Chapter 452: Death Envelops, the Ye Family Village Reborn

"Run!"

In the depths of Mount Yunwu.

Ye Wenqiu, who had just reached his mother's side, heard his father's loud shout.

Gritting his teeth, Ye Wenqiu had no time to say much to his mother or the many Ye clan members around him.

He immediately took out the seventh-grade supreme-grade teleportation talisman he had kept ready in his chest, stirred his spiritual sense, and instantly activated the talisman.

"Buzz!"

At the sound of a buzz, the talisman in Ye Wenqiu's hand was instantly activated.

An invisible force surged out from the talisman.

Under the guidance of Ye Wenqiu's spiritual sense, this force instantly expanded, covering as many Ye clan cultivators around him as possible.

At the very last moment.

With tears in his eyes, Ye Wenqiu looked at the back of Ye Zhaojun high in the sky and choked out:

"Father, your son is unfilial. You—"

Before he could finish speaking, a streak of silver light flashed by.

Ye Wenqiu and over a hundred Ye clan cultivators around him were instantly engulfed by this force and vanished.

"Hmm?"

High above the Ye clan.

Xie Wuyun sensed this fluctuation and the anomaly emanating from the demonic energy-locked barrier.

His brows immediately furrowed, and he said with some surprise in his heart:

"Another seventh-grade supreme-grade talisman?"

As he pondered, Xie Wuyun gazed darkly down at the Ye clan below and murmured:

"A mere human Nascent Soul-level faction, what background could it possibly have to produce seventh-grade supreme-grade talismans time and again?"

"No, I can't delay any longer; I must end this quickly!"

Having spoken, demonic energy surged within Xie Wuyun's body as he prepared to continue his attack.

But unexpectedly, a thunderous roar suddenly rose from below:

"Damn Green Demon Clan, come and die!"

It turned out that after seeing his son escape with his wife and some of the Ye clan members,

Ye Zhaojun knew the Ye clan's lineage would continue, and his heart was instantly free of all worries.

This made Ye Zhaojun resolve firmly; his gaze became steady, and he cared for nothing else.

Scanning the more than twenty seventh-grade attack talismans before him,

a ruthless expression flashed in Ye Zhaojun's eyes.

While the power of the activated seventh-grade supreme-grade protective talisman had not yet been exhausted,

as Ye Zhaojun unleashed his thunderous roar, he simultaneously activated the strongest of the seventh-grade supreme-grade attack talismans before him.

Then, without any hope of luck, he activated all the remaining seventh-grade attack talismans in succession.

When Xie Wuyun heard Ye Zhaojun's roar, multicolored auroras had already begun to flicker beneath him.

Led by a purple energy of rules interwoven with lightning,

the remaining streams of rule energies of various colors each tore through the sky and rushed toward Xie Wuyun.

Although Ye Zhaojun was only at the Nascent Soul realm,

when activating the seventh-grade talismans, Ye Zhaojun offered only slight guidance.

This caused the entire power consumed during the talisman's revival process to come solely from the seventh-grade talismans themselves.

Before the talisman-formed power could strike Xie Wuyun, a portion of its strength had already been expended in advance.

Yet, one seventh-grade supreme-grade attack talisman, plus more than twenty seventh-grade mid- and low-grade attack talismans,

even with some of their own power lost during activation, were far from something Xie Wuyun could easily resist.

"No, damn it, this is impossible!"

When Xie Wuyun saw those dazzling, multicolored lights that could stun the world,

he instantly felt locked by more than twenty principles of rules, leaving him no chance to dodge.

These twenty-plus attacks broke through the limits of space; Xie Wuyun could only roar unwillingly in his heart, the words not even having time to leave his lips

before he was instantly struck in succession by the twenty-plus rule-based attacks.

For a moment, heaven and earth fell silent.

After an instant of silence, a series of explosions began to ring out in the sky:

"Bang!"

"Ah! Damn it!"

"Boom!""Boom!""Boom!"

"No, I am not willing to accept this!"

"Crash!""Crash!""Crash-crash!"

"Buzz!"

"Crack!""Crack!"

First, the attack from the initial seventh-grade supreme-grade talisman pierced Xie Wuyun's body

and exploded within his Void-Form body.

As Xie Wuyun was engulfed by the fear of death, before he could even react to the pain of his body exploding,

amidst Xie Wuyun's roar, the other seventh-grade talisman attacks arrived one after another.

Under more than twenty seventh-tier rule-energy attacks, the figure of the Evil Witch Cloud was no longer visible in the high sky.

