“Hmm?
What a powerful aura!”
In the side courtyard, Ye Xuan abruptly opened his eyes.
The aura released by the old man was incredibly terrifying and overwhelmingly powerful.
It was several times—perhaps even ten times—stronger than Fang Tianming when he unleashed his martial techniques at full force.
Even without looking, Ye Xuan could sense a horrifying fluctuation of energy near the main courtyard.
“The Fang family still has an expert!”
Not daring to be careless, Ye Xuan hurried out the door.
Meanwhile, near the main courtyard, Ye Zeyun was suspended in midair, gripped from a distance by the old man’s unseen hand.
“You are Ye Zeyun!
Quick, tell me, what happened to the Fang family?”
To accurately grab a person from such a distance was something a Strong Spirit Realm cultivator simply could not achieve.
This old man was an expert in the Frenzy Spirit Realm!
“Grand…
Grand Elder!”
Seeing the old man, Ye Zeyun was utterly astonished.
Earlier, upon hearing a loud roar, he had immediately come with his clansmen to investigate.
He never expected to be seized the moment he showed his face.
After getting a clear look at the man’s appearance, he was even more shocked.
Although the old man’s hair and beard were extremely long, Ye Zeyun still recognized him.
It was the Fang family’s Grand Elder, Fang Cunshan!
But hadn’t rumors said that Fang Cunshan died of old age long ago?
Even the Fang family hadn’t seen him in ten years.
How was he still alive?
Could it be that he had been in secluded cultivation for the past decade?
Judging from the aura radiating from Fang Cunshan, it seemed he had advanced in his cultivation.
His cultivation base had originally been roughly on par with Fang Tianming’s.
If he had advanced, didn’t that mean he had stepped into the Frenzy Spirit Realm?
The Frenzy Spirit Realm!
How incredibly powerful!
The gap between major realms was a full tenfold difference in strength.
At that moment, Ye Zeyun suddenly felt the urge to cry.
He wondered why the heavens were playing such a cruel joke on them.
Just when he thought the Ye family had finally turned their fate around to become the masters of Hongtu Town, a successfully advanced Fang family Grand Elder had abruptly appeared out of nowhere.
This was leaving the Ye family with absolutely no way to survive!
Why did Fang Cunshan have to advance right now, of all times?
Even if it were a year or half a year later, with Ye Xuan’s talent, he might have had the strength to fight against a Frenzy Spirit Realm expert by then.
But now…
sigh!
In Ye Zeyun’s eyes, Ye Xuan crossing two minor realms to kill Fang Tianming was already his absolute limit.
Wanting to cross an entire major realm to kill an opponent was simply impossible.
Pushing past his despair, Ye Zeyun forced himself to calm down.
He offered an apologetic smile.
“Grand Elder, you’re still alive!
That’s wonderful.
But could you please put me down first so I can explain everything to you in detail?”
THUD.
Ye Zeyun was dropped to the ground.
However, the Grand Elder’s oppressive aura still made his entire body ache terribly, forcing him to remain kneeling on the floor.
“What exactly happened to the Fang family?
How did it end up in such ruins?
And where is everyone?
Why haven’t I seen a single familiar face?
Speak!”
“Grand Elder, we just arrived here ourselves, but everyone in the Fang family is…
is dead.”
“What!”
Fang Cunshan felt a wave of dizzying vertigo and staggered back a few steps.
His body subconsciously released a terrifying aura.
The pressure was so immense that Ye Zeyun directly coughed up a mouthful of blood.
“Dad!”
“Grandpa Zeyun!”
The Ye family members behind him all cried out in alarm.
Ye Zeyun quickly held out a hand.
“Don’t come any closer!
You won’t be able to withstand this aura!”
“Ye Zeyun, tell me, who did this?
Who was it?!”
The coercion grew stronger and stronger, leaving Ye Zeyun completely unable to lift his head.
“Grand Elder, I…
I can’t take it much longer.
Please…
retract your pressure.”
The Grand Elder snorted coldly but reined in his aura anyway.
Relieved of the crushing weight, Ye Zeyun spoke again.
“Sir, I don’t know who did it either.”
Ye Zeyun was experienced and shrewd.
He knew that to protect his clansmen, his only option right now was to feign ignorance.
If the Grand Elder found out that the Fang family had been massacred by the Ye family, every single one of them would become corpses.
He had to placate the Grand Elder first, then find an opportunity to have all the Ye family members retreat and flee Hongtu Town immediately!
