by Feng Yise
Lu Ziyi looked at Ye Yuan and said with a cold smile, "What? Gave up is it? Now, it's my turn!"
Ye Yuan looked at Lu Ziyi and said coolly, "No need! You won't have the chance to make your move. Your five elements are merely thus. Next, you can go and die already!"
Lu Ziyi had a proud look on her face as she said with a cold smile, "Foolish thing, still haven't figured out your own strength until now? I've already grasped your strength clearly. Eat a sword move from me!"
Finished talking, Lu Ziyi stabbed a sword move out. The five elements were continuously reproduced in an endless succession under her sword, the energy getting more and more terrifying.
Ye Yuan just looked at this scene calmly, he was storing up strength.
A feeling of the heart and mind being linked together came from the bone sword.
This bone sword was indeed exceptional. To the current Ye Yuan, it was all too suitable.
Except, the current Ye Yuan, the aura on his body was very feeble and was not as outrageous as Lu Ziyi's.
Suddenly, he abruptly snapped open his eyes. A sword stabbed out flatly.
"Sword Hollow Etch!"
Even though it was Sword Hollow Etch, this sword actually had some similarities with Empyrean Vast Universe's third sword.
It was just that Ye Yuan could not achieve fully retracting the sword momentum.
The more horrifying the sword move was, the harder to control it.
Ye Yuan's Sword Hollow Etch move, the power was too great.
Just like this, Ye Yuan's seemingly ordinary Sword Hollow Etch move whirled away toward the Five Elements Sword Art.
Chapter 2002 - Stirring up Big Trouble
Lu Ziyi's face was full of disdain.
The power of this sword move looked to be just that tiny bit stronger than before.
This was Ye Yuan's ace in the hole?
All talk no action; it seemed like this kid only had just this bit of strength.
In a blink of an eye, Sword Hollow Etch collided together with the Five Elements Sword Art.
Bang!
The houses around instantly turned to dust, as if they had never existed before.
Lu Ziyi's expression instantly turned from disdain to stupefaction.
A force that toppled mountains and overturned the seas came over from the sword light.
Lu Ziyi's complexion turned white as a sheet, frenziedly urging her divine essence and mobilizing heaven and earth spiritual energy. The five elements continuously regenerated in endless succession, attempting to stop this terrifying force.
It was just that everything was futile.
Lu Ziyi felt that Ye Yuan's power was like a tsunami, the sky rending asunder and the earth splitting open, without ceasing.
No matter how she utilized the five elements law, she was unable to withstand it too.
"Puhwark!"
Lu Ziyi spurted out a mouthful of fresh blood wildly, directly being struck flying out by this sword move, falling heavily to the ground.
The current Lu Ziyi had her clothes all disheveled, hair hanging down loosely. How was there still that demeanor of a fairy maiden?
She was still struggling to get up, but a sword already reached her throat.
Ye Yuan's sword move was too strong. Her internal organs already suffered extremely severe injuries.
"This is your reliance, your pride? Merely thus. Right now, you're even inferior to the lowly commoners you spoke of. So what qualifications do you have to look down on them?"
Ye Yuan looked at Lu Ziyi, his words full of mockery.
Just earlier, Lu Ziyi was still a fairy maiden high up in the clouds, using a proud gaze to look at the world indifferently.
But now, Ye Yuan was looking down on her.
All of her pride was crushed by Ye Yuan at this moment until it was shredded to pieces.
"What bullshit genius, nothing at all compared to Lord Ye Yuan!"
"Really too strong! Lord Ye Yuan is really too strong! A genius who comprehended the five elements law is actually not even his match."
"Hahaha, really refreshing! Doesn't she look down on us, these lowly commoners? What about herself now?"
… …
The martial artists in the city all started cheering frenziedly.
No one could have thought that Ye Yuan still had a perfect victory facing a powerful existence with five laws, particularly the five elements.
One had to know, Lu Ziyi was two minor realms higher than Ye Yuan!
True God Realm, two minor realms meant a disparity of several thousand years or even several tens of thousands of years.
