"Brother, do you want to say something to me?" Lord Xie Yang after he found Leader Xie Ye gawking at him with a wide-opened mouth and a stupid expression on his face.
When Leader Xie Ye saw his young master looking at him and heard his talking to him, he regained some of his composure, closed his mouth, plastered a dignified look on his face, and then opened his lips to let out his feelings: "Young Master, you're too excellent, far more than the four gentlemen and even the hidden dragons and crouching tigers of the capital pales in comparison to your talent. You recovered only three days ago, but you've not only become a cultivator of the second level, but you can also shape your spiritual energy into a sharp blade and release seven of them at a time the very first time you used your sword. You might not know but doing something like that means you've sword intent of the seventh level. You're even better than our family's eldest young master, who shaped his spiritual energy into four spears the day he held the spear. For doing that, the emperor himself proclaimed him a genius just below the crown prince. However, young master, your talent exceeds your brother and the crown prince. You're born for the path of a sword cultivator, born to sit on its throne. If you weren't sickly all day long in the past, you would have already surpassed them."
Lord Xie Yang stared at Leader Xie Ye and realized that due to his simple action of sharpening his spiritual energy, he had caused him to become his admirer.
Lord Xie Yang felt no need to be humble in this situation, and he curled his lips and narrowed his eyes into a smile before saying, "Brother, now that I have recovered thanks to a twist of fate, I feel that it is not too late to catch up to the best of the bests and surpass them."
A thoughtful look flashed across Leader Xie Ye's eyes before he kneeled before his young master and said, "I am rooting for you to reach the top, young master."
"Brother, please rise." Leader Xie Yang was ignorant of his family's matter, but he at least knew that Leader Xie Ye was the adopted son of his father and, thus, half his brother. Since he had no beef or qualms, he wanted to give the latter the respect a younger brother should give his older brother.
Lord Xie Yang squatted next to the snake and started skinning it.
"Young master, what are you doing?" Leader Xie Ye saw him getting his hands and clothes bloody and couldn't help but feel confused.
Without looking back at him and focusing on skinning the tall snake, Lord Xie Yang said, "The snakeskin is flexible, soft to the touch, hot but not enough to scald a person's skin. It's a promising material for making clothes as clothes made out of it will protect a person from the cold winds of winter and keep their bodies warm. I want to make a few clothes out of and gift it to Hua'er to help keep her warm through the winter."
This winter was colder than the ones before, and the weather will turn even more chilling in some weeks. A cloth made of its skin was already highly costly and rare. Soon, he will find none for his wife, even if he searches the entire city. To be cost-effective and save himself from the trouble of wandering ten thousand feet, Lord Xie Yang collected the raw material himself.
"Young master, young miss is lucky to have you." Leader Xie Ye said while looking at Lord Xie Yang and thinking that he was a faithful man who cared about his wife and loved his family.
"No, no, it's me who is lucky to have her." Lord Xie Yang said in a voice full of nothing but the truth.
It took Lord Xie Yang several minutes to skin the entire snake, and the moment he finished doing that, Leader Xie Ye secretly took off the round ring with a marble in the middle from his forefinger and presented it to him.
He looked at it, and the moment he saw the intricate design on it, he realized that it was an inter-spatial ring, a treasure among treasures.
"Brother, you are giving this to me for what reason?" Lord Xie Yang blinked his eyes in confusion.
"Young master, you may not know, but this is an inter-spatial ring, a storage-type spiritual object. You can put any inanimate object you want inside it with a single thought. Everything you store inside of it, including the snakeskin, wouldn't go bad or get damaged no matter how much time passes or how roughly we travel. And it has one internal storage as big as a small courtyard. You can become its owner by pouring some of your spiritual energy into it."
Leader Xie Ye patiently explained the working and uses of an inter-spatial ring to his family young master, not knowing that the other already knew everything about this thing.
"It's a wonderful treasure." Lord Xie Yang sincerely praised the ring that he had put on his middle finger. It fit him perfectly. After he poured his spiritual energy into it and became its master, he put the snakeskin inside of it, and then he dismantled it.
From doing that, he found out that the snake had a level 4 spirit core in its body. It was a rare treasure as only one in one hundred low-level monsters may ever form one in their body. It was an accumulation of spiritual energy and the vitality of the beast, a spiritual tonic that had two uses.
The first was to increase the cultivation of a spiritual cultivator in the first realm.
The second was to act as a spiritual energy restoration and body healing medicine.
Lord Xe Yang wiped it clean before putting it into his mouth.
Immediately after, a mystical event took place in his body!