Xie Yi was a Buddhist cultivator before he became a devil cultivator, and he was also halfway at Formless Realm level. After seeing that Ye Que was merely at beginning Starburst Realm level, he believed that he would win easily. He had not expected to meet someone more than his match, however.
No matter how tough the defense of the Impenetrable Defense of Three Deities was, it was no match for the River Soldier. Coupled with Ye Que's gold python of Divine Energy and the Bone Crunching 13 Blades of Thunder, it was logical and expected that the was able to slay Xie Yi. Furthermore, in his previous life, Ye Que had fought against monks from the Temple of Six Buddhas as a disciple of the Qingqiu Sword Sect. In fact, he even defeated their reclusive Buddha while he was at Apocalypse Realm strength.
Even if Xie Yi had true Formless Realm level strength, Ye Que was confident of slaying him, much less when he was just halfway through it.
Ye Que gave
The young men and women in Guandi Temple were enjoying game meat. The night grew darker. The snow storm continued. The blankets provided by the Boiled Snow Temple were indeed warm. The young men and young women who had spent their entire day fleeing for their lives were huddled together, wrapping themselves tightly in the blankets. Regardless of their level of cultivation, they were unable to keep warm by mobilizing their True Energy alone, with the exception of Ye Que and Red Bean, whose cultivation level was up a notch from the rest. While they lived in a Cultivation World where dog ate dog, they were by no means novices. Something unexpected must have happened since Ye Que had come back way past the expected time of his return and Cao Xue was nowhere to be seen. However, no one would be so silly as to raise the question now. Regardless of their origins, Ye Que was the one with the greatest voice within this small temple.
They traveled southwards towards Luoyang. After all, it was the Divine Capital as well as the capital city of the most powerful empire in the entire human world. This fact had crossed the mind of the group of young cultivators. They were certain that even if the devil were to take over the entire You Prefecture, it was impossible for it to invade Luoyang any time soon. Apart from Tang, even the entire Cultivation World would be against the idea. Tang would be the only one who had the ability to organize all the sect in the Divine Land to gather at one place to discuss a plan to clean up the place to be free of demons and the devil, and the only place they could gather together was Luoyang. In other words, the young disciples in Guandi Temple were left with no other choice. As much as they want to live on, their only way out was to follow Ye Que wherever he went. At the very least, they needed to get out of Northern You. He was
Zen Mountain was illuminated by the predawn light. It was the moment just before sunrise, the atmosphere was filled with the chilly air before dawn broke, and the grey crystallized snow was covered with a fresh layer of white frost. Two early larks were chirping their songs in the half-lit sky. At the horizon where the Zen Mountain met the sky, there was an enormous morning start hanging in high in the sky, staring down at the world below like a lone eye. The vast universe seemed to be holding its breath while it listened to the orchestra of the living creatures. A layer of thin and mysterious light hovered over the entire land. The temperature in Northern You after the snowfall had fallen even lower, such that a splash of water could turn it to ice immediately. At this moment, there were ten horses and two carriages traveling southwards on the small path which connected the You Prefecture and the Qing Prefecture.
From times of old, all murder cases were thorough, in the sense that entire sects were eliminated. The nature of the devils was such that they would never let their offenses go unavenged. Among the nineteen sects of Truth Cultivators, the Pavilion of Wind and Thunder and Broken King Gorge were the first targets of attack. The devils would not allow anyone in the sects to escape even if they did well at the start. This was the reason Guan Shuheng and Chen Chenchen were still the targets of the devil cultivators even though they were mere novices in their sects who did not hold any important positions. Because of Ye Que, Ye Yunhai returned with his tail between his legs, and the dead bodies of Cao Xue and Xie Yi were not intact. The devils treated this as a humiliating defeat. It was intolerable! Very soon, Formless Demon Seeds had arrived near Zen Mountain. They discovered the dead bodie
The devils drew near to darkness. Since there was no terror, there was no fear. "What else is more terrifying than the devils in the dark?" thought Situ Yan. To Situ Yan, there was nothing more fearful in the dark than the devil. However, he was soon to find out that he was wrong. Indeed, there was something more terrifying, and that was the heaven and the earth which existed naturally. The heaven and the earth remained standing through day and night, transcending them. Situ Yan had intended to speed up and cover a greater distance by making use of the darkness since he had wasted so much time during the day when they fell into the five formations. By now, he was unable to determine where Ye Que and his party were and how far apart they were from the Demon Seeds. Although his subconscious mind led him to believe that they were not far, they were delayed by the formations after all. Moreover, whoever laid the formation also need
For nine days and nights, Ye Que went through all mystical words that he could comprehend and experience at his current level once more. At the same time, he made practical use of them as they traveled southward. The effects looked pretty good right now. At the very least, the devils had not caught up with his party. This proved that his magical formations were of use. They were a band of nearly 20 people that rode in a simple carriage and carried few belongings. They traveled south from Northern You until they reached the Divine Capital, Luoyang, eventually. The crude carriage that had been carrying Ye Que kept creaking and grinding as it went downhill. Beside it were dozens of young teenagers on horseback. Their skin, which was originally white, had turned suntanned by now. Even the female disciples like Yang Nuanyue were not spared; their skin was wheat-colored now. Only Ye Que, Red Bean, and Lei Tianyou, who had been recupe
Beneath Luoyang City. The vegetable sellers had stopped shouting, and the teenagers who were returning from their spring hike stopped fooling around. The armed escorts and merchant caravans stopped moving, and even the vapor in the air seemed to have condensed at this very moment. "His Majesty has passed away?" The simple words carried a deeper meaning. The implications for this current dynasty were nearly destructive in nature. Ye Que looked surprised, while Lei Tianyou looked more shocked. The other young disciples were still stunned. Red Bean, on the other hand, had not really reacted. "Mr. Ye, Mr. Ye," Chen Chenchen of Broken King Gorge shouted as he walked up to Ye Que. There was no reaction from Ye Que, as if he was already lost in his thoughts. After a long while, Ye Que eventually replied Chen Chenchen, "What's the matter?" "How old is his Majesty?" "He was over 50
The great hall at the first storey of the Divine Sect Seminary was hundreds of meters long. The citizens of Luoyang were mostly free in the afternoon. As such, the seminary was already full of people. Everyone sat cross-legged and quietly on mats. The great hall had been specially built. Much earlier on, Ye Que had set up a noise-canceling barrier here. As such, commotions from the streets would not affect the meditation of those in the hall. Mind Focusing Joss Sticks were lit at each corner of the hall, which was somewhat beneficial to the students' cultivation. A youth dressed in a long white robe stood in front of the hall and chanted. He was saying the words of breathing technique, but if one observed carefully, one would realize that it was slightly different from that of current sects in the Cultivation World. It did not teach the students to go against Heaven to achieve Dao. Instead, it taught them to go with Nature's flow and to sens