Chapter 220: Awakening

Inside the newly expanded mysterious shopping mall.

Ye Qingxuan, seated high atop the Merchant Profound Pavilion, was the first to detect the disturbance within the mountain range.

Watching the giant net shrouding most of the mountain range, Ye Qingxuan's face, which had been smiling due to the successful expansion of the mysterious shopping mall, suddenly changed:

"Not good, the family head and the others are still within the mountain range."

Without hesitation, Ye Qingxuan waved his hand and threw out three fifth-grade supreme puppets.

He ordered these three fifth-grade supreme puppets, carrying six sixth-grade supreme talismans and one hundred fifth-grade nuclear explosion elixirs, to flee toward the mountain range.

At the edge of the mountain range.

Since more and more human cultivators fleeing from the edge area were gathering here.

To prevent accidents.

After Mo Xu detected the situation on this side, he personally led over thirty Nascent Soul realm Green Demon Clan members and over a hundred Golden Core realm Green Demon Clan members to arrive here.

Seeing nearly five hundred human cultivators in this area, Mo Xu's eyes lit up, and he sneered with pride:

Seeing this, the only late-stage Nascent Soul realm old man among this group of human cultivators stood in mid-air and shouted loudly:

"Fellow Daoists, since there is nowhere left to flee, then let us fight!"

Encouraged by the old man, all the cultivators in the field immediately put aside their fear, their faces filled with ruthlessness, and charged at the Green Demon Clan.

Mo Xu, who had just been smiling, suddenly had cold eyes and coldly spat out the word "Kill."

They had chosen to descend to the lower realm to exterminate demons, so they had already made this resolve.

"Boom!"

Among the nearly five hundred people, there were only fourteen Nascent Soul realm experts, while there were over two hundred Golden Core realm human cultivators.

After speaking, Ye Yuhong threw Ye Qingshuang, who had fallen into madness, and the two heavily injured Golden Core realm elders behind him.

However, under the absolute strength of the Nascent Soul realm, Mo Xu did not believe these Golden Core realm human cultivators could pose much of a threat to them.

"Hehehe, human cultivators, this time I wonder where you will run to?"

With a ruthless spirit in their hearts, the human cultivators began to fight the Green Demon Clan recklessly.

Some ruthless individuals, while heavily injured, rushed directly to the front of the Green Demon Clan and self-detonated.

After speaking, the old man waved his hand, summoned a crimson long blade, and fled toward Mo Xu, who was at the forefront.

Like looking at sheep destined for slaughter, he was the first to charge at the human cultivators.

Before dying, they had to take a few members of the Green Demon Clan with them.

The battle situation was exceptionally fierce.

"Kill!"

Although nearly five hundred human cultivators had fled here, most were humans training in the edge area of the mountain range, and their cultivation bases were not high.

"Kill."

Since there was no retreat left, they would fear no battle.

"Qingshuang, now you can only rely on yourself. Protect yourself well."

"Fight!"

With determination in his eyes, he raised the long sword in his hand and charged at a mid-stage Nascent Soul realm member of the Green Demon Clan.

"Old man, you, a Nascent Soul realm early-stage cultivator, dare to seek me out?"

That mid-stage Nascent Soul realm member of the Green Demon Clan, seeing Ye Yuhong offering himself up, could not help but sneer coldly.

Facing the enemy's mockery, Ye Yuhong did not reply.

In this current situation, he had no other choice.

"Green Leaf Sword Art."

Ye Yuhong silently chanted in his heart, and as the cultivation method and sword technique were cast together.

High in the sky, green leaves began to float within a hundred li surrounding Ye Yuhong.

At the edges of the green leaves, sharpness suddenly appeared, occasionally triggering faint sword lights.

The Green Leaf Sword Art is both a sword technique and a cultivation method.

It is the only fifth-grade inheritance of the Ye family that can be cultivated up to the Nascent Soul realm.

Watching the sword art cast by Ye Yuhong, that mid-stage Nascent Soul realm member of the Green Demon Clan did not cast any spells, but only circulated all the energy in his body for a full-force strike.

"Bang!"

Ye Yuhong instantly retreated several steps in the air, and most of the surrounding green leaves instantly dissipated.

"Is that all?"

