I Just Wanted To Live but I Somehow Became Better Than the Protagonist

“Yong’er, what on earth is going on?” The three Transformation Masters could no longer maintain their composure; the concept of an empty storage treasure was entirely different from one filled with resources of various realms.

Zhou Suren, who had intended to be a mere observer, couldn’t help but curiously pick up a bag lying at his feet.

Good heavens, it’s packed full of sixth-grade spiritual plants needed for the Void Stage. This storage bag must be a hundred cubic units; selling the entire Great Zhou Dynasty might not even fetch this price.

Spiritual plants are actually just raw materials; if they were to be refined into pills, Zhou Suren couldn’t even imagine the kind of bloodbath this bag would incite.

The weight of the item in his hand felt as if it had been magnified infinitely. Zhou Suren quickly and cautiously placed it back where it was, at his feet.

In his lifetime, he had never thought that such valuable resources would be carelessly left on the ground.

Silently listening to Ye Yong explain the origins of the resources to Ye Wen and the others, Zhou Suren couldn’t help but think of his own son, who might be somewhere in the Xuan De Realm, playfully tussling with a mindless beast, reveling in his victory. A bitter feeling welled up in his heart.

“Uncle Zhou, I’m truly grateful for your arrival. Please accept this small token of my appreciation.” Ye Yong selected three storage bags.

Zhou Suren initially wanted to refuse, but perhaps due to a sudden surge of wealth mentality, Seventh Master Ye Wen boldly took them and shoved them into Zhou Suren’s hands: “Take it! What’s the matter? If you don’t accept it now, are you planning to leak the news and bring others to rob our Ye family for more?”

Zhou Suren glanced at Ye Wen with a half-hearted push, “Alright, alright, if you take me in, I’ll be one of your crew. I swear on my life, if I reveal even a hint of information, may lightning strike me dead.”

Even in this strange realm, swearing an oath to the heavens was still a serious matter, especially for cultivators, who often defied fate itself. To dare go against a vow made to the heavens would typically result in punishment far worse than the oath itself. However, such punishment wouldn’t come immediately; it would manifest at some future juncture.

As the saying goes, it’s not that retribution doesn’t come, it’s just that the timing hasn’t arrived.

Zhou Suren took a cursory glance at the three storage bags, all filled with spiritual plants, each containing resources for the Qi Condensation, God Transformation, and Void Refinement stages.

Perhaps compared to the ‘small mountain’ before him, this seemed trivial, but for the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was still a significant investment, especially the storage bag containing resources for the Void Refinement stage. If word got out, Zhou Suren had no doubt that the next day, the Great Zhou Dynasty would vanish from sight.

Secretly observing Ye Yong, Zhou Suren increasingly felt that Ye Yong was a child of fortune; only a legendary child of destiny could receive such treatment. Just by associating with him, the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty had instantly doubled. If he could become the imperial son-in-law of the Great Zhou…

“Little Yong, you can articulate the sacred words, indicating you possess the qualities of a scholar. Of course, I’m not asking you to change your path to the literary way; I just think you could delve a little deeper. The Sacred Academy is a very good avenue. If you wish to explore, I can have Yunqi guide you.”

The Yunqi Zhou Suren mentioned was the eleventh princess of the Great Zhou Dynasty and a third-rank scholar of the Sacred Academy. Although he knew Zhou Suren was trying to promote his daughter, one couldn’t deny that a third-rank scholar from the Sacred Academy was quite impressive. Ye Yong had long wanted to enter the Sacred Academy through her, hoping to connect with the female lead of the academy.

“As long as Sister Yunqi doesn’t mind, I’d be willing to broaden my horizons whenever I have the time.”

“Ha ha ha.” Hearing Ye Yong refer to Zhou Yunqi as ‘Sister,’ Zhou Suren was delighted. If you can call her sister today, tomorrow you might just call her your benefactor.