Of course, this was just to geniuses.
To those ordinary martial artists, a minor realm might be several hundreds of thousands of years!
Lu Ziyi's expression was also extremely ugly. She never would have thought that she would actually lose to a Third Firmament True God, this bumpkin-like existence in her eyes.
This kind of blow virtually shattered all of her confidence.
At this time, a black-clothed armored soldier hurriedly spoke up, "Brat, there's Empyrean Lu Yan behind Miss Ziyi. If you dare to touch her, the entire city has to be buried in death with her!"
Hearing that, everyone shuddered with fear.
An Empyrean powerhouse, this was something that they had never thought about, and also an existence far beyond their reach!
Once an Empyrean was enraged, corpses would span ten thousand miles!
If they provoked an Empyrean powerhouse, how could a mere Heavenly Eagle Imperial City bear his wrath?
Lu Ziyi looked at Ye Yuan and said coldly, "My father is the Five Firmament Great Imperial Capital's city lord, Lu Yan. Even if you won against me, so what?"
Ye Yuan shook his head and could not help laughing as he said, "The person that I, Ye Yuan, want to kill, even if the Jade Emperor comes, he can't stop it too! So what … if Empyrean?"
But Lu Ziyi was indifferent, she felt that Ye Yuan was indulging in contention of mouth and tongue.
Empyrean powerhouse, that was a godlike existence, who would dare defy?
She looked at Ye Yuan and said calmly, "Ye Yuan, you're a talent! I admit that I'm inferior to you! But, if you dare to touch a hair of mine, you'll die without a burial ground! These lowly commoners will likewise be buried in death with you!"
When Ye Yuan heard that, his face was full of sneers.
This woman was also too conceited.
At this point, she still thought that he was pretending to be profound?
The moment Ye Yuan heard, he was amused.
"Huhu, at this point, do you still feel that you're lofty and above the masses?" Ye Yuan said with a cold laugh.
Lu Ziyi gave Ye Yuan a glance and said calmly, "Stop being pretentious here! Could it be that you really dare to kill me? My father is an Empyrean powerhouse. That isn't an existence you can afford to provoke. Being able to defeat me shows that you're indeed very strong and have no relations whatsoever with these powerless lowly plebeians. All in all, you don't dare to kill me, and even have to send me back properly."
When Ye Yuan heard, he laughed in spite of himself.
This woman was really hopeless.
He looked at Lu Ziyi and said with a cold smile, "Originally, I'm not a bloodthirsty person. But you never should have killed Jiang Ming. Maybe in your eyes, he's just an insignificant small character. But in my eyes, he's a young man who had affection and loyalty. If you don't die today, heaven will not tolerate it!"
Done talking, the tip of Ye Yuan's sword moved, stabbing right through Lu Ziyi's heart.
Until death, Lu Ziyi had a look of disbelief.
Was this guy … mad?
He … He actually really dared to kill her!
However, Lu Ziyi's pupils gradually dilated, the look in her eyes gradually started turning lax.
A proud heaven's chosen of her generation fell here!
Everyone looked at this scene in incredible shock, disbelief on their faces.
When that black-clothed armored soldier uttered the awe-inspiring name of the Empyrean, everyone was taken back.
It was just that none of them thought that Ye Yuan actually really dared to kill people.
And the reason was just a lowly commoner that they spoke of.
"You … You actually really kill Young Lady, are you crazy?" That True God Realm black-clothed armored soldier had a look of disbelief all over his face.
Could it be that this guy did not fear an Empyrean powerhouse?
He actually killed an Empyrean's daughter!
Ye Yuan looked at that black-clothed armored soldier and said coldly, "This Ye has a clear conscience when doing things! If I let her go, how will I give an account to the deceased Jiang Ming? Considering everything and everyone beneath their notice, then they have to bear the consequences of looking down on everyone and everything! Also, you all, none of you can think about leaving."
That black-clothed armored soldier's face changed, feeling like he ran into a lunatic.
Why was this guy so unreasonable?
Completely could not talk sense!
The more you spoke, the more he fought with you!
