179: Chapter 179 The Startling Star

Under Yan Zhui's fierce offensive, Ye Jiefeng ultimately could not hold him off. At this moment, Ye Jiezhu happened to be heavily injured by a Fourth Rank Middle Stage Swallow Fish and was swatted away, landing exactly less than one hundred meters in front of Yan Zhui.

Thus, tragedy unfolded before the eyes of Ye Jiefeng and the others. Ye Jiezhu's neck was snapped directly by the vicious Yan Zhui, and he fell on the spot, with not a shred of hope for rescue.

After cruelly killing Ye Jiezhu, Yan Zhui did not stop, continuing to launch an attack against the heavily injured Ye Jiefeng.

In grief and indignation, Ye Jiefeng burned his own essence blood to increase his combat power by several percent, yet he still could not stop Yan Zhui's advance.

Although Yao Beasts do not have high intelligence, their combat talent is innately powerful.

Seeing Ye Jiefeng burn his essence blood to boost his combat power, Yan Zhui did not hesitate to unleash his racial secret technique to enhance his own combat power, crushing Ye Jiefeng in a steamrolling fashion.

In the end, Ye Jiefeng was beaten until he coughed up blood incessantly, his right arm was snapped, his Fourth Rank long spear broke into three pieces, and his face was so severely deformed that one could not recognize him without careful observation.

Fortunately, Yan Zhui's primary goal was to shatter the Ye Family's protective Formation, so he temporarily gave up on pursuing Ye Jiefeng. Otherwise, he would certainly have been the third Martial Ancestor expert from the Ye Family to die this time.

It was also fortunate that after the Formation shattered, Ancestor Ye Rongming returned in time and slapped the still-rampaging Yan Zhui to death on the spot with one palm, effectively saving Ye Jiefeng's life.

Otherwise, once Yan Zhui turned back, how could Ye Jiefeng have survived?

When Ye Tuanbang flew over from the south, he seemed to age fifty years in an instant; his already aged face now had dozens more wrinkles.

The two Martial Ancestor experts who died in battle this time were actually both Disciples of the Ye Family's "Jie" generation, and Ye Jiezhu was even Ye Tuanbang's son. Unexpectedly, in a single beast tide, father and son were separated by death.

Ye Jiezhu was Ye Tuanbang's eldest son, and he had placed high hopes on him since childhood. However, Ye Jiezhu's talent for Cultivation was truly poor. Even decades after his Breakthrough to Martial Ancestor, he remained at the one-star Martial Ancestor stage, making no progress at all.

Thus, the Family sent him to the Scripture Pavilion to serve as the Scripture Pavilion Master, a position he held for fifty years.

Ye Jiezhu was able to endure loneliness and kept the Scripture Pavilion in perfect order. When he had nothing to do, he would take out the books in the Scripture Pavilion to air them out, living a leisurely life.

Unexpectedly, such a good-natured person actually fell in this beast tide; it was truly heartbreaking.

"Uncle Tuanbang, hit me, scold me. It is my fault for not taking good care of Brother Jiezhu, letting him..." Ye Jiefeng choked on his words, kneeling before Ye Tuanbang, weeping uncontrollably.

"Jiefeng, it is not your fault. It is just that your Brother Jiezhu had bad luck." Ye Tuanbang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and helped the blood-stained Ye Jiefeng up, saying in a hoarse voice.

"Tuanbang..." Clan Leader Ye Tuanhui and Grandfather Ye Tuantu called out simultaneously, but in the end, they said nothing.

The beast tide was too cruel; no one knew who would fall in the next moment.

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"Fellow Daoist Zhao, let us go to the Wang Family together to take a look." After instructing Clan Leader Ye Tuanhui, Ancestor Ye Rongming asked for Zhao Zuoxiang's opinion.

"Very well, I will listen to everything you say, Fellow Daoist Ye." After a moment of contemplation, Zhao Zuoxiang followed Ancestor Ye Rongming's suggestion.

Judging by the scale of the Yao Beasts' operation this time, it was clearly general against general, soldier against soldier. The Yao Beast attacking the Wang Family's Qingsong Ridge was most likely Cang Xing, the eldest prince of the Black Dragon Clan.

