The strange light of Yuanjing approached rapidly in his pupils, and in an instant it was within reach. The excitement in the eyes of the man in black was so fierce that it seemed real.
But at this moment, the scene in front of his eyes suddenly distorted, and an irresistible force that came from nowhere pulled him violently to the left.
He was horrified, but had no time to react. His head hit the ground heavily, and the arm that was only inches away from Yuan Jing the last moment was crushed to the ground by a foot.
At the same time, he heard another person's exclamation. The broadsword he swung flew far away, and his body was pulled apart at the same time. One of the two people's arms was twisted and overlapped, and was firmly stepped on the ground by the same foot.
In extreme fear, the two men's profound energy surged, but before it could explode, they felt as if they were being pressed down by ten thousand mountains. The arms they had just raised were slammed back into the ground, and even their heads were half sunk into the ground, unable to be lifted up at all.
The two of them twisted their heads with great difficulty, following the long leg that was stepping on their arms, and barely made contact with Yun Che’s cold and stern gaze.
“You…” Their pupils cracked, and they couldn’t believe it no matter what… The man in front of them had a profound energy aura of only the third level of the Divine Lord Realm.
“Tell me your names and origins.” Yun Che spoke, his voice devoid of emotion.
Neither of them responded. No one knew whether it was because they were unwilling or because they were still in shock.
The corners of Yun Che’s mouth sank, and before he could make any movement, two overlapping explosions suddenly sounded… The arms of both men broke at the same time, accompanied by two equally shrill screams.
The screams beside his ears did not move Yun Che in the slightest, and he continued calmly, “I’ll give you one more chance to answer.”
Pressure, fear, and severe pain quickly eroded his will. The man on the right spoke in panic, "My name... my name is Han Quan, and this is my junior fellow apprentice Liu Jing... We are from the Bajian Sect of the Fuyan Realm... Please... please, brother..."
"Very good." A cold voice interrupted his trembling voice in pain: "Since you are still obedient, I will give you a quick death. Die!"
clang!
Yun Che sucked the broadsword that was blown away into his hand, and with ruthless killing intent, he was about to smash it towards the heads of the two men.
"Brother... Senior, please spare our lives!" Han Quan screamed with all his might, "We are blinded by greed and have failed to recognize a great man! Please, Senior, please spare our lives!!"
Under the shadow of death, his roar almost tore his throat. The murderous intent that penetrated his marrow seemed to be suspended there because of his roar, hanging in the air.
Yun Che turned around and said to Hua Caili, “Sister Qu, how should we deal with these two people?”
Yun Che's behavior startled Han Quan and Liu Jing, who then realized that the two men were actually targeting this girl. Han Quan no longer cared about anything else, and twisted his neck desperately and yelled, "Fairy, spare me! The Ba Jian Sect we belong to is one of the three major guardian sects in the Fu Yan Realm, and we are definitely not evildoers, please..."
“Definitely not a villain?” Yun Che sneered, “It seems like you need me to help you recall the ugly face that wanted to kill and rob just now.”
“No, no!” Han Quan shouted hurriedly, “As members of Bajian Sect, we will never commit murder even if we are in the foggy sea. We can’t suppress our greed because we have never seen such a crystal before. As for killing someone, it’s just… a verbal threat, we will never really do it.”
Without hearing the girl's decisive words, Han Quan's hope grew, and he continued to speak urgently: "The fairy is so divine, how could she let our dirty blood stain her hands. After the two of us leave, the entire Bajian Sect will definitely remember the great kindness of the fairy and this senior, and will repay them a thousandfold in the future."
Yun Che did not move, but just looked at Hua Caili silently.
Hua Caili turned her eyes slightly, then immediately retracted her gaze and said softly: "No matter what their original intention was, they didn't hurt us at all. Let them go."
“But…” Yun Che frowned, then sighed helplessly, and abruptly withdrew his foot from their arms. His murderous intent also dissipated. He turned around and said in a cold voice, “Get out of here now.”
The two men stood up hastily, looking dazed for a moment, unable to believe that the other party had really let them go like that.
"If you had only met me, you would have been killed. After you get away, don't forget who saved your life."
The sound beside their ears made them shudder, as if awakened from a dream. Han Quan said in a trembling voice: "Yes... yes! We will never forget the kindness of saving our lives, fairy. If you have any instructions in the future, I will repay you with my life."
As they talked, they retreated tentatively. After retreating ten steps, they hugged their broken arms and scrambled away like dogs that had lost their homes.
Hua Caili opened her eyes and looked at Yun Che, wanting to say something but stopping herself.
She had already understood what Yun Che was doing.
“Keep doing this.” Yun Che said, “It shouldn’t take us too long to wait.”
