Chapter 708 - 806: The Presence or Absence of Talent
"Little brother? Not necessary, so I won't accept!" Ye Tianfan directly refused this gangster leader because even if he were to take followers, he certainly wouldn't choose him. After all, following him would be utterly useless, so Ye Tianfan refused.
"Indeed, a reclusive expert, truly aloof, but I won't give up. I don't want to stay here any longer," the gangster leader said.
Ye Tianfan shook his head slightly, not only because the gangster leader had already missed the best time for cultivation, but also because the gangster leader's physique showed no innate talent whatsoever.
After Ye Tianfan entered Snow City, he discovered that the Spiritual Qi here was incredibly abundant and very easy to absorb. Yet, Ye Tianfan found no one in this town who possessed Spiritual Power.
If someone has innate talent, they would unknowingly absorb some Spiritual Qi from the air, and then Spiritual Power would flow through their body. Regardless of the amount, as long as you have talent, you would have Spiritual Power inside you.
However, Ye Tianfan discovered that throughout the entire town, there wasn't a single person with such talent, which was quite peculiar.
In the entire cultivation world, it's rare to find a whole town or village without a single person with cultivating talent.
If an entire town or village has no cultivation talent, then there's certainly an issue with that town or village, or it might be a historical anomaly.
Because every person born has a fifty percent chance of being talented or untalented. Each year, dozens to hundreds of babies are born in a village, with even more in towns, thousands to tens of thousands.
It can't be that the fifty percent probability of thousands to tens of thousands of people results in no talents at all. If that happens, there's definitely something strange.
Although talent has something to do with heredity, it only affects the quality of talent, not whether you have it or not. So Ye Tianfan felt there was something odd about Snow City.
However, Ye Tianfan didn't plan to intervene because where is this place? This is the Zero Degree Plain, one of the Ten Forbidden Zones. Any strange occurrences in the Forbidden Zone wouldn't seem peculiar to Ye Tianfan.
Because the Forbidden Zone, after all, is a Forbidden Zone, a place filled with various strange events.
Snow City's ability to stand in the Zero Degree Plain is actually related to the elderly people who let Ye Tianfan in before.
When they became polluted and transformed into the Forbidden Zone's Zero Degree Plain, they used great perseverance to create an Array, enveloping their former town. Although few survived then, at least there was some legacy.
Although they used great perseverance to create this Array, the outside conditions became increasingly harsh, and the Array's consumption increased. So these elderly people eventually decided to use the innate talent of all babies born in the future as sacrifices to maintain the Array's existence.
Thus, this Array "lived" on, but this also resulted in all babies born in Snow City having no talent.
Gradually, the people of Snow City forgot that cultivation was possible, and they became insensitive to Spiritual Qi. Eating vegetables with Spiritual Power would even cause diarrhea.
Of course, Ye Tianfan was unaware of these reasons, and even if he knew, he couldn't say much because, in the absence of talent, they survived.
Otherwise, Snow City standing proudly on the Zero Degree Plain wouldn't exist now.
"Boss, are you going to stay at an inn? Follow me, I'll take you to a good place," the gangster leader said to Ye Tianfan.
Ye Tianfan knew this was the gangster leader's way of handling things first and reporting later, but Ye Tianfan didn't mind. Regardless, after resting well, he would leave directly, leaving him some silver, enough for his living. The condition is whether he can serve him well and let him live comfortably these days.
But taking him along was impossible. The gangster leader had no talent and was an ordinary person. Even if Ye Tianfan wrapped him in the Xuanyuan Tower and took him out of Snow City, he would still freeze to death.
So Ye Tianfan wouldn't take him away. Perhaps someday, when his power reached the primordial level, he might return to transfer the entire town's people to the central land.
Ye Tianfan followed the gangster leader to the front of an inn, which seemed somewhat dilapidated.
The gangster leader seemed to notice Ye Tianfan's expression and said pleasingly, "Boss, don't be fooled by the shabby appearance of this inn. Inside, it's definitely worth more than its name, it's opened by my big brother."
"Hmm!" Ye Tianfan nodded. If the inside is good, it doesn't matter, if not, it could always be changed, so after nodding his head, he proceeded to walk into the inn.
Seeing Ye Tianfan go in, the gangster leader quickly followed.
Although the gangster leader wasn't very knowledgeable, he was quite astute. He knew that Ye Tianfan might not take him along when leaving, but the gangster leader merely wanted to gather more information about the outside world, as these messages were his capital when negotiating with others.
Ye Tianfan entered the inn and found it indeed as the gangster leader claimed, well-decorated and notably clean.
As Ye Tianfan walked into the inn, a man in his thirties approached him, asking while walking, "Customer, are you here to rest or to stay?"
"I'm staying!" Ye Tianfan replied.
Just as the young man was about to say something else, he suddenly saw the gangster leader enter, bowing and scraping, so he grabbed him and pulled him aside, away from Ye Tianfan, saying, "I don't care what you want to do today, let me serve this guest first. If you disrupt my business again, don't come for food anymore!"
"Bro, look what you're saying, this is my boss, I came with him!" the gangster leader said obsequiously.
"Boss? You've acknowledged a boss?" the young man asked doubtfully.
"Bro, greet my boss first, I tell you, my boss's identity is not simple, an outsider!" After saying this, the gangster leader pointed to the sky!
"Outside?" Upon hearing Ye Tianfan's origins, the young man gasped sharply. He knew more than the gangster leader and understood the outside conditions. If the protection layer wasn't there, just the outside environment would freeze them instantly.
So when the young man heard about Ye Tianfan's background, he dared not neglect him and quickly brushed aside the gangster leader to respectfully welcome Ye Tianfan.
