537: Chapter 537 Is Ye Chen at the Golden Core Stage?

Watching this scene unfold,

everyone was dumbfounded.

In their expectations...

Elder Wei A-Guer should have been hiding in some secluded corner, shivering as he waited for them to rescue him.

Or perhaps being pursued by members of the Dragon Group, fleeing in a pathetic state.

But the scene before them...

Elder Wei A-Guer was actually standing beside a young man with a submissive and obedient posture, like a lowly servant.

That stance!

That expression!

He was the spitting image of an old servant who had met his master.

And that young man was even more unbelievable.

He was that Ye Chen, currently sitting nonchalantly on a stone chair.

Standing in the middle of the group, Chejier was the first to snap back to his senses.

His face suddenly darkened. "Wei A-Guer, what is the meaning of this?"

No matter how foolish he was, he could see it now...

This old fellow had most likely defected!

Elder Wei A-Guer: "..."

What could he say?

Say that he had been slapped into submission by Ye Chen?

Say that he had sold out the entire Holy Sect just to stay alive?

Say that the phone call last night was a performance forced upon him by Ye Chen from start to finish?

If he said these things, not only would Andre not let him off, but he himself would find it humiliating.

Fortunately...

Ye Chen looked up and spoke indifferently.

"So many people have come?"

"Nine people... has the core leadership of the Holy Sect come out in full force?"

A cold light flickered in Andre's eyes. "You are Ye Chen?"

Ye Chen nodded.

"That's right, I am Ye Chen."

"Chief Instructor of the Hidden Dragon Pavilion of the Dragon Group, Ye Chen."

Andre's expression instantly sank to rock bottom.

He had heard this name—he had heard it far too many times.

When the Nordic Saint Hall was destroyed, his name was there.

When the Second Master of the Manluodi Family was killed, his name was there.

When the Holy Sect's largest stronghold in the secular world was uprooted, his name was there as well.

If it weren't for this...

they wouldn't have actively sought trouble.

But they never expected...

this fellow would not only be younger than imagined, but even more arrogant!

Andre took a deep breath and spoke coldly.

"Ye Chen, I have come today for only one thing."

"The Hall of Saints—did you destroy it?"

Ye Chen raised an eyebrow. "That's right. The three Tianyi Realm experts you sent were all killed by me."

Everyone's expressions changed drastically.

Ye Chen continued, "Although I didn't personally blow up the temple, it was the result of me coercing that Grand Speaker."

Everyone was shocked.

Ye Chen seemed to remember something and added another sentence.

"Oh, by the way, don't you think he was stupid? I told him if he pressed the missile button, I'd let him go, and he actually believed me."

"Are all your Holy Sect's external agents this brainless?"

Everyone was enraged!

Andre's face darkened.

But he didn't speak.

Instead, the Vice Cult Leader, Igor, frowned and shouted sternly, "Presumptuous!"

Ye Chen glanced at him as if looking at an idiot.

"Presumptuous?"

"Bullshit!"

"Your Holy Sect was the party that started causing trouble from the very beginning."

"And now you call me presumptuous?"

"Believe it or not, you will all be dead men very soon."

Good heavens!

One person directly threatening the nine of them, saying they would soon be dead?

Wild!

He was too damn arrogant!

They had never seen such an arrogant brat!

"You're looking for death!!!"

Igor's face turned ashen, and his aura suddenly surged. His gray robes billowed without any wind, snapping loudly.

He stomped his foot, about to strike.

However, Andre reached out and stopped him.

"Igor."

Igor's footsteps halted. He turned to look at Andre, his eyes full of resentment.

"Cult Leader, this kid..."

"No rush."

Andre spoke calmly.

"Let's hear what he has to say first."

He turned his head, his gaze falling back on Ye Chen.

"Ye Chen, I admit that in the matter of the Hall of Saints, we were indeed the ones who made the first move."

"But you must understand..."

"The matter now involves the Gates Family!"

"They will not let this drop!"

Hearing this, Ye Chen shrugged. "Whether they drop it or not has nothing to do with you. You just need to remember my purpose for tricking you all into coming here today."

Andre and the others were all stunned.

Tricked them into coming?

What did that mean?

Looking at their bewildered expressions, Ye Chen couldn't help but laugh.

"I tricked you into coming here just for your five insects."

"Give me the insects, and I might just spare your lives."

"If you don't..."

"Then I'll just have to kill you and take them myself."

Andre's pupils constricted suddenly.

Insects?

Five insects?

Life-Eroding Insects!

This bastard was actually after the Life-Eroding Insects!

Wait...

How did he know about the Life-Eroding Insects?

Andre whipped his head around, his gaze shooting toward Elder Wei A-Guer like a blade, his voice full of fury.

"Wei A-Guer!"

"You really betrayed us! You even spoke of such secrets?"

The other elders also reacted, their faces turning ashen and killing intent appearing in their eyes.

"Wei A-Guer! You traitor!"

"The Holy Sect treated you well, and yet you bite the hand that feeds you?"

"That's right! To think you are the Fourth Elder of the Holy Sect—you deserve to die!"

