Chapter 108: Huo Shenzi Pursues

  Under the mountain peak, several breaths quickly approached the mountain top. One of them was extremely powerful, and Ye Chen, who was far away, felt the fluctuation of spiritual power. It was clear that the person had intentionally released their aura without hiding it.

  "Just out of Ying City, if I were to run into you guys, I would definitely be in danger. But now, you're just coming here to send yourselves to death!" Ye Chen said, looking down at the mountain as if muttering to himself.

  Soon, six figures appeared in sight. Seeing the white-haired old man at the forefront, Ye Chen's eyes narrowed slightly. As expected, there was a fluctuation of spiritual energy, and his body surface had a faint flow of spiritual energy, which should be a strong person who had experienced the first surge of the Naihai Secret Realm.

  Ye Chen looked down at them from the high ground, his eyes filled with a cold and ruthless gaze. The old master of the Upper Official's household seemed to feel two icy gazes staring at their group, and when he raised his head to look, his eyes shot out a fierce light, like two precious gems radiating an otherworldly glow in the dark night.

  "Is that Ye Jia's little one?" The old man suddenly appeared at the top of the mountain, followed by five others who stood respectfully behind him. Each person had a murderous gaze fixed on Ye Chen, their eyes seeming to want to flay him alive.

  "Not bad, it's indeed your grandfather I am!" The newcomer started with a childish tone, and Ye Chen was not willing to suffer a loss, so he responded rudely.

  "Brat, you have no respect for your elders! Even if it were your father Ye Wen Tian who saw me, he would still have to address me as 'senior'. And yet you dare to call yourself 'master' in front of me!" The old master of the Upper Official's household was furious, his hair and beard standing on end, like an enraged lion.

  “Don't you know how to respect your elders?” Ye Chen sneered with a smile, saying: “If you want others to respect you, first learn to respect others yourself. At your age, you're still not showing the dignity of an elder, have these years all been spent living like a dog? You don't even understand how to be human, yet you still expect others to treat you as one?”

  "You dare insult me, little one?"

  The old master of the Upper Official's family was furious, and a circle of spiritual power exploded from his body, causing the five elders behind him to retreat six or seven steps. Unprepared, he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

  "Insult you? Do you think you're a noble lady?!" Ye Chen burst out laughing, but suddenly his expression changed drastically, and he said coldly: "You've come chasing me from thousands of miles away, you should be prepared to die!"

  "Hahaha!!" The old master of the Shangguan family laughed loudly, "You are extremely arrogant, Ye family's young one! You're just an ant in the mortal realm. I'll capture you first and then extract the protective treasure from your body before slowly torturing you to death, to comfort the spirits of the eight elders of my Shangguan family who have passed away!"

  "You old rascal, you toad, you're so arrogant, what skills do you have? Bring it on, I want to see if your fancy footwork is as useless as a woman's embroidery."

  Ye Chen burst out laughing, with a stifled breath of anger in his heart. Now that he had vented it all out verbally, he actually felt much more relieved.

  The old master of the Upper Palace was so angry that his forehead bulged with blue veins, and he slapped out a palm, causing a brown earth-attribute spiritual energy to burst forth like a wave, distorting the void and producing a series of tsunami-like sounds, startling the birds and beasts within several hundred meters into a frantic stampede.

  Ye Chen didn't want to entangle with these people, so he suddenly opened his hand and a golden light burst forth. His palm instantly turned into a brilliant radiance, like the sun bursting forth in the world. With one step forward, he stretched out his large hand, piercing through the void, shattering the spiritual energy like withered branches. Then, he curled his fingers into claws, and under the shocked gaze of Old Master Shangguan, he pinched his neck and lifted him high up.

  "How dare you!"

  "Let go of our family's master, otherwise your father Ye Wen Tian will have no way to account for it to the officials of our household!"

  "Let go of Lao Jia Zhu, otherwise I will slaughter your entire Ye family!"

  The five elders were shocked and turned pale, one by one they shouted angrily.

  "Who dares to bully my Ye family?" Ye Chen looked at the five powerful but hollow elders and said, "My Ye family is a royal family of the first rank in the Chu Kingdom, conferred by the king himself. How dare you touch my Ye family?"

  Several elders suddenly had nothing to say, and they no longer spoke threateningly. Instead, in a tone of negotiation, they said: "Ye Chen, let go of the old master. Do you know the position of the old master in our official family? If he suffers any harm, the official family will avenge him at all costs."

  "You've come to kill me, now you find that I'm not as easy to deal with as you thought? You think you can just retreat with your whole body intact? What a joke!" Ye Chen sneered, his eyes icy cold, his right hand holding the old master of the Shangguan family in mid-air, while his left hand slapped out repeatedly.

  Boom! Boom! Boom!!

  Shangguan's old master grunted repeatedly, with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth. His two old eyes were about to bulge out, exuding a venomous gaze that stared tightly at Ye Chen.

  "Old landlord!"

  "Ye Chen, you little beast!!"

  Five elders were furious, but the old master was in Ye Chen's hands and they didn't dare to rush forward.

  Bang!

  Ye Chen's final palm print landed on the Upper Official Old Master's Dan Tian, a massive force shook his body violently, and the Upper Official Old Master spat out a large mouthful of blood arrows, instantly wilting down.

  "You little brat, you've ruined my dantian! I'll never be able to coexist with you in this world!" The old master of the Upper Official's household bellowed furiously, his voice hoarse from exhaustion. His dantian was shattered, and his spiritual energy was completely depleted. Moreover, the several slaps he had received from Ye Chen earlier had severed all the meridians in his body, rendering him a complete cripple.

