Chapter 806 – A Storm Is Brewing
"It looks like Ye Qingyu is going to battle all the way with the Black Moon Divine Palace…"
"Based on the current situation, they both seem to be evenly matched. No one can tell who will ultimately emerge as the winner…"
"Evenly matched? This is where you are mistaken. After all, the Black Moon Divine Palace is a major force with rich resources and a wide sphere of influence. Ye Qingyu is fighting alone; even if he is powerful, how strong could he ultimately be? If he is captured by Great Saint Zhong Yuan the moment he appears, I'm afraid the odds will be against him."
"Haha, that is where you are wrong. You might not be aware of it, but Ye Qingyu also has the support of [Quasi-emperor Xiaofei]."
Inferno City was all abuzz with excitement.
The crowd was waiting expectantly to see how this situation would play out.
The sudden appearance of an unknown character, who went up alone against an ancient sect with centuries of history and who managed to gain the upper hand at the moment, was a topic that generated a lot of interest. This was a potential legend in the making, therefore many experts who heard the news quickly made their way to the road of chaos, and many forces also secretly sent representatives to Inferno City to keep an eye on this development.
Sure enough, Ye Qingyu made his second announcement.
"There are limits to my patience. If you still refuse to hand Yang Wanqu over, I will seal all the representative stations of the Black Moon Divine Palace across the nineteen cities of chaos, and I will make sure that the Black Moon Divine Palace will never be able to face the rest of the Vast Thousand Domains."
Ye Qingyu's words were saved in a vocal rune that was suspended over Inferno City, and thus, his words were heard by countless people.
Following Ye Qingyu's words, the situation intensified.
Throughout the nineteen major cities of chaos, the Black Moon Divine Palace had representative stations in ten of them. Four representative stations had already been destroyed and the remaining six stations had gone on high alert, as though confronted by a formidable enemy. The Black Moon Divine Palace immediately sent powerful experts to support these stations, went on the highest state of alert, and engraved countless formations.
Time flew by.
Another four hours passed.
The sun had set and night had fallen.
Night fell quietly on the sixteenth city of chaos—Quicksand City.
Under the moonlight, Quicksand City looked like a gigantic sand dune, which was made up of ten majestic ancient divine mountains stacked up against each other. It was founded millions of years ago by a martial emperor of the Brute Race. Its sand was like running water that had the ability to travel thousands of meters into the sky, transforming into sand hurricanes that could swallow up everything.
"Boom!"
A loud sound was suddenly heard coming from a small mountain in the western part of Quicksand City.
"That is the direction of the Black Moon Divine Palace's representative point!"
The surrounding experts felt chills run down their spines.
"Could the… rumors be true?
"Was that legendary young expert, Ye Qingyu, about to make another attack on the Black Moon Divine Palace's representative point?"
Many people were shocked.
Although Ye Qingyu already made the announcement earlier, many people had assumed it was just a mind trick—an empty threat. After all, he was single-handedly going up against an entire sect, so it would be extremely difficult for him to bring them down. However, were his words… about to become reality?
Almost all of the experts in Quicksand City who heard the news quickly made their way to the mountain in the western part of the city.
The Black Moon Divine Palace's representative point.
There was intense fighting there due to a surprise attack.
Extremely powerful auras burst out from the palace from time to time, which meant that ordinary experts were not able to get within a one-hundred-meter radius of the palace. The main gates of the palace, which were rock gates engraved with black moons, had been shattered, and the clang of swords clashing and soldiers yelling could be heard from within the palace.
"Ye Qingyu, you must be courting death!"
"Hurry up, quickly send for old ancestor Zhong Yuan!"
"Ah… lay out a formation to trap him! We mustn't let him escape."
As countless experts and disciples fought back frantically, undulating battle cries and wails from those who had been injured reached the ears of the experts who were observing the situation.
However, there were two extremely powerful figures right in the middle of the melee who moved freely like spirits. They were like tigers attacking a herd of sheep, and the experts from the Black Moon Divine Palace who had besieged them were nothing to them. In particular, a young man in white easily sent the Black Moon Divine Palace disciples, who were attacking in droves, flying. Blood sprayed everywhere, and those who were injured were unable to rejoin the battle.
A while later.
The sudden attack came to an end.
Just like the rumors had said, the two figures shot up into the air, overturned the plaque, and laid out an ice formation, immediately sealing this representative station of the Black Moon Divine Palace in ice. It was completely sealed and transformed into a mysterious ice mountain, then it disappeared into thin air.
It was over so quickly.
All those who had witnessed it were shocked by the power and speed of those two figures.
It was as though they were completely unstoppable and not one thing was able to affect their progress.
Although they did not unleash any powerful energy waves, their auras and vigor were powerful enough to instill fear into those who had been watching from the distance.
