157: Chapter 157 Reuniting with Qin Mu in the Great Ruins, Shocked to Hear that the Old Man is in Wuyou

Ye Xiu turned around, his bright red dragon-patterned wedding robe fluttering loudly in the wind.

With absolute decisiveness, he issued his final expansion orders to the State Preceptor of Yankang, Grand Elder Taixu, and Demon Venerable Yuan Ding.

Then, he grabbed Daoist Lingjing by the back of his collar, lifting him in his hand like a tattered sack.

"Let's go! To The Great Ruins!"

*Whoosh!*

Accompanied by an ear-splitting sonic boom, the white jade ruins beneath Ye Xiu's feet instantly collapsed into a bottomless crater.

He transformed into a streak of crimson divine light that tore through the sky, directly crashing through the barriers of the Void Realm.

The extreme speed of an Immortal Four Half-Saint caused the space along his path to ripple with terrifying, visible waves.

Between the far west of the Major Thousand Worlds and The Great Ruins, there was originally a vast distance of tens of millions of miles.

But under Ye Xiu's near-teleportation Half-Saint Divine Ability, it took less than the time to drink half a cup of tea.

When that familiar aura, steeped in primeval desolation and endless eeriness, rushed over him, Ye Xiu knew that he had arrived at The Great Ruins.

At this moment, night was falling over The Great Ruins.

This lawless land, cursed by the Heavenly Court and abandoned by the gods.

Once night fell, it would turn into an absolute forbidden zone.

The darkness, so thick it seemed solid, devoured all life like a living thing, while the monsters hidden within unleashed bone-chilling roars.

To ordinary Cultivators, the night of The Great Ruins was synonymous with death.

But Ye Xiu did not even spare a single glance at the monsters stirring in the darkness.

His heterochromatic gold-and-silver eyes shone like two brilliant supernovas in the night, and the Pure Yang True Fire within his body vibrated slightly.

A surge of the most masculine and pure Half-Saint pressure instantly swept outward in all directions, with him as the center!

*Screech!*

Within a hundred-mile radius, those monsters that had been lurking in the dark, preparing to hunt...

...vaporized instantly under this terrifying Pure Yang pressure before they could even see Ye Xiu's face, dispersing into the air as wisps of black smoke.

The absolute darkness was forcefully burned away, creating a hundred-mile zone of broad daylight!

"The... the Demon Lord's Divine Might..."

Held in Ye Xiu's hand, Daoist Lingjing watched this scene, his teeth chattering in sheer terror.

This was the night of The Great Ruins! Even mighty experts of the Divine Bridge Realm wouldn't dare to be so insolent, yet this master had actually "lit up" the night!

Just as Ye Xiu was about to have Daoist Lingjing activate the fengdu jade token...

Suddenly, his Divine Thought stirred slightly, and his gold-and-silver eyes instantly locked onto the base of a ruined stone statue at the edge of The Great Ruins ahead.

There, a slightly slender figure of a youth, yet carrying an aura of resilience like wild grass, was pacing back and forth anxiously.

Beside him was a strange beast with fur like steel needles.

"Huh? Qin Mu?"

Ye Xiu raised an eyebrow, and with a flash of his body, he instantly appeared before the youth.

The newcomer was indeed the youth who had emerged from Canlao Village in The Great Ruins, the original "Child of Luck" of this world—Qin Mu!

Qin Mu had been waiting with an anxious expression when he suddenly saw a flash of red light before his eyes.

A terrifying pressure rushed toward him, making his very breath catch in his throat.

When he clearly saw that the newcomer was Ye Xiu, draped in a bright red wedding robe, his tense nerves finally relaxed, though the shock in the depths of his eyes could not be hidden.

"Sect Leader! Your... your Realm..."

Qin Mu swallowed hard. Although his cultivation was not yet at the peak, his vision was extremely high.

He could clearly feel that although Ye Xiu had been ridiculously strong when he left a few months ago...

...he was still within the Realm of a "human." But now, just by standing there...

...Ye Xiu seemed to have merged into one with the Dao of heaven and earth, and even the Laws of The Great Ruins were submitting to him!

"I just leveled up, that's all. Stop making a fuss over nothing."

Ye Xiu casually threw Daoist Lingjing onto the ground, his gaze playfully sizing up Qin Mu.

"Instead of staying in Canlao Village in the middle of the night, you ran all the way to this pitch-black border of The Great Ruins to drink the Northwest wind?

What, did you know I was coming to The Great Ruins and came specifically to welcome me?"

Qin Mu smiled bitterly and hurriedly stepped forward, cupping his fists in an extremely solemn salute.

"Sect Leader, it's not a coincidence. It was Granny Si... no, she sent a secret message, telling me to take a shortcut to the entrance of The Great Ruins to intercept you!

She calculated that after you left Baiyujing, you would definitely pass through here!"

"Youyou?"

Hearing Si Youyou's name, a rare touch of softness flashed through Ye Xiu's arrogant eyes, but he quickly frowned again.

