"You... are you really Ye Xiao?" One of the guards immediately asked. The young man's appearance didn't differ at all from the Ye Xiao they knew, but the aura he felt from his body also indicated that he wasn't Ye Xiao. How could someone who couldn't awaken his golden core possess the aura of a cultivator?
"Am I not Ye Xiao? Who else could I be?" Ye Xiao casually answered the two gatekeepers' questions.
It should be noted that these gatekeepers were just ordinary cultivators employed by the village guards to guard the village gates. Although their bones were quite mature, their realms were still too low, only at the fifth stage of Qi Refining, the same as Ye Xiao. For ordinary cultivators, this realm was quite standard among ordinary cultivators.
"Are you really Ye Xiao? But why is your body..." The guard said, still finding it hard to believe Ye Xiao.
However, Ye Xiao was too lazy to respond to the two gatekeepers and was about to continue walking, when the two guards immediately stopped him.
"Who are you? We are the village gatekeepers. You can't enter without showing your ID." The two gatekeepers doubted Ye Xiao's identity, even though his appearance was very similar to Ye Xiao's. However, they believed that Ye Xiao couldn't possibly have an aura around him because he didn't have a golden core. Therefore, they couldn't let him enter the village without permission.
"I'm Ye Xiao. I'm from this village. Why can't I enter my village?" Seeing the two guards refusing to let him in, Ye Xiao was furious and immediately shouted. He fumbled through his clothes, searching for his ID card, but he couldn't find it anywhere.
"Hey, where's my ID card?" Ye Xiao was immediately shocked when he realized it was missing, and he was reminded of Ye Fan's torture.
"Could it have fallen out of his mind?" Le Zan asked softly, recalling the memories.
It's important to note that every cultivator uses a ring that possesses spatial powers. It's a common practice for cultivators to store their belongings. However, using a storage ring also requires spiritual energy control. Ye Xiao previously owned a storage ring because he couldn't channel spiritual energy to control it, leaving him with no place to store anything.
Ye Xiao had always used his clothes as a storage pouch, carrying only small items like identity slips or spiritual stones used as currency. Therefore, Ye Xiao was currently confused about where his identity slip had fallen.
Now that his identity slip wasn't on him, Ye Xiao could only convince the two guards.
"You two, if I said I've awakened my golden core, would you believe me?" Ye Xiao tried to explain to the two guards.
"No, Ye Xiao couldn't possibly awaken his golden core. You must be a fraud. Get out of here." Without further ado, the two guards refused. The news that Ye Xiao couldn't awaken his golden core was already known to everyone in the village. He was judged to be unable to awaken his golden core forever due to his meridians being severed at birth. Therefore, the two guards had no intention of listening to Ye Xiao's explanation, as they already considered him a fraud disguised as Ye Xiao.
Of course, there was a way to prove it: the Ye family head or the Ye family lineage would come and verify whether Ye Xiao was the real Ye Xiao. However, these two guards were too lazy to bother Ye Xiao. After all, the Ye family's status had risen significantly due to Ye Fan's success, so they wouldn't casually contact and disturb the Ye family.
"You guys, huh?" Seeing that the two guards didn't care about his explanation, Ye Xiao ran out of patience. But he didn't want to fight with them and could only continue on his way, trying to get past them.
"You want to come in? Don't even think about it." Seeing Ye Xiao about to step forward, the two guards immediately stopped him, each holding his shoulders, their hands flowing with spiritual energy.
"You guys...!!" Ye Xiao was shocked. He hadn't expected these two guards to be so shameless. He even felt like they were deliberately trying to hide him.
Ye Xiao's suspicions were almost correct. In their minds, the two guards doubted that the young man in front of them wasn't Ye Xiao. However, if he really was Ye Xiao, they wouldn't let him back into the village. They had been ordered by the Ye family head not to let him return.
At this moment, Ye Xiao was being held back by the hands of the village gate guards. From the spiritual energy flowing from their hands, Ye Xiao could sense that they were at the fifth stage of Qi Refining.
"Hmm, why are they so weak?" Ye Xiao muttered, shocked by the strength of these two gatekeepers. He was also at the early fifth stage of Qi Refining, but he felt he could exert a force far stronger than the one Ye Xiao felt from these guards' hands. However, Ye Xiao didn't act rashly. He thought perhaps these two guards weren't using their true strength when restraining him.
While these two guards were using their full strength to restrain Ye Xiao, this was also a reflection of the true strength of these two village gatekeepers.
"Let me through!" Feeling his body being restrained, Ye Xiao struggled. As he spoke, he stomped against the gatekeepers' hands.
Ehhhh
Buggg...
The two guards were shocked, but when they recovered, their bodies were thrown backward, pain coursing through their bodies.
Ukuukkk...
You...
You...
The two guards coughed simultaneously as they stared at Ye Xiao in shock.