At this moment, the six core high-ranking members of the Light Faction were fighting against the seven Lords of the Dark Faction.
These six core high-ranking members had their true bodies here, and their combat power was extremely formidable.
Old Man Chu held a white blade that shimmered with pure light. With a sweep of its radiant blade light, space was severed. Crashing waves of white blade energy filled this pitch-black Nurturing Corpse Land, forcing one of the opposing dark lords to retreat step by step.
This dark lord gripped a black scythe, clashing again and again with Old Man Chu's white blade. Not long after, gaps appeared on the black scythe, causing the dark lord's expression to drastically change.
He had previously fought Old Man Chu's clone at the Light Faction Headquarters, thinking Old Man Chu's strength unimpressive. Now that he encountered the true body, he realized just how terrifying this old man truly was.
"Today, I shall behead you dark lords, so the Dark Faction learns the might of our Light Faction!" Old Man Chu declared coldly, holding the snow-white blade aloft, his words flamboyant and radiating an overbearing aura that knew no bounds.
A majestic radiance of Buddha-light bloomed behind Chan Master Tianwu. Within the dazzling light, an ancient Buddha could faintly be seen seated, stretching out a Buddha-palm to press forward. One dark lord was sent flying back on the spot.
The other four Light Faction core high-rankers also unleashed their potent techniques and secret arts, advancing step by step. Each movement and stance made space shatter, their imposing aura fearsome.
Apart from these six core high-ranking members, Ye Yunfei also spotted several other experts who appeared to belong to the Light Faction, locked in combat with some Dark Faction masters.
Among them was a daoist-robed elder wielding a green whisk, fighting against Hei Que Mage.
Hei Que Mage's weapon was also a whisk, though it was black.
Since both masters wielded whisks, one could see tens of millions of silken threads intertwining like a sky-spanning spiderweb, piercing through space as they struck toward each other.
"So besides the six core high-rankers, our Light Faction has several other powerful experts!
It seems all the Light Faction's top combat power is concentrated here."
After a sweeping glance at the Light Faction experts, Ye Yunfei surmised silently.
"And who are those people?"
Ye Yunfei also noticed at least a dozen beings of mysterious aura standing in different positions within the pitch-dark space in the distance. Each one seemed utterly fearsome, their auras as profound as the sea. Ye Yunfei, surprisingly, couldn't perceive these beings' true cultivation realms or strength, leaving him filled with covert apprehension.
"Young man, we meet again."
Just as Ye Yunfei was observing these mysterious beings, a voice spoke.
From close behind him.
Ye Yunfei, greatly startled, immediately turned to see an old man accompanied by a young child standing not far behind him. The old man was the one who had spoken.
Ye Yunfei had encountered this pair before!
The old man had previously asked Ye Yunfei if he knew the Great Strength Demon God or was his successor.
He never expected to meet this elder again here!
"Yes, Elder, we meet again."
Ye Yunfei replied politely, though internally he was brimming with vigilance.
This elder was too mysterious, his aura as deep as the ocean. With Ye Yunfei's current Soul Power level, he couldn't perceive his true strength or cultivation.
Ye Yunfei even found himself unable to accurately sense the cultivation of the young child by the elder's side!
"Just who are these people?
Each one is exceptionally mysterious, and their strength is definitely incredibly frightening—perhaps even stronger than the Dark Ancestor!
When did such a group of terrifying experts appear within the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds?
Could it be they've been in seclusion all along, unknown to the world?"
While secretly sensing the auras of those mysterious beings, Ye Yunfei felt both confused and shocked.
"It seems the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds hide many terrifyingly powerful experts unknown to the world. The skies beyond hold more skies, and men beyond more men!
That elder who gifted me those three items last time likely belongs to the category of low-key, reclusive masters."
Ye Yunfei sighed inwardly, recalling the mysterious elder who gifted him three items not long ago.
"Elder, for what purpose did you come here?"
Ye Yunfei probed, wanting to know why these over a dozen mysterious experts had come.
"To be frank, I came here out of curiosity, wanting to see that Yin Seed,"
the old man chuckled, pointing toward the pitch-black child on the distant altar.
"So that's it. It appears these mysterious experts came to witness the Yin Seed the Dark Ancestor has nurtured,"
Ye Yunfei realized inwardly.
