"Senior, I understand your meaning. It's just that they are numerous and formidable, and their overall strength is powerful. I am not their match."
After some thought, Ye Yunfei replied straightforwardly via Sound Transmission.
"Young man, I know the current situation. I do not hold extravagant hopes that you can rescue all the members of our Fire Bird Clan. I only wish to ask you for one thing. Later, when the palace doors are breached, there will inevitably be a bloody battle—one that could very well be an annihilation war for our Fire Bird Clan. I want to entrust the little princess of our Fire Bird Clan to you. Take her away, leave this world, and find a safe, hidden place outside to settle her. The little princess possesses noble bloodline and is the last hope of our clan."
The Fire Bird Clan elder transmitted his words with a pleading tone.
Ye Yunfei fell silent for a moment.
With so many strong individuals present here, Ye Yunfei didn't have much confidence. More importantly, his purpose in coming to this world was for the Celestial Flame Divine Bird's Tianyan Divine Pearl. Now, not only had he not obtained the Divine Pearl, but he was also being asked to help the Fire Bird Clan.
"Young man, rest assured, I won't have you exert effort for nothing. You entered our world, possibly also for the treasures of the Celestial Flame Divine Bird. If you can help me rescue the little princess, find a place to settle her, and ensure she grows up safely and healthily, I will gift you a Tianyan Divine Pearl."
Seeing that Ye Yunfei hadn't answered, the Fire Bird Clan elder spoke again.
"Gift me a Tianyan Divine Pearl?"
Upon hearing the elder's words, Ye Yunfei's heart stirred.
The Tianyan Divine Pearl was immensely precious. If the Fire Bird Clan were not facing the current calamity of annihilation, they definitely wouldn't give away a Divine Pearl so easily.
"To be honest, Senior, a cultivation art I practice does indeed require the Tianyan Divine Pearl. Very well then, I promise Senior."
Ye Yunfei discussed it briefly with Hun Lao before transmitting his reply.
"Thank you, young man, for your righteous action! You can trust me—we Fire Bird Clan members are men of our word. As long as you are willing to help our Fire Bird Clan, regardless of the final outcome, I will definitely gift you a Tianyan Divine Pearl."
The Fire Bird Clan elder was greatly delighted to hear Ye Yunfei's reply. Although he had never seen Ye Yunfei fight and didn't know his true strength, he felt that as the heir of Lord Jian Shenzi, he definitely couldn't be weak.
"Senior, they are about to breach the palace doors soon. How about this: I'll make a move first to stop their attack, buying some time for you."
Seeing the group unitedly attacking the palace doors, Ye Yunfei spoke via Sound Transmission.
"Young man, can you really stop them from attacking the palace doors?"
The Fire Bird Clan elder inside the palace was overjoyed upon hearing Ye Yunfei's words.
"I'll try."
Ye Yunfei replied. After speaking, he strode forward.
The others saw Ye Yunfei stepping forward and assumed he also wanted to join in attacking the palace doors, so they paid him no mind.
"Everyone, let's attack together!"
Ye Yunfei walked to the front of the doors and suddenly spoke aloud.
Then, Ye Yunfei unleashed Soul Sword, Intangible Heart Sword, Heart Power Chains, Heart Devil Bell, and other Soul Power and Heart Power martial arts, beginning to attack the strong individuals around him.
The surrounding experts were wholeheartedly focused on jointly attacking the palace doors. How could they have anticipated Ye Yunfei suddenly attacking them?
As Ye Yunfei attacked, Hu Miao unleashed illusion arts, Huang Chang unleashed ghost arts, while Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm and Hun Lao employed secret space-sealing arts.
Because Ye Yunfei was standing in the middle of the crowd and everyone was completely unprepared for him, the various arts and secret techniques unleashed by Ye Yunfei, Hu Miao, Hun Lao, and others met absolutely no resistance. Every hit landed solidly on those nearby.
At the same time, Ye Yunfei also unleashed spatial secret arts, forcibly sealing off the space around them.
For a moment, one illusionary realm after another continuously spread through the crowd. Ghost walls one after another constantly emerged amidst billowing ghostly mists. The surrounding space was completely sealed.
