Blessing Earth Essence

## Plot (chapter 1703-1732)

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**Center of Elven Village**

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While waiting for Fan Fumi to recover, Fan Yima told her to go see the queen as she might have what he is looking for. As they are leaving, all the elves wishes him a luck and success. They walked the forest looking for the Seven Color Flower Of Life, he even made several clones to help, they search for days with no avail. He followed Fan Yima advice and went to the center of elven village. Fan Fumi med the way, they reached a village with a very large land inhabited by tens of thousands elves which os the residence of high class elves.

Chu Ning'er came out as he notices the tree of life which is the first tree of the world also known as mother tree, it radiates enormous energy, if it does all the trees around here will also perish so it's protected by multiple barriers. As they are getting closer to the tree, they are surrounded by quite a number of elves knight. He told them that he is one of the human who managed to enter the elven village but the elves didn't believed him as the 10 chosen human had already gathered. They didn't took any action and allowed them to catch them, they were imprisoned. He asked Fan Fumi to stay here and he sneaks out to find information for their situation.

He went to a fairly large palace that was near the tree of life, it seemed like the royal residence of the Queen of Elven Village. He discovered a party of high class elves being held inside the palace. He saw ten humans, all male with high cultivation and good appearances. The guard said that there's only 10 places, but why are there eleven including him, Chu Yuechan said two possibilities, firstly one of them cheated, or Ye Chen cheated by trespassing when the entrance was already close. But even if he trespassed, he got a compass which means that he should be included in the 10.

The high class elves were talking about Blessing Earh Essence which stone filled with natural energy, it is better for elves cultivation. An announcement that the queen had arrive was heard, everyone knelt as enormous pressure is felt, a woman with plain white clothes, long blonde hair wearing a flower crown appeared, she has a hot body and sexy body, behind here followed the elders consisting of 5 women and a man with also powerful strength. She ordered the humans to stand up and introduces herseld as Xing Shenyi the ruler of this land, she said that they will received a reward when they completed the tasked given to them.

An elder elf took out a shining yellow stone and explains which is the the Blessing Earth Essence, they will exchange 1 of it for 5 Divine Rainbow Crystal. For elves it is hundreds of times better than Divine Rainbow Crystal, as they needed humans to mine as the place where it exists is in the cursed island which will greatly weakened all elves, 85% off elves who went there dies. It seemed like the elves are using humans as a tool for their benefits. The queen left and Ye Chen return to the prison.

Ye Chen and Fan Fumi led away to the elf council room, queen and 6 elders are there, they looked and seemed to be bullying Ye Chen and Fan Fum but was unaffected of it. One of the elders adored how he got here, he showed his compass, Xing Shenyi confirmed that it is real, she thinks that it is probably an old compass that hasn’t been found. They asked him if he want med to return back, he says that he needed the Seven Color Flower of Life and wouldn't return without it, he offers to pay a decent price for it. They wanted the essence in exchange of it, he says he will hunt for it, they didn't believe that he could as they could see he has lower strength than the others. The queen allows him to go with the 10 humans.

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**Elf Queen Xing Shenyi Sneaked**

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Elders complaint that it will be difficult as they only prepared for 10, the queen as them to just do, it made Ye Chen satisfied with the queen. Ye Chen and Fan Fumi were brought by a knight to an unused room, the which was very dusty with cracked floors and hollow walls, they cleaned it and they rested. Elder Elf had decided to ignore Ye Chen and focus on the 10 participants who were much stronger than him, they will just give him old tools. Xing Shenyi instinct and intution felt a hint of danger from him.

With Xing Shenyi’s strength, she easily sneaked into Ye Chen’s room, she saw them seemed very relaxed even this place wasn’t great. he looked relaxed and didn’t give off a dangerous feeling, she might have misjudged as he seemed normal and nothing is strange. Moments after Xing Shenyi left. Ye Chen opened his eyes, he was just pretending from the start, he had already noticed her. He admitted to Chu Yuechan that she is worthy of her position as her intuition is good, Chu Yuechan said that luckily the queen didn't do anything bad or else Ye Chen will have two women is his bed.

