226: Chapter 226 This guy, could his overall strength have reached the King level?

Just as they were marveling, Ye Qing sat down cross-legged and pulled the heavenly demon zither into his arms.

He immediately began to pluck the strings!

Zheng! Zheng!

The sound resonated in all directions!

Whoosh!

The moment the sound rang out, energy from the surroundings began to converge.

Everyone watched the situation unfold.

Wasn't this the same as yesterday?

Old Master Leng and Leng Ming also sensed it; it seemed the speed of this energy convergence was faster, and the degree of concentration was even higher.

Is this the soul spirit after Ruoxi's Second Ancestral Return?

It had enhanced both speed and density compared to the One Ancestral Return.

However, in the next moment, they realized they were wrong—and profoundly so!

Under their gaze, the gathered energy did not remain stationary; instead, it solidified!

It formed weapons such as knives, forks, swords, and halberds!

However, they were all condensed from energy, resulting in nearly transparent blades.

They danced up and down in the air.

It was as if they were waiting for Ye Qing to issue a command!

Gradually, the number of these energy weapons grew!

Ten, a hundred, a thousand...

Finally, they reached a number that the onlookers could no longer count.

What level of soul spirit intensity was this!

Leng Ming looked at the Old Master, only to see that the man who usually remained as calm as a placid lake even while thunder roared in his chest was now moved to tears!

His eyes were filled with shock.

Beside him, the various family heads seemed to be trembling slightly.

They were shaken by the Aura of these thousands of Void Realm weapons!

"Go!"

Ye Qing said, then swept his hand across the heavenly demon zither!

Zheng!

A sharp zither note burst forth instantly!

Thousands of weapons followed the sound, sweeping wildly toward the forest!

After he finished,

Ye Qing looked at the crowd. "Alright, everyone just wait here. It should be finished in a moment."

Qian Tu: "..."

Zhong Jiaxing: "..."

Everyone: "..."

Good heavens, what could they even say? What was there to say!

This was simply too terrifying!

They had originally thought that today's extermination of the exotic beasts would be a bloody battle!

At the very least, it should have been quite challenging.

But now!

Looking at it now, good grief, they were basically just there to do chores. Ye Qing alone had shouldered the entire burden of the battlefield!

A moment later, deep within the forest.

A Town General Rank exotic beast was hunting.

It was just about to enjoy its prey when a powerful Aura charged into its territory.

Roar!

The Town General beast let out a furious roar, as if trying to use its Aura to scare off any beast daring enough to enter its domain!

However, the Aura did not retreat; instead, it headed straight for it.

The malevolent energy on the Town General beast's body suddenly surged!

It dropped the food in its mouth and charged wildly in that direction!

It wanted to slay this intruder of a different race!

But in the next instant!

When it saw the appearance of the newcomer, its body trembled violently!

Its eyes were filled with confusion as it looked at the Giant Catfish soul spirit before it!

What was this?!

Before it could think, the Giant Catfish soul spirit lunged forward.

Then, it swung its tail.

Smack!

It sent the Town General beast flying with a single strike!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A series of explosions rang out!

As the Town General beast flew backward, it smashed through several giant trees that were as thick as multiple men's embrace, sending wood splinters and dust clouds flying!

Within the dust cloud,

Roar!

The Town General beast roared with an unyielding voice!

The previous strike had caused blood to spray from its nose and mouth!

Its body felt as though it were being torn apart!

It let out a low growl, preparing to charge out of the dust cloud to fight the Giant Catfish soul spirit again.

But in the next moment,

The sound of something breaking through the air arrived.

The exotic beast thought it was the Giant Catfish soul spirit coming and looked ahead.

But the dust swirled!

One Void Realm weapon after another arrived!

Puchi!

Puchi!

The Void Realm weapons directly pierced the Town General beast's flesh!

In through the front, out through the back!

Transfixed!

With a single strike, the Town General beast collapsed to the ground, its face frozen in a look of incomprehension.

The soul spirit and the weapons were unstoppable along the way!

They slaughtered their way through.

Outside.

Ye Qing felt it was about time.

"Alright, let's go in and start picking things up."

At Ye Qing's command, everyone headed into the forest.

"Let's go!"

Leng Ming led a team forward.

They entered the forest.

After a while,

They discovered quite a few corpses.

However, their Ranks weren't high; the highest was only Grandmaster level.

Leng Ming stepped forward to examine the condition of these exotic beasts.

"Young Master, look. These beasts seem to have no signs of resistance at all. Or rather, they didn't even have time to resist before they were killed!"

Hiss!

Leng Ming also saw the situation and sucked in a breath of cold air.

A chill rose in his heart.

Ye Qing's soul spirits were truly too bizarre.

Fortunately, when he went to the Sucheng Barrier before, Ye Qing's soul spirits weren't by his side, which was why he had proposed a physical contest.

If Ye Qing's soul spirits had been present, the consequences... he feared he wouldn't have fared much better than these exotic beasts.

The others also ventured deeper into the forest.

The further they went, the more high-level exotic beasts they saw!

Aside from the Town General Rank beasts which showed some signs of struggle, those below Town General were simply snuffed out in an instant!

"Lord Ye's methods are truly like those of a celestial!"

"We thought this extermination would be a long, drawn-out affair. In the end, Lord Ye turned it into a brief skirmish."

"It feels so good to ride someone's coattails like this. I wish I could keep doing it forever. But Lord Ye is leaving for Magic City in a day or two. It'll be hard to ride his coattails in the future."

"Hey, I remember you have a younger sister, don't you? Why not let her spend some time with Lord Ye?"

"That sister of his? She doesn't even look as good as I do in drag. Do you think Lord Ye would want her?"

"Get out of here!"

...

Everyone chatted as they harvested exotic beast crystal cores and meat, enjoying themselves immensely.

"Alright, let's head back and drop off a load first, then come back for more later."

"Okay."

Several figures carrying crystal cores and dragging powerful beast corpses walked toward the exit.

When they reached the outside,

They looked at the scene and felt their scalps tingle.

Every group had dragged back many powerful exotic beasts.

As for the crystal cores, they were piled up like a small mountain!

How far had they even gone inside?

Lord Ye's intention, it seemed, was to completely clear out all the exotic beasts outside the Jiangcheng Barrier!

Over here, Qian Tu also started to feel that something was off.

Ye Qing had so many soul spirits, and they were all so strong!

Plus, he himself was already so eccentric!

If the current Ye Qing were to fight a King-level Expert, would he hold his own, or perhaps even have a chance of winning?

This terrifying thought rose in Qian Tu's mind and refused to dissipate for a long time.

His eyes were fixed on Ye Qing.

He felt that it should be the case.

However, there was no King-level Expert here to test it against Ye Qing.

In the entire Eastern War Zone, the only King-level was King Fenghai!