Cang Xing was only a Fifth Rank Early Stage Dragon. With Patriarch Wang Lingyun's strength, even if he were not a match, he should not be completely silent. There must be a problem somewhere in this.

With the strength of both Ancestor Ye Rongming and Zhao Zuoxiang, it should be safe for them to go and investigate.

As for the two dangerous places, the Cangjiang Prefecture seat and the Wei Family, it would be better to wait until they united with Patriarch Wang Lingyun and the reinforcements from other prefectures arrived before going.

A Fifth Rank Late Stage Yao Beast's combat power was no joke; fighting them, a few Early Stage Martial King Martial Artists, was not quite as simple as beating children, but it was not far off.

"Cang Xing, what is wrong with you? Your expression is so poor." Seeing Cang Xing's expression suddenly change, Patriarch Wang Lingyun knew that some major change he was unaware of must have occurred on the other three battlefields.

In order to avoid inquiries from Governor Sun Rui, Patriarch Wang Lingyun had crushed all of his communication jade talismans. The outside world could not contact him, and he could not contact the outside world either, which resulted in him still not knowing that Cang Yun had been killed, such an important matter.

If he had known, how could he still be sitting here leisurely drinking tea? He would have long since been locked in a life-and-death struggle with Cang Xing. As long as he could hold Cang Xing for a while and call Ancestor Ye Rongming and Zhao Zuoxiang over, it would be a three-on-one, and they would one hundred percent be able to take down Cang Xing.

Compared to his third brother Cang Ming, Cang Xing's strength was much worse.

"It is nothing, just a few clansmen died in battle." Cang Xing quickly restrained his emotions and bluffed Patriarch Wang Lingyun before him. Cang Xing had seen Patriarch Wang Lingyun's small action of crushing the communication jade talisman, so naturally, he would not tell him the truth of the matter.

"Patriarch Wang Lingyun, I see that there are not many people left in your Wang Family down below. It is about time; let us end this slaughter here." Cang Xing calmly proposed the decision to terminate the beast tide, stood up, stretched, and intended to take the Saury and Little Yellow Croaker clans below back to the East Sea.

"Cang Xing, why are you in such a hurry to leave? Let us play a bit longer. Doesn't our Wang Family still have eleven Martial Ancestor Martial Artists down below?" The Family had lost nine Martial Ancestor experts in less than three days, including one Late Stage Martial Ancestor expert. Patriarch Wang Lingyun's heart was already bleeding, but he could not endure Cang Xing constantly eyeing them covetously from the side.

But now that Cang Xing had received a message and suddenly said he wanted to leave, there must be something fishy about it.

Although Patriarch Wang Lingyun did not know what had happened, he guessed that it was highly likely that one of the other three battlefields had already been decided, and there was a great possibility that the human side had won. He just did not know if it was the Governor's side or the Wei Family's side.

Whichever side won, once reinforcements came, Cang Xing would surely die!

Therefore, the more Cang Xing wanted to leave at this moment, the less Patriarch Wang Lingyun would let it go.

He was even prepared, regardless of the cost, to have a great battle with Cang Xing to vent the suppressed anger of these past two days.

"Patriarch Wang Lingyun, do you want to fight this King?" Cang Xing undisguisedly released its powerful aura, pressing down on Patriarch Wang Lingyun who was standing beside it.

"That is not impossible." Patriarch Wang Lingyun expanded his Kings Domain, encompassing Cang Xing. The natal divine sword nurtured in his Sea of Consciousness suddenly unsheathed and instantly stabbed at Cang Xing's throat, but it was easily blocked by Cang Xing's palm, unable to advance even a fraction.

"Hmph, if this King wants to leave, can you stop me?"

Cang Xing glanced at Patriarch Wang Lingyun disdainfully and said domineeringly.

"Roar!"

Cang Xing transformed into a Black Dragon, let out a dragon roar to the sky, and summoned the Saury and Little Yellow Croaker clans below to retreat immediately, heading back to the East Sea.

After all the Yao Beasts at Qingsong Ridge retreated and jumped into the nearest river, Cang Xing immediately shook off Patriarch Wang Lingyun's entanglement, dove headfirst into the river, and swam rapidly toward the East Sea.