Stamping his foot, Ye Yunfei activated Earth Resonance Art. Immediately, all the earth energy and earth laws within this space converged endlessly, forming wall after wall of earth that materialized all around, encircling everyone like a maze.
Following that, two or three large-scale Earth Formations erupted into existence beneath everyone's feet, trapping all within.
Seizing the moment before anyone could react, Ye Yunfei also took out a large number of Formation Flags, continuously tossing them forward.
One large-scale formation after another continuously manifested.
Given Ye Yunfei's current level in formations, his speed was already astounding. Within a few breaths, Ye Yunfei had already laid out hundreds of large-scale formations outside the palace doors.
One radiant array barrier after another constantly emerged, firmly protecting the palace doors.
"All of you, get lost!"
After setting up the formations and Earth Formations, Ye Yunfei unleashed his physical body supernatural abilities. His two arms instantly enlarged like two flood dragons, sweeping out left and right.
Ye Yunfei's physical strength was incredibly formidable. Now, with his full power unleashed, the might was astonishing. Anyone touched by his two sweeping arms was sent flying into the distance like shells fired from a cannon.
Even the two Perfected Demigods from the Shen Family and the Demon Race, along with other strong individuals like Immortal Maiden Qingxia and the young man from the Tianhuang Forbidden Land, sensing the powerful physical force emanating from Ye Yunfei's arms, were forced to continuously retreat to evade.
In just a moment, the area before the palace doors was completely cleared by Ye Yunfei.
Nearly half were sent flying backward by Ye Yunfei's blows, while the other half were forced to retreat.
Seizing the opportunity, Ye Yunfei took out another large handful of Formation Flags, instantly setting up an additional batch of formations.
At the same time, using Earth Resonance Art, he deployed several more large-scale Earth Formations.
After Ye Yunfei's arrangement, the area before the palace doors was now heavily layered with formations, creating an imposing and strict atmosphere.
The powerful formation energies converged together, causing the surrounding space to tremble and distort slightly. Concurrently, over a dozen large-scale Earth Formations surged with billowing, earthy-yellow energies.
"Ye Yunfei! What are you doing?!"
At this moment, everyone began to react, glaring at Ye Yunfei with furious eyes.
"Ye Yunfei, you were just watching from the back, definitely hoping to snatch an advantage! Not only didn't you help attack the doors, but now you even come out to cause trouble. How despicable!"
A Demigod expert from the Shen Family pointed at Ye Yunfei, angrily speaking.
"Ye Yunfei, why make an enemy of everyone in such a situation? Is it because you want to keep the Celestial Flame Divine Bird's treasures all for yourself?"
A Demigod from the Demon Race questioned Ye Yunfei.
Immortal Maiden Qingxia, the youth from the Tianhuang Forbidden Land, and everyone else all looked at Ye Yunfei with furious gazes. Clearly, Ye Yunfei's recent actions had provoked collective anger.
"Indeed, I just want to keep the Celestial Flame Divine Bird's treasures all for myself. Now, all of you get lost."
Ye Yunfei swept his gaze coldly over everyone, then spoke faintly.
"Very well, someone actually dares to openly provoke me like this."
Hearing Ye Yunfei's words, the youth whose body was rotating with seven green treasured umbrellas darkened his face and sneered.
"So it's a fool who doesn't know life from death."
Immortal Maiden Qingxia glanced at Ye Yunfei with a disgusted look and spoke. She thought Ye Yunfei really made such a move because he wanted to monopolize the treasures.
"I'll say it one more time. If you don't want to die, all of you get lost."
Ye Yunfei said coldly.
"Everyone, it seems besides joining forces to breach the palace doors, we have another task: to eliminate this arrogant brat."
The youth from the Tianhuang Forbidden Land said coldly.
As his voice fell, the half-segment of pristine white finger bone before him suddenly erupted with dazzling divine light and whistled out, charging toward Ye Yunfei.
Perceiving the energy pressure emanating from the half-segment finger bone, Ye Yunfei was somewhat startled.
"To deal with this brat, I alone am sufficient."
The green-robed youth also suddenly exploded into action. The seven green treasured umbrellas before him simultaneously rose into the air, forming a battle array, and attacked toward Ye Yunfei.
