# Chapter 672: Heaven-Shrouding Pressure
To accurately detect a profound practitioner's profound force level, one's own profound force must be higher than the target's! Yet Yun Che had unerringly called out the profound force levels of these four Emperor Lords, including Ye Guying who was close to the late-stage Emperor Lord realm!
With Yun Che's aura being only at the King Xuan Realm, this was absolutely impossible! The only explanation... was that somewhere nearby existed a profound practitioner of immense power, even surpassing Ye Guying!
Earlier there had only been minor doubts, but with Yun Che's words, those doubts instantly magnified dozens of times... they could now be almost certain that behind Yun Che stood a massive "backer." Moreover, the strength of this "backer" far exceeded their expectations... because this person could accurately perceive their profound force levels, yet they could not sense this person's presence at all! To conceal oneself so perfectly—this person's profound force not only surpassed theirs, but likely surpassed them by a vast margin!
Could it be... a late-stage Lord Xuan Realm practitioner?
Impossible... aside from the Four Sacred Grounds, there simply couldn't be any high-level Emperor Lords left in this world!
Now, looking at Yun Che's utterly fearless, calm expression and his infuriating sneer, their thoughts of "bluffing" had largely dissipated.
Ye Guying quickly concealed the flicker of shock that passed through him and said with a faint smile, "Setting aside whether we'll kill you today or not... judging by your reaction, it seems you knew we were coming long ago?"
"Heh," Yun Che let out a contemptuous cold laugh, his gaze suddenly turning scornful. As he looked at this powerful Ninth Elder of the Sun Moon Divine Palace, his eyes were like those looking at an idiot: "For such words that insult one's own intelligence to actually come from the mouth of a Sun Moon Divine Palace elder! When I killed that Ye Ziyi, I used Ye Ziyi's Death Soul Mark to transmit the complete scene of my killing him back to your young master Ye Xinghan. I did this precisely so that Ye Xinghan would immediately bring people to kill me... and now you're puzzled about how I knew you would come? Hahahaha! The intelligence of a Sun Moon Divine Palace elder... truly laughable enough to make one lose one's teeth!"
Yun Che's words caused Ye Guying's eyes to churn violently, but his expression remained unchanged. He didn't show anger either, only lightly laughed: "So you're saying, when you killed Ye Ziyi, you had already discovered the Death Soul Mark on him, yet deliberately used that Death Soul Mark to let the young master know that you were the one who killed him?"
"Otherwise?" Yun Che tilted his mouth and sneered mockingly: "Haven't you used your brains even a little to think about why both Ye Ziyi and Ye Qingsheng died... yet you never received Ye Qingsheng's Death Soul Mark?!"
The faces of everyone from the Sun Moon Divine Palace changed slightly at the same time... Earlier, aboard the Sun Moon Divine Vessel, Ye Guying had solemnly expressed this very doubt, even suggesting that perhaps the other side had deliberately preserved Ye Ziyi's Death Soul Mark to lure them here. Because if someone could erase Ye Qingsheng's Death Soul Mark, they couldn't possibly fail to detect the presence of the Death Soul Mark on Ye Ziyi. But they hadn't believed it at all—the only explanation they could think of was that Ye Qingsheng's Death Soul Mark had already dissipated on its own. Because in this world, no one existed who had the audacity to provoke and "lure" the Sun Moon Divine Palace... unless they were courting death!
But now, hearing these words spoken from Yun Che's mouth, they couldn't help but feel a shock in their hearts. A sense of unease that shouldn't exist briefly sprouted. However, Ye Juanyun stepped forward and laughed contemptuously: "So what? Yun Che, in our eyes, you're nothing but a pitiful frog at the bottom of a well. How would you know the height of the sky or the thickness of the earth? Do you really think that just because you have this 'master' behind you, you can challenge our Sun Moon Divine Palace? Hahahaha..." Ye Juanyun laughed wildly: "How naive and laughable! The greatness of our Sun Moon Divine Palace is something you can never imagine, and you are not even worthy of knowing! Your confidence and your self-righteous backer are nothing but a huge joke in the eyes of our Sun Moon Divine Palace!"
"Oh?" Yun Che slightly lowered his brows: "So you knew about my master?"
"Tsk tsk, anyone who dares to act so arrogantly before our Sun Moon Divine Palace either dies a miserable death, or lives a life worse than death..." Ye Shi cupped his chin and sneered: "Brat Yun, forget one master, even if you had a hundred masters, don't even think about saving your life today!"
"Heh, is that so?" Yun Che gave a faint smile, his voice shifting from arrogant to gradually low and deep: "My master usually stays within his own small world. I never dare to disturb his cultivation, and I'm even more unwilling to rely on my master's power." Yun Che's gaze suddenly turned ice-cold: "But the Bing Yun Fairy Palace had no grievances or enmity with you, yet you committed such heinous acts—not only forcing the Bing Yun Fairy Palace into a desperate situation, but also killing two consecutive Palace Masters! This hatred, this enmity, is so deep that heaven and earth cannot reconcile! If I cannot avenge this, I am unworthy of being the new Palace Master of the Bing Yun Fairy Palace!!"
