Ye family.

One of the four major families of Yuanxiao City.

It controls half of the medicinal herbs, one-third of the weapons, and one-quarter of the army's resources within a radius of thousands of miles in the city and its surroundings...... The comprehensive strength ranks second among the four major families.

Even so, the huge Ye family has only one place to enter Qingyun Mountain every three years...... The Ye family also needs to provide countless resources every year.

Not only the Ye family, but the other three major families, even the Cui family, who controlled a low-grade spirit stone vein, handed over countless spirit stones every year, and there was only one special recruitment quota.

In order to compete for this place, the heroes and talents within the four major families have broken the dog's brain, and various means have been used.

Like what Ye Kong encountered, it was not the most vicious.

But he almost lost his life.

Fortunately, after the system was injected into his body, the protection mode was immediately turned on to stop the injury from worsening and stimulate the heart to beat again.

……

Three days later.

Ye Kong woke up slowly, and there was a whining cry in his ears, as well as a sharp pain like ants eating bones all over his body.

"My time, if you leave, what will my mother do?"

"My mother only has one son, you, you are gone, and my mother is not alive!"

The woman beside the bed, crying heartbreakingly, she was dressed in coarse cloth and plain clothes, like a subordinate, her hands were full of calluses, deep groove-like eye wrinkles, and her forehead sideburns showed white threads.

"Mother~"

Ye Kong, who was wrapped in gauze, screamed, and a tear flowed from the corner of his eye: "Don't cry anymore." ”

The woman shouted in surprise: "You're awake!"

"Water, children are thirsty. ”

"Mother, go get it right away!"

……

After another day, his body recovered a little, and his condition was much better.

An unfamiliar voice came from my head: "Child, are you finally awake?"

"Who? who is talking?" Ye Kong was startled, twisting his neck to look around.

"Don't look for it, I'm in your head, you can call me...... Grandpa. ”

After taking a moment, Zhou Ming explained the ins and outs of the matter.

"It turned out that it was the old man who saved me, thank you old man!"

Immediately, Ye Kong's heart rose with anger again, you are Ye Chen! You are both a child of the Ye family and a brother of a father, in order to cover up your ugliness, you can really do that!

It is true that Ye Kong, who is a concubine, has a very low status in the Ye family, but it is not low enough to be bullied by everyone, at least he will be assigned to a separate courtyard, a maid who serves him closely, and a higher treatment than ordinary family children, otherwise Ye Kong will not have the opportunity to cultivate to the middle stage of Qi refining.

It's just that the main mother, Mrs. Liu, is jealous, her heart is like a snake and scorpion, and she has been serving all the year round to bully her mother, and if she makes a small mistake, she will be severely punished.

The better Ye Kong's performance, the more hateful Mrs. Liu's face became, sometimes it was so excessive that even the head of the family couldn't look at her, but she was helpless, because she was the noble daughter of the Liu family, one of the four major families in Yuanxiao City.

And Ye Kong's mother is just a lowly maid.

"Background is very important, especially in this kind of big family, if you don't have a good background, but perform well, then you can only be suppressed. ”

Zhou Ming understands this phenomenon very well, the marriage between nobles and nobles, and the heirs born must be talented geniuses and will definitely shine!

But Ye Kong's existence has broken this concept and destroyed that sense of superiority, and some people feel better than it is strange.

Zhou Ming asked Ye Kong: "Ye Kong, when will the Qingyun Mountain Recruitment Contest be held?"

"On the tenth day after the appearance of the eighth moon. ”

"How many days are left?"

"Five days, I ...... There is no chance. Ye Kong's tone was gloomy, he was seriously injured now, and it was impossible for him to participate in the Apprentice Receiving Competition.

"Old Grandpa can cure you in three days, catch up with that apprentice competition, are you sure that you can defeat all your opponents, be favored by the apprentice elders of Qingyun Mountain, and then accept you as a disciple?"

"Yes! I am not afraid of anyone except Ye Chen! But Ye Chen is 18 years old, I am 15 years old, he is the body of medicine and poison, I am the body of pure yuan, although I can't beat Ye Chen, but after the apprentice elders see me, they will definitely choose me to start!"

Ye Kong said excitedly, he was full of confidence in himself!

