Chapter 879: Ling'er's Bad News
At the forefront of these Xuan adepts, a young Xuan adept dressed in luxurious attire said to the solemn-faced middle-aged man before him: "Father, who exactly is that Su Linger? I heard she seems to be a daughter of some sect in the Jiangdong region, only in her teens. Why would she be hunted by the Qixing Shenfu?"
Yun Che, who was about to step forward and inquire, immediately halted his steps.
Seeing the middle-aged man's demeanor and the thick profound force aura emanating from him, he was likely the leader or sect master of these people. He shook his head slightly: "I don't know either. It's best to inquire less about matters of Qixing Shenfu."
The young Xuan adept's neck shrank slightly, his voice involuntarily lowering a few notches as he muttered: "No matter who she is, since she's been targeted by the people of Qixing Shenfu, no matter how she flees, it's futile."
"Alas," the middle-aged man sighed heavily, also using an extremely low voice: "Qixing Shenfu is after all Qixing Shenfu. Although only twelve people came, with a single command, every city lord and sect must bow in obedience. Now the sects of the entire northern region of the mountain have deployed defenses here. That Su Linger, let alone being just a young girl, even if she had heaven-reaching abilities, she wouldn't be able to escape today."
Yun Che's teeth clenched fiercely... As he had anticipated without error, these people were one of the Fusu Kingdom sects that had been ordered by Qixing Shenfu to search for Su Linger.
Yun Che's thoughts raced like lightning, and he was about to rush up and grab someone to use Arcane Firmament Soul-Seizing. At this moment, the middle-aged man suddenly took out a sound transmission jade, which emitted a rapid fluctuation of profound force.
The middle-aged man quickly read the sound transmission jade, and his expression visibly relaxed. He turned around and said to everyone: "Everyone, stand down from alert. Prepare to withdraw."
The young Xuan adept hurriedly asked: "Father? What's the situation? Has that Su Linger already been captured by Qixing Shenfu?"
Yun Che: "...!"
"I don't know," the middle-aged man said calmly. "But based on multiple traces, it has been confirmed that she fled toward Jueyun Peak. Previously, she could barely hide using the complex terrain here and the interference of Xuan beast auras, but once she goes up Jueyun Peak, it's a dead end. Not long ago, after confirming from the traces that Su Linger must have fled toward Jueyun Peak, the twelve seniors of Qixing Shenfu personally pursued her up Jueyun Peak. This matter can now be concluded."
"The purpose of Qixing Shenfu capturing that girl, and what happens afterward, is not something we can know... Everyone prepare to withdraw. Don't ask about anything else. The earlier you want to avoid death, the less you know, the better."
BAM!!!
A thunderous air explosion sounded, and Yun Che's entire body shot like lightning into the depths of the Langhuan Mountain Range. The sudden hurricane swept all the Xuan adepts who were preparing to withdraw off their feet. They instantly fell into chaos, faces filled with terror, thinking they had encountered an attack from a powerful Xuan beast.
Yun Che activated his profound force to the fullest, and Phantom Lightning Extreme was also operated to its limit. His speed was so fast that it would leave even an Emperor Lord stunned...
No... This is too slow!
Relying on his memory of the Langhuan Mountain Range, from his current position to Jueyun Peak was about four hundred li. At his speed, this distance could be covered in a very short time. But now, even half a breath's delay was absolutely unacceptable.
While running, he quickly summoned the Primordial Mystic Ark, instantly traversing four hundred li of space and arriving directly at the foot of Jueyun Peak.
Looking up, the massive mountain soared into the sky, piercing straight into the clouds, its top unseen. Below were dense forests, above was a deathly gray cliff face, with a few withered pines here and there. The scenery was indeed perilously beautiful, but for a person to completely conceal themselves on this mountain was nothing but a fool's dream.
Yun Che put away the Primordial Mystic Ark, his body floating, and charged straight toward the summit of Jueyun Peak. But when he reached the peak, the scene before him made his heart sink completely.
Standing on the peak were twelve people, each dressed in pitch-black Xuan robes, with seven stars of different colors printed on their clothes.
Exactly the people of Qixing Shenfu!
But Su Linger's figure was nowhere to be found.
"Ling'er!" Yun Che roared and charged straight at the twelve people. When he was at the foot of Jueyun Peak, his greatest hope was that Su Linger was still hiding using the terrain, and that the people of Qixing Shenfu had not yet found her.
But in the brief time it took to fly up, he had not sensed even a trace of Su Linger's aura.
The twelve people all changed expression upon seeing Yun Che approaching at extreme speed. In the blink of an eye, Yun Che landed among them...
