"Gurgle..."
Watching three assassins die right before his eyes, Elder Xing's face twisted with sheer fury. A strange, owl-like sound gushed from his throat.
"Damn it! Bastard, if you have any courage, come at me!"
Elder Xing let out a howl of anguish and rage.
Yet amidst his fury, he also felt utterly powerless.
Because, even now, he hadn't caught a single glimpse of his enemy!
He simply could do nothing against them.
In the distance, Ye Yunfei listened to Elder Xing's furious howls and gave a faint smile.
This Elder Xing was a Yuan Foundation Realm expert. Given Ye Yunfei's current strength and trump cards, defeating a Yuan Foundation Realm expert was still somewhat beyond his reach.
Therefore, Ye Yunfei refrained from provoking Elder Xing for now.
Though Ye Yunfei feared nothing, he still had a clear sense of what should be done and what shouldn't.
"Strike again!"
Ye Yunfei commanded softly.
The Five Elements Spirit Swords and the Void Blade simultaneously shot out to kill.
The lethality of the Five Elements Spirit Swords was astonishing; even a True Manifestation Realm expert could be easily slain by them. Meanwhile, the Void Blade could plunge into the void, appearing and vanishing without a trace, a ghost in the wind. Driven by the Flying Sword Art, it could strike enemies from afar.
The simultaneous assault of the Five Elements Spirit Swords and the Void Blade, working in concert, was absolutely terrifying.
At this moment, roughly seventy or eighty assassins remained, desperately charging toward Elder Xing's position.
Ah! Ah!
As the Five Elements Spirit Swords and the Void Blade struck again, more screams began to rise.
"Hurry! Back to Elder Xing, now!"
All the assassins were thoroughly terrified, running for their lives with frenzied desperation back toward Elder Xing's direction.
But no matter how fast they were, how could they possibly outrun the Five Elements Spirit Swords and the Void Blade?
One assassin after another was continuously killed.
One agonized scream after another kept ringing out, like a ghastly wailing or a wolf's howl, unspeakably terrifying.
The surviving assassins felt their blood run cold, teeth chattering, overwhelmed by horror.
They had only one thought: to return to Elder Xing's side at the fastest possible speed!
The idea of resisting or fighting the enemy didn't cross their minds at all.
What a joke! From the start until now, half of the assassins had already died wretched deaths, and they had all perished without knowing how or why, without even seeing a shadow of their foe.
The hearts of all survivors were on the verge of shattering.
"Not good! Even when our assassins hide, the enemy can still find them!" one of the elders beside Elder Xing cried out in alarm.
At that moment, hearing the endless stream of screams, Elder Xing trembled violently with rage, his heart filled with boundless venom and killing intent.
He released his Soul Power far out, scanning every inch of the surrounding space for any movement, trying to locate the enemy.
He had already amassed a great deal of spiritual power; the terrifying pressure of his aura caused swirling energy hurricanes to rage around him.
The moment he detected the enemy's trace, he would charge over at top speed and crush them!
Yet, no matter how he searched with his Soul Power, he couldn't sense the slightest trace of the enemy.
All he could perceive were five spirit swords and a pitch-black dagger, constantly appearing to hunt down the assassins.
Moreover, those five spirit swords and the black dagger would flicker in and out of existence, shifting left and right, their locations erratic and extremely difficult to lock onto.
"The Tianyou Tomb of the Eastern Region has no reason to exist any longer."
Hidden within a pocket of space, Ye Yunfei wore an indifferent expression as he controlled the Five Elements Spirit Swords and the Void Blade, continuously slaughtering the Tianyou Tomb assassins.
For these assassins, their biggest trump card was the movement technique that allowed them to turn invisible.
It was by relying on this eerie, invisibility-granting movement technique that the Tianyou Tomb assassins had built their fearsome reputation across the Eastern Region.
But in front of Ye Yunfei, it was completely useless.