“You don’t know?”
“No, I don’t.
I heard the commotion and brought my clansmen over right away to check.”
Just as Ye Zeyun’s words fell, before the Grand Elder could respond, a burst of laughter rang out from the distant entrance of the Fang family’s home.
“Hahaha, Old Ye!
I just got back from out of town and heard that your Ye family annihilated the Fang family.
I rushed over immediately to offer my congratulations.
This is truly incredibly satisfying news!”
The moment this voice echoed, Ye Zeyun’s face turned an ashen, deathly gray.
He cursed internally.
Who the hell was that?!
Were they here to congratulate him?
More like here to attend his funeral!
Sure enough, the Grand Elder’s expression drastically changed.
“The Ye family…
it was you!”
Fang Cunshan had no idea how the Ye family managed to pull it off, but that didn’t matter anymore!
He thrust his palm through the air.
Grayish-white spiritual qi surged from his body, morphing into a grim reaper’s scythe that slashed toward all the Ye family members present.
Before the attack even landed, the Ye clansmen were already paralyzed on the ground.
Faced with such a colossal disparity in power, they had absolutely no ability to resist.
“Are we going to die?”
“No, the Ye family just finally saw a glimmer of hope!”
Despair washed over the Ye family once more.
The only way to describe how miserable they felt right now was utter and complete devastation.
Just when everyone thought their deaths were absolutely certain this time, a figure appeared directly in front of them.
He had arrived!
Radiant golden spiritual qi swarmed out in torrents.
The phantasm of a figure that resembled both a divine god and a demonic entity once again stood tall in the void.
Ye Xuan was here.
The moment he arrived, he activated his Divine-Demonic Overlord Body.
He knew that the unkempt old man before him was extremely formidable; he had to go all out from the very beginning.
RUMBLE!
The divine-demonic qi collided with the grayish-white qi, forming a terrifying storm.
The tempest raged like a dragon, sweeping across the surroundings.
That random passerby who had come to offer his congratulations had barely stepped near the area before the storm ripped his body apart, turning him into a mist of blood raining from the sky.
Of course, Ye Xuan wasn’t having an easy time either.
His body was rapidly skidding backward, plowing a deep, pitch-black trench into the earth beneath his feet.
The power of the Frenzy Spirit Realm was indeed far too immense.
Ye Xuan had to resist the attack while simultaneously releasing spiritual qi to shield his clansmen behind him.
By the time his body slid all the way back to Ye Zeyun’s side, he had finally managed to block Fang Cunshan’s attack.
However, whether it was Ye Xuan, Ye Zeyun, or the Ye family members behind them, everyone wore solemn expressions.
That was because the attack just now had merely been a casual strike from Fang Cunshan!
“Hmm?
To think a mere junior could actually block my attack,” Fang Cunshan sneered.
“Earlier, I was still wondering how the Ye family—who are nothing more than watchdogs for my Fang family—could possibly have the strength to annihilate us.
Now I understand.
You’re the one who killed them, aren’t you!”
As his words fell, a significantly more terrifying aura erupted from his body.
This was his true, full power!
The aura felt as heavy as a mountain, as vast as an ocean, and as oppressive as the very heavens themselves.
This was the sheer disparity between major cultivation realms.
“It was me,” Ye Xuan said.
Facing such a frenzied, oppressive coercion, he still stood up straight.
He took a few steps forward, speaking to the Ye family members behind him as he walked.
“Leave the Fang family’s home first.
Wait for me outside.”
“Ye Xuan, you…”
Ye Zeyun was fraught with worry, but before he could finish his sentence, Ye Xuan spoke again.
“Don’t worry.
I’ll be fine, and the Ye family will be perfectly safe.”
“Alright!”
Ye Zeyun was highly decisive.
He knew this was no time to be indecisive or hesitant.
He immediately roared at the top of his lungs, “All Ye family members, leave the area at once!”
“You think you can leave?
Did I agree to let you go?
Today, all of you must die!” Fang Cunshan bellowed.
As his words fell, he raised his right hand.
Grayish-white spiritual qi rapidly condensed.
At that moment, it seemed as though the very heavens and earth had changed color.
Seeing that his attack was about to fall, Ye Xuan let out a low shout.
“Does Ye Xuan need your permission to do as he pleases?!”
If one looked closely, they would see that Ye Xuan was actually smiling.
It was a smile born of a thirst for battle.
What he had awakened was the War Dragon Soul, after all.
The stronger the enemy, the more frenzied he became!