Well, it was obvious that Ye Chen's unintentional words touched the little girl's heart.
Feeling a little awkward, Ye Chen made a few random remarks and left in a hurry...
However, thinking about the growth of the younger generation of the Ye family in the past five years, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
Sure enough, the decline of the Ye family has become inevitable!
Although his future was destined to be full of achievements, it was not a long-term solution for him to rely on himself alone to support such a large family.
Unless he could directly break through to the Dou Di realm and pull up the entire bloodline of the Ye family, he would have to find another way...
"Father!"
In the study of the Ye family patriarch, Ye Chen met his father Ye Lan.
Looking at his son coming in, Ye Lan forced a smile on his originally sad face: "Chen'er, you're here."
This look made Ye Chen slightly stunned, and he immediately had a bad feeling in his heart.
"what happened?"
Ye Lan sighed deeply, and his originally handsome face actually took on a hint of oldness.
"Something happened at the Yanghuo Ancient Altar!"
This short sentence shocked Ye Chen's heart.
As the young master of the Ye family and the family's only hope, Ye Chen naturally knows the importance of the Ancient Yang Fire Altar to the entire Ye family.
Putting aside other things for now, the Ye family's inherited martial arts technique "Tian Yang Xuan Huo Jue" is only a low-level earth-level martial arts technique, but if it is practiced with the Yang Fire in the Yang Fire Ancient Altar, the effect is comparable to that of a high-level earth-level martial arts technique!
What's more, the Ye family's series of secret elixir recipes all need to be refined in conjunction with the Ancient Yang Fire Altar. Now that the Ancient Yang Fire Altar has suddenly become ineffective, doesn't that mean that it will no longer be possible for the Ye family to refine elixirs to enhance their strength in the future?
This is the biggest blow to the Ye family!
"Where's grandpa?" Ye Chen asked hurriedly.
With such a big thing, Ye Zhong definitely couldn't help but show up, otherwise, his father, who was only at the Douhuang level, wouldn't be able to control the situation alone.
Ye Lan said in a deep voice: "Your grandfather has been in the Yang Fire Ancient Altar for three days, trying to find out what caused the Yang Fire to disappear..."
Ye Chen paused and continued, "The news hasn't spread yet, but such a big thing can't be concealed after all. I'm afraid the Ye family will be shaken again!"
The impact of this incident on the Ye family is no less than the death of Ye Xun, the ancestor of the Ye family, five years ago. Even if the Ye family completely blocks this news, it will still have a great impact on the clan members.
Ye Chen nodded silently.
Knowing the original plot, he was actually prepared for this matter, but he did not expect it to happen so early, which was a bit unexpected for Ye Chen.
"What does the family plan to do?" Ye Chen looked at his father, wanting to know how the family would deal with this matter.
Ye Lan was somewhat bewildered by this and replied, "For the time being, we can only suppress the news and appease the clan members. With the family's current collection, it should be enough to last for a few years."
Ye Chen nodded, this was a relatively safe approach.
Although the Ye family's secret elixirs can no longer be refined due to the Yang Fire Ancient Altar, and the refining of other high-level elixirs will also be greatly affected, the Ye family still has some stocks of these elixirs, and can still help the backbone of the family improve their strength.
The ones who are most affected are the younger generation like Ye Chen and his friends.
Scratching his head, Ye Chen suggested: "It's not enough to just rely on the old capital. The family must find a new way out. We can use the power of the family's connections to collect more Dou Wang and Dou Huang level strength-enhancing prescriptions to make up for the lack of family elixirs."
As a family of alchemists with hundreds of years of heritage, the Ye family has a large collection, and low-level prescriptions are even more numerous, so the most important ones are the sixth-grade elixir recipes used by Dou Wang and Dou Huang.
Ye Lan just nodded silently to this suggestion without any special reaction.
The recipe for a sixth-grade elixir, not to mention the highest quality formula for improving strength. Any one of them is the foundation of an alchemist. Is it so easy to get it?
But no matter how difficult it is, he must try!
Since it is already difficult to train high-level alchemists in the family, the strength of the family members must be improved, otherwise the Ye family will really become meat in the mouths of others!
Seeing his father's distressed expression, Ye Chen couldn't help but comfort him, "Actually, this isn't too bad. The family can still hold on for a few more years. Give me three years. Within three years, I will definitely be able to raise my alchemist level to the sixth rank or above. By then, at my age, it won't be difficult for me to enter the Dan Tower. This way, the crisis facing our Ye family can be alleviated a little bit..."
Ye Chen also knew the problem with the Yang Fire Ancient Altar. It was just that the fire outlet below was blocked by the Earth Core Pearl.
The Earth Core Pearl, also commonly known as the Earth Core Fire Pearl, is a bead of energy condensed from the essence of the earth's depths over countless eons. This bead possesses immense power, and it's said to be used in the refining of eighth- and even ninth-grade elixirs.
The Earth Core Bead is a special item that is considered one of the wonders of heaven and earth. It is usually hidden deep in the earth and is extremely difficult to find.
However, when some volcanoes erupt, Earth Core Pearls hidden deep underground may be ejected along with them. Generally speaking, most of the Earth Core Pearls that appear on the continent are obtained in this way...
Although the appearance of this thing caused the Ye family to lose the most important Yang Fire, it would not be a loss if they could obtain an Earth Core Pearl in the future.
After all, many people cannot cultivate such a precious wonder of heaven and earth even if they want to!
"Unfortunately, if I want to take the Earth Core Pearl out from deep underground, I need to wait until my soul power reaches at least 1500 soul points!"
According to Danta's classification of soul values, 1,500 soul values are enough to reach the level of a seventh-grade peak alchemist, and are almost at the limit of mortal souls.
Even with the help of the Star Map, it would take Ye Chen a long time to reach such a soul value.
On the other side, Ye Lan listened to his eldest son's comfort, but couldn't help but smile bitterly, and then said: "This is actually not what I am most worried about now. What I am most worried about now is that Danta will soon conduct an assessment of our five major families...
Among the young people under the age of 30 in our Ye family, the one with the highest alchemist level is the son of the fourth elder, your uncle Ye Qing. However, he has only just passed the sixth-grade primary alchemist assessment, and there is still a long way to go before he can pass the assessment..."
Before he finished speaking, Ye Chen almost wanted to sigh to the sky!
This is really adding insult to injury... The Ye family is so unlucky, it's even gotten to this extent!