150: Team up and provoke

Three days passed in a flash.

A hundred miles east of Tianxuan City, there is a uniquely shaped hillside called "Falling Star Slope."

Legend has it that during the ancient Divine Wars, Nine Heavens stars once fell here, flattening the mountains within a hundred-mile radius.

The slope is covered in jagged rocks, barren of any vegetation, and only when night falls do the strange black rocks scattered across the slope absorb the starlight, emitting a faint glow as dazzling as the stars themselves.

Ordinarily, this place is desolate and rarely visited by Cultivators.

But today, this usually silent Falling Star Slope was uncharacteristically bustling with seven or eight figures radiating powerful aura.

They were all dressed in various luxurious brocade robes, with valuable Magic Treasure jade pendants hanging from their waists, and each of their faces was filled with unconcealed arrogance and confidence!

Clearly, they were the teammates who had responded to the "anonymous" mission and were preparing to venture deep into the Desolate God Domain to explore the "Lost Divine Temple"!

"Hmph! What time is it now? Those who accepted the mission still haven't come to gather; they certainly put on airs! How dare they make so many of us wait for them here?!"

Among the crowd, a tall, thin young man in green with a hooked nose and sinister eyes, named Feng Xinglie, was the first to let out an impatient cold snort.

He was Feng Xinglie, the most outstanding Genius of the Feng Family, one of the four great Families of Tianxuan City! His cultivation had reached the Middle Stage of Half-God Realm! His "Swift Wind Divine Sword" technique was faster than lightning, killing people invisibly!

"Brother Feng, please calm down," a brawny man beside him, clad in golden armor, as robust as an iron tower, and exuding explosive power, advised in a booming voice, "That 'Fallen God Ruin' is no small matter; perhaps the person is delayed by something."

This person was Jin Gang, a direct descendant of the Jin Family, also one of the four great Families! He possessed innate Divine Power and primarily cultivated his Physical Body; it was said that his Physical Body's strength was enough to withstand a Low Grade Divine Artifact! His cultivation was also at the Middle Stage of Half-God Realm!

"Delayed?" On the other side, a woman in a fiery red dress, with an alluring appearance and a playful smile always on her lips, covered her mouth and chuckled softly, "Brother Jin, I think it's more likely that someone overestimated himself by taking on the mission and is now scared witless by the dangers of the 'Fallen God Ruin,' so he doesn't dare to come, right? After all..."

Her pair of enchanting Phoenix eyes slowly swept over everyone present, finally resting on the central figure of the crowd, that exquisite silhouette who stood with hands behind her back, seemingly indifferent to everything around her!

...even 'that person' is quite interested in this trip."

The "that person" she spoke of naturally referred to Ji Yueyao!

The only beloved daughter of the Heavenly Profound Divine Emperor!

She was also the universally acknowledged number one among the younger generation in the entire Tianxuan City!

Peak Half-God Realm!

She was only one step away from the legendary God Emperor Realm!

At this moment, Ji Yueyao was still wearing a seemingly ordinary moon-white palace dress, but her innate noble aura, like that of a Nine Heavens Goddess, and her pair of pale golden eyes, as vast and profound as the entire starry sky, were enough to make all the arrogant Prodigies present subconsciously pale in comparison!

She ignored the alluring woman's teasing, simply standing quietly, her gaze calmly directed towards Tianxuan City, her exquisite face showing no emotional fluctuations.

However, if one looked closely, they would discover that deep within her calm eyes, there was a trace of extremely complex emotions!

There was curiosity, defiance, and even a hint of anticipation that she herself had not yet noticed!

"Lin Ye..."

She silently chewed on this name in her heart.

The Lower Realm Ascender who her Imperial Father praised as "the greatest of all ages," and even promoted to "guest elder" despite the convention!

She really wanted to know what kind of secret was hidden within this seemingly ordinary young man that could make her Imperial Father, who already stood at the Peak of the Divine Realm, regard him so highly?

Therefore, when she accidentally learned that Lin Ye had taken on this exploration mission full of unknowns and dangers, she followed without hesitation!

She wanted to see it with her own eyes!

To see if this "uncut jade", on whom her Imperial Father had placed such high hopes, was truly worthy of his name?

Or merely a false reputation!

Just then!

"Sizzle—"

A barely perceptible purple electric arc, like a sharp blade tearing through a canvas, silently cut through the tranquil space of Falling Star Slope!

Immediately after, two figures, as if teleporting, quietly appeared before everyone.

One male, one female.

The man looked about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with an ordinary face and an unstable aura, as if he could fall from the Early Stage of Half-God Realm at any moment; it was Lin Ye!

And the woman beside him was even more "unimpressive."

She wore an ordinary white dress; although her face was exquisitely beautiful, her aura was only at the Peak of Dharma Body Realm!

Moreover, there was an undisguised hint of nervousness and unease in her cold eyes.

It was none other than Su Qingyue, also in disguise!

"Hmm?!"

When they saw the "cultivation" and "aura" of the newcomers, the expressions on the faces of all the Prodigies present, who had been full of anticipation, instantly froze!

Especially when their gazes fell upon Lin Ye's unremarkable face and they felt the extremely unstable, "Wild God"-specific ethereal aura around him, that solemnity was instantly replaced by an even stronger astonishment and disdain!

"What... what the hell is going on?!"

Feng Xinglie, the most hot-tempered, was the first to jump out!

He pointed at Lin Ye's nose, his voice becoming sharp and piercing due to extreme anger, "You dawdle until now to arrive! A good-for-nothing who hasn't even stabilized his Early Stage Half-God Realm... and dares to take on this mission?!"

"And!" His gaze, like a venomous snake, fell upon the seemingly delicate and pitiful Su Qingyue beside Lin Ye, his disdain growing even stronger, "He even... brought a Dharma Body Realm burden?! Does he think this is a picnic?!"

"This is simply... preposterous!!!"

His words, full of endless rage and humiliation, instantly ignited the dissatisfaction in the hearts of all the Prodigies present!

"Brother Feng is right! We are all powerhouses at the Middle Stage of Half-God Realm! To be teamed up with such a mere Early Stage 'Wild God'? It's simply lowering our standards!" Jin Gang's booming voice was now also filled with ill will.

"Hehehe..." The alluring woman giggled, covering her mouth, but her Phoenix eyes were filled with icy coldness, "Little brother, let me advise you, the depths of the Desolate God Domain are not a place for 'little guys' like you.

Go back to the city with your little lover and hide, lest you end up dead without even knowing how."

Humiliation!

Naked humiliation!

They simply did not regard Lin Ye, who had also accepted the mission, as a "teammate"!

In their eyes, a "Wild God" who had just Ascended and had a shallow Foundation, even if he had fortunately condensed a Divine Spark, was merely a slightly stronger ant!

He was simply not qualified to stand as an equal with them, these "native" Prodigies who had been established in the Divine Realm for hundreds, or even thousands, of years!

However, Lin Ye met Feng Xinglie's murderous gaze, calmly swept over Jin Gang's hostile eyes, and calmly ignored the alluring woman's sarcastic "kindness."

Finally, his gaze fell upon the exquisite silhouette who had stood quietly aside like an outsider from beginning to end, her pale golden eyes, full of inquiry and scrutiny, never leaving him.

Ji Yueyao!

Their eyes met.

The air, in that instant, seemed to completely freeze.