...

Wei A-Guer's face flushed between blue and white under the verbal assault.

Waiting for the shouting to subside, he explained helplessly.

"I... I want to live too!"

"You haven't faced him; you don't know how terrifying he is..."

"Shut up!" Andre interrupted him sternly. "Vile creature! Today we will kill Ye Chen first, then we will kill you!"

Standing to the side, Chejier's face was also terrifyingly dark. "Wei A-Guer, you said not long ago that he was very powerful. You were probably lying to us then as well, weren't you?"

Elder Wei A-Guer chuckled bitterly.

"That part is true. He really is very powerful..."

"Hmph!"

Chejier sneered, not believing him at all.

"Trying to trick us again?"

"The same thing won't happen twice!"

"I'll go meet that kid and see just how powerful he is!"

Before his voice had even faded,

he stomped his foot and shot toward Ye Chen like a bolt of gray lightning!

The power of the peak of the Tianyi Realm exploded instantly!

The stone slabs on the ground were crushed, and debris flew everywhere!

He thrust out his right palm, which was enveloped in a layer of deep blue true qi, carrying a momentum that could destroy anything in its path as it struck directly toward Ye Chen's face!

The surrounding people all sneered.

Chejier was one of the six Great Elders!

He held a wind-attribute Life-Eroding Insect, and his ability was extremely powerful!

They didn't believe...

that Ye Chen could take this palm strike.

They now felt that every word out of Wei A-Guer's mouth was a lie!

However,

just as Chejier's palm was barely a foot away from Ye Chen's face...

Ye Chen moved.

But...

he didn't stand up. He just casually reached to the side and pulled a short blade from Wei A-Guer's waist.

Then,

he raised his hand

and stabbed.

*Puchi—*

The short blade plunged into Chejier's stomach, the tip piercing through his back and bringing with it a spray of blood.

Chejier's body stiffened abruptly, his forward momentum coming to a screeching halt.

He looked down at the short blade embedded in his chest, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"You..."

He opened his mouth to say something, but a surge of metallic sweetness rose in his throat, and he could only squeeze out a single word.

Ye Chen twisted the blade and said indifferently, "See? He told you I was very powerful, but you just wouldn't believe him."

A devil!

He's a fucking devil!

I've already been stabbed, and he's actually twisting the blade!

Chejier felt his internal organs being instantly shredded. He had no strength left to resist...

In the next second,

his pupils began to dilate, his body swayed, and he crashed to the ground.

Dust flew up.

The entire field was dead silent.

Everyone's faces changed completely.

Chejier, who was at the peak of the Tianyi Realm!

One of the top three experts of the Holy Sect!

Before Ye Chen, he hadn't even lasted a single move.

No.

One couldn't even call it a move.

Because Ye Chen had just casually drawn a blade and casually stabbed him, without even standing up.

It was like...

killing a chicken.

Ye Chen ignored them and tilted his chin toward Wei A-Guer. "You, search him for the insect."

Elder Wei A-Guer: "..."

Damn it!

He was being made to do all the dirty work!

Wouldn't this completely offend the Holy Sect?

But did he have a choice?

No!

Then he would just have to do as he was told!

Immediately,

he braced himself and walked forward, squatting beside Chejier's corpse to search the body.

The scene was as bizarre as it could be.

An elder of the Holy Sect, squatting beside another elder's corpse, rummaging through things...

The most absurd part was,

although the faces of Andre and the others were ashen and their eyes blazed with fury, not a single one of them dared to move.

It wasn't that they didn't want to move; they didn't dare.

Chejier's death was like a bucket of ice water, chilling their fury to the core.

A single encounter!

One move!

And Chejier was dead!

They hadn't even had time to react!

Soon,

Wei A-Guer rummaged in Chejier's robes for a while and finally found a small bottle.

He carefully cupped the bottle in both hands and presented it to Ye Chen.

"Mr... Mr. Ye, I found it."

Ye Chen took the bottle and held it up to his eyes to inspect it.

The bottle was transparent, containing a black liquid as thick as ink that gave off a faint metallic, sweet scent.

A tiny insect could be seen wriggling within, its body jet-black and almost blending in with the liquid.

A Life-Eroding Insect.

A wind-attribute Life-Eroding Insect.

The corners of Ye Chen's mouth curled up slightly as he tucked the bottle into his robes.

"Very good."

He clapped his hands and stood up from the stone chair, his gaze sweeping over the remaining eight people opposite him.

"The rest of you—are you going to hand them over yourselves, or do I have to do it?"

Andre and the others were suddenly jolted awake.

The faces of several elders turned pale then flushed; someone instinctively touched the place at their waist where their Life-Eroding Insect was hidden.

Hand them over?

These were treasures cultivated by the Holy Sect through decades of effort, infused with countless resources and the essence blood of tens of thousands of living people.

Don't hand them over?

Chejier's corpse was still lying on the ground...

They knew very well that someone who could insta-kill Chejier was definitely not at the same level.

The only possibility was that Ye Chen had already stepped into the Golden Core Stage!