"You understand, that's good."
Sun Ruhu said with satisfaction, seeing that his nephew Sun Tian finally realized his mistake.
"Right, although we cannot offend Ye Ningze, it is still necessary to investigate him."
It seemed that the Sun family had too little information about Ye Ningze.
If it weren't for the opening of trade routes, they might not have even known about Ye Ningze's existence in the base.
"Since Ye Ningze is a rogue cultivator on the surface, he must be hunting fierce beasts and selling them to the black market. You should go and investigate in the Martial Pavilion."
Sun Ruhu reminded him.
"Okay, I'll go to the Martial Pavilion to investigate now." Sun Tian took the order and turned to leave the room.
After half a day, Sun Tian finally finished his investigation at the Martial Pavilion.
It turned out that Ye Ningze did have close ties with the Martial Pavilion and often traded goods in the black market.
However, when Sun Tian wanted to investigate further, he received a warning from the Martial Pavilion.
The Martial Pavilion warned the Sun family that Ye Ningze was a martial artist closely watched by the Martial Pavilion.
If the Sun family dared to covet Ye Ningze, they would incur the wrath of the Martial Pavilion's higher-ups.
After being warned, Sun Tian immediately dared not investigate further and left dejectedly.
"What? Ye Ningze is being watched by the Martial Pavilion's higher-ups?"
When Sun Tian told Sun Ruhu about this situation, he was shocked.
He stood up, frowned, and asked, "What's going on? Isn't Ye Ningze a local martial artist from Qingcheng Base? Why is he being watched by the Martial Pavilion?"
The headquarters of the Martial Pavilion was built in a large base, with numerous experts, making it a behemoth.
Although the Martial Pavilion headquarters was far away, its branches were spread across bases of all sizes.
Logically speaking, for an organization like the Martial Pavilion, which operated as a trading company and a large family,
It was understandable to protect their clients' personal information. However, now they were specifically mentioning protecting Ye Ningze, which was astonishing!
"Did the Martial Pavilion really say that?" Sun Ruhu asked.
Sun Tian said cautiously, "Second Uncle, this matter is absolutely true. The Martial Pavilion did warn me like this!"
"The manager of the Martial Pavilion said that a core genius disciple from the headquarters, when undergoing trials in Qingcheng Base, had instructed them to look after Ye Ningze."
"A core disciple from headquarters? Could it be..."
Sun Ruhu thought of someone.
"That's right, it should be the eldest daughter of the Su family, Su Xue!" Sun Tian trembled.
As everyone knew, the Su family was the backing family of the Martial Pavilion. However, what few people knew was that the only core genius disciple in the Su family was the eldest daughter, Su Xue!
Not only had she broken through to the peak of elite martial arts at a young age, but like Ye Ningze, she also possessed high-level cultivation talent!
"The Su family has several transcendent martial artists, and that's just their overt strength..." Sun Tian couldn't help but tremble at the thought of Ye Ningze being protected by the Su family.
Beyond the shock, Sun Tian felt more fortunate.
It was a good thing he had his Second Uncle Sun Ruhu's reminder!
If he had rashly attacked Ye Ningze without knowing his background,
And if he had provoked the transcendent martial artists from the Su family, then a hundred Sun families wouldn't be enough to die!
"Second Uncle, do you think the destruction of the Li family was also done by the Su family?" Sun Tian asked cautiously.
"It's possible!" Sun Ruhu shook his head and said, "Let's drop this matter. Never provoke Ye Ningze again. As for the Li family being gone, so be it. Qingcheng Base is not lacking a Li family."
Sun Tian deeply agreed with Sun Ruhu's words.
Let alone a small Li family, eighty years ago, even the Jin family, which had several Grandmasters, was wiped out.
A mere Li family was like an ant in front of a large base.
"Compared to the Li family's affairs, there is something more worthy of our attention now," Sun Ruhu added.
"Wolf Lord Base is a medium-sized base. I'm not at ease about opening trade routes with it this time!"
When the Wolf Lord Base opened trade routes with Qingcheng Base, they had agreed not to encroach on each other.
And to provide as much convenience as possible to Qingcheng Base.
However, Qingcheng Base was just a small base, with nothing that the Wolf Lord Base could covet.
If there was no benefit, they wouldn't act. Were the martial artists of the Wolf Lord Base all great philanthropists?
Seeing Sun Ruhu's worried expression, Sun Tian guessed, "Second Uncle, do you think the Wolf Lord Base wants to attack our Sun family?"
The Sun family was currently the most powerful family in Qingcheng Base.
If the Wolf Lord Base was opening trade routes to attack Qingcheng Base, the Sun family would be the first target.
"That's impossible," Sun Ruhu shook his head and denied, "There are agreements between bases that they cannot attack each other."
"Then why is the Wolf Lord Base acting like this?"
Sun Ruhu stood up, gazed into the distance, and said, "Let's wait a bit longer. The spies we sent to the Wolf Lord Base will bring back intelligence soon."
...
A week passed in the blink of an eye.
Ye Ningze continued to cultivate at home, without interacting with any martial artists. Even the Sun family had not come to inquire.
This was undoubtedly a good thing, allowing him to improve his strength as much as possible.
Although Ye Ningze had been indulging in cultivation recently, he still made time to visit the black market a few times and bought a lot of tonic medicines.
These tonic medicines had no other effects except to promote the cultivation progress of young boys and girls.
They could allow youths under sixteen to awaken their talents a year or a few years earlier and step into the path of cultivation.
Many family disciples used this method to accelerate their cultivation.
Ye Ningze bought these tonic medicines for his sister, Ye Yuhan.
"Sister, this is the basic body-tempering method. I'll demonstrate it for you. Ask me if you don't understand anything."
Ye Ningze stood in the courtyard, personally demonstrating the body-tempering techniques to Ye Yuhan.
For ordinary people to step into cultivation and transform into martial artists, they must first temper their bodies.
Only by forging the meridians of the body completely can the meridians withstand Yuan Qi.
Ye Yuhan widened her eyes, carefully watching Ye Ningze's demonstration, and asked questions from time to time.
In just three to four days, Ye Yuhan had completely mastered the body-tempering techniques.
Afterward, Ye Yuhan began to cultivate freely.
Normally, when family martial artists stepped into cultivation, they would be provided with beast flesh and blood to accelerate their cultivation progress.
However, Ye Ningze did not do this.
The reason Ye Ningze chose not to provide beast blood was that he wanted his sister to build a solid foundation.
At the very least, after she stepped into the initial stage of ordinary martial arts, he would provide her with low-level beast blood, so as not to stunt her growth.
While Ye Yuhan was cultivating, Ye Ningze did not waste his time.
After this period of consolidation, Ye Ningze had completely mastered the high-level strength talent.
Currently, his physical strength had increased significantly, reaching fifty thousand jin. With the amplification of the high-level strength talent, it became five hundred thousand jin.
Such cultivation progress was enough to make countless martial artists ashamed.
However, Ye Ningze was clearly not satisfied with this.
Because he knew that he only had high-level cultivation talent. How much more exaggerated would those with top-level cultivation talent or even higher talents be?
Therefore, he had to cultivate even harder.
However, Ye Ningze's cultivation was different from ordinary martial artists. He only needed to copy talents one by one to enrich himself.
Sooner or later, his strength would surpass everyone on Blue Star, or even the entire sea of stars!