Rescue Yao Qingyin

Ye Jing's eyes flickered with lingering fear—he had nearly capsized in a ditch. Fortunately, his Indestructible Golden Body had already reached the stage where form dissolved into formlessness.

He didn't even need to circulate the Indestructible Golden Body Art; the golden body protected him on its own.

These Peaks of Humanity had indeed each comprehended their own Dao principles, their methods beyond imagination. The speed of this Lei Wujie before him was especially terrifying.

Without holding back any longer, a radiant light screen rose around him, shimmering with dazzling colors.

Lei Wujie watched the domain Ye Jing had summoned. Though he didn't recognize it, wariness rose in his heart, and he dared not underestimate it.

This Black Robe was far too bizarre. In just a brief exchange, he had already displayed two supreme techniques.

This unknown domain—no matter how simple it seemed—couldn't possibly be trivial.

Still, Lei Wujie wasn't afraid. Throughout history, no one—whether a peerless prodigy or a heaven-defying genius—had ever defeated a Peak of Humanity while still at the Great Grandmaster level.

And he had comprehended the Lightning Dao Principles—he was no ordinary Peak of Humanity.

Purple lightning flickered across Lei Wujie's body. The night sky, once full of stars, now churned with thunder and lightning. Within the sea of lightning, nine bolts of electricity, varying in size like writhing flood dragons, twisted and surged.

Suddenly, the largest of them—a flood dragon of lightning—struck him.

But instead of reducing him to a charred corpse, the flood dragon lightning coiled around Lei Wujie, merging him with the bolt itself.

By comprehending the Thunder Dao, one could borrow the power of heaven and earth's lightning. Now fused with the flood dragon lightning, Lei Wujie had gained its strength.

Like a fleeting glimpse of a white colt passing a crack, Lei Wujie raised a fist crackling with arcs of electricity, radiating a dark light. Moving at blinding speed, he drove it toward the crown of Ye Jing's head.

But the moment he passed through that light screen, his expression shifted drastically.

An invisible force seemed to trap him. His entire body was beyond his control, his speed slowing to a crawl. Even more shocking, the Dao techniques within him ground to an agonizing halt.

Having reached the Great Grandmaster perfection, Ye Jing's Time Domain had achieved a flawless state, his mastery over time growing ever more refined.

Lei Wujie had comprehended the Thunder Dao's principles, and his speed ranked among the top three in all of Great Li. Yet once he entered Ye Jing's Time Domain, it was like being caught in a spider's web.

That lightning-fast speed now appeared to Ye Jing as slow as a turtle's crawl.

Ye Jing surged his Qi and Blood, pushing the Divine Elephant Suppression Prison Scripture to its limit. His Qi and Blood erupted like a volcano.

Concentrating all his Qi and Blood into his right fist, he threw a single punch. Lei Wujie instantly turned into a Blood Mist.

After dealing with Lei Wujie, the remaining eight Great Grandmasters were nothing in Ye Jing's eyes. Like a tiger entering a sheep pen, he dispatched them all in just a few exchanges.

Yao Qingyin was lost in a daze. Though the battle had been fierce and perilous, it had all happened in the blink of an eye.

Only when she heard the iron gate creak open did she snap back to reality, realizing that this unknown mysterious strongman was here to rescue her.

Opening the iron gate forged from Millennium Meteorite Iron, Ye Jing scooped Yao Qingyin into his arms and swiftly departed.

While dealing with those eight Great Grandmasters, he had sensed two powerful auras rushing toward this place. Any delay would only invite complications.

Barely the time it takes to finish a cup of tea after Ye Jing rescued Yao Qingyin, two eunuchs—one fat, one thin—had silently appeared in the Great Li Heavenly Prison.

The auras they emitted were no weaker than the dead Lei Wujie's.

Seeing Cell Number One already empty, the fat eunuch's face darkened. "Old Wei, we're too late. The Imperial Lord's guess was right—this person came for that Medicine Manor girl."

"I wonder who it is, with such strength. Not only did they take Yao Qingyin from the prison, but they also killed Lei Wujie on the spot."

"That Lei Wujie was truly useless. He had comprehended the Lightning Dao Principles, yet couldn't even hold out for a quarter of an hour."

"If Lei Wujie had lasted until we arrived, the three of us together—no matter how heaven-defying that man's methods—he wouldn't have escaped our grasp."

When news of the Black Robe's attack on the prison reached them, the two eunuchs had set out from the Purple Gold Pavilion, racing all the way. Yet they were still a step too late.

"Old Gao, enough. Lei Wujie comprehended the Lightning Dao Principles and stepped into the Peak of Humanity twenty years before us. That Black Robe killed him in an instant—this man's cultivation likely has few rivals in the world."

Eunuch Wei sighed deeply. Suddenly, he let out a soft exclamation. "Old Gao, you've had dealings with the Sword Sect's experts before. Sense this—is there a trace of residual Innate Sword Qi in this prison?"

Earlier, they had only been shocked by the Black Robe's power and hadn't paid close attention. Now, at Eunuch Wei's reminder, Eunuch Gao focused his senses and indeed detected the Innate Sword Qi Wei had mentioned.

"Such powerful Innate Sword Qi. Even as a mere remnant, it's still this pure. This man's comprehension of the Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation might even surpass the Sword Sect Master's."

Eunuch Gao was stunned by Ye Jing's mastery of the Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation and couldn't help but marvel.

"Old Gao, do you think this could be the work of a Sword Sect expert?"

Certain his earlier guess was correct, Eunuch Wei continued voicing his thoughts.

After hearing this, Eunuch Gao nodded belatedly. "Innate Sword Qi is the hallmark of the Thirteen Swords of Heavenly Annihilation. In all of Great Li, only the core members of the Sword Sect are qualified to cultivate it."

"Though I'm puzzled as to when the Sword Sect produced such a Peak of Humanity, aside from the Sword Sect, no one in all of Great Li knows this supreme technique."

Eunuch Wei agreed with Gao's words. Suddenly, as if remembering something, his expression shifted dramatically.

Noticing the change, Eunuch Gao quickly asked, "Old Wei, what's wrong? Why do you look so terrible?"

A flicker of fear passed through Eunuch Wei's eyes. After a long pause, he finally spoke. "Old Gao, I just thought of something bad."

"What is it?"

The thin Eunuch Gao looked confused.

"Old Gao, do you remember what Manager Li said the other day about that Innate Dao Body?"

"I remember. If we could find that Innate Dao Body, the people from Taixu Li Clan promised to give us two Pine Crane Pills. Such a major matter, I naturally wouldn't forget."

"Otherwise, why would Manager Li, who serves the Imperial Lord day and night, accompany that esteemed one to the Sword Sect to demand it..."

As he spoke, Eunuch Gao suddenly stopped. Seeing the gravity in Old Wei's eyes, he seemed to understand something.