18: After crushing Ye Wushuang, Jiang Yourong begins her operation!

"Bang!"

A flash of golden light appeared on Ye Wushuang, blocking Gu Qingchen's sudden attack. Only then did he react, his face instantly filling with shock, anger, shame, and frustration.

"Gu Qingchen, you go too far!"

He hadn't expected Gu Qingchen to dare strike first, nor had he expected himself to be completely unaware!

If not for the Protective Dao Artifact on his person activating automatically, he might have already been slapped into the ground by Gu Qingchen.

Getting injured would have been a minor matter.

If Gu Qingchen were to replicate the famous scene on the Central Sky Island where Luo Jinghong slapped him into the dust, where would he put his face?

"So what if I'm bullying you?"

Gu Qingchen pointed his fingers like a sword and lightly waved them. In an instant, a monstrous sword light slashed across the Void Realm, illuminating the entire dim Underground World as if it were daytime!

"Night Shadow Moluo!"

Seeing that the endless Sword Intent in Gu Qingchen's sword light had locked onto him, leaving him nowhere to hide, Ye Wushuang gritted his teeth and unleashed a trump card Divine Ability.

In an instant, a pitch-black Domain unfolded.

Within the Domain were layers of dark shadows.

Gu Qingchen's unparalleled sword light was instantly submerged and consumed, its radiance gone.

"I didn't expect that your Ye Family's Liner, despite only having the strength of the Dongxuan Realm, has already mastered your Ye Family's Supreme Secret Art. No wonder he is placed with high hopes and seen as the hope for the Family's resurgence."

Inside a Secret Realm Small World filled with the fragrance of birds and flowers, Old Man Han and the Ye Family Protector were enjoying seven treasures heaven-returning wine while watching the projection before them.

"You flatter me."

The Ye Family Protector poured the wine and respectfully said, "Wushuang has some talent, but compared to Old Man Han, he still falls short."

Compared to before, the Ye Family Protector's attitude was noticeably more cautious and prudent.

Old Man Han's strength was far greater than he had anticipated!

He had originally thought that even if Old Man Han was stronger than him, he wouldn't be much stronger; after all, his own strength was at the Saint King Seventh Level, making him a high-level figure and a pillar of support in the Xuantian Holy Land.

Even the Holy Lord only possessed the Saint King Ninth Level of strength, only marginally stronger than him.

Although Old Man Han was a figure from ten thousand years ago, at best, he was probably only at the Saint King Great Perfection.

After all, if someone possessed the strength of a Saint Emperor, they would be an existence comparable to a Holy Land's foundation. Why would they come out to serve as a guardian for a youngster?

But just now, right before his eyes, this Old Man Han casually waved his hand and opened up a Secret Realm Small World.

Inside, birds sang and flowers bloomed, full of vitality. Streams of life and creation Qi flowed within the Secret Realm Small World, and everywhere emanated marvelous dao rhymes!

He couldn't quite comprehend it.

But he was greatly shaken!

"Perhaps even ordinary Saint Emperor experts don't possess such methods..."

When facing such a powerful expert, no amount of caution was too much!

"What a pity."

At this moment, Old Man Han finished another bowl of wine, "It's a pity that your Family's Liner was born in the wrong era."

"Born in the wrong era?"

The Ye Family Protector was stunned, "Does Old Man Han mean..."

Old Man Han said no more, gesturing for the Ye Family Protector to look at the projection before them.

They saw that, facing Ye Wushuang who had unleashed the Supreme Secret Art, Gu Qingchen casually pointed a few times. Sharp sword lights instantly transformed into nets of swords, enveloping him.

Those sword lights turned one into ten, ten into a hundred, a hundred into a thousand, and a thousand into ten thousand. In an instant, half the sky was filled with endless sword light.

They seemed both real and illusory, and further evolved into Sword Arrays, Sword Tombs, Sword Forests, Sword Mountains, and Sword Rivers... In the Void Realm, there was nowhere without a sword!

Ye Wushuang felt as if he were trapped in a World of Swords, being attacked by every single sword at every moment.