Less than five minutes later.
[Moon Chasing Fire Lord] Zhong Yuan and the other five Saint-level experts finally arrived, but it was too late.
There was nothing they could do about the situation.
There was no trace at all left of Ye Qingyu in the surrounding area.
"Ye Qingyu, I swear I will tear you to pieces and drink your blood!" Great Saint Zhong Yuan was outraged that the Black Moon Divine Palace had lost yet another representative station despite him personally attending to this matter. He was completely humiliated and it was really intolerable for him to have been played so easily by a junior.
"Go after him! He is definitely still within Quicksand City. We must capture this little bastard even if we have to turn the entire city upside down," bellowed the [Moon Chasing Fire Lord] angrily.
As the night drew on, the Black Moon Divine Palace experts and their allies were searching everywhere for suspicious characters.
The twinkling stars in the sky were like jewels that had been left behind on a curtain of darkness.
Zhong Yuan was extremely disappointed to know that although countless experts from the Black Moon Divine Palace and the surrounding land were constantly searching for traces of the duo, strangely, no one could capture a trace of their auras. Even when the Great Saint-level [Moon Chasing Fire Lord] used his secret technique, it was still to no avail.
These two people seemed to have completely vanished into thin air.
Yet another day passed.
On the morning of the second day, everyone on the road of chaos heard a shocking and alarming piece of news.
Four representative stations of the Black Moon Divine Palace near Quicksand City were mysteriously attacked by Ye Qingyu and were then sealed by his ice formation.
He had deployed similar methods and moved just as swiftly, then disappeared without a trace once again.
A young expert who had appeared out of nowhere had powerfully attacked the Black Moon Divine Palace's representative stations across five major cities at a speed that no one thought was possible.
Things were becoming more interesting.
Many people who had been gleefully keeping tabs on the situation finally realized how odd the situation was. The fact that six Great Saints of the Black Moon Divine Palace were unable to take down a young man of the Human Race left countless experts dumbfounded.
"How could this young man from the Human Race named Ye Qingyu be so powerful?"
Many people even started to suspect that Ye Qingyu was a successor of a super force who had been groomed in secret and was just now starting to show his true prowess. No one could believe that such a talented genius could emerge from a tiny and lowly domain.
As night fell, more and more theories and rumors started to spread.
Ye Qingyu's name and his unstoppable progress had become the hottest topic throughout the major cities. When the morning star twinkled over the firmament and a faint golden glow appeared on the skyline, the only representative station of the Black Moon Divine Palace that remained across the ten major cities was the one located in Falcon City.
Falcon City was a sprawling city on the road of chaos.
The most striking part of the city gates were the statues of two mythical beasts—the falcon and antelope, which were exquisitely carved from black rock and stood guard on the left and right sides of the city gates. They were hundreds of meters tall and stood as majestic as mountains. They looked extremely realistic as though they had been crafted by the most skillful craftsman.
These two statues of mythical beasts contained an age-old Dao essence and power of the primeval world, as though they had lived through the events of centuries past and had been around for thousands of centuries.
Every creation in this universe had its own laws of life and death and also lived by the laws of the jungle.
However, all living things that would normally be considered natural enemies in the Vast Thousand Domains lived together harmoniously in Falcon City and mutually respected each other. All foreign races and passers-by who first arrived in Falcon City would often see the peculiar sight of eagles and sheep, cats and mice, and leopards and oxen living harmoniously with one another.
Now, a fissure of tension could be sensed running through the most tranquil and peaceful city on the road of chaos.
Before dawn broke, the Black Moon Divine Palace had urgently issued a Black Moon Edict to the major forces across the myriad domains. This was the first time that one had been issued in many centuries.
This Black Moon Edict had traditionally been held by the Enforcement Elder and would not be issued unless absolutely necessary.
The fact that the Black Moon Divine Palace had urgently issued this edict showed that their upper echelons were incensed by Ye Qingyu's actions, a Heaven's Prideling from a tiny domain. Now was an extremely critical moment for the Black Moon Divine Palace.
Their edict invited experts of the various forces and lands to make their way to the city in order to defend the last representative station alongside the six Great Saints. After this matter was concluded, they would be rewarded with secret treasures from the Black Moon Divine Palace.
The Black Moon Divine Palace also released a statement declaring that they would capture Ye Qingyu and his accomplice and make them suffer ignoble deaths.
In just two days, all the various forces and experts within the road of chaos were aware of Ye Qingyu and the Black Moon Divine Palace's feud. This also led to more and more interest in the development of the situation and the situation with the Heaven Wasteland envoy mission.
Both sides were at an impasse, where neither side could back down.
Everyone knew that a storm was brewing but no one knew if this storm would trigger a massive flood that would sweep away all nineteen cities on the road of chaos.