"Today, I will borrow my master's power, using Ye Xinghan's blood... using the blood of every single one of you to honor the spirits of the two Palace Masters in heaven!" Yun Che raised his left hand: "You will immediately know who is the frog at the bottom of a well! When my master deigns to appear personally, you had better hold yourselves steady... and don't wet your pants out of fear, thus defiling this pure land of ice and snow!!"
Yun Che's voice was harsh and fierce, every word filled with hatred and rage. The moment his voice fell, Ye Xinghan's face darkened, and he was about to speak, when he suddenly saw a flash of light on Yun Che's body... and then, the man had vanished from that spot! Both his figure and his aura had disappeared without a trace!!
Ye Guying and the others were all startled... They would never believe that a profound practitioner below the Emperor Lord level could escape right under their noses. But with their Lord Xuan Realm immense power, the area covered by their spiritual senses could not detect even the slightest trace of Yun Che's existence. He had simply disappeared completely, in an instant, right before their eyes!
"Wh-what is this?" Ye Shi swept his gaze around and asked in a deep voice. In their understanding, this was an impossibility! Let alone a mere King Xuan, even an Emperor Lord at the same level could not vanish so thoroughly within their range of sight!
Ye Guying's brow furrowed deeply. He suddenly recalled Yun Che's earlier words: "My master usually stays within his own small world. I never dare to disturb his cultivation..." His heart jolted violently... His own small world? Could it be that his master was one of those legendary beings who could create their own small world? The reason Yun Che had disappeared completely was because he had entered the "small world" where his master resided?
While they were still in shock, light flickered before them, and Yun Che's figure reappeared in the same spot. But this time, Yun Che did not look at them. Instead, he half-lowered his head, his aura greatly restrained. His demeanor had completely lost its previous arrogance and arrogance, replaced by an expression of careful respect.
"Yun Che, where is your master?" Ye Shi roared: "Don't tell us that your so-called master heard the words 'Sun Moon Divine Palace' and ran away with his tail between his legs, haha..."
Ye Shi's loud laughter suddenly stopped abruptly, his face changing dramatically.
"Alas..."
A long, ancient sigh, carrying an indescribable weight and a vicissitude that seemed to come from the distant past. Accompanying this sigh was a pressure so vast, so majestic, that it defied description. This pressure seemed to surge from the ends of heaven and earth, filling the entire sky and land in a single instant.
It was as if, in a single moment, the heavens had collapsed overhead! The entire world fell into complete dead silence.
The four Emperor Lords of the Sun Moon Divine Palace—Ye Shi, Ye Xiaoran, Ye Juanyun, and the strongest, Ye Guying—all choked the moment this pressure descended. It was as if mountains ten thousand zhang high had been pressed upon their chests. Not only could they not breathe, but even the beating of their hearts nearly stopped completely. Their bodies became completely rigid, yet every cell within them trembled uncontrollably... and they could not stop.
They lifted their heads with difficulty, their pupils contracting, and looked at the figure that had suddenly appeared in midair... He was clad in a loose black robe that fluttered and swayed in the howling wind. The black robe covered most of his face, making it impossible to see his true features... And under this terrifying, unparalleled pressure, even someone as strong as them did not dare to let their gaze touch his half-covered face. Even the black robe he wore seemed to radiate a weight as heavy as mountains.
In this world, the one thing that could never be faked was aura. And this black-robed man's presence was already so powerful that they could not describe, could not even imagine it. They were Emperor Lords who stood at the pinnacle of the world. There should not exist an aura in this world that could make them tremble... Yet under this presence, they felt as insignificant as dust before a vast ocean. In their daze, they could hardly believe this was a human's aura... It should be the heaven-overturning pressure of a true god from ancient myths!
Even more terrifying was that this aura was vast and boundless, yet it was not violent—instead, it was calm and steady... This meant that this was merely the natural state of pressure from this black-robed man, not a deliberate release of his profound force at full power!
"Master!" Yun Che knelt on one knee, his head bowed deeply. This Yun Che, who had shown nothing but arrogance in the face of the Sun Moon Divine Palace, now spoke with profound reverence in his voice... and even a hint of trepidation.
Ye Xinghan's face turned extremely ugly. The four elders could no longer laugh. They exchanged glances and saw deep shock and unease in each other's eyes... An aura that could make even them, Emperor Lords, tremble in deep fear—based on this alone, this person's strength absolutely surpassed the Heavenly Lord of their Sun Moon Divine Palace!
Was this... Yun Che's mysterious master?
How... could there exist in this world such a demonic god-like being!!