Next day, he took Fan Fumi and roamed this place. The center of Elven Village is very vast and wide, it is unspoiled with many tall and shady trees, as well as various kinds of chirping birds. Fan Fumi seemed happy as she tried various kinds of fruit and food which she had never encountered before,bboth of them ate from different shop the whole day. Some of the Elves often talked about Ye Chen who is a human, who was on a date with an elf. An elf shouted when she saw the 10 handsome human, Fan Fumi wanted to see if they are similar to Ye Chen.

She said that they aren't as good as he imagined, some elves asked her what does she mean which she answers that the man he likes is better than them. The elves looked down on her as a class 5 elf and didn't believed her. One of the human invited her to go with him which he rejected, high class elves said that she's out of her mind to refused, Ye Chen intervened, they looked at Ye Chen with a condescending look as his appearance could be said to be below average, he was in a disguise. Ye Chen asked Fan Fumi to calm down and don't mind them, he said that how could he as a good man fight old women like them which angered the elves, he then said if his words are false then they why are they getting angry which made Fan Fumi satisfied.

The human ask him who he is, he introduced himself as Ye Chen, while the other said that he is Teng Domi and he wanted to borrow Fan Fumi but refused by Chen. Teng Domi was angry and released a domineering intimidation with a young master attitude which made him popular among the Elves. Ye Chen told him that only fools would accept such an ridiculous offer. He wanted to fight Ye Chen but was stopped by a high class elves as they don't want him to get punish, as fighting between humans aren't allowed. Teng Domi with the high class elves who threatened Ye Chen which was return by him to them.

Ye Chen continued to have fun with Fan Fumi until night fell before returning to their place. Ye Chen plans to used the essence to make all the elves search the the Seven Color Flower of Life. She wanted to have an intercourse, he hugged her and started by mature kisses, they do it all night long. Xing Shenyi was thinking about Ye Chen, she felt that he could pose a threat and went to sneaked again. She was shocked as she saw them kissing with close body contact. Ye Chen knows that the queen is watching and he didn't care. Elf Queen Xing Shenyi was surprised when he saw the huge thing, she couldn't tool her eyes of it. Seeing the lustful Fan Fumi who was giving a mouth service, she couldn't stand it as they made her excited too.

She didn’t really like seeing things like this, she would usually walk and shy away from this kind of trouble without caring about it but her legs didn’t want to go and she was forced to see the scene. Ye Chen took Fan Fumi clothes off, explored her touched her double peaks and licked her secret garden which made her reached the top, Xing Shenyi felt that she had become a pervert by seeing this scene. Queen saw and didn't at all when Ye Chen will put the monster inside Fan Fumi body, she could hardly imagine if Fan Fumi could endure this enormously huge size, she didn’t believe Fan Fumi was able to survive. Unknown to her that she is already very wet, she leg, she left as she felt her body became strange and couldn't stay anymore.

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**Mine in Elf Forbidden Island**

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Ye Chen and Fan Fumi followed the elf knight to large and majestic ark which seemed to be the transportation to the cursed island. He met the 10 humans who were fully equipped and ready to mine blessing earth essence. The elder elf told them they will he given a special man hoe as the essence were really hard that even too tier weapons wouldn't be able to break it, an each will receive an experience elf who will be their guide. Ye Chen didn't received an elf guide as no elves wants to; he received a mine hoe which is pretty worn out, some parts were bent and dull while others received were smooth shiny and pointed. He complaint to the elder, the elder told him of he couldn't accept then just leave, he felt all elders were shameless old woman.

Fan Fumi accompanied him as he didn't have a guide elf. The travel time will be 3 days so Ye Chen and Fan Fumi cultivated while the 10 humans were having fun with the serving elves, sound of moans rang out in every room, the 10 were mesmerized by them. A warning was given, that they will arrived in 15minutes and would immediately drop everyone by force to the Forbidden Island. An elf knight told them that they only have 7 days and will be picked up at the appointed location. He saw a vast island with a gloomy aura which made people feel uncomfortable being here.

Ye Chen felt a special feeling and seemed like something is hidden in here. After landing, wolf monsters immediately pounced in them, he swept them away with a single move. Fan Fumi doesn't felt anything other than her strength weakened, she could only use 10% of her strength. They started looking for the Blessing Earth Essence, with their lowered speed, they need 3x the normal to cover 100miles. They encountered powerful monsters which charged towards Fan Fumi rather than Ye Chen, monster here are targeting elves than humans. Ye Chen couldn't locate the essence even though he used God Eyes, Chi Yuechan said that there is a mist in this place that made elves weak, he gave a wind blessing around her to isolate the mist which solved her problem.

