Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
Less than a good-for-nothing?
Wasn’t it so? At that moment, both Song Han’s legs were buried deep in the mud and he was covered all over in it. He panted nonstop and it looked like he was kneeling.
“You’re seeking for death!” Song Han already knew that the girl in front of her was the Ye family’s fool, Ye Lingyue.
With dark eyes, his expression also darkened that it achieved the color of a liver. He mustered his strength under his knees and leaped up into the air.
Seeing that someone humiliated their young master, several of the Song family servants pounced at Ye Lingyue like hungry wolves.
Who knew that Ye Lingyue was already prepared for it? With a few steps and with her hands thrown back, she easily caught one of the Song family guards and threw it at Song Han.
It caught Song Han off-guard and his punch easily broke several of his guard’s bones.
“Hey, Song Second Young Master. Are your skills that inferior to mine that you’re using your guards to vent out your anger?” Ye Lingyue remarked as she laughed, her body wriggling like a snake.
With a flash, two of the Song family guards bumped into each other. They cried out in pain and landed on the floor, rolling.
At that moment, Song Han pounced over. But Ye Lingyue had seen everything clearly beforehand. She opened her fist and then pushed Song Han’s hand away with her palm. Song Han felt an unstoppable force meeting with his arm, and with that, he quickly tripped over.
Ye Lingyue coldly chuckled as she continued to hold on to Song Han. She then threw Song Han, a grown man who weighed about a hundred and thirty pounds, with a flick of her wrist with ease. But she pulled him back after.
With everything that had happened, Song Han lost his fierce attitude. Even the Song family guards were all sprawled on the ground. They all looked as terrible as they could be, and they were also calling out for help.
On the side, Ye Qing and Ye Ning were also flabbergasted. When did Ye Lingyue become so strong?
Wasn’t her cultivation only at the fourth level of body tempering during the inter-family competition?
Her opponent, Song Han, was already at the sixth level of body tempering. But in Ye Lingyue’s hands, it was as if he was a mere scarecrow, up for Ye Lingyue to play with.
Actually, both Ye Lingyue and Song Han were at the sixth level of body tempering. When it came to elementary force, Song Han wasn’t necessarily weaker than Ye Lingyue. However, since Ye Lingyue caught him off-guard and he fell off the horse, he fell under a very disadvantageous position which led him trapped under Ye Lingyue’s weird ‘Twisting Flower and Crushing Jade’ move. He got his limbs held in place, and thus, Ye Lingyue had the opportunity to roughly hit him.
“Stop it!” A thunder-like growl made the people from the Ye family all look over.
Great, a helper had arrived.
Ye Lingyue kept away her elementary force, and Song Han instantly fell onto the floor with a loud thud.
The entire place went silent, and everyone instantly fixed their eyes on Ye Lingyue.
It was then that Song Han finally saw how great of a beauty the Ye family fool was.
He stared at her slightly new, loose-sleeved martial arts outfit which fit her well around the waistline. And as she looked opposite to the wind’s direction, he could see her heart-shaped face, her small nose and well-defined, nicely drawn eyebrows, and the two casual braids that softly rested on her shoulder.
Looking at her sides, he realized that she didn’t bring along any guards or aides and merely brought a scrawny dog with her, unlike the usual missus or young masters taking part in the mountain hunt.
“You are Ye Fengyu’s daughter, Ye Lingyue? Were you the one who injured all of them?” The new arrivals were several young men and women. They were all riding horses, and the person who spoke was the oldest amongst them all. His eyebrows were thick and his gaze sharp, making his aura look extraordinary.
When he saw Ye Lingyue, he didn’t even get off the horse and looked down at her with an expression filled with arrogance.
“That’s right.” Ye Lingyue’s tone didn’t sound polite at all.
“How daring of you to humiliate a Song family member!” Anger filled the oldest man’s eyes.
“If I’m a coward, why would I come and take part in the mountain hunt? I might as well just go home and be a baby,” Ye Lingyue scoffed.
“What are you? Even Ye Liuyun wouldn’t dare to talk to me like this if she was here.” Ye Lingyue had angered the man. If it wasn’t for her status, he would have instantly killed this daring girl.
“Song Guangyi. Who are you then to dare to talk to a Ye family member like that?” Ye Sheng and several others walked over with large strides.
They happened to see this confrontation and thought that the Song family was making things difficult for Ye Lingyue and the rest. So they shouted as they walked over.
“Ye Sheng, just nice! How do you lead your team? This girl attacked and injured several of our Song family people out of nowhere.” Song Guangyi was Song Han’s older brother and Song Wanshi’s eldest son. He was terribly gifted in practicing martial arts and was already at the eighth level of body tempering at a young age. He was undeniably the top amongst the Song younger generation.
He had been learning martial arts out of town in the last few years, so it was a little unexpected that he suddenly returned for this mountain hunt.
“Lingyue, what happened?” Ye Sheng furrowed his eyebrows. The Ye Lingyue he knew wasn’t someone who started trouble.
“On the way up here earlier, Song Han and the rest had their horses galloping at full speed and spilled mud on me. I was just returning what they did to me.” Ye Lingyue pointed at the mud stains on her skirt.
It was alright when she hadn’t said it, but after she did, Ye Sheng and Song Guangyi noticed several mud stains on Ye Lingyue’s skirt.
Then they glanced at Song Han. Not only was his face swollen, he also had several broken teeth as well. Mud had covered him entirely, that no one could even see his face. He looked just like a mud monkey while his guards looked even worse with their broken legs and arms.
No one could tell that with how weak Ye Lingyue looked, her attacks were even more ruthless than the local mafia.
Ye Sheng held back the urge to burst out in laughter as he quietly gave Ye Lingyue a hand gesture of admiration.
The corners of Song Guangyi’s lips twitched as well. He looked like he was about to burst out in anger.
“Nephew Ye, Nephew Song, this is just a mere warm-up before the mountain hunt, so why are you so fixed on this?” A kind-looking elder walked over. When Song Guangyi saw the elder, his anger instantly left him and he didn’t dare to even let out a quiet fart.
It was an elder of Autumn Maple town, Old Town Leader Liu. Talking about this Old Town Leader Liu, everyone in Autumn Maple town knew of him and he was the only connate master in town. When he was younger, he was once the Chief Commander in the Great Xia military camp.
There was even a rumor saying that the Town Leader has been keeping in contact with the Great Xia’s military.
Everyone knew that the largest purchaser of dark iron ores in the Great Xia nation was the Great Xia military. That was why both the Ye and Song families didn’t dare to offend the Old Town Leader.
It was also because of calm Old Town Leader Liu’s existence that the Ye and Song families could live peacefully and obediently like kittens in Autumn Maple Town in the last few years.
It was Ye Lingyue’s first time seeing the Old Town Leader. All she saw was his white hair and a long beard. He didn’t look like a martial arts practitioner at all. But from the smart glimmer hidden in his eyes, he wasn’t a simple person at all.
With Old Town Leader Liu around as a mediator, the Ye and Song families could only stop fighting for the time being. After a while, the other martial arts practitioners and families in Autumn Maple town slowly arrived. They waited until it was around noon before Old Town Leader Liu finally announced that Autumn Maple town’s mountain hunt had officially started.