Each green umbrella spun at high speed, razor-sharp, cutting through the space and leaving dark spatial cracks behind.
Ye Yunfei's figure flickered. Activating a movement technique previously taught by Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm—Great Space Movement—his form shifted and directly pierced through the space behind him, disappearing.
In the past, Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm and Hun Lao had both taught Ye Yunfei their respective clan's spatial secret arts. The Great Space Movement Technique was a movement art of the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm race. To cultivate it, one had to master spatial energy and spatial laws and possess the origin essence-blood of the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm race.
Back then, Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm had not only taught Ye Yunfei the technique but also given him a drop of his origin essence-blood, allowing Ye Yunfei to cultivate and perform this movement art.
Boom!
The location where Ye Yunfei had just stood was blasted into a massive spatial black hole. Innumerable space-time fragments whistled out from within.
The combined attack of the youth from the Tianhuang Forbidden Land and the green-robed youth, both formidable experts, indeed possessed terrifying power.
By now, Ye Yunfei had already appeared in another location.
"Everyone, let's split into two groups. One group continues attacking the palace doors, while another group deals with Ye Yunfei."
An Advanced Demigod from the Demon Race shouted.
"Good, we split into two groups."
Everyone agreed with the Advanced Demigod's proposal.
Then, a large group turned around to continue attacking the palace doors.
"Brat, I'll kill you first."
The green-robed youth looked at Ye Yunfei, revealing a sinister smile, then flickered, charging towards him.
The seven green treasured umbrellas all rose into the air, continuously enlarging like seven gigantic green clouds covering a vast expanse of the sky.
Thirty-six green long blades suddenly shot out from the green-robed youth's body. Each blade shimmered with cold, sharp sword light. The thirty-six long blades erupted with billowing green sword qi, spreading towards Ye Yunfei like a verdant sea.
With a thought, Ye Yunfei's Flying Sword shot out from the crown of his head, radiating dazzling, dazzling sword radiance.
Clang! Clang...
Ye Yunfei's Flying Sword continuously clashed with those green long blades.
"How is this possible?"
The green-robed youth discovered that the green long blades he released would either suffer notches or be directly severed in two upon clashing with the Flying Sword—all becoming useless.
The Flying Sword, dragging along a radiant ocean of sword qi, swept across, directly destroying all thirty-six green long blades.
These thirty-six green long blades belonged to quite remarkable Demigod-level magical treasures with potent combat power. However, Ye Yunfei's Flying Sword was a Deity-level artifact—simply not of the same level.
Boom!
After the radiant Flying Sword destroyed the thirty-six green blades, it whistled toward the green-robed youth, trailing a long ocean of sword qi.
Although the Flying Sword seemed to move slowly, that was merely a visual effect. In reality, its speed was astonishingly fast, reaching the front of the green-robed youth in an instant.
"What kind of artifact is this?"
Sensing the terrifying sword radiance emanating from the Flying Sword, the green-robed youth paled in fright and hastily retreated.
Boom!
The dazzling Flying Sword swept across, forcing the green-robed youth to continuously retreat and, in passing, slew dozens of Shen Family and Demon Race members. Severed limbs and shattered flesh littered the ground.
"Ye Yunfei, you seek death!"
A Demigod of the Demon Race saw this and immediately flew into a rage. In his hand, he held a three-layer demonic pagoda, which he tossed through the air.
The three-layer demonic pagoda continuously enlarged, instantly transforming into a towering, lofty pagoda that descended to suppress Ye Yunfei.
Ye Yunfei gave a cold smile and punched forward. With a bang, he punched a hole through the three-layer demonic pagoda, rendering it directly useless.
Boom...
At that moment, the half-segment pristine white finger bone erupted with billowing pure white divine radiance, whistling as it arrived.
This pure white finger bone was jade-like throughout, emitting a somewhat gentle sheen, but the energy pressure it released was terrifying to the extreme.
Ye Yunfei hastily recalled the Flying Sword, making it fly back before him to directly clash with the half-segment finger bone. With a clang, Ye Yunfei was astonished to find his Flying Sword was shaken back a significant distance.
