"A mere trifle."
Ye Ling looked at the black tentacles binding him, his eyes narrowing slightly. He gathered a golden light blade in one hand, severing all the tentacles.
Several more tentacles flew out from the black hole, but before they could get close to Ye Ling, they were turned to dust by his aura.
Ye Ling looked at the dark black hole ahead and asked with a smile, "Who exactly are you? Can you use some decent methods?"
The previous tentacles hadn't even been able to harm Ye Ling; any Supreme Being could have easily shattered them.
Ye Ling hadn't encountered such weak attacks in a long time.
However, the person inside the black hole seemed surprised that Ye Ling could block his attack. Dozens more tentacles rushed out of the black hole, whistling towards Ye Ling.
"Still don't believe it?"
Ye Ling looked at the black tentacles attacking him, a hint of amusement flashing in his eyes. He raised one hand slightly!
Without any energy fluctuation, those black tentacles turned to dust.
Not only the black tentacles, but the surface of the huge black hole also developed numerous cracks, slowly splitting open along with space.
"What, what is going on?" The "Earthly Heavenly Dao" inside exclaimed in surprise as the black hole began to crack, its voice laced with fear. "Why can you break the black hole?"
Upon hearing the "Earthly Heavenly Dao's" exclamation, the World-Destroying Spirit Fire also asked in confusion, "What's going on? Does that guy inside not know how strong you are?"
After Ye Ling gathered the power of the entire universe to forge a new path of cultivation, the name "Di Zu" was deeply etched into the minds of every cultivator.
Coupled with the different time flows in various parts of the Inner Universe, during the more than ten days Ye Ling was unconscious on Earth, thousands of years, and even hundreds of thousands of years, had passed in other civilizations!
Many civilizations even revered Ye Ling as their progenitor, and Earth had become the "Di Zu Star" that major civilizations yearned to visit.
If it weren't for the pressure emanating from Yue Qingning and Xuan Yu spreading to the vicinity of the solar system, creating an extremely strong spiritual pressure barrier around it, preventing powerhouses from other civilizations from entering the solar system, Earth would have long been swamped by pilgrims from various civilizations.
Logically speaking, Di Zu's fame should have already spread throughout the Inner Universe. Anyone who wanted to attack Ye Ling should, at the very least, have investigated beforehand and gauged their own strength. Yet, the person in the black hole seemed to know nothing...
Of course, someone who had been sealed might not have experienced the previous purification. But the person inside the black hole knew Ye Ling, which was truly inexplicable.
Ye Ling couldn't figure it out either, but he didn't care much. He spread his hands and said, "Who knows? The universe is so vast, there are always some people who don't have eyes. It's unavoidable to encounter a few fools."
As Ye Ling was complaining, the black hole shattered in response, and a figure shrouded in black mist, hiding inside the black hole, appeared in Ye Ling's sight.
"Ye Ling, you, you..."
The person shrouded in black mist hadn't recovered from the fact that Ye Ling had destroyed the black hole. He stared intently at Ye Ling, his voice full of disbelief, as if he hadn't expected Ye Ling to be so strong!
Ye Ling beckoned to the shadow and said with a smile, "Let me see who exactly you are?"
As soon as Ye Ling finished speaking, the person shrouded in black mist felt an unimaginable suction pulling at his body!
Before he could resist, he was sucked into Ye Ling's hand, and the black mist swirling around him was dispersed.
A cute girl with the cultivation of only a Saint appeared.
"Let, let go of me!" The girl's voice changed. She struggled in Ye Ling's hand, her eyes filled with fear mixed with endless hatred.
Seeing the cute girl with such a hateful expression, the World-Destroying Spirit Fire asked Ye Ling, "Do you know this girl?"
Ye Ling was also stunned, "I don't."
World-Destroying Spirit Fire: "Then why is this girl looking at you as if you killed her entire family?"
"How should I know?"
Ye Ling was also quite speechless at this moment. He released the girl's neck, only restricting her movements with his spiritual power.
Previously, Ye Ling had thought the person in the black hole was an assassin sent by the Outer Realm Residual Evil Race. But now, it seemed that the girl in the black hole posed no threat to him at all; he had been making a mountain out of a molehill.
A Saint at this time, even if brought to Earth, would only be considered upper-middle class in terms of strength, easily crushed by many powerful figures.
With such cultivation, this girl attacking Ye Ling made Ye Ling unsure whether she was courageous or foolish.
The girl continued to struggle, glaring at Ye Ling and saying, "Let me go! You heinous devil!"
"Devil?" Ye Ling raised an eyebrow, "Why do you say that?"
Although Ye Ling didn't consider himself a perfect good person, everything he was doing now was beneficial to the entire Inner Universe. He couldn't understand why he was being called a heinous devil.
The girl continued, "Don't play dumb here. Don't you know what your Demon Palace has done?"
Hearing the girl's words, Ye Ling became even more curious, "I'd really like to know what heinous deeds my Demon Palace has committed?"
Currently, the Demon Palace on Earth was managed by his divine weapons and Ye You. Even though the world had undergone great changes, the Demon Palace still adhered to its established principles, maintaining stability in various regions and strictly prohibiting the strong from bullying the weak.
If anyone in the Demon Palace had committed heinous acts behind his back, he would purge them himself, even without external intervention.
