At this moment, throughout the grand estate, core members of the Ye Family were growling and roaring in anger.
They were unwilling!
They were resentful!
Why?
Why should the entire Ye Family bear such an enormous charge because of a single incident involving Ye Tongyao?
“All of you, shut up!”
“Do you want the Ye Family bloodline to be completely severed in this generation?”
Suddenly, Ye Kuang opened his eyes and thundered, “Why? Because the Peak Master of Heavenly Summit Peak, Divine Extreme True Immortal, is the Grand Elder of the Immortal Sect’s Inner Cabinet, responsible for handling all internal affairs of the Immortal Sect. With a single sentence, he can decide the life and death of the Ye Family.”
“Because Chu Feng possesses Immortal Bones and is the strongest prodigy of this generation within the Immortal Sect, the foremost among the Candidate Holy Sons.”
“Fight? With what will you fight?”
“Go to the Immortal Sect’s Holy Land and speak of justice to the Grand Elder? Accuse Chu Feng of slandering the Ye Family?”
“I only secluded myself for one hundred years, and you turned the Ye Family into this.”
“All of you kneel properly and await the Immortal Sect’s high-level decision. I believe they will give the Ye Family a fair outcome.”
Ye Kuang roared in fury. This supreme expert of the Great Ascension Realm, named Kuang for his once peerless dominance across the empire, now had clarity in his eyes, yet beneath it lay deep despair.
The stronger one was, the more one understood how terrifying the foundation of the Immortal Sect truly was.
Was the Heavenly Phoenix Empire not powerful?
Its territory stretched for billions of kilometers. Its population numbered in the tens of billions. It commanded armies in the billions, with countless experts.
Throughout history, the emperors of Heavenly Phoenix were not without ambition. True Immortals had arisen among them. Did they lack the desire to break free from the Immortal Sect’s control?
Of course not.
Yet they could only remain obedient vassals of the Immortal Sect. For over a million years, they had not dared to rebel in the slightest.
Was the Ye Family strong?
Very strong.
But only within the Heavenly Phoenix Empire. Compared to the Immortal Sect, they were nothing more than ants.
Fight? With what?
“Old Ancestor, our Ye Family was wronged. What did we do wrong?” a young prodigy shouted unwillingly as he rose to his feet.
“If we are exterminated, then it is the Ye Family’s deserved end,” Ye Kuang roared. With a single slap, he shattered the young man’s legs, forcing him back to his knees. Visit novelping dot com for the full chapter.
“It is because you have lost the reverence you should have held toward the Immortal Sect that the Ye Family has fallen to this state.”
“A young girl at the peak of the Foundation Establishment Realm dared to interfere in the high-level struggles of the Immortal Sect. You infiltrated Dharma Peak and released a Traitor. Who gave you that courage? Did you truly think that because you were the fiancée of Holy Son Chu Feng, you had such capability?”
“What kind of place is Dharma Peak? Countless great demons and alien deities are imprisoned there for eternity, unable to turn over. It is a forbidden ground of the Immortal Sect, filled with powerful beings. Even I would not dare act recklessly there.”
“Do you really think the high-level figures of the Immortal Sect are fools? Do you think they still do not know that the Ye Family is being punished? Do you think Chu Feng alone could strip the Ye Family of its supplier status with a single sentence?”
“This is the collective will of a large group of Immortal Sect elders. Chu Feng merely pushed things along with the tide.”
“Foolish!” Ye Kuang roared. “How did the Ye Family produce so many fools like you?”
Ye Tongyao’s face turned as pale as paper. She had never imagined there were so many layers behind the matter of releasing Su Fan and suppressing Ye Zhenchuan. Yet she could not hold back. “But Old Ancestor, Su Fan was wronged. It was Chu Feng who forcibly accused him of stealing cultivation techniques.”
“Wronged? So what if he was wronged? Naive. Foolish!” Ye Kuang was even more furious. “Even if he was wronged, he was declared a Traitor by Dharma Peak’s system authentication. How dare you act so recklessly?”
“You were used as a chess piece and still do not understand!”
“That Su Fan and those behind him are no good either!”
Ye Tongyao’s face remained deathly pale, yet she insisted, “Old Ancestor, you have never met Su Fan. He is a good person!”
She still refused to admit that she had been used as a pawn.
“A good person? Nonsense!” Ye Kuang, a Great Ascension Realm ancestor, directly cursed. “He saw your status as the fiancée of Holy Son Chu Feng and the Ye Family’s position as supplier. He used you to deal with Chu Feng.”