… …
When Ye Yuan saw Zuo Shujie and the rest, the rage in his heart grew even more.
Zuo Shujie few people already lost most of their life, only leaving behind one last breath.
If not for that Lu Ziyi wanted to bring them back to Five Firmament Great Imperial Capital, they would likely have already perished and their Dao dissipating at this time.
Of course, this was nothing to Ye Yuan, As long as there was a breath there, Ye Yuan could save them.
However, when they knew that the Five Firmament Great Imperial Capital's powerhouses were completely annihilated, their faces were still incomparably shocked.
This time, a big hole was poked in the basket!
Such exceptionally talented figures were bound to be Five Firmament Great Imperial Capital's important figures, so how could they drop the matter?
When Bai Tong saw Ye Yuan, he smiled and said, "You indeed didn't let me down."
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "I've made you suffered."
Bai Tong shook his head and said, "Doesn't matter to me. It's just that what do you plan to do next?"
Chapter 2003 - Lu Yan's Fury
Inside the City Lord Manor, the atmosphere did not ease up even after the deaths of the three great geniuses.
On the contrary, the atmosphere was rather suffocating.
"Your Excellency, this … Is our Heavenly Eagle Imperial City considered to have revolted?" City Lord Zuo Shujie asked somewhat fl.u.s.teredly.
Under Ye Yuan's miracle medicine, Zuo Shujie finally had his life saved.
As an imperial capital's city lord under Five Firmament Great Imperial Capital's command, he had awe and veneration in his heart toward the existence of great imperial capitals.
This kind of awe and veneration had been acc.u.mulating over a very long time. So how could it be wiped away easily?
Ye Yuan killed an Empyrean's daughter and slaughtered hundreds of black-clothed armored soldiers. Among them, there were even some True God Realm commanders.
This way of doing things was simply too insane.
What everyone was worried about now was the Empyrean's vengeance.
Empyreans were invincible existences in everyone's eyes.
Even if your True God Realm strength was monstrous, in front of an Empyrean powerhouse, it was still too weak to stand up to the competition.
Ye Yuan's strength was strong, powerful until he could kill Lu Ziyi who comprehended the laws of the five elements. But in front of an Empyrean powerhouse, he would still be too weak to take a single blow.
Ye Yuan laughed in spite of himself when he heard that and said, "Revolt? Since we've never obeyed before, what's there to revolt?"
He had never treated himself as anyone's citizen. Taking on this position of patrolling envoy was also merely in order to make it convenient to run Heavenly Eagle Imperial City.
With Ye Yuan's personality, he naturally would not leave his life at other people's mercy.
Even if the other party was an Empyrean powerhouse, they could forget about making Ye Yuan lower his head too.
"But, Big Brother, our Heavenly Eagle Imperial City doesn't have an Empyrean powerhouse to hold down the fort. If that Empyrean Lu Yan really comes knocking, how should we respond?" White Light also frowned and said.
This time, he felt tremendous pressure too.
"Yeah, all are ants beneath Empyrean. Your Excellency, your strength is extremely strong, but you haven't reached Empyrean in the end," Ning Tianping also said with a worried look.
"Master, aren't you Alchemy Celestial Pavilion's head elder? If you go and invite Empyrean powerhouses with this identity, they should give face, right?" Bai Chen suddenly said.
His words made everyone's eyes lit up all at once.
The identity of Alchemy Celestial Pavilion's head elder was extraordinary.
Even Empyrean powerhouses should give some face too.
After all, who would offend a super Alchemy God with a great future?
Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "You all are thinking too much. No matter how powerful the Alchemy Celestial Pavilion is, they are also merely just a bunch of Six-star Alchemy Gods. Empyrean powerhouses, which one isn't extremely proud? How could they possibly come and be my hired thug for this sort of thing?"
This would not do, that would not do as well, everyone really did not know what they should do.
The title of Empyrean was like an enormous haze, crushing until everyone could not breathe.
Everyone fell silent again.
This atmosphere was not just inside the City Lord Manor. It was also spreading in the entire imperial city.
