When Mu Yangchen heard Ye Yun's words, he seemed to grasp at the last straw, nodding repeatedly in agreement.
"No problem! Here, take it!"
He impatiently produced the Yellow Springs Ice Flower and handed it over to Ye Yun.
Looking at the silvery Yellow Springs Ice Flower in his hand, Ye Yun couldn't help but smile. It was indeed this item!
At this moment, Mu Yangchen, his voice trembling slightly, asked, "I've given you everything, can you let me go now?"
"Of course, I said I wouldn't kill you, and I won't."
Ye Yun's face was full of kindness. Seeing this, Mu Yangchen was overjoyed.
"Thank you, Elder Ye, I'll be going now!"
Mu Yangchen turned and fled, thinking with disdain, "This Ye Yun is nothing special, so merciful!"
"Just you wait, arrogant fool. After I return, I'll report everything here to my father. I will have revenge for the humiliation I suffered today, ten times over!"
However, before he could reach the main force of the Xuanming Immortal Palace, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and a chilling sensation spread rapidly throughout his body.
Mu Yangchen looked down in shock and saw an ice cone piercing his chest. He turned his head in disbelief.
"Ye Yun... you..."
Ye Yun shrugged, smiling as he said, "I only said I wouldn't kill you myself, but I never said others wouldn't."
He then smiled and patted the Snow Vermilion Bird beside him.
"What do you say, little Vermilion Bird?"
The Snow Vermilion Bird nodded, its eyes full of contempt as it looked at Mu Yangchen. The ice cone was its doing, giving him no chance to react.
This was Ye Yun's revenge for Mu Yangchen toying with his disciple. He showed him a glimmer of hope, only to plunge him into despair.
Seeing that he had been tricked by Ye Yun and that his body was gradually freezing, Mu Yangchen, in his last moments, roared with anger, his face contorted.
"Ye Yun... I will not forgive you! Just you wait, I will personally kill you! And everyone connected to you!"
After all, he possessed the ultimate life-saving means. In his mind, he couldn't possibly die this time; he had only been unwilling to lose his life earlier.
As his body was about to be completely frozen, Ye Yun sneered.
"Trying to escape by reconstructing your fleshly body? You probably won't get to live back home!"
"What?"
Before being frozen, Mu Yangchen was startled by Ye Yun's words. But in the next moment, his body was completely frozen into a block of ice.
As the ice shattered, Ye Yun looked at the scattered ice shards and sneered.
"Still want revenge? You'll have to ask if I agree!"
Having learned his lesson once, Ye Yun would certainly be prepared. Moreover, he now had a powerful Snow Vermilion Bird by his side.
"Do you sense his aura?"
Seeing the Snow Vermilion Bird nod, Ye Yun's expression turned grim.
"Good, then let's obliterate him completely!"
The Snow Vermilion Bird nodded again, then soared into the sky, its ice-crystal-like eyes fixed on a certain direction.
Then, the power of ice and snow began to condense rapidly before it, a terrifying cold current that sent shivers down one's spine. After a moment, a circular array of light formed before it.
With a long cry from the Snow Vermilion Bird, a cold current emanating a ferocious aura shot out from the icy blue formation, instantly tearing through space and streaking towards the distance like an aurora.
At the same time, a hundred miles away from the Saint's Tomb, Mu Yangchen, who had reconstructed his fleshly body, was gasping for breath, seemingly still recovering from the shadow of near-death.
"Damn Ye Yun, the next time I see you, I will tear you to pieces! And carve you into a thousand pieces!"
Having lived for so many years, he had never experienced such humiliation. His heart was filled with nothing but the desire to kill Ye Yun.
Finally, he thought of Ye Yun's words before he was killed and couldn't help but scoff.
"Such pretense! With my heaven-defying life-saving means, you still think you can obliterate me completely? What a foolish dream!"
He had always relied on these life-saving means to act recklessly and without fear, as he essentially had two lives. Naturally, he wouldn't worry about his actions.
Clearly, compared to Mo Chenyu, even though he knew he had two lives beforehand, there were still disadvantages.
"Forget it, it's better to return to the Immortal Palace. Once I get back, I will report everything about that guy!"
Perhaps it was a figment of his imagination, but Mu Yangchen had a sense of foreboding, and he wanted to leave this place quickly.
Just as he was about to move, he seemed to sense something and abruptly turned his head. What he saw made him gasp in astonishment.
