Chapter 659: Ruthless Instant Kill
Ye Qingsheng and Ye Ziyi quickly turned around, staring in shock at the person who had suddenly appeared, moving as fast as a ghost. Their hearts also gave a violent lurch... With such astonishing speed, the other party's profound strength must be above theirs!
The person before them looked about twenty years old, dressed in light robes with golden patterns, his face calm yet tinged with gloom. They spoke in unison: "Who are you!?"
As the words left their mouths, they also sensed the other party's profound aura... Their faces simultaneously showed surprise, and the tension that had just arisen instantly dissipated. Ye Qingsheng's next words became dismissive: "Hmph, some clueless brat has popped up out of nowhere."
Because the other party's profound aura was merely at the third level of the King Xuan Realm. Although such cultivation was astonishing for someone his age, before them, he was utterly fragile, completely incapable of causing them any trouble or hindrance.
As for his speed... it was probably due to specializing in movement techniques or using some kind of profound artifact.
They had forcefully blasted open the gate of this Ice God Temple.
And he himself had arrived just in the final moment.
Back then, he had secretly thought that the Ice Cloud ancestors using extravagant Heavenly Firmament Jade to build such an underground grand hall was utterly inexplicable... And now, it had saved almost all the Ice Cloud women and the entire Bing Yun Fairy Palace.
Yun Che's gloomy gaze swept across the twelve people before him... All unfamiliar faces, and they were uniformly dressed in black attire without any insignia or even mixed colors, clearly deliberately concealing their identities and origins. Their profound strength... two mid-stage Overlord Xuan, ten eighth-level or above King Xuan!
Yun Che shifted his gaze away from them, his expression indifferent. Without responding a single word to them, he directly turned around and looked at Palace Master Gong Yuxian, who was being supported by Murong Qianxue and Jun Lianqie.
This suddenly appearing man also stunned everyone in Bing Yun Fairy Palace. As he turned around, all the women who saw his face were instantly stupefied, their beautiful eyes flickering with disbelief.
"Yun... Yun Che!?"
His gaze swept through the corners of the Ice God Temple, and within an ice coffin emitting sparse ice spirits, Yun Che saw Grand Elder Feng Qianhui, who had passed away with regret. He walked slowly, stepping toward Gong Yuxian under their dazed stares. Gong Yuxian's face was pale tinged with green, and her life force was extremely weak. He could see at a glance that her internal injuries were not only severe but had persisted for several months. If not for the Ice Cloud Seven Immortals continuously extending her life with profound energy, and her unwillingness to die so easily, gripping onto her last breath, she would have long perished... If this final obsession were broken, she would likely pass away within just a few breaths.
Moreover, her body had almost no trace of profound energy left... All her profound strength had dissipated. Even if she fully recovered, she would have to start cultivating from scratch. He understood well that for someone who once dominated the Cang Feng Empire and was the master of a palace, this was far crueler than a sudden death.
Yun Che took a long, deep breath, crouched down, and extended his arm, channeling a surge of Heaven and Earth aura into Gong Yuxian's body from a distance, saying guiltily: "Palace Master... I returned too late."
Gong Yuxian reached out her trembling hand, her face showing an abnormal flush of red under extreme shock and excitement: "You... you... Yun Che... Is it really you? You're not... not..."
"It's me." Yun Che nodded emphatically, opening his palm as a miniature Ice God Tree grew in it: "The Ice God Divine Art is proof. I did not perish in the Primordial Mystic Ark three years ago as the world claimed. The ark took me to another world, and I only returned today."
In this world, the only ones who possessed the Ice God Divine Art were Yun Che and Xia Qingyue. Seeing the Ice God Tree in his palm, no matter how hard it was to believe, they knew clearly that the person before them was not just someone who looked like Yun Che, but truly Yun Che, whom everyone thought had died.
Gong Yuxian's lips trembled, a faint strange light flickering in her eyes, but soon dimmed: "You... are still alive... truly a miracle... just... cough... cough... you shouldn't have come today... shouldn't have come..."
Yun Che understood the meaning of "shouldn't have come"... because the ones who had driven Bing Yun Fairy Palace into a desperate situation were two terrifying Overlord Xuan experts. His coming was merely walking to his death.
"No," Yun Che shook his head: "I am also a disciple of Bing Yun Fairy Palace. With the sect in crisis... I should have returned long ago. Palace Master, rest assured. Since I have returned... I will never allow anyone to trample our Bing Yun Fairy Palace again."
"Tch, hahaha." Behind Yun Che, a disdainful laugh rang out. Ye Qingsheng found Yun Che's low words extremely ridiculous: "What a laughable joke. This wild brat who crawled out of some crack in a cave actually dares to boast about protecting this Bing Yun Fairy Palace? Hahaha... This lowly, wretched land truly produces nothing but pathetic jokes. Third level of the King Xuan Realm. You can indeed swagger around in this tiny Cang Feng Kingdom, but unfortunately, you lowly dirt-dwellers will always be jokes in this lord's eyes. Your movement technique is decent enough to earn a compliment from this lord, but if this lord wants you dead in one breath, you won't live to the second."
