Chapter 435 - 434: Obscuring Heavenly Secrets

Chapter 435: Chapter 434: Obscuring Heavenly Secrets

Ye Feng threw his arms around Liu Hanyan and nuzzled his head against her chest. "Master, I missed you so, so much! WAAAH..."

Liu Hanyan swatted him on the head, scolding him with a smile.

"You little brat. You’re all grown up now, yet you still act like a child!"

Ye Feng whined playfully, "No matter how old I get, I’ll always be your child!"

With that, he planted a loud SMACK of a kiss on Liu Hanyan’s cheek.

Liu Hanyan: "..."

Everyone present was stunned. They never knew Ye Feng had such an adorkable side.

Ye Feng looked up at Liu Hanyan with a smile. "Master, you came down the mountain... you’re not leaving again, are you?"

Liu Hanyan looked at Ye Feng, exasperated. "You just want me to be your free muscle, don’t you?"

"Hehe, hehe!" Ye Feng scratched his head and chuckled sheepishly. "With an expert of that caliber, only you can keep things under control. You wouldn’t have the heart to watch the disciple you worked so hard to raise get slaughtered in a single blow, would you?"

Liu Hanyan’s expression suddenly turned grave. "I can handle someone like that, but do you really think that’s all The Tribunal has up its sleeve? It’s not!

People like him are merely Executors, the lowest rung of The Tribunal. But did you know that above the Executors are the Grand Executors? And above the Grand Executors are the Earth Judges? Above the Earth Judges, the Celestial Decree? And at the very top, there’s a Supreme Judge whose cultivation has reached a terrifying, unknown level?"

Ye Feng quickly asked, "Master, can you beat that Supreme Judge?"

Liu Hanyan shook her head and answered bluntly, "I can’t."

"What if the six of you masters teamed up? Could you take him down then?" Ye Feng asked, his face full of hope.

"We still couldn’t beat him," Liu Hanyan said, shaking her head again. "If we could, we wouldn’t have been confined to the Kunlun Sacred Ruins!"

Ye Feng’s face fell. "Master, if that’s the case, then I’ll just hand over the Exquisite Jade Pagoda. I’ll take all my wives, go home, and live a quiet, pastoral life!"

Liu Hanyan sneered at him. "You think you can just hand it over and go back to living a normal life? You’re being naive. Never mind whether The Tribunal would let you go—what about all the enemies you’ve made? Do you really think they’d spare you?

Impossible. You would be dead for sure. And if you die, everyone you care about will be dragged down with you. Understand?"

Ye Feng chuckled. "But I still have you masters to protect me! I’ll just freeload from now on!"

Liu Hanyan shot Ye Feng a glare. "Do you really think us old-timers are invincible? Let me tell you, we’re not. There are plenty of people out there who can deal with us. If you think you can just hide behind us for protection, you’re dreaming!"

Ye Feng looked so aggrieved he was about to cry. "I can’t win, and I can’t run. Isn’t this just a setup?"

Liu Hanyan swatted him on the head again. "Scared already? How did we end up with such a cowardly disciple?

Let me tell you, just because we can’t beat him doesn’t mean you can’t!"

Ye Feng’s eyes lit up. "Master, does that mean you’ve found a powerful new backer? Or did my other masters find me an unbelievably powerful new mistress? Tell me, quick! I’ll go suck up to them!"

"Backer my foot!" Liu Hanyan smacked Ye Feng on the head again, fuming. "Stop thinking about relying on us! You have to rely on yourself!"

"Rely on myself? I don’t have that kind of power!" Ye Feng said, his face a mask of misery.

"Have you forgotten about the Exquisite Jade Pagoda inside you?" Liu Hanyan said, looking at him. "Once you fill all the empty slots in that pagoda, forget the Supreme Judge. You’ll be able to swat down even stronger masters with a single blow!"

Seeing the confused looks from the girls around them, Ye Feng’s face immediately flushed red.

’My master is encouraging me to be a degenerate in public!’

He pulled Liu Hanyan aside and whispered, his face still red.

"Master, the Exquisite Jade Pagoda has nine floors. The first five are occupied by Xiao Yufei, Chu Wanqing, Su Youning, Long Xi’Er, and Xia Xingyu. The sixth floor has my two senior sisters. But the top three floors are shrouded in mist. I can’t see who’s up there at all. How am I supposed to find these women?

Why don’t you just tell me who they are? At least then I’d have a goal to work toward, right?"

For the sake of dealing with the Supreme Judge, Ye Feng was willing to cast aside all his shame.

But to Ye Feng’s surprise, Liu Hanyan simply shook her head. "We don’t know who’s on the top three floors either."

Ye Feng’s eyes went wide. "Isn’t Third Master the Divine Calculator? Didn’t you say he could figure out how many hairs are on my head if he wanted to?"

Liu Hanyan shook her head. "The fates of those on the top three floors have been deliberately obscured. Not even your Third Master can divine them."

"Not even Third Master can figure it out? There’s someone in this world whose mystic arts are even more powerful than his?" Ye Feng’s eyes widened in disbelief.

Liu Hanyan glared at him. "Did you think your Third Master was the greatest master of mystic arts in the world? He’s not. As you experience more of the world, you’ll understand—no matter how high you climb, there’s always a higher mountain."

Ye Feng’s pupils contracted sharply.

He had never imagined that such a terrifying power existed in the world.