19: Defying fate eightfold, entering the forbidden land of demons!

"This Aura, these methods, Gu Qingchen's Realm is at least above the Fifth Heaven of the Profound Grotto Realm, and his combat power is comparable to a Genius of the Dao Profound Realm!"

In the Small World of the Secret Realm, the Ye Family Protector finally understood what Old Man Han meant when he said their Ye Family's Qilin child was born in the wrong era.

With Ye Wushuang's talent, as long as he did not fall midway, he would be 100% able to Breakthrough to the Saint Emperor Realm in the future.

If he had some Opportunity, he could even look forward to the Supreme Realm!

It could be said that Ye Wushuang truly possessed the bearing of a Supreme.

Such talent, even in the Xuantian Holy Land, was a true Prodigy that appeared once in a thousand years, capable of becoming the Xuantian Holy Master or even the foundation of the Holy Land in the future.

But unexpectedly, Gu Qingchen's talent was even more terrifying; if he did not die, Ye Wushuang would likely live under his shadow for his entire life.

"He previously claimed to the outside world that his strength was at the Ninth Heaven of the Spirit Soul Realm, right? Even if he had broken through during his seclusion, he should only be at the Tongxuan Realm. This kid isn't very old, yet he is quite calculating; to think he hid so much of his strength."

The Ye Family Protector's eyes flickered as he calculated the possibility of secretly eliminating Gu Qingchen.

But after thinking it over, he couldn't come up with any good plan.

Gu Qingchen's own strength was easy to deal with; although he could sweep through his peers, he was insignificant before the powerful Ye Family.

It was just that this Old Man Han before him was hard to deal with...

At least at the Great Perfection of the Saint Emperor Realm, or perhaps even the terrifying strength of the Supreme Realm, this could be considered a foundational existence even in the Xuantian Holy Land.

Their Ye Family currently only had one Old Ancestor whose strength had reached the Supreme Realm.

However, the Ye Family Old Ancestor could trigger the Nine-Nine Supreme Tribulation at any time, but without the confidence to successfully undergo the tribulation, he could only rely on secret arts to seal himself within divine source to survive.

If it were not for a major event threatening the destruction of the Ye Family or the severance of their Legacy, he must absolutely not be awakened.

"Little Ye."

Old Man Han saw through the Ye Family Protector's unusual thoughts at a glance. After taking a gulp of wine, he said: "For the sake of this seven treasures heaven-returning wine, I will give you a piece of advice: don't harbor any crooked thoughts about the Gu kid. His importance far exceeds your imagination."

"Hmm?"

The Ye Family Protector was startled upon hearing this, then smiled awkwardly: "Old Man Han, you are overthinking it. Since you have personally come out to act as his guardian, how could our Ye Family be so blind as to harbor any crooked thoughts?"

"Moreover, if the Xuantian Holy Land can produce a Prodigy who can truly suppress his generation, our Ye Family would be overjoyed."

"A Prodigy who can truly suppress his generation, huh?"

A trace of reminiscence and a hint of melancholy flashed in Old Man Han's eyes.

"Time flies, ten thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye. Looking back at the past, I stood alone at the peak of the clouds."

Hearing Old Man Han's sigh, the Ye Family Protector was secretly shocked.

"Judging by Old Man Han's tone, it seems he was a Prodigy who suppressed his generation ten thousand years ago? It seems that after returning to the Holy Land, I must carefully inquire about Old Man Han's detailed information."

Although he was considered a high-level figure in the Xuantian Holy Land and had lived for over five thousand years, he really didn't know much about Old Man Han.

He only knew that his real name was Han Tianyuan, that he was a peerless figure from ten thousand years ago, that his strength was terrifying, and that he was the master of the Tianyuan Grotto-Heaven among the Holy Land's thirty-six Grotto-Heavens and seventy-two Blessed Lands.

"Haha."

At this moment, Old Man Han came back to his senses and laughed loudly: "When a person gets old, they always reminisce about the past. Let's not think about those useless things. Come, come, drink!"

"You might not know that there are many ways to drink, for example, this Dragon Breath is..."

... Cave World.

Ye Wushuang had been slammed into the ground, his entire body feeling as if it had fallen apart. Even one of his legs had been severed, and waves of intense pain invaded his entire body.

However, the physical pain was completely incomparable to the psychological blow.

After all, having reached the Dongxuan Realm, a cultivator's vitality was incredibly vigorous, and they could completely achieve limb regeneration.