Having once been an Emperor, Ye Yunfei had seen every bizarre movement art and secret technique under heaven.
The movement technique employed by these Tianyou Tomb assassins was simply trivial in Ye Yunfei's eyes.
Thus, these assassins appeared exceptionally weak before Ye Yunfei, as easy to kill as chickens or dogs.
"Dead, they're all dead! The assassins we painstakingly trained over these years are almost all killed!"
"Finished! It's all over! Our branch is utterly finished!"
"Elder Xing, what do we do? We've worked hard for decades to build this branch, and now it's destroyed in one day!"
The three elders beside Elder Xing pounded their chests and stamped their feet, wailing in despair.
"Brute! Bastard! Damn you! Get out here!" Elder Xing roared, his voice completely distorted, hoarse, his face flushed with blood and fury.
At that moment.
Screams continued to ring out one after another. The slaughter went on!
Assassins kept dying!
Those still alive were thoroughly terrified, their emotions shattered, offering no resistance whatsoever.
They only knew to desperately and madly dash toward Elder Xing's position.
"They're all dead… Finished. Our branch is completely finished!"
"This is a death feud! That bastard and our Tianyou Tomb are now truly locked in a fight to the death!"
The three elders were still shouting and wailing, their voices bordering on hysterical lamentation.
But even Elder Xing had no solutions, let alone them.
"Correct! This is a death feud! Anyone who dares provoke our Tianyou Tomb like this will be our sworn enemy from this day forth!"
Elder Xing forced himself to calm down. His eyes were bloodshot, brimming with cruel murderous intent and hatred.
To push a Yuan Foundation Realm expert to this state… probably only Ye Yunfei could accomplish such a thing.
If the martial artists of the Eastern Region learned that Ye Yunfei, single-handedly, had forced the Tianyou Tomb's headquarters in the Eastern Region into such a dire situation, they would be absolutely stunned, unable to believe it.
"Master, the Heavenly Shadow Robe is truly too formidable, too useful! Even a Yuan Foundation Realm expert cannot sense your presence."
Hu Miao couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.
"In ancient times, the Tianying Clan was a powerful race that shook the heavens. While the Heavenly Shadow Robe may not count as the absolute top treasure of the Tianying Clan, it contains profoundly advanced spatial laws. Once activated, how could a mere Yuan Foundation Realm cultivator possibly see through it?" Ye Yunfei replied plainly.
Yuan Foundation Realm experts might be considered top-tier in the Eastern Region, but in Ye Yunfei's eyes, they were nothing noteworthy. Back when he was an Emperor, a single light breath from him could have crushed thousands upon thousands of Yuan Foundation Realm cultivators!
"The Tianying Clan truly is formidable!" Hu Miao praised.
"Master, how about testing the might of the Overlord Bow? Since your spiritual power has improved, using the Overlord Bow would surely yield even greater power," Hu Miao suggested.
The Overlord Bow was also a treasured artifact of the Tianying Clan.
"Unnecessary. The Five Elements Spirit Swords and the Void Blade are sufficient for killing the enemy," Ye Yunfei replied with a smile.
Even as he spoke, Ye Yunfei continued to control the Five Elements Spirit Swords and the Void Blade, relentlessly hunting down the assassins.
A short while later.
Finally.
The slaughter ceased.
In total, twenty assassins had successfully made it back to Elder Xing's side.
Over one hundred and fifty assassins had been killed by Ye Yunfei!
Elder Xing and the three elders looked at the remaining twenty assassins, their bodies trembling faintly, hearts filled with bleak desolation.
They knew it was true: their branch of the Tianyou Tomb was truly finished.
Moreover, apart from this branch headquarters, the Tianyou Tomb's other dozen or so sub-bases in the Eastern Region had already been completely wiped out not long ago.
Counting Elder Xing and the three elders, the Tianyou Tomb in the Eastern Region now had only twenty-four members left!
The Tianyou Tomb of the Eastern Region… was game over.