Whoosh!
The next moment, Ye Yunfei was right in front of Li Yichen, his cold gaze fixed upon him.
"You punk, what do you think you're doing!"
Li Yichen felt a prickle of fear on his scalp.
Ye Yunfei's ghostly, phantom-like movement was simply too fast, so fast he had no time to react at all!
*Whap!*
Ye Yunfei's palm answered him, delivering a crisp, loud slap squarely on his right cheek.
*Thud!*
Li Yichen's body immediately flew backward and crashed dozens of meters away, smashing a large crater into the ground.
A cloud of dust billowed up!
One could only imagine the force behind that slap.
Li Yichen was merely at the Late Stage Earth Realm. Against Ye Yunfei, he was utterly powerless to fight back!
A Niu and the dozen or so disciples Li Yichen had brought were all stunned.
Li Yichen had actually been struck!
This was a major incident!
In the entire Tianyuan Sect, who didn't know Li Yichen was a notorious local tyrant!
His elder cousin, Li Chaofeng, was the number one figure on Water Peak, a Heaven Realm Expert!
"Ah! You dare hit me! You're dead! I'll tear you into ten thousand pieces!"
From the depths of the woods, Li Yichen roared like a slaughtered pig.
Several disciples rushed over and helped him up.
His right cheek was swollen grotesquely, and almost half of the teeth in his mouth were gone, blood dripping freely.
The look he shot at Ye Yunfei was utterly venomous, as if he had suffered some grievous, heaven-sent wrong.
Within the Tianyuan Sect, Li Yichen, relying on his cousin's prestige, had always been overbearing and arrogant. He only ever bullied others; absolutely no one dared bully *him*!
Yet now, he had been slapped in the face.
This was a monumental disgrace, something he could not accept!
"Form the Five Dragon Divine Water Formation!"
Li Yichen took out a Grade 3 healing elixir and swallowed it, then shouted coldly.
At the same time, a blue longsword appeared in his hand.
The blade rippled gently, as if it were made of water.
A chilling sharpness flowed across its surface.
A low-grade spiritual sword!
*Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!*
Li Yichen and four other disciples, all at the Late Stage Earth Realm, moved fluidly, their figures shifting as they formed a combat formation.
Each held a longsword, their auras connecting and responding to one another, all sword tips pointing at Ye Yunfei.
"You dare use the Five Dragon Divine Water Formation against a fellow disciple! If the Sect Master finds out, he'll surely punish you!"
A Niu paled in shock, recognizing the formation.
This Five Dragon Divine Water Formation had too much killing power. The Tianyuan Sect had rules: under normal circumstances, it was not to be used without authorization.
Especially in internal disputes between disciples, its use was strictly prohibited.
"Heh, if we kill you both, how would the Sect Master ever know?" Li Yichen sneered, not bothering to conceal his murderous intent toward Ye Yunfei and A Niu.
Not killing them both would never quell his rage!
"Li Yichen, you... you dare kill us?!"
A Niu was getting a bit flustered.
"A Niu, don't waste words on him. Rest easy, the likes of them can't kill us."
Ye Yunfei spoke up.
"You punk, you'll regret this very soon!" Li Yichen roared.
*Whoosh...*
The blue longsword in his hand seemed to transform into a stream of flowing blue water, shooting toward Ye Yunfei at blinding speed.
The other four Late Stage Earth Realm disciples moved simultaneously.
Each occupying a direction, they brandished their swords from different angles, locking Ye Yunfei down.
*Rumble...*
Immediately, within a radius of several meters, the sound of flowing water arose. Five watery currents that shifted between visibility and concealment manifested in the air, crisscrossing and flowing back and forth.
The five water currents surrounded Ye Yunfei in the center!
Ye Yunfei realized the space around him was filled entirely with water, front, back, left, right—trapping his body!
Naturally, A Niu was the same, trapped within this water formation and utterly unable to move.
"Haha, punk, how does it feel! Weren't you so impressive a moment ago, daring to slap me! Now you know regret!"
Seeing Ye Yunfei seemingly immobilized, Li Yichen assumed the Five Dragon Divine Water Formation had taken effect, trapping Ye Yunfei in place.
Indeed, this formation was famous and feared within the Tianyuan Sect, widely acknowledged as a formidable array of great power.
Five Late Stage Earth Realm cultivators using it could fight above their level against a Heaven Realm Expert!
Let alone against someone at the Early Stage Earth Realm!
"I don't regret it at all. I enjoyed slapping you quite a bit just now."
Ye Yunfei grinned.
In Ye Yunfei's eyes, this Five Dragon Divine Water Formation was simply riddled with holes, extremely low-level, and too flimsy to withstand a single blow.
When Ye Yunfei ruled the world, was there any formation he hadn't seen?
Even within the three thousand greater and lesser worlds, divine arrays left behind from the ancient Primordial era—Ye Yunfei had witnessed those too!
