Chapter 389

Chapter 389: What?

Upon hearing Ye Jian’s words, Mu Xingyu was taken aback, but thinking about how Ye Jian was already a Tribulation stage great emperor, returning for revenge seemed reasonable.

However, after a moment’s thought, she hesitated and said to Ye Jian, “Ye Jian, if you want to take revenge, I won’t stop you, but there are some important things I need to clarify with you.”

“Aunt Mu, please say it!”

“It’s like this. The one who destroyed your Ye family back then was named Lei Mie, commonly known as Old Monster Lei. Although you have cultivated to the Late Tribulation stage great emperor realm, this Old Monster Lei reached that stage over five hundred years ago.”

“Moreover, it is said that this Old Monster Lei has become close with an Immortal from the Immortal Realm. So, I advise you to think carefully; if you don’t have a strong chance, it’s better not to recklessly seek revenge,” Mu Xingyu told Ye Jian.

Mu Xingyu believed that even though Ye Jian was a Late Tribulation stage great emperor, she had just recently broken through.

On the other hand, Old Monster Lei had been a recognized saint with incredibly rich combat experience and had broken through to the Tribulation stage several centuries before Ye Jian.

Therefore, she felt that if Ye Jian recklessly sought revenge on Old Monster Lei, who would kill whom was truly uncertain.

Hearing Mu Xingyu’s words, Ye Jian looked at her with warmth. Mu Xingyu was willing to share so much, indicating that she supported Ye Jian and didn’t want her to bring harm upon herself.

“Aunt Mu, don’t worry. I just want to know who my enemies are. I won’t act rashly if I’m not confident.”

Upon hearing Ye Jian’s response, Mu Xingyu nodded. “I’m glad you think that way.”

It seemed this girl from the Ye family was not foolish at all?

She had reached the Tribulation stage within a few hundred years of cultivation, a talent she had never seen before.

If she waited another few hundred or thousand years, perhaps she could break through to mid-Tribulation stage or even late-Tribulation stage.

As for Old Monster Lei, he had spent countless hardships to break through to the Tribulation stage; wanting to reach the mid-Tribulation stage would likely take him several times longer than his initial advancement to the Tribulation stage.

Mu Xingyu realized that Old Monster Lei had spent at least thirty thousand years achieving his current level, and to break through again would require at least several more tens of thousands of years.

Thus, Mu Xingyu figured that she could fully cultivate to the brink of undergoing the immortal tribulation before dealing with Old Monster Lei and directly ascend afterwards.

This way, even if Old Monster Lei had support from an Immortal behind him, he would be powerless against her.

“Aunt Mu, please tell me more about Old Monster Lei,” Ye Jian said to Mu Xingyu.

Hearing Ye Jian’s question, Mu Xingyu organized her thoughts and replied: “Old Monster Lei is from the Lei family in the central region of Sky Blue Star. Over five hundred years ago, he broke through to the Tribulation stage and established the only Immortal dynasty in the central region—Yongsheng Immortal Dynasty.

Additionally, the Lei family has controlled more than five thousand resource planets over the years, providing abundant cultivation resources, training many cultivators and attracting numerous loose cultivators to join…”

Listening to Mu Xingyu, Ye Jian gritted her teeth.

Her Ye family had been forced to only a dozen survivors who fled to the barren prison, and they could easily become blood food for some powerful beings.

Meanwhile, the Lei family, after persecuting the Ye family, had developed so well.

“Aunt Mu, is Old Monster Lei on Sky Blue Star?” Ye Jian asked Mu Xingyu.

“I don’t know that. As a Great Ascension stage cultivator, it’s impossible for me to monitor a Tribulation stage cultivator. Even if I wanted to, I wouldn’t dare to,” Mu Xingyu answered.

“However, I suspect Old Monster Lei is not on Sky Blue Star. The Lei family discovered a superior grade spirit stone mine on a planet called Lei Yang Star, so I suspect Old Monster Lei is stationed there,” Mu Xingyu said.

Upon hearing Mu Xingyu’s words, Ye Jian quickly asked, “Do you have the coordinates for Lei Yang Star?”

Hearing this, Mu Xingyu looked at Ye Jian in surprise: “Ye Jian, do you want to look for Old Monster Lei right now?”

“Oh, I was just asking,” Ye Jian replied casually.

