Douluo Continent: Saving Zhang Lexuan at the Start

A month has passed in the blink of an eye. The old year has come to an end, and the new year has begun.

This was also the time when the entire Ye family was gathered together.

Although the Ye family is a reclusive family, ninety percent of its members spend a long time in the Longyue Mountains.

However, there are always some people who are busy making a living, going out to gain experience or collect cultivation resources.

Only at this time will these people who have been traveling return to participate in the ancestral worship ceremony and watch the competition among the younger generation.

As the only third-generation direct descendant, Ye Ying naturally had to participate in this clan competition.

As soon as he woke up in the morning, Ye Ying carefully got up and gently put Zhang Lexuan's hand down on him.

Zhang Lexuan was, after all, a Soul Master, and even though Ye Ying moved very gently, she was still awakened.

"Good morning, Ying-ge!"

Her eyes, as clear as autumn water, held a gentle gaze that would win the hearts of anyone who saw them.

The two were both quite young, and given their close relationship, they usually shared a room.

Ye Ying took Zhang Lexuan's delicate hand and pulled her out of bed. "You stayed up too late cultivating yesterday, Sister Xuanxuan, won't you sleep a little longer?"

Sitting at the dressing table, Zhang Lexuan tidied her smooth black hair and said softly, "No need. Isn't today the family competition? I also want to see if Ying-ge can win."

Although Zhang Lexuan is still quite young, she is definitely a beauty in the making. After simply tying her hair into a ponytail, she followed Ye Ying to the family's ancestral land.

Standing at the very front, closest to the ancestral tablets of the Ye family, was Ye Zhenting, the current head of the Ye family.

Under his leadership, all members of the Ye family began to worship their ancestors.

Ye Ying and Zhang Lexuan followed at the very back of the worship procession. Because of their limited height, they couldn't reach anything, so they followed along with the others as they worshipped.

After the worship ceremony ended, Ye's parents quickly found them.

Next came the family competition. Apart from Ye Ying, the eldest son of the direct line, all the other participants were from collateral branches of the Ye family.

Ye Ying was the eldest among the direct descendants because his four unreliable cousins ​​were much younger than his father, and at less than thirty years old, they clearly hadn't settled down yet.

The eldest uncle, Ye Qiulong, has a son and a daughter, who were just born a few days ago. Their names are Ye Yuhuang and Ye Yuyun, respectively.

The first clan competition featured two Great Soul Masters of the second ring, both from collateral branches. One possessed the Snow Carving Bow, a mutated form of the Moon Soul Bow, while the other had the Wind and Flame Lion, a special martial soul with both wind and fire attributes.

Both were eleven years old and had similar soul power. The one with the Wind Flame Lion had an advantage in attributes and won the first round.

The following theories were not very interesting; they were just a bunch of weaklings at the dozen or so levels of Soul Masters fighting each other, which almost made Ye Zhenting, the clan leader, fall asleep.

Until the ninth match, when Ye Ying was fighting against a powerful Soul Master from a collateral branch, Ye Zhenting was instantly energized and no longer sleepy when he saw that it was his eldest grandson.

The boy from the collateral branch is named Ye Yufeng, and he is twelve years old. It is worth mentioning that he is currently studying at Shrek Academy.

"Hello, cousin Ye Ying. My name is Ye Yufeng. My martial soul is a family heirloom, and I am a level 26 Great Soul Master."

In the Ye family, although there is a distinction between direct and collateral branches, they are all equal in status. To obtain truly good things, one can only rely on personal talent and strength.

Ye Ying also announced her soul power level. As the referee elder Ye Zhenfeng gave the order to start the match, Ye Ying and Ye Yufeng simultaneously moved away.

Ye Yufeng, whose soul power had increased by a whole realm, took the initiative to strike first. A silver-white arrow flew out and quickly split into four arrows in the air!

This is one of the Ye family's fixed inherited soul skills: Splitting Light and Shadow!

One arrow becomes four arrows, but their power remains undiminished.

Amidst the swirling arrows, Zhang Lexuan unconsciously gripped the hem of her dress, her beautiful eyes constantly fixed on Ye Ying.

At this moment, Ye Ying dared not make the slightest move. After this period of training, he understood just how troublesome this move, Splitting Light and Shadow, really was.

Without any means of defense, he would be at a disadvantage whether he tried to block or dodge.

Although Ye Yufeng was difficult to deal with, Ye Ying did not intend to give up. He gripped the longbow tightly with both hands and used the hardness of the Moon Soul Bow to quickly knock away the arrows formed by the split light and shadow.

At this moment, Ye Yufeng seized the opportunity and shot another arrow, which was also one of the Ye family's inherited soul skills, the Shock Arrow.

In an instant, Ye Ying hurriedly dodged, narrowly avoiding the arrow.

Immediately, he activated his first soul skill, Spirit of the Dark Moon, and a silver-white arrow imbued with special power flew out, colliding with the third arrow shot by Ye Yufeng.

With the Spirit of the Underworld Moon, a soul skill that can increase the speed at which arrows are formed, Ye Ying seized the opportunity to attack.

In the end, Ye Ying finally managed to seize an opening in Ye Yufeng's defenses when his soul power was almost exhausted, thanks to the quality of his martial soul and the speed at which his arrows were condensed.

The arrow whistled through the air, and a silver-white arrow stopped in front of Ye Yufeng. It was undoubtedly Ye Zhenfeng, the elder in charge of law enforcement, who had made the move.

"Ye Ying wins!"

After concisely announcing the results of the final match, Ye Zhenfeng jumped off the stage.

Ye Ying returned to her parents' side, and her father, Ye Qiukong, nodded with great appreciation. In a battle between people with the same type of martial spirit, the difference in strength was immediately apparent.

Of course, Ye Ying's victory in that situation was also partly due to Ye Yufeng's underestimation of his opponent.

His mother, Yu Xuehua, also praised him a couple of times. After all, it was already quite remarkable that he could achieve that level against someone who was a whole realm higher than him.

Zhang Lexuan didn't say anything more. She took Ye Ying's hand in her own, and the soul power of the same origin was transmitted from her body.

When Ye Ying looked at Zhang Lexuan in astonishment, Zhang Lexuan simply smiled gently. Her gentle and tender nature made it impossible for Ye Ying to refuse her.

With their soul powers connected, Ye Ying's soul power began to gradually recover.

Ye Zhenting, the clan head, took the stage and announced the results of the clan competition.

Including Ye Ying, there are a total of twenty people. The ten winners will receive an extra 100 gold soul coins, and the ten losers will receive an extra 50 gold soul coins.

The Ye family's clan competitions are just playful squabbles among the younger generation; they never care about winning or losing, or any personal gain. That would only make the Ye family members uneasy.

And so, as one of the winners, Ye Ying successfully received one hundred gold soul coins.

For ordinary people in Douluo Continent, this is a huge sum of money, but for a direct descendant like Ye Ying, it's just the cost of a meal.

As fireworks soared into the sky and firecrackers crackled, Ye Ying and Zhang Lexuan both grew a year older; he was seven, and she was eleven.

After the New Year, Mother Yu Xuehua went to the neighboring Douling Empire, saying she was going to Tianlongmen to visit Ye Ying's maternal grandfather.

As the young master of the family, Ye Qiukong, the father, had many things to deal with, leaving only Ye Ying and Zhang Lexuan living in the large courtyard.

What Ye Ying didn't know was that his "sixth brother" grandfather, Ye Zhenting, had already begun plotting, and coincidentally, this plot was related to him.