Rushing Back (1 / 2)

"She can be yours, but everything has to wait until the dust settles.

When the time comes, I'll deliver her obediently to your bed."

Hearing this, Gu He smiled. The deal was done.

"But you'll have to return to the Central Plains with me." Soul One smiled along with Gu He, then abruptly changed his tone.

Gu He did not refuse.

With Yun Yun gone, there was nothing left in the Northwest Region worth lingering over.

The Central Plains offered a broader stage, and an opportunity for him as well.

Gu He followed Soul One out of the Jia Ma Empire, leaving the Northwest Region for the Central Plains.

After Soul One left, Soul Two began his slaughter.

He took out the Evil Soul Ruler and, wielding his overwhelming strength, smashed a Misty Cloud Sect disciple apart with every strike.

Even the Dou Wang elders could not withstand a single blow from his ruler. Their heads were smashed to pieces.

Lost in a killing frenzy, Soul Two was like a wolf among sheep. As he raised and dropped his ruler, a hundred Misty Cloud Sect disciples and elders died on the spot.

"Evil Soul Hundred Might Ruler!"

Soul Two felt that killing this way was not satisfying enough. It was too slow.

He unleashed a Dou Technique outright to hasten the Misty Cloud Sect's destruction.

He infused one evil soul after another into the Evil Soul Ruler. Eerie blue light blazed from it, its body shrouded in eerie blue Dou Qi and burning with blue flames.

With one swing, he left a streak of eerie blue fire across the Misty Cloud Sect's buildings. The flames burned fiercely, striking directly at people's souls.

In an instant, over a hundred more Misty Cloud Sect disciples perished.

Another swing took the lives of another hundred disciples.

As the slaughter grew, Soul Two completely succumbed to his killing frenzy.

He relished the ultimate pleasure of massacring weaklings.

"Stop!"

Soul Two swung his ruler again. Just as another hundred Misty Cloud Sect disciples were about to die beneath the Evil Soul Ruler, a furious shout rang out.

Yun Shan, who had been missing for days, suddenly appeared beneath the Evil Soul Ruler. He held two fingers like a sword, forming a sword strike at their tips.

"Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill!"

Yun Shan thrust his fingers forward with all his strength, compressing the air to its limit and driving the strike against the descending Evil Soul Ruler.

The Extreme Wind: Meteor Kill he unleashed at full power neutralized Soul Two's blow.

"Pfft!"

Although Yun Shan successfully countered the attack, he still spat out a mouthful of blood with a muffled grunt. Caught by the Evil Soul Ruler's ghostly flames, his soul shuddered violently. The burns grievously wounded him, leaving him weakened.

The gulf between a One-Star Dou Zong and an Eight-Star Dou Zong was simply too vast.

Countering that single Evil Soul Hundred Might Ruler strike had already pushed Yun Shan to his limit.

One more blow, and he would be done for.

"A Dou Zong?" Soul Two's eyes flashed, cold malice flaring within them. "A mere One-Star Dou Zong dares act so brazenly before me?"

Without another word, Soul Two swung the Evil Soul Ruler, unleashing another Evil Soul Hundred Might Ruler strike.

Over a hundred Blue Flame Clusters flew from the Evil Soul Ruler, cascading down through the air and engulfing Yun Shan. Their thousand-degree heat burned him to ashes.

Seeing the Blue Flame Clusters sweep from the Evil Soul Ruler straight toward him, Yun Shan instinctively dodged.

Yet the hundred Blue Flame Clusters set the sky ablaze, sealing every escape route. With nowhere to dodge, he could only meet them head-on.

Yun Shan gritted his teeth and staked everything on one last struggle.

His Dou Qi surged out, and he transformed himself into a sword, shooting toward the Blue Flame Clusters.

Against that staggering disparity in strength, the Blue Flame Clusters swallowed him without the slightest effort.

The agony of burning instantly spread throughout his body, and Yun Shan let out the most anguished scream of his life.

Under the searing Blue Flame Clusters, his aged body burned to ashes bit by bit.

The fire died, and Yun Shan vanished, leaving a patch of pale ash that the mountain wind scattered.

Yun Shan, the eighth sect master of the Misty Cloud Sect—dead!

As the members of the Misty Cloud Sect watched their sect master from two generations ago turn to ash before their eyes, every pillar of their resolve collapsed in an instant.

The Misty Cloud Sect was in mortal peril!

"From this day forth, the Misty Cloud Sect will no longer exist!"

After killing Yun Shan, Soul Two's arrogance reached its peak. He turned his gaze toward the Misty Cloud Sect's Elder Hall.