His Dark Shadow Domain was shattered, and the layers of dark shadows within were all destroyed.

"How is this possible!"

His trump card Divine Ability and Supreme Secret Art, which he had meticulously Cultivated, were shattered so easily by Gu Qingchen. Ye Wushuang's face was filled with shock and disbelief.

"How can you be so powerful?"

Ye Wushuang carelessly had one leg severed by a sword light, and had no choice but to rely on the power of his Dao Artifact again to protect himself.

He still hadn't recovered from the shock of Gu Qingchen's immense strength: "Didn't you only have the Spirit Soul Ninth Heaven? Even if you entered seclusion and Broke Through a major Realm, you should only be at the Profound Comprehension First Heaven. How is the aura you are displaying now at least the Dongxuan Realm?"

"You're allowed to hide your Realm, but I'm not allowed to keep a few trump cards?"

Gu Qingchen shrugged, then slapped the Void Realm.

In an instant, endless Earth Vein Qi erupted violently, condensing behind him into a Giant Spirit, three thousand zhang tall, looking like a god and a devil, wearing a Spirit Crown and draped in a Demon Robe!

The entire Cave World was only a few thousand zhang high, and this Giant Spirit Demon God truly gave the feeling of standing between heaven and earth.

Following Gu Qingchen's movement, it also reached out and clapped down. That massive hand, dozens of zhang wide, descended, creating a pressure like Mount Tai Crushing Down.

Ye Wushuang was greatly alarmed. He activated his Protective Dao Artifact to manifest, and a glittering golden Treasure Furnace shot out from between his eyebrows, swelling against the wind, turning into a massive Treasure Canopy to shield his head.

Before he could even sigh in relief, the endless sword light instantly condensed into a Heaven-Piercing Treasure Sword, slicing open the Treasure Canopy. Then, the Giant Spirit Demon God's palm directly slammed him deep into the ground of the Underground World.

The terrifying aftermath shockwave caused dozens of surrounding mountain peaks to collapse in large sections.

Even Jiang Yourong and her party, who were hundreds of miles away and intercepting Opportunities, sensed this terrifying aftermath.

"What a terrifying commotion. This must be Senior Brother Gu fighting Ye Wushuang."

"I wonder how the battle is going, and who is stronger between Senior Brother Gu and Ye Wushuang."

"Senior Brother Gu must be easily crushing Ye Wushuang!"

"..."

Hearing the crowd buzzing with discussion, Zhao Linger lightly coughed and said, "Alright, given Young Master's strength, Ye Wushuang definitely isn't his match, so we shouldn't worry.

The most important thing now is to quickly preemptively clear out all the treasures here and leave quickly. After all, didn't Young Master take the initiative to attack precisely to restrain their group and create this Opportunity for us?"

"Exactly!"

Jiang Yourong said while activating the treasure basin, "I just communed with the treasure basin again. There are also treasures about eight hundred kilometers ahead to the left, and the quantity is greater, and the quality is higher!"

"What?"

"More treasures, and of higher quality than the ones here?"

"Junior Sister Jiang truly has great ability, to be able to Commune with Spirit with the treasure basin and sense the exact location of treasures!"

"No wonder Senior Brother Gu personally designated Junior Sister Jiang as the leader for this Underground Cave Trial and handed the treasure basin over to her management. He must have seen this coming."

"That's the vision of Senior Brother Gu!"

"..."

Many people had participated in more than one Underground Cave Trial, but this was truly the first time they had collected treasures so easily: Spirit Medicine, Demon Medicine, Treasure Ore, Divine Stone, and even many Secret Treasures like Earth Core Spirit Milk. It was definitely a huge harvest!

Now they had much more acceptance for Jiang Yourong, and their admiration for Gu Qingchen's Unique Wisdom Eye reached the point of prostration.

"Hehe!"

Seeing that she had finally gained acceptance, Jiang Yourong first chuckled, then secretly thought, "This is nothing. Senior Brother Gu's side holds the true Great Opportunity."