"Get up," Ye Bufan said coldly. "Which elder did you follow to get in, and why were you chased by people from Sakura Island?"
Ling Yunluo sighed softly and explained to Ye Bufan, "I followed the Supreme Elder in, but we were ambushed by demons, and then we were scattered."
"Oh?" Hearing that it was Song Mingqin, Ye Bufan couldn't help but feel a little worried.
"The Supreme Elder encountered Meng Po from the Earth Fiend Hall. That Meng Po is best at using spiritual power attacks. We were caught off guard when we fell into their trap. As soon as that Meng Po used her spiritual attack, many disciples from our sect fell to the ground," Ling Yunluo said.
"I was fighting the demonic cultivators with a group of disciples. In the middle of it, we discovered that the demonic cultivators were suddenly attacked and killed. We thought reinforcements had arrived, but unexpectedly, the attackers immediately began killing us indiscriminately," Ling Yunluo said, taking a breath and clenching his fists.
"How many people from Sakura Island came, and what was their strongest cultivation?" Ye Bufan asked.
Ling Yunluo shook his head and said, "My cultivation is too low to tell. But I saw one of them fighting the Supreme Elder on even terms. Meng Po was about to flee with the demonic cultivators, but she was also intercepted and started fighting another person who was likely an Onmyoji."
Ye Bufan exchanged a glance with Ye Qingyi, and everyone frowned.
"Where are they now? Take us to see them," Ye Bufan said.
"Ah?" Ling Yunzhi heard Ye Bufan wanted to take action and saw that he couldn't discern the auras of the people accompanying him, indicating they were all experts. He nodded excitedly.
Ling Yunzhi led Ye Bufan, Ye Qingyi, Ye Qingcheng, Xun Er, Ling Er, and others through the forest. Along the way, they saw corpses of disciples from demonic sects and cultivation sects, as well as some from Sakura Island.
As they went deeper, the trees became sparser, and in some places, they had fallen in a row, their broken ends cleanly cut by sharp weapons.
"It seems they fought here." Ye Bufan looked around again. It was silent, and Song Mingqing and the others were nowhere to be seen.
"Senior brother."
A weak voice came from not far away.
A hand emerged from a pile of dead bodies. Several disciples from the Crimson Sword Sect, covered in wounds, along with some disciples from the Heavenly Star Sect and the Heavenly Origin Sect, slowly crawled out from underground.
"What's going on?" Ling Yunluo looked at them in confusion.
"It was the Supreme Elder. He protected us," the person said, bleeding from his seven orifices, his arm torn and bloody.
"Where are they?" Ling Yunluo asked.
"The Supreme Elder used a teleportation scroll to send them away," the person replied.
Ye Bufan extended his spiritual sense and detected some hidden auras in the distance.
"Don't speak for now," Ye Bufan said. "There are still people."
Upon hearing this, Ling Yunluo immediately stood up. At this moment, a few figures poked their heads out from behind a large tree nearby. The leader, with slicked-back hair and a handlebar mustache, walked out.
As he appeared, more people emerged from the surroundings. Ye Bufan counted about forty to fifty people. The strongest among them was in the late Foundation Establishment stage, while the rest were at various stages.
"Who are you?" Ye Bufan slowly floated into the air, letting out a stern cry that echoed in all directions.
Ye Qingyi exchanged glances with Xun Er and Ling Er. Then, Xun Er and Ling Er also rose into the air, releasing their auras.
Immediately, the leader of the Sakura Island group hesitated. With two late Foundation Establishment experts and one mid-Foundation Establishment expert appearing, he lost his confidence.
"Baka! Damn cultivators of the Kyushu land." The other person cursed inwardly.
"Retreat!" he ordered the cultivators from Sakura Island.
"You want to leave? It's not that easy. You hurt the cultivators of my Kyushu land and think you can just leave without paying a price?" With a thought, Ye Bufan summoned the Broken Sword and the Xuanwu Sword from behind him.
"Huh?"
Ye Bufan himself was surprised. He only summoned the Broken Sword, but the Xuanwu Sword also appeared behind it.
The Broken Sword flew towards the leader of the Sakura Island cultivators, followed by the Xuanwu Sword.
"Zzzzzz—"
The Broken Sword was enveloped in white lightning, and then a bolt of lightning descended from the sky, attaching itself to the top of the Xuanwu Sword.
"Rumble—"
Thunder rumbled on a clear day. Ye Bufan hadn't expected the Xuanwu Sword to be able to summon the lightning power from this ancient cultivation ruin within this secret cultivation realm.
"This means my Chongxu Lei Jue can be used here," Ye Bufan was overjoyed. With Chongxu Lei Jue, Ye Bufan's attack power would be even stronger.
"Baka!" The other person swung his samurai sword. The Xuanwu Sword, carrying lightning, cleaved down. The person's body instantly turned black, and his clothes turned to ash.
"Hahahahahahaha—"
Ye Qingcheng couldn't help but laugh. A little blood trickled from the other person's lips, and a disciple beside him immediately offered his own clothes to cover him.
"Baka! You die!"
The other person's samurai sword slashed towards Ye Bufan. Ye Bufan vanished from his original spot. His sword domain enveloped the person, and for a moment, sword energy from all directions assaulted him.
"Clang—"
The other person's samurai sword collided with the Xuanwu Sword, splitting in two instantly. Half of the sword flew backward.
"Two Sleeves of Green Snakes."
Ye Bufan held the Xuanwu Sword in one hand and the Broken Sword in the other, descending from the sky. For a moment, it looked like two green snakes were swooping down, striking the other person.
The other person tried to resist. Ye Bufan concentrated his true qi to a single point and collided with the other person. Finally, the energy and the sword qi pierced through the other person's body. He fell straight to the ground.
"You..." The other person looked at Ye Bufan, his eyes wide, and then breathed his last.
Ye Bufan turned to face the people from Sakura Island and said in a deep voice, "If I see you again, you will suffer the same fate."
The people from Sakura Island stood frozen, looking at each other, unsure whether to advance or retreat.
"Scram!" Ye Bufan roared. In an instant, the figures vanished.
"What a masterful 'slaughtering the chicken to scare the monkeys' tactic."
Ye Qingcheng stepped forward, watching the fleeing Sakura Island people, and patted Ye Bufan's shoulder.
"This was truly exhilarating to watch?"