Book 5 — Sword Demon

Yang Ye’s reputation in the southern territory was huge, and it was to the extent that he was known to all and feared by all. However, many people in the central territory didn’t know Yang Ye, or it should be said that they weren’t aware of Yang Ye’s true strength. Even though they knew that Yang Ye was the Sword Emperor, Yang Ye was only a Spirit Realm profounder in their opinion, so even if he were a monstrous genius, how monstrous could he be?

Besides that, the rewards provided by the Exalted Han Empire was truly too tempting, and many weren’t able to refuse it at all nor did they want to refuse it. Especially the independent cultivators, it was an opportunity that couldn't be chanced upon in a thousand years to them. They just had to kill Yang Ye and their fates would be changed. Thus, countless independent cultivators had started to search all over for Yang Ye.

It wasn’t just independent cultivators, even the experts of some clans and sects were tempted by the rewards. 3,000 top-grade energy stones might not be anything great in the Exalted Han Empire, but it was quite a large sum of wealth to some clans and sects. Most importantly, they just had...