  "It's already irreconcilable!" Ye Chen said calmly, and then casually threw him out. The body of the old master of the Shangguan family was like a kite with a broken string, drawing a beautiful parabola in the air before crashing to the ground with a loud thud. The five elders were about to rush towards Old Master Shangguan when Ye Chen made his move again.

  Orange-gold palm swept through the void, a series of air buzzing sounds rose, Da Bao Lian Shou Ba Dao Wú Shuāng, Bang Bang Bang, directly slapping four elders flying, The bodies of the four had not yet landed in mid-air and suddenly exploded with a loud noise, splitting into four or five pieces, dead without a whole corpse!

  The last surviving elder was so frightened that his body went soft and he could hardly stand, his whole body trembling. How could Ye Chen be so powerful? It was simply too terrifying! One move to kill four ninth-level peak masters, and the first master of the Mingyuan Secret Realm was defeated in one move!

  He felt like he was having a nightmare, like watching a myth, so unreal, but the cold killing intent emanating from Ye Chen's body told him that all of this was real.

  "Spare your lives for Master's sake, take him and get out of here immediately!"

  The old man trembled and carried the Upper Official's family head on his back, then looked at Ye Chen, not knowing if he really wanted to let him leave, and for a moment did not dare to move his feet.

  "Get out!"

  Ye Chen let out a cold shout, and it was like a sudden clap of thunder in the elder's ear, startling him so much that he shuddered violently and took off running. In the blink of an eye, he vanished from the top of the mountain, his speed leaving Ye Chen staring in amazement.

  Originally, Ye Chen thought that other forces in Ying City would take the opportunity to get rid of him, but it turned out that the people from the Shangguan family were chasing after him. It was discovered that someone from the Shangguan family had secretly invited the former head of the household without telling the old master, but after today's events, the Shangguan family's power will likely plummet to an all-time low. The former head of the household in the Minghai Secret Realm has been abolished, and from now on, the Shangguan family's position in Ying City is unlikely to be preserved. If it weren't for the fact that there are still family disciples cultivating in Fudi, many forces in Ying City would likely take this opportunity to destroy the Shangguan family.

  In the hazy night, Ye Chen stood at the top of the mountain and gazed into the distance, shaking his head slightly. The problem with the Shangguan family was temporarily set aside, but the danger seemed to have not been eliminated. The Shangguan family's pursuit had come, so what about others? At this moment, Ye Chen was most worried about the people from Shenxi Fudi. If they also came after him, then it would be really dangerous.

  Of course, the people who were favored by the gods during the day would not be able to catch up, because in the selection competition they could not escape the gaze of Han Qingxue. But at night it was different, today during the day Huo Shenzi lost face in Han Qingxue's hands, although it seemed unrelated to Ye Chen, but in fact it was all because of him. With Huo Shenzi's arrogant and proud personality, would he let himself off?

  Ye Chen thought for a moment, the more he thought, the more he felt it was dangerous. He quickly changed out of his bloody clothes and threw them into the fire to burn them clean. Then, he put on a new set of clothes. With the wind spirit power swirling around his feet, he transformed into a clear breeze and disappeared at the top of the mountain.

  Not long after leaving the mountain top, Ye Chen felt that something was off and stopped using his Wind God Step. He retracted all of his aura as much as possible and deliberately chose to walk through the dense forested areas of the mountain.

  The deployment of the Divine Wind Step must have a spiritual power fluctuation, ordinary people may not feel it, but what about Huo Shenzi? With Huo Shenzi's terrifying cultivation, can he not feel it? Ye Chen dared not to confirm, so he could no longer deploy the Divine Wind Step.

  Shortly after Ye Chen left the mountain top, a figure like a heavenly god appeared in the void above the mountain top, with flames swirling around his body, as if the fire god from the ninth heaven had descended to the mortal world. He coldly scanned below, and a thick killing intent flashed through his eyes.

  "You, ant, don't think you can escape from my hands!" Huo Shenzi gazed out at the endless forest and said coldly. As soon as he finished speaking, he took a step forward and instantly disappeared into the distance of over a thousand meters. His powerful divine sense covered the sky and earth, searching through an area of several tens to hundreds of miles in radius.

  Suddenly, Huo Shenzi's face changed, a cold smile flashed in his eyes, and he stretched out one palm to slowly press downwards.

  Buzz!

  Space distorted in an instant, endless flames of spiritual power surged out like a tsunami, and in the blink of an eye, they condensed into a giant fire-colored handprint, as large as a great mountain, terrifying beyond measure.

  Rumble!

  With a big handprint in the void, it covered an area of dozens of miles around, mountains collapsed, and trees and rocks were all turned into dust under this blow.

  Ye Chen was running out continuously, when suddenly a boundless terrorizing aura enveloped him, he was greatly shocked in his heart, lifted his head to look, through the dense leaves' gaps, he saw gigantic flames suddenly appearing in the void, and then a mountain-like huge hand fell down.

  "Hephaestus!"

  Ye Chen's heart sank, but fortunately he was at the edge of the region covered by Huo Shenzi's palm. In an instant, Ye Chen quickly ran out of the range covered by the big handprint, almost using all his physical strength on his legs, like a flying arrow.

  He didn't dare to use the Divine Wind Step, Ye Chen was certain that Huo Shenzi must have sensed the spiritual power fluctuations when he used the Divine Wind Step earlier, otherwise in this dense forest, Huo Shenzi wouldn't be able to easily discover his approximate location.