# Chapter 1098: Ruthless Burning Slaughter
A trail of fire streaked through the sky, while below on Black Soul Mountain, an increasingly long path of blood spread out. Under the desperate siege, Yun Che could not tell how much time had passed or how many people he had killed, nor did he even know the severity of his own injuries. He had to maintain his full concentration on charging forward while protecting the young girl in his arms whom he found so infuriating that his teeth itched, and the sword in his right hand needed no target locking—every swing dyed the night sky with blood.
Just then, two auras that suddenly multiplied the pressure on Yun Che rapidly approached from the side.
"Ling Yun... die!!"
Two black soul spears entwined with ferocious lightning easily tore through Yun Che's heavy sword force, coiling toward him from left and right like two soul-chasing black serpents.
Two vice hall masters of the Soul Sect... Profound power at the mid-stage Divine Tribulation Realm!
Their profound auras were no weaker than Lei Kuangfeng's!
Yun Che spun around like lightning, activating Heaven-Shattering, his profound energy surging as he swung his sword to meet them.
"Die!" The two vice hall masters saw Yun Che actually turn to face them head-on, and their gazes instantly turned several times more vicious. The lightning coiled around their black soul spears seemed to come alive, dancing wildly.
Crack!!
It was like a thunderbolt tearing through space, but beneath the exploding thunder, there was only a shattered phantom.
The brief afterimage and aura residue from Moon-Breaking Shadow Flick caused the full-force strikes of the two Soul Sect vice hall masters to hit nothing but air. In that moment of unpreparedness, Yun Che's heavy sword came smashing down mercilessly from above.
Boom!
Another thunderous explosion, and the two vice hall masters were sent crashing down from the sky... but almost simultaneously, two more powerful forces struck from another direction—their attire different from ordinary disciples, clearly two more vice hall masters!
Yun Che's sword momentum swiftly retracted and redirected, his vast force blasting upward.
Clang!!!!
The Heaven-Defying Sword collided with the two black soul spears midair, producing a screeching sound like the sky being torn apart.
Even at full strength with both hands on the sword, Yun Che could never have stood head-on against two Soul Sect vice hall masters, let alone in his one-handed state with greatly reduced power and momentum. The Heaven-Defying Sword was instantly knocked aside, Yun Che's right arm split open, and his entire body plummeted like a meteor, smashing heavily into the pitch-black Black Soul Mountain.
Boom! The ground exploded, and several surrounding peaks shook violently.
As Yun Che was blasted down, all the nearby Soul Sect disciples immediately locked onto his position. In an instant, thousands of profound auras erupted simultaneously, raining down on him.
The ground was smashed into a crater dozens of zhang deep. Blood trickled from the corner of Yun Che's mouth, but his gaze remained chillingly calm. He sensed thousands of auras closing in—such a terrifying concentrated attack would surely kill him even if he had ten lives.
"Phoenix Wing Firmament!!"
He didn't have time to check if Little Jasmine was injured. Flames exploded from his body, and a clear phoenix cry resounded through the night sky of the Black Soul Mountain Range.
Amid the phoenix cry, a blaze shot up into the sky, instantly soaring a thousand zhang. The immense pressure and momentum created a terrifying flame storm, blasting back all the nearby Soul Sect disciples.
Rumble...
The spot he had occupied a moment before was instantly transformed into a hell of destruction under the combined power of thousands of Soul Sect disciples.
"Wh...what?" The overbearing phoenix pressure forced even the vice hall masters behind him to retreat in panic, while Yun Che, dragging a trail of fire, fled far away without pausing.
"After him!" one vice hall master shouted.
"Relax, he can't escape," another said with no worry at all.
"Brother-in-law, you're bleeding." Little Jasmine poked Yun Che's chest. Blood was flowing down from there—first a few streams, then dozens, growing thicker. Yet her entire body, shielded by Yun Che's body and profound energy, remained completely unharmed.
"And whose fault is that?!" Yun Che gritted his teeth. "If I die here today, you'd better be my bed-warming maid in your next life to pay off this debt!"
"Ah-yi? How many times do I have to tell you, I'm your sister-in-law! As my brother-in-law, saving me is your duty, duty, duty!!"
"..." Yun Che spat out a mouthful of bloody foam—whether from internal injuries or anger at Little Jasmine. In a situation like this, she still had the nerve to sass him!
Even if my actions were brainless and pathetic, you could at least show some gratitude!!
Soul Sect disciples were swarming in from all directions, the sky filled with countless dark figures. Though the ground was already littered with corpses, the net closing in on Yun Che was growing tighter and tighter, allowing him not even a moment to catch his breath.
Then, Yun Che's brow suddenly twitched... Behind him, four auras were rapidly closing in at speeds far exceeding his own, growing closer and closer. Four immensely heavy auras had locked firmly onto him.
"Seventh Hall Master! Eleventh Hall Master! Thirty-fourth Hall Master! Thirty-fifth Hall Master... Four hall masters!" Excited shouts from Soul Sect disciples rang out around them.
The vice hall masters who had been chasing Yun Che all slowed down simultaneously. Four Black Soul hall masters closing in at once—this time, Yun Che had no escape route.
"Ling Yun! Surrender now!"
A roar, carrying four increasingly close terrifying pressures, caused Yun Che's blood to churn violently.
"No need to hold back. The sect master's original order: no need for him alive. Execute on sight!"
"He's killed so many of our sect's disciples—I've dreamed of cutting him down! Attack together!"
Four Soul Sect hall masters—all at the late stage of Divine Tribulation Realm and holding transcendent status in the Heiya Realm—attacked simultaneously. Their four immense forces converged into a sky-covering storm, bearing down directly on Yun Che.
Any one of these four alone was beyond his ability to match. Combined, their power was like a nightmare from the abyss. Even before the force arrived, the immense pressure and approaching shockwaves had him on the verge of collapse.
Yun Che didn't turn back. Biting his teeth hard, he put away the Heaven-Defying Sword and wrapped both arms tightly around the girl in his arms. He activated Heaven-Shattering again and opened the Evil God Barrier to its maximum extent.
"Cloud-Sealing Sun-Locking!!"
Boom!!
Like enormous ocean waves mercilessly smashing a small boat, the Evil God Barrier instantly deformed and then shattered completely in the next moment. Yun Che's entire body trembled violently as he crashed down again... but this time, the force of his fall was several times more devastating than before. His landing point dragged a long trail of blood mist that lingered long in the air.
Bang!!!!
Yun Che's body slammed hard into the peak of a mountain. The mountain broke in half at the waist, and rubble flew everywhere. But Yun Che's momentum didn't diminish at all; he smashed into the ground thousands of zhang away, plowing a deep trench hundreds of zhang long through the earth before finally coming to a stop.
After a moment of silence, the surrounding Soul Sect disciples erupted in cheers. High above, the hall master on the right sneered: "He killed so many of our sect's disciples and brought such shame upon the entire sect. Letting him die so easily would be too merciful."
"At least we can report to the sect master. Otherwise, with his anger not yet cooled, who knows what he might do."
"Wait!" The hall master in the middle suddenly changed expression: "His aura... he's still alive! He didn't die!"
The four hall masters' spiritual senses swept toward Yun Che's position, and they suddenly realized with shock that Yun Che's aura was still clearly present.
Though much weaker than before, it was still quite strong—definitely not the lingering aura of someone dead or dying.
"This... how is this possible?" The four hall masters cried out in disbelief almost simultaneously. To be hit head-on by the combined force of four late-stage Divine Tribulation Realm experts and not be reduced to ashes was already somewhat incredible. How could he possibly still be alive?
But what horrified them even more was that at the end of that deep trench, the figure drenched in blood slowly stood up.
The four hall masters exchanged glances. In that moment, what they saw in each other's pupils was not just shock, but clearly fear.
What kind of... monster was this?
A mere Level 2 Divine Soul Realm profound aura, and yet he could be this terrifying? Based on all their combined life experience, they simply couldn't comprehend it.
"He's already severely injured. Kill him now! No matter what... no matter what, we cannot let him live!!"
The words "no matter what" were repeated twice, revealing the terror in their hearts. The four hall masters swooped down at once. Though Yun Che was already heavily wounded and far less threatening, their killing intent was even stronger than before.
"Brother-in-law, they're coming again! Run!" Little Jasmine shouted in his ear. Yun Che was covered in injuries, extremely severe ones, yet she somehow seemed completely unharmed.
He didn't need Little Jasmine's reminder—he could clearly feel the four immense pressures approaching again from behind. Yun Che straightened his body, but instead of trying to flee with all his might, he stood there, blood ceaselessly flowing from the corner of his mouth. His face showed no pain, only a ferocity like a vengeful ghost.
One man against an entire sect—he had done this many times before.
At nineteen, he had faced the Blazing Heaven Sect, one of the four great sects of the Cang Feng Kingdom, and single-handedly annihilated them. Though difficult, at that time he indeed possessed such power.
Later, he had faced the Phoenix God Sect alone. Back then, he had Phantom Lightning Extreme and the Primordial Mystic Ark, making him faster than anyone in the Phoenix God Sect. Though he couldn't fight them head-on, he was confident he would never fall into danger... and in the end, he had forced the Phoenix God Sect into a corner by himself.
But this time was completely different from the previous two.
He could annihilate the Blazing Heaven Sect with his strength. He could escape unscathed from the Phoenix God Sect. But the Soul Sect... a ruling sect of a star realm in the Divine Realm—before them, he was nothing but an insignificant ant. He could never face them head-on, nor escape unscathed. All he could do was use Moon-Breaking Shadow Flick for sneak attacks and assassinations.
This time, he had deliberately exposed himself, and the consequences he faced surprised him not at all.
Seeing that Yun Che, after standing up, did not immediately flee but remained still, the four hall masters thought he had accepted his fate and was ready to surrender. But none of them held back their profound energy in the slightest—all were determined to take his life, preferably reducing him to ashes!
"Ling Yun... Die!"
But at that moment, Yun Che suddenly turned around. A massive azure dragon shadow materialized and then exploded in midair, a dragon's roar echoing across the sky.
This was the largest Dragon Soul Domain Yun Che had ever released, covering an area of hundreds of li with its sky-shaking roar.
The chaotic Black Soul Mountain suddenly fell into absolute silence. Deep terror appeared on the faces of the Soul Sect disciples. Those in the air had their eyes go blank, and they tumbled down one after another. The four hall masters closing in on Yun Che all froze in place, their pupils dilating, their faces also filled with intense fear.
Finally, at this moment, Yun Che shot into the sky. As he fled at tremendous speed, a mass of crimson-gold flames condensed, burned, and expanded around his body at a terrifying rate. In an instant, it was as if a golden sun had appeared in the night sky, radiating an unbearable blazing light.
"Yellow—Springs—Ashes!!"
The golden sun exploded mercilessly. The Soul Sect members had barely shaken off the Dragon Soul Domain when they were directly engulfed in a Golden Crow purgatory.
An area of three hundred li in radius was completely transformed into a sea of golden fire in just ten-odd breaths. It was like suddenly falling into the Yellow Springs underworld, burning with the most terrifying and ruthless Golden Crow Divine Flame.