Ye Yun did not know the true name of the Immortal Sword Intent, nor did he know that sword cultivators below the Heavenly Domain, due to the lack of opportunity to enter the origin of the Great Dao, had no chance to explore higher sword dao, thus reaching the limit of super-tier sword intent.
Yet, he seemed to have reached the Origin Sword Intent on the Profound Heaven Continent, which was beyond incredible.
Therefore, as this monstrous sword momentum erupted, in addition to astonishing Yu Ruofeng, it also left Xing Wu stunned.
"This guy, did his super-tier sword intent break through in the lower realm?"
Even with Xing Wu's knowledge, this situation was too unique, and she muttered in surprise.
"Immortal-tier profound skill, immortal-tier divine ability, immortal-tier movement technique, coupled with this Ice Phoenix bloodline, and this Origin Sword Intent, he is truly an unfathomable young man."
Ye Yun was naturally unaware of the shock his Origin Sword Intent caused. He had already seized the opportunity to attack Qian Yuan.
Facing the Profound God Transformation and Ye Yun's full Origin Sword Intent, Qian Yuan was utterly overwhelmed and had no power to retaliate. After only two or three exchanges, Ye Yun exploited a flaw and severely wounded him with a sword strike.
"Monster, this guy is a monster!"
Qian Yuan was sent flying again, feeling the cold pain throughout his body and gasping.
Ye Yun had no intention of letting him go. Seeing that he was severely injured, a smile played on his lips.
"It seems to be about time. The next strike will take your head!"
He raised the Fenglan Sword and adopted an offensive stance, with cold air and sword intent swirling around him. The rapidly accumulating profound energy clearly indicated that he was about to unleash a killing blow.
Locking onto him with killing intent, Qian Yuan felt a chill run down his spine. He looked at the cold, flashing sword edge and swallowed.
He couldn't dodge. This strike was absolutely undodgeable!
His intuition told him that if he didn't take a gamble now, he would truly die from this sword.
"Damn it! I'll go for it, Nine Palaces Body Dissipation Grand Art!"
Seeing that he couldn't delay any longer, Qian Yuan decided to take a gamble and fully activated the Nine Palaces Demonic Refining Great Array.
A moment later, blood-red array patterns appeared on the ground, and his entire body was instantly enveloped by a giant blood-red sphere of light.
Ye Yun unhesitatingly struck out with his sword. The moonlight-like sword edge hit the sphere, causing it to explode and scatter into countless blood-red streams of light that flew in all directions.
"Hmm? Trying to escape?"
Ye Yun snorted coldly. This guy had clearly mixed in with the lights to flee.
He immediately extended his senses to cover all the blood-red streams but found no unique aura among them, which caused Ye Yun to frown slightly.
"What a bizarre escape technique..."
Seeing the blood-red streams of light receding, he didn't hesitate and shouted to Xing Wu in the distance.
"Hey! Can you tell where his real body is?"
Xing Wu had strange methods; perhaps she could tell where he had escaped to.
Upon hearing this, Xing Wu rolled her eyes at him with an expression of detachment.
"I'm sorry, who is 'Hey'? I don't know you."
"Nonsense, of course, it's you!"
"You? Who are you?"
"..."
Ye Yun was speechless. Seeing Qian Yuan escaping further and further, he suppressed the urge to say, "I'm your grandpa."
In the end, he could only sigh and soften his voice.
"Who else could it be, naturally it's the beautiful, stunning, and peerless Miss Xing Wu. Do you know where he fled?"
"Hmm? What did you say just now, 'naturally who'?"
Xing Wu smiled and looked at him, her meaning clear.
Ye Yun's forehead twitched, and he looked at her with a forced, eerie smile, grudgingly repeating.
"I said, the beautiful, stunning, and peerless Miss Xing Wu, do you know where he fled?"
Xing Wu then seemed to understand and smiled faintly.
"Oh, what was it? Isn't he right there?"
After speaking, she looked up at one of the myriad blood-red streams of light and casually clenched her fist in the air.
