A Dish Best Served Cold (The Man In Rage)
Chapter 992 Ye Fan's Shock

It wasn't complete darkness at the bottom of the well.

Despite the darkness in comparison, he still had several meters of visibility, so a path could be seen up ahead.

The last time he came here, Ye Fan had wondered how there could be light underground.

Ye Fan reckoned there must be some glowing stones underground.

However, this was beside the point. The important thing was to obtain the Yin volume of the Dragon God Body.

Ye Fan walked through the narrow passage and advanced slowly.

Before long, Ye Fan arrived at a fork.

On each side stood a stone entrance.

The words "Chu Sect" and "Tang Sect" were engraved in gold and hanging respectively over the East and West gates.

"I obtained the Book of Celestial Cloud from Chu Sect's entrance previously. This time, Great grandmother told me to enter the Tang Sect's entrance, so the Yin volume of the Dragon God Body must be in there. But why would anything related to the Tang Sect be found in the Chu's ancestral grounds?"

It didn't cross Ye Fan's mind previously. However, he couldn't help feeling curious when he revisited the underground forbidden territory.

If the "Chu Sect" stone door belonged to the Chu family, then the "Tang Sect" entrance must be related to the Tang clan.

But why would the Tang family's forbidden grounds be right next to the Chu clan's?

"Could both our ancestors be closely related?"

Ye Fan felt puzzled and just made a guess.

However, this wasn't the time to get curious. Instead, Ye Fan went up to the Tang Sect entrance to open the door and

entered.

"Hmm? That's odd. This entrance seems to bear signs of recent use."

The moment Ye Fan pushed open the entrance, he made a strange observation.

In theory, lots of dust would have fallen the moment Ye Fan opened the entrance if it hadn't been in use for years. However, nothing of the sort happened.

"Maybe Great grandmother came in here before."

Ye Fan instantly disregarded it after he contemplated briefly.

His great grandmother had been residing in the Chu mansion all this time.

Other than Old Madam Chu and Ye Fan, probably no one else knew about this place in the entire clan.

So if someone had accessed it, it would either be him or his great grandmother.

Ye Fan walked down the passage after entering the door and kept going.

Ye Fan walked closely against the wall with great caution.

He was particularly wary.

He was all eyes and ears and ready to retreat anytime!

Based on Ye Fan's experience, there were risks when it came to accessing such a place in the Chu family.

Ten years ago, when Ye Fan first entered the Chu Sect entrance, he almost perished in there.

The place was filled with booby traps, so it was perilous to enter it. Old Madam Chu once said that even Sky Ranking's top ten martial artists would fail to come back alive if they entered without permission. If not for the jade pendant Ye Fan's grandmother gave him, it was impossible for a child like Ye Fan to enter the depths of the Chu Sect entrance back then.

However, Ye Fan was venturing into the Tang family's forbidden grounds without a permit this time.

In other words, Ye Fan had to brave any dangers that lay before him head-on.

"I hope this place doesn't have any insane booby traps. Or else, I might just die here," Ye Fan prayed to himself.

Since he had yet to recover, he wasn't as powerful as before.

Hence, Ye Fan wasn't confident about making it if he encountered any serious danger.

Ye Fan naturally advanced with even greater care.

Fortunately, Ye Fan didn't encounter any threat even after walking inside the passage for a long time.

The passage was so quiet that only Ye Fan's breathing could be heard.

"Maybe Great grandmother already came

to undo the traps."

Ye Fan felt this was probably the only reason there were no booby traps in the passage.

However, Ye Fan didn't let down his guard for a moment as he advanced.

After all, accidents could always happen.

Even if his great grandmother had already cleared out the threats, she might have missed out something.

After living life on the edge for so long, Ye Fan developed a cautious personality.

Regardless of where he was, he was careful.

Ye Fan walked inside the passage for quite some time.

During this time, he encountered several secret chambers.

However, the secret chambers were already open, and someone had already cleaned them out, so only the furniture and decoration remained. The Yin volume of Dragon God Body was nowhere in sight and there wasn't even anything of value to him.

"Wait a minute! Don't tell me this place got cleaned out by a thief?"

The deeper Ye Fan went, the colder his heart became.

On his way in, he discovered that all the secret chambers were open.

Also, someone had clearly taken their contents.

Ye Fan initially thought it was his great grandmother, but he eventually changed his mind.

His great grandmother had no reason to touch the contents of the secret chambers.

Her existence was to guard the forbidden grounds.

Other than her, no one else knew of this underground cavern.

To a certain degree, everything in here belonged to Old Madam Chu.

Would she steal from herself?

Was that possible?

Nah.

She had no reason to steal what was already hers.

Hence, Ye Fan couldn't help suspecting that a thief had taken off with everything.

"Perhaps some other Chu clan elder came in before?"

Ye Fan once asked his great grandmother about it before. She said no one else in the family knew about this cave under the old mansion.

However, it didn't necessarily mean that no other now deceased Chu family members entered it while they were still alive.

"Sigh! In that case, the Yin volume is probably long gone."

Ye Fan couldn't help feeling disappointed.

All his efforts had been in vain.

"Forget it. I should just drop it and be content that I could master Yang Dragon God Body."

Ye Fan wanted to turn and leave.

Just as he was about to go, he suddenly felt that the spiritual energy in the atmosphere was much stronger than normal.

Martial arts cultivation was about absorbing spiritual energy to make up for human weakness.

This was what ancient Taoism was talking about when it came to the cultivation of qi, where its practitioners would absorb spiritual energy to train up the body.

It was the same for modern-day martial arts cultivation as well.

Now that he was at supreme grandmaster level, he had to absorb spiritual energy if he wanted to improve.

However, there was barely any spiritual energy that he could harness on its own. Hence, Ye Fan made several attempts to collect jade so that he could absorb it from them.

Ye Fan naturally found it odd for this underground cavern to contain more intense spiritual energy than above ground, so he carried on walking curiously.

Ye Fan's stared with his eyes wide when he finally reached the end of the passage.

The moment Ye Fan caught sight of the scene before him, he trembled as his pupils constricted.

His eyes nearly popped from their sockets.

C-could that be...'