Let us return to the other side.
By the time An Lingzhen streaked over in a flash of light and reached the vicinity of the Gu Family estate,
what met her eyes was a vast expanse of ruins, nearly razed to the ground.
Even with countless laws and formations reinforcing it, seventy to eighty percent of this majestic complex stretching for hundreds of miles had collapsed.
Countless Gu Family disciples and surviving family members waited trembling outside the ruins.
Every face was ashen, as though they were awaiting the final judgment of their fate.
An Lingzhen was momentarily stunned.
If she remembered correctly, Ye Li had been invited here to refine pills.
But this scene was far too exaggerated, even for a pill furnace explosion!
This was clearly the aftermath of a battle on the scale of exterminating an entire clan!
Her heart tightened. She hurried toward the center of the ruins while channeling her Immortal Power and shouting aloud:
"General Ye!!"
Before her words had faded, she spotted that familiar figure in Daoist robes in the distance.
At that moment, he stood atop a stretch of wreckage, looking at her with some surprise.
It was good that he was alright!
An Lingzhen immediately let out a heavy breath of relief.
Ignoring the embarrassment of having shouted so loudly in public just now, she swiftly came before him and asked solemnly:
"General, what happened here just now?"
"Why did such an intense Immortal Power fluctuation erupt?"
Ye Li answered concisely:
"I was refining pills properly when a group of people suddenly jumped out and tried to take my life."
"To save my own life, I could only kill them all."
An Lingzhen immediately had a bad feeling and pressed on:
"Who were they?"
"The leader was the Gu Family's