In the distant sky, an icy blue beam of light, continuously shaking the space, was hurtling directly towards his location.
"How is this possible?!"
Mu Yangchen's pupils contracted. The beam was traveling too fast, and he didn't even have time to defend himself.
He could only watch helplessly as everything in his vision was submerged in white, and his body instantly lost all sensation.
"No!!!"
In his final moments, he let out a heart-wrenching scream, but alas, no one could hear him anymore...
In front of the Saint's Tomb, everyone stared in stunned silence at the distance. A white mushroom cloud slowly rose in the direction of the Snow Vermilion Bird's attack.
The cold current that had raged from afar could even be felt here, fully demonstrating the terrifying power of this strike.
"Beautiful. I assume he's blown to smithereens by now?"
Ye Yun smiled with satisfaction, gently stroking the Snow Vermilion Bird. The latter seemed to enjoy its master's praise, its eyes full of pride.
Mu Yangchen's death, or rather his complete demise, deeply shocked everyone present.
Before this, they had still harbored some doubts about Ye Yun's disregard for the Fulong Immortal Palace and his killing of Mo Chenyu.
But now, whether they believed it or not, they had to. It turned out that Ye Yun truly dared to kill an Immortal Palace heir and was truly unfazed by the Immortal Palace's strength!
"Alright, now it's your turn, Palace Master Mo."
Ye Yun looked at Mo Chenyu, his eyes flashing with killing intent, which terrified Mo Chenyu.
At this point, the Fulong Immortal Palace's powerful figures were all wiped out. Even Mu Yangchen, who could reconstruct his fleshly body, had been completely annihilated by Ye Yun. And as for himself, who was already at his wit's end...
"You... you..."
Facing Ye Yun's piercing gaze, Mo Chenyu was too terrified to speak.
Ye Yun, however, was too lazy to waste words. He raised his hand and unleashed a sword strike. A sharp sword energy instantly reached Mo Chenyu, who watched in horror, his body seemingly frozen in place, unable to move!
However, before the sword energy could obliterate him, specks of starlight suddenly appeared around him, and Mo Chenyu vanished into thin air?
This stunned the onlookers. No one understood how Mo Chenyu had escaped, not even the Dao Foundation cultivators from the Yuluo Immortal Palace and Linglong Immortal Palace looked surprised.
Only Ye Yun, who had sensed this aura before, instantly guessed the identity of the person who had intervened and looked coldly in a certain direction.
"Since that's the case, I'll sell his life to you. Our grievances will be settled."
No one knew who he was speaking to.
Ye Yun withdrew his gaze and had no intention of pursuing further. After all, by killing the Dao Foundation cultivators and a group of Half-step Dao Foundation and peak Life-and-Death realm experts from the Fulong Immortal Palace today, he had already forged an irreconcilable blood feud.
Whether he killed Mo Chenyu or not, the Fulong Immortal Palace would stop at nothing to kill him. And when he gained the strength, he would eventually attack the Fulong Immortal Palace. At this point, Mo Chenyu's life was of no consequence to him.
After this, his gaze fell on the forces of the Fulong Immortal Palace and Linglong Immortal Palace. Seeing their young palace lord perish, the cultivators of the two Immortal Palaces could no longer care about anything else and fled in all directions like madmen.
"Master, should we pursue them?"
The Snow Vermilion Bird asked Ye Yun, looking at the fleeing cultivators.
Ye Yun waved his hand. "There's no need. These over twenty thousand cultivators are mostly innocent. There's no need to kill them all."
After all, the two Immortal Palaces were different from the Black Demon Sect. Strictly speaking, they were both righteous sects, and most of their members were normal cultivators. Killing them indiscriminately in such a situation was not his style.
Of course, if they didn't leave their respective Immortal Palaces later, he wouldn't show any mercy when he attacked.
As the cultivators of the two Immortal Palaces fled in a rush, the cultivators of other forces and lone cultivators alike looked at Ye Yun as if he were a god.
"One person and one beast actually managed to force two great Immortal Palaces to retreat in disarray. Elder Ye has truly brought honor to the Eastern Region!"
"Indeed! From now on, I won't worship the ancient saints when I cultivate. I'll worship Elder Ye directly!"
"Haha, I feel like Ye Elder's actions will likely change the entire continent!"
"That makes sense. Elder Ye is truly fearless, having completely offended the Fulong Immortal Palace and Xuanming Immortal Palace. There will probably be another war soon!"
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