Although the present Heavenly Eagle Imperial City's strength already could not be compared to the past.
Matching up against a great imperial capital, this level of a city, was undoubtedly an ant trying to shake a big tree.
But even so, only a very small portion of people chose to leave Heavenly Eagle Imperial City.
The vast majority of martial artists all chose to stay behind.
Ye Yuan cutting down three great geniuses in a rage, they understood that it was not for himself. It was for an unimportant person.
That nobody was called Jiang Ming.
After that day, everyone remembered this once insignificant name.
Because that was the personification of each and every one of them.
Wasn't each and every one of them the Jiang Ming among the numerous living things?
"I'm just an itinerant cultivator. These several tens of thousands of years, I've lived in more than a dozen cities before. But no city made me have such a sense of belonging."
"Lord Ye Yuan is different from ordinary controllers! In his eyes, every martial artist of Heavenly Eagle is his family."
"Isn't that so? The last time, Deathsoul Gate provoked him; Lord Ye Yuan would rather bind both hands himself than be willing to have one more person in the city get hurt! One has to know, with his strength, killing those people wasn't a hard thing. This time, he also killed people in a rage for that nobody Jiang Ming."
… …
Ye Yuan made the martial artists here in Heavenly Eagle had a great sense of belonging these few years.
He managed the Martial Tower and the Pill Tower, and opened them to all martial artists, and reduced the tax of the martial artists in the city. This series of things did not need to be said.
Especially during this recent incident, Ye Yuan's actions and conduct thoroughly conquered the martial artists in the city, making everyone submit wholeheartedly.
This made them feel like Heavenly Eagle Imperial City had a feeling of home.
In this indifferent world, there was a ruler who sincerely supported bottom-level martial artists. This was clearly an extremely rare thing.
Therefore, despite being c
learly aware that Ye Yuan's opponent this time was an Empyrean powerhouse, no one shrank back. Instead, they had an appearance like they were bound by a common hatred for the enemy.
… …
There were no walls without cracks in the world. The news of Ye Yuan killing the three great geniuses, Five Firmament Great Imperial Capital received the news very quickly.
At this time, the Deng Family's and Dai Family's two ancestors were currently in a furious rage at the City Lord Manor.
The Deng Family's ancestor Deng Yunzai roared furiously at Lu Yan, "Brother Lu Yan, this punk called Ye Yuan really ate a bear's heart or leopard's gall, to actually dare kill our family's Deng Wei! Not killing this fiend, it will be hard to dispel the hatred in my heart!"
By the side, the Dai Family's ancestor, Dai Chunhao, similarly had a look of thunderous rage as he said, "My Dai Family expended countless painstaking effort on Yang-er for him to be who he is today. I was even hoping for him to inherit my mantle. But I didn't expect that he died in this brat's hands. Not killing him, I, Dai Chunhao, swear that I'm less than human."
These two ancestors currently had extremely vigorous auras. A few sentences were practically about to bring down the roof. Their fury could be seen from just this.
Opposite them was a middle-aged man with a frosty expression.
This middle-aged man was precisely Lu Ziyi's father, the master of Five Firmament Great Imperial Capital, Lu Yan.
For these two family's ancestors to dare raise such a clamor in front of an Empyrean, they were clearly in the same generation as Lu Yan.
These two people were shockingly Empyrean powerhouses too.
Heavenly Eagle Imperial City's martial artists did not know Five Firmament Great Imperial Capital's actual situation.
If they knew that Ye Yuan offended three great Empyrean powerhouses in one go, no idea how despairing it would be for them.
Lu Ziyi's brows furrowed slightly. Snorting coldly, he said, "What's the fuss? Those two grandsons of yours have already been separated by no idea how many generations. Although their talents were pretty good, if really talking about it, it's also just like that. Whether or not they can break through to be an Empyrean is still another matter altogether. However, my Ziyi is a one-in-ten-thousand peerless genius. She already grasped the true essence of the five elements. Given time, her strength will definitely be above mine. You guys are furious, could it be that this Empyrean isn't as furious as you all?"