While talks about who's who, where they're from continued as more and more geniuses entered the third floor, Long Ye actually started caring less and less.

As for that overbearing Gou Ki, after being humiliated by Hu Da he didn't want to draw more attention to himself and to also lose more face than he already did, besides each individuals who walked in had higher statuses than him.

In the Wild Dragon kingdom there was a total of a hundred eighteen Noble clans, and the Gou clan was ranked a hundred eighteen. So out all of the Noble clans they were ranked dead last.

So when all those elite of this generation walked in, none of them made a fuss about they're tables. None was throwing a tantrum about an absolute nobody sitting at the best seat in the house.

So who was he to make a scene, so he swallowed his pride and found another seat all while thinking of a way to pay this nobody back, and wash away his humiliation.

Long Ye on the other hand again kept on eating, he didn't have a care in world. As the bustle and hustle on the floor started getting more and more busy, some of the patrons started leaving in order to make space for those noble young masters.

but Long Ye kept on eating and sampling the dishes, after all he did order everything on the special menu, so he had to eat over two hundred different dishes. Yet despite reaching his twenty third single plate he wasn't even 1/4 full yet.

Some of the noble young masters and mistresses kept on looking at him in awe, very few threw in a look of contempt. In the world of cultivators food was  another source of fuel.

And by cultivating, they naturally crave more food.So it wasn't weird to see cultivators eating more than two to three times they're body weight at all.

But in Long Ye's case his appetite was simply outworldly. Suddenly using his senses Long Ye was able to sense a group of people walkimg up the stairs, yet no sound could be heard.

Soon thereafter the figure of an old man in his late eighties was seen coming up the stairs. He was an old man with a large body frame, even under his clothes one can still see his rippling muscles, he also had a long beard.

His eyebrows were thick and his eyes were sharp and had very serious air to him. After a quick scan of the entire room he suddenly frowned as his eyes rested on Long Ye's figure for a good while.

After a few seconds a clear voice filled with charisma and authority, sounded out from behind him.Yet it didn't sound overbearing or spoilt in any shape or form of way, oddly enough it was filled with caring and affection.

"Uncle Fu what's taking so long?"

After hearing that voice the old man turned around and bowed. His action clearly showed and highlighted how dedicated he was to his job,.

"Young master i old Fu apologizes for my action, but it seems like all the tables are filled up, please wait a minute and allow i this servant to make some space for you and the young miss."

As he was talking the figure of a young man is face was handsome and elegant with long hair that extends to his waist  he also wore a white robe. His body felt light like sand without any hint of sharpness. He was like a gust of wind or a natural fountain.

However, his eyes yellow eyes shone like stars in the night sky. It was almost as if he could pierce through one's soul with his gaze. But despite this his attitude was not overbering nor was he leaking any bloodthirsty aura, no a smile that instantly uplifted your mood was etched on his face.

His clothes were made of the finest silk imaginable, they were also threaded with gold. Without a doubt, this young man was no scrub, he had a great background.

Right behind him was another beautiful young woman around 20 years old, wearing a fiery red horse riding corset. that this girl was just perfect, her beauty was beyond comparison.

Especially her jade white face, it was a portrait of beauty! The only negative thing he could pick on was that the girl’s countenance was cold not like the Bing Fanand the other women from the Bing clan who were akin to that of a ice princess, She was cold as if totally uninterested in anything going on around her.

And right on cue a member of the flock of young master's by the name of Zhou Gongjin stood up and bowed, after which he stood up staright and held his right fist in his palm before saying

"Gongjin pays his respect to young master Hyou Kai, and young miss Shi Changying." After his steller ass kissing every eyes in the room turned to the recent arrival, some of the young masters began to whisper to each other.

"Hyou kai, you mean the second son of the wind marquis Hyou Zhen?"

"Behind him is his wife Shi Changying, holy s**t she is as beautiful as always"

"She is indeed very beautiful third only to the third princess and Bing Fan but still how come she is Hyou Kai's wife? her background his shrouded in mystery, there are no noble families with the name Shi and there no outstanding families with that name either so where did she come from?"

"True, the four marquises have incredibly high requirements when it comes to marriage, but from hat i've heard, she was brought in the Hyou household by the wife of the marquis, and at the age of twelve it was announced that shel is his betrothed. Not only that she is a true cultivating genius not any lower than Hyou Kai."

