“How… How can this be?”
Ouyang Yue stared at the unscathed Yu Yi before her, her face filled with disbelief.
“Did ‘that Lord in the Palace’ who planned all this tell you that once you obtained this Wuxiang Demonic Art, you’d be able to contend with this Grandmaster?”
Yu Yi asked back with a raised eyebrow.
Ouyang Yue fell into silence, saying not a word.
Clearly, Yu Yi had hit the mark.
“It seems the news within the Imperial Family of Great Yan isn’t as well-informed as I thought,”
Yu Yi said with a contemptuous smile and a mocking tone.
In reality, from the moment the two Grandmasters, Wanhai Jiu and Li Tianhan, were killed by the Demoness, the Imperial Family of Great Yan had already guessed that her strength had reached a higher level.
The fact that the Demoness could Breakthrough while heavily injured had been beyond ‘that person’s’ expectations.
In his shock, he judged that Yu Yi’s cultivation had at most risen to Grandmaster Ninth Realm.
It couldn’t possibly be higher.
If Yu Yi only had the cultivation of the Grandmaster Ninth Realm, Ouyang Yue would still have the power to fight her with the support of the Wuxiang Demonic Art.
The power of the Wuxiang Demonic Art was certainly not something to be underestimated.
But the facts before her eyes told Ouyang Yue that Yu Yi’s cultivation was definitely not limited to the Grandmaster rank.
She had already crossed that ultimate threshold and become the third Martial Emperor in the world!
That person guessed Yu Yi had grown stronger, but he never imagined she would Breakthrough directly to Martial Emperor in one go!
If he were present now, he would not only question his own life, but all his knowledge would be completely overturned!
“I don’t believe it… I can’t accept this!”
Ouyang Yue’s mental state began to crumble.
No matter what, she could not believe that Yu Yi’s cultivation could Breakthrough all the way to Martial Emperor under those circumstances!
She channeled the Wuxiang Demonic Art again, using the Forbidden Power to launch continuous attacks at Yu Yi.
However, all of it was ultimately in vain.
The Forbidden Power Ouyang Yue borrowed came from a fractured Sinister Soul.
It was, in the end, limited.
But Yu Yi’s power was nearly infinite.
“Useless, useless, useless.”
Yu Yi stood in place, taking Ouyang Yue’s attacks without moving.
As long as the wind and snow of the Sky and Earth did not stop, she possessed an endless supply of defensive means.
Finally, seeing no hope of success, Ouyang Yue collapsed to the ground, her eyes hollow.
The light veil covering half her face had long since vanished, revealing her pale, bloodless face.
Ouyang Yue was a very lucky person.
Her constitution was special, allowing her to perfectly carry the Wuxiang Demonic Art from the Forbidden Land.
Beneath the Holy Mountain in her homeland of Cangzhou, there happened to be a buried Sinister Soul whose divine spirit had not yet dissipated, capable of bringing Forbidden Power back to the world.
Ouyang Yue had been chosen by that Lord in the Palace and had spent the last ten years quietly awakening the Sinister Soul sleeping deep underground.
As long as she mastered the Wuxiang Demonic Art and possessed that Forbidden Power, Ouyang Yue would reach the peak of her life.
Even if her own cultivation was insufficient, she could still become a powerful figure!
However, Ouyang Yue’s luck ended here.
The first enemy she encountered after mastering the Wuxiang Demonic Art was Yu Yi.
“No… I can’t accept this, I can’t accept this!!!”
Ouyang Yue let out a hysterical wail of despair.
‘Why is it that for everyone else it’s “ten years of hard study to become known to the world,” but for me, I run straight into a Martial Emperor??’
Heaven had granted Ouyang Yue a lifetime of smooth sailing, only to give her a harsh slap in the face at the very end.
With such a massive fall from grace, Ouyang Yue naturally couldn’t accept it.
Yu Yi ignored Ouyang Yue’s wailing.
She slowly raised her hand, as if preparing for her next move.
Seeing this, Ouyang Yue quickly pleaded, “No… don’t! I don’t want to die yet! Don’t… don’t you want to know who that Lord in the Palace is?? He planned all this in secret behind the Yan Emperor’s back. As long as you report him, you can get a handsome reward from the Yan Emperor, ensuring your prosperity and wealth for a lifetime! Right… we can make a Transaction, we…”
“This Grandmaster is not interested in such things.”
