Utterly Devastated!
At this moment, Ye Xuan was truly overwhelmed with grief and rage. *Damn it, you hit the wrong person? You bloody hit the wrong person?*
Are all the people from the Mysterious Realm this incompetent?
Upon hearing Xuan Yin’s words, Young Lord Si froze. She glanced at Ye Xuan in the distance, then turned to Xuan Yin. “Young Master?”
Xuan Yin nodded, his voice trembling. “Y-yes… it’s him…”
He was panicking now!
This Young Lord Si had nearly killed the Young Master!
Hearing Xuan Yin’s confirmation, Young Lord Si paused, then looked at Ye Xuan and said softly, “Young Master, are you alright?”
Ye Xuan gave a faint smile. “Fine. Just nearly beaten to death by you, that’s all.”
Young Lord Si lowered her head slightly. “My apologies. It wasn’t intentional.”
She bowed slightly. “Truly, I’m very sorry!”
Ye Xuan, puzzled, asked, “Xuan Yin had already told you my identity. Why didn’t you sheathe your blade?”
Young Lord Si hesitated, then said, “I couldn’t stop it.”
Ye Xuan stared at her. “Couldn’t stop it?”
Young Lord Si nodded. “The blade was too fast. I couldn’t stop it.”
Ye Xuan fell silent.
Suddenly, Small Pagoda spoke in his mind, “Young Master, something feels off.”
Ye Xuan didn’t respond.
As Small Pagoda was about to speak again, Ye Xuan suddenly smiled. “Since it was a misunderstanding, let’s forget it.”
Young Lord Si glanced at Ye Xuan and repeated, “I’m sorry.”
Ye Xuan laughed. “No worries. Just a misunderstanding—nothing serious.”
He glanced at the demon beasts in the distance and added, “Young Lord Si, these demon beasts are incredibly powerful. You’ll need to be careful.”
Young Lord Si looked at the beasts and nodded. “Understood.”
At that moment, one of the massive demon beasts growled coldly, “Woman, who are you? Why meddle in the affairs of our Demon Sect?”
Young Lord Si’s face remained expressionless. “Mysterious Realm!”
With those words, she lunged forward, drawing her blade in a single slash.
*Rip!*
A blade qi hundreds of *zhang* long arced through the air like a crescent moon.
In the distance, the demon beast’s pupils constricted. Instead of retreating, it charged, throwing a punch.
Head-on clash!
*Boom!*
The beast was sent flying thousands of *zhang* away. As it stopped, its entire right arm split open, blood gushing out.
The demon beast was stunned.
Its defence was breached!
Young Lord Si walked slowly toward the beast, her left hand tightly gripping her blade. Suddenly, she leapt into the air, slashing downward.
*Rip!*
A cascade of blade light, like a ten-thousand-*zhang* waterfall, surged down from the starry sky.
The demon beast’s pupils shrank again. It raised its left arm to block, roaring furiously.
*Crack!*
Before everyone’s eyes, the blade light severed the beast’s pillar-like arm, then sliced through its head, splitting the massive creature in two.
Instant kill!
The Demon Sect powerhouses’ faces darkened.
Was this woman stronger than the Sixth Realm?
Ye Xuan glanced at Young Lord Si but said nothing.
After slaying the beast, Young Lord Si turned to the other massive demon beast, which now eyed her warily.
Without a word, she charged, her blade light tearing through the air.
The beast’s pupils constricted. Unable to retreat due to its massive size, it charged forward, throwing a punch.
It could only fight head-on!
*Boom!*
As blade light erupted, the beast was flung tens of thousands of *zhang* away. Before it could recover, another slash came.
The beast’s pupils shrank to pinpoints.
It knew it was done for!
But at that moment, the blade light halted.
A middle-aged man stood before the beast, dressed in a simple plain robe, long hair cascading behind him, a strange blood-red mark between his brows. He held the blade light between two fingers!
With a slight exertion, the man crushed it.
*Boom!*
The blade light disintegrated into nothingness.
Young Lord Si faced the man, her expression calm.
At that moment, Nan Shi’s voice echoed in Ye Xuan’s mind from afar, “Be careful. This is the Demon Sect’s God Demon!”
God Demon!
Ye Xuan glanced at the figure. So, the one lurking in the shadows had finally revealed himself?
The God Demon looked at Young Lord Si and said softly, “I’ve travelled countless universes, yet I’ve never heard of the Mysterious Realm.”
Young Lord Si replied coldly, “Your level’s too low.”
The God Demon didn’t take offence, smiling faintly. “Perhaps.”
He raised his right hand slowly, then clenched it. In the next moment, he twisted his wrist sharply.
*Boom!*
Instantly, everyone’s expressions changed. The heavens darkened, and a cataclysmic force swept through the arena.
Everyone was forced back hundreds of thousands of *zhang*!
Ye Xuan, reacting fastest, had already retreated that distance when the God Demon moved, minimising the impact he felt.
In the distance, Young Lord Si’s face paled as the God Demon struck, but she didn’t retreat. A ferocious glint flashed in her eyes. “Afterimage Returns to Sheath, Heaven and Earth Perish!”
As her voice fell, her body trembled violently, splitting into four afterimages. Each drew its blade and slashed simultaneously.
Four black blade lights crisscrossed the arena, obliterating heaven and earth!
*Boom boom boom boom!*
The space-time where the two stood shattered and annihilated. Not just that space-time—countless overlapping dimensions collapsed in layers. The residual force of their clash swept outward, forcing everyone to retreat again.