"That's insane!! Oh lord the madam of the Hyou household has indeed incredible wisdom"

"Yea, i mean she isn't known as the female saint of wisdom for nothing, she seemed to have everything under control, the nightmare of all scheming nobles, even King had to take her seriously."

"Seriously? even the king?"

"Yes, some sources say he even goes as far as calling her 'elder sister' even in public and acts like a little brother too."

"Eh!!"

"Well that shouldn't be to surprising, i mean she is known for her tough as nail and no nonsense attitude, not only that her father is the now retired military advisor of the previous king Tong Xinling and her mother Ji Yanran is the former grand tutor of the previous king. Not only that madam Tong Huizhong was also the tutor for the current king from the age of four till his ascend on the throne."

"HOLY S**T"

"What you didn't know?"

Ignoring all the whispers and comments Hyou Kai patted the young man's shoulder and with a smile on his face he said "Hahaha come,come don't be so courteous here or i will feel embarrassed, sit down and enjoy your meals, we are all equals here hahahaha."

While all this is going on Long Ye was observing out of the corner of his eye, from what he saw this young man was not faking his attitude nor was he putting on a front, he meant everything he said.

Smilling he than took a look at the girl besides him, she was indeed very beautiful, but again Long Ye wasnt the bit swayed by her looks, he knew if he wanted to get his rocks off he had two options.

One he could visit the local brothel, and paid a sum of money and enjoy all the women in there should he choose to, after all he possesses an infinite amount.

And option two is that he can just create a woman with his puppet skills, and she would be exactky to his taste, from personality, body type, and sexual preferences, so he wouldn't waste his time with those young mistresses of noble families.

Noticing his gaze, the old man behind the duo looked over to Long Ye, at first he thought that he would be like any other young masters who were thinking of dirty thoughts, with Shi Changying as they're main point of focus.

But to his shock, the young man in front of him had clear eyes, one that emited no such thoughts, he looked at her for a brief seconds befire turning his eyes to the old man, and after another short seconds, he turned back to his food without a care in the world.

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"What was that" thought the old man, he couldn't beleilve what his eyes were seeing, young man no less than twenty years old, who is already at the level four Earth profound realm at his age was without a doubt a heavenly genius of a big family, one that would of been spoiled to no end in his family, yet was neither arrogant nor lustful even after seeing a country destroying beauty like Shi Changying.

When he walked in the room he had already taken notice of Long Ye, after all he himself was a level three Spirit Profound realm cultivator, so could he not notice him. After all  Long Ye was the second strongest person in this hall besides him.

 After turning around Hyou Kai saw old man Fu looking at Long Ye, he saw how the table he was sitting in had four empty chairs and how all the other tables were full.

He walked over to where Long Ye was sitting cupped his hands and said "Brother i apologize, but are these seats taken? if not would you mind if we sit with you?"

Looking up at the friendly, and smilling Hyou Kai Long Ye said "nah they're free and no not all, please sit down." after saying this Long Ye decided to take a sip of the wine he ordered.

Seeing this Hyou Kai pulled up a chair and sat down, Shi Changying did the same followed by the old man named Fu, while kept on looking at Long Ye suspiciously, Shi Changying didn't even bother to say anything or even looked at him for more than a second.

Lu Kai on the other hand, decided to chat with him, after all he was imposing himself and his people on this young man's table, the very least he could do was to have a little chit chat.

"Brother my name is Hyou Kai, this is my wife Shi Changying, and this my trusted servant Fu Tei but i call him uncle Fu since he's been with me since i was in diapers hahaha"

While he introduced his people, the girl Shi Changying only noded her hand,while the old man put his hands on his chest and made a quick nod of his head.

Seeing this, Long Ye nodded back and said "my name is Long Ye,  i'm fifteen years old" after saying that he took another sip of his drink, but after his second sip he looked at the wine, a bit of distaste was evident on his face.

Laughing a bit  after seeing his facial expression, Hyou Kai said to him "Ehh fifteen years old, well brother Ye don't mind it, after drinking more and more you will naturally develop a better appriciation for wines. Oh would you mind if i call you brother?"

