Chapter 129

Chapter 129: The Furious Master Ta!

In the arena, the armored guards saw Zhantai Zhan’s fury and all dropped to their knees, trembling with fear.

The soul of the old man in the divine robe shook like a leaf in the wind, terror reaching its peak — years ago, this divine official had once slaughtered an entire civilization in a fit of rage.

Her blood ran cold!

Zhantai Zhan watched Ye Tianming walk away in the distance. She wanted to speak, but the words seemed to catch in her throat. When his silhouette finally disappeared into the distance, she slowly closed her eyes.

After a long moment, she turned and left with a sweep of her sleeve.

Her pride would not allow her to bow her head!

The armored powerhouses around her immediately followed.

The old man in the divine robe, however, was left with a face full of confusion. Good heavens, had he said something wrong with his flattery? He thought it over carefully — it didn’t seem like it!

Could it be that the young man wasn’t Yang Jia?

Holy crap!

At that thought, the old man in the divine robe’s expression instantly froze.

As Zhantai Zhan and the others departed, the special spacetime tunnel in the real world vanished along with them. The powerhouses throughout the real world all let out a collective sigh of relief — thankfully, she had no intention of starting a fight.

After descending the Grand Dao Heavenly Ladder, Ye Tianming immediately rode his sword into the air and headed toward the Ancient Prior Civilization.

He had just killed quite a few powerhouses from the Guanxuan Universe, and they would certainly not let him off the hook. Right now, the most pressing matter was to get back to the Ancient Prior Civilization as quickly as possible.

As for Zhantai Zhan — judging by the grand procession and display she had shown up with earlier, he understood that the two of them were from entirely different worlds. Perhaps they would never have the chance to meet again in this lifetime.

But he hadn’t gone far when, very quickly, waves of terrifying auras suddenly spread across the sky. At the same time, dozens of divine senses locked directly onto him.

Ye Tianming stopped. He looked up, and not far away, the fabric of spacetime split open as more than a dozen people stepped out together.

Leading them was the current patriarch of the Nalan Clan, Nalan Feng, and at his side stood a group of powerful figures from the great noble families.

At the sight of these Guanxuan Universe powerhouses, Ye Tianming wasn’t surprised — he just hadn’t expected them to arrive so quickly.

When they laid eyes on Ye Tianming again, Nalan Feng and the others all darkened their expressions, because they noticed that his aura was considerably stronger than before. Moreover, Ye Tianming’s entire bearing had undergone a world-shaking transformation.

Sword Emperor!

They hadn’t expected Ye Tianming to reach the Sword Emperor realm so quickly. And the fact that he could refine even Boundary-Breaking powerhouses into puppets made it abundantly clear that he must have obtained some mysterious inheritance within that secret realm.

At that thought, the expressions on Nalan Feng and the others’ faces grew even uglier.

Beside Nalan Feng, one of the noble family powerhouses suddenly snarled, “Ye Tianming, how dare you refine our people into puppets, you……”

Nalan Feng suddenly said, “No need to waste words on him.”

With that, he thrust his right hand forward, and a terrifying aura instantly enveloped the entire area where Ye Tianming stood. A dreadful force was about to grind Ye Tianming into dust.

He didn’t want to waste a single moment — he just wanted Ye Tianming dead.

Sensing the terrifying force closing in from all sides, Ye Tianming narrowed his eyes slightly. The Xingdao Sword appeared in his hand, and he was just about to unleash the Law of All Beings when, at that very moment, the spacetime before him suddenly split open. The next instant, a middle-aged man stepped out.

It was none other than Nanyuan, the Era Lord of the Ancient Prior Civilization!

Nanyuan swept his sleeve.

Boom!

Nalan Feng was sent flying back nearly a thousand zhang. When he finally stopped, his gaze cut toward Nanyuan like a blade, and he snarled, “Nanyuan, are you truly determined to make an enemy of our Guanxuan Academy?”

Nanyuan gave him a calm glance. “The great universes and eras once made a pact — Boundary-Breaking powerhouses are not to act against the younger generation of each other’s civilizations. Nalan Feng, how shameless of you, to raise your hand against someone at the Immortal Realm.”

Nalan Feng said coldly, “That pact applies to the younger generation of the great civilizations. This Ye Tianming is nothing but a member of a bottom-tier family — he has no right to be protected by that agreement.”

Nanyuan fixed his gaze on Nalan Feng. “Nalan Feng, remember this: our Ancient Prior Civilization is now Ye Tianming’s family. If your Nalan Clan sends even one more Boundary-Breaking powerhouse against him, every Boundary-Breaking powerhouse in our Ancient Prior Civilization will stop at nothing to hunt down the younger generation of your Nalan Clan.”

“You wouldn’t dare!”

Nalan Feng erupted in fury.

Nanyuan looked at him calmly. “Try me.”

Nalan Feng glared at Nanyuan. “Nanyuan, for the sake of someone from a bottom-tier family, you’re willing to make an enemy of the entire Guanxuan Universe — do you really think it’s worth it?”

Nanyuan smiled. “Worth it. Absolutely worth it.”

Everyone: “……”

Nalan Feng was visibly seething, but he quickly composed himself. He glanced at Ye Tianming, then said, “Nanyuan, your Ancient Prior Civilization is throwing the full weight of your civilization behind him — isn’t it all just so you can use him to defeat our Guanxuan young lord? But I’m telling you, he will never be able to defeat our young lord. Never.”

Nanyuan said lightly, “Didn’t he defeat him just recently?”