Yu Yi disdainfully interrupted Ouyang Yue and shook her head.
“Jiang Hanshan must be your uncle, right? Before he died, he wasn’t like you, so quick to betray the big figure behind the scenes. This Grandmaster originally intended to give you a chance to tell me the identity of that mastermind in the Palace, but now it is no longer necessary.”
Ouyang Yue’s words just now confirmed that the mastermind was not the Yan Emperor.
Someone in the Imperial Family of Great Yan was using the Yan Emperor’s name to perform such forbidden deeds.
Sooner or later, they would be discovered by the Yan Emperor.
Since this was an internal problem of the Imperial Family of Great Yan, let the Yan Emperor solve it himself.
Yu Yi would just go to the Yan Emperor to demand the person when the time came.
Then, Yu Yi activated the Zhenqi within her body.
With a single thought, the entire Holy Mountain began to shake violently.
Ouyang Yue looked up in horror and saw a massive amount of snow from the peak of the Holy Mountain beginning to collapse, rapidly cascading downward.
Ouyang Yue wanted to flee, but she found that the gaps leading Shan Xia were tightly blocked by piles of rocks that had appeared out of nowhere.
She tried to blast through the cliff walls, only to find that the surrounding mountain seemed to have regenerative abilities.
Every time Ouyang Yue punched a hole, it would instantly be filled.
Not only that, those gaps blocked by rocks next to Ouyang Yue would occasionally open up.
When Ouyang Yue rushed toward them, the gap would instantly close, causing her to slam her head directly into the heavy rock, leaving her bloodied.
Who else could be toying with her like this besides Su Cheng?
“Master, look at her. See how hard she’s trying?”
Su Cheng toyed with Ouyang Yue in the palm of her hand, giving Yu Yi a charming yet wicked smile.
“Alright, Su Cheng. Stop playing,”
Yu Yi said calmly as the avalanche drew nearer.
Only then did Su Cheng stop.
She quickly controlled the surrounding earth to form layers of rock Defensive Barriers, protecting the Cloud Family and Grandma Yao inside.
Only Ouyang Yue was left outside.
“Let me in! I beg you, let me in!!”
Ouyang Yue pleaded incessantly.
Seeing that Su Cheng ignored her, she became desperate and began to frantically attack the rock Defensive Barrier, trying to drag a few others down with her to face the avalanche.
However, the rock Defensive Barrier created by Su Cheng was reinforced by Yu Yi’s power.
No matter how hard Ouyang Yue tried, she could not break through even a fraction of it.
In the next second, the mountainous accumulation of snow from the peak of the Holy Mountain crashed down upon the flat ground like a towering wave.
Ouyang Yue let out one last scream of despair before being instantly swallowed and buried by the heavy snow.
A moment later, the snow that had nearly filled the Tiankeng slowly dissipated, either turning into drifting flakes in the air or melting into glacial streams that flowed Shan Xia.
Yu Yi and the others walked out from behind the rock barrier.
They saw Ouyang Yue’s corpse lying not far away, her body crushed to pieces by the sheer weight of the snow.
Looking further ahead, they saw that the invisible object previously surrounded by dense Demonic Qi had now revealed its true form.
It was a fractured skull, though it was impossible to tell what creature it had originally belonged to.
Yu Yi picked up the skull and felt the last trace of its divine spirit dissipate.
Then, a groggy voice came from behind her.
“Just now! What happened? When did I fall asleep?”
Yun Qianxue woke from her coma, and the mark on her forehead had also disappeared.
According to what Ouyang Yue said earlier, did Yun Qianxue also possess the same special constitution that could perfectly carry the Wuxiang Demonic Art without being consumed by its backlash?
Although she had been unconscious and had not absorbed the Forbidden Power like Ouyang Yue, there was no guarantee she hadn’t been affected just now.
“Miss Yun.”
Yu Yi thought for a moment, then turned to look at Yun Qianxue with a serious expression.
“Take off your clothes; I need to check your physical condition.”