They headed towards the deepest part of the island and saw a small lump of the essence. He used the mine hoe which needed about 20 strikes to only get a small shattered piece of the stone; he then used Breaking Meteor Blow but it didn't affect it at all; Yin Ying'er volunteers, he slashed with full might and discovered that it was absorbing all attacks; he used Dimension Breaker, cracked appears on the place and it shattered to hundreds of pieces, they collected it. Other participants needed around 10 hits from the mine how to shatter a small piece of the essence, Teng Domi complained, his elf companion said that he could snatch other peoples essence. Ye Chen and Fan Fumi continued to dredge up all the essence and had managed to get a lot.

He saw a mountain that had lots of essence but was guarded by a strong monsters, as it was a monster base. He asked Fan Fumi to hide, he went in by smashing the wall and was surrounded by low level monster, he freezes. He went in and fool the higher level monster to give him all the essence, they invited him to do so if he had the ability, he used Dimension Breaker which flattens the whole mountain and collected all the essence to the Fairy Gate, he thanked the monsters who were speechless and left.

The Monster King was furious as he dared took all the essence and they went to chase but was stopped by a barrier that Ye Chen set up so they couldn't catch up. They went berserk inside by trying to destroy the barrier which made all the monster around the place to hid. Ye Chen shouted Fan Fumi’s name several times, he also searched around but couldn't locate her, he found a trail of footprints which footprints seemed like doesn't belong to a monster, an estimated of 3-5 sets of footprints, he followed the trail.

Suddenly stopped by Teng Domi who ordered hom to give all his essence. He attack Ye Chen buy he suffered a defeat even Ye Chen didn't move. He then made a 50 meter Rock Wall Crash and wanted to bury Ye Chen alive with it, Ye Chen used profound lightning to destroy the wall and followed it with another profound lightning directly to his body. Teng Domi fells to the ground and felt a miserable torment which is far humane than death. The screams of the monsters echoed throughout the island, it seemed like a big storm about to happen as Ye Chen had provoked the wrath of the powerful Monster here.

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**Black Haired Elves**

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Ye Chen continued to follow the trail which led to a very deep place which is hidden and difficult to enter as there are several traps around, he avoided and used the traps as his tool to enter. He managed to locked Fan Fumi’s location, she was with an elves with a black hair which all still looks beautiful and full of charm, Chu Yuechan told him to quickly save her as she seemed to be in trouble, Ye Chen wanted to listen to the first. Fan Fumi knows that cursed elves has a black hair and she is quite scared, he asked them why did they kidnapped her.

They were discussing about finding some important information from Fan Fum but he looks like a class 5 elf from a remote area and might know nothing. They started asking how did he came to the forbidden place as she says that Ye Chen brought her in and if they don't release her they'll get into trouble, they believed that Ye Chen couldn't get here, unbeknown to them he is already here and eavesdropping. Ye Chen speaks which silenced the cursed elves, they asked who he is which he answered Ye Chen. he said that he knocked in the front door and apologizes for triggering all the traps.

The elves didn't want to answer his question, he freed Fan Fumi and used Long Wind Suction to pull one elf to him. he threatened them that of they do anything his hostage is going to suffer. Their leader appeared and they accused Ye Chen of catching one of the elves as he said that they are the first to kidnapped his woman. The leader asked him to release the elf and have a peaceful talk, he did so as the leader seemed trustworthy. She asked all her elves to leave, he introduced her self as Han Rizu, the person in charge here.

Ye Chen asked her why did the kidnapped his woman, she for the misunderstanding and explains that they were currently in need of information from the outside world. She told both of them that they were all an outcast elf that were isolated here. They were born different from most elves, as they all have black hair, they were all banished from the Elven Village from childhood by their parents as they were considered a curse elves. Whenever an elf came Han Rizu and the others would immediately try their best, they would take the Elf and immediately help them.

