"Over there. The Cold Spring!"
On the back of the eagle, Ye Xuan focused his gaze on the center. There was indeed a pool of Cold Spring water here. This spring water was somewhat strange; even with such heavy snow, it couldn’t freeze into ice.
Beside the Cold Spring sat fifty people. The fifty City Lords were all here. The Celestial Calculation Technique of the Celestial Calculation Mansion was indeed terrifying. It seemed they had calculated exactly where Ye Xuan would appear on the Ice Mountain.
At this moment, Ye Xuan picked up Ye Ling’Er. Her skin was like Luo Tie, and her breathing was growing weaker and weaker. It seemed as if her internal organs were about to be incinerated. Without hesitation, Ye Xuan jumped down toward the location of the Cold Spring. The moment he jumped, Hua followed suit.
"He jumped down!"
"Ye Xuan didn’t run away; he actually jumped down on his own!"
"It looks like he’s holding a woman in his arms!"
Amidst the crowd’s exclamations, Ye Xuan landed in the Cold Spring.
HISS!
Steam rose into the air as the surroundings were engulfed in white smoke. A gust of fierce wind blew past, dispersing the thick smoke. A man and a woman stood upon the Cold Spring. It was none other than Ye Xuan and Hua. As for Ye Ling’Er, only her head was exposed above the surface. Her entire body was submerged in the Cold Spring, and the dense steam was emanating directly from her.
"Hua, I’ll leave Ling’Er to you," Ye Xuan instructed calmly, then leaped out of the Cold Spring.
He was now less than ten meters away from the fifty City Lords.
"You’ve waited a long time, haven’t you? Well, I’m here now. What are you going to do to me?"
"What are you going to do to me?" Ye Xuan’s voice continuously echoed through the surroundings. Even facing fifty City Lords, he held his head high and his chest puffed out.
"Boy, I didn’t expect you to actually dare to show up. Since you’re here, don’t even think about leaving. Today, next year, will be the anniversary of your death."
"Ye Xuan, you killed Sun Zhenwu and broke the rules! We declare you guilty and will execute you immediately!"
The fifty City Lords shouted coldly, wasting no time on further nonsense. Their bodies bloomed with Spiritual Light as their Earth Spirit Realm auras surged forth. Originally, fierce winds and heavy snow raged atop the mountain peak. But the moment their auras erupted, the heavy snow stopped completely!
How astonishing was the combined aura of fifty City Lords? The weaker cultivators who were running toward the peak immediately felt their legs go weak.
"You declare me guilty? Well, sorry, but I refuse to accept it!" Ye Xuan grinned, showing not a hint of submission.
The next moment, a Hundred-Feet Golden Dragon soared into the sky. The glow of the setting sun was nowhere near as bright as the Golden Dragon. Ye Xuan had unleashed his Dragon Soul. Having almost been killed in a sneak attack by the Fang Family last time, he was exceptionally careful now. If these City Lords lacked martial ethics and attacked suddenly, he didn’t know if he would have enough time to unleash his Dragon Soul then!
"It’s out! A Divine Dragon, it’s a Divine Dragon!"
"I never expected to see a Dragon Soul in my lifetime!"
"It’s too massive. The phenomenon produced by a Divine Beast Beast Soul is actually this grand! It practically blots out the sun and clouds!"
"I can’t take it! I can’t stand steadily!"
THUD THUD THUD THUD THUD.
The sounds of people dropping to their knees rang out one after another. Everyone present who had not reached the Earth Spirit Realm fell to their knees. The people on the mountain peak sank right into the snow as they knelt, leaving only their heads exposed.
"This is the Dragon Soul!" Liu Ruoxi’s eyes flickered with an unknown mix of fear and shock, her entire body trembling.
The world knew that the soul of a Divine Beast possessed immense pressure. But only by experiencing it personally could one truly understand just how terrifying this pressure was! It felt as if a mortal were looking upon an Immortal. One’s first instinct was to kneel and worship in reverence.
THUD!
