High-Martial World: System Arrives 30 Years Late

Chapter 560 - 398: Sir, I Want to Witness the Day You Become the Saint Slayer!

As we go back in time, Ye Mountain was surrounded at Shanhai Pass by many people from the Martial Arts Association and martial arts schools. Facing their heated arguments and their offers of olive branches, Ye Mountain couldn’t help but feel an array of emotions.

Although he was born to a branch of the Ye Family in Min Province, his days in the branch weren’t easy. He considered his martial arts talent to be not as monstrous as those of the main family, but still outstanding among his generation, and even among several generations in the branch.

Finally, one day, Ye Mountain couldn’t hold back any longer. He approached his father to inquire, and his father, after a long silence, finally revealed the truth with a guilty expression.

To put it simply, the branch in Min Province was different from other branches. It was once a part of the main family, but due to a grave mistake made by their ancestor, they were exiled from the main family.

Since then, the branch in Min Province has always wanted to return to the main family but has been continuously neglected, to the point where no Titled Grandmaster has emerged in the branch, with only a few Fourth Forging Martial Arts Grandmasters.

And that erring ancestor was a direct blood relative of Ye Mountain’s lineage. When he heard about these reasons at the time, Ye Mountain felt angry but fell into silence on the spot. The sins of their ancestor continued to haunt their branch.

Since then, Ye Mountain has faced condemnation with defiance and trained even more diligently, keeping his martial arts realm ahead of his peers from the same family. However, this also resulted in greater jealousy.

From then on, there has always been a thought, or perhaps an obsession, in Ye Mountain’s heart, and he has silently vowed it countless days and nights.

"The mistake once made by the ancestor, I hope this sin can end in my hands, Ye Mountain."

Ye Mountain is not arrogant. He only thinks of the guilt shown by his father, and the cold stares his family receives daily. If possible, he absolutely does not want such a situation to continue in his descendants.

"No, this mustn’t continue!"

His visit to Shanhai Pass wasn’t to catch up with friends but to seek an elder in martial arts who had connections with his ancestors. This person is now a Titled Grandmaster running a martial arts school, and Ye Mountain hoped to receive guidance to quickly break through to the Grandmaster Realm.

However, there wasn’t much connection left, and the other party was only willing to offer a sentence or two of guidance before asking him to leave, requesting him not to return in the future. Ye Mountain understood that the other party was afraid of offending the Ye Family.

Especially since it was a crucial moment for the Ye Family’s Patriarch’s grand feast, while Shanhai Pass was right under the Imperial Capital.

After all, even a Titled Grandmaster meant nothing in front of a top martial arts family like the Ye Family, which possessed Martial Saints and Martial Saint inheritances.

Walking out of the elder’s martial arts school, Ye Mountain pondered over the elder’s guidance repeatedly in his mind but couldn’t understand it at all.

And then.

Now looking back, Ye Mountain feels incredibly fortunate. In his distress, a moment of inspiration came. He sensed a profound gaze, leading him to look up.

It was a pair of eyes bright as stars, and then Ye Mountain saw a handsome young man in a taxi smiling and nodding at him.

Following this, an invisible pressure fell like Mount Tai, and a bronze ancient gate, surrounded by flames connecting heaven and earth, opened. At the moment he saw this door.

Ye Mountain felt as if the clouds had parted and the sky became clear.

And thus, the Path of the Grandmaster finally opened!

At the moment, Ye Mountain still doesn’t clearly understand that the reason Su Mu noticed him was that his distressed look reminded Su Mu of his own past.

In any case, even now, Ye Mountain still finds it unbelievable that just being noticed by someone led to his breakthrough to become a Martial Arts Grandmaster, which was truly extraordinary.

So afterward, when he recounted this event to the first people from the Martial Arts Association who arrived, no one would believe him, and hence Ye Mountain stopped mentioning it.

"I wonder if there will be a chance in this life to meet that senior again. This is a true master; meeting such a master is truly the fortune of my life, Ye Mountain!"

Ye Mountain showed a look of regret, but in a moment, he appeared hopeful again.

"Perhaps the senior is visiting here during this period, and there might be another chance to meet!"

Ye Mountain speculated that the master might also be coming to attend the grand feast of the Ye Family, thus providing another opportunity to meet.

Thinking of this, Ye Mountain trembled all over. The offers and attention just now made him forget that today was an important day.

"Oh no, I have to hurry to the ancestral land. Today is the day to pay respects to our ancestors. My father surely values this day greatly!"

Ye Mountain immediately bid farewell to the crowd and quickly left.

"Stop fighting, the main person has already left!"

At this moment, some onlookers seeing the people of the Martial Arts Association and martial arts schools still arguing, couldn’t help but comment.

"Huh? Where is he?!"

...

"Huangfu Tian practiced martial arts for half a year and could complete three Bone Temperings, advancing to a First Level Martial Artist."

"Then he broke through the Fifth Realm in five years, achieving Sixth Level Martial Artist at the age of twenty."

"He then activated the Martial Saint’s Will left by Qingfeng Martial Saint Li Lang in the stone lion at the Shenjiang City Martial Arts Association, and then traveled through Huaxia, advancing to Martial Arts Grandmaster in ten years."

"Haha, who would have thought I, Ye Mountain, could advance to Grandmaster at thirty-two, just two years later than Huangfu Tian!"

"At this Ye Family grand feast, perhaps Huangfu Tian might also appear!"

On the way to the Ye Family, Ye Mountain was extremely excited, yet he knew he and Huangfu Tian were not from the same world at all.

Because Huangfu Tian did not only break through the Grandmaster Realm at thirty; it was because he wasn’t willing to break through. His ambition was extremely high, otherwise, Huaxia might have seen a Martial Arts Grandmaster in their early twenties, paving the way to challenge the youngest Martial Arts Grandmaster in history."