Chapter 321: Volume-3 Chapter-23!
"What do you want me to do, Ye Ming? Do you want to take them with us?"
Ye Ming glanced in the direction of the gathered emperor realm cultivators and Ashen, his mind calculating the pros and cons.
If I leave them here, they should just die...
But the dragon emperor is on his way.
He will surely not forgive me for abandoning the prince.
It is just too big of a risk.
Moreover, the array around us is blocking our escape.
Unless the ninth prince removes it, no one can escape this area.
Making up his decision, Ye Ming said:
"Father, we cannot leave without the ninth prince. If he is killed here, the Shang clan won't forgive me."
"Ninth Prince?" Ye Chen was taken aback. "What is he doing in a place like this?"
Ye Ming decided to tell Ye Chen the whole scenario in brief.
After Ye Chen understood the situation, he looked at Lin Feng in a new light.
This junior killed that many emperor realm cultivators alone?
He could become a problem in the future.
Moreover, my son has attacked him.
There's no way he will forget that.
Should I just kill him here and now?
Yeah, that would be for the best.
Like that, the Shang clan will owe me a favor for saving their prince.
Even though Ye Chen knew that Lin Feng was extraordinary, he was still an intermediate-stage emperor realm cultivator.
There was no way for Ye Chen to lose.
Ye Chen was confident in killing Lin Feng if he desired to do it.
He was just sparing him because he didn't want to paint his hands with blood on the day of his reunion with his son.
But now that he had a reason to, there was no need to hold back.
Since Lin Feng was a criminal, no one would hold him accountable for killing him.
He would even get praised as a hero who saved so many emperor realm cultivators and Ashen from death.
He turned to Lin Feng and answered:
"Junior, it appears you have committed too many crimes. As a righteous path cultivator, I cannot ignore that. Even though it's a pity to kill someone as talented as you, it appears you leave me no choice."
Hearing his response, Lin Feng laughed heartily:
"Yes! That's how you should act!"
His eyes gleamed behind his menacing mask, and he added:
"But remember—if you come after my life, be ready to lose yours as well!"
Ye Chen almost couldn't believe his ears.
This junior still had the confidence to boast like this.
Was he confident in defeating him as well?
But how?
No one could hope to close the gap between the intermediate and upper stages of the emperor realm.
It should've been a hopeless fight for him—almost like a death sentence!
However, even if Ye Chen felt like Lin Feng had some trick up his sleeve, he still decided to go with his earlier decision to kill him.
Since the dragon emperor was coming, it would not matter if he could kill him on his own or not.
In the worst-case scenario, he would just need to hold on until the dragon emperor arrived, and with both of them working together, they could easily take care of Lin Feng.
He smirked and then warned Lin Feng:
"Alright then, since you are so confident in your strength, let's see you back your words."
He then glanced at Ye Ming and said with a smile:
"Son, go and hide. I'll take care of him, and then we can go see my daughter-in-law."
Ye Ming nodded and left before dissolving in the darkness.
He then appeared beside Ashen, rising from the darkness.
Ashen, on the other hand, was in talk with the system.
"System. Why does this Ye Chen seems like a protagonist?"
He had heard the murmurs of the elders behind him, and from them he could tell that Ye Chen's journey and talent in cultivation resembled a protagonist.
The system replied without any pause.
[Ding! Host, Ye Chen was a protagonist; however, he is not anymore. The protagonist is now his son, Ye Ming!]
"Huh?" Ashen's eyes widened.
This was the first time he saw something like this.
Since when could the protagonist just not be one?
And how could he transfer his protagonist status to his son?
Was there really this much he didn't know about the protagonists?
"Then how does it work? How did he lose his protagonist status?" Ashen asked curiously.
[Ding! Host, it is simple. Ye Chen has reached his potential. The world helped him when he was weak; however, now he has reached the maximum heights he could reach. His story is over.]
"Ohhh..." Ashen mumbled in realization.
However, he was still not convinced.
He had more questions that needed to be answered:
"Then what happened to his luck points? Are they all consumed? And will I receive villain points if I kill him?"
Even though he was aware that he couldn't kill Ye Chen, it was still worth asking, right?
If he would gain villain points, he could always come up with a plan to kill Ye Chen.
[Ding! Host, his luck points are now simple luck. Like how usual people have normal luck, he possesses similar luck. The world's will won't consume or grant him luck. Also, since he isn't a protagonist, you will not receive Villain Points by harming him.]
Ashen nodded in understanding.
So the system meant his luck was similar to normal people like the Dragon Emperor or the Poison Emperor.
They were also upper-stage emperor realm cultivators like Ye Chen, but they didn't have luck points.
So Ye Chen had become normal after achieving his goals and potential.
It was at this moment that Ye Ming appeared beside Ashen.
He first bowed and greeted him and then began to tell him about what happened.
He sounded excited and proud, telling him about who his father was.
It appeared he enjoyed his new identity pretty well.
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