Chapter 229

Chapter 229: Kneel Down!

These two slaps snapped Yang Jia back to his senses.

Yang Jia looked at Er Ya and Xiao Bai, whose faces were ice-cold, and said quietly, “Elder Er Ya, Xiao Bai……”

Er Ya glared at him hard, “Your father and your grandfather never dared treat Tower Lord like a servant, so who the hell do you think you are? I’m telling you, if you weren’t a Yang, I’d eat you alive!!”

Xiao Bai was also furiously waving her little fists.

Tower Lord!

Even though they occasionally picked on Tower Lord, deep down they held great respect for him, after all, they had truly been through life and death together back then.

At this moment, Young Master Xin couldn’t bear to watch any longer and stepped forward. He said thoughtfully, “Miss Er Ya, this matter isn’t entirely the young master’s fault. At the time……”

Er Ya turned and slapped him.

Smack!

Young Master Xin’s physical body exploded apart, leaving only his soul.

Everyone was stunned.

Er Ya stared at Young Master Xin, “Who the hell do you think you are? You think you have any business butting in?”

Young Master Xin’s expression turned ugly, and beside him, an old man hurriedly said in a trembling voice, “Miss Er Ya, he is the adopted son taken in by the master of Guanxuan Sword……”

Er Ya turned and slapped him again.

Smack!

Young Master Xin’s soul took another slap, and this one nearly wiped out his spirit and soul entirely.

Er Ya glanced at the old man, “Little Guan? I slap him twice and he just has to take it!!”

The old man was truly terrified at that moment, and immediately knelt down, not daring to say another word.

Young Master Xin’s expression was extremely ugly, but he didn’t dare say anything either.

Er Ya turned to look at Yang Jia, her gaze as cold as ever. If not for the fact that he was a Yang, she truly wanted to eat him alive right then and there. What a piece of work!

At this moment, the blue-robed man suddenly opened his palm.

Whoosh!

A beam of golden light fell straight down, landing steadily in his hand.

It was Tower Lord.

The blue-robed man looked at Yang Jia, “Kneel.”

Yang Jia didn’t dare say a word and immediately knelt down.

The little tower hurriedly said, “No no, he can’t bear it, he can’t bear it…….”

Yang Jia: “…….”

The blue-robed man looked down at Yang Jia, “I once depended on it for survival and went through countless hardships together with it. In my, Yang Ye’s, heart, it is not merely a tower, but my closest friend, my family.”

The little tower choked up, “Why bring all this up…….”

The blue-robed man looked at the little tower and said sincerely, “Tower Lord, for what happened this time, it is our Yang family that has wronged you. I apologize to you.”

The little tower shook itself, “Forget it, forget it, the child just doesn’t know any better…….”

Er Ya and Xiao Bai kept their eyes fixed on Yang Jia, their gazes icy cold. Even Xiao Bai was furious beyond measure.

Yang Jia had clearly realized the gravity of the situation, and immediately bowed his head respectfully to the little tower, “Tower Lord, it was my fault. I apologize to you.”

The little tower shook itself, “Forget it, it’s all in the past.”

Yang Jia said nothing more, and simply bowed his head respectfully once more.

The blue-robed man looked at Yang Jia with a complicated expression, and in that moment, he suddenly thought of his son Ye Xuan.

Now that was a truly sensible child!

At least in terms of character, he had never once given his father cause for worry.

His own grandson Ye Guan was far inferior to him when it came to raising a child!

But now he had no choice but to step in, because both his grandson and his son were tied up at the moment.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a wave of irritation.

Damn it!

Boys should be raised free-range!

As it turned out, letting Ye Xuan grow up free-range was one of the smartest decisions he had ever made.

Ye Xuan: “…….”

The blue-robed man collected his thoughts and looked at Yang Jia, “Do you know where you went wrong?”

Yang Jia said quietly, “My biggest mistake was being too weak. I wasn’t able to defeat Ye Tianming.”

The moment Er Ya heard this, she flew into a rage, “I really want to punch you to death. You are absolutely useless.”

Xiao Bai held her back with all her might, otherwise she really would have punched him to death.

The little tower looked at the expressionless Yang Jia before it and felt a sense of daze. How did things end up like this by the fourth generation?

Was it because it hadn’t been there from the very beginning?

But it suddenly felt that if it had followed this guy from the very start, it probably would have been driven to cough up blood with rage.

In that moment, it thought of Ye Xuan, thought of Ye Guan……. though those two were each more slippery and scheming than the other, there was truly nothing wrong with their character.

Finally, it thought of Ye Tianming.

When it thought of Ye Tianming, a deep sigh rose from within it. That child had even told it he would take care of it in its old age.

The blue-robed man looked at the kneeling Yang Jia and felt a headache coming on.

If his son and grandson weren’t both tied up right now, he truly wouldn’t have wanted to come deal with this. What a mess this all was!

He was getting quite a headache.

Teaching children was never his strong suit to begin with!

Beside him, Er Ya was grinding her teeth, “Beat him, beat him half to death.”

Yang Jia’s face was expressionless, “Elder Er Ya, do as you please.”

The little tower: “…….”

Xiao Bai: “???”

“What the hell!”

Er Ya’s fiery temper flared up instantly. She clenched her fist and swung it straight at Yang Jia’s head. She genuinely wanted to kill this guy with one punch.

Fortunately, Xiao Bai held her back with everything she had……. otherwise, Yang Jia would have been splattered on the spot.

