Clang!
A tremendous force erupted. Dao Patterns peeled away from the Xuanhuang Banner, and Fang Chen and Ye Chen shuddered before both flying backward. The violent force swept the Chaos Matter from a thousand-zhang radius around them.
Li Changsheng hurriedly retreated. When he saw the power Fang Chen and Ye Chen had unleashed, his expression shifted. It was far too strong.
Li Changsheng stared at Fang Chen, shaken to the core. He had never expected Fang Chen to survive three Nine Nether Soul Devouring Nails, let alone grow stronger.
Eleven years ago, after using the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Nails to ambush Fang Chen, he had returned to the Ye Family and sought out books about them. He learned that the Nine Nether Great Emperor had personally refined the nails. Even a Great Emperor would be injured if struck by one, while anyone below the Quasi-Emperor Realm would surely die. They were vicious beyond measure.
An ordinary Quasi-Emperor struck by a single Nine Nether Soul Devouring Nail would have his Soul Origin completely devoured in as little as three days. Fang Chen had been struck by three.
That was why Li Changsheng and the Ye Family Members had all believed Fang Chen was dead.
Yet Fang Chen had not only survived—he had grown even stronger.
Meanwhile, inside the Ye Family's Xuanhuang Hall, Ye Mian and the others watched the scene through the hall's light screen.
"Fang Chen is still alive!"
Shock spread across Ye Mian's face. Back then, they had watched Li Changsheng drive three Nine Nether Soul Devouring Nails into Fang Chen's body. But Little Crane had taken Fang Chen away afterward, and they had never seen his corpse.
Still, Ye Mian had absolute faith in the Nine Nether Soul Devouring Nails. As he saw it, one nail would