After hearing Ye Yunfei's words, Chu Ji immediately organized the Qingyun Palace's senior members to begin taking roll.
"Palace Master Ye, the situation is a bit bad. Many people in our Qingyun Palace are indeed missing! These people suddenly attacked our palace two days ago. The fighting lasted for two days and two nights. Many were killed, and many others have disappeared," Chu Ji reported with an extremely grim expression after completing the headcount.
"Boss, Dugu Huan is missing! He was injured trying to save us, got separated from us in the heat of battle, and hasn't been seen since! I looked everywhere just now, but no body was found!" Wu Heishan rushed over anxiously, covered in wounds. He had several horrifying bloody holes on his body and his face was pale—clearly severely injured.
Next, Su Qingluo, Xiao Hui, Yuan Dayong, and others also came over, each bearing injuries and exuding a weak aura.
"What about my parents?" Ye Yunfei asked Su Qingluo.
"Uncle and Aunt are fine, don't worry. During the fight, everyone did their best to protect them," Su Qingluo replied.
"You've all worked hard," Ye Yunfei nodded.
"What about Wen Zi?" Ye Yunfei's gaze swept the area, and not seeing Wen Zi, he was startled.
"Wen Zi is over here!" shouted a Qingyun Palace high-ranking member.
Immediately, two Qingyun Palace disciples carried a stretcher over. On it lay a girl covered in bloodstains and unconscious. It was Wen Zi.
"Of us six great bandits, three are missing," Yang Tianhu walked over, his face dark. One of the seven major bandits had died, leaving six, and now three more were gone.
"As for our Qingyun Palace members, at least over four hundred people are missing!" Yang Tianhu continued.
"Palace Master Ye, seven of our Qingyun Palace's managers have disappeared without a trace. Neither alive nor dead... they were most likely captured," another senior member came forward and reported.
"Not good! Palace Master Ye, Du Fan is also missing!" Suddenly, the leader of the Houtu Sect hurried over. Du Fan was none other than Elder Di, Daozhang of Earth, who had once accompanied Ye Yunfei from the Tianxuan Continent to the Canghuang Realm.
"See, didn't I tell you? I'll be honest with you. The reason we went through so much trouble to infiltrate this low-level world was precisely because we received the order from our Palace Master to specifically come here to capture people from Qingyun Palace to use against you! Boy, we have so many of your Qingyun Palace members in our Heavenly God Palace's hands now. If you dare kill me, none of those Qingyun Palace people will survive!" the purple-robed youth said.
"Tell me in detail, how did you enter the Canghuang Realm?" Ye Yunfei thought for a moment, beckoned, and pulled the purple-robed youth before him, asking.
"You... be polite, boy..." the purple-robed youth shouted.
Ye Yunfei took out a black pill and shoved it into the purple-robed youth's mouth.
"Boy, what did you feed me!" the purple-robed youth panicked.
"Aah... ahhh!" In the next moment, the purple-robed youth was clutching his head and screaming miserably. The black pill was a potent poison. After ingesting it, it inflicted excruciating pain on both the fleshly body and the soul body.
"Take captive all these Dao Molding Realm individuals," Ye Yunfei said indifferently.
"Yes!" Chu Ji nodded and immediately led the men forward, starting to capture those Dao Molding Realm experts.
The thousands of Dao Molding Realm experts had all been injured by Ye Yunfei's Heavenly Soul Sword and were lying on the ground howling in pain, completely powerless to resist.
"Retreat! Everyone, retreat quickly!" an old man in black robes roared.
Immediately, the other forces surged backward like a receding tide, fleeing out of Qingyun Palace.
"Since you've come, none of you will escape," Ye Yunfei said coldly, raised his palm, and gave a distant slap.
Boom...
Boundless primordial energy churned high in the sky, and in the blink of an eye, an enormous energy hand took shape, slapping down towards the fleeing forces.
Boom... Boom...
The giant energy hand in the sky kept slamming down. Each strike pulverized large numbers of people into clouds of blood mist.
For a moment, the sky and earth were shrouded in billowing blood mist. The stench of blood tainted the air everywhere, painting a horrific scene. In less than five breaths, apart from the thousands of Dao Molding Realm experts, every single invader who had attacked Qingyun Palace was crushed to death. Not one managed to escape!
Ye Yunfei stood in the sky above Qingyun Palace, hands clasped behind his back, his face somber, silently surveying the palace headquarters piled with severed limbs, chunks of flesh, and rivers of blood.
Within him, a wave of fury raged.
"The Heavenly God Palace, the Tianyou Tomb... I swear I will annihilate these two factions!" Ye Yunfei said through gritted teeth, each word dripping with resolve.
"This time, Qingyun Palace's losses are rather severe," the Geomancer approached, looking at the devastated headquarters and shaking his head with a sigh.
"Our Qingyun Palace defenses were strict. How did they manage to break in?" Ye Yunfei asked.
The Geomancer had previously set up several powerful Earth Formations at Qingyun Palace's headquarters. Ye Yunfei had also laid down a large number of high-level formations. One could say that Qingyun Palace's headquarters was the most heavily guarded faction headquarters in the entire Canghuang Realm!
"They didn't break in. The traitor was within our Qingyun Palace. They used a spatial magic treasure to bring these enemies inside and then launched a sudden assault on us, catching us off guard. That's how we were beaten so badly. Otherwise, relying solely on a strong attack, these guys couldn't have breached our Qingyun Palace headquarters at all!" the Geomancer lamented.
"So that's how it was." Now Ye Yunfei understood how those forces had been able to enter the palace's interior.
"The Earth Formations I set up had decent offensive power. But when these guys suddenly appeared inside the headquarters, mixed in with our Qingyun Palace members, the formations I arranged couldn't unleash their true strength," the Geomancer explained.
"Right," Ye Yunfei nodded. One had to understand that this Geomancer's geomancy cultivation was formidable. He had reached the level of forming formations amidst the stars; the power of the Earth Formations he arranged was terrifying.
"Senior Chu Ji, please explain, how did traitors appear within our Qingyun Palace?" Ye Yunfei asked Chu Ji.
"Recently, our Qingyun Palace has been recruiting many new disciples from across the Canghuang Realm. These new disciples come from various different star seas. I already sent people to try and investigate the backgrounds of these new disciples... but I never expected that a portion of them were spies. The blame lies with me for being insufficiently thorough," Chu Ji answered.
"Senior Chu Ji, there's no need to blame yourself. This matter cannot be blamed on you. There are so many planets in the Canghuang Realm, and many were destroyed during the recent conflicts. It was simply impossible to conduct accurate checks on each new disciple," Ye Yunfei nodded.
"Wait a moment..." Suddenly, Ye Yunfei's expression changed. "It couldn't have just been these new disciples. They wouldn't have known I left Qingyun Palace to return to Tianxuan Continent. There are still spies within Qingyun Palace! And they definitely aren't disciples; they are high-ranking members! Only a high-ranking member would have the possibility of knowing I wasn't in Qingyun Palace, giving them the confidence to take action."
"That's right!" Both the Geomancer and Chu Ji were shocked.