Chapter 303
Chapter 303
After Xiao Jinting accepted the offer from the Ye Family, he quickly put this out of his mind.
When Ye Jinlan recruited Xiao Jinting, there were still four years before the competition. Obviously, the Ye Family did not fancy Xiao Jinting, who was a medium Golden Core cultivator with obscure background.
After they recruited Xiao Jinting, the Ye family put Xiao Jinting aside as a super substitute. Xiao Jinting was happy about that. With the help of time cultivation room, he focused on cultivating his spiritual power, tempering his physique, and refining pills and magic weapons.
Four years later, Ye Jinlan once again appeared on Xiao Jinting’s hill.
“Miss Ye, are you officially inviting me to participate in the competition?” Xiao Jinting looked at Ye Jinlan in surprise.
Ye Jinlan nodded and said, “That’s right.”
Xiao Jinting couldn’t help wondering. He thought he was a super substitute, but suddenly he became the official contestant. What was wrong with the Ye family? They hadn’t contacted for four years, and now they came to surprise him.
Xiao Jinting looked at Ye Jinlan and said in confusion, “Miss Ye, would you like to think it over again?”
“No need. I trust in your ability,” Ye Jinlan said.
Xiao Jinting blinked and thought, “Yeah, you trust me, but how about those old men?”
“Mr. Xiao, please prepare yourself. In three days, someone from the Ye family will come to pick you up,” Ye Jinlan said.
Xiao Jinting was dumbfounded. Why was she in a hurry?
“Father.” Xiao Xiaodong came in.
Xiao Jinting looked at Xiao Xiaodong and said, “You’re back!”
“I saw Ye Jinlan come. Did she come to invite you to participate in the competition?” Xiao Xiaodong asked.
Xiao Jinting nodded, “Yeah. I didn’t expect them to choose me.” It didn’t make any sense.
Xiao Xiaodong glanced at Xiao Jinting and said, “The Ye family has found a lot of people, but all of them have been snatched by the Hong family. The Hong family married their genius female cultivator to the old man of the Cao family and formed an alliance with the Cao family. Many Golden Core cultivators were either recruited or destroyed by the Hong family. Only you are left. The Ye family takes you as a makeweight, and the Hong family does not take you seriously.”
Xiao Jinting was speechless. How ridiculous!
Xiao Xiaodong looked at Xiao Jinting and said, “Father, I’ve learned a secret of the Business Alliance.”
“What is it?” asked Xiao Jinting.
“The alliance has a total of thirty keys to the tower of Babel. The three leading families, Xie, Cao, and Miao, each have four keys. The remaining nine families each have two. If the Ye family loses their seat in the alliance, they will lose the ownership of the two keys,” Xiao Xiaodong said.
Xiao Jinting looked at him and asked, “What is the tower of Babel?”
Xiao Xiaodong shook his head and said, “I don’t know either. Father, I think you should have discovered that the overall cultivation level of this place is lower than Cloud Continent with fewer Nascent Soul cultivators. I heard that the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Xie, Cao and Miao families advanced to Nascent Soul because they found treasures in the tower of Babel.”
“The tower of Babel has twelve floors. It is said that the cultivators of Nebula Island can at most go up to the eighth floor, where there are treasures that help people advance to Nascent Soul. It can be inferred that the things on the ninth and tenth floors should be more precious.”
Xiao Jinting touched his chin and said, “Do you mean I should find a way to get the key to the tower of Babel?”
Xiao Xiaodong nodded, “Yeah!”
Xiao Jinting narrowed his eyes. “It’s precious. Even if I win the seat for them, they might not agree to that!”
Xiao Xiaodong said lightly, “Let’s talk about it later. The Ye family don’t have many geniuses. Although there are treasures in the tower of Babel, it is very dangerous. The Ye family may not like to take the risk. If you can help them win the competition and offer them something valuable in return, it shouldn’t be difficult to get the key.”
Xiao Jinting nodded and said, “It makes sense.” The premise was that he could win the competition for the Ye family.
“Father, if you can find great treasures in the tower of Babel and advance to Nascent Soul, we can return to Cloud Continent,” Xiao Xiaodong said.
“Do you want to go back or Chen Xu?” asked Xiao Jinting.
Xiao Xiaodong didn’t reply. “Chen Xu went to the teleportation array, which has almost been fixed.” There was only one corner left. When it was fixed, they could leave immediately.
“It’s hard for Chen Xu.” Xiao Jinting sighed. Chen Xu had a grandfather who was a Nascent Soul and adored him, but he accompanied them to this place.
Chen Xu came in and asked, “Mr. Xiao, what are you talking about?”
Xiao Jinting looked at Chen Xu and asked, “Chen Xu, do you want to go back?”
Chen Xu smiled bitterly and said, “No. I just miss Grandfather, but I will see him sooner or later. In fact, Grandfather would occasionally go into seclusion for decades. My disappearance for a few decades is nothing to him.”
Xiao Jinting patted Chen Xu’s shoulder apologetically and said, “I’m sorry.”
Chen Xu smiled and said, “Mr. Xiao, don’t feel bad about this. I am very happy to be with you.”