This Five Dragon Divine Water Formation executed by the five Water Peak disciples before him was like a child's game, clumsy and laughable.
"Attack! Kill him!"
Ye Yunfei's words instantly provoked Li Yichen into a furious rage, and he roared the command.
*Swish, swish...*
Amidst the swirling water, five longswords, like five small streams, silently stabbed toward Ye Yunfei from five different angles.
The watery force created by the Five Dragon Divine Water Formation served two purposes: First, to trap the opponent's body, hindering their movement.
Second, to conceal the attack.
Hidden within the ever-flowing water currents, the five longswords, like five venomous snakes, closed in around Ye Yunfei's body.
"Hehe, punk, you're about to die."
Li Yichen felt immense satisfaction. His Illusory Water Spirit Sword had already reached within three inches of Ye Yunfei's chest, its sharp sword aura locking onto his heart.
For a Heaven Realm Expert to evade a low-grade spiritual sword aiming at their heart from such close range would probably be extremely difficult.
Therefore, Li Yichen's gaze became venomous once more, a vindictive smile spreading across his face. *You see? Those who dare provoke me, Li Yichen, meet only one end—death!* The accumulated resentment from being slapped earlier seemed to be finally released in this moment.
However.
At this very instant.
Ye Yunfei's body moved.
With just a light sidestep, he dodged the thrust of the Illusory Water Spirit Sword.
Then, his right hand shot out like lightning, unerringly clamping onto Li Yichen's throat, and lifting him straight up.
*Clang!*
The Illusory Water Spirit Sword fell to the ground.
Simultaneously, Ye Yunfei's left hand had already drawn his own sword, unleashing the Myriad Transformations Mirage Sword Technique.
A dazzling swath of sword light cascaded outward.
*Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!*
The wrists of the other four Late Stage Earth Realm disciples were all pierced almost simultaneously, their swords sent flying.
The Five Dragon Divine Water Formation had been broken!
All the watery currents around Ye Yunfei vanished completely.
*How is this possible?!*
Everyone besides Ye Yunfei froze in disbelief.
The famed and mighty Five Dragon Divine Water Formation of the Tianyuan Sect... broken just like that?
*Gurgle...*
With his throat clutched in Ye Yunfei's grasp, Li Yichen was hoisted into the air like a chick, struggling desperately, his breathing becoming more and more difficult.
"Now... you understand regret, don't you?"
Ye Yunfei looked down at Li Yichen with a mocking gaze.
"Let Senior Brother Li go immediately! If something happens to Senior Brother Li, the consequences are beyond what you can bear!"
"Senior Brother Li's cousin is Li Chaofeng, the top expert of our Water Peak!"
"Senior Brother Li is from the Imperial City's Li Family!"
...
The dozen or so Water Peak disciples shouted at Ye Yunfei one after another.
In their view, even if Ye Yunfei had won, he wouldn't dare actually do anything to Li Yichen.
After all, Li Yichen's background was there for all to see.
*Crack!*
Ye Yunfei tightened his grip, crushing Li Yichen's throat on the spot.
Then.
*Thud!*
Li Yichen's corpse fell to the ground.
Ye Yunfei would never let go anyone who tried to kill him.
"You... you killed Senior Brother Li?"
The Water Peak disciples all stared at Ye Yunfei with looks of utter disbelief, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
"That's right. I killed him. And all of you will die as well."
Ye Yunfei nodded.
As soon as the words left his lips.
The sword in Ye Yunfei's hand thrust out like a bolt of lightning.
Instantly, countless dazzling rays of sword light appeared simultaneously.
Ye Yunfei moved with extreme swiftness, flickering left and right, forward and back.
Every stroke of his sword felled one man.
In less than the span of a single breath, all dozen or so Water Peak disciples lay dead!
"Th-this... Senior Brother Ye, you... you've stirred up a huge calamity..."
Staring at the ground littered with corpses, A Niu's face turned deathly pale.
It was precisely at this moment.
Suddenly.
*Boom...!*
Without the slightest warning, the earth began to tremble violently, as if struck by a catastrophic earthquake.
The entire expanse of land swayed and shook like a sieve.
The myriad birds and beasts within these mountain ridges erupted into panicked terror, taking flight and fleeing in all directions, the scene as chaotic as a boiling pot.
Then, Ye Yunfei saw the chasm beneath the cliff ahead begin to spew forth a surge of monstrously thick, rampant demonic aura, blazingly intense.
"The tremor is coming from the Demon Trapping Cliff!"
Ye Yunfei's gaze sharpened.
At the same time.
Within the Tianyuan Sect's main headquarters.
"Disaster! Something's gone wrong at the Demon Trapping Cliff!"
Every single member of the Tianyuan Sect's high command turned pale, hearts trembling with dread.