The little tower kept shaking its head as it watched. It now understood the feeling parents had when faced with a wayward child.

It hadn’t experienced this before, because the previous two had been so sensible. Now that a troublesome one had suddenly appeared, it had completely thrown them all off.

The blue-robed man fell silent as well.

Was this really his own descendant?

Damn it!

It wasn’t a headache anymore. He was in real pain now.

Would beating him solve anything?

He couldn’t help but shake his head. He was truly in pain right now. He didn’t want to deal with it, but he couldn’t just leave it alone.

This was the first time he had ever truly understood how hard it was to be a parent.

Of course, he also missed his son and grandson more than ever.

Yang Jia knelt there and raised his head to look at the blue-robed man, “Great-grandfather, you once said that a man’s greatest failing is lacking strength. Aren’t you all saying I was wrong simply because I didn’t defeat Ye Tianming?”

The blue-robed man turned to look at the little tower, puzzled, “Tower Lord, did I ever say something like that?”

The little tower said gravely, “You did.”

The blue-robed man: “…….”

Xiao Bai suddenly started waving her little paws frantically, though no one could tell what she was trying to express.

The little tower continued, “You did say those words, but that wasn’t what you meant…….”

As it spoke, it glanced at the kneeling Yang Jia, “There is nothing wrong with what your great-grandfather said, but applied to your situation right now, it doesn’t hold.”

Yang Jia looked straight at the little tower, “What doesn’t hold? If I had beaten Ye Tianming, would you all still think I was wrong?”

The little tower was silent for a moment, then said, “Even now, you think your biggest problem is that you weren’t strong enough?”

Yang Jia’s face was expressionless, “Isn’t it?”

The little tower let out a quiet sigh, “I’m really not good at explaining things like this. Your father is good at it, he……”

Yang Jia said, “Has he ever looked after me?”

As he spoke, he glanced at the people around him, his eyes faintly reddening, “None of you have ever looked after me. You only come out to question me when I fail…….”

Saying this, he looked at the blue-robed man again, “Just like how you raised great-grandfather free-range back then. You never fulfilled your responsibilities as elders, and the moment a child makes a mistake, you all come out to question and criticize…….”

Er Ya was seething, but the blue-robed man remained surprisingly calm this time. He looked at Er Ya and Xiao Bai and smiled, “Why don’t you two go play for a bit.”

Go play!

Hearing the blue-robed man’s words, Xiao Bai’s eyes lit up instantly, and she grabbed Er Ya and ran off.

The little tower said, “I’ll go too.”

And with that, it followed along.

Only the blue-robed man and Yang Jia remained. The blue-robed man looked at the kneeling Yang Jia, “Get up.”

Yang Jia silently rose to his feet, head lowered.

The blue-robed man smiled, “Do you think I’m impressive?”

Yang Jia nodded, “Great-grandfather, in my heart, you are the most impressive person in the world.”

The blue-robed man smiled, “I’m different from your father. I don’t like debating right and wrong. Let’s just talk about your match against Ye Tianming. You lost, didn’t you?”

Yang Jia was silent for a moment, then said, “Yes.”

The blue-robed man nodded, “Since you admit you lost, that means there’s still hope for you. Losing isn’t frightening. What’s frightening is not being able to accept a loss. You heard me just now, I told him that in three years, you two will fight again. What do you think?”

Yang Jia’s eyes narrowed slightly, “Then we fight again.”

The blue-robed man asked, “Do you think, if you keep going the way you are, you can beat him?”

Yang Jia was slightly taken aback, and after a moment of silence, he bowed deeply, “Great-grandfather, please teach me.”

The blue-robed man smiled, “The Yang family has been free-range since my generation, free-range all the way to your father’s generation. That Ye Tianming was also raised free-range. I ask you now, if I seal away all your cultivation and have you start from zero, cultivate all over again from scratch, and experience the hardships and difficulties of this world, do you have the confidence to do it?”

Yang Jia said firmly, “I do.”

The blue-robed man nodded, “Then starting from now?”

Yang Jia nodded, “Alright!”

The blue-robed man swept his sleeve.

Boom!

Yang Jia’s physical body began to crumble piece by piece…… in the next moment, all his cultivation vanished completely, and in an instant, his soul disappeared from the scene.

The blue-robed man raised his head and looked toward the end of the starry river, silent.

He knew that trying to lecture Yang Jia with words right now would be meaningless. He wouldn’t be able to take any of it in.

It was like ordinary parents telling their children to study hard and that the world outside is tough. At that age, children simply can’t absorb it, because they haven’t experienced the hardships of the world themselves. No matter how much you say, it means nothing.

But once they’ve been beaten down by life even once, they’ll understand everything.

After some time had passed, Yang Jia suddenly opened his eyes. The moment he did, a sobbing voice came from beside him, “Jia’er…… he he he’s still alive.”

Yang Jia was completely bewildered, and soon, a flood of memories that were not his own surged up from the depths of his mind like a tide.

Ye Jia!

His soul had now entered the body of a man named Ye Jia. This place was called Guzhou, one of the three thousand states, also under the jurisdiction of Guanxuan Academy.

Just one hour ago, Xianbao Pavilion had forcibly demolished this Ye family’s home. The original owner of this body couldn’t stand it and stepped forward to argue, only to be slapped to death on the spot by a steward of Xianbao Pavilion.