Only at the spot where the Evil Witch Cloud had been could one see multicolored auroras flashing amidst the sound of explosions.

Immediately, a series of booming explosions sent forth invisible energy shockwaves, stirring up layers of energy tides of various colors.

The yellow-crystal barrier, formed by the seventh-tier supreme-grade protective talisman that Ye Zhaojun had previously activated,

lasted only a brief moment.

Under the successive aftershocks, it cracked and shattered into crystal fragments that scattered through the air.

Including Ye Zhaojun, tens of thousands of Ye family cultivators, along with tens of millions of ordinary Ye family members living within the Ye Immortal City,

did not even have time to cry out in anguish.

In an instant, they were swept away by the seventh-tier energy aftershocks and vanished into ash.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Centered on the Ye family's stronghold, the tens of thousands of li of land, already in ruins, suffered another strike from the seventh-tier energy aftershocks.

Under this even more intense energy aftershock,

the surface layer of the earth around the Ye family cracked, the ground subsided, and the ecosystem, already destroyed once, faced another devastating assault.

The clouds in the high sky were evaporated by the energy aftershocks, and even the light was swallowed by this destructive force.

The dim sky was now shrouded by rising fireworks, as if hell had descended.

This energy aftershock even reached areas that had not been affected before.

Despite the suppression of heaven and earth, an area nearly one hundred thousand li in diameter, both sky and earth, suffered a devastating blow.

The small human factions that originally lived in this region

did not even know the exact cause; they were swept away by the energy aftershocks in the dark and perished, their Dao extinguished.

The number of humans who died in this energy aftershock was at least one hundred million.

After the successive devastation of energy shockwaves and energy tides, this region was utterly devoid of life.

It was entirely shrouded in death and destruction.

Within the Cloud Sea Province.

In a valley near the border of Qing Province, where spiritual energy was thin,

after a slight fluctuation in space, a silver light flashed through the valley.

Immediately, more than one hundred figures appeared at the same time, falling into this valley.

"Pfft!"

"Ah! Cough, cough, cough!"

"No, my cultivation base!"

"Pfft, cough, cough, what, what is happening?"

"What's wrong with everyone? Quick, quick, save them!"

"Sizzle!" "Pfft!"

"Stop, stop, do not use spiritual energy, or it will worsen their injuries."

"But, if we cannot use spiritual power, then what do we do?"

"Sigh!"

As soon as the group landed, many of them began spitting fresh blood one after another.

Those who spat fresh blood

were all surrounded by faint demonic qi.

Those who remained unharmed, seeing the miserable state of the others, had originally intended to use their own spiritual power to heal them.

Unexpectedly, the collision between their spiritual power and the demonic qi within the injured caused their injuries to worsen.

For a moment, the others were also at a loss.

This group was the Ye family members who had escaped from Daoguang Commandery in Qing Province using a seventh-tier supreme-grade teleportation talisman.

At this moment, a middle-aged woman wearing a blue front-opening long robe, with a gentle and jade-like temperament, hurriedly pulled Ye Wenqiu, examined her closely, and asked anxiously:

"Qiu'er, Qiu'er, how are you?"

This person was none other than Ye Zhaojun's wife, Ye Wenqiu's mother, and one of the Ye family's Nascent Soul cultivators, Ye Xiji.

Ye Wenqiu, who had been dazed by the cries of her clansmen, was suddenly awakened by her mother.

Looking at her mother, Ye Wenqiu shook her head slightly and said:

"Mother, I am fine."

After speaking, she glanced at the clansmen who had fled with her, and a feeling of oppression filled her heart.

Looking at those clansmen who, although already led away from the Ye family, had still been corroded by demonic qi, Ye Wenqiu felt a wave of confusion in her eyes and murmured painfully:

"What, what exactly is happening? Why, why, even though we escaped, are so many of our clansmen still corroded by demonic qi?"

Hearing Ye Wenqiu's pained voice, the other Ye family cultivators present also fell into grief and indignation.

In fact,

what Ye Wenqiu did not know was

that although she had activated a seventh-tier supreme-grade talisman,

the suppression of heaven and earth in the Earthly Profound Realm had greatly increased; even a seventh-tier supreme-grade talisman could not break through space.

Furthermore, as Ye Wenqiu had carried more than one hundred Ye family members during the escape, the power of the seventh-tier supreme-grade talisman was too widely dispersed.

Therefore, during the escape, while passing through the demonic qi blockade that the Evil Witch Cloud had set up in advance,

the Ye family members at the edges of the talisman's power inevitably suffered corrosion from the demonic qi.

Although this process lasted an extremely short time, not even an instant.