"Since my wife knew to look for me, why didn't she come herself? Has something happened to the Heavenly Demon Sect?"

The expression on Qin Mu's face instantly became rather odd. He coughed twice and rubbed his nose awkwardly.

"Cough... Granny said she wanted to come find you herself, but... but she really can't get away because she has to take care of the child at home.

The little one has been making quite a fuss lately and cries the moment she leaves, so she could only send me to run this errand..."

"Pfft!"

Even Ye Xiu, an esteemed Immortal Four Half-Saint, almost spat out a mouthful of old blood upon hearing this reason.

The peerless Demon Lord who had caused rivers of blood to flow in Baiyujing and had even cleaved the Heavenly Court in half...

...the reason his wife didn't come to find him was actually because she was at home taking care of the baby?!

"Cough... Well, I'll head back after I finish my business."

Ye Xiu rubbed the space between his eyebrows with some helplessness, and then his expression turned solemn.

"Let's get to business. Youyou sent you to find me in such an extreme hurry, so what exactly happened?"

At the mention of business, Qin Mu's face instantly became extremely solemn, even turning somewhat pale with anxiety.

"Sect Leader, the Chief of Canlao Village, Grandpa Apothecary, Grandpa Blind, and the others... they've all disappeared!"

"Not only them, but even our Heavenly Demon Sect's Young Patriarch has gone missing along with them!"

"Missing?"

Ye Xiu's gaze turned cold. "In this Major Thousand Worlds, is there actually anyone who can kidnap those old monsters and the Ancestral Master of the Heavenly Demon Sect at the same time? Where did they go?"

Those old men of Canlao Village might be crippled or blind, but in Ye Xiu's eyes, they were all top-tier experts who had once shaken the world.

Not to mention there was also the Heavenly Demon Sect's Young Patriarch, who had lived for an unknown number of years.

With their combined combat power, even if a false god of the Heavenly Court descended to the Lower Realm, they could still violently tear a layer of skin off them!

Qin Mu took a deep breath and spat out three words through gritted teeth: "Wu! You! Township!"

"Half a month ago, the Village Chief and the others somehow obtained an extremely ancient sea chart.

On it were recorded the exact coordinates of 'Wuyou Township,' the final pure land established by the Founding Emperor of old to escape the pursuit of the Heavenly Court."

"The Village Chief and the others have lived their entire lives in the shadow of the Founding Emperor's era. They have always wanted to find Wuyou Township, seek out the descendants of the Founding Emperor, and reignite the war of those years.

So they allied with the Young Patriarch, kept it a secret from Sister Youyou and me, and quietly set off."

Qin Mu's fists clenched tightly, his nails digging into his flesh.

"But just three days ago, the life tablet Sister Youyou left over there suddenly shattered!

The only thing sent back was an extremely weak Divine Thought for help from the Young Patriarch.

He said they were trapped in a void labyrinth within Wuyou Township.

The inside is not some paradise at all, but...

...an extremely terrifying dead end!"

After listening to Qin Mu's narrative, the night of The Great Ruins fell into a brief, dead silence.

Qin Mu looked at Ye Xiu with a tense expression. He knew that Wuyou Township involved too much and might even anger the Heavenly Court.

But his only hope now was the Heavenly Demon Sect Leader before him, who had already become so strong that he couldn't be measured by common sense.

However, to Qin Mu's surprise, not only was there no trace of solemnity on Ye Xiu's face...

...but he suddenly threw his head back, letting out an extremely arrogant, even deeply mocking, cold laugh!

"Hahaha! Wuyou Township?!"

Ye Xiu laughed out loud, his laughter filled with utter disdain for that so-called "pure land."

"And here I thought it was some dragon's pool or tiger's den, but it's just a tortoise shell left behind by that coward!"

Ye Xiu abruptly pulled back his smile, his gold-and-silver eyes radiating an ultimate disdain that saw through all illusions.

"Qin Mu, listen to me carefully! What bullshit Wuyou Township, what Founding Emperor!

Back then, because he couldn't defeat the Heavenly Court, he took a bunch of defeated soldiers and hid in the Void Realm to play the turtle.

Calling it 'Wuyou' is simply the biggest joke in the world!"

"The technique I cultivate is called Blocking Out the Heavens! The path I walk is called Defying the Nine Heavens!

Escape? In my dictionary, that's for trash!"

Ye Xiu kicked Daoist Lingjing on the ground, sending him rolling a few times, and patted Qin Mu's shoulder with extreme dominance, causing Qin Mu's blood and Qi to surge.

"Go back and tell Youyou to stay at home and take care of the baby in peace!

Even though those old guys from the village aren't very bright and got fooled by a coward's lie, they are still people covered by me, Ye Xiu, after all."

"Once I finish my current business, I'll take you along to smash that bullshit Wuyou Township's tortoise shell to smithereens!

And drag those old guys back for me!"