Finally, Liu Ruoxi also dropped to her knees before Ye Xuan. Even though she didn’t want to, both of her knees hit the ground, leaving only her head exposed above the snow. Beside her, Liu Yan fared no better.
Right at this moment, two beams of golden light appeared, respectively shielding Liu Ruoxi and Liu Yan. Taishu Shen had made his move.
"I’m sorry. I didn’t expect the might of the Divine Dragon to be so immense that even I couldn’t immediately control the Spiritual Qi in my body. But it’s fine now," Taishu Shen’s apologetic voice echoed out.
"Shen, you’re already very powerful. Don’t you feel afraid?"
Taishu Shen said indifferently, "There is a wave of fear inside me, but it’s not enough to make me give up resisting. The gap between him and me is quite large, after all."
"Shen, as expected of you."
While Liu Ruoxi was speaking, the fifty City Lords finally unleashed their Beast Soul Power. The Beast Souls of the Sub-City Lords were all at the Fierce Beast level. The highest-ranked among them were top-tier Fierce Beast Beast Souls. With fifty people releasing their Beast Souls simultaneously, the sky and earth turned into a kaleidoscope of colors. The terrifying aura caused cultivators with weaker cultivation bases to cough up blood.
"Kill!"
After unleashing their Beast Souls, the fifty City Lords didn’t waste any words and attacked simultaneously. A wide array of Martial Techniques manifested—some like a Big Mountain, some like crashing waves, and some taking the form of ferocious Exotic Beasts. The Martial Techniques descended from the sky, seemingly threatening to shatter the mountain peak into pieces!
"Ye Xuan, die!"
Facing the combined assault of fifty people, Ye Xuan merely grinned.
"Just the lot of you want to kill me? Keep dreaming! In one move, I will defeat you all!"
"In one move, I will defeat you all." Ye Xuan’s voice endlessly echoed across the mountain peak, leaving everyone present completely dumbfounded.
Facing fifty City Lords alone, not only did Ye Xuan not back down, but he actually claimed he would defeat them in one move. Was he really that strong?
Under the crowd’s astonished gazes, Ye Xuan raised his fist and threw a punch! Although this punch seemed insignificant, the dispersing golden Spiritual Qi was vast and exuberant.
BOOM!
A loud explosion rang out, and the entire Big Mountain began to shake. The snow on the ground was swept into the air by a hurricane-force wind. Before it could even fall back down, the shockwave of Spiritual Qi scattered it into nothingness.
SPURT SPURT SPURT SPURT.
The next moment, the sounds of people vomiting blood rang out. The fifty City Lords were sent flying backward one after another. Their bodies resembled kites with broken strings, hurtling hundreds of meters away! Some City Lords crashed to the ground and were actually unable to stand back up for a while.
Just as Ye Xuan had claimed, he defeated the fifty City Lords with a single strike. Wasn’t this far too inconceivable?
"Impossible. How could this be possible!" Liu Ruoxi was dumbfounded, unable to accept the reality unfolding before her eyes.
Among the fifty City Lords, the highest cultivation was at the 5th Layer of the Earth Spirit Realm, and the lowest was at the 4th Layer. A City Lord knew quite a few Martial Techniques. They each possessed the strength to kill opponents at higher layers, and it wasn’t as simple as just bridging a one-layer gap. Joined together, it would be extremely easy for them to kill even an expert at the 7th Layer of the Earth Spirit Realm.
Before the battle began, she had specifically requested the fifty City Lords not to be too heavy-handed and not to kill Ye Xuan in one strike, because she wanted to kill him with her own hands!
But what was this situation now? Why was reality so vastly different from her expectations? Why was it not Ye Xuan being sent flying and injured, but rather the fifty City Lords being sent flying and injured by Ye Xuan?!
Was the world really this crazy? Could it be that in just these past one or two months, Ye Xuan’s cultivation had improved again? But how could that be possible! Where would he get the resources? Unless, when the Gongsun Family was destroyed, they handed all their resources over to him alone!
Beside her, a gleam of light flashed in Liu Yan’s eyes. She was somewhat pleasantly surprised.
"Ye Xuan, it seems you have grown stronger again."