"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go take a look!" Ye Qingcheng exclaimed excitedly.
"We are heading to that location now," Ye Bufan replied.
Under Ye Qingcheng's constant urging, the five of them were rapidly heading towards the location Ye Bufan had mentioned. If Ye Bufan's guess was correct, there should be connecting entrances between each peak of the Taiyi Divine Sect. However, during the Taiyi Divine Sect's era, there were many experts at the Mahayana stage, and even those at the Tribulation stage, who could break through space and travel freely.
These passages were likely meant for disciples of lower cultivation.
The location on the map was not far from here. The current peak was about the size of a large university. With the strength of Ye Bufan and the others, they would reach it very quickly.
"Baga? Who are you?"
As the five arrived at the point on the map, they heard the voices of people from Sakura Island.
Ye Bufan scanned with his spiritual sense and discovered that the group from Sakura Island he had previously scared away had encountered Cheng Jin, and both sides were in a stalemate.
"Cheng Jin of the Cheng family, from the Nine Continents?" Cheng Jin said calmly. "I've heard that your Sakura Island is a mere speck of land, yet you've been constantly making small moves against my Nine Continents. You even used the Eight-Headed Serpent to kill many cultivators from my Nine Continents and refine their bodies into living puppets. Is this true?"
Although Cheng Jin's tone was calm, it carried a palpable pressure. The lower-cultivation disciples of Sakura Island present could all feel Cheng Jin's imposing aura.
"This killing intent… it can't be cultivated without hundreds, even thousands, of battles," Ye Qingyi commented.
The leader of the Sakura Island group squinted at Cheng Jin. The latter did not appear flustered and instead said, "My lord, you are alone, while we are many. Are you sure you want to oppose us?"
Cheng Jin narrowed his eyes, and the man felt a surge of killing intent from Cheng Jin, focusing directly on him.
"Your cultivation is only at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage, while I am at the late Foundation Establishment stage. Below me, there are also those at the middle and early Foundation Establishment stages." The man withstood Cheng Jin's killing intent, cold sweat beading on his forehead.
"Hmph! A speck of land, what does it matter if you have many people? Fight!"
Cheng Jin's shout of "Fight!" erupted, instantly causing some of the lower-cultivation disciples of Sakura Island to cough up blood from the shockwave.
"You dare?" The man leaped up, a trident suddenly appearing in his hand, and he lunged towards Cheng Jin's vital point.
Cheng Jin's eyes narrowed. The great saber behind him flew out, blocking the attack. At this moment, several higher-cultivation individuals from Sakura Island behind the leader also leaped up, intending to surround and attack Cheng Jin.
"Two Green Snakes?"
Two illusions of green snakes descended from the sky. Intense sword energy struck the leaping figures, instantly sending them crashing to the ground, creating deep pits.
"Who's there?" those knocked-down Sakura Island cultivators cursed in dissatisfaction.
"Kid, you've got some skills." Cheng Jin immediately recognized Ye Bufan's handiwork. "Since you're here, don't hide in the shadows. Let's annihilate these Sakura Island cultivators together. It would be doing our Nine Continents a good deed."
"I wasn't hiding in the shadows," Ye Bufan's voice echoed.
Cheng Jin looked up, following the sound, and saw Ye Bufan hovering in mid-air above him.
"Not bad, I didn't even realize you were above me," Cheng Jin praised Ye Bufan. "I'd heard about you before and initially thought you were just being exaggeratedly praised. Now, I see I misjudged you."
"Baga, you are my opponent!" The Sakura Island leader, enraged that Cheng Jin was chatting with Ye Bufan and clearly not taking him seriously, roared.
"Buzz—"
His trident emitted a humming sound. Seeing this, Cheng Jin slapped the blade of his great saber with one hand. The blade's energy vibrated and clashed with the trident.
The Sakura Island leader was sent flying back several meters, his hand gripping the still-vibrating trident.
"Die!"
"Three Jiao Transform into Halberd!" The man's trident drew an arc in the sky, and three illusions of Jiao dragons surged forth from the trident.
"Whether you're a Jiao or a snake, I'll beat you into a worm!"
Cheng Jin roared. His great saber appeared from nowhere and descended from the sky, cleaving the three Jiao dragons in half.
"Pfft—"
Suffering a backlash of true energy, the man vomited a mouthful of blood. He once again swung his trident, and Cheng Jin moved in response.
The man charged upwards, and Cheng Jin pursued him. The next second, the man vanished, and Cheng Jin followed suit.
"He's using the wrong move," Ye Bufan remarked.
The first time Ye Bufan saw Cheng Jin, he was amazed by his explosiveness and speed. For the person from Sakura Island to try to match Cheng Jin with speed was simply wishful thinking.
As Ye Bufan's words fell, a loud explosion sounded in the sky. The Sakura Island man plummeted rapidly from the sky, landing near Ye Bufan and the others, on the verge of death.
Cheng Jin's great saber descended from the sky, finally lodging itself into the man's body. The man looked at Cheng Jin with eyes full of hatred.
"In the name of Amaterasu, I curse you to die a horrible death and fall into the eighteenth level of hell forever." With these words, the man breathed his last.
Cheng Jin slowly descended from the sky and stopped before the corpse, gazing at it for a moment.
"He just cursed you, saying you'd fall into the eighteenth level of hell forever," Ye Qingcheng said.
Cheng Jin smiled slightly and replied, "A cultivator still believes in such nonsense? If your strength isn't enough, it isn't enough. Those who resort to curses are just weaklings who only know how to whimper from the shadows."
After speaking, Cheng Jin glanced at the group of Sakura Island people behind him and saw that a sea of corpses had already been formed.
"I've long heard that the experts of the Underground City are not only mysterious but also incredibly powerful. Hearing about them is one thing, but seeing them is another." Cheng Jin's gaze swept over Xun'er and Ling'er, and finally settled on Ye Qingyi.
"Besides the Green Bamboo Tavern, I think we've met before," Cheng Jin said after thinking for a while.
"Uncle, what era are we in? That's not how you hit on someone," Ye Qingcheng said, stepping in front of Cheng Jin and Ye Qingyi.
"I am not interested in matters of love and romance," Cheng Jin stated. "The aura on you and your sister… I do seem to recall encountering it somewhere before, but it was so long ago that I can't quite remember."
"A cultivator's life is long. Perhaps we met once when you were younger," Ye Qingyi replied.
"No," Cheng Jin shook his head and fell into deep thought again.