Chapter 137: Chapter 136: Meeting!
Now that the tension abruptly eased, the injuries sustained during battle suddenly erupted.
At the same time, Nalan Yanran slowly rose from Yun Yun's arms, biting her red lips tightly. "According to the agreement, I should become a slave, but... please pardon my willfulness!"
With that, she swiped her sword towards her neck with resolute determination, as she had previously said, leaving her fate to the heavens—she was already prepared!
"Ah!"
Nalan Yanran's sudden action caused the faces of all the Yunlan Sect disciples and elders on the plaza to change dramatically.
No one had expected that Nalan Yanran would choose to end her life due to losing the duel and she was so decisive that it gave no one time to react.
At this moment, some elders in the audience wanted to rescue her, but due to the distance, they could only watch helplessly as the sharp blade approached Nalan Yanran's neck.
"Yanran—"
Just as the sword was about to break Nalan Yanran's snow-white skin, at the critical moment, a swift burst of energy struck Nalan Yanran's sword-wielding arm.
"Cling!"
With a crisp sound, the sword fell to the ground, but the sharp sword aura left a shallow blood mark on Nalan Yanran's delicate neck.
"Teacher!" Nalan Yanran turned her head to look at Yun Yun, who was pale with fright. It was Yun Yun who had intervened just in time.
In such a short period, only Yun Yun had both the strength and the position to intervene.
"Yanran, why must you go to such lengths?" Looking at the miserable smile in Nalan Yanran's eyes, Yun Yun couldn't help but feel moved. She held Nalan Yanran in her arms and sighed.
With a complex expression, Xiao Yan looked at Nalan Yanran in Yun Yun's arms and couldn't help but sigh. "I have no interest in making you my slave, so you don't need to do this to preserve the Yunlan Sect and the Nalan family's reputation."
Having defeated Nalan Yanran, the humiliation brought by the annulment had vanished. Now, people would only say that Nalan Yanran had poor foresight.
Regardless, Nalan Yanran was the Young Sect Leader of Yunlan Sect, and Yun Yun and the sect elders would not let her do such a thing.
Moreover, the Xiao family still existed in the Jia Ma Empire. If he truly did this and angered the Yunlan Sect, he didn't yet have the power to protect the Xiao family from their wrath.
"The three-year agreement is over; from now on, we will have no further entanglements."
Xiao Yan finally looked at Nalan Yanran, gave a carefree smile, grabbed the heavy ruler, and turned to leave.
Nalan Yanran was left in the same place, her feelings a mixture of complex emotions.
"Is it really over?" Zi Yan smacked her lips disappointedly. She had enjoyed the drama immensely.
"The prelude is indeed over!" Jiang Yun's gaze fell to the distant space, and he said mysteriously, "But it seems that more trouble is coming!"
"Huh?" Upon hearing Jiang Yun's words, Zi Yan, Xiao Yixian, and Qing Lin looked at him in confusion, only to see that he was staring unblinkingly at the distant sky.
However, when they looked over, there seemed to be nothing.
"Something's wrong!" Suddenly, Zi Yan's eyes changed, her laziness replaced by sharpness. She stared at that space intently, her eyes serious. "There are many powerful individuals approaching."
Xiao Yixian and Qing Lin looked for a long time but found nothing. They felt a tinge of frustration in their hearts—were they still unable to keep up with Jiang Yun and Zi Yan's pace of improvement?
The next second, they composed themselves, eyes serious and vigilant, ready to cope with any crisis.
Seeing the three women in concentration, Jiang Yun did not inform them of the truth. The incoming individuals were familiar to him and posed no threat to them yet.
"Whoosh!"
Outside Jia Ma Holy City, a wild wind suddenly began to blow, and at a certain moment, the space quivered violently. A giant black hole, dozens of feet wide, slowly emerged.
Inside the Bone Flame Ring, Yao Chen felt his hair stand on end and shouted at Xiao Yan, who was walking down the mountain unhurriedly, "Xiao Yanzi, go to Jia Xingtian, be ready to run at any moment!"
"Teacher, what's going on?" Yao Chen's loud warning startled Xiao Yan, but he quickly reacted and moved towards the trees where Jia Xingtian and Hai Bodong were while asking Yao Chen in his heart.
"This time there's real trouble. The entire Jia Ma Empire could become history!" Yao Chen's expression was unprecedentedly serious as he spoke in a faint voice.
Xiao Yan's body went cold. He rushed to Jia Xingtian's side in a few quick steps.
"Xiao Yan, do you need something?" Jia Xingtian recognized Xiao Yan as the mysterious individual who had saved him, Mu Chen, and Nalan Jie, and he asked with a twitch of his eyelid.
"Grandmaster Jia..."
"Boom——"
Before Xiao Yan could finish his words, the sky erupted in violent vibrations. Everyone in the Yunlan Sect stared dumbfoundedly at the distant horizon.
There, a massive black crack was slowly forming!
"The sky, the sky is cracking open?"
"What is... that?" At this moment, everyone present had no time to care for the matters between Nalan Yanran and Xiao Yan. All eyes were fixed intently on the crack.
Everyone was curious—what was happening?
"What is this?" Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen in his mind, equally curious.
"A Dou Zong can initially use spatial power, a Dou Zun can tear open space to create a tunnel, and a legendary Dou Sheng can create a small world within the void for living beings."
Yao Chen explained these powers of the strongest beings to Xiao Yan seriously.
"Then, this is?" Xiao Yan, coming to his senses, squinted and stared in horror at the massive crack.
"Indeed, a Dou Zun is crossing space to get here. Xiao Yanzi, be ready to escape at any time!" Yao Chen nodded and said calmly.
"Teacher, isn't that an exaggeration? What if they are good people?"
