"Why don’t you die?" Helan Yuze sneered as he kept a safe distance from Helan Mei, his biological aunt.
"It’s hurtful to hear this from you, my beloved nephew." Helan Mei shook her head as she glanced at everyone in the room faintly before her eyes fell on Shenlian Yingyue and the maid beside her.
"Mind introducing these people to me, Ze’er?" Helan Mei approached them as she sopped when she was ten steps close to them.
"Get Out!" Helan Yuze spoke in a voice that was frozen and unyielding.
"Is this the tone you spoke to your aunt? Anyway, let’s forget about the unpleasant thing. I came to invite you to our main hall. My father wants to see you." She laughed.
"Thanks!" Helan Yuze uttered, his words laced with irony.
Helan Mei didn’t take his rude attitude to heart. She was in a good mood, and she left. She had a long future and wanted to make him hers.
If she knew that Shenlian Yingyue was Helan Yuze’s fiancée and wife, she would undoubtedly turn into a big villain.
"A’Ze..." Shenlian Yingyue patted Helan Yuze’s shoulder.
"I’ll be back soon, Yue’er. Please look after her for me." He looked at the men in the room and left.
"Don’t you follow him, sister?" Sima Ke Xin asked hesitantly.
"I can see him and everyone’s movements." She calmly sat on the chair as she put Xiao Yun, Xiao Li, and Fen Fen on the table.
Her eyes watched every move by Helan Yuze to prevent someone from hurting him.
How did she know? By sending her Spirit Bees to patrol everywhere. Thanks to her strength now, she advanced to this step, and her Spirit Bees evolved as they unlocked the new ability.
Their new ability was to pretend as if they were dead objects. People would not notice them, and their size was as small as dust. Everything that they saw appeared in their master’s eyes as long as they allowed her to use them.
"Fen Fen, me and my beloveds had found a lot of ingredients for curing you. I can’t make an immortal pill now, but I promise I’ll work hard." She stroked Fen’s pink head.
"Xiao Yueyue, you’re too good to me." Tuzi AoFen’s pink paws wrapped around her small wrist with affection.
She smiled. Although she was talking to him, her eyes had never left Helan Yuze.
"Master, I sense a big villain aura here." Xiao Li threw a strawberry into his mouth.
"Who else but she?" Xiao Yun rubbed his chin.
"You guys are smart." She stroked their heads.
Not long after Helan Yuze’s grandfather finished talking to him, all twenty disciples were called to the banquet hall to see him.
"I hold a banquet here to welcome you talented youngsters from far away. For this entire year, you’ll live in this Ablaze Country, Crystal Country, where you’ll be trained under my people." Patriach Helan’s grizzled face told the story of a life lived hard and true. His very being radiated an aura of authority and power, as his tone was neither slow nor fast.
When he came to measure Shenlian Yingyue’s strength, he paused slightly. Strange. Why did he sense danger from this girl? It must be his imagination. He was a strong man; how could he feel inferior and weak in the face of this girl?
"You, go fight with her." He pointed to a girl on the team. The girl was 23 years old, but she looked like she was a 19-year-old girl, and her strength reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul.
Shenlian Yingyue had no problem. She came here to observe how these big hermit clans train people and what their objectives are for doing so.
As soon as she understood their intentions and way of training, she would find a way to leave and explore the dangerous areas by herself because she needed to train more than this.
As they fought, they developed new strategies and tactics. They learned to adapt to different situations. This increased everyone’s ability to think and react quickly in the face of unexpected challenges.
The youngsters of the Helan clan at first despised them. But soon, they began to fight seriously when they found out that these people from the Inner Domain were not fuel-efficient lamps.
Shenlian Yingyue effortlessly won all her opponents without suffering any injuries. Her opponents were provoked by her indifferent expression and kept challenging her.
How could they swallow this defeat? They were obviously stronger than her!
The fourth elder kept training them in combat battles every day. Each time they learned new ways to deal with their opponents, he would let them fight with another opponent.
Switching back and forth, sometimes he let them fight with those who were twice more powerful than them. They lost but didn’t give up.
They returned to their rooms with blood and wounds every day.

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