"Seems the Light Faction's top brass's operation has already failed."
At this moment, Hun Lao suddenly sent a voice transmission to Ye Yunfei.
"These Light Faction high-rankers lured the Dark Ancestor to the Light Faction Headquarters, aiming to use this opportunity to infiltrate this Nurturing Yin Land and destroy that Yin Seed. But now that Yin Seed appears intact, and the Dark Ancestor returned in time with these Dark Faction masters, it indicates the Light Faction high-rankers' plan has failed."
Hun Lao analyzed.
"Yes."
Ye Yunfei's expression grew somewhat grim.
He had already deduced that.
As he stared at the pitch-black child on the distant dark altar, Ye Yunfei pondered, then waved a hand, quietly unleashing the four doppelganger statues.
"Senior Huang, prepare to act!"
Ye Yunfei told Huang Shang while observing the distant, intense battle.
In the next instant, Ye Yunfei's figure blurred, reappearing beside Old Man Chu.
"Ye Yunfei, you came.
Be careful; this is the Dark Ancestor's lair, his territory."
Old Man Chu shot Ye Yunfei a look with a benevolent smile, offering a reminder.
Although it was Old Man Chu's clone who had been interacting with Ye Yunfei previously, his true body had long since interlinked memories with the clone, so his attitude toward Ye Yunfei remained identical.
"Senior Chu, I have come to aid you."
Ye Yunfei stated.
Boom…
Ye Yunfei stepped forward, advancing toward a dark lord and unleashing his own energy pressure. Space trembled violently.
Ye Yunfei had fought these seven dark lords not long ago, so he held no fear toward them.
Qiang! Qiang!
With his right hand clenched into a fist, Ye Yunfei threw a punch. His left hand gripped a sword, activating the Myriad Swords Return to One great art, cleaving out a massive sword radiance.
"Hmph, an upstart whelp dares to be this arrogant! You truly believe you're that powerful?!"
Seeing Ye Yunfei confidently advance on him, the dark lord was enraged. He hoisted a thick, black war-halberd, cleaving toward Ye Yunfei and tearing through space. Killer intent spread outward, chilling to the bone.
Swathes of black runes erupted from the war-halberd.
Clang! Ye Yunfei simultaneously blocked the war-halberd with his fist and his sword. The impact deafened.
Clang! Clang!
Ye Yunfei unleashed several attacks in succession, each exchanging force head-on with this dark lord, retreating not a single step.
"Excellent!" Old Man Chu cheered.
"I am here!"
Huang Shang appeared to Ye Yunfei's left, waving a hand and unleashing surging ghostly mist that swept forward.
The Blood Clan Clone emerged to Ye Yunfei's right, vast, churning crimson seas radiating from its tall, sanguine frame.
Gulu... gulu…
The dark lord instantly heard the sound of his own blood boiling in his veins, all his blood vessels swelling as though about to burst.
"This is a Blood Clan blood control art!"
The dark lord was somewhat surprised.
"Die!"
Ye Yunfei roared, unleashing a soul sword and formless heart sword to attack the dark lord's soul body. Simultaneously, he activated a spatial world formation. An illusory realm materialized above, pressing down to suppress the dark lord.
Under the combined assault of Ye Yunfei, Huang Shang, and the Blood Clan Clone, the dark lord faced immense pressure. In alarm and fury, he lifted the black war-halberd, brandishing it wildly and unleashing countless layers of halberd-shadows. Surging forth like layered black seas.
Roar…
From a surge of black mist, an ancient dark deity stepped forth behind this dark lord. Its aura instantly blanketed the surrounding space.
Boom…
Amidst the billowing black mist, the dark deity threw a punch toward Ye Yunfei. As the deity moved, claps of dark, yin thunder echoed, while devastating yin-force from the fist-wave engulfed Ye Yunfei.
Roar! Roar!
Nine sacred beasts, stamping upon a colossal wheel together, rose up from Ye Yunfei's back and surged forward to do battle with the ancient deity.
The nine beasts combined, supported by the massive wheel—this was the Nine Palaces Totem Wheel's strongest fighting form!
Thus, Ye Yunfei and that dark lord fought fiercely, exchanging blow for blow.
"You whelp, today I will slay you!"
