505: Chapter 505 The Heavenly Emperor (70)

"Who exactly are you!"

Golden Dragon scales emerged on the surface of the Canglong Great Emperor's body, and he entered a state of highest alert.

Ye Yun did not answer.

His gaze fell upon the blood-robed elder kneeling on one knee, covered in blood, below the battlefield.

The Ancient Ancestor of the Su Family.

The old man was leaning on a broken Imperial Armament, using his last breath to keep himself from collapsing.

Behind him, millions of clansmen were crowded within the ruins of the collapsed Sect, countless eyes filled with fear and despair.

Ye Yun withdrew his gaze and turned toward the Canglong Great Emperor and the Xuanshe Great Emperor.

"Retreat."

"Who do you think you are! How dare you interfere in the affairs of my Canglong Imperial Clan!"

In a fit of rage, he threw a punch, crushing straight toward Ye Yun.

The Xuanshe Great Emperor also attacked at the same time. A pitch-black snake shadow emerged from the Void Realm, silently circling toward Ye Yun's back.

The two Great Emperors launched a joint attack. Ye Yun stood in place, unmoving.

Boom!

The golden Qi and blood of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body exploded on the surface of his body. It was the pure power of the Major Achievement Desolate Ancient Sacred Body.

Two Emperor-level attacks landed simultaneously on that layer of golden Qi and blood light film. The attacks dissipated.

Both of their expressions changed simultaneously. Ye Yun finally moved. He raised his right hand. Spreading his five fingers, he gently gripped the Void Realm.

Two invisible forces instantly locked onto Canglong and Xuanshe. Both Great Emperors felt an irresistible suppression almost at the same time.

The entire scene fell silent. Tens of thousands of Disciples from the allied army watched, dumbfounded, as their two Ancient Ancestor-level Great Emperors were suppressed in the Void Realm.

Ye Yun walked up to the two Great Emperors.

"There is something on you."

The face of the Canglong Great Emperor twisted in humiliation, and he was about to roar. Ye Yun did not give him the chance to speak.

Heart Sword.

Invisible Sword Intent shot out from between Ye Yun's eyebrows. After hundreds of years of meditation while exiled in the nothingness, coupled with the verification of the sword marks in the Boundary Sea, Ye Yun's control over the Heart Sword had reached a whole new level.

He could achieve this without harming the Origin, cutting only the Impurities.

Two invisible sword threads simultaneously sank into the foreheads of the Canglong Great Emperor and the Xuanshe Great Emperor.

"Ah—!"

Two screams rang out at the same time. The bodies of the two Great Emperors trembled violently, and blood gushed from their seven orifices.

Deep within their Divine Soul, that trace of eerie aura, hidden for who knows how many years, was precisely stripped away by the Heart Sword.

Two wisps of ghostly green mist floated out from their foreheads, twisting and writhing in the air for a breath, and then, under the lingering power of the Heart Sword, silently turned into nothingness.

The stripping was complete. The two Great Emperors collapsed in the Void Realm, gasping for breath.

Their eyes had changed. The previous irritability, bloodlust, and unreasonable madness rapidly faded the moment the eerie power was stripped away. In its place was clarity. And deep fear.

The Canglong Great Emperor lowered his head, looking at his hands stained with Emperor blood. His hands were trembling. He remembered many things.

What had he done over these years? How many unnecessary wars had he incited? How many innocent Sects had he slaughtered? How many people had he killed?

Every one of those decisions had felt like a matter of course at the time. Now, looking back, he was shocked to realize that those decisions did not seem like ones he had made himself.

The situation of the Xuanshe Great Emperor was much the same. He knelt in the Void Realm, his face ashen, his eyes filled with lingering fear.

Ye Yun watched the two men's reactions, confirming that the eerie power had been completely cleared.

"Speak," he said. "Over these years, what has been abnormal?"

The two Great Emperors exchanged a glance. The Canglong Great Emperor gritted his teeth and spoke first, his voice hoarse.

"About two hundred years ago, an anomaly appeared within the ancestral land of my Canglong Imperial Clan."

"The remains of one of our ancestors, who had fallen for tens of thousands of years... moved."

Ye Yun's eyes narrowed.

"At that time, all the high-ranking members of the clan were shocked. We thought it was the ancestor manifesting, bestowing blessings." The Canglong Great Emperor's voice grew lower and lower.

"That remains radiated powerful Imperial Might, and could even engage in simple 'Divine Thought exchange' with us. It told us that it sensed a great catastrophe was approaching, so its lingering thought had awakened to guide the descendants."

"We believed it."

"Since then, some of the major decisions in the clan would refer to the 'guidance' of that remains." His voice paused for a moment. "Including... this war launched against the Su Family."

The Xuanshe Great Emperor also nodded.

"My Xuanshe Imperial Clan is the same. A hundred years ago, the remains of an ancestor in our ancestral land 'revived', and from then on, the clan's decisions were influenced."

