Best Young Master
Chapter 332 - 295: Successfully Acknowledging the Master

Chapter 332: Chapter 295: Successfully Acknowledging the Master

"This auction is hereby concluded. Once again, thank you all for coming. Let’s meet again next year!"

Following the closing words of the auction’s chairman, Xu Chuan, the annual Huaxia Martial Arts World auction officially came to an end. Ye Long was the first to stand up and leave, moving extremely quickly.

For him, everything that happened today was a nightmare. Staying here was simply masochistic!

"Xiao Long!"

Just—

Before he could leave the auction hall, he was called to a halt by Hong Lie.

"Master."

Upon hearing the call, Ye Long subconsciously stopped in his tracks and turned his head to look at Hong Lie, completely at a loss.

"Come with me."

Hong Lie frowned at Ye Long and then strode towards Chu Ji and Ye Fan.

Whoosh!

Seeing this, Ye Long’s complexion changed instantly, and then, like a defeated soldier, he followed Hong Lie with his head down and a disheartened expression.

Despite a thousand, ten thousand reluctances to see Ye Fan and Chu Ji, he dared not disobey Hong Lie’s command!

"Little Chu, I didn’t know Xiao Fan was also going to bid for the Black Iron Fist set, otherwise, I wouldn’t have allowed Xiao Long to bid."

Soon, Hong Lie arrived in front of Chu Ji and Ye Fan with Ye Long. He first explained to Chu Ji before apologetically saying to Ye Fan in an affected manner, "Xiao Fan, I’m really sorry."

"Is it a real apology or a fake one?" Chu Ji sneered.

"Little Chu, this matter is truly a misunderstanding. If it weren’t for this, I wouldn’t have stopped Xiao Long from continuing to bid."

Hong Lie ’honestly’ explained, then deliberately looked stern at Ye Long and scolded, "Aren’t you going to apologize to Xiao Fan? Xiao Fan is your cousin, and yet you competed with him for the Black Iron Fist set. What kind of behavior is that?"

"I’m sorry, Cousin Ye Fan."

As Hong Lie’s disciple, Ye Long not only knew about Hong Lie’s pursuit of Chu Ji, but was also very familiar with Hong Lie’s way of doing things. Seeing Hong Lie making a hypocritical apology and knowing his intentions, he had no choice but to forcefully suppress the frustration in his heart and pretend to be remorseful.

"Shouldn’t an apology at least be sincere?"

Chu Ji blinked and looked at Hong Lie, slowly saying, "If you and your disciple really want to apologize, then how about compensating Xiao Fan with two Plant Essences?"

Whoosh!

Originally, for Ye Long, apologizing with such humiliation was already hard to bear. When he heard Chu Ji’s words, he was so angry that his complexion changed, and he nearly passed out.

"Uh... Little Chu, it’s like this, the organization gave Xiao Long three Plant Essences to bid for the Black Iron Fist set. If the bidding failed, he was supposed to return the three Plant Essences intact..."

Hong Lie lied with a troubled face. Although he fancied Chu Ji, he wasn’t about to take back the Plant Essences he had secured for his disciple to give to Ye Fan, whom he disliked.

"Three Plant Essences?" Chu Ji sneered, "How come I remember your disciple bidding five Plant Essences earlier? And he seemed very confident at that time!"

"—"

Hong Lie was left speechless, his face a picture of embarrassment.

"Like master, like disciple. I see you two really are a perfect match," Chu Ji sneered, saying, "Also, Hong Lie, please stay away from me in the future. I’m not interested in you, nor do I desire you!"

"Eek~"

Hearing Chu Ji’s merciless words again and sensing the cultivators around them all looking this way, even though Hong Lie was known as the top fighter below the Gang Qi Realm, he couldn’t help twitching at the corner of his mouth, anger flashing in his eyes.

"Xiao Fan, let’s go!"

Chu Ji completely ignored Hong Lie’s anger, patted Ye Fan on the shoulder, and said.

Without a word, Ye Fan passed by Hong Lie and Ye Long as if they were air.

"Mas... Master..."

As he watched Chu Ji and Ye Fan leave, Ye Long gritted his teeth, intending to add fuel to the fire with his words.

However—

Before he could continue, he was harshly interrupted by Hong Lie, "Shut up!"

Facing Hong Lie’s reprimand, Ye Long was not angry but secretly delighted, "Heh, that bitch Chu Ji has thoroughly offended Master this time. With Master’s personality, even if he doesn’t trouble that bitch, he will vent his anger on that bastard!"

"That bastard has offended so many powers; with his penchant for resolving conflicts with his fists, once Master gets a hold of something against him, it won’t matter even if Chu Ji steps in, right?"

At the thought, Ye Long’s anger and frustration dissipated, replaced by a sense of elation, as if he had eaten a Ginsengfruit, feeling ecstatic from head to toe.

"Both master and disciple are petty and vengeful, accustomed to hiding knives behind smiles. You need to be more careful in the future, best not to let them get anything on you," meanwhile, as if guessing the thoughts of Hong Lie and Ye Long, Chu Ji whispered a warning to Ye Fan.

Ye Fan smiled indifferently, "Don’t worry, it won’t be that easy for them to get a hold of anything on me."

"That’s also true,"

Hearing Ye Fan’s words, thinking of his methods in dealing with the Bai Family, Chu Ji couldn’t help but laugh, "Come to think of it, even if you did fall into their hands, with Master’s protective nature, they couldn’t do much to you. Besides, even without Master backing you up, with your trump card, even if you slapped Ye Long to death, Hong Lie definitely wouldn’t dare to let out a peep! Even Yan wouldn’t say a thing!"