The day when the child of fortune and the dragon descendant of the Great Zhou Dynasty would unite was just around the corner.

Qin Shimeng showed no expression; she simply sat in the pavilion pouring tea for Lin Wei. Liang Xiaorou, however, was not pleased. Who in the room didn’t know what Zhou Suren was scheming? She felt that Ye Yong’s lack of refusal indicated he had thoughts about the princess of the dynasty.

“By the way, Xiao Die has recently been practicing sound painting. The teacher says she has great talent. After she builds her foundation, I want to send her to Tianluo Sect’s Sound Painting Hall. I hope you can look after her a bit, but I wonder…”

Buying one and getting one free isn’t supposed to work like this. Moreover, Zhou Xiaodie, as the youngest princess, is indeed a bit lacking; it’s not quite right.

Feeling Liang Xiaorou’s gaze, Ye Yong could only smile awkwardly and suggest discussing it later.

After counting the resources, he handed everything over to the elders of the Ye family and Zhou Suren. The few of them, who had been shocked and unaccustomed from the beginning, gradually became numb.

By early morning, everything had been counted, and the three grandfathers along with Zhou Suren decided to transport these resources in batches, secretly.

Naturally, the first to be taken were the resources for the Great Ascension, the smallest in number, with only ten storage bags. However, the value of these ten storage bags could be said to exceed that of a small mountain of supplies. The reason is simple: they are for the Great Ascension.

“We are not enough by ourselves; we should move them quickly to avoid long nights filled with dreams,” Ye Wen decided to return to the Kunlun Realm to gather people, and in the meantime, take the Great Ascension resources back to the Ye family for safekeeping.

“Call in some trustworthy members from the collateral branches and the higher-ups of the branch families, and let them be responsible for the resources below the Transformation stage.”

“There should also be a limit; each person can only take two storage rings and storage bags, and they can only participate in one transport. The most valuable items, like medicinal herbs and talismans, should be taken by our direct family members, while they can take the spirit plants. This way, even if someone with greedy intentions tries to run off with the goods, the losses can be minimized.”

While the storage bags filled with golden infant resources were tempting, leaking the news wouldn’t be enough to make the Ye family a target for a united front. After all, counting the collateral branches, the Ye family had over thirty Transformation stage cultivators. It was precisely because of this number that the Ye family could establish a foothold in the Eastern Continent.

Moreover, the proportion of golden infant resources was small; as long as there were a few more people, they could transport everything back to the Kunlun Realm in no time.

Even if there were some gossip, it would only spread that the Ye family had obtained a large amount of golden infant resources in the Xuande Realm, which wouldn’t stir up much of a storm. The Eastern Continent is vast and rich, and the foundations of various sects and families cannot be measured solely by golden infant resources.

What can I say, it’s still the elders; they quickly resolved Ye Yong’s troubles without him having to worry.

In the following days, there were occasionally Kunlun realm human cultivators coming and going in pairs in the West City District. The news of the war in the Northern Cold Continent gradually spread throughout the Xuan De realm, and the matters concerning the Holy Word were circulated in a rather mysterious manner. Thanks to this mystery, the public only believed part of it, trusting their own common sense, like the Holy Word reinforcing the city’s protective formation—this was not unreasonable.

But claims about assisting the Great Ascension Demon Emperor to break through from the third layer to the sixth layer were simply too unrealistic. As a grounded and diligent cultivator, how could one believe such rumors of soaring to the heavens in a single leap?

The sordid actions of the Xuan Yang clan were also exposed. After all, in the Xuan De realm for thousands of years, Ye Yong was the only Holy Word to reveal himself to the public eye, and he was an outsider. This explained why outsiders could gain the recognition of the Heavenly Dao; because local acknowledgment was useless, as they would be stifled by the Xuan Yang clan before they could make any moves.

A series of events led to the once most closely watched Demon Hundred Forest Secret Realm receiving little attention now.