Ye Yun was silent for two breaths. The forty-seven Fallen Great Emperors who besieged the Ye Family did not leave the Three Thousand Dao Provinces after the Ye Family was sealed. They broke into pieces and, by way of "resurrecting ancestors," infiltrated the ancestral lands of the various Imperial Clans. Using the Imperial Clans' awe and blind obedience toward their ancestors, they secretly manipulated the decision-making of the Imperial Clans. Inciting wars. Creating chaos. Consuming the combat power of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. And those Great Emperors of the Imperial Clans did not even know that they had been eroded.

"Lead the way."

"First, go to your Canglong Imperial Clan's ancestral land."

The Canglong Great Emperor did not hesitate at all; he stood up and turned to leave. He dared not disobey. Moreover, with that thing entrenched in his ancestral land, he now wished he could dig it out immediately and whip its corpse.

The Xuanshe Great Emperor also followed. Then the three figures turned into streams of light and disappeared into the horizon.

Canglong Imperial Clan ancestral land. The deepest part of the forbidden area.

An ancient stone coffin cast from Imperial Gold hung quietly in the Void Realm. The coffin lid was half open. A set of remains wearing the ancient Imperial robes of the Canglong Imperial Clan sat inside, eyes closed, face serene. If one did not look carefully, this would be just an ordinary ancestral remains. But Ye Yun's Heart Heavy Pupils saw the truth. Inside that remains, a thick mass of ghostly green aura was coiled.

Ye Yun walked to the front of the stone coffin. The eyes of the remains suddenly opened. Ghostly green flames lit up in the hollow eye sockets. A terrifying Emperor-level aura erupted with a roar.

"Junior! You are courting death!" An old and cold voice came from the mouth of the remains. It raised its withered arm, and the Emperor Dao Law turned into a black chain, rushing straight at Ye Yun.

The Canglong Great Emperor, seeing this scene from the side, turned deathly pale. The thing he had regarded as "ancestor's blessing" for all those years now exposed its true face before Ye Yun.

Ye Yun watched the chain fly over without even lifting an eyelid. Heart Sword. Invisible Sword Intent. A flash.

The Fallen Great Emperor's body froze. It "looked" at Ye Yun. The ghostly green flames flickered violently. Fear. It felt the fear coming from that invisible Sword Intent, carved into its Origin.

"No—!" The Fallen Great Emperor let out a sharp shriek, trying to break free from the remains, but it was too late to even escape. Ye Yun did not give it any chance. Heart Sword, second strike.

The Sword Intent was formless and intangible, piercing through all defenses of the remains and sinking directly into the core of that ghostly green aura. The Fallen Great Emperor's Divine Soul shattered inch by inch under the Heart Sword. The ghostly green flames extinguished. The remains fell back into the stone coffin. This time, it was true rest.

The Canglong Great Emperor stood to the side, his legs weak, his forehead covered in cold sweat. He had watched with his own eyes as that "ancestral remains" exposed the true face of a fallen creature, and watched with his own eyes as it failed to last even a single round before Ye Yun.

"Let's go." Ye Yun turned around. "Next one."

Xuanshe Imperial Clan ancestral land. The process was almost exactly the same. The difference was that the Fallen Great Emperor here was hidden deeper. It was not entrenched in the remains, but had turned into a ghostly green thread invisible to the naked eye, coiled around a piece of Legacy Imperial Armament at the core of the ancestral land.

Ye Yun's Heavenly Eye, combined with his Heart Heavy Pupils, locked onto its position the first breath after entering the ancestral land. The Fallen Great Emperor chose to take the initiative the moment it was discovered, erupting from the Imperial Armament, turning into a twisted, ghostly green figure, unleashing all its Imperial Might, and rushing straight at Ye Yun.

When that ghostly green figure rushed to within three zhang of Ye Yun, its body exploded. Its Divine Soul was torn apart from the inside by the Heart Sword, and the Emperor-level power scattered like a flood, easily blocked by Ye Yun's Desolate Ancient Sacred Body Qi and blood barrier. Another Fallen Great Emperor, fallen.

Two Imperial Clan ancestral lands, two Fallen Great Emperors. It took no more than half a day in total. Ye Yun stood in the sky above the Xuanshe Imperial Clan's ancestral land, standing with his hands behind his back. The Canglong Great Emperor and the Xuanshe Great Emperor knelt behind him, their expressions complex. There was lingering fear. There was gratitude. More than that, there was a kind of indescribable submission.

Ye Yun turned around and looked at the two. "I spared your lives today, not because you are worthy." His voice was very calm. "It is to let you see clearly who the true enemy of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces is." The two Great Emperors lowered their heads. "Behave yourselves." Ye Yun said no more. His figure turned into a golden stream of light and disappeared into the horizon.

Ye Yun stood on a desolate, small star, looking into the distance toward the heart of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. The wind blew from the starry sky, fluttering his white robe. He knew that today was just the beginning. There were still an unknown number of fallen creatures hidden within the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. And behind them, the Abyss Lord who controlled everything was still hiding in some corner he could not see. Ye Yun withdrew his gaze, turned, and stepped into the Void Realm. He still had a long road to walk.