Fan Fumi asked ye Chen if he could help them, For that He might have to meddle in the affairs of the Elf world and changed the rules a bit. It needed strength to change the rule, Ye Chen plans to used his strength to try freeing the black haired elves. Han Rizu and the elves here welcomed them and they were quite friendly. They spend some time and mingled with the elves here,

The cursed elves were different from ordinary elves, they were not affected by the mist on the island so they kept their strength at its peak they could be helpful in finding Blessing Earth Essence unfortunately their existence is not accepted because of their uniqueness. They couldn't used Blessing Earth Essence, they could only use profound crystal. Ye Chen felt that they were similar to half-elves and half-human, they had some points similar to humans while some points similar to elves, it is estimated that the they were a mix race between the elf and human which made them unique compared to Normal Elves.

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**Submissive Monster King Tuo Ke**

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Suddenly a warning sounded which alerted all the black haired elves in this place that a monster was breaking into their home, they went towards where the monster are attacking. Ye Chen felt a strong monster is looking for him, it seems that he is the target of this monster. Han Rizu is currently fighting huge bird monster with a large and long beak and a tail as long as a sword, this monster is Tuo Ke similar to a Tukan Toco Bird, He is one of the monster kings that Ye Chen previously deceived.

Tuo Ke swung his tail, the trees and bushes around this place were instantly swept away and destroyed. Han Rizu and the others shouted, they screamed and were blown away, surely Han Rizu and the others had suffered injuries from such a powerful attack. Ye Chen appeared right in front of Tuo Ke, he opened his long beak and prepared to cut Ye Chen, Ye Chen’s body was covered in heavenly lightning by using God Thunder Armor, Tuo Kw was blown away when he came in contact with him, he fell to the ground and made a pretty big crater. Heavenly Lightning was very strong, just touching it made this super large bird monster to suffer severe injuries and dizziness. After quite a bit of effort Tuo Ke got up and was ready to fight Ye Chen again, Divine lightning was terrifying enough, its aura could make a powerful monster like Tuo Ke feel goosebumps.

Tuo Ke said that he was the king, so he could do whatever he wanted; Ye Chen countered that if Tuo Ke is a king, then Ye Chen is a god, so ne should just give up. Ye Chen disappeared and reappeared near Tuo Ke, a punch was struck by Ye Chen right on Tuo Ke’s cheek which sent him flying away. Ye Chen opened Azure Dragon Domain, such an terrifying ancient pressure enveloped the entire island made all the monsters as well as magical beasts run in fear, they hid to the ground in fear. It is Tuo Ke's first time to encounter such an intense pressure, he felt like he is facing a very powerful monster, Ye Chen added God Domination Pressure to bully Tuo Ke.

With the combined pressure of both, Tuo Ke was very scared and he apologizes. He asked Tuo Ke to bow down to him and must always obey him otherwise he should know the consequence. Tuo Ke broke out in cold sweat while listening to what Ye Chen said, he felt an extremely terrifying killing aura from him. Ye Chen asked him to swear under oath that he would be able to order Tuo Ke as he pleased, he did. He tasked Tuo Ke to protect the place of black haired elves from now onwards. Han Rizu and the other Elves were shocked and dumbfounded by what Ye Chen did.

Ye Chen asked them to help finding about the Seven Color Flower of Life, Han Rizu said that she had seen it. Ye Chen and Fan Fumi followed Han Rizu to a far away place and she pointed at the top of the cliff saying that she had seen it there. When Ye Chen was about to go up, he was stopped by Han Rizu, sh warned him that up there lived an Elf Wizard who was scary and didn’t like to hang out with others. Ye Chen would ask nicely he was sure that the Elf above would accept his request.

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**Supreme Earth Orb**

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Ye Chen went up, he was stopped by a strong barrier, he stretched out one hand of his and shattered the barrier in front of him with a single touch. On the top, he was attacked by several rocks that were thrown vigorously and said that he came in peace which was answered by a female voice that she didn't believed him. the woman in the hut was surprise when Ye Chen had withstand her attack. He asked for the Seven Color Flower of Life, she saw the seriousness that he was showing, she tasked him to find the Supreme Earth Orb in exchange of it and ask him to never come back without the orb.

He told Han Rizu and Fan Fumi what happened. Han Rizu's reaction is very unusual as the Supreme Earth Orb is difficult to obtain, it is underground and is deep down, their were only two people who have managed to find it, Han Rizu offered to guide them. The deepest location in Forbidden Island is in the Lourberd Mine, used to be the largest Blessing Earth Essence mine, it was abandoned as all the essence was depleted; many scary, strange and mystical things happened here. Chu Yuechan can sense that it is here.