"Ah! It's Yun Che!"
"Yun Che!!!"
"Yun Che... How is he here!? Could it be..."
Upon recognizing Yun Che, the twelve all panicked. Yun Che did not pause; his body flickered and appeared in front of one of the elders, his right hand grabbing the man's neck like iron tongs, lifting him entirely off the ground, and roaring: "Speak! Where is Su Linger... Speak!!!"
Yun Che's hand gripping the Qixing Shenfu elder was trembling, his five fingers, out of control, had deeply pierced into the elder's flesh. His roar was like thunder, each word a thunderclap. The Qixing Shenfu disciples charging up were struck as if by a heavy hammer, flying backward with screams. The six Throne disciples had their internal organs ruptured, falling to the ground and vomiting blood profusely, unable to stand for a long time.
The Qixing Shenfu elder's eyes bulging from their sockets nearly burst from extreme horror. The pair of eyes before him were the most terrifying he had ever seen in his life, both eyeballs scarlet red as if just soaked in blood.
"Speak quickly! Speak!!!"
"She... she..." The immense fear and cold despair made the Qixing Shenfu elder desperately utter painful and miserable sounds: "She... just now... jumped... off... Jue... Yun... Cliff..."
Buzz——
In Yun Che's mind, it was as if countless profound thunderbolts exploded simultaneously. His nearly blood-stained eyes turned ashen white in an instant.
When he appeared on the peak and only saw the people of Qixing Shenfu, without seeing Su Linger, this terrible thought had flashed through his mind... Ending her own life was better than falling into the hands of villains.
But this thought was immediately extinguished by him, because he did not believe it, and absolutely could not accept any accident happening to Su Linger.
And when those cold words were uttered from the Qixing Shenfu elder in his grasp, Yun Che felt as if struck by five thunderbolts.
"No... no... impossible..." Yun Che's face and lips lost all color instantly, his whole body swaying: "Impossible... it can't be like this... impossible..."
Suddenly, both his hands locked tightly around the Qixing Shenfu elder's neck, and he roared like a madman: "You're lying to me! You must be lying to me!! Speak... where is Su Linger! You must have hidden her away... Where is she? Where did you hide my Ling'er!?"
"Ugh..." The Qixing Shenfu elder's throat bones shattered inch by inch, his whole body convulsing, dry hoarse moans spilling from his throat as his body gradually took on a deathly gray pallor.
The strength of this elder was known clearly to all the Qixing Shenfu disciples present. Watching him being held like a chick in Yun Che's hand, without even the slightest ability to struggle or resist, none of them dared to step forward. One of the Qixing Shenfu disciples said tremblingly: "This... senior, Duoxing Elder is not lying to you. Su Linger... she really jumped down."
"...!" The murderous aura emanating from Yun Che was like that of a despairing beast drenched in blood, causing all the Qixing Shenfu disciples to tremble.
"No... it's none of our business, we didn't want this either," another Qixing Shenfu disciple said in panic. "We only wanted to get the thing on her, we never intended to harm her life. Who knew... who knew that the moment she saw us, she suddenly jumped down."
"Yes, yes, yes... we didn't even touch her, we didn't even have time to say a word, and she suddenly... jumped down..." The speaking Qixing Shenfu disciple fumbled and took out an object: "This is... the token that fell from her when she jumped down... Senior, you... look."
The wooden token in his hand was small and exquisite, engraved with a unique character "Su".
With the last shred of hope and wishful thinking completely shattered, the world spun before Yun Che's eyes.
"AH!!!!!!"
It seemed all the blood in his body surged to his head in an instant. Yun Che's face twisted into a devilish expression, and he let out a blood-curdling roar, punching the head of the elder in his hand.
BAM!!
With a bang, the entire head of the Qixing Shenfu elder instantly turned into a spray of blood and brain matter.
"AH—AH!!!!"
BOOM!!
Yun Che, acting like a madman, slammed the headless body heavily onto the ground. Under his uncontrollable immense force, the body was smashed into dozens of miserable pieces.
This bloody and tragic scene terrified the Qixing Shenfu disciples to the point of heart and gallbladder splitting. They let out strange screams they had never heard before and fled frantically down the mountain. But before they had fled far, the roar of a devil grew closer and closer behind them.
"AH!!!!!!"
BAM!
BAM!!
BAM!!!
How could their speed possibly outrun Yun Che's grasp? Having nearly completely lost his sanity, Yun Che caught up to them one by one. He did not use a sword, nor fire; he simply punched them savagely with his fists. With each punch, he brutally smashed a Qixing Shenfu disciple's body into minced meat.