With the Hundred Year Monkey Wine and the 50% dark iron ore, it doubled the happiness for the Ye Master’s birthday banquet!

 Everyone knew that Ye Gu was already at the peak of postnatal. Now that he had received a jar of Hundred Year Monkey Wine, it would be an absolute help for him to break through from the postnatal peak.

 As for the 50% dark iron ore, it meant that the Ye family’s mine had reached a higher level.

 Because of this, Ye Gu’s face happily flushed as he drank to no ends during the entire dinner.

 Halfway through, however, the Ye family butler arrived and whispered something into Ye Gu’s ear. His expression darkened.

 “Old Brother Ye, why didn’t you inform me about your birthday banquet today?” The doors opened and the Song family master, Song Wanshi, walked in arrogantly with several of his Song family members.

 Why was he here?

 The guests that were all happily drinking froze.

 Everyone knew that the Ye family and the Song family had been at odds for the Seven Stars Mountain mining rights.

 Ye Gu and Song Wanshi’s abilities were similar, both were at the postnatal peak. However, their personalities were drastically different. Ye Gu’s personality was fiery and straightforward, while Song Wanshi was cunning and petty. If it wasn’t for the town leader’s intervention, they would have already killed one another.

 “Brother Song is known for being busy. How would I dare trouble Brother Song with just a mere birthday banquet?” Ye Gu asked indifferently. No matter how unwilling Ye Gu was, everyone who came was still considered as guests. He had no choice but to get up and welcome him.

 The Ye family’s principal members also all walked forward, and they stood beside Ye Gu with guarded expressions.

 Ye Lingyue remained seated beside Ye Fengyu. In the past days of helping at the Ye family quarry, she heard some things Song Wanshi had done from the workers.

 She even heard that the fake dark iron ore incident was Song Wanshi’s doing.

 From Ye Lingyue’s point of view, Song Wanshi was a few years younger than Ye Gu. He was slightly fat and had cunningness flashing in his inverted triangular eyes.

 This person wasn’t a good person.

 Ye Lingyue, in her thoughts, suddenly felt her eyebrow twitch when she discovered a rather unfriendly gaze looking at her.

 As Ye Gu and Song Wanshi faked being friendly with each other, the gaze that made Ye Lingyue uncomfortable came from the left of Song Wanshi.

 It was a young man who looked pale.

 That man was wearing a luxurious outfit but had slender limbs. He didn’t look like a martial arts practitioner nor a cultivator.

 The thing that made Ye Lingyue the most uncomfortable was that the man stared at her and her mother in a way that she felt goosebumps.

 1“Mother, is that man part of the Song family?” Ye Lingyue nudged Ye Fengyu beside her. That person felt a little weird.

 “It seems like he’s a guest of the Song family. He’s such a frivolous man.” Ye Fengyu glanced at the young man once, and she could already see the lust in his eyes. Instinctively, she pushed her daughter behind her to hide her away.

 The Ye family and the Song family were considered as two separate strengths in Autumn Maple town. Both would hire martial arts practitioners or some academics and act as the family’s guests. The man was so young but could stand next to Song Wanshi, so his identity was a striking question.

 Guest? Somehow, Ye Lingyue felt that the man was very dangerous. He felt even more dangerous than Song Wanshi.

 Such a pretty pair of sisters. He never expected a broken place like Autumn Maple town to have such soft beauties.

 Amongst the Song family’s entourage, the man who Song Wanshi called Master Lian noticed Ye Lingyue and Ye Fengyu the moment he arrived at the banquet.

 Amongst the mother and daughter pair, one of them had an aura like an Empty-valley orchid while the other was young and playful. They matched Master Lian’s taste perfectly.

 By the time they finished dealing with that old man, Ye Gu, and after the Ye family lost their leader, he would get Song Wanshi to give him this pair of sisters. Master Lian swallowed his saliva as he unwillingly looked away.

 “Brother Ye, since I was busy, I wasn’t able to prepare a grand gift for you. But I have a humble one here. Brother Ye, please accept it.” Song Wanshi’s eyes darkened as he laughed, and he ordered his men to bring a gift box in.

 Ye Gu took the gift box and examined it carefully, but he saw nothing wrong about it.

 Behind Song Wanshi, Master Lian was smiling coldly.

 Just as Ye Gu was about to open the gift box, the Qian cauldron in Ye Lingyue’s hand trembled.

 “This feeling!” Alarms rang in Ye Lingyue’s heart.

 There was no mistake. She was sure that it was psyche. Ye Lingyue immediately found out that someone in the Song family practiced psyche as well.

 That psyche came from that gift box… Ye Lingyue stared blankly at it.

 Since Ye Lingyue was still fairly new to psyche cultivation, she could only vaguely see a hint of cold glimmer.

 A sharp weapon! Grandpa was in danger.

 However, it was a little late to say anything by then for Ye Gu had already opened the gift box. That cold glimmer sparkled as the air instantly distorted. Only a puff was heard.

 With a sharp howl, an ominous shadow exploded from within the gift box.

 Ye Lingyue instantly used all of her energy and with a short ring, she tipped the dagger’s trajectory off.

 And it was this barely visible difference that made that fatal dagger brush past Ye Gu’s ear and stabbed straight into the opera stage behind him.

 Ah! Screams instantly filled the stage.

 The stage’s pillar broke into two pieces after a sparkling dagger pierced through its foundation.

 They failed!

 Both Song Wanshi and Master Lian’s expression darkened. What happened?

 “Song Wanshi, what is this?!” Ye Gu was also frightened that cold sweat covered his body.

 A sharp dagger was hidden in the gift box. If he wasn’t that lucky for the dagger to barely miss him, the dagger would have stabbed through him as it did to that pillar.

 “Brother Ye, please calm down. It’s only a silly joke. With Brother Ye’s ability, how can you not dodge a dagger?” Song Wanshi forced a smile out, but his expression still looked terrible.

 “Scram. The Ye family doesn’t welcome you.” Ye Gu was angered. Song Wanshi ruined a good birthday banquet just like that.

 1“Then, I’ll leave first.” Song Wanshi folded his palm together and left with his entourage.

 “Father, do we just leave this be?” Several of Ye Gu’s sons all stared at each other, wearing glum expressions as well.

 “It will be the mountain hunt in a few more days. We’ll settle things with that old man then.” The banquet ended on an unhappy note. Even Ye Gu was filled with anger as well. He had lost all his strength to even send his guests off, and he gloomily returned to rest in his room.

 Ye Lingyue finally sighed in relief, but sweat still covered her palms.

 It was only after the Ye family had sent their guests away, that they ordered their servants to tidy the mess and end the night like that.

 The originally noisy backyard instantly fell quiet.

 In the middle of the night, a tiny figure entered the backyard.

 That person bent down and searched around the stage that had yet to be dismantled.

 “It’s that.” The figure searched for a while before it found what it had been looking for. She took it and kept it to herself. She then sneaked out of the backyard.