However, this Flying Sword was forged from Deity-level materials, incredibly sturdy and undamaged.
Ye Yunfei understood: it wasn't that this Flying Sword wasn't strong, but rather his own strength was relatively weak. He couldn't bring out the sword's true might. Otherwise, it should be able to withstand this half-segment finger bone.
Ye Yunfei's figure quickly retreated while simultaneously driving the Flying Sword to continuously block the half-segment finger bone.
At this moment, a large group of strong individuals were jointly attacking the palace doors. But outside the palace doors, Ye Yunfei had already deployed many formations and Earth Formations, which now played their role, blocking all the attacks.
However, Ye Yunfei knew the formations and Earth Formations he had set up could only hold out for a period of time at most. If he allowed these people to continue their assault, eventually all his formations and Earth Formations would likely be broken.
"Let us few join forces to kill this brat. It's said this brat most likely obtained the legacies of two deities. Moreover, he previously seized the Netherwomb nurtured by the Dark Faction in the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds. So, the good things on him are definitely plentiful."
A young man in yellow robes walked over, speaking.
Boom...
A yellow-colored scroll shot out from within his body, directly unfurling. This scroll seemed to depict images of an entire world: magnificent mountains and rivers, plains, deserts, primal forests, city after city of massive scale, and lands teeming with living beings of various races. It was an active, animated painting.
The painting continuously unfolded high in the air, its area constantly expanding, instantly covering the entire space where Ye Yunfei stood. The images within the scroll now appeared more real, seemingly becoming heavier, as if a real world had appeared above Ye Yunfei's head, pressing down on him with the weight of an entire realm.
"This artifact's power is a bit frightening. Be careful," Hun Lao transmitted to Ye Yunfei.
"Don't worry, I can handle it." Ye Yunfei replied.
The next moment, Ye Yunfei unleashed a spatial secret art once taught to him by Hun Lao: the World Spatial Array.
A colossal world mirage appeared above Ye Yunfei's head. This world mirage continuously solidified from illusionary form, rising upward with a rumble to clash against the yellow scroll above.
"What kind of bullshit art is this? How dare it clash head-on with my artifact?"
The yellow-robed youth sneered. Then, with a point of his finger, thirty-six towering yellow mountains rose into the air from within the yellow scroll. These thirty-six yellow mountains were originally the most prominent and tallest peaks within the scroll.
Boom...
After the thirty-six yellow peaks surged out of the scroll, they transformed into actual divine mountains, immensely heavy, seeming to crush this area of heaven and earth.
The thirty-six yellow divine mountains simultaneously smashed onto the World Spatial Array Ye Yunfei had cast.
In less than two breaths, Ye Yunfei's deployed World Spatial Array showed cracks, and then, with a boom, directly exploded.
"This artifact's power truly is remarkable. It's a Deity-level artifact," Ye Yunfei secretly marveled within.
Clang! The Flying Sword soared, trailing a billowing sea of sword qi, and fiercely slashed at the yellow scroll.
Both were Deity-level magical treasures. Now, upon colliding, they flashed with strings of eye-piercing sparks.
Seizing the chance, Ye Yunfei activated his movement technique, directly leaving the area covered by the yellow scroll's influence.
"These guys each have extraordinary backgrounds, casually taking out Deity-level artifacts." Hun Lao transmitted.
"Let us attack together."
The green-robed youth stepped forward. The seven green treasured umbrellas surrounding him simultaneously shot out, spinning at high speeds, cutting towards Ye Yunfei.
The youth from the Tianhuang Forbidden Land drove the half-segment pristine finger bone, erupting with pure white divine radiance, pointing towards Ye Yunfei's head.
The yellow-robed youth activated the yellow scroll high above, suppressing it down towards Ye Yunfei.
Three formidable experts attacking together, their combined offensive power was terrifying, causing even Ye Yunfei to be secretly startled.
"Not good! The formations and Earth Formations you deployed are starting to be broken. Especially that Immortal Maiden Qingxia—her offensive power is strongest. She's already broken over ten of your formations, and in a short time!"
At this moment, Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm suddenly transmitted to Ye Yunfei.