Chapter 373

Chapter 373: Ancestor, You Must Avenge Us

Upon hearing King Black Ming’s words, Mad Sword Emperor’s expression immediately turned grim.

In fact, as Black Ming had said, although Mad Sword Emperor was at a slightly higher realm than Black Ming, it would be easy to defeat him, but killing him would be far too difficult.

If King Black Ming was determined to escape, it would be impossible for him to kill him.

Every Tribulation stage great emperor had their own life-saving methods.

As Black Ming said, when his lifespan ended or he ascended to the Immortal Realm, the Sky Sword Sect would be finished.

Without his presence, the Sky Sword Sect could not withstand the revenge of a great emperor-level powerhouse.

Moreover, the colorful fragment had always been protected by the Abandoned Prison lineage. If he forcibly took it, he would tarnish both his and the entire Sky Sword Sect’s reputation in the cultivation world.

Most importantly, he did not even know what the colorful fragment was. Even if it was an immortal tool, it would be of no use to him because only an Immortal’s immortal essence could activate such tools.

Even if he obtained the colorful fragment, it would be useless to him as his lifespan was running out; an immortal tool would not extend his lifespan, nor would it help him survive the immortal tribulation.

If he forcibly seized the colorful fragment now, he would also make an enemy of a "young" great emperor, making this deal quite unworthy.

If he could guarantee the death of King Black Ming, he would attack without hesitation, but right now, he had no confidence whatsoever.

So after weighing his options, Mad Sword Emperor said to King Black Ming, “Since Black Ming is determined to have the colorful fragment, I won’t take what others cherish. This time, my Sky Sword Sect only seeks blood food.”

Hearing Mad Sword Emperor’s concession, King Black Ming wasn’t going to press the issue further.

“In that case, I will collect the colorful fragment.”

After saying that, King Black Ming didn’t waste any more time on Mad Sword Emperor and quickly burrowed toward the ground.

This time, he suppressed all his aura and prepared to launch a sneak attack on the junior named Ye Jian.

He didn’t believe that while he was launching a sneak attack, she would be able to use talismans to harm him.

Meanwhile, Ye Jian was unaware that her whereabouts had already been discovered by two great emperor-level powerhouses.

Because the divine senses of great emperor-level powerhouses were too strong, she didn’t sense anything when they scanned for her.

This was the advantage strong people had over the weak; if it were the divine sense of a Great Ascension stage cultivator, Ye Jian would have noticed it, but they were three major stages above her.

Of course, there are other ways to detect whether a powerful being is scanning with their divine sense, such as using a device that can sense divine senses, but such devices were abundant in the cultivation world.

However, Ye Jian had been a poor person before and never owned one.

At that moment, Ye Jian was swiftly burrowing toward the ground.

However, on the surface, many disciples of the Sky Sword Sect began to notice problems with the formation used to collect blood food.

“What’s happening? Why can’t the formation remove the spiritual impurities from the blood food?”

In a battle’s underground formation eye, a Great Ascension stage cultivator looked very grim.

Just moments ago, he discovered that the formation could not eliminate the spiritual impurities from the blood food.

If they couldn’t purify the blood food of its spiritual impurities, what use would it be to them?

“Ancestor, the blood formation cannot cleanse the spiritual impurities…”

Soon, this Great Ascension stage cultivator reported the situation to Mad Sword Emperor with his divine sense.

Upon hearing his subordinate’s report, Mad Sword Emperor thought for a moment and quickly understood the situation.

The barren prison could collect blood food free of spiritual impurities entirely because of the existence of the colorful fragment in the planet’s core. Now that the colorful fragment was taken away, the effect of purifying the spiritual impurities naturally disappeared.

After thinking for a moment, Mad Sword Emperor instructed his subordinates, “Continue to collect the blood food; I have my methods.” He thought about the colorful fragment that King Black Ming would obtain. If King Black Ming could master the colorful fragment, then perhaps he could directly use it to remove the spiritual impurities from the blood food.

At that moment, King Black Ming had reached near Ye Jian without her noticing any trace. He originally planned to sneak attack and eliminate Ye Jian, then retrieve the colorful fragment from her hands. However, Ye Jian had a thick defensive barrier around her, and he wasn’t sure about its level. If he couldn’t break through the defense during his sneak attack and Ye Jian had a chance to use an attack talisman, he feared he would be injured again.

So, King Black Ming decided to wait for Ye Jian’s defense to fail. He didn’t believe that she would keep the protective barrier up forever; if she did, it would waste a lot of talismans.

Not long after, Ye Jian returned to the surface. However, when she scanned her surroundings with her divine sense, she was stunned.

Because she saw that her Ye family had suffered heavy casualties.

From the looks of it, many had died from falling.

Ordinary people were almost all dead; only the cultivators at the Qi Refining stage among her family members survived.

Seeing this, Ye Jian trembled all over.

She was infuriated.

She never expected that in just a few days of being away, her family would end up in such a condition.

Holding back her sorrow, Ye Jian quickly flew above her family’s home.

“Mother!”

“Grandmother!”

“Great-grandmother!”

“Ancestor…”

The surviving Ye family members cried out mournfully upon seeing Ye Jian.

Most of the surviving members were Ye Jian’s descendants because they all possessed spirit roots. After cultivating true Qi, Ye Jian had given each of them a piece of protective gear.

“What happened?”

Ye Jian asked her surviving descendants with gritted teeth.

“Mother, two powerful cultivators broke through our formation and took us all into the air before throwing us all down. Those of us with some cultivation survived, but the other family members all died!” a man resembling an elder said with anger and grief in his eyes.

Previously, King Black Ming had captured all the Ye family members and brought them to a thousand meters high. After the Barren Prison Barrier suddenly disappeared, King Black Ming didn’t care about the survival of the Ye family members and simply left.

The result was that hundreds of Ye family members fell from the sky, with those who had cultivation surviving while almost all the ordinary people perished.

It was no wonder the Ye family was so filled with rage.

“Mother, you must avenge us.”

“Ancestor, you must avenge us…”

Other descendants who were not from Ye Jian’s lineage also shouted at her in sorrow.

The loss for the Ye family was too heavy; hundreds of people were killed by falling from a thousand meters high.

This resulted in the entire Ye family having fewer than thirty people left alive.

“I will surely take revenge; I will make my enemies suffer…” Ye Jian’s expression twisted with fury.

Meanwhile, she extended her divine sense to search for traces of the enemy.

Unfortunately, being in the Divine Transformation stage, her divine sense perception range was only a hundred kilometers, so she couldn