“A few seniors, I’m sorry!”
Ye Fan clasped his fist and spoke politely to these eighteen Pavilion Elders.
Although he had an enmity with the Chu Sect, it didn’t mean that he hated everyone among the Chu Sect.
At least, like these old guys in front of him, Ye Fan did not hate them.
Many years ago, Ye Fan had mistakenly entered the Hidden Treasure Pavilion.
At that time, he was discovered by the Chu Clan and almost killed Ye Fan.
In the end, it was these eighteen pavilion elders who were intolerant and helped Ye Fan with a few words, and only then did Ye Fan suffer less flesh and blood.
These Pavilion Elders wiped off the blood from the corners of their mouths and sat back on the stone altar once again.
Only, their attitude towards Ye Fan had changed from the initial icy coldness to revealing shame and admiration.
“Little brother, if what I expect is correct, you should not be from the Chu Sect.”
“Rather, looking at the age, I suppose you are not yet at the age of manhood?”
Among the eighteen people, the old man with the highest Daoist skill and the oldest asked Ye Fan.
Ye Fan nodded his head.
After receiving Ye Fan’s confirmation, these old men, were even more ashamed.
“The eighteen of my brothers and teachers have not stepped out of this Chu Sect Forbidden Land for decades.”
“I didn’t even expect that such a young hero had emerged from the martial world now.”
“At such a young age, he has such a formative cultivation.”
“It is indeed a fearsome young man.”
“I wonder, are we old men fortunate enough to know your name?”
“In all these years, you are still the first one to be able to break our brothers’ Heavenly Law and Earthly Net Formation with power head-on.”
What people of the martial dao admired was nothing but the strongest of the martial dao.
Ye Fan’s tactics just now had undoubtedly convinced them completely.
Ye Fan smiled, “I won’t hide it from the few old-timers, we actually met more than ten years ago.”
“And, it was also here.”
“Oh? Already met more than ten years ago?” These Court Elders all revealed their astonishment.
“Impossible!”
“You’re such a young genius, if it was before us, we would definitely have an impression.”
“I guess you remembered wrong.”
These Pavilion Elders shook their heads, indicating that they had not met him.
It was only after Ye Fan, told the story of how he had been taught a lesson by the Chu family more than ten years ago, and then had been told to intercede by several Pavilion Elders, that these old guys had a slight impression.
“You’re that descendant of the Chu family?”
“Zheng Hong’s son?”
Several pagoda elders were startled, and then asked Ye Fan.
Ye Fan nodded his head.
“Remarkable.”
“Really remarkable…”
“That little fellow from the Chu Family back then is so powerful?”
“The Chu Family has really produced a lot of talent.”
“Back then, there was a Chu Zhenghong, and now there’s another one.”
“The Chu Family is worthy of being the descendants of the Great Emperor Yunyang, what remains in their bodies is the blood of the Great Emperor…”
“By the way, are you now, back home?”
“Your grandfather, has he accepted you?”
Although these few Court Elders ignored world affairs, they had heard about some things about the Chu Family, especially about Ye Fan, they had still heard Chu Zhenghong talk about it.
“Accept?”
Ye Fan shook his head and smiled, but a touch of self-deprecation and sarcasm surfaced on his clear face.
“Right now, he should hate me to the bone and be eager to get rid of me before he does.”
“How could that be?”
“Your relationship, has it come to such a standstill?”
These old men were surprised.
“Over the years, your father has often come to talk to us.”
“Every time he said that he would find an opportunity to take you mother and son back to the family later.”
“That said, we haven’t seen Zhenghong for years either.”
“We thought that your family had been reunited, and that guy had sunk into the joy of heaven and wouldn’t come to us to cut up martial arts.”
The eighteen Court Elders lamented.
Ye Fan, however, trembled slightly inwardly, “He… Comes here often?”
“Yes. Your father, he, is the most gifted person in martial arts that I have ever met. Of course, it was before he met you.”
“Now it seems that your talent is not the slightest bit inferior to your father’s.”
“Since you and your mother were driven off the mountain, your father has come to us almost all day to learn the martial arts.”
“Three years into the clan, five years into the seal.”
“That speed of cultivation is astonishing!”
“But unfortunately, your father’s heart for cultivation was not pure enough.”
“When he cultivated, there were always distracting thoughts in his mind, and it was difficult to untie the knots in his heart.”
“Otherwise, with your father’s natural talent, he would have already stepped into the God Realm.”
“That distracting thought in his heart should be you mother and son.”
“Zheng Hong he, too, is a pitiful man.”
“No parents to love him, no wife and children to keep him company in the afternoon.”
“Lonely every day, coming to us old men for a chat.”
“Now you’ve grown up too, you should be a father and a husband too.”
“In future, it’s better to be more considerate of your father.”
“In life, too much is out of your hands.”
“Your father, may not have done a good enough job, but his feelings for you mother and son may not be known by others, but we, a few old things, are the ones who experience it most deeply.”
“Every year on New Year’s Eve, your father he would sneak off to see you all.”
“After all these years, I don’t think you even know that.”
These old guys spoke slowly.
The more Ye Fan listened, the more his heart was not feeling good.
He used to, very much, hate his father.
He hated his father for being weak and incompetent, and for being heartless and heartless.
For ten years, he had not cared about him and his mother.
But now it seemed that he had misunderstood him.
This man, for all these years, had actually been silently watching over and guarding them, mother and son, in a way that was not known to anyone.
At this moment, Ye Fan was even thinking, he had placed Han Lao as an inside man in the Chu family, as shrewd as that man was, had he really not noticed it at all over the years?
Perhaps, he had already known that Han Lao was his man, someone from the Dragon God Temple.
He had just been pretending not to know.
“Alright, no more talk.”
“This is your family matter, so a few of us old things won’t talk too much.”
“You go in.”
“However, if you see your father in the future, scold him for us.”
“That old boy, he hasn’t brought us any wine for years.”
“Hahahaha…”
The eighteen old men laughed Lang Lang.
And then, they sat on top of the stone altar and no longer blocked Ye Fan’s way.
The Chu Sect’s Hidden Treasure Pavilion could be entered by anyone who could defeat their eighteen old men who were guarding the Pavilion, in addition to those who had the Sect Master’s oracle.
Because it was impossible to stop them.
“Well, definitely.” Ye Fan once again clasped his fist at them, before striding into the Chu Sect’s Hidden Treasure Pavilion.
“Dragon Master, wait for us.”
Gaia, Owen and the others also wanted to follow and enter.
However, it was the old men who stopped them.
“What are you guys doing?”
“Didn’t we let in?” Gaia and the others glared.
“Just let this little guy in alone. If you guys want to enter, you can, either take the Sect Master’s bull or, defeat us.” The old man guarding the pavilion said in a deep voice.
Gaia and the others shrank their necks then.
They didn’t have Ye Fan’s skills, even at their peak, they didn’t have the confidence to beat these eighteen old demons, not to mention that they were still injured now.
“You guys just wait for me outside.”
“I’ll go inside, pick some healing herbs for you guys and bring them back to you.”
Ye Fan smiled and said.
“Alright then.”
Gaia and the others had no other choice but to sit outside and wait for Ye Fan to return.
Just like that, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Ye Fan alone, stepped into this thousand year old pavilion in front of him.
For the first time, the treasure pavilion was filled with valuable paintings and calligraphy as well as antiques and other rare treasures of great value.
It was true that several of the great beast heads lost in the Yuanmingyuan by Yan Xia were collected over here.
Any one of them taken out would be enough to shock the world’s collecting circles.
But Ye Fan had little interest in these, and he entered the second level.