But the psychological shadow that Gu Qingchen had cast upon him would be very difficult to eliminate in the short term.

"Damn it! Damn it!"

"When did this Gu Qingchen's strength become so powerful? I clearly used my Supreme Secret Art with all my might and even utilized a protective Dao weapon, yet I was still easily slapped away!"

Thinking about how Gu Qingchen had truly replicated the famous scene from the Central Sky Island, and that many Holy Land Disciples had seen it, he felt he had no face to see anyone.

"Hey, hey, hey."

At this moment, Gu Qingchen's voice came from above: "Why are you lying on the ground without moving?"

"You are, after all, one of the top-ranked Reserve Holy Sons in our Holy Land. What does it look like to be lying on the ground in front of so many Disciples?"

"Gu Qingchen, don't go too far!"

Hearing the mockery, Ye Wushuang exploded with spiritual power and soared into the sky, his powerful Aura even causing the ground to collapse under the pressure.

"Oh?"

A trace of surprise flashed in Gu Qingchen's eyes: "You have such methods?"

At this moment, Ye Wushuang's Aura climbed rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it exceeded the First Heaven of the Dongxuan Realm.

Next was the Second Heaven, Third Heaven of the Dongxuan Realm...

His Aura continued to surge until it reached the Seventh Heaven of the Profound Grotto Realm before finally stopping.

"Is it a secret art that temporarily boosts combat power? Interesting. I actually happen to be lacking such a secret art."

Gu Qingchen felt the flow of the Aura on Ye Wushuang's body with great interest, attempting to see if he could replicate it using the Myriad Transformation Sacred Art.

Very quickly, the Aura on his body also began to fluctuate.

"How is this possible?!"

Ye Wushuang was dumbfounded.

This [Eightfold Life-Reversing] was his own unique Opportunity. After achieving Perfection in cultivation, it could increase combat power by a full eight times. It was extremely powerful, and there was no such Legacy within the Holy Land!

It was just that the difficulty of cultivation was also very high. He had spent a vast amount of resources and cultivated for a full ten years just to reach the Major Achievement Realm.

But how could Gu Qingchen also know it?

"Not quite there..."

Gu Qingchen felt his Aura, which had become twice as powerful, and shook his head: "It seems the Myriad Transformation Sacred Art still has a lot of room for improvement. To only learn two or three tenths after one look, how can it be worthy of the name 'Myriad Transformation'... Hmm?"

He looked up in astonishment.

He saw that Ye Wushuang, who had used the Eightfold Life-Reversing to boost his Aura to be comparable to the Seventh Heaven of the Profound Grotto Realm, did not rush up to fight, but instead fled frantically into the distance.

"Saint Ye Wushuang... ran away?"

"No, wasn't the Saint supposed to fight Reserve Holy Son Gu Qingchen to the death after boosting his Aura, instead of choosing to run away?"

"Then what about us? The Saint ran away on his own, what should we, who were left behind, do?"

"You still call him Saint? A guy who was easily suppressed by Saint Gu and beaten into fleeing with his head in his hands, what qualifications does he have to make us call him Saint?"

"That's right, only Senior Brother Gu Qingchen is qualified to become the Saint of our Xuantian Holy Land!"

"..."

The more than one hundred Holy Land Disciples who had originally followed Ye Wushuang were also stunned. After they reacted, they began to curse loudly one by one.

"That's enough."

Gu Qingchen raised his hand and pressed down lightly. A trace of the power of "silence" drifted between heaven and earth, and in an instant, it became quiet.

"Since you were abandoned by Ye Wushuang, then just follow me for this Underground Cave Trial. The treasures found in this trial will still belong to you, but the accumulated contribution points will be counted under my name. Any problems?"

The Disciples looked at each other in dismay, then discovered that the power of "silence" had disappeared, and one by one they bowed honestly: "We will respectfully follow the Saint's order!"

Seeing that the Disciples had agreed, Gu Qingchen waved his hand to let them disperse to find their own Opportunities.

"You Rong once reminded me that there is a great Opportunity deep in the Forbidden Land of the Fiends, and the direction Ye Wushuang just fled in is also the direction of the Forbidden Land of the Fiends. Could it be that I am supposed to follow Ye Wushuang and intercept his Opportunity?"

"Also, that divine ability fruit tree is in the God Perishing Abyss of the Forbidden Land of the Fiends..."

Gu Qingchen's gaze was distant.

"It seems that I must go to this Forbidden Land of the Fiends!"