But under the massive disparity in energy quality, those Ye family members in the outer area still could not escape, their bodies corroded by the demonic qi of the Evil Witch Yun.

That they managed to snatch back their lives was already a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

And the price was that their dantians and all their meridians were corroded by the demonic qi, their cultivation base now beyond recovery.

Moreover, under the continuous erosion of the demonic qi, their remaining lifespan was already dwindling.

Overwhelmed by grief and despair in their hearts, many of the Ye family members who had escaped death struggled to control their emotions, venting one after another:

"It's over, our Ye family is finished."

"Waaah, why did this happen?"

"Is there still hope for the Ye family? Are the Family Head and the other Elders still alive?"

"Damn the Green Demon Clan, why did they set their sights on our Ye family?"

The sole Nascent Soul cultivator present.

Ye Xiji looked at her dazed and dispirited son, and at the other Ye family members whose wills were low and who had fallen into despair.

She forced back the grief in her heart and spoke with solemn tone:

"Enough! Pull yourselves together! As long as we are still alive, the Ye family will continue to be passed down."

"Furthermore, the Family Head and the various Elders may not have perished yet."

As she spoke the last words, Ye Xiji's eyes could not help but turn red.

Though she said so, Ye Xiji knew in her heart that her husband was likely facing more misfortune than good.

"What should we do now?"

"Yes, we don't even know where this place is. How can we possibly return to the Ye family?"

Hearing his mother's words and the voices of the other clan members.

Ye Wenqiu's mind echoed with the words his father had spoken to him earlier.

His spiritual sense instinctively swept over the Family Head token and the three Seventh-Grade Attack Talismans stored in his storage ring.

Ye Wenqiu's gaze gradually grew resolute. Surveying the clan members around him, he spoke calmly and steadily:

"Now that the heavens and earth have undergone a great change, the Green Demon Clan could invade anywhere."

"But based on the previous information, we can deduce that the Green Demon Clan's target is either the source of the spiritual veins or the hunting of human mid- and high-grade cultivators."

Speaking thus, Ye Wenqiu took another look at the valley where the Ye family currently stood and continued:

"We do not know where we are, but we are certainly not close to the Ye family's base. With our current strength, the risks of returning to the Ye family are too great."

"This valley has thin spiritual energy, and there should be no cultivators nearby, making it relatively much safer."

"Rather than risk returning to the Ye family now, we might as well rest and recuperate in this valley, temporarily hiding from the great calamity of the heavens and earth outside."

"Once we have stabilized here and rested for a while, and the situation outside has become clear, we will seek an opportunity to return to the Ye family."

Hearing her son's words, a hint of relief appeared in Ye Xiji's eyes.

Then she nodded, looked at the other Ye family members, and asked:

"What does everyone think?"

"Agreed."

"Very well. Since the Family Head's life or death is unknown, I am willing to obey the orders of the Young Master and the Family Head's wife."

"In that case, so be it!"

The response of the clan members caused no ripple in Ye Wenqiu's heart.

He silently gazed at the distant horizon, thinking to himself:

"Father, rest assured! I will definitely go to the Profound Heaven Sect to find Patriarch Qingxuan and restore the Ye family."

"Even if I fail, there will be my future son, grandson, and descendants after them. I will pass down the words you spoke forever."

"One day, either I or my descendants will surely fulfill your dying wish."

Seeing her son in a daze, wondering what he was thinking.

Ye Xiji sighed softly in her heart and could only speak first:

"In that case, let us first settle down in this valley. Later, we will slowly explore the surrounding areas to understand our location!"

"In the future, when there is an opportunity and the situation outside has stabilized somewhat, we will seek an opportunity to return to the Ye family."

Having finished speaking, Ye Xiji waved her hand, produced a Fourth-Grade Array Disk, and then set up a Fourth-Grade Concealment Array within the valley.

Although it was a hasty escape.

Yet Ye Xiji, as the Nascent Soul cultivator of the Ye family and the wife of the Family Head,

carried many resources with her, including array disks and a large quantity of spirit stones.

With these things, even though the spiritual energy in this valley was thin,

if used sparingly, it would be enough for the Ye family members to last a very long time.

This valley itself had sparse spiritual energy.

Coupled with the concealment of the array, the possibility of being discovered by outsiders in the future was even lower.

Noticing his mother's actions, Ye Wenqiu took a deep breath and came to his senses.

He began, along with his mother,

to lead the Ye family members in building from nothing within the valley.

Thus, a village named 'Ye Family Village' gradually took shape in this unknown valley.

(End of Chapter)