He continued his journey.
Half a day later, Ye Xuan arrived at the exit. He activated the Array and stepped inside.
His vision blurred and his head spun. When his sight cleared, Ye Xuan found himself in a secluded courtyard.
The moment he appeared, the whistling sound of projectiles tearing through the air rang out. A dense rain of arrows shot toward him from a distance. This sudden ambush gave Ye Xuan a startling shock. By the time he reacted, the Crossbow Arrows had already struck his body.
SWISH, SWISH, SWISH, SWISH.
The Crossbow Arrows hit Ye Xuan’s head and face. One of the Crossbow Arrows even struck his eye!
"We hit him! We hit him! He really was completely off guard!" The excited voices of the Sun Family members rang out.
These were all members of the Side Branches. Although the Direct Lineage had fled, they had issued orders for them to guard the exit and wait for Ye Xuan to appear. Once he did, they were to pull the triggers immediately.
In their hands were Celestial Secret Divine Crossbows. The strongest among them could injure an expert at the 8th Layer of the Demon Spirit Realm.
The world knew that when Ye Xuan unleashed his Dragon Soul, he could cross major realms to kill experts of the Earth Spirit Realm. However, his own cultivation base was not exceptionally strong.
If they caught him by surprise, a miracle might just happen. If they managed to kill Ye Xuan, their names would echo throughout the Moyue Kingdom. The face the Sun Family had lost would be entirely reclaimed in a single stroke!
DRIP, DROP...
Fresh blood dripped down from mid-air. All of this blood belonged to Ye Xuan.
He had been too careless! Ye Xuan simply never expected that this group of people from the Sun Family would actually dare to ambush him here.
His body was riddled with a dense cluster of arrows. Blood gushed out of his wounds. The most severe injury was to his right eye, which had an arrow lodged deep within it. His eyeball had been ruptured.
"Master, no! Let me out quickly! I want to slaughter all of them!" Blood Princess’s anxious voice called out from the Demon Subduing Scripture.
Seeing Ye Xuan injured, she was more furious than anyone else. Her gaze was as cold as a glacial mountain that had frozen for ten thousand years. Her long, blood-red hair floated up on its own inside the windless space of the Demon Subduing Scripture.
"Master, let me out! You shouldn’t have brought me in here just now."
Only Blood Princess, who could execute Instant Movement, had the speed to react in that split second.
Ye Xuan did not respond to Blood Princess. Instead, he stared at the Side Branch members standing less than ten meters away from him. This extremely close distance was exactly why Ye Xuan had failed to react in time.
These clan members were still aiming their Crossbow Arrows, seemingly intending to fire another volley.
At this moment, Ye Xuan forcefully pulled out the arrow lodged in his eye. A terrifying killing intent erupted from his body. This killing intent was in an absolute Frenzy.
He had been careless. He had almost died because of it. The only reason he survived was that his physical body was inherently two layers stronger than his cultivation base. These arrows could injure him, but they could not kill him.
Golden Spiritual Qi instantly burst forth, repelling and shooting the arrows right out of his body. Half of the Sun Family members besieging him were killed in an instant.
Taking advantage of the opening, Ye Xuan consumed an Earth-grade Healing Spirit Medicine. The wounds on his body rapidly recovered. The injury to his eyeball also began to heal. Once he confirmed that his vision had been fully restored, Ye Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Die! You all must die!"
A Hundred-Feet Golden Dragon suddenly materialized in the sky above the City Lord’s Mansion. Appearing alongside it was his twenty-meter-tall Divine-Demonic Overlord Body.
Originally, Ye Xuan had planned to leave immediately after coming out, but now he couldn’t hold back his urge to go on a killing spree!
Ye Xuan was furious, and the consequences would be severe. However, he wasn’t angry that the Sun Family had injured him; he was angry at himself for being so careless.
If the people guarding the entrance hadn’t been from the Sun Family, but rather the fifty City Lords who had been rushing over—if they had attacked him together while he was off guard, would he still be alive?
The answer was obvious: he would undoubtedly be dead!
