Chapter 814 How to Enter the Land of the Dragon Clan
He led Ye Xuanyue and Leng Moran to walk to the side. But Ye Xuanyue felt something was a little strange, because the direction he was heading was clearly not the most bustling and lively place. Instead, it became more and more desolate as they walked.
Ye Xuanyue furrowed her brows slightly. She held back for a moment, then spoke up.
"Where are you taking us?"
The young girl’s voice was low and clear, with a hint of chill. Ye Xuanyue had already grown somewhat wary of the middle-aged man before her.
This middle-aged man’s voice was very firm.
"What?"
"Don’t trust me?"
"Then you can just turn around and leave."
"I won’t stop you."
"After all, you were the ones who came looking for me. Isn’t that right?"
Leng Moran, hearing his tone, immediately became a bit angry. His own voice turned unpleasant.
"You...!"
But Ye Xuanyue made a gesture for quiet. She said in a low voice,
"Alright. Keep going."
She signaled Leng Moran to stay calm. She continued walking deeper into the outskirts with this middle-aged man. The man, who had seemed unhurried and sluggish before, was now walking quite quickly, and his pace grew faster and faster.
Ye Xuanyue and Leng Moran barely managed to keep up with him. Then he suddenly turned aside. Ye Xuanyue and Leng Moran exchanged a glance and followed. They discovered there was actually a hidden small cave next to them.
The middle-aged man, appearing from who-knows-where again, did something at the entrance. Ye Xuanyue frowned, sensing a flash of Spiritual Power pass through the cave mouth.
What was this man’s intention?
Ye Xuanyue almost thought he was going to attack the next second. But what happened next was rather fantastical.
He turned his face, suddenly scratched his head, and then actually started berating Ye Xuanyue and Leng Moran outright.
"How did Mu Yeqing get to know two fools like you?"
"You don’t even hide your looks, swaggering right into the Hidden Peace Market."
"You practically reek of easy prey from head to toe. Who knows how many people were salivating when they saw you!"
"What do you think you are? You haven’t even reached the Martial Emperor Realm. You should learn to hide yourselves properly."
"So utterly troublesome."
"Mu Yeqing is a fool, and so are you. Really... all the fools gathered together!"
His scolding was relentless, not giving anyone a chance to speak.
When Ye Xuanyue heard his first sentence, she was slightly taken aback. Hearing the rest, she pressed her lips together, showing not a bit of anger. Instead, she gave a faint smile and spoke.
"So... it seems we’ve caused you trouble?"
The middle-aged man’s tone sounded very impatient.
"What do you know?"
"This place..."
"This place isn’t easy to get by in. You barged into this Hidden Peace Market without an experienced guide. Who knows how many people noticed you."
"And the most headache-inducing is you!"
"You’re so pretty, you should at least cover up a bit."
"It’s better than being reported and taken away to be a Furnace Cauldron."
The man, having shed his earlier indifference, cursed and grumbled, seemingly unable to stop.
Ye Xuanyue smiled lightly and spoke.
"I already did hide my appearance."
Before entering the Hidden Peace Market, she had actually concealed about seventy percent of her looks. Now, aside from her eyes which were hard to change, her facial features were merely delicate and pretty—a cute, small beauty. She thought that shouldn’t have been too eye-catching.
But what Ye Xuanyue hadn’t expected was that even this could still attract trouble.
However, her eyes were truly too beautiful, especially after her breakthrough to the Martial King Realm and her Bloodline Awakening. Much of Ye Xuanyue’s allure actually came from her eyes. She had an overall mysterious and profound aura that made people want to look at her a few more times.
Even if she made her appearance uglier, she couldn’t change that.
The middle-aged man seemed rather agitated. He kept ruffling his hair, then hesitated for a moment before speaking in a low voice.
"Forget it, forget it. Tell me, what are you doing here?"
"You're not some Young Master and lady with nothing better to do, wanting to come here for adventure and a thrill, are you?"
His tone carried sarcasm. After all, Ye Xuanyue looked like a very young girl. Leng Moran also appeared to be a youth, clearly not old. Besides, these two, for some reason, vaguely exuded an air of nobility. Their origins were probably not ordinary.
Having been around here for a long time, he considered his judgment sharp and believed he couldn’t be mistaken.
Ye Xuanyue looked at the somewhat cynical middle-aged man before her and spoke.
"I want to exchange for some information."
The middle-aged man glanced at Ye Xuanyue a couple of times and raised an eyebrow.
"Information?"
"You might as well ask me. I've been here quite a while, and I consider myself fairly well-informed."
"What do you want to know?"
Ye Xuanyue’s gaze fell to the ground. Then her voice, icy clear, spoke.
"Me?"
"I want to know..."
"Information about the Dragon Clan."
The person opposite started scratching his head again. He hesitated, reached out, picked at something in his ear, then lifted his head, his tone carrying disbelief.
"What?"
"Dragon... Dragon Clan information?"
"Are you insane?"
Ye Xuanyue remained silent. The man opposite seemed to have heard a huge joke.
"Why are you asking about the Dragon Clan? That’s Spirit Beast business, it has nothing to do with us humans. And the Dragon Clan hates humans so much..."
Ye Xuanyue paused, then spoke.
"I know. But that doesn’t conflict with my wanting to know about the Dragon Clan. I want to find someone who knows enough about the Dragon Clan to ask about the actual situation inside. If I wanted to enter the Dragon Clan, is there any possibility?"
The man opposite stared at the girl with the exceptionally beautiful eyes before him, a trace of barely perceptible annoyance in his expression.
"You..."
Ye Xuanyue lifted her head, her voice equally calm.
"May I ask, where did you get your Dragonblood Grass from?"
"Dragonblood Grass should only be able to grow within the territory of the Dragon Clan, right?"
This was the reason Ye Xuanyue had been following this middle-aged man all along.
The man looked at the girl with the cool, detached aura before him. He frowned slightly, then spoke.
"My Dragonblood Grass... I got it accidentally during an exploration trip before."
"I did once go into Dragon Clan territory. But that was several years ago. There is indeed a way to get into Dragon Clan territory. But I know very little."
"When I barged in back then, it was because there was a medicinal herb I absolutely had to obtain, and it grew within Dragon Clan territory."
"That’s why I went in."
"That herb was still some distance from the Dragon Clan’s central lands, and I left immediately after getting it."
"I didn’t linger inside."
"My cultivation strength was already at the Martial Emperor Realm back then, and it was still extremely perilous."
"With your cultivation strength, the possibility of entering the Dragon Clan is too low!"