Seeing that the sword art cast by Ye Yuhong had only such power, that mid-stage Nascent Soul realm member of the Green Demon Clan stopped probing and began to charge at Ye Yuhong.

Watching the approaching strong enemy, Ye Yuhong did not pause and continued to cast the Green Leaf Sword Art with a blank expression.

Only this time, Ye Yuhong's body began to emit dazzling milky-white light.

Seeing this scene, the attacking Green Demon Clan member paused, narrowed his eyes, and said with some apprehension:

"Burning the essence, energy, and spirit of one's own origin? Old man, I want to see how much essence, energy, and spirit of your origin you have left to burn."

He took out a long spear wreathed in demonic qi, constantly brandished it, and triggered spear lights that struck Ye Yuhong from a distance.

This time, facing the attack of that mid-stage Nascent Soul realm member of the Green Demon Clan, Ye Yuhong easily blocked it.

A flash of coldness passed through his eyes, and Ye Yuhong began to actively approach that Green Demon Clan member.

But that mid-stage Nascent Soul realm member of the Green Demon Clan retreated instead of advancing, choosing not to clash directly with Ye Yuhong who was burning his essence, energy, and spirit.

When a cultivator burns their own essence, energy, and spirit, their strength undergoes a qualitative leap.

Therefore, that mid-stage Nascent Soul realm member of the Green Demon Clan, to avoid being heavily injured himself, did not choose to approach Ye Yuhong.

Instead, he began to play cat and mouse, attacking Ye Yuhong from a distance to consume Ye Yuhong's essence, energy, and spirit.

Seeing this, Ye Yu Hong frowned but could do nothing.

He burned the source of his essence, qi, and spirit; although this comprehensively boosted him, it only barely reached the standard of the mid-stage Nascent Soul realm.

Moreover, under the clash of energies, his speed was hindered, making it even more impossible for him to catch up with that mid-stage Nascent Soul Green Demon Clan member.

Yet if he did not clash with the opponent, under his own active pursuit, he, whose realm was inferior, could not evade the opponent's attacks at all.

Thus, Ye Yu Hong could only stalemate with the opponent.

Behind.

Following Ye Yu Hong's earlier words, which carried the sound of thunder, they entered Ye Qing Shuang's mind via voice transmission.

Ye Qing Shuang finally regained her reason.

Looking at the figure of Ye Yu Hong, who was surrounded by milky-white light, Ye Qing Shuang shed two lines of clear tears and softly called out:

"Head of the Family."

At this moment, two more voices sounded beside Ye Qing Shuang's ears:

"Qing Shuang, we cultivators need not display such childish emotion; life and death are merely another cycle."

"Yes, Qing Shuang. Previously, the Grand Elder protected you too well. Now that the Grand Elder has fallen, you must grow. Fight; we have no retreat left."

Beside Ye Qing Shuang stood the two Ye Family Golden Core Elders who had just been thrown to the rear by Ye Yu Hong.

They began to rapidly circulate their Golden Cores, forcibly suppressing their own injuries.

After imparting one final lesson to Ye Qing Shuang with a calm expression, they rushed together to fight the Golden Core experts.

Although both were of the Golden Core realm, the two of them were far older than Ye Qing Shuang, who had just advanced to the Golden Core realm.

One could say the two of them had watched Ye Qing Shuang grow up.

Previously, as the Grand Elder's granddaughter, everyone cared for Ye Qing Shuang out of affection for her grandfather, treating her with great consideration.

But this also meant Ye Qing Shuang's character had never received the necessary tempering.

Now that the Ye Family faced this calamity, they were powerless; they could only rely on Ye Qing Shuang herself.

Ye Qing Shuang watched the two Elders who had recharged toward the battlefield; she watched Ye Yu Hong's figure, fighting bloodily without retreating, striving against the enemy; she watched the human cultivators charging forward in succession toward the Green Demon Clan.

Within her heart, various emotions of sorrow, fear, despair, and so on slowly settled into calm.

Not a single word was spoken.

Ye Qing Shuang raised the long sword in her hand and stepped away from the rear, heading toward the battlefield.

As her forward speed increased, an icy aura of slaughter began to fill Ye Qing Shuang's body.

In her indifferent eyes, there was only the figure of the Green Demon Clan, nothing else.

(End of this chapter)