A man from the Big Dipper, starting his charlatanship at Mount Tai.

"Ye Fan of the Tianxuan Holy Land!"

Ye Fan stood with his hands behind his back, replying arrogantly.

To be honest, he'd wanted to do this for a long time!

If you have powerful backers, of course you have to flaunt it! Otherwise, wouldn't you be just like those rogue cultivators?

Ye Fan is different from those rogue cultivators who can only survive on wind and dew; he is a civil servant of the Tianxuan Holy Land!

......

"Tianxuan?"

The manager was taken aback, then immediately recalled the recent rumors.

"But is it Tianxuan, the Dao Lord who stole the Void Mirror along with the Azure Lotus Demon King?"

"Exactly!"

Ye Fan interrupted him.

"However, the Dao Lord is not the Holy Lord of Tianxuan, but the protector of the Supreme Holy Lord of Tianxuan."

"I have come here on the orders of the Supreme Holy Lord to demand an explanation from the Yao Guang Holy Land!"

"Explanation? What explanation?"

Yao Guang Guan Shi really didn't know what conflict existed between Yao Guang Holy Land and Tian Xuan Holy Land.

What do you mean?

"Hmph! You know what they mean!"

"Since you don't know about this, it means you're not qualified to know! So, all you need to do is report it, and the rest will be handled by the higher-ups!"

Steward Yaoguang: "......."

"it is good!"

"Since this young friend Ye is so remarkable, would you dare to visit the Heavenly-grade Stone Garden?"

The manager gritted his teeth and said, "Top-grade stones are priced at tens of thousands of kilograms each. I don't believe Ye Fan can be so lucky."

Reporting intelligence was one thing, receiving Ye Fan was another. He hoped he could do his best in receiving Ye Fan.

"Alright! Let's go to the top-tier stone workshop!"

Ye Fan readily agreed.

The Tianzi Stone Garden contains only a dozen or so unusual stones, each with a strange shape and an ancient feel. Ye Fan walked around the garden, lingering for a long time in front of three of them.

"Cut out this piece, this piece, and this piece, cut them all out for me!" Ye Fan pointed out three stones, totaling 150,000 jin of source material.

More and more onlookers gathered, and even people from other stone archways came after hearing the news.

The first piece, when cut open, contains a ball of innate essence, which can help cultivators break through their cultivation barriers.

When the second piece was broken open, a drop of chalcedony, sealed for millennia, was revealed, priceless.

The third piece was the most astonishing. The moment the stone skin peeled away, a burst of light shot into the sky, revealing a square piece of divine energy lying quietly inside, its pure energy so intense it was breathtaking.

"Divine Source! It really is Divine Source!"

"This must be worth hundreds of thousands of kilograms, right?"

"Yaoguang Stone Workshop has suffered a huge loss this time..."

The steward was ashen-faced and trembling. These three rare stones were the town's prized possessions, but now they had all been cut away, and the loss was incalculable.

........

Ye Fan carefully collected the treasures one by one, smiling broadly, showing no intention of stopping.

"continue!"

"Today, I will search for all the divine objects in the Yao Guang Stone Workshop on behalf of the Supreme Holy Lord!"

Ye Fan has always had endless enthusiasm for repairing pits and forests.

The steward of Yaoguang didn't know who the Supreme Holy Master Ye Fan was referring to was, and could only manage a smile that was more like a grimace:

"Fellow Daoist Ye... could you please show mercy? Our business is small and we really can't withstand such devastation."

Manager Yaoguang was in a bad mood. He didn't know which big shot in Yaoguang had caused the trouble, but in any case, his bonus for this quarter was definitely gone!

Seeing that his goal had been initially achieved, Ye Fan uttered the lines he had prepared from the beginning:

"rest assured."

“I’m a very reasonable person. If you can grant me even the smallest request, I will stop cutting stones.”

Manager Yaoguang was intrigued and hurriedly asked, "What are your requirements, young friend Ye? As long as they're not excessive, I can agree to anything!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan's smile grew even brighter:

"Actually, it's not a big deal."

"I just want you to give a message to the Holy Land of Yaoguang: if you don't want me to come here often, either hand over the Holy Maiden of Yaoguang or the Yaoguang Scripture to help my Supreme Holy Lord improve his cultivation."

"Otherwise... I'll come to visit every week from now on!"

"That's right!"

"My Supreme Holy Lord's surname is Lin! He is the one who is famous far and wide for breaking through the limitations of heaven and earth!"

