Chapter 70: Official Person

Liu Yang did not show much fear upon seeing Chu Zhan's head.

While Ye Chen was toying with them, he had already guessed this outcome.

Actually, if it were the usual Chu Zhan and Chu An, they would have noticed Ye Chen was toying with them, but at that moment fear had overwhelmed their reason, so they failed to realize Ye Chen was toying with them.

Of course, if they had not started fighting then, Liu Yang believed Ye Chen would have struck directly to end their lives.

"Go on your way; I won't kill you, not because you quit the Upper Clan, but because you are determined to quit the Upper Clan even in death, and you understand reason. Otherwise, I would surely kill you."

After Ye Chen finished speaking, Liu Yang said nothing, merely rose slowly and bowed respectfully to Ye Chen.

"Thank you."

After saying that, Liu Yang walked toward the door.

Under the effect of the Supreme Health Pill, Liu Yang's injuries had long healed; his cultivation aptitude is now even considerably better than before.

As long as he is willing to cultivate, within three years he can fully return to his peak, provided he is willing to resume cultivation.

After Liu Yang left, Ye Chen's figure also disappeared here.

To avoid future unnecessary trouble, he also intends to exterminate the Southeast-Northwest Sects.

Ye Chen has always believed that mercy toward enemies is cruelty toward oneself.

His reason for letting Liu Yang go was his determination; if Liu Yang were not a member of the Upper Clan, he might have offered a bit of advice, but since he is from the Upper Clan, that possibility does not exist.

Thereafter, he destroyed the Southeast-Northwest Sects in a day, and the souls in his Ten Thousand Souls Banner also reached 3,678.

Ye Chen gazed at the souls in the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, silent.

Not long after, he raised his head and looked at the sky: "I still need 6,322 souls for the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to rise another rank."

The moment Ye Chen finished speaking, his figure suddenly vanished from the spot.

"It's already Saturday; these past days have been fine with the paper person Ye Chen around, no accidents occurred—except that Gan Yi, that little witch, keeps coming to my house, truly treating it as her own!"

Regarding Gan Yi, he truly feels helpless; she has not crossed his bottom line nor done anything excessive, and she is also a bearer of great fortune, leaving Ye Chen unable to act against her from any angle.

Ye Chen returned home at great speed; under his refinement, the paper person Ye Chen can now perform many normal activities, such as… playing games.

At this moment, the paper person Ye Chen and Ye Nan are playing games in the e-sports room.

As Ye Chen was on his way home, he suddenly sensed a dangerous aura rapidly approaching him.

【Note: A cultivator on the same path as you, who has already achieved Foundation Establishment; if the host cannot win, they may request a proxy battle.】

The system's voice suddenly sounded in his mind, and upon hearing the system's words, she felt a bit dazed: "What proxy battle?"

【Blurry eyes.】

"It's already unconscious!"

【Then the host had better look out for themselves; they're probably done for.】

"……"

Ye Chen no longer paid attention to the system; instead, he slowed his steps, waiting for that person to catch up. With his strength, he naturally had nothing to fear, and he also possessed the Yin-Yang Diagram and fragments as two great killing moves—even if he could not kill the person, he could at least make them lose a layer of skin.

That person's speed was not slow; they soon caught up to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen looked at the comer, his gaze cold.

The comer was an old man dressed in white robes, his white beard fluttering, giving off an air of immortal wind and bone.

"Young friend, you truly have remarkable strength, able to sense my aura from a hundred li away."

The old man spoke, his words always carrying a smile, revealing no hostility.

"Speak if you have something to say."

Ye Chen replied, his tone somewhat icy; he still remembered that his first grudge with the Northern Sect began when someone inexplicably sought him out to kill him, thus forming the feud.

The old man seemed to see through Ye Chen's thoughts, stroking his white beard as he smiled and said: "Young friend, you need not be so wary of me; I am an official, I am Bai Yuan, at the second layer of Foundation Establishment."

"What do you want with me?"

Ye Chen got straight to the point, not caring whether Bai Yuan was an official or what his strength was.

Even if he were a Golden Core expert, after the great change began his strength would not be enough to matter, and Ye Chen has no intention of deepening communication with officials.

He does not believe the officials would be unaware of the existence of the Southeast-Northwest Sects and the Upper Clan.

Even so, the officials have taken no measures, letting them run rampant; if that day the person had sought out an ordinary person, that ordinary person would surely die.

Bai Yuan heard the coldness in Ye Chen's tone, yet he showed no displeasure or anger, continuing to smile calmly.

"I know what you're thinking, but our China is also in a perilous state; those Westerners seem to have mastered some secret art that can unleash astonishing combat power in a short time."

"Thus, we have been fighting and retreating; not dealing with the Southeast-Northwest Sects and the Upper Clan is also a helpless move, and we also need their strength."

After Bai Yuan finished speaking, Ye Chen fell into thought; if what Bai Yuan said is true, then China's current strength has a great void.

After all, the Southeast-Northwest Sects and the Upper Clan have all been wiped out by him.

Ye Chen originally did not want to get involved; it was the Southeast-Northwest Sects and the Upper Clan who first provoked him, and their destruction was a matter of karma, but he recalled something that instantly changed his mind.

"With so many souls, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner could break through ten thousand souls; a Ten Thousand Souls Banner without ten thousand souls—what would it be called?"

"So you came to me now, hoping I would fill this gap?"

Bai Yuan nodded, not hiding his purpose in seeking Ye Chen.

"Young friend, you also cultivate in the ancient system; you should understand that the cultivation strength of the Southeast-Northwest Sects and the Upper Clan is inferior to ours, but it is actually not that bad."

"Their Return to Simplicity and Truth Realm is roughly equivalent to our tenth layer of Qi Refining; going higher, the Ascension Realm is actually comparable to our fifteenth layer."

After Bai Yuan finished speaking, Ye Chen's brows furrowed slightly.

Because he could not sense that the Return to Simplicity and Truth Realm possessed the cultivation of the tenth layer of Qi Refining.

"I understand."

Ye Chen replied indifferently.

"Young friend, you should know what I mean; what do you think?"

Ye Chen naturally understood Bai Yuan's meaning, but he does not intend to join them, for doing so would impose restrictions; he is determined to carry out slaughter, not sparing a single Westerner.

The Ye Chen of before would have found this extremely cruel, but the Ye Chen of now only sees it as nourishment for his growth.

"Cruel? That's something you say to the dead. In the impending great change of the world, kindness is the most useless thing."

Ye Chen thought to himself.

In this life, he only wants to protect the people he cares about; everything else is none of his business.