They started to go down, they saw several monster skull going towards them which was being controlled by thin threads attached to it. When they destroyed a monster skull, it kept on reuniting together. Using profound fire, Ye Chen was able to burn monster the skulls to ashes. He found a hamster with a very long tail with lot of hair who controls this skulls, he used Hell Prison to lock the hamster monster and it used its claw to dig down the ground to escape.

They had reached a fairly deep part but met an dead end. Ye Chen used dimensional power to open the ground in front of them. He found a tunnel hole which seemed to be made by the hamster monster, they used this tunnel to go further down. He used God Eyes and saw an orange colored orb that let out a flash of light which was buried deep enough, it will be a challenge to retrieve it. The orb was surrounded by hamster monster, they entered the hamster's lair, he used his little pressure to scare them but and all had fainted, they tied all the hamster up. Han Ruzi felt that these hamsters could be a mount if trained, she brought everything back as it could also be used to fight enemies and do work for them.

When Ye Chen touched the Supreme Earth Orb, he found it could not be touched as it will put up a fight that made Ye Chen’s hand feel numb. Chu Yuechan suggested that need someone with large profound earth element to take it as the orb has lot of power. Ye Chen did something to protect the orb from other people and they left. He plans to bring Xing Shenyi here to take the orb. Ye Chen and Fan Fumi went to look for more Blessing Earth Essence

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**Discussing Business**

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it's time to go back, Ye Chen and Fan Fumi had spent the time to search essence and managed to get a lot more, there shouldn’t be anyone who can match him. They went to the pick up point, they ware greeted by an elf who was a little unfriendly towards them. Others came back with very shabby bodies and clothes, Teng Domi's body were wrapped by a bandage, it seemed that Ye Chen had scalded him, he looks angry when he saw Ye Chen. 3 other participant didn't came and was assumed dead. They returned to the Elven Village Elder Elf and Xing Shenyi were waiting for the arrival of the participants as they were curious about the results obtained by them, several high class elves also came.

The elder told all the participants to line up and prepare the Blessing Earth Essence they ihad obtained. Teng Domi got 200 essence, this amount made him the participant who collected the most. The elder congratulated everyone without checkimgs Ye Chen's essence. The elder elf seemed to have no time when dealing with Ye Chen, he looked down on him and said that he only got 5 or 10 essence, Ye Chen showed a surprised look and asked the elder elf how'd he know the result he had. Elder told him to take out the essence he had collected quickly as he didn't want to deal with trash like him. Ye Chen took out a large amount of the essence, he was very happy to see everyone's reaction; including the reaction of the rotten elders in front of him.

The elders and all the elves couldn’t believe it, they were quite shocked when they saw an astonishing amount of the essence. Xing Shenyi asked Ye Chen how could he bring that much Blessing Earth Essence. Ye Chen didn't explain and said that he is discussing business here and will sell all the essence twice the original price, an elder questioned him and he countered that he doesn't care if they don't want to buy it. Another elder warned him that this was in Elven Village and they were the ones who makes decision. Ye Chen tells them that have given him a trash tool and unfriendly service and do they think that he will follow what they says. The six elders gave off a terrifying aura.

Xing Shenyi saw that the situation was getting out of hand, as Ye Chen clashed with the six elders, Ye Chen laughed and ask the 6 elders if that's all they can do as he is not affected by their aura. The six elders decided to give Ye Chen a punishment as they couldn’t let Ye Chen do as he pleased, they made a big hole and pulled Ye Chen to the bottom of the ground, he didn't showed any reaction nor moved until he totally disappeared. All the elders felt very happy when they saw they succeed, Xing Shenyi felt that all the elders had gone too far, elders said that it's for the elf's pride and asked the queen to not intervene,

Ye Chen suddenly answered the elders that it should be called selfishness instead of pride which made them shock to saw him free. Ye Chen could see that all the elders were getting serious about fighting him, they continuously attacked Ye Chen with different style but all attacks were stopped by Ye Chen. Ye Chen took out and made an enormous shaking which made the buildings and everything around here begin to crumble and fall. Ye Chen threw a wave of fire towards the elders, they shouted as they were all on fire and had fallen to the ground as fresh blood dripping from the corners of their mouths and onto their clothes.

