Joy of Life / Qing Yu Nian - Part 3

Chapter 399 One Strike To Topple The Building

Note: this part of novel started with the same last episode of the drama season 2

Fan Xian’s first and only time meeting Ye Liuyun was the year he was 12.

That year he was lying on a precipice with strange colours swirling before his eyes. He was watching the solitary half boat below the precipice, the millions of holes on the beach, and the one hit battle of the strong between the two exceptional people.

One of the people was the Great Grandmaster of the Qing Kingdom and the other was his uncle.

The 12-year-old Fan Xian had only mastered the basics for the Tyrannical Way. His perception was not very insightful, so he could only sigh in admiration for the reputation of that battle but extracted the essence within it. On the contrary, it was in recent years he would occasionally think of a time or scene and then gradually find, within his memories, the marvellous parts, the shocking parts, and the parts from which he could learn.

The more he remembered, the more admiration he felt toward Uncle Wu Zhu and Ye Liuyun’s exceptional methods. Sometimes the image of Ye Liuyun on the solitary half boat sailing on the ocean would still rise in his mind and that very strange song would still sound beside his ear.

But he had never, ever thought that this Great Grandmaster of the Qing Kingdom, this major figure that was revered by tens of thousands of people, would be in the top floor of a brothel and become someone he had to face.

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Fan Xian was the person who feared death the most in this world, so for enemies that he might have to face alone, he had once done ample research and analysis.

After much calculation, and weighing up of his strength and background, among these people, the one he should fear most ought to be Dongyi’s Sigu Jian, the most unfathomable would be Northern Qi’s Ku He, and the most troublesome were, of course, the ones in the Royal Palace.

However, although Sigu Jian was an idiot and could kill him easily, everyone knew that idiots hated going out to strange places.

While the most unfathomable and the one who most enjoyed exploiting others, the Imperial Advisor Ku He, had been personally struck down into the mundane world by his closest Uncle Wu Zhu—a person who could be injured did not feel so scary.

As for the ones in the Qing Royal Palace, they were all related and did not need to be considered for now.

The people Fan Xian truly feared were all at the level of a Great Grandmaster, thus it could be seen that this was not excessive self-confidence, it was just a bit arrogant. However, the topic had come back round again. Given his power, in addition to his blind uncle, they only really needed to consider these people.

Among the Four Great Grandmasters, it was only Ye Liuyun that Fan Xian had not worried about.

For one, his childhood memories were overly deep. He always felt that this elder of the Ye family had a refined and graceful attitude. Spending much of his time traveling, he was a true person with a path. His personality was bright and cheerful, not one that would be involved in the pointless battles of the mortal world.

Second, the state of the Ye family in Jingdou made Fan Xian see clearly that Ye Liuyun was truly a sympathetic person, otherwise, it would be impossible for the Emperor to maintain the balance between the two sides. The Hanging Temple was a dark flame that destroyed the Ye family; such a base method, yet Ye Liuyun could resist returning to the capital. He considered the Ye family’s contentment and safety and the continuation of the Ye clan to be more important than anything else.

As long as Ye Liuyun did not stop in Jingdou and impact the balance of the current situation, the Emperor would not truly do anything to the Ye family. This could not be publicly announced. In the place between the imperial power and Ye Liuyun that surpassed martial ability, there was a natural implicit understanding.