The sudden, drastic change left Ye Chen's face pale, even tinged with a trace of terror.
Why had the entire Ye Family vanished so abruptly, leaving not a single person behind, nothing at all?
Ye Chen's sudden, inexplicable appearance atop the city gate startled many people. Numerous commoners stared at him in shock.
From within the City Lord's Mansion, several powerful figures surged forth, each an expert at the Innate level. They shouted loudly, "Who dares stand and defile before the He Mansion? Get down from there!"
"Scram!"
Ye Chen's single Dao shout shook the heavens and earth, exploding over Luo Feng City with deafening force. Everyone covered their ears.
The Innate Experts who bore the brunt of it were sent flying backward like kites, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood.
This was only because Ye Chen had held back. Otherwise, with a roar capable of shattering a Saint, how could mere Innate cultivators possibly withstand it?
Ye Chen slowly rose into the air, astonishing everyone in the city. "A Martial God expert!"
And such a young Martial God at that!
However, it was the experts from the Yang and Xia families—once on par with the Ye Family—who finally snapped to recognition. Although the young man's features had changed somewhat, he still looked terribly familiar. Wasn't that Ye Chen?
He had returned!
Ye Chen's gaze fell upon the City Lord's Mansion. "Who is currently in charge of the City Lord's Mansion? Come out immediately, or I won't mind wiping out everyone in this mansion right now."
An aged figure surged up from the mansion, a powerful Half-God Realm aura blooming forth. He looked coldly at Ye Chen. "This old man doesn't know who you are, but today, anyone who dares trespass into the He Mansion must pay the price."
He opened his large hand and directly grabbed toward Ye Chen.
*Pfft—*
No one saw what happened. The next moment, the imposing, supremely powerful Half-God ancestor of the He Mansion was seen flying backward, coughing up large mouthfuls of blood, looking utterly disheveled.
"A mere Half-God, and you dare to come demanding answers!"
Ye Chen looked down from on high, a wisp of supreme, majestic pressure flowing from his body, causing this stretch of heaven and earth to seem to solidify.
The Half-God ancestor of the He Mansion was utterly horrified. This aura was countless times stronger than his own.
This seemingly young man before him was likely a peerless figure who had transcended the Half-God Realm.
Immediately, this He Mansion Half-God ancestor knelt down, urgently pleading, "My lord, please spare me! This old fool failed to recognize Mount Tai and offended you, my lord. It is this old fool's fault. Please be magnanimous, my lord, and spare this old fool."
Ye Chen's expression was cold. "Speak. How did you obtain this mansion? Shouldn't it belong to the Ye Family?"
The ancestor dared not conceal anything. "Reporting to my lord, this mansion indeed belonged to the Ye Family in the past. However, the Ye Family clansmen left over eleven years ago. Before departing, they sold it to our He Mansion. If my lord does not believe me, you can ask others in the city. Our He Mansion absolutely dares not deceive you, my lord."
Ye Chen's divine sense was immensely powerful. He directly searched the Consciousness Sea of a high-ranking member of the He Mansion, obtaining an answer identical to that of the Half-God ancestor.
Over eleven years ago, for unknown reasons, the Ye Family had relocated their entire clan, vanishing completely from this world. It was baffling.
He personally acted, searching the minds of many people in the city in succession, even searching this Half-God ancestor himself. All yielded the same answer.
How could this be!?
Ye Chen's expression darkened. Moreover, vanishing without reason was impossible. This light curtain had been personally laid down by Elder Yan. Even a Saint would find it difficult to locate, let alone open.
Furthermore, the fact that only the Ye Family clansmen had left home was the most puzzling aspect.
Where there is abnormality, there must be something sinister at play!
Ye Chen slowly ascended higher, then suddenly, his Saint Body erupted with boundless golden light, directly enveloping the entire Luo Feng City.
On the surface of his body, dense, intricate Dao marks spread out with a rustling sound, complex and profound, a thousand times more mysterious than ordinary Dao marks. These were the Great Dao marks unique to a Battle Saint.
At this moment, to uncover the truth, Ye Chen was about to unleash a powerful secret technique—
Time Reversal!
His body rotated, Saint Power circulated, and the spell was executed. Within the area enveloped by the golden light, countless scenes immediately appeared. Time rapidly flowed backward, though it wasn't real—merely an illusion—giving everyone in the city a disorienting sense of temporal dislocation.
Although the crowd didn't know what divine ability Ye Chen was employing, it was undoubtedly a Great Dao secret technique that transcended the Half-God Realm, extremely extraordinary.
Soon, the light and shadows reversed to eleven years ago. Guided by the memories he had searched from the Consciousness Seas, they even reversed to the precise timeframe—the day the Ye Family relocated and vanished.
He saw his parents, he saw Ye Zimei, he saw Ye Zhengyang, and he saw the other clansmen.
Everything, everything, was accurately restored to eleven years ago.
Everyone in the city was shocked. What kind of method was this? Although it wasn't truly reversing time, it felt almost the same.
However, Ye Chen's gaze was fixed tightly on all the clansmen within the mansion. Everything, everything seemed normal.
Except, after noon passed, his parents and the other clansmen, one by one, their eyes grew vacant, as if some unknown change had occurred.
Not long after, their gazes returned to normal. But then, clan members one after another, including his parents, left the mansion and departed Luo Feng City.
Moreover, his parents sold the entire City Lord's Mansion to the current He Mansion for a low price.
All of this matched what he had found in the people's Consciousness Seas without discrepancy.
Throughout this, Ye Chen had been frowning. Although everything seemed normal, that instant when their eyes went vacant was profoundly abnormal.
He circulated his Saint Power, expanding it to cover the entire hundred-zhang radius enveloped by the light curtain. This was merely the so-called Time Reversal, not true time reversal. Although difficult, with his strength, he could expand it to this extent.
Because this was a special realm. If it were in the Myriad Domains, covering an area the size of Luo Feng City would be nearly the limit.
Yet, in the end, the figures of the Ye Family clansmen vanished without reason after leaving the city. They disappeared abruptly, impossible to trace.
Suddenly, he performed Time Reversal again, returning to that instant when the clansmen's eyes went vacant. He sensed certain minute, almost imperceptible subtle points.
"So that's how it is..."
He murmured softly, then suddenly, golden light exploded forth. Supreme power surged, and the Dao marks of laws all manifested at this moment. Simultaneously, all the light curtains within the Time Reversal shattered, and a completely new,completely different scene of light and shadow appeared.
It was still Luo Feng City, still the Ye Family clansmen. But at this moment, powerful figures appeared atop the City Lord's Mansion, riding extraordinary exotic beasts, surrounding the Ye Family.