Hearing Hyou Kai's words Shi Changying smilled a bit, it was the smile of an older sister after seeing her little brother doing something silly. Somehow after seeing Long Ye and his i don't care about anything attitude she kind of felt a little bit at ease around him, because of her background she was used to staying alert for long durations of time without giving herself a single moment to relax in public or even around people in the Hyou household.

The only times she was at ease were around Hyou Kai, his mother and uncle Fu. Therefore, she had become accustomed to remaining on perpetual guard long ago.

As for unlce Fu, his mouth was agape, it formed a perfect "0" shape, it was wide enough to fit two eggs in. after a brief moment he closed his mouth snd scratched his ears.

Long Ye put down the cup and shook his head beofre looking at Hyou Kai and said. "It ain't that, and yea i don't mind at all since your older than me i will call you older brother than."

"Sure no problem, and what is it than? is the wine not up to your satisfactory?" In his heart Hyou Kai was a bit pleased, most people he met were all trying to curry favors, all were scheming and all had a goal in mind.

Since he was born as the second son of an influencial family he was used to people talking to him like was a noble they all used honyed words to leave him a good impression of them, while they're vile thoughs ran wild.

but not this young man in front of him, No his eyes were clear, his face was indifferent like Shi Changying, he went at his own pace, and most of all despite knowing who he was, he spoke as if they've been bosom buddies.

He never felt like that, not even with his fellow young marquisses, even though they're families were of the same ranks, he felt like they're kids they were always competing with each other, and that he could never let his guard down around them.

There are five Marquisses in the Wild Dragon Kingdom, the title of marquis was past down from generation to generation, their origin dates back to the founding emperor.

The first five marquis were the most trusted generals under the first king, and after uniting the kingdom and declaring himself king, he nominated those five as his marquisses.

those five houses went from members of the hundred-twenty three noble houses, and rising up to the five marquis houses, hence reducing the number of noble houses down to hundred eighteen.

The Five Grand clans are the Hyou, the Mou, the Feng, the Yue, and the Duan. And like every noble clans they all had hereditary martial spirits, the Hyou family's martial spirit was a 'White winged Roc', the Mou family's spirit on the other hand was a 'sword', as for the Feng family they're martial spirit a Demonic  purple flamed Phoenix.

When it come for the Yue family they're martial spirit was Ancient silver Mamonth, and finaly the Duan clan, they were the weirdest out of all the five great clans because theyre martial spirit is a 'Black horned snake'.

Every martial spirits have unique abilities, and in turn allows they're weilder to use those abilities. In the case of the Duan family they're martial spirit has three unique abilities.

One is being totally immune to most poison known to mankind, second is the ability to cultivate, use, paractice poison cultivation, and martial arts techniques which is the absolute terror of all practitioners as fighting them was always life threatening.

The third is they also posses the Moonlight shadow Blessing, which in the dark it doubles their speed, strengh, vision, and recovery from any and all injuries so long ast they're not dead on spot. They can also blend in the shadows and travel in them.

But what truly sets them apart is practicing poisonous cultivation method since it is very dangerous even go as far as idiotic, because while doing so you can poison yourself. So in order to counter that phenomenon one must eat and develop complete immunity, or enough resistance, against several types of poison.

 Which takes time, resources, alot money and for what for a 'maybe' so many powers shy away from using them. But not the Duan clan, they perfected the poisonous cultivation methods.

They also went as far as taking in people with snake martial spirits, and make them change they're name to 'Duan' they are provided with cultivation resources and money, in turn they swear allegiance to the Duan family for life and their descendants too.

By doing that many Duan clansmen posseses variant snake spirits but the main branch all have the 'Black horned snake spirit, on top of that the Duan clan controls the alchemist union as many of them are aslso alchemist

After a brief silence Long Ye responded "I don't want to sound conceited or anything like that but, yea it is not to my liking at all, the wine is way too harsh." Sighing Long Ye picked up the still full clay pot of wine and said to Hyou Kai

"Brother Kai if you want this pot of wine is all yours." Without waiting for Hyou Kai to respond Long Ye stood up, plaed a high grade stone on the table and walked towards to stairs.

Before he could reach it, Hyou Kai's voice broke out from behind him "Brother Ye i will be staying at the 'snow peak inn' if you have some free time before the ruins open up maybe you can stop by."

Looking back at him Long Ye nodded his head, and walked off again. Some of the people in the hall started talking about Long Ye and his ungratefull attitude.