"Okay!Ye Kong, the old man will heal the injuries on your body, help you recover your strength, and let Ye Chen look at your arrival in shock in the recruitment competition, in addition, the old man has a cultivation method suitable for you here, if you get started quickly, maybe you can break through to the late stage of qi refining in the last two days, tie with Ye Chen, or defeat him, and make that elder even more impressed with you!"

"After that, you will step into Qingyun Mountain in countless envious and jealous eyes, and become the immortal disciple that everyone dreams of, and after many years, you will be a powerful cultivator with profound cultivation and invincible opponents!"

"No one dares to underestimate you Ye Kong anymore!"

"At that time, not to mention a small Ye Chen, the entire Ye family, the entire Yuanxiao City, will kneel at your feet!"

"Your Ye Kong's name will shake the entire continent!"

The old man in his brain tried his best to depict this scene that Ye Kong often imagined in his dreams.

The corners of Ye Kong's mouth hung into a smile, and the pain on his body seemed to be gone, and he hurriedly urged: "Grandpa, quickly heal my injuries, and then give me the exercises you said!"

"But ......"

The old man's tone in his mind changed, and he asked a question: "What about your mother, after you went to Qingyun Mountain, what should you do if your mother was tortured to death by the unwilling Ye Chen and his mother?"

"They dare!"

Ye Kong's eyes bulged out, quickly engorged, gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "They dare to do this, I will kill them!"

"Why don't they do this, you also said it, Qingyun Mountain's recruitment range is 10 to 18 years old, this time the recruitment is the last chance for Ye Chen, you took his opportunity, what do you say he will do?" asked the old man.

"This ......"

Although I don't want to imagine in that direction, the situation that the old man said is indeed very likely to happen.

"If you are willing to give up your mother, you can participate in the big competition in five days. ”

"No, no, no, there must be a way, I will ask my father to send someone to protect her, or send her to a place where no one can find her, and give her a sum of money so that she can enjoy her old age in peace. ”

Ye Kong worked hard to conceive a solution.

"Your father? In the past few days when you were injured and unconscious, has your father ever come to see you? Has he ever punished Ye Chen at all? Can you still expect your father to take care of your mother?"

"And send it to a place where no one is, whether you can take your mother away from the Ye family is a question in the first place, even if you leave, the forces behind the mother and son can't find your mother's hiding place?"

"Unless you bring your mother to Qingyun Mountain, she will definitely be killed, and she may endure endless pain and suffering before she dies, and your son, who can't get to her, is really miserable. ”

"Say no more!"

Ye Kong suddenly roared, with a crying voice: "Old man, please don't say it!"

"My mother has suffered enough for me, even if I die, I don't want her to suffer the slightest grievance!"

"I won't participate in the big competition of collecting apprentices, and I won't go to Qingyun Mountain!"

The smart Ye Kong understands the meaning of the old man's words, so he also knows how to decide-because his life was brought to this world by the woman who worked hard.

"What a sincere and filial person, the old man found you, he found the right person. ”

"Ye Kong, do you know why you are always suppressed, and your mother is always bullied?"

"It's not that you're too good, it's that you won't hide this excellence well, the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it, and if you are too top-notch, you will naturally be targeted by others. ”

"Grandpa knows that you are still young and don't know some truths, so you work hard to prove yourself to others, and you want your mother to be proud and proud of you, which is completely understandable, but you ignore your own origins......"

"This time, although you are seriously injured, it is a good opportunity to take your mother and leave the Ye family, out of guilt, your father will definitely agree, and your mother will also be properly settled. ”

"As for entering the sect, there is not only one sect in the world, not only Qingyun Mountain, why bother only staring at this one? Don't you yourself say that there is a Guanglei Mountain thousands of miles away to the east, this sect is not only more powerful than Qingyun Mountain, but the standard of accepting disciples seems to be lower, why don't you go to that Guanglei Mountain and give it a try?"

"Ye Kong, you are still young, you have excellent talents, plus the exercises given to you by your grandfather, how can you not enter Guanglei Mountain?"

"Remember one sentence: there is never more than one opportunity, there are those who are waiting for the opportunity to come to the door, and there are those who are actively looking for it, how to choose, depending on how you grasp it?"

After listening to the old man's words in his mind, Ye Kong only felt that his eyes suddenly brightened, and he nodded emphatically and said, "Old man, I know what to do!"