The actions of the Sun Family’s Side Branches had taught Ye Xuan a vital lesson. They made him truly understand what it meant when people said that even a lion goes all out when hunting a rabbit. From now on, no matter where he went, he could not afford to let his guard down for even a blink of an eye.
"My God, is that a Dragon Soul?"
"What terrifying pressure! I’m at the Earth Spirit Realm, yet I actually feel my legs turning to jelly."
"It’s Ye Xuan! Ye Xuan isn’t dead! He’s in Hero City! Is he here to destroy the Sun Family again?"
"The fifty City Lords just left not long ago, and he immediately charged into Hero City. He has to be doing this on purpose, right?"
Half an hour later, the Golden Dragon vanished. No one knew which way Ye Xuan had gone. In any case, the guards at the four city gates hadn’t seen a trace of him. It was highly likely that he hadn’t used the main gates at all.
Two hours after Ye Xuan left, several Level 6 Flying Beasts appeared in the sky. Some of the fifty City Lords had finally arrived. Looking down at the City Lord’s Mansion, which had already been reduced to ruins, they furrowed their brows.
"Are we a step too late again?"
"Is this kid doing it on purpose? He showed up right after we left. Is he trying to provoke all of us?"
The City Lords’ expressions were exceedingly grim. Ye Xuan’s behavior was simply too arrogant!
"Everyone, does anyone know which direction Ye Xuan fled?! Whoever provides a clue will be rewarded!" one of the City Lords roared.
His thunderous voice could be heard across more than half the city, yet no one came forward to provide any clues.
When Ye Xuan left, he had been wearing a bamboo hat. Even if people on the street had seen him and suspected his identity, they couldn’t be absolutely certain it was him. After all, there were countless people wearing bamboo hats in this world.
"Put the entire city under martial law! Entrance only, no exits!"
The fifty City Lords immediately issued orders for a strict city-wide search. However, Ye Xuan had long since left the city.
He quickly hurried back to the Big Mountain. Only after making sure that no one had followed him did he enter the Natural Illusion Array and return to the Big Mountain. At the summit, the Dragon Totem hung high, fluttering in the wind.
After Ye Xuan returned, he immediately went back to his room. He first inspected Elder Dong’s Storage Ring.
Inside Elder Dong’s Storage Ring, there was a considerable amount of Soul Crystals, but not many useful resources. However, there were quite a few high-grade Beast Pills.
Ye Xuan carefully tallied them up. In total, he had obtained ten Level 5, Rank 8 Beast Pills, four Level 5, Rank 9 Beast Pills, three Level 6, Rank 1 Beast Pills, and two Level 6, Rank 2 Beast Pills.
Although the haul wasn’t as massive as he had imagined, it was still quite substantial. After all, he had merely gone to clean up the remnants. He wasn’t sure if these Beast Pills could raise his cultivation base by three layers, but they were definitely more than enough to raise it by two.
Without any hesitation, Ye Xuan began consuming the Beast Pills.
Raising his cultivation from the 6th Layer to the 9th Layer would require three Level 5, Rank 9 Beast Pills. Ye Xuan didn’t consume the Level 5, Rank 9 Beast Pills first; instead, he started with the Level 5, Rank 8 Beast Pills.
After exhausting all the Rank 8 Beast Pills, he took one Rank 9 Beast Pill. By then, the energy inside his body had reached total saturation.
It seemed that the energy contained within a single Rank 9 Beast Pill was roughly three times that of a Rank 8 Beast Pill.
"Charge!"
With his Spiritual Qi at its absolute peak, Ye Xuan immediately began to assault the seventh Mountain Range.
...
Time flowed on, and three days passed.
Over these three days, the news of Ye Xuan’s appearance in Hero City spread throughout the entire Kingdom.
"Did you hear? Ye Xuan isn’t dead! He’s still alive!"
"What? He isn’t dead? Didn’t they say he was killed by the experts from the Main City?"
"A wise man knows better than to believe rumors. According to my reliable sources, Ye Xuan suddenly appeared in Hero City three days ago. The moment he showed up, he wiped out the Sun Family again."