Qian Yuan, who had escaped far away amidst the chaos, was secretly gloating, thinking he had narrowly escaped, as both Ye Yun and Xing Wu had not noticed him.
He figured it made sense; although the escape technique attached to the Nine Palaces Demonic Refining Array caused severe cultivation damage upon activation, it was undetectable unless by a formation master who thoroughly understood the array.
As he turned to show a smug expression to Ye Yun and the others, secretly vowing revenge later, an anomaly occurred.
A vine, appearing from nowhere, swept towards him. Before he could react, his lower body was ensnared, and a tremendous force yanked him back.
With a loud crash, Qian Yuan, who had fled several miles away, was thrown back and landed ignominiously in front of Ye Yun.
"See? Didn't he come back?"
Xing Wu smiled charmingly at Ye Yun from a distance.
The latter looked at her in surprise. This woman was not only sharp-tongued but also quite capable.
Qian Yuan, scrambling up clumsily, ignored Ye Yun and glared at Xing Wu.
"You! Who exactly are you?!"
Even among Heavenly Domain cultivators, unless they were extremely powerful or sufficiently understood the Nine Palaces Demonic Refining Array, they shouldn't have been able to detect him.
At this moment, Xing Wu seemed to have finished her act. She slowly removed her veil and floated up from the swing, looking at Qian Yuan playfully.
"Do you recognize me now? Little friend from the Bei Ming Qian family, you should have met me once before..."
Seeing Xing Wu float closer, Qian Yuan was momentarily dazed, then his face contorted in extreme fear.
"It's you?!"
At that moment, the unique and mysterious Sword Empress among the Heavenly Domain Emperors flashed in his mind.
However, after the shock, he yelled madly.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! You monster, you were clearly by the Heavenly Dao Divine Hall..."
But before he could finish, his expression froze, as a thick vine mercilessly pierced his head.
Looking at Qian Yuan, whose life was fading, Xing Wu showed a rare, pure coldness on her face, perhaps angered by the term "monster" or by the mention of the Heavenly Dao Divine Hall, which had touched her inverse scale.
Ye Yun behind her, oblivious to her change in expression, asked with interest.
"By the way, how did you catch him?"
Xing Wu looked at the corpse and said faintly, "It's simple. I created this Nine Palaces Demonic Refining Array, so I naturally know where he would flee."
Upon hearing this, Ye Yun frowned and asked the question again.
"Who exactly are you in the Heavenly Domain?"
"You will know everything about me when you reach the Heavenly Domain."
Xing Wu said coldly, raising her hand slightly.
The unfurled scroll of mountains and rivers began to rapidly retract, and the divine-like scenery gradually faded. The world changed dramatically and returned to its desolate state.
Only then did she turn to Ye Yun, her icy expression instantly transforming into her familiar playful demeanor.
"Of course, I could tell you now, but I just enjoy seeing you longing for these things."
"Or rather, if you beg me, I might tell you."
Ye Yun's lips twitched. Yes, it was confirmed, this woman was definitely a tsundere!
Looking at her teasing smile, Ye Yun coolly replied.
"Beg you? Dream on. You can tell me or not, as you please."
Ye Yun snorted and then turned to Yu Ruofeng and Lan Aotian.
"If nothing unexpected happens, this matter is resolved."
After speaking, he seemed to recall something and suddenly looked towards the palace.
"No, it seems there's still one person. This aura... seems to be the demon princess, Hong Ling."
Yu Ruofeng's brows furrowed, and he immediately said, "Why is she here? Shall we go in and take a look?"
Hearing this, Ye Yun stared at the palace and pondered.
"To avoid any ambushes, you should wait outside. I'll go in alone to check the situation."
Yu Ruofeng and Lan Aotian exchanged glances, considering their limited strength, and agreed to his proposal.
Then, Ye Yun, carrying the Divine Protection Jade and the Immortal Jade, approached the palace. He slowly pushed open the doors and quietly entered the dark palace.
"I hope that guy didn't leave any danger for me..."