But Hyou Kai and company had different thoughts about this young man named Long Ye, Hyou Kai could not read his cultivation level, but judging from the aura he emitted he absolutely was a cultivator, not only that he so nonchalantly took out a high grade spirit stone like it was a mere pebble, so they too began talking amongst themselves. 

"What an interesting fellow, hahaha what do you think about him Ying'er?"

An extremely gentle voice akin to the wind ruffling a teenage beauty’s hair rang out nest to him as she answered him in a low voice "Yes he is indeed interesting, he did not even care about your background, nor was he trying to kiss up to you. He even more so he did not even lose his composure after seeing me, all in all he is indeed diferent from those spoiled young master"

"Hahahaha right, but still i wonder if he has some artifacts  on him that allows him to mask his cultivation level from others, because i could not see his at all"

Nodding her head Shi Changying agreed with him, but on the side uncle Fu broke thir theory up to smithereens by saying out loud. " fourth level Earth profound realm."

Confused Hyou Kai and Shi Changying both looked over to the old man, before Hyou Kai asked him. "What's that uncle Fu?"

 "That kid, his cultivation level is at the fourth level of the Earth profound realm." Uncle Fu replied after a brief moment of silence, which shocked the entire room up.

 With a look of disbelief Hyou Kai once again asked Uncle Fu for confirmation. "Un..uncle Fu are you sure? are positive he's at the fourth level of the earth profound realm?."

With gloomy eyes, old man Fu Tei nodded his head twice, after a pause he than said in a low and gloomy voice."Young master, i know you are not the type, but please do not do anything to anger this youth. He is of mysterious background, with his strenght his backer is without a doubt one we cannot anger."

Unknown to him that he became the center of attention after he left, Long Ye walked around Floating Cloud city aimlessly, every now and than he'd run into a few street prostitutes.

Wether it was out of pity, or out a sense of kinship from his past life he'd toss them a few gold coins and tell them to keep them and that they did not need to perform any sexual acts.

At first they were confused as to why this young looking noble would be so generous, and very quickly they'd be on guard against him. As street prostitutes their lives were always in danger, unlike those brothel hookers who had some sort of security blanket as the brothel had rules and regulations.

But out here in the streets, it was a viscious cycle, some customers would get physical, others outright violent, and some would even go as far as killing them after the deed as been done.

Many women had suffered, in a town full of violent, tough men who dance at the edge of lyfe and death day in and day out so in order to release their stress many street women ended up as corpse the next day.

Seeing their reaction Long Ye shook his head and continued walking forward. so he noticed he was being followed by a group of men, maybe because of they're numbers or they're self confidence, but they did not bother to hide they're intention at all.

Seeing this Long Ye's mouth curved into a smile, and without second thoughts he made a right turn into a dark alleyway, and waited for his persuers.

Like clockwork, soon three men walked in after him, with a look of contemp, one thats seem to be the leader of this group smiled and said to Long Ye 'Hey would you look at that, the little mouse got corned, hahaha what you aren't going to cry for mama now eh"

Laughing after the men in from, another one said to him "Boy you thought you were hot s**t earlier when young master Gou Ki was ask you to move, now look at you"

"Enough of this charade, you guys are going to be corpses in a few seconds anyway, i hope you guys had fun before coming here, because this is the end of the line for you chumps."

 Before they even registered what was said, a bright gold light flashed in their eyes, and just like that they all felt a cold sensation go through there necks, they opened theyre mouthes to scream but no noise could be made.

When the light vanished all four were on the floor looking up at their bodies, as they stood there frozen, and headless a look of utter shock and desbelief replaced the overcofident one they were displaying earlier.

With practiced movements, they were all stripped of their equipments, and valuable. Without as much as a look back, and a cold smile plastered on his face Long Ye looked up to the roof of the opposite building, before walked out of the alleyway before saying one word.

"TRASH"

As he resumed his walk around the city, and soon after he left a shadowy figure emerged from the roof, the figure stood there silently, from the way the tight fitted martial arts clothes contoured the body one could tell it was a 'SHE.'

Her dark purple hair fluttered in the wind like the gentle sea waves, her face was covered with a black mask, but her eyes were wide open, and filled with shock.

She stood there for a few more minutes before vanishing like the wind itself.