These words caused an uproar in the room.

"What does he mean? Does he want the Holy Maiden of Yaoguang and the Bible?"

"The Tianxuan Holy Land is so powerful? They actually dare to ask the Yaoguang Holy Land for the Yaoguang Scripture? This is the very foundation of a holy land!"

"Compared to the Yao Guang Sutra... don't you think the Yao Guang Saintess is more terrifying?"

"This guy surnamed Ye just said that the Supreme Saint of Tianxuan wants to use the Yaoguang Saint Lord to advance his realm!"

"Hiss! Could it be... that the Supreme Saint Master of Tianxuan has cultivated that lewd and evil technique that can use female cultivators to improve their cultivation level!?"

"Holy crap! Are you sure? The way I'm getting it is that he only intends to use the Yao Guang Sutra to improve his cultivation level... Wanting the Yao Guang Holy Maiden... isn't that just to slap the Yao Guang Holy Land in the face?"

"How am I supposed to know what that guy surnamed Ye is saying? I can't even make out the punctuation!"

While the group of passersby and cultivators were arguing incessantly, an elderly passerby stepped forward.

"I think it's entirely possible to use the Holy Maiden of Yao Guang to improve one's cultivation level!"

"Oh? Why do you say that, sir?"

A monk looked at the old man.

As the saying goes, old people are wise and shrewd. Don't underestimate any old man; he might just be a sage who is contemplating the ways of the world.

An elderly passerby coughed a few times and said with feigned seriousness:

"Have you ever heard that this Holy Body once survived a great tribulation at the Azure Emperor's Tomb?"

"I've heard about it, what's wrong?"

"It's good to have heard about it. According to people at the scene, that was the Four Extremes Tribulation of the Sacred Body. In other words, when the Azure Emperor's Tomb was opened, the Sacred Body's realm was still at the Four Extremes Realm."

"According to what I recently heard from passersby in the Tai Xuan Sect, his cultivation level has reached the fifth stage of the Dragon Transformation Realm."

"In less than a year, he went from the initial stage of the Four Extremes to the fifth stage of the Dragon Transformation... Is this normal?!"

"........."

After the old man said this, everyone fell silent.

"Depend on!"

"I was saying how he leveled up like someone with diarrhea, turns out he did such lewd things! It's truly enviable! ... It's truly despicable!"

"So that's how it is! So that's how it is! I remember now! I heard that during the Tai Xuan era, the demon princess Yan Ruyu often accompanied him. So... could it be that the demon princess Yan Ruyu has already...!"

"It's working! Everything's working!"

"No wonder the Tianxuan Holy Land and the Qinglian lineage are on good terms, no wonder the Dao Lord and the Qinglian Demon King are suppressing the Void Mirror together, it turns out... that Lin Xiu has already taken Princess Yan by his side!"

"Alas~ The world is going to the dogs, and people's hearts are no longer what they used to be! If I had the Azure Lotus Imperial Weapon as my dowry, I could have it too!"

"That's hilarious! They'd want to hire you? You'd need an Emperor-level weapon and an indestructible kidney first, right? Otherwise, why would they hire you?"

Seeing the public opinion escalate, Manager Yaoguang was dumbfounded and speechless for a long time.

So... our Holy Maiden is in danger?

Could it be that after our Holy Maiden goes away for a while, she will be able to suppress Ji Haoyue like Yan Ruyu when she returns?

......

"Young friend Ye, could it be..." Manager Yaoguang looked at Ye Fan.

Ye Fan, with a righteous expression, said in a deep voice:

"Hmph! Don't spread rumors!"

"My Supreme Lord's advancement in cultivation level is entirely due to his own hard work and sweat!"

"If anyone spreads rumors again, watch out, I'll come to your family's stone archway!"

After spreading the rumors and warning everyone not to talk nonsense, Ye Fan left with the treasures he had cut out.

Chapter 174 I am an envoy under the command of the Great Emperor Wushi!

Ye Fan sternly threatened the passersby, telling them not to say anything out of turn.

But public opinion is something that can't be suppressed just by trying to.

This attempt to cover up the truth will only fuel even more gossip.

Moreover.

Ye Fan said, "If anyone spreads rumors again, I'll go to your family's stone archway." Many powerful groups and even ordinary people don't even have their own family's stone archway.

Since those who have nothing to lose are not afraid of those who have something to lose, why not spread the gossip freely?

........

"Judging from this Ye's attitude, the Supreme Holy Master of Tianxuan... is truly not a human being!"