Since the dark lord was fighting a junior, he not only hadn't seized the slightest advantage but was constrained at every turn, feeling unbearably aggrieved and erupting in fury.
Boom...
With his enraged roar, endless dark energy and laws of darkness from this region of space continuously converged toward his form, pouring into his body and causing his energy aura to ascend in successive leaps.
Ye Yunfei waved a hand, promptly laying down dozens of formations that enveloped the surroundings of this dark lord, trapping him.
"Cursed formations! Break!"
Long knowing Ye Yunfei was adept with formations, this dark lord was irate at the encirclement. His black war-halberd whirled wildly, smashing through several formations instantly.
"I'd like to see just how many you can break."
Smiling, Ye Yunfei waved again, laying down another few dozen formations, completely encircling the dark lord.
Kill!
Ye Yunfei dove into the formations with Huang Shang and the Blood Clan Clone, ganging up on the dark lord. The clash resumed.
After his body absorbed massive dark energy, this dark lord's combat power jumped a level. Yet Ye Yunfei continuously conjured even more formations mid-fight. Coordinated with Huang Shang and the clone, it only took moments before the dark lord was again at a disadvantage, forced back step by step.
Roar! Roar!...
Driven to absolute fury, he couldn't stomach being cornered to this extent by a junior.
"Die!"
During the pitched battle, Ye Yunfei struck with soul sword and formless heart sword invading the dark lord's sea of consciousness, then briefly immobilized him with the spatial world formation. He lunged forward, landing a fist on the chest of the dark lord.
Agh...
The dark lord shrieked, a bloody hole punched clean through his chest, exposing front and back. His heart was also reduced to pulp.
"So-called dark lords aren't that formidable after all.
A junior like me can slaughter you!"
Ye Yunfei laughed heartily.
Bang! Like lightning, Ye Yunfei added another punch, blasting the dark lord's head apart in a spray of brains and gore.
Roar…
The dark lord's soul body materialized a small distance away, glaring furiously at Ye Yunfei, brimming with bitter resentment.
"Nowhere to run!"
Huang Shang beheld a prized delicacy, erupting with surging ghost mist and pouncing.
Knowing ghosts were natural bane entities for souls, the dark lord panicked and spun to flee.
Pfff! Pfff! Pfff!...
From within Ye Yunfei's sea of consciousness, jade-green branches exploded from the Soul-Nurturing Arbor with terrifying speed, piercing clean through the dark lord's soul body.
Agh...
Under joint assault from Huang Shang and the Soul-Nurturing Arbor, this dark lord soon perished.
"Ye Yunfei, well done!"
Witnessing Ye Yunfei slaying a dark lord, those Light Faction high-rankers were delighted.
"Hmph, I shall personally kill you."
The Dark Ancestor, locked in combat with the Golden-Armored Giant, was already completely dominating the confrontation. Noticing Ye Yunfei had eliminated a lord, he growled in fury.
Right at that moment, four Ye Yunfeis abruptly materialized around the altar, all charging upward simultaneously toward the pitch-black child, taking action.
These were the four doppelganger statues.
While joining the battle, Ye Yunfei had secretly deployed the four statues close to the altar, preparing to deal with the black child.
This black child was the Yin Seed. The entire reason the Light Faction's top brass attacked this Nurturing Yin Land was to destroy it.
"Heh, young man, very good. Impressive thinking."
Witnessing Ye Yunfei's action from afar, the old man who had spoken to him earlier couldn't help but chuckle.
Boom! Boom!...
The four statues released surging energies and all charged onto the dark altar.
This black altar was immense in scale, belching thick black mist. Carved with twisted, bizarre sigils, incessant weird, screeching cries filled the air, unsettling the mind.
Boom! Boom!...
One of the statues retrieved large numbers of formation flags, hurling them without pause to instantly lay down numerous formations. Some enveloped the altar, while others rained down on the Yin Seed above.
Another statue activated hundreds of Earth Immortal realm treasure artifacts. Fully awakened, they radiated overwhelming treasure auras, all blasting upwards toward the Yin Seed.
The third statue simultaneously unleashed several spatial class combat arts and techniques, suppressing that Yin Seed together: spatial cages, the spatial world formation, plus masses of spatial blades and temporal sabers, all hurtling towards the Yin Seed.