Hua Caili opened her mouth but didn't ask anything in the end.
Indeed, they did not have to wait too long. In less than half a minute, a wave of air carrying a strong murderous aura rushed over at a high speed.
Boom!
Three figures fell, creating a long crack in the ground of the sea of fog. The edge of the crack almost touched Yun Che's toes.
Hua Caili's eyelashes twitched slightly in the barrier, and she uttered a lost thought in her heart: It is like this again.
Among the three, Han Quan and Liu Jing stood on the left and right, each of them had a broken arm hanging down, covered with bloodstains. However, their faces no longer had the humble fear they had when they begged for mercy before, but were instead filled with ferocious rage.
Standing among them was a middle-aged man in a black robe, with a nine-foot-long giant sword behind him. It had no edge or sharpness, but it released a suffocating dominance in silence.
Half-step Divine Annihilation… Yun Che glanced at the middle-aged man for a moment.
"Uncle Master, it's them!"
"Look at that abyssal crystal! What we said is absolutely not an exaggeration."
The middle-aged man's cultivation was as high as half a step to the God of Destruction, and he was undoubtedly at the pinnacle of the world. Even so, his gaze lingered on the abyss crystal for several breaths, and the greed that had been dormant for who knows how many years was like a revived venomous snake, violently stirring his soul sea.
He looked indifferent and said coldly: "A mere third-level Divine Lord? You two just fell into his hands?"
"Uncle Master, this person's cultivation is extremely strange." Han Quan panted and said, "He just fought with us. He is clearly a Level 3 Divine Master, but his strength is probably comparable to that of a Level 8... or even a Level 9 Divine Master. Uncle Master, please don't be careless."
“Comparable to an eighth-level Divine Lord?” The middle-aged man sneered, “How dare you come up with such nonsense! I’m afraid you were ambushed and are too embarrassed to admit it.”
Han Quan and Liu Jing wanted to deny it, but they heard Yun Che coldly say: "Is this how you, the Ba Jian Sect, repay the life-saving grace?"
"Life-saving grace? Hahahaha!" Han Quan's eyes turned and he laughed grimly, "I have never seen idiots like you in my life. You actually let us go just like that."
"Today, I will teach you a good lesson." He removed his hand from the broken arm, and his pale face became even more ferocious: "You cut off one of my arms, and later, I will use this hand to tear you apart completely! When you go to hell, don't forget to thank me for the lesson I taught you today!"
The middle-aged man raised his hand to stop Han Quan's howling. His eyes passed through Yun Che and stopped at Hua Caili: "Where are you two from?"
Although it was only a glance and her face was not revealed, Hua Caili's subtle demeanor completely surpassed the most noble daughter of the King of the Realm and the royal princess he had ever seen in his life. As long as he was not blind, he would know that the other party's origins were definitely not ordinary.
"Hmph, that's all." Without waiting for an answer, or perhaps because he didn't dare to hear the answer, he changed his tone, and murderous intent suddenly condensed in his eyes: "Since you know that we are from Bajian Sect, you will only die. If you want to blame someone, blame your own stupidity."
Since we know that the other party's background must be shocking, we must silence him.
There are no rules in the sea of fog, but there are rules outside of it.
If you don't take action in the sea of fog, it's fine. But once you take action, you must root it out. Otherwise, if it is leaked, the loss of reputation will be a minor matter, but you will never know whether the retaliation will be a disaster or a catastrophe.
Without any hesitation, the moment his voice fell, his palm had already grabbed Yun Che like an eagle's hook, and wherever his five fingers reached, continuous black marks spread across the space.
A biting cold wind blew towards him. Yun Che leaned back with his arms half-raised in the air, as if he had been suppressed and unable to move.
And when the eagle hook was only half a foot away from his chest...
BANG!!
The sound was so dull that Han Quan and Liu Jing became deaf instantly, leaving only a long-lasting buzzing in their ears.
The look in their eyes quickly changed from ferocious to terrifying as if they were falling into a cold abyss.
Their uncle-master’s body, which had originally been rushing towards Yun Che, suddenly turned violently backwards in an instant. A huge bloody hole appeared on his back, and broken bones flew everywhere.
The middle-aged man’s pupils completely lost their color. In the suddenly grayish world before his eyes, he could only vaguely catch the faint cold smile on Yun Che’s face.
Yun Che turned his hand, and the huge sword behind the middle-aged man fell into his hand. The azure icy light bloomed on the sword, and then pierced into his body fiercely. With a huge roar, he was blown far away until he was deeply nailed into the ground of the sea of fog.
The chief elder of Bajian Sect, a powerful man who had reached the half-step divine destruction realm, was pierced through by his own beloved sword in the blink of an eye and nailed to the ground like a dead dog.
