“We have a reservation in Zhuanghe Inn in the terrain of Beicheng. You can go there to find us if there is anything.” Rong Yi knew he wanted to go with them, so he added, “If you want to talk about the old days with Jiang MU, you can come with us.”
“That would be great.” They immediately joined them.
Rong Yi asked Yin Jinye, “Where are we going next?”
Yin Jinye thought for a while and said, “Let’s go to the center of the town, the cultivators with the highest cultivation of those big families and sects should all be there. Maybe they got some ingredients or magic weapons we want. And we can also see if there’s any ingredients you wanna buy on the way.”
Not in a hurry to purchase ingredients on the first day here, Rong Yi, Yin Jinye and others went to the town center. Although there were not that many people there, they were all advanced cultivators. Except those guards they brought with them had low cultivation, others were all above the Mating Phase.
They were all very polite to each other, because on one could afford to offend anyone here. If one saw something he didn’t like, he’d turn around not to look at the other side to avoid any possible conflict.
Rong Yi said to Yin Jinye through sound transmission, “Why don’t the cultivators here take out their ingredients out for people to appreciate like those outside the center do so people could decide whether they want to compete for it?”
Yin Jinye explained, “Cultivators with high cultivation wouldn’t take out their important items out for people to appreciate. But, they already have some basic understand of each other has. Besides, before they come, they already went to Xunyi Cabinet or Tongtian Tower to buy the information they wanted, so they are crystal clear who has what.”
“So you made a big fortune out of it?”
Yin Jinye hooked his lips in acquiescence to his words.
Suddenly there was a commotion at the town gate.
Someone said, “It’s the Tong family!”
Everyone looked at the commotion.
The head of Tong family led the elders and three thousand disciples to say hi to those people around.
Someone whispered, “How magnificent!”
“This is the first time they take part in the centurial meeting since they became the number one family. Of course, they should show their strength and let everyone know that they are worthy to the number one cultivation family.”
“So they want others families and clans to acknowledge them.”
Rong Yi saw a middle-aged man wearing a luxuriant robe walking headmost, asking Yin Jinye, “That person is the head of the Tong family?”
Yin Jinye responded with a light hmm.
The head said hello to everyone. When he passed over Rong Yi and others, he curved his lips meaningfully, but it was gone instantly, so fast that one could think if he had dim eyesight.
Rong Yi slightly frowned, asking Yin Jinye, “Daddy, did you see that he smiled at me?”
“Yes.”
Rong Yi took a look at the mask on the face of Yin Jinye, “does he know who you are?”
Yin Jinye narrowed his eyes, “I guess.”
Although he often wore a mask when he was in Beiba, he never hid his identity. For example, he never changed his name. Many people knew his surname Yin, but few knew what his name was.
“Then no wonder.” Rong Yi thought about it, still wondering, “Something is not right, if he knows who you are, he would smile mockingly at you, not with a meaningful smile, as if he got a secret no one knows. And he also looked at me as if he knew who I am.”
Yin Jinye also thought it was a bit strange, “It’s true that he is a bit weird. We should observe him for some time.”
“Hmm.”
“Head of the Tong family, I want to compete with you.” Suddenly someone shouted. Everyone looked around. It was Yin Jinye’s grandpa—Old Lord Min.
Rong Yi said, “It’s grandpa. Let’s go have a look.”
Before anyone else could close in, he drew Yin Jinye to the rear of Old Lord Min.
The head of Tong family picked his eyebrows, “What if I refuse?”
Old Lord Min took out an invitation card and said, “I want to use this invitation card to invite you to fight with me. I don’t want anything else. I just want to win back the Nine-yang Soul-returning elixir our ancestors passed down to me.”
As the head saw the invitation, he couldn’t refuse it any more. “What do you want to compete?”
Seeing that the head accepted his challenge, they all surrounded over.
Someone whispered, “I remember a hundred years ago, the chief of Min family lost his ancestral elixir to the head of Tong family.”
“Min family’s alchemy is going down, in recent several hundred years, although they successfully refined the divine elixirs using level nine divine herbs, they have never worked out any rage. On the contrary, Elder Danhong of Tong family kept working out some hot ones in recent years successively, whose face has already exceeded Old Lady Yin who had ever been the number one alchemist.”
“I heard that Old Lady Yin was killed because of what happened to her family…”
“All that is some hearsay. Not a single word is true. Just now I saw Old Man Yin with Old Lord Min.”
Old Lord Min said solemnly, “Of course I will still compete elixir making with you like last time.”
The head of Tong family smiled, “Since you have taken out the invitation, I can’t say no. But old man, some heads-up. It’s been a hundred years since last competition. The alchemy of our Tong family has improved a lot, and the elixirs we refine are also a lot better. Are you sure you wanna compete that with me?”
Old Lord Min answered, “Sure!