In response, Mu Xingyu said, “Lei Yang Star is an important resource planet controlled by the Lei family. Anyone who is not a member of the Lei family or those they’ve captured as mine slaves will face attacks from the Lei family’s cultivators, so I haven’t been there; I’ve only heard that the Lei family has a resource planet with top-grade spirit stones called Lei Yang Star.”

Upon hearing Mu Xingyu’s words, Ye Jian stopped asking further questions.

As long as she found the Lei family members and performed a soul search, she would know everything.

The upper echelons of the Lei family likely had restrictions set up to protect their divine soul memories. Although forcefully searching their souls would cause their primordial spirits to shatter and die, she didn’t care.

Extracting memories from one Lei family member might not yield much, but if she searched several, the fragments of their residual memories would surely piece together the detailed situation of the Ye family.

Once she grasped the details of the Ye family’s circumstances, she could follow the clues directly to Old Monster Lei for revenge.

As for the Immortal that Old Monster Lei had allied with, if the Immortal did not intervene, that would be fine. But if he dared to show himself, Ye Jian would eliminate him without hesitation.

After thinking for a moment, Ye Jian took out a storage ring and handed it to Mu Xingyu.

“Aunt Mu, this is a gift for you. Inside are some cultivation resources I don’t need. It’s my way of thanking you for lending a helping hand to my Ye family back then,” Ye Jian said to Mu Xingyu.

However, upon hearing Ye Jian’s words, Mu Xingyu did not take the storage ring.

“Ye Jian, I’m very pleased to see your accomplishments now. I’m glad I was able to help save you back then.”

Mu Xingyu continued, “The reason I intervened to save you back then was mainly because I owed your Ye family patriarch a favor. A hundred years ago, when I was being pursued by my enemies in the Nascent Soul stage, it was your ancestor who saved me.”

“I was unable to defeat Old Monster Lei at that time, and I couldn’t protect your entire Ye family. I could only save a handful of you and had to take you all to the barren prison for Old Monster Lei to agree; I still feel quite ashamed about that.”

Hearing this, Ye Jian forcefully held Mu Xingyu’s hand and placed the storage ring in her palm.

“Aunt Mu, trust me. The things inside are of no use to me anymore, but they are crucial for your breakthrough to the Tribulation stage. Please accept it,” Ye Jian earnestly said to Mu Xingyu.

“What?”

Upon hearing Ye Jian mention that there were items crucial for her breakthrough to the Tribulation stage inside, Mu Xingyu was a little skeptical.

“Just take a look, Aunt Mu, and you’ll know,” Ye Jian replied with a smile.

Listening to Ye Jian, Mu Xingyu quickly probed her divine sense into the storage ring.

When she saw what was inside, she was immediately stunned.

In the storage ring, there was a hill of superior grade spirit stones, many rare treasures radiating imperial quality, and several imperial weapons for both defense and offense.

Besides that, what fascinated Mu Xingyu the most were a few vials of elixirs labeled—Imperial Stage Barrier-Breaking Elixirs.

“Ye Jian, this is too precious! I can’t accept this from you,” Mu Xingyu quickly shook her head.

Although Mu Xingyu did not know if the Imperial Stage Barrier-Breaking Elixirs were real, the value of the superior grade spirit stones, rare treasures, and several imperial weapons alone was staggering.

If others knew she had such things, many great emperors in the cultivation world would likely come after her to snatch them away.

“Aunt Mu, please keep it. The Barrier-Breaking Elixirs are useless to me now, and as for the spirit stones, spiritual herbs, and imperial weapons, I have better ones,” Ye Jian said to Mu Xingyu.

“Maybe I’ll just take the Barrier-Breaking Elixirs then.”

Mu Xingyu simply couldn’t bring herself to accept so many things.

“Aunt Mu, once I give something, I don’t take it back. If you refuse to accept it, it means you look down on me. If you do that, then we’ll have no future interactions…”

Hearing Ye Jian’s words, Mu Xingyu was moved.

She understood that this was Ye Jian’s way of forcing her to accept the gift.

Who would have thought that the little girl from the Ye family she saved hundreds of years ago would now bring such a great opportunity to her?

“Ye Jian, there is actually something I haven’t told you,” Mu Xingyu sighed and said to Ye Jian.

“What is it?” Ye Jian frowned.

Hesitating for a moment, Mu Xingyu sighed and continued, “Actually, the upper echelons of your Ye family knew long ago that the Lei family would act against the Ye family. So before your ancestor died, they secretly moved most of the elite members of the tribe. Those of you who were left behind and later killed by the Lei family were actually the ones your Ye family had given up on.”

“What?”