He raised the Evil Soul Ruler and brought it straight down.

The Elder Hall, which had stood for over a thousand years, would be demolished.

The Elder Hall embodied the Misty Cloud Sect's accumulated legacy. If it was destroyed, the sect would exist in name only from that day onward.

The Evil Soul Ruler smashed down, and the Elder Hall collapsed with a thunderous crash, its former glory reduced to ruins.

Even after destroying the Elder Hall, Soul Two showed no intention of stopping.

He swung the Evil Soul Ruler to the right, destroying the Cultivation Method Pavilion where the Misty Cloud Sect stored its cultivation methods as well.

Blue Flame Cluster flames raged across the Misty Cloud Sect, burning countless buildings to the ground.

Building after building was destroyed, disciple after disciple smashed apart. Finally, Soul Two set his sights on Chen Yang and Yun Yun's bridal residence.

The Evil Soul Ruler swung, sending Blue Flame Cluster flames flying out once more to destroy Chen Yang and Yun Yun's bridal residence.

"Whoosh!"

One corner of the bridal residence burned away under the Evil Soul Ruler's Blue Flame Cluster flames. The fire kept spreading, engulfing the enormous palace in the blink of an eye.

The palace that had witnessed the blossoming of Chen Yang and Yun Yun's love gradually crumbled into shattered walls beneath the Evil Soul Ruler's raging Blue Flame Cluster flames, reduced to a field of ruins.

The Misty Cloud Sect, once one of the continent's foremost powers at the height of its glory, was thus destroyed.

Soul Two had thoroughly enjoyed his slaughter, but when he left the Misty Cloud Sect, he forgot to leave anyone alive to deliver a message.

This troubled him considerably.

Sigh!

I got a little carried away with the killing.

I didn't leave a single survivor. What am I supposed to do now?

Finally, Soul Two turned his gaze toward the Gate of Life and Death. Detecting the fluctuations of energy within, he curled his lips into a smile.

"I didn't kill them all after all. At least I left one."

With that, he vanished from the Misty Cloud Sect, his destination unknown.

By the time Chen Yang rushed back, weary from his journey, the Misty Cloud Sect had already become a hell on earth.

Once as beautiful as an earthly paradise, the Misty Cloud Sect now lay in shattered ruins. Embers still glowed on its buildings, severed limbs littered the grounds, and disciples lay crushed into pulp by terrifying force.

The scene was bloody beyond measure. An ominous premonition rose in Chen Yang, and he hurriedly released his Emperor Realm Soul power.

As vast as the sea, his Emperor Realm Soul power spread outward from him at the speed of light, enveloping the entire Misty Cloud Sect's territory in moments.

Even under the probing of Chen Yang's mighty soul power, not a single living being could be found anywhere in the immense Misty Cloud Sect mountain range.

So Yun'er had met with disaster too?!

Chen Yang suddenly felt his heart spasm again.

What followed was towering fury, surging violently from his chest.

"Don't let me find out who you are! Even if I have to search the highest heavens and descend into the nine depths of the underworld, I'll kill you, tear out your soul, and annihilate it!"

[Ding! Host, please remain calm. Yun Yun is an important supporting female character protected by providence. She will not meet with disaster so easily.

She still shows signs of life.]

Noticing Chen Yang's violent emotional fluctuations, the System Sprite feared that he might do something rash in his fury and ruin the Main God System's plans. It hurriedly emerged to stop him and soothe his emotions.

Sure enough, hearing that Yun Yun was still alive calmed Chen Yang considerably, though he remained furious.

His eyes were vicious.

He had better not discover which blind fool had struck his home while he was away!

He exhaled heavily, and his immense soul power spread out, enveloping the Misty Cloud Sect once more.

This time, Chen Yang searched meticulously, examining every inch of the Misty Cloud Sect's territory without leaving a single blind spot.

All to find even the faintest strand of evidence left behind by whoever had attacked the Misty Cloud Sect.

Suddenly, in a mountain near the edge of the Misty Cloud Sect's territory, Chen Yang detected an aura that was three parts unfamiliar, five parts familiar, and two parts repulsive.

The aura was extremely faint. Its owner was on the verge of death, and a special concealment artifact hid the aura, making it difficult to detect.

A cursory sweep might well have missed it.

"Found you!" Fortunately, Chen Yang had been patient enough and searched carefully enough to discover it at last.

"This aura is the same as Protector Wu's. So this is a Soul Hall Protector, someone from the Soul Clan?!"