They had no choice!
The residual energy was so terrifying that even Sixth-Realm powerhouses struggled to withstand it.
With their appearance, the Sixth Realm was no longer the strongest in this conflict.
When the chaos subsided, Young Lord Si and the God Demon stood revealed. A trickle of blood had appeared at the corner of Young Lord Si’s mouth.
The God Demon, however, was unscathed.
Ye Xuan’s brows furrowed.
The God Demon began walking toward Young Lord Si. “Since the founding of my Demon Sect, we’ve never claimed invincibility, but no one has dared to provoke us!”
As his voice fell, he threw a punch!
A deceptively simple punch, with no energy fluctuations. The surrounding starry sky remained undisturbed, not a ripple in sight. Yet, Young Lord Si was flung hundreds of thousands of *zhang* away. As she stopped, the space within that radius, centred on her, disintegrated into nothingness. Not just the space—all space-time in that area collapsed into a dead, silent void.
The God Demon turned to Nan Shi below. “Miss Nan Shi, if your Immortal Treasure Pavilion wants war, my Demon Sect will oblige to the end. From this day, my Demon Sect declares war on your Immortal Treasure Pavilion. Any member of your pavilion we encounter will be killed until either your pavilion is eradicated or my Demon Sect is!”
A true declaration of war!
A fight to the death, no quarter given!
Nan Shi nodded slightly. “Very well.”
At this point, neither the Demon Sect nor the Immortal Treasure Pavilion could back down.
As the God Demon said, unless one side was annihilated, this could not be resolved.
The God Demon then approached Young Lord Si. “I don’t know that young man’s origins, nor how strong your Mysterious Realm is, but since you seek war, my Demon Sect will fight to the end!”
With that, he clenched his right hand and threw another punch.
*Rip!*
In front of Young Lord Si, something seemed to tear open. A terrifying force erupted like a volcano.
Young Lord Si closed her eyes, her right hand gripping her blade’s hilt. In the next moment, she drew and slashed forward. “Dread!”
As her voice fell, a cascade of blade light surged from the sheath.
*Boom!*
The blade light flickered and extinguished instantly. Young Lord Si was thrown tens of thousands of *zhang* back. As she stopped, her blade shattered into countless fragments.
The blade was destroyed!
Seeing this, Xuan Yin and the others’ faces turned grim.
Xuan Yin looked at Young Lord Si, blood streaming from her mouth, and stammered, “Young Lord Si, did you come alone? Where are Lord Left Realm, Lord Right Law, Lord Xu Weijin, and Lord Nan Weiyang?”
Young Lord Si wiped the blood from her mouth and said, “I don’t know.”
*I don’t know!*
Xuan Yin nearly fainted.
*I don’t know?*
Ye Xuan shook his head.
This wasn’t how he’d imagined it. He’d pictured the Mysterious Realm’s forces arriving, sweeping through the Demon Sect, annihilating them, and then everyone shouting in unison: *Young Master!*
How grand that would’ve been!
But reality was nothing like his fantasy.
At that moment, the God Demon turned to Ye Xuan. Seeing this, Ye Xuan’s right hand tightened on his sword.
The God Demon walked toward him. “Young Master Ye, I’ve observed you for some time. You’re indeed remarkable. But things have come to this—your head must stay with my Demon Sect today!”
Ye Xuan grinned. “And if I’m not willing?”
The God Demon shook his head. “That’s not up to you.”
As his voice fell, he stepped forward and threw a punch.
The punch targeted Ye Xuan!
Seeing it, Ye Xuan’s pupils constricted. With a thought, the Qingxuan Sword in Nan Shi’s hand flew to him, trembling violently before transforming into a sword shield.
*Boom!*
The shield shuddered violently. In the next moment, Ye Xuan, shield and all, was sent flying hundreds of thousands of *zhang*.
It seemed far, but for beings who could traverse star domains in a thought, hundreds of thousands of *zhang* was a trifling distance. To them, even an entire planet seemed small.
When Ye Xuan stopped, he wiped blood from his mouth and looked at the God Demon. His right hand opened, and the Qingxuan Sword appeared in his grip. At that moment, the space before Xuan Yin trembled faintly.
Xuan Yin’s face paled. He spun to face Young Lord Si, eyes wide with horror. “Young Lord Si… why didn’t you report that we’d found the Young Master?”
Young Lord Si’s eyes narrowed, her left hand tightening on her blade.
Before Xuan Yin could say more, Ye Xuan interjected, “It’s a minor issue. Let’s focus on the Demon Sect first!”
Xuan Yin shook his head frantically. “No, no! Young Master, something’s wrong! Young Lord Si… I notified her the moment I found you, but I just contacted Lord Nan Weiyang, and she said she knew nothing of this… I thought it was strange why only Young Lord Si came from the Mysterious Realm…”
Ye Xuan’s voice grew stern. “This is a minor matter. Our enemy now is the Demon Sect!”
Xuan Yin shook his head again. “No, no! Young Master, something’s off with Young Lord Si…”
Ye Xuan’s voice trembled. “Brother, can we drop this? Please?”
Xuan Yin stammered, “Young Master, Young Lord Si might have ulterior motives. Be careful!”
As his words fell, Ye Xuan felt a chill down his spine. A blade qi locked onto him!
Ye Xuan nearly spat blood. He wanted to cleave Xuan Yin in two with his sword!
*Damn it!*
*You’re practically forcing her to turn against us!*