"Good people?" Yao Chen sneered. "Anyone could be good people on the Dou Qi continent, except them!"
"The Soul Hall?!"
"A spatial tunnel, a Dou Zun is arriving!" With such a major event happening, Yun Shan couldn't just stay in his quarters. He watched the rending space alongside Jia Xingtian with a heavy heart, speaking an earth-shattering statement.
A Dou Zun?
In this empire where a Dou Zong was considered invincible, a sudden appearance of a Dou Zun was explosive news.
With a crisp bell sound, two massive Amethyst Winged Lion Kings slowly walked out from the black hole, towing a pitch-black war chariot. A terrifying pressure emanated from within the chariot.
A dark figure, like a sculpture, stood silently next to the war chariot, exuding a bloodthirsty, icy aura—a perfect killing machine.
After the war chariot appeared, three figures stepped out of the void, walking slowly before landing outside Jia Ma Holy City—Qin Tian Zun, Qing Hai Zun, and Qiu Long Zun.
With their appearance, it was as if a switch was flipped; figures in black robes began emerging from the black vortex, cackling sinisterly.
"Strong individuals indeed!" Zi Yan's eyes swept over them. While Qin Tian and his companions didn't pose a threat to her, her gaze lingered a bit on the Devouring Heavenly Corpse before finally focusing on the war chariot with a solemn tone.
There, she sensed an abyss-like danger, and in her view, the space around the war chariot was warping slowly. Anyone who carelessly entered its domain would be torn apart by the surrounding spatial forces!
At this moment, Jiang Yun witnessed Yun Yi's entrance to the Soul Hall for the first time and felt the immense burden of karma.
"Hiss——"
Seeing so many strong individuals, sounds of gasping echoed across Jia Ma Holy City.
"Is this... the end for our Jia Ma Empire?"
"So, this is Yun Lan Sect, truly pitifully weak!" Qin Tian sneered as he looked at Yunlan Mountain in the distance.
"Hehe, once a prodigious talent, Yun Potian's descendants are quite disappointing," Qiu Long Zun sighed in a mocking tone.
"Elder, why have you come to our Jia Ma Empire?" Jia Xingtian asked respectfully, despite being aware that the people from the Soul Hall weren't friendly.
"Why have we come?" Qin Tian suddenly smiled devilishly. The next moment, he uttered words that plunged Jia Xingtian into an icy abyss: "Hehe, we are here to annihilate this nation!"
"This...," Jia Xingtian's eyes widened in despair, staring at the army of the Soul Hall.
Taking advantage of everyone's distraction, Xiao Yan quietly retreated.
At this moment, everyone was focused on the Dou Zun. No one would care about the departure of a Da Dou Shi, much less the Soul Hall.
"Yao Zun, we meet again!" Suddenly, Yun Yi's calm voice from the war chariot made Xiao Yan stiffen.
Yun Yi slowly stepped out of the war chariot, causing an uproar with his youthful appearance.
Even facing death, seeing a youth as young as Xiao Yan and Nalan Yanran, everyone couldn't help but feel shocked.
Is this the outside world?
Are all the geniuses outside as terrifying as Yun Yi and Jiang Yun?
Following Yun Yi's words, Xiao Yan became the center of attention again, the curious looks of Qin Tian and the others focusing on him.
"It's you!" Yao Chen's phantom appeared behind Xiao Yan, glaring coldly at Yun Yi with undisguised hatred and fear.
"Who would have thought that the continent's first alchemist would end up like this?" Qin Tian sneered when Yao Chen showed up.
"Thanks to you from the Soul Hall, Yao Chen will remember this!" Yao Chen stared coldly at the Soul Hall group.
"What—" hearing their conversation, the onlookers' gazes fixed on the seemingly ordinary soul body, not expecting it to be the continent's first alchemist.
But even the continent's first alchemist couldn't escape the Soul Hall!
"Who would've thought you'd mobilize so many people just for me? I feel truly honored!" Yao Chen looked at Yun Yi, mistaking his arrival as targeting him, given that Jia Ma Empire was a small country devoid of many Dou Zongs.
"You overestimate yourself. I came here to wait for someone, but I didn't expect an unexpected gain!" Yun Yi dismissed Yao Chen's self-importance, casting a cold glance. He then sharply turned his gaze to a hiding place.
That place was where Jiang Yun and the others were concealed!
Yun Yi's words embarrassed Yao Chen. He hadn't anticipated his overestimation.
"Boom—"
Suddenly, Yun Yi raised his hand slightly, forming a black hole in his palm, rapidly expanding to a hundred feet wide.
Terrifying devouring power seemed ready to engulf everything in its path.
Looking at the black hole, Xiao Yan, Jia Xingtian, Yun Shan, and others felt a chill in their hearts, fearing their souls would be obliterated if caught.
Under Yun Yi's control, the black hole shot towards Jiang Yun's location. The space it traversed trembled violently.
"Ah, we've been found!"
Watching the approaching black hole, Jiang Yun chuckled, lifting his hand. Raging Dou Qi burst from his body, heating the air around.
Jiang Yun's eyes gleamed. With a sudden motion, spirit seals flew from his fingers. In a flash, an array formed in his palm.
Brilliant beams erupted from the array, accompanied by a dragon's roar.
"Roar—"
Around Jiang Yun, space distorted, and next moment, a dragon-like figure emerged from his array.
Boom—
Under countless eyes, their attacks collided violently.
Energy storms rampaged wildly, instantly leveling surrounding buildings. In the sky, chaotic energy waves collided, like ocean waves crashing—a tempest sweeping outwards.
The terrifying energy waves radiated in all directions, affecting the strong individuals from the sky.
Some slower ones, hit by shockwaves, felt as if their chests were struck by a heavy hammer, spewing blood.
Suddenly, the Yunlan Sect was in chaos!
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