“When you released Su Fan from Dharma Peak, why did he not take you with him? Why did he leave you there? Because Holy Son Chu Feng protects you. They believed Chu Feng would still shield you. Then the high-level figures of the Immortal Sect would grow deeply dissatisfied with Chu Feng. A man who disregards the sect’s dignity for private matters is unworthy of being Holy Son or future Sect Master.”
“So, to protect you, Holy Son Chu Feng had no choice but to use your father Ye Zhenchuan and the entire Ye Family as scapegoats.”
“Utterly foolish. Sold at a high price and still helping count the money for others.”
“The Ye Family became your scapegoat. If not for Holy Son Chu Feng protecting you and still willing to shield you at this stage, you would have been killed ten thousand times already.”
At this moment, the leader of the Heavenly Summit Guard spoke coldly, “Ye Kuang, you are clever, but you speak too much.”
He did not refute a single word Ye Kuang had said.
“Impossible.”
Ye Tongyao’s face had gone completely bloodless. She nearly collapsed, feeling as though all strength had drained from her body.
Ye Kuang’s words had overturned her entire understanding of the world.
She wanted to refute him.
She refused to admit that she had been used by Su Fan and those behind him to scheme against Chu Feng.
But she did not know how to argue back.
After all, Chu Feng had imprisoned Ye Zhenchuan and struck against the Ye Family. Yet now she herself remained safe, even free to travel between the Immortal Sect and the Ye Family.
If what Ye Kuang said was true, then it would explain why Chu Feng’s attitude toward her had changed so drastically.
“Because the high-level figures of the Immortal Sect were dissatisfied, Chu Feng had no choice but to suppress me and the Ye Family. That is why he could no longer be close to me or dote on me.”
At this moment, a middle-aged noblewoman looked at Ye Tongyao, who was on the verge of collapse, and could not help asking Ye Kuang softly, “Old Ancestor, is everything you said true?”
Lin Xia, the wife of Ye Zhenchuan and Ye Tongyao’s mother.
“True or false does not matter,” Ye Kuang said calmly. “What matters is that the only one who can save Zhenchuan and the Ye Family now is her.”
As he spoke, Ye Kuang lowered his head slightly, a complicated expression flashing in his eyes.
He had met Chu Feng during the engagement.
If all of this had truly been arranged by Chu Feng, then his methods were far too terrifying.
At this moment, high above the Ye Family estate, one man and two women stood in the sky. Every word and action of the Ye Family below was clearly within their sight.
“Senior Brother, is what that old man Ye Kuang said true?” Liu Mei could not help but look at Chu Feng, whose expression remained calm. “Did you really injure Ye Tongyao, humiliate her, and imprison Ye Zhenchuan because you had no choice but to protect her?”
Ye Kuang’s words had nearly overturned Liu Mei’s understanding of the entire situation.
Fairy Miaoyin, Palace Master of Heavenly Summit Palace, also looked at Chu Feng expectantly. In their brief time together, she had increasingly felt that this young master was unfathomable.
Seeing their expectant gazes, Chu Feng could not help but smile. “True and false. Half true, half false.”
“The infiltration of Dharma Peak to release Su Fan did indeed enrage many high-level figures of the Immortal Sect.”
“That old man Ye Kuang reaching this realm shows he does have some brains.”
A faint smile curved at Chu Feng’s lips. It was unclear whether he was praising Ye Kuang for speaking ill of Su Fan to Ye Tongyao or for seeing through the internal affairs of the Immortal Sect.
Still, Chu Feng had to admit that Ye Kuang’s reasoning held some truth.
In the original novel, Chu Feng possessed Immortal Bones, overwhelming combat power, and a heaven-defying background. Within the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect, few could rival him.
By all logic, a monstrous genius like Chu Feng should have earned the attention and support of most of the sect’s high-level figures.
Yet in reality, most of the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect’s leadership was dissatisfied with him. They constrained him at every turn and eventually stood on the side of Su Fan and Xu Batian.
The reason was simple. Chu Feng had been too arrogant and too foolish.
For the sake of a single Ye Tongyao, he disregarded the greater interests of the sect. He failed again and again to eliminate a mere Su Fan, allowing him to rise continuously. Heavenly Summit Peak gradually weakened because of it. Anyone would lose faith in Chu Feng under such circumstances.
Foolishness alone might have been tolerable.
But the most terrifying thing was being foolish while believing oneself to be brilliant.
Otherwise, if most of the Azure Cloud Immortal Sect’s strength had supported Chu Feng, then with the sect’s foundation accumulated over endless ages, Xu Batian and Su Fan would never have been able to kill him and turn the tables.