Early the next morning, Dongguo Xiong bid farewell to the Heavenly Emperor of the Ten Thousand Beasts Empire with the four other students, including Ye Yunfei, and boarded the flying ship, heading towards the Blackwind Desert.
The Blackwind Desert lay to the west of the Ten Thousand Beasts Empire.
Inside the flying ship, all five students sat cross-legged with their eyes closed, resting and gathering their spirit.
The looks Dongguo Xiong and the three senior students occasionally cast towards Ye Yunfei were filled with murderous intent.
Ye Yunfei perceived it all very clearly with his Soul Power and inwardly sneered.
A day later.
The flying ship entered a vast, boundless expanse of desert.
The area of this desert was immense.
At the very least, it was two to three times the territory of the Ten Thousand Beasts Empire.
Looking out, the undulating dunes seemed like piles of shattered gold, reflecting dazzling light under the sun.
As the flying ship flew over the desert, one could occasionally glimpse some oases scattered amidst the sands.
After flying through the desert for most of the day...
"Alright.
Let's rest and recuperate properly at this oasis," Dongguo Xiong suddenly announced.
Ahead, a small oasis appeared, dotted with some plants unique to the desert.
In the vast, endless desert, the sudden appearance of such an oasis was a rare find.
"Good, we'll follow Senior Brother Dongguo's suggestion. Let's rest here," the three senior students nodded in agreement.
The flying ship stopped within the oasis. Dongguo Xiong led the way out, descending onto the small patch of greenery.
"Heh, we've only been in here half a day, and Senior Brother Dongguo already wants to rest. What refined interests you have," Ye Yunfei said with a cold laugh.
"How dare you!
Ye Yunfei, do you think Senior Brother Dongguo's actions need your guidance?
This is insubordination and outright treason!" Immediately, that senior student named Wang Tiechao pointed at Ye Yunfei and raged.
Dongguo Xiong and the other two senior students also glared at Ye Yunfei, their killing intent palpable.
Upon entering the desert, these four senior students no longer seemed to bother concealing their murderous intentions towards Ye Yunfei.
"It seems you all don't think much of me.
Those with different paths cannot work together.
Since that's the case, we might as well split up and act separately," Ye Yunfei said, turning to walk into the distance.
Right now, Ye Yunfei only wanted to quickly find the Second Prince and Third Princess of the Ten Thousand Beasts Empire.
And then, obtain the Demonic Crocodile's Bloodline Essence and the Beast Venerable corpses.
"Ye Yunfei, you stand still right there!" Immediately, Dongguo Xiong roared in a low voice, his right hand abruptly striking out.
Boom...
With that one grab, a vast spiritual energy pressure surged forth, the air instantly being drained, setting off a series of energy explosion sounds like thunderclaps.
As expected of a powerful expert at the Foundational Origin Realm, even a simple grab was formidable. The overwhelming spiritual energy violently crushed towards Ye Yunfei from all directions.
An ordinary practitioner at the True Manifestation Realm might have been directly crushed to death!
"Get lost!" Ye Yunfei, long prepared, let out a loud shout and directly threw a punch.
This punch unleashed his full physical power, like a volcano erupting or ten thousand horses galloping. Its terrifying force collided violently with Dongguo Xiong's right palm through the air.
Whoosh!
After throwing the punch, Ye Yunfei activated the Heavenly Shadow Robe, instantly increasing his speed tenfold.
Whoosh!
Ye Yunfei's body left behind streaks of afterimages as he instantly arrived several hundred meters away.
"What?!
How can pure physical power resist me like this?!" Dongguo Xiong was utterly astonished.
"Block him!" Dongguo Xiong shouted.
Whoosh whoosh...
The four senior students simultaneously moved, their movement techniques unfolding as they surrounded Ye Yunfei from four different directions.
"Heh, you finally couldn't hold back anymore and decided to make your move," Ye Yunfei said coldly as he stood his ground.
"You four, in order to kill me, pretended to accept a mission and accompanied me all the way to the Blackwind Desert. How very patient of you.
Actually, your true mission was to kill me, right?
Tell me, exactly who sent you." Ye Yunfei swept his gaze across the four of them with a cold sneer.
"Ye Yunfei, ever since you first entered Hudao Academy, you've been arrogant and despotic, stirring up trouble everywhere. You have simply become a scourge of our Hudao Academy.
We could no longer bear your actions, so we decided to rid the academy of this menace by killing you.
This is the vast desert; there's no escape for you here.
Better just accept your death obediently," Dongguo Xiong said with a ferocious grin.
"Ye Yunfei, with Senior Brother Dongguo here, you have no wings to fly away. You're dead for sure!" The three senior students also said coldly, murderous intent emanating from them.
"Did the Xiao Sect hire you to kill me?" Ye Yunfei asked.
"Brat, you're about to die, yet you still have so much to say!
Accept your death!" The senior student named Wang Tiechao shouted sternly, then his figure moved as he charged fiercely towards Ye Yunfei.
Suddenly, he threw a palm strike. A thick palm imprint flew from his palm, continuously enlarging.
Boom...
The palm imprint, like a massive millstone, carried a violent pressure of spiritual energy, whipping up a storm of sand as it overwhelmingly crushed towards Ye Yunfei.
Boom!
Ye Yunfei punched out, his immense force erupting. Over two million jin of physical power directly exploded the air, colliding with that incoming palm imprint.
Poof!
The palm imprint, which had seemed so imposing, burst like a bubble in an instant.
Boom!
Ye Yunfei's fist continued its advance, the crushing fist force relentlessly bearing down on Wang Tiechao.
"How is this possible!" Caught off guard, Wang Tiechao was scared out of his wits. He immediately executed an exquisite movement technique, a pair of spiritual energy wings popping out behind him. Leaving streaks of afterimages, he retreated several hundred meters away in the blink of an eye.
However, Ye Yunfei's speed was even faster.
Directly activating the Heavenly Shadow Robe for a tenfold speed boost, Ye Yunfei whooshed through the air and caught up to Wang Tiechao.
A single punch blasted onto Wang Tiechao's body.
"Ah!" Wang Tiechao was sent flying, crashing into the distant desert, barely clinging to life.
Whoosh!
A pitch-black dagger appeared, pressing against Wang Tiechao's throat.
"Tell me, who sent you to kill me," Ye Yunfei asked coldly.
"Don't kill me, I'll tell you, it was the Xiao Sect!
It was the Xiao Sect people who paid a huge price to hire us to kill you!
It was my fault, I was wrong, please spare my life!" Wang Tiechao, scared to the point of his soul flying out, panickedly begged for mercy.
Crunch!
The pitch-black dagger moved forward, cleanly slicing through Wang Tiechao's throat.
"So it was the Xiao Sect," Ye Yunfei sneered.
"Ye Yunfei, you actually dare to commit murder and atrocity, killing a fellow sect member! What punishment do you deserve!" Seeing Ye Yunfei kill Wang Tiechao, Dongguo Xiong roared in fury.
"Haha, you all teamed up to come kill me, why would I still need to be polite with you?
You will all die!" Ye Yunfei laughed loudly.
As his words fell.
Whoosh!
Ye Yunfei vanished.
This caused Dongguo Xiong and the other two senior students to be momentarily stunned.
Whoosh!
The next moment, Ye Yunfei appeared ghost-like beside the senior student named Fang Tian.
A punch blasted out.
Over two million jin of physical power exploded forth all at once.
Boom...
This punch instantly drained all the air from the surrounding space, even causing a brief moment of darkness as if space itself were about to explode.