Chapter 878: Langhuan Mountain Range
Self-severing the heart meridian, in common understanding, is simply a guaranteed death. And the only one in this plane who could revive a person who had self-severed their heart meridian was Yun Che, with his Desolate God's Power.
Su Hengshan's vital energy was still extremely weak, but fortunately it had stabilized. Coupled with the fact that his desire for death had disappeared, barring any accidents, his life was no longer in danger.
Yun Che removed his hands from Su Hengshan's body, then fed him three Snow Beauty Pills from the Bing Yun Fairy Palace, finally letting out a long breath of relief. However, repairing the heart meridian was by no means something that could be done overnight. Even with Yun Che's Desolate God's Power, it would take at least several months.
He moved Su Hengshan into the Primordial Mystic Ark, stood up, and murmured softly, "Ling'er, wait for me."
The Langhuan Mountain Range was located quite far to the south. He had a general idea of its position and distance, but Yun Che did not immediately enter the Primordial Mystic Ark for spatial teleportation, nor did he head south. Instead, he flew northward.
After Su Haoran, Su Hengyue, and Su Wangji had their lives spared, they fled north from the Tai Su Sect like stray dogs, not daring to stop for even half a moment along the way, terrified that Yun Che might suddenly change his mind and chase after them... He had even mercilessly slaughtered everyone from the Seven Star Divine Mansion without hesitation. Killing them would be no different from stepping on three ants.
Fleeing for their lives, they couldn't even tell how long they had been running. Only when they were completely exhausted did they collapse heavily to the ground, gasping for air, their faces pale and their nerves still shaken.
"We should... should be safe now," Supreme Elder Su Wangji stammered. He looked back; Tai Su Mountain was already a hundred miles away.
"Young Family Head, what should we... what should we do now?" Su Hengyue asked, panting heavily.
"Haah... haah..." The frantic escape had nearly burst Su Haoran's lungs. He lay on the ground, resting for a long while, then clenched his teeth fiercely, his whole body trembling, half in terror and half in resentment. "We'll go to the Seven Star Divine Mansion... Yun Che killed their people; the Seven Star Divine Mansion will definitely not let him off!"
"Right, Young Master is right." Su Wangji quickly agreed. After all, Su Haoran was the one who had received "praise" from the Seven Star Divine Mansion. Even though things had come to such a pass, they still needed Su Haoran as their backbone. "That Yun Che must have eaten a bear's heart and leopard's gall, daring to kill people from the Seven Star Divine Mansion. For an existence like the Seven Star Divine Mansion, if they find out, no matter how capable Yun Che is, he'll only have one way to die. By then..."
"Heh, an excellent idea. I'll wish you success in advance."
A voice filled with cold mockery came from above, startling the three out of their wits. Su Haoran sat down heavily on the ground, his whole body trembling, almost wetting himself in fright. "Yun... Yun Che!"
Yun Che descended slowly from above and stood before them. The three men shivered, their pupils dilated, as if facing the arrival of death.
"It was... it was all their idea... I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything... Even if I had ten thousand guts, I wouldn't... wouldn't dare to disrespect you." Su Hengyue's teeth chattered as he shook his head desperately.
"Su Hengyue, you... you..."
"...Huo... ah... zi..." Su Haoran's face trembled like rotting flesh clinging to a skull. He desperately tried to beg for mercy, but under extreme terror, couldn't form a complete sentence.
"Heh," Yun Che sneered coldly. "There's no need to be so afraid. I didn't say I was going to kill you. Since I've already let you leave in front of Sect Master Su, I won't take your lives."
The three, who had been scared out of their minds, were all stunned by Yun Che's words, then overjoyed. Su Hengyue couldn't believe it and asked, "Really... really? Are you telling the truth?"
"Of course," Yun Che said, half-closing his eyes. "You three are, at the very least, one is Sect Master Su's elder, one is his elder brother, and one is his own son. I previously complied with his wish and let you leave alive. If I were to kill you on my own, I wouldn't be able to explain it to him. You should be grateful to Sect Master Su for sparing your lives."
The three finally believed they weren't dreaming. Su Hengyue hurriedly said, "Yes... yes, we have wronged the Sect Master. In our next lives... in our next lives, we will repay him as beasts of burden or by tying grass and holding rings."
Su Hengyue and Su Wangji pulled the limp Su Haoran to his feet and said in panic, "Let's go... let's go quickly."
They hadn't taken more than a few steps when Yun Che's icy voice rang out again from behind. "Stop."
The three's bodies trembled. They turned back fearfully. Su Wangji stammered, "Young Master Yun... do you have any other orders? You just said with your own mouth... that you would never harm our lives."
"Of course. I said I wouldn't take your lives." Yun Che's eyes instantly turned ice-cold. "But did I say I would let you go?!"
A terrifying killing intent suddenly erupted from Yun Che, plunging the three into an ice cellar. Su Haoran, already weak, collapsed again and cried out desperately, "Let me go... I am Su Hengshan's son, I am Ling'er's own brother... Let me go... I... I will definitely not go to the Seven Star Divine Mansion... I won't tell anyone about you killing the Seven Star Divine Mansion people... I won't say a single word... Please let me go... I'll do anything you say..."
"You still have the nerve to call yourself Ling'er's brother?!"
Su Haoran's words only further fueled Yun Che's rage. Tai Su Sect was already finished. Su Hengshan had suffered tremendous torment these past days, had just narrowly escaped death, and Su Ling'er's fate was still unknown... And the culprit behind all this was this inhuman Su Haoran!