The fourth statue channeled mind-force energy to assault the Yin Seed remotely, while mobilizing its powerful physical strength like a rampaging humanoid dragon, leaping high towards the Yin Seed upon the altar.
For a time, the four statues utilized the assorted combat arts and secret techniques Ye Yunfei excelled in, nearly revealing all his trump cards, unleashing a frantic assault on the Yin Seed atop the altar.
A relentless storm of varied, dense attacks deluged that Yin Seed.
"Excellent!"
Witnessing this scene, those Light Faction high-rankers were delighted beyond measure.
They had stealthily infiltrated this Nurturing Yin Land to destroy that Yin Seed while the Dark Ancestor left with his elite forces to attack the Light Faction headquarters, only to have the Dark Ancestor detect them timely, dashing back, and ruining their chance.
Now, watching Ye Yunfei's abrupt tactic of launching such a ferocious attack against that Yin Seed greatly encouraged them.
"Whelp, you think you alone can act against the Yin Seed? Unprecedented hubris!"
The Dark Ancestor bellowed with rage.
Boom! Boom!...
Following his roar, a multitude of dark-scaled drakes materialized around the altar, each possessing immense bodies, frantically writhing.
"Let the energies of this space-time converge fully to me!"
The Dark Ancestor roared further, weaving hand-seals and stomping repeatedly.
Boom! Boom!...
Following the Dark Ancestor's actions, every world among the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds violently quaked.
A colossal dark rift tore open in each world.
Then the energy and laws within each world reversed into these rifts, travelling along spatial-temporal conduits into this region's space-time where the Dark Ancestor resided, entering that altar.
As tidal influxes of energy and laws poured in, the aura from that black altar grew increasingly terrifying.
That black altar suddenly shook violently, unleashing intense energies that instantly blocked all four statues' assaults.
The four statues were forced back step by step by the altar's formidable energy output.
"Hahaha! Since you have come here, none shall leave alive!"
The Dark Ancestor erupted into maddened laughter.
At this moment, vast tides of energy and laws continued funneling from worlds across the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds into this space. A substantial portion poured directly into the Dark Ancestor himself, causing his energy aura to ascend in successive leaps!
"DIE!"
The Dark Ancestor sent the Golden-Armored Giant reeling back with a single punch. His fist-force—as devastating as overturned stellar rivers—was a tide of black-dark energy blasting the giant further away.
"I never thought the Dark Ancestor possessed means to harness all the worlds' energy and laws across this space-time into here to nurture that Yin Seed!"
Several of the reclusive beings watching nearby couldn't help expressing shock.
"Those dark drakes are not real!
This somewhat resembles workings of Land-Reading arts!"
Ye Yunfei stared at the frantically twisting dark drakes surrounding the altar, a sudden realization dawning.
"This appears to be a massive geomantic array!
Each drake holds secrets, seemingly linking with elements of the outside!
Thanks to these drakes, the Dark Ancestor draws so much external energy and laws to nourish that Yin Seed within this space!"
An expert himself in Land-Reading arts, having personally designed several massive cursed grounds, and further skilled with formations, Ye Yunfei grasped certain underlying principles after observing the twisting dark drakes.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
At that moment, the four doppelganger statues Ye Yunfei had dispatched were simultaneously blasted back by the black altar.
Since the Dark Ancestor utilized that altar to nourish the Yin Seed, naturally he'd made comprehensive arrangements, placing the seed under rigorous guard, making outside approach extremely difficult.
"Heh heh, you of the Light Faction thought fabricating such a construct could confront me? Naive. Now watch me shatter it and see the might of I, the Dark Ancestor."
Now at an awe-inspiring height of power, the Dark Ancestor surged forward and delivered a rapid succession of blows. The Golden-Armored Giant was left defenseless, fractures beginning to appear on its body.
"Disaster! The Golden-Armored Giant cannot hold!"
Expressions of the Light Faction's highest rankers paled drastically.
That Golden-Armored Giant now represented the Light Faction's mightiest combat asset. Destroying it would prove a massive setback.
Boom…
In the following moment, the Dark Ancestor's punch blasted the Golden-Armored Giant into pieces.
"All its energy shall nourish my Yin Seed!
Your Light Faction delivers treasures direct to my doorstep!"
The Dark Ancestor laughed wildly.