"Me too, me too!"

"I want to be your disciple too."

The other two bodyguards chimed in. The three of them were very shrewd. They knew that by becoming a martial artist’s disciple, they could not only learn valuable skills but also enhance their status. At the very least, they would no longer have to demean themselves by working as bodyguards. However, what the three of them didn’t know was that the living conditions of over eighty percent of martial artists in the Ancient Martial Circle were worse than their own.

"We’ll see how you perform," Ye Xiu said nonchalantly. "By the way, what are your names? Forget it, I won’t remember them anyway. From now on, you’ll be Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Wu."

The three bodyguards’ faces immediately darkened. He hasn’t even accepted us as disciples yet, and he’s already giving us new names? Moreover, this martial artist seemed to have a rather low level of education. Anyone with even an elementary school diploma wouldn’t have come up with such names.

CLATTER!

When the Director saw Li Ran, Tajiguli, and Zong Rui’s plates fall to the ground, he quickly yelled, "Cut! Staff, prepare another serving for them."

"Director, there’s no extra food left," a staff member said.

The director furrowed his brow. With six actors and three of them without food, what the hell kind of behind-the-scenes footage can we possibly shoot? What is wrong with today? Why is nothing going smoothly? He glanced at Ye Xiu. This jinx must have brought bad luck to me and the crew.

"Forget it, forget it! We’re not shooting anymore. Let’s deal with it another day!" the director said irritably. Behind-the-scenes footage was optional anyway.

Li Ran and the others were speechless.

"A waste of emotion!" Li Ran reverted to her true self. When she saw Ye Lin’er still squatting on the ground and eating ravenously, she flew into a rage and kicked the plate out of the girl’s hands.

"Eat, eat, eat, that’s all you know how to do!" she cursed. "Even pigs wouldn’t eat this stuff, yet you’re gobbling it down like a delicacy. You’re worse than a pig or a dog!"

Her words disgusted everyone on the crew. They were eating food that "even pigs wouldn’t touch," which meant Li Ran was calling them all worse than pigs and dogs.

Ye Lin’er blinked, looking innocently confused, wondering what she had done wrong this time to make Li Ran so angry.

"Li Ran, you’ve gone too far!" Chen Yang said angrily.

"That’s just my temper. What about it? Got a problem?" Li Ran glared at him defiantly.

"You..." Chen Yang was so furious he could barely stop himself from slapping her.

Just then, Ye Xiu walked over with a taunting smile. "Li Ran, you wet your pants."

"You’re the one who wet their pants! Your whole family wets..." Li Ran began to curse, but before she could finish, she suddenly felt a humiliating loss of control.

Hearing Ye Xiu’s words, the rest of the crew all turned to look at Li Ran. Instantly, everyone gasped.

Li Ran was wearing tight blue jeans, and a large wet patch was now spreading around her rear.

PFFT... The entire crew couldn’t help but erupt in laughter.

"This... this... oh my..." Li Ran, no longer caring about being angry with Ye Xiu, scrambled to her feet and ran toward her tent in shame. In just one day, she had suffered a lifetime’s worth of humiliation.

Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Wu walked over, staring at Ye Xiu as if he were a god. It didn’t take a genius to figure out that Ye Xiu must have done something to make Li Ran wet her pants in public. So this is a martial artist! He’s practically a divine being!

"I don’t know why Li Ran had an accident, but she’ll definitely pin the blame on you. You’re finished," Tajiguli said to Ye Xiu in a sarcastic tone before leaving with her assistant and agent.

Zong Rui walked over, his gaze ice-cold as he looked at Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Wu. "You three are fired!"

Just because we gave our food to the martial artist? Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Wu were crestfallen.

At that moment, Chen Yang spoke up. "On behalf of Ye Lin’er, I officially hire you as her bodyguards. Are you willing?"

"We are! We are!" Zhang San, Li Si, and Wang Wu nodded repeatedly, almost jumping with excitement. If we become Ye Lin’er’s bodyguards, we’ll be Ye Xiu’s colleagues!

"Chen Yang, you..." Zong Rui glared furiously at Chen Yang, enraged that this wretch had publicly humiliated him. "You dare to oppose me? Just you wait..."

With that, he stormed off.

Ye Xiu watched him go, then flicked his finger. With a THUD, Zong Rui fell flat on his face.

Only then did Ye Xiu turn to Ye Lin’er and ask, "Still hungry?"

"Mhm!" Ye Lin’er nodded.

"You and Chen Yang go back to the tent first. I’ll get you something to eat," Ye Xiu said.

In truth, the film crew’s campsite was only about five hundred meters from the Wu Family estate, separated only by two small hills and a grove of trees.

"Thank you, big brother!" Ye Lin’er obediently followed Chen Yang toward the tent.

Ye Xiu headed straight for the Wu Family estate. For him, the two small hills and grove of trees were as easy to cross as flat ground.

Meanwhile, as Li Ran ran toward her tent, a sudden inspiration struck. She took off her watch and handed it to her assistant, Li Meng. "Go hide this watch under her bodyguard’s bed. Make sure no one sees you."

She’s trying to frame him? Li Meng instantly understood Li Ran’s intentions. "Alright!" she replied, taking the watch and running towards Ye Xiu’s tent.

「...」

Ye Xiu returned to the Wu Family estate. After telling Tang Bo to prepare some food, he changed into the Huang Quan Suit and went to the underground cold storage. The cold storage was packed full of various meats and fish stocked by the Wu Family.

There was also a young man in a white suit crouching in a corner, shivering uncontrollably.

It was none other than Lin Xin.

In fact, on the summit of Unparalleled Mountain, Ye Xiu had struck Lin Xin on the head in front of sixty to seventy thousand martial artists. It looked as if he had been killed, but in reality, Ye Xiu had merely knocked him unconscious.

"Huang Quan?"

When Lin Xin saw Ye Xiu enter, he cried out in shock. He had woken up to find himself in this cold storage and couldn’t understand who had saved him only to imprison him here. Now it all made sense. It wasn’t that someone saved me... Huang Quan never killed me in the first place!

"How does it feel to be alive?" Ye Xiu asked coldly as he approached Lin Xin.

"Being alive is good, of course," Lin Xin said, standing up. He bravely met Ye Xiu’s gaze and asked, "Why didn’t you kill me? And what’s the meaning of locking me up in here?"

Though he tried to appear brave, he couldn’t help but shiver uncontrollably from the fear and the cold.

"I want to make a deal with you," Ye Xiu said. "I’ll help you ascend to the throne of the Eternal Kingdom, and in return, you’ll do a few things for me."

"Are you kidding me?" Lin Xin sneered. "The throne of the Eternal Kingdom, though hereditary, is unattainable without the consent of the three Judicator Families. Furthermore, among my father’s eight sons, I’m not the one they favor most."