Chapter 826: Challenging the Clan Chief

I don't care about any life-and-death contract; whoever killed my son, I will make him pay with his life.

Clan Chief Chang unreasonably said, "Prince, you won't protect an outsider, will you?"

Based on the Chang Family's relationship with the Royal Mansion, he thought the Prince wouldn't speak up for an outsider kid.

Unexpectedly, the Prince did not yield.

Their life-and-death contract was signed in my presence; it was also a duel held at our Royal Mansion. If I let you take him away, that would ruin our Royal Mansion's reputation. Who would dare to visit our Royal Mansion in the future?

"Huh?" The Clan Chief didn't expect the Prince to refuse him over an outsider brat.

"Could this kid have some background?" The Clan Chief couldn't help but suspect.

Although he hadn't seen Ye Liuyun display his strength, being able to kill Chang Wanshan should also count as a genius.

Such geniuses are usually disciples who come out for training from major sects.

Perhaps the Prince knows something, which is why he specially protects him.

But now it's his son who died. If he doesn't take down Ye Liuyun, then from now on anyone could kill his Chang family members at will!

So this precedent absolutely cannot be set, otherwise it would affect the Chang family's status on Eagle Beak Island.

"What if I insist on taking him back?" the Clan Chief probed, while also releasing his aura, preparing to seize him by force.

He also wanted to see how resolute the Prince was in protecting Ye Liuyun.

The Prince, however, would not yield; he immediately released his aura, suppressing the Clan Chief's vigor.

"Chang Hong, do you still want to fight me?"

The Prince isn't afraid of offending the Chang family. Although the Chang family is a great clan, he also isn't unable to manage without them.

Seeing the Prince so resolutely determined to protect Ye Liuyun, Chang Hong couldn't help but feel uneasy.

Although he is angry now, he hasn't lost his reason; he wouldn't dare to fight the Prince to the death, even if you gave him ten guts.

Chang Hong immediately withdrew his aura and said to the Prince: "Since you insist on protecting him, I have nothing to say. But you can protect him for a while, not for a lifetime. I don't believe he can stay in the Royal Mansion his whole life."

His meaning is clear: once outside the Royal Mansion, it's no longer under the Prince's jurisdiction.

Having said that, he flicked his sleeve and prepared to leave.

The Prince also wanted Ye Liuyun to stay, so he didn't argue, implicitly accepting that his protection only applies within the Royal Mansion.

Ye Liuyun remained calmly standing on the platform, watching the Prince and Chang Hong confront each other.

Upon hearing Chang Hong say that, he immediately called out to him. He didn't want Chang Hong to return and bring people to ambush him everywhere.

"Chang Hong, did I let you go?"

Ye Liuyun's words startled everyone.

Especially the Prince, his brows furrowed. In such a situation, Ye Liuyun shouldn't be speaking, right?

He feared things would get more complicated, so he hurriedly stopped Ye Liuyun: "Just say less after causing trouble!"

Ye Liuyun ignored the Prince's displeasure and directly told Chang Hong: "You came over, scolded me, and now you want to leave? Do you think I don't exist?"

Upon hearing Ye Liuyun speak, everyone gasped.

The Clan Chief, a major figure on Eagle Beak Island, was rebuked by Ye Liuyun calling him by name—something they dared not even imagine.

Even the Prince didn't expect Ye Liuyun to dare speak to Chang Hong like that.

"What is this kid trying to do?" he wondered, somewhat puzzled.

"Oh?" Chang Hong almost laughed from anger. "What do you want?"

"Since you came, you might as well make a move! Aren't you here to avenge your son? Get on the platform, a life-and-death battle—do you dare?"

Hiss!

The crowd below all gasped in unison.

Even the Prince was greatly startled.

"You, at Yin Yang Sixth Layer, dare to challenge the Clan Chief? He is at the Eighth Realm of Creation."

No one else dared say that, but the Prince directly asked it.

Everyone felt this was somewhat unbelievable.

"Damn! I didn't just meet a madman, did I?" Wei Pangzi also felt a bit of lingering fear.

Ye Liuyun, however, made a gesturing invitation toward Chang Hong.

Chang Hong also didn't expect Ye Liuyun to dare challenge him.

Nevertheless, no matter what, as an Eighth Realm of Creation cultivator, he could not possibly lose to a Yin Yang Sixth Layer kid.

"What's going on? What is this kid trying to do?" The people in the hall were all a bit dazed.

Seeing this, the Prince also didn't know whether he should stop Chang Hong.

"Are you sure?" the Prince asked Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun calmly said: "I don't want to walk out of the Royal Mansion only to be hunted down!"

The Prince also knew that perhaps his protection of Ye Liuyun wasn't thorough enough, so Ye Liuyun is somewhat dissatisfied.

But he now has no choice; since Ye Liuyun said that, he can't keep stopping Chang Hong.

Chang Hong then stepped onto the platform.

"Hmph, don't play mysterious there. No matter what, you cannot escape death!"

Ye Liuyun directly took out the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner, releasing a Saint-rank foreign tribe soul!

"Defeat it first, then talk!" Ye Liuyun said disdainfully.

"A divine artifact?" Chang Hong also didn't expect that Ye Liuyun's divine artifact could actually release a Saint-rank soul.

He had rushed over upon hearing his son's death news and didn't have time to bring a divine artifact.

He normally possesses two Saint-rank treasures, but against a divine artifact, they are clearly insufficient.

Moreover, that foreign tribe's soul gave him no time to consider; once released, it immediately attacked his Sea of Consciousness.

Ye Liuyun, again fearing that a Soul was not secure, shook it twice and released two slightly lower‑realm Yin Souls, which also surged toward Chang Hong's Sea of Consciousness.

When the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner swayed, the chilling ghostly aura it emitted made the entire Grand Hall feel cold and breezy.

That Yin ghostly breath made people shiver with an unbidden chill.

And at this moment, Chang Hong was the unluckiest of all.

His primary and secondary Souls together were no match for the Foreign Tribe's Soul, let alone the two lower‑realm Yin Souls assisting it.

Not long after, Chang Hong's Soul was dragged out by the Foreign Tribe's Soul and pulled into the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner.

Ye Liuyun then collected the Soul Banner and, in the same motion, sucked Chang Hong's Storage Ring toward himself.

"Thank you, Prince, for the hospitality; I shall take my leave now!"

Ye Liuyun immediately dared not linger, fearing that members of the Chang Family would come to beat him up.

He must rush back to his residence and, using the power of the Formation, set up a defense. Only then can he withstand a family's retaliation.

In fact, at this moment he had already, via the Divine Soul Contract, informed Qiong Qi of what had happened.

"Don't rush; I suggest you use the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner to charge straight into the Chang Family and catch them off guard!" Qiong Qi advised Ye Liuyun.