Ye Fan knew what Chu Ji referred to and said no more, instead, joining her to head to the auction hall’s settlement area to exchange for the items they had won.

By the time Ye Fan and Chu Ji arrived at the settlement area, many cultivators had already eagerly made their way there.

Seeing Ye Fan and Chu Ji enter the settlement area, those cultivators couldn’t help but direct their envious gaze towards them. The items they had won at the auction paled in comparison to Ye Fan’s treasures, which were practically trash!

"Master Chu, Mr. Ye, please follow me to the VIP room for the exchange."

Quickly, under the watchful eyes of the cultivators, a worker of the auction, dressed in a cheongsam, hurriedly approached Ye Fan and Chu Ji, gave a slight bow, and made a welcoming gesture.

"Thank you."

Ye Fan thanked her with a smile, then followed her to the VIP hall with Chu Ji.

"They must be going to the VIP hall to do the exchange, right?"

"Isn’t that obvious? The final item, the Black Iron Fist set, is worth all of the other auction items combined, so of course, they’re heading to the VIP hall to exchange."

"It is said that Ye Fan already has the Wudang Sect’s treasure, the Taiyin Xuan Sword. Now that he’s gotten the Black Iron Fist set as well, owning two high-level magical artifacts, it really is a case of ’some have all the luck’..."

Watching Ye Fan and Chu Ji head towards the VIP hall, those cultivators talked with faces full of envy.

"Mr. Ye, congratulations on successfully bidding for the high-level magical artifact, the Black Iron Fist set."

In the VIP room, Long Yue, who had been waiting for a while, greeted Ye Fan and Chu Ji with a smile as they entered and then pointed to a box placed on a table nearby, saying, "That’s everything you’ve bid for. Please check if everything is alright, and then we can proceed with the exchange."

"Alright."

Ye Fan nodded, his consciousness stirred, a flash of golden light at his brow, and his telekinesis shot out, rapidly scanning over the items on the table with the help of the Ghostly Gourd.

One item, two items, three items...

After about a dozen seconds, Ye Fan withdrew his telekinesis and said with a slight smile, "All items are accounted for without error."

"That quick?"

Long Yue was taken aback and admired the magic of magicians internally while smiling, "Then, Mr. Ye, please take out the items for the exchange."

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

With a flip of his hand, Ye Fan took out a blue and white bottle. Upon opening the cap, three Nirvana Pills, radiating a medicinal fragrance, flew out from the bottle and miraculously floated in front of Long Yue, "These are three Nirvana Pills. Please check them."

Swish!

Long Yue’s right hand waved, transforming into a phantom, and she grabbed the three Nirvana Pills, carefully sensing them before smiling, "The Nirvana Pills are verified to be correct."

"These are the three Plant Essences I’ve bid for previously."

Ye Fan took out the box containing the three Plant Essences he had bid on before and then took out an antique little box, saying, "Inside here is a Fire Spirit Ginseng."

"Okay."

Long Yue said, taking them with a hand and then began to carefully inspect them.

Compared to Ye Fan, Long Yue was very thorough in her inspection and incredibly slow, fearing any mistakes.

Ye Fan understood this.

The Plant Essence was a treasure that cultivators dream of, priceless, and if there were any mistakes in the transaction, even if Long Yue was a member of the Yanhuang Organization, she would not be able to bear the responsibility.

It took a full five minutes before Long Yue finished inspecting the four Plant Essences.

"Our Nirvana Pills and Returning Essence Pills were auctioned for a total of 79 billion Huaxia Coins, and the total I spent bidding for other items at the auction was 70 billion. You can transfer the remaining funds to this account," Ye Fan said, handing over Tianshan Group’s bank account details to Long Yue as the Black Iron Fist set transaction was completed.

Seeing this, Chu Ji couldn’t help but smile bitterly.

Initially, she had intended for Ye Fan to keep the money himself, but since Ye Fan didn’t have a bank account, she had no choice but to transfer it to Tianshan Group’s account.

"Today was a bountiful harvest indeed!"

A few minutes later, Chu Ji and Ye Fan arrived at the parking lot. They threw the medicinal materials for alchemy into the trunk, opened the car door, and said with full smiles, "I know you can’t wait any longer. Get in the car and try on the Black Iron Fist set to see how they feel."

"Hmm."

Ye Fan nodded with a smile, got into the car, and quickly opened the box.

Click—

As the box opened, the dark Black Iron Fist set appeared before Ye Fan’s eyes, with five black light spots at the joints twinkling menacingly.

Ye Fan’s consciousness moved, manipulating his telekinesis to enter the Black Iron Fist set. The first thing he sensed was a high-level array set up by the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi of the Gold element.

Gold, ranking first among the Five Elements, represents unbreakability!

The Gold element’s Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi possesses the utmost destructive power!

This Gold Element Array granted the Black Iron Fist set the ability to double its attack power!

The second array was set up by a combination of Fire and Water Elements of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi.

According to the laws of nature, when hot air rises, lower temperature, cooler air flows horizontally into its place. The rising air becomes heavy and descends as it cools. Since the earth’s surface is warmer, it heats the air causing it to ascend again, creating what we know as wind.

The array within the Black Iron Fist set combined these natural laws, allowing the user to generate wind during an attack through this Fire and Water Array, thus doubling the attack speed!

After carefully sensing the two arrays within the fist set, Ye Fan withdrew his telekinesis. Opening his mouth, he spat out a droplet of Life-bound Essence Blood, which transformed into a blood arrow and sprayed onto the Black Iron Fist set, immediately vanishing without a trace.

Suddenly...

Ye Fan found that he had established a special connection with the Black Iron Fist set, feeling as if it were a part of his own body!

The ritual of ownership was a success.

The Black Iron Fist set was imprinted with his life’s mark!

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