Having the genes of a demon king, I never intended to be a kept man.

The butler asked curiously, "Young Master Yege, Young Master Shengxiong, what exactly happened here? Just now, we thought we heard an extremely shrill scream coming from this direction?"

Ye Ge looked puzzled: "Screams? My cousin and I have been chatting here the whole time, we haven't heard any screams at all."

The butler exclaimed in surprise, "How is that possible? Just now, it was clearly..."

Grandpa was silent for a moment, as if he knew something. He looked at Ye Shengxiong and asked, "Shengxiong, did you hear anything just now?"

"No, no..." Ye Shengxiong's face twitched slightly, and he forced a smile: "Ye Ge and I didn't hear anything here."

Despite saying that, his fists clenched slightly, and his veins bulged!

Ye Ge stood to the side with a calm expression, as if it really had nothing to do with him.

He knew very well that Ye Shengxiong would say this not because he disdained to tattle, nor because he was afraid of him after being beaten up, nor because he felt guilty.

Rather, it was because for Ye Shengxiong, a cultivator at the first level of the Earth Realm, to suffer such a great loss at the hands of a ten-year-old child at the Profound Realm was simply too shameful to talk about.

Once he says that, then his so-called eighteen-year-old genius Earth Realm cultivator will become a joke!

"Is that so?" Grandpa paused. "It seems we must have misheard."

Ye Sheng was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

Not only did we fail to administer the drug today, but we also suffered such a huge loss in silence because of a ten-year-old kid!

It made him incredibly frustrated!

"Grandpa, happy birthday! I have some things to take care of at the academy, so I'll be leaving now."

"it is good."

After speaking with a gloomy expression, Ye Shengxiong bowed and left.

"What's wrong with Young Master Shengxiong?" the butler asked, puzzled. "He seems a bit strange."

Grandpa didn't respond, but just gave Ye Ge a deep look.

These two people have clearly had some kind of conflict.

It's not a big deal for conflicts to occur between younger generations.

Especially since both of them are junior members of the Ye family and potential heirs, conflicts are quite normal. As long as nothing serious happens, Ye Quan doesn't bother to get involved. He just wants to see what his two grandsons are capable of.

However, what he couldn't understand was why Ye Ge, who only had the strength of the Profound Realm, seemed to be completely unharmed.

On the contrary, Ye Shengxiong, a cultivator with the strength of the Earth Realm and an S-level talent, looked disheveled, weak, pale, and covered in sweat.

Grandpa was completely baffled.

......

The birthday banquet concluded successfully.

night.

Bedroom.

Night Song formed a soul contract with a group of Shadow Assassins.

From that moment on, he officially became the true master of these shadows!

Zero and his group of Shadow Assassins knelt respectfully before Nightsong: "Master!"

"You saw what just happened?"

Ye Ge put his hands behind his back and glanced back.

At this moment, Ye Ge's demeanor was completely unlike that of a ten-year-old boy.

“Yes,” Zero said calmly. “I was about to take action, but it seems you don’t need my help.”

"Master, should I go and eliminate that traitor?"

When Zero said this, his voice was completely devoid of killing intent, almost cold and emotionless.

The tone was as simple as saying, "I'm going to clean up the trash."

"No need." Ye Ge smiled. "Let's keep him. He'll still be of some use. Let him live for another two months."

In the game's storyline, Ye Shengxiong is the villain that Ye Ge hates the most.

But within the overall worldview, this guy is ultimately just a nobody being used.

Night Song never took him seriously.

The key is the people behind him.

"Yes!" Zero obeyed his master's judgment without question.

......

Three days later, Xia Xiyao completed the formalities and entered the inner gate of the academy. Usually, she could only go to the Ye family to play with him and Gao Shenxue during her free time after school.

The coursework in the inner sanctum of the War Academy was exceptionally rigorous and demanding. Xia Xiyao often sent (crying) emojis to Ye Ge and Gao Shenxue in their chat group to complain and seek comfort from her two childhood friends.

Of course, Ye Ge also has his own things to do.

For the past few days, Ye Ge has been locking herself in her room.

Gao Shenxue felt something was off, so she went to his room to look for him.

Then I saw Yege sitting at the table, with all sorts of alchemical equipment and extraordinary materials laid out in front of him.

Beakers, test tubes, crucibles, narrow-necked flasks, tubular bottles, open jars, etc...

Ye Ge was dressed in a white lab coat, looking serious and operating with caution.

He held a vial of medicine in his hand and slowly poured the blue liquid inside into a small pot in front of him, where it mixed with the purple liquid in the pot.

The purple liquid in the pot was bubbling and gurgling.

Gao Shenxue stood quietly behind Ye Ge, her brows slightly furrowed, somewhat worried that this pot might suddenly explode.

However, it didn't happen in the end.

Night Song successfully concocted 10 high-level MP recovery potions.

"When did you learn the art of concocting extraordinary potions?" Gao Shenxue asked.

Ye Ge shook the liquid medicine in her hand and said leisurely, "I learned it when I had nothing to do in my spare time."

Gao Shenxue glanced at him: "This isn't something you can learn in your spare time, is it?"

At the age of ten, he was already able to concoct high-level alchemical potions.

This was something Gao Shenxue had never heard of before.

Unexpectedly, my childhood sweetheart is actually a genius in alchemy?

There was no response from Ye Ge.

He sighed inwardly.

In Gao Shenxue's view, she seemed to have succeeded in refining the potion this time.

But in reality, it was a failure for him...

"What is this?" Gao Shenxue pointed to the only bottle of dark blue liquid medicine on the table.

Night Song: "Elementary Awakening Potion for Supernatural Abilities".

Gao Shenxue asked in confusion: "A magic potion?"

She had never heard of such a thing before.

"Well, my invention is not yet fully researched."

Night Song picked up the dark blue potion and gave a bitter smile.

That's why he said it was considered a failure...

Ye Ge found it very strange.

The material ratios should all be correct.

However, the results of each refining attempt were always unsatisfactory.

In reality, crafting is not as simple as it seems in this absolutely realistic game world.

In the game, to make things easier for players, the operation is simple: just follow the proportions of ingredients A+B+C=D in the crafting book, go to the crafting workshop and fill in the blanks according to the proportions, and the recipe will be automatically generated.

But now we've entered the real world of the game.

This is equivalent to the real world.

The entire process of refining a medicine requires extremely strict control over the heat, techniques, temperature, and humidity, which cannot be simply described in words.

It relies on the feeling and experience during the refining process!

Alchemy, though not as profound and complex as the alchemy of the immortals.

However, without dedicated study for seven or eight years, it's simply impossible to even get started.

Ye Ge, relying on the character's exceptional intelligence and learning ability, has already learned to concoct high-level potions at the age of ten, which is almost an impossible miracle in the eyes of ordinary people.

In the current version, he can refine almost all universal potions.

Since this is the newly launched version, there is only one type of HP recovery potion and MP replenishment potion.

There are only a few types of buff-type potions.

But Yege knew that taking it a step further would be quite difficult.

What he wanted wasn't to recreate something that already existed. Nightsong wanted something groundbreaking! For example, a future version of the potion like the Awakening Power Potion—he wanted to obtain it first!

Although Ye Ge aspires to become a full-time master, it would be a waste of time for him to spend so much time learning a secondary profession, reading those thick alchemy books, cultivating experience and intuition, and then conducting research and inventions.

'Maybe we can think of a way...'

'Should I find...or train a highly loyal tool to do this work for me?'

Ye Ge stroked his chin, deep in thought.