Seeing that the high class elf was still silent and didn’t make an attack on Ye Chen, the elder elf ordered them to make a move, they didn't have a choice and started preparing to attack, Ye Chen used God Domination Pressure which made all the elves fell to the ground and couldn't stand up anymore. After a long time Xing Shenyi finally acted and asked Ye Chen to stop, she sincerely apologized for the wrong that elders had done and asked him to release his subordinates. He said yo make the 6 elders kneel down and apologize to him, they refuses. He increased the pressure on all the elves and Xing Shenyi couldn't stand to see them suffer for the mistake of the elders.

Xing Shenyi went towards Ye Chen, lowered her head and apologized again, he asked him to let the elves go. He said that he would let them go if she promises him 3 wishes that she would do for him which she agreed to. Ye Chen releases all the elves and discuss business with them. They needed to find the whereabouts of the Seven Color Flower of Life and give it to him, after that he'll give them a quite large chunks of Blessing Earth Essence. The elders said that he is only fooling them, Ye Chen swears that he will give large chunk of Blessing Earth Essence to the person who can give him Seven Color Flower of Life.

All the high class elves had already thought about what they could do with such a large amount of Blessing Earth Essence, they could definitely become stronger than the elders by what Ye Chen promised them. All of the elders were dumbfounded that they were opposed by eves whose status was below them. Ye Chen told them quickly leave and search for the item as if they remained silent, then when would they be able to obtain the essences that he promised. Seeing Ye Chen trying to provoke the six elders, Xing Shenyi ordered the knights to immediately take the six elders away. She said that herintuition turned out to be right as from the start she thought Ye Chen is a dangerous person. She was much smarter than the six stupid elder elf who foolishly tried to find trouble.

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**Playing with The Queen**

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Ye Chen invited Fan Fumi to tale a bath together with him, Xing Shenyi summoned her personal maids to serve him; she also prepared her personal bathtub full of flowers for hun which Ye Chen could still smell the scent of the queen around the bathhouse. While waiting for Fam Fumi to arrive at the bath, suddenlt Xing Shenyi came wrapped in a white towel around her elegant and sexy body, she went to his side and started to wash all parts of his body. She was embarrassed do she lowered her head and became really excited when she saw a big thing that she shouldn't see.

He pulled her which made the towel fall, she looked very seductive with the two double peaks pressed against his chest. He started teasing her by playing with her ears which made her feel weak and begs to stop teasing her, Ye Chen told her that he didn't even start yet. He continued teasing her by caressing her body which made her very comfortable. He proceeded to play with her double peak which let her made seductive moans, at the same time he uses his other hand to explore her secret garden; this booth attack made her helpless, she made lewd faces and she lost control and made her even wilder; she reabd the peak which felt really great, he let her rest for a while as he plans to conquer her bur he was disturbed by someone coming.

An explosion occurred at the bath entrance as an male elf forcibly enters who was handsome and had a dominating aura, he looked like a highly trained army. He ordered Ye Chen to release Xing Shenyi. He used his aura pressure to dominate him. The queen suddenly wakes queen up. She told Ye Chen that he is Gao Win, one of the Elf elders with the most strength, had been in seclusion for a long time who chased after her. She also told Ye Chen that she didn't like Gao Win so Ye Chen asked him to leave, Gao Win took out Dragon Head Spear which is a powerful weapon as Chu Yuechan warned Ye Chen that they were surrounded by many elves.

Ye Chen retreated and ran away with the queen as he plans to take her to the black haired elves. He went out of the palace and saw many elf knights surrounding them who were ordered by Gao Win. Ye Chen took his profound ark out, he boarded together with Fan Fumi and Xing Shenyi and immediately directed the ark towards the elven cursed island. The elf knights launched a massive attack to the ark which was dodged by them. Gao Win asked them to chase.

Gao Win was furious as Xing Shenyi was kidnapped from him, he probably wouldn’t have come out early from his close door training had he not heard of Xing Shenyi being Ye Chen’s captive. He believed that Ye Chen was the one who had forced Xing Shenyi to do such a shameless thing. The news of Ye Chen kidnapping Xing Shenyi and forcing her to do bad things spread very quickly, some high-class Elves still couldn’t believe what Ye Chen had done as they were still expecting the essence from Ye Chen