Chapter 112: Chapter 112: Utter Demise
But it was too late.
The ferocious blow instantly shattered all of the black-clad man’s techniques. Unable to withstand it, the Profound Qi in his body was completely crushed. The fist landed on his chest, sending flesh and blood flying. A gaping hole appeared, punching straight through him.
THUD!
His corpse fell to the ground. One moment he was a living, breathing expert; the next, a mangled pile of flesh.
Wang Hai and his men were all stunned.
This man was their trump card, their final ace, hired at great expense. They never imagined he would be a dead man before he even had a chance to do anything.
"A mere assassin dares to act so imposing before me? You were simply courting death!"
Hua Luoxuan stood with his hands behind his back, calmly gazing at the corpse on the ground. He had the air of a true master, his potent Profound Power circulating around him like a War God.
"Hua Luoxuan, you’ve broken through to the Tier Four Celestial Martial Realm?!"
Wang Hai and the others were utterly shocked. The aura Hua Luoxuan released far surpassed that of Third Layer Earth Martial Artists like themselves. If he wasn’t a Celestial Martial Artist, what else could he be?
In that instant, the thought of retreating sprouted in Wang Hai’s mind.
’We can’t retreat!’
But they were no ordinary men. They knew that retreating now would mean catastrophic losses; few of them would survive.
"Grab Ye Zhanyun and Lin Xiong! That’ll make Hua Luoxuan hesitate."
Exchanging a look, Wang Hai and Zhou Tong instantly understood each other’s intentions. They lunged for Ye Zhanyun and his group in unison.
They wanted to take hostages to find a way to retreat with their lives.
"Haha, bring it on!"
Unexpectedly, Ye Zhanyun’s group was not alarmed but delighted. With a fierce shout, their palms turned hard as iron and stone as they rumbled forward.
RUMBLE!
The two sides exchanged nearly ten palm strikes in an instant.
Each strike was world-shaking. After nearly ten palms, the faces of Wang Hai, Zhou Tong, and their men were flushed red. The ground beneath their feet had been pulverized, an entire layer shaved off.
Meanwhile, Ye Zhanyun and Lin Xiong also took two steps back, the Profound Qi in their bodies circulating even more furiously.
After a clash of nearly ten palms, the two sides were actually locked in a stalemate.
Wang Hai and Zhou Tong’s faces were ashen, their eyes glazed with disbelief. They couldn’t believe Ye Zhanyun’s group possessed such power. "Impossible! When did you break through to the Third Layer of the Earth Martial Artist realm?"
But something even more incredible was yet to come. A series of wretched screams rang out as Luo Zhan, Ye Zhanxiong, Ye Zhantang, and the others attacked. The First Layer Earth Martial Artist elders from the Wang and Zhou families were all wounded and coughing up blood, a miserable sight to behold.
If it weren’t for the two remaining Second Layer Earth Martial Artist experts from their families and the two other Second Layer Earth Martial Artist assassins from the Shadow Killing Sect, the nearly ten men from the Wang and Zhou families would have been completely slaughtered.
"A miscalculation. We’ve completely miscalculated! Retreat, retreat now...!"
Wang Hai’s voice was hoarse, his eyes wide with rage. None of them could believe what was happening before them.
It wasn’t just Ye Zhanyun and Lin Xiong. Luo Zhan had also broken through to the Third Layer of the Earth Martial Artist realm, and Ye Zhanxiong and Ye Zhanzhen had actually both broken through to the Second Layer! When did the Ye family possess such terrifying combat strength?
A deep regret rose in their hearts.
They had thought Ye Xuan was just a fat fish, ready to be slaughtered by their two well-prepared families. They never expected the fat fish to suddenly turn into a shark that was now rampaging and slaughtering them instead.
"Retreat? Do you think you can?" Old Master Ye and the others sneered. As they attacked relentlessly, it became clear that no one would be able to escape.
Besides, they were surrounded, with Hua Luoxuan, a Celestial Martial Artist, guarding the perimeter.
BANG! BANG!
Two more screams. Of two First Layer Earth Martial Artist elders, one had his chest pierced through, while the other’s head was smashed to pieces. A Second Layer Earth Martial Artist elder also had his bones and tendons broken. He spat out blood and collapsed to the ground like a dead dog.
If this continued, the Wang and Zhou families were doomed to be completely wiped out.
"We’ll fight them to the death!"
Seeing no escape, Wang Hai let out a hair-raising roar. He snatched out a Pill and swallowed it in one gulp.
It wasn’t just him. Nearly all the experts from the Wang and Zhou families took out Pills and swallowed them. In an instant, the remaining ten or so experts from the two families began to radiate terrifying auras. Their eyes turned blood-red, as if they had become demons.
This was especially true for Wang Hai and Zhou Tong. It was unknown what kind of Pills they had taken, but blood seeped from their entire bodies, even their eyebrows turning blood-red. Their robes billowed out as their auras multiplied several times over in an instant.
"All of you, go now! Leave Blue Moon City and head for the Royal City!"
With a roar, Wang Hai and Zhou Tong lunged forward to meet their opponents. A weapon appeared in each of their hands, and they pushed their Martial Soul powers to the absolute limit, looking like true demons.
BOOM!
In their frenzied burst of power, the two of them managed to engage Hua Luoxuan in a fierce battle, surprisingly holding their own.