"Still not admitting it?" The girl glared at Ye Ling, "I am from Baiyu Prefecture in the Dongxuan Continent. My family lived a life of peace, undisturbed by the world. But your Demon Palace, in order to expand its territory, razed Baiyu Prefecture to the ground, causing widespread devastation. Only I, of my family, survived!"
"Of the thirteen prefectures of the Dongxuan Continent, as many as nine have been destroyed by your Emperor Lord Ye Ling!"
"Ye Ling, no matter how innocent you appear now, it cannot hide your dirty heart!"
Hearing the girl's words, the World-Destroying Spirit Fire tutted and sighed, "Kid, I didn't expect you to have this side to you. Should I lend you my name?"
Ye Ling frowned and said to the World-Destroying Spirit Fire, "Don't shift the blame to me. I returned to Earth from the Dongxuan Continent over a year ago. According to the time flow of the Dongxuan Continent, over ten thousand years have passed there. Even though I issued a decree prohibiting indiscriminate killing before I left, it couldn't stop the changes in people's hearts."
"The Demon Palace of the Dongxuan Continent might no longer be the Demon Palace of the past."
World-Destroying Spirit Fire said, "Regardless, it's still a force you created. As the founder, shouldn't you manage your subordinates' rampant behavior?"
Ye Ling said, "If that's the case, I will naturally manage it. However, I entrusted the Demon Palace to my trusted confidant before I left. I believe in his character, and ten thousand years shouldn't have caused his temperament to change so drastically. There might be some misunderstanding here."
After speaking with the World-Destroying Spirit Fire, Ye Ling asked the girl again, "Are you sure it was the Demon Palace that did those things?"
The girl glared at Ye Ling, "It's common knowledge that the Demon Palace has brought chaos to the world. What more excuses do you have? Even if I die at your hands today, I will turn into a vengeful spirit and curse you for all eternity!"
"Not just me, but the countless beings who died in the Dongxuan Continent because of the Demon Palace will forever curse you!"
"Ye Ling, you and your Demon Palace will face retribution one day!"
Hearing the girl's continuous curses, Ye Ling sighed slightly, released her, and said, "You can go. I will find out the truth myself."
The girl snorted coldly, "Hmph! Don't pretend to be kind. Even if you let me go, I won't be grateful. One day, I will take your head!"
With that, the girl, realizing she was no match for Ye Ling at the moment, turned and fled into the deep void.
Watching the girl's retreating back, the World-Destroying Spirit Fire asked Ye Ling, "You just let her go?"
Ye Ling said helplessly, "What else can I do? No matter how you put it, that girl is also a victim, and her hatred for me is real. I'm even worried now that the Dongxuan Demon Palace has truly degenerated as she said."
World-Destroying Spirit Fire said, "Since you care so much, why not go back to the Dongxuan Continent and take a look? With your current strength, dealing with the Dongxuan Demon Palace matter would only take as long as a meal. If you go now, you can still be back in Jiangcheng for dinner."
Ye Ling, however, said, "The matter of the Dongxuan Demon Palace needs to be investigated, but before that, I still need to save the Earthly Heavenly Dao."
Despite these interruptions, Ye Ling hadn't forgotten his purpose for coming here.
No matter what, the Dongxuan Continent was not going anywhere; it would be the same to go a little later.
World-Destroying Spirit Fire said, "You want to save the Heavenly Dao, but this place is empty except for that girl. Where will you find the Earthly Heavenly Dao?"
Ye Ling said, "Don't forget, the reason we came here is that the Earthly Heavenly Dao gave us this coordinate. Our encounter with that girl from the Dongxuan Continent was not a coincidence; someone is setting a trap for us."
World-Destroying Spirit Fire asked, "If that's the case, how will you expose the person who set the trap?"
"With this." Ye Ling spread his palm, and a faint wisp of spiritual power appeared. "When the Heavenly Dao gave me the coordinates earlier, I was careful and recorded the spiritual power that transmitted the information to me."
"Through this spiritual power, I can cover the entire universe with my divine soul and should be able to find that person."
World-Destroying Spirit Fire exclaimed, "Good kid, why are you so cunning? You even intercept and preserve the spiritual power used for communication?"
Ye Ling said, "It's just a routine precaution. Besides, the Earthly Heavenly Dao transmitting information to me was too strange, so I subconsciously kept a backup."
"Forget it, let's stop wasting time and get down to business... After saving the Heavenly Dao, I'll go back to the Dongxuan Continent."
Ye Ling was still concerned about what the girl had said and wanted to save the Heavenly Dao as soon as possible. He immediately used his soul power to cover the entire Inner Universe, searching for that special spiritual power.
The moment Ye Ling spread his divine soul, an endless stream of information flooded into his mind.
Ye Ling was now at the Di Zu realm, and his soul had been strengthened unprecedentedly. Even with the infinite amount of junk information present throughout the universe, with Ye Ling's current soul strength, he could sort and categorize all the information in milliseconds and extract the information he wanted.
Soon, Ye Ling found the location of that special spiritual power.
However, to Ye Ling's surprise... the location of that spiritual power was actually on Earth, in the Immortal Realm, at the Lingxiao Palace of the Heavenly Court!
Having found the exact location, Ye Ling's eyes snapped open, and he murmured, "You son of a gun... playing the 'hiding in plain sight' trick on me, are you?"