Nalan Feng said, “That’s because the young lord lowered his cultivation realm. If the young lord hadn’t done that, crushing him would be as easy as crushing an ant.”

Nanyuan chuckled softly. “A loss is a loss. Why make so many excuses?”

With that, he glanced over at Nalan Feng and the others. “Have you ever considered how much damage your coming here to kill Young Lord Ye will do to your Guanxuan young lord Yang Jia’s reputation? Right now, everyone out there believes it’s your young lord Yang Jia who’s afraid of losing to Young Lord Ye — that’s why he sent you here to eliminate Young Lord Ye in advance……”

Nalan Feng raged, “Bullshit! Who dares talk behind our Guanxuan young lord’s back like that?”

Nanyuan smiled. “Nalan Feng, if your young lord Yang Jia truly isn’t afraid of Young Lord Ye, then why are you here to kill him?”

Nalan Feng said, “He refined our Nalan Clan elders into puppets — such conduct……”

Nanyuan cut Nalan Feng off directly. “Wasn’t it because your people came after him first? Nalan Feng, and furthermore……”

With that, his gaze swept one by one over the powerhouses standing beside Nalan Feng. “And all of you — you are all core figures of the top-tier noble families in the Guanxuan Universe. You know better than anyone what’s right and what’s wrong. Of course, at your level, right and wrong hardly matter — what matters is interest. You want to kill Young Lord Ye not for Yang Jia’s sake, but for the Law of All Beings he carries. Isn’t that right?”

Called out in front of everyone, the noble family powerhouses all wore uncomfortable expressions. Their eagerness to kill Ye Tianming was not entirely for Yang Jia’s sake — they had been coveting the Law of All Beings on Ye Tianming for a long time.

Nalan Feng suddenly laughed. “And so what? Nanyuan, can you honestly say your Ancient Prior Era has never thought about obtaining that Law of All Beings?”

Nanyuan suddenly said, “I, Nanyuan, swear upon my entire cosmic civilization — from this moment forward and into the future, I will never scheme to take Young Lord Ye’s Law of All Beings. If I break this oath, may our Ancient Prior Civilization be left without a burial ground!”

Ye Tianming stared at Nanyuan in astonishment. “Senior……”

Nanyuan looked at Ye Tianming and smiled. “In the hearts of our Ancient Prior Civilization, Young Lord Ye matters far, far more than any Law of All Beings.”

Ye Tianming felt a wave of emotion. The Ancient Prior Civilization had done so much for him — far too much.

Not far away, Nalan Feng and the others watched as Nanyuan swore an oath upon his own civilization, and every single one of their expressions turned grim.

At that moment, one of the powerhouses beside Nalan Feng stepped forward. He looked at Nanyuan and said, “Nanyuan, I admire your boldness. We all know what you’re after — you want this Ye Tianming to defeat the young lord, to hold him in check, and thereby slow the Guanxuan Universe’s march toward unifying all of existence. But have you considered what will happen to your Ancient Prior Civilization if he loses to the young lord at the Grand Universal Tournament……”

Nanyuan cut the powerhouse off directly. “Then our Ancient Prior Civilization will live and die alongside Young Lord Ye.”

That single sentence left the powerhouse speechless.

This Ancient Prior Civilization had truly staked its entire civilization on Ye Tianming.

The powerhouse glanced over at Ye Tianming in the distance and sighed inwardly.

In truth, they all knew Ye Tianming was no ordinary person. But they had no way out. First, Ye Tianming and Yang Jia were mortal enemies — that alone meant the two sides could only ever be deadly foes.

Second, they had come after Ye Tianming time and again……. If Ye Tianming ever grew to full strength, he would certainly not let them off. If he were just an ordinary person, they might have simply ignored him — but the problem was, he was anything but ordinary. Not only that, he was an absolute monster.

So they feared what Ye Tianming might become if he were allowed to fully mature. Against a monster like this, the best course of action was to cut him down before he could bloom. Otherwise, the consequences would be endless.

Not far away, Nalan Feng, who stood at the front, suddenly said, “Nanyuan, just you wait. The day the Grand Universal Tournament ends will be the day your Ancient Prior Civilization ceases to exist in this world.”

With that, he cast a cold glance at Ye Tianming in the distance. “And you — don’t think that just because you have someone backing you, you can stand against the Guanxuan Universe. I’m telling you, there is no force in this world that can stand against the Yang family. Not in the past, not now, and not ever.”

Ye Tianming stared at Nalan Feng. “My Tower Ancestor once said that even the Yang family isn’t necessarily invincible.”

Nalan Feng sneered. “Your Tower Ancestor is nothing!”

“The hell you say!”

The Little Tower instantly flew into a rage. It shot out from within Ye Tianming’s body and materialized as a phantom nearby, glaring furiously at Nalan Feng. “Damn it, how did the Nalan Clan end up with a sorry piece of work like you? You’re just riding on your ancestors’ coattails, aren’t you? Come on then, summon your ancestors! I want to see whether your Nalan Clan’s ancestors would dare say I, the Little Tower, am nothing!”

“Summon our ancestors?”

Nalan Feng sneered with contempt. “What the hell are you? You think you’re worthy of making our Nalan Clan summon our ancestors? What a joke.”

“Damn it!”

The Little Tower was beside itself with rage. “Kid, take the Xingdao Sword and hack him down — hack that bastard to pieces! Whatever happens, your Tower Ancestor will take full responsibility……”

“You got it!”

The moment Ye Tianming heard Nalan Feng’s words, he didn’t hesitate for even a second. He pulled out the Xingdao Sword and swung it straight at Nalan Feng.