The other experts from the two families also experienced a great surge in combat power after taking the Pills. Fighting as if they had nothing to lose, they actually managed to fight Ye Batian and the others to a standstill.
At this moment, the Wang and Zhou families were burning their very life force for a slim chance of survival.
For a moment, the scene became a stalemate.
"Hua Luoxuan, Ye Batian, let us leave! We promise we will never be your enemies again, and we will not go back on our word!" Wang Hai roared as he fought frantically.
"Wang Hai, are you an idiot? To still be saying such things at a time like this!" Ye Batian sneered.
Wang Hai’s eyes were bloodshot and ferocious. "Ye Batian, killing us will do you no good! If you don’t let us go, we’ll all perish here together today! Not many from your Ye family will survive either!"
"Wang Hai, you think too highly of your two families. Do you really think you’re the only ones with Pills?"
Old Master Ye Batian suddenly roared, "Everyone, take your Pills! Unleash your Martial Souls! Slay these villains!"
As his voice fell, Ye Batian and the others all took out Pills and consumed them. At the same time—
BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ!
Brilliant Martial Souls of various colors appeared above their heads. Each Martial Soul pulsed with a terrifying aura. Two dazzling rainbows of light pulsed back and forth over their Martial Souls. The scene instantly stunned everyone from the Wang and Zhou families.
"Two-Star Martial Souls... They’re all Two-Star Martial Souls!"
Wang Hai and the others mumbled, their eyes wide. They clutched their chests, their hearts feeling as if they would explode from shock.
A sliver of despair rose in their hearts.
"Kill!"
Ye Batian let out a fierce roar, and all the experts charged forward.
"Run! Run!"
At this point, Wang Hai and his men had lost all will to fight. They suddenly shrieked.
The sound was wretched and hair-raising.
BANG!
Hua Luoxuan slapped down his palm. The immense Profound Power surged into Wang Hai’s body, shattering his Profound Veins and internal organs to pieces. He became a pile of mangled flesh and fell lifelessly to the ground.
Wang Hai’s eyes were wide, but his gaze gradually dimmed. His final moment was filled with endless regret.
’Why...’
Seeing that even their Patriarch had been killed, the remaining Wang family elders were terrified. They no longer bothered to resist and immediately flew off in all directions to escape.
"Do you think you can get away?"
How could Ye Batian and his men let them escape? They pushed their combat power to the maximum and charged in for the kill.
Wretched screams echoed through the mountain path as one sinful life after another was reaped.
"Patriarch Ye, the Zhou family’s hatred for your Ye family isn’t that deep. Spare me, I..."
SQUELCH!
Zhou Tong’s eyes were filled with terror. Before he could finish his sentence, his head was smashed by a palm strike.
Ye Batian scoffed. ’Not that deep? If this doesn’t count as deep hatred, then what does?’
"We’re assassins from the Shadow Killing Sect! If you kill us, the Shadow Killing Sect won’t let you off...!"
"AHH!"
An assassin from the Shadow Killing Sect tried to threaten them, but before he could finish, Ye Zhanyun smashed him into a pulp with a hammer, leaving not even his bones intact.
"My Ye family does not bully others, nor do we attack without provocation. But if someone dares to harm us, we will repay them twofold."
Amidst the continuous screams and the howling Gale on this desolate mountain path, the twelve experts gathered by the Wang and Zhou families were all completely killed within the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
As for the Ye family, besides Ye Zhanxiong and Ye Zhanzhen suffering minor injuries, everyone else was unscathed.
Ye Xuan stood quietly on the hillside, watching the scene unfold without a trace of pity in his heart.
’On the Celestial Profound Continent, the strong are revered, and the weak are prey for the strong.’
’Since the Wang and Zhou families struck at the Ye family first, they should have been prepared to be annihilated.’
’He who kills will, in turn, be killed!’
After the battle ended, Ye Batian and the others used their Profound Qi to search the twelve corpses. They found a large number of Storage Rings. Inside the rings were thick stacks of Profound Tickets and countless rare treasures.
In addition, there were also several Divine Weapons and various high-quality Pills.
Even the weakest among this group was an elder from the Wang or Zhou family, not to mention the two Patriarchs, Wang Hai and Zhou Tong. The wealth on their bodies represented the very essence of their two families.
The collected fortune was immeasurable.
"Wang Hai, Zhou Tong, you brought this upon yourselves, dragging yourselves step by step into an abyss of sin. You tried to kill members of my Ye family, so it is only natural that we killed you. In your next lives, I hope you’ll be more discerning."
Ye Batian glanced coldly at the corpses on the ground and spoke with indifference.
Seeing this, Hua Luoxuan, Lin Xiong, Luo Zhan, and the others were deeply moved. With Wang Hai and his people dead, from this day forward, there would no longer be the so-called three great families in Blue Moon City.
And all of this was because of one person.
Their gazes fell upon Ye Xuan. If not for this miraculous youth, the outcome of this battle would have been uncertain.
By the time Ye Xuan and his group returned to Blue Moon City, the sky had already grown dark.
Upon hearing the news of Ye Xuan and his group’s safe return, City Lord Leng Tian simply smiled faintly.
「The next morning.」
A piece of news that shocked all of Blue Moon City swept through it like a hurricane.
The Patriarchs and elders of the Wang and Zhou families, two of Blue Moon City’s three great families, had unexpectedly perished on a remote mountain path several hundred miles outside the city. It was highly likely that the experts of the two families had encountered powerful bandits while traveling.