Yun Che reached out and grabbed Su Haoran, pulling him violently toward him. A spurt of blood burst from his abdomen. Instantly, his profound veins shattered, and the profound energy he had cultivated for decades dissipated like air from a punctured balloon... And for the rest of his life, he would be a complete cripple.
Su Haoran let out a despairing shriek, clutching his stomach and writhing in agony on the ground. But merely crippling him could not quell Yun Che's anger. He stepped forward and stomped on Su Haoran's right arm.
With a crisp "crack," Su Haoran's right arm was broken cleanly in two, blood gushing from the break like a fountain.
Su Haoran's screams instantly became several times more piercing. Watching Su Haoran curl up like a shrimp, writhing in pain, Yun Che's face showed not a trace of pity or reluctance. He extended a finger, and two ice shards shot down, mercilessly piercing Su Haoran's eyes.
"Waaahh——"
Su Haoran's eyeballs burst. Plunged into an eternal abyss of darkness, he let out a despairing scream like a demon. Yun Che coldly watched his condition and whispered like a devil, "Su Haoran, you are no longer fit to be human. Even being neither human nor ghost is too good for you!!"
Pfft!!
Yun Che kicked a small stone on the ground. The stone flew like a meteor toward Su Haoran, entering from his left cheek and exiting from his right, punching two bloody holes through his face while also neatly severing his tongue.
"Ooh ooh aah..."
Su Haoran's cries instantly became uglier and more despairing than a demon's howl... His profound veins were completely destroyed, his right arm broken, his eyes lost, his face ruined, and his tongue cut off. Having sacrificed his own family and sect members, having doomed the entire Tai Su Sect, dreaming of latching onto the Seven Star Divine Mansion, Su Haoran was now not only a cripple but also blind and mute for the rest of his life. He would never dream his grand dreams again; all he would have were endless nightmares.
Behind him, Su Hengyue and Su Wangji were already pale with terror. When Yun Che's gaze fell on them, they both screamed and scrambled away on all fours.
Yun Che slowly extended an arm toward the direction they fled.
Pfft!!
With a soft sound, Su Hengyue and Su Wangji's profound veins burst simultaneously. They collapsed to the ground, convulsing, their faces full of fear and despair.
Yun Che turned around, unwilling to look again. He rose into the air and said with icy finality, "You three had better pray with all your might that Ling'er is safe and sound. If... if anything happens to Ling'er, I... will... make... the... rest... of... your... lives... an... eternal... living... hell... of... the... most... agonizing... torment!"
Yun Che's last words were steeped in an intense, extreme malevolence, like the most sinister and venomous curse from a demon.
Yun Che sped southward. After flying over ten miles, he quickly summoned the Primordial Mystic Ark, visualized the location of the Langhuan Mountain Range in his mind, and teleported toward the Langhuan Mountain Range as he remembered it.
A thousand miles passed in an instant. When Yun Che emerged from the Primordial Mystic Ark, before him lay an endless, sprawling mountain range.
The Langhuan Mountain Range was located at the border between the Fu Su Kingdom and the Nan Tian Kingdom of the Cang Yun Continent. To the north lay Fu Su, to the south Nan Tian. Although it was not the largest mountain range on the Cang Yun Continent, it contained the highest peak.
Standing at the edge of the Langhuan Mountain Range, one could see at a glance, amidst the encircling peaks, a mountain shooting up into the clouds, towering above the world.
But the people of the Cang Yun Continent knew that, though it appeared to be a single mountain from a distance, it was actually two. They stood at the center of the Langhuan Mountain Range, adjacent and towering, of similar height. The most peculiar thing was that the sides facing away from each other were steep and perilous, while the sides facing each other were almost straight up and straight down, as if cut by a knife!
If viewed from the east or west, they looked like a single mountain had been vertically sliced in half by a heavenly blade, splitting into two strangely shaped peaks.
And the cliff formed by these two strangely shaped peaks was the [Jueyun Cliff] that everyone on the Cang Yun Continent spoke of with fear. It was the foremost forbidden land of the Cang Yun Continent, the place where Yun Che had ended his life on the Cang Yun Continent.
It was also the place where Mo Li had made him swear never to approach or test.
Arriving here again, Yun Che had no time for nostalgia. He took out the soul crystal that Su Hengshan had given him, activated his full speed, and charged into the Langhuan Mountain Range like a thunderbolt, his heart crying out: Ling'er, please don't let anything happen!
The Langhuan Mountain Range was abundant with profound beasts and rich in resources. Practitioners from the Fu Su Kingdom often came here to train and seek treasures. But as soon as Yun Che entered the Langhuan Mountain Range, he noticed the atmosphere was somewhat unusual—too quiet. As he swiftly advanced, he expanded his spiritual perception to the maximum, searching for any possible aura, while constantly glancing at the soul crystal in his hand... This belonged to Su Ling'er. If he got close, its light would grow more intense.
Just then, within his spiritual perception, he detected the auras of a group of profound practitioners. Their auras were similar, likely belonging to the same sect. The strongest was at the Heavenly Xuan Realm, the weakest at the Spirit Xuan Realm. There were about seventy or eighty people. Yun Che didn't slow down but quickly approached, landing near a mountain path.
This mountain path was one of the main paths in the Langhuan Mountain Range. At that moment, a group of people wearing the same sect robes were gathered there, all looking tense and cautious, constantly scanning their surroundings.
And from the formation they had set up, it looked very much like they were sealing off this mountain path.