His pupils quickly lost focus as he shuddered, and a hoarse, trembling voice came out of his mouth: "Demi-god..."
With his level of cultivation, even if he faced a demigod, he would not die instantly.
But unfortunately, with the cultivation level of half-step to the realm of divine destruction, how could he bother to be on guard against a third-level divine master?
He used 60% of his strength in his attack, leaving no room for maneuver.
However, Yun Che burst out with all his strength in an instant, leaving him no chance to regret before he was killed.
In the distant sky, a strange light suddenly appeared in Hua Qingying's eyes.
There was no ripple in the previous moment, but it could explode to such an extent in the next moment.
This level of control of profound strength...
Could it be that...
He actually possesses more than eight points of godhood! ?
Thinking about his many peculiarities, Hua Qingying was not surprised at all.
"Master...Master...Uncle Master..."
Han Quan and Liu Jing were shaking like sieves, their legs trembling, and they could collapse to the ground at any time.
tread!
A figure flashed before their eyes, and Yun Che was already standing beside them, with no joy or anger on his face, not even a hint of mockery.
At this moment, the two men felt as if their hearts were bitten by a poisonous snake. They let out strange cries and collapsed to the ground in an almost identical posture.
Their faces were as pale as paper, their upper and lower lips opened and closed rapidly, but they could not utter a single word, only the sound of their teeth trembling.
Yun Che glanced at Hua Caili, but did not ask for her opinion. Instead, he stretched out his hand, and with a flicker of icy light, he easily turned the two completely frightened God Lords into ice sculptures... and then they flew away silently, turning into endless powder without a trace of blood.
Walking to the barrier, Yun Che slowly put away the Yuanjing and asked, "Now, have you found the answer?"
Hua Caili stood up and thought for a while before she said weakly, "Could it be... a favor?"
Yun Che smiled: "Yes, but not entirely."
Without letting Hua Caili figure it out, he said directly: "The questions your father gave you - the most precious and the most humble in the world, their answers are all 'love'."
"Love...righteousness..." Hua Caili whispered these two words, which were extremely ordinary and simple, but made her feel a little confused at the moment.
Yun Che glanced to the side and said slowly: "Gratitude is a kind of affection. Some people regard it as the sky, and they would repay it with the ocean. But some people... as you can see, you saved his life, but he laughed at you for being stupid and wanted to take your life."
Hua Caili: “…”
"Family affection is a kind of affection. Some people value it more than their own lives and are willing to die for it; while some people...blood relatives, use them as tools when they are useful, discard them like old shoes when they are useless, and kill them like grass when they are jealous."
“Trust is a kind of affection. Some people are willing to sacrifice themselves for it, even to the point of dying for it; but some people will use it as a blade and stab themselves back.”
"There is also the bond between master and disciple. How many people respect their master as their father and honor him throughout their lives; and how many people betray their master and destroy their ancestors, and kill their master to prove their truth."
"There is also the friendship between close friends... the friendship between fellow disciples... the friendship between men and women... it's all like this."
Hua Caili listened carefully for a long time before she said softly, "I actually understand all of this, but..."
“You must have encountered something like today more than once, right?” Yun Che suddenly asked.
Hua Caili was startled, and her head drooped even more: "Yes..."
Yun Che continued, “So, if you let them go today, and they bring someone we can’t deal with, guess what will happen to us? Will they be as merciful as you?”
"I know." Hua Caili closed her eyes and lowered her voice a little: "But they are not abyssal beasts after all, but living people. They have parents, wives and children, and they have to go through layers of cruel competition to grow up to this day... Every time I encounter them, I always think that if they are really just temporarily deceived and not truly evil people... then I can't kill them."
She said softly, "Aunt always said that foolish kindness is not kindness, but foolishness. But I..."
She took a long breath, opened her beautiful eyes, and seemed to say to herself: "It doesn't matter, I have only been through a short period of time, and I will eventually... grow little by little."
Yun Che looked at her and shook his head very seriously: “From a kind person who regards saving the common people as an honor and responsibility to being able to annihilate thousands of lives without changing his expression, it does require growth. However, this growth process is very painful... It may be so painful that you cannot imagine.”
"And you don't need it."
"I believe that your father and your aunt's teachings to you are only to guide you to see human nature more clearly, rather than to let you 'grow' into someone as cold and heartless as me. They would definitely prefer that you always keep the beautiful and pure heart that you have now."
Facing Hua Caili's eyes full of surprise, he said meaningfully: "Growth is a thorn that all mortals must tread. And you only need to climb onto the high platform that has been built for you, and look down at all the mortals with increasingly clear eyes."
Hua Qingying: "..."
She couldn't help but be surprised once again, surprised that these words were spoken by a man who was only half a century old.
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