"Yun Che? That name sounds a bit familiar," Ye Ziyi said indifferently.
"Hey, of course it's familiar," Ye Qingsheng sneered. "Isn't it that brat who slapped the Shenhuang Kingdom's face in the Seven Nations Ranking Battle and dared to offend the young master? Tsk, I heard he disappeared along with that Primordial Mystic Ark. I never expected him to return alive... The young master used to gnash his teeth in hatred whenever he mentioned the name 'Yun Che' for a long time. If he finds out that this brat is still alive... he will definitely be very pleased!"
Young master? Primordial Mystic Ark?
These two people made Yun Che's heart sink heavily. A name and a face that disgusted him instantly flashed through his mind...
Sun Moon Divine Palace... Ye Xinghan!!
These were actually people from the Sun Moon Divine Palace, and it seemed Ye Xinghan had personally sent them!
What was going on? Why would the Sun Moon Divine Palace send people to attack Bing Yun Fairy Palace? The Sun Moon Divine Palace and Bing Yun Fairy Palace... were clearly from two different worlds, two different levels, with absolutely no overlap!
Ye Qingsheng's face was full of mockery and pity: "You barely managed to salvage your life, yet you rush back to die."
He narrowed his eyes and waved his hand: "Seize this brat! Don't hit him too hard and kill him. The young master will surely be more interested in how to make him die!"
As he finished speaking, a black-clad figure behind him shot out like lightning, grabbing toward Yun Che... Only this one person among the ten moved. Among these ten, the lowest cultivation was at the eighth level of the King Xuan Realm. Dealing with a mere third-level King Xuan, even one person would be more than enough.
"Yun Che, be careful!" Murong Qianxue and Chu Yueli shouted in alarm, simultaneously quickly grasping their ice swords, preparing to move forward and resist alongside Yun Che. They had personally experienced the strength of these people. Although the ten black-clad men behind were merely attendants, each surpassed any one of them.
Facing the black-clad man who suddenly pounced, releasing a powerful profound aura, Yun Che's gloomy expression remained unchanged, his feet not moving an inch. Only his hand made a casual, effortless wave.
Boom!!!
A thunderous explosion suddenly rang out. The black-clad man, still three zhang away from Yun Che, vanished in mid-air in that thunderous sound, reappearing on the stone wall ten zhang behind, then heavily bounced off, collapsing limply, covered in blood and motionless, like a beaten mongrel dog.
The entire underground space trembled violently for an instant.
The Ice God Temple fell into dead silence. Ye Qingsheng, Ye Ziyi... and everyone from Bing Yun Fairy Palace stood frozen. That black-clad man was a ninth-level King Xuan. Even the Ice Cloud Seven Immortals could not match him. The profound force he released while charging at Yun Che was exceedingly powerful. Not to mention a third-level King Xuan, even a fifth-level King Xuan would be captured in an instant.
But Yun Che... merely... flicked the back of his hand!!
"Haokong!" The other black-clad men, after a moment of stupor, rushed over. When they touched the black-clad man's body, all their eyes trembled, revealing deep terror.
"All meridians severed... bones shattered... dead... dead..." one black-clad man said with a trembling voice.
"Wh... what!?" Ye Qingsheng and Ye Ziyi were greatly shocked, a chill running down their spines.
A ninth-level King Xuan... dead... and all his meridians severed, bones shattered... while the other party was only a third-level King Xuan, and it was just a casual wave! Truly just a casual wave! Before that, they hadn't sensed any sign of Yun Che gathering profound energy, not even the slightest fluctuation of profound force... and no release of any profound technique!
And it was from a distance... at least three zhang away!
With their mid-stage Overlord Xuan cultivation, they could naturally also kill a ninth-level King Xuan in one blow... but they would have to use at least eighty percent of their strength, and there was absolutely no way they could do it with such effortless ease, let alone kill from a distance solely with profound energy! And even less could they shatter all his meridians and bones in such a manner...
Murong Qianxue and Chu Yueli, who had been about to act, stood there stunned. All the women of Bing Yun Fairy Palace widened their eyes and gaped, unable to believe what they had just seen. Gong Yuxian's eyes trembled violently, and her breathing became unusually rapid... Yun Che was not dead, and she believed that with his astonishing talent, in three years, his strength would have grown immensely.
But no matter how fast the growth, it was impossible for him to reach a level capable of matching Overlord Xuan in just three short years... So when Yun Che returned, she was first shocked, then overjoyed... and then terrified.
But she never dreamed... that the current Yun Che could casually kill a ninth-level King Xuan with a single wave of his hand!
Although she had never touched the realm beyond King Xuan, she knew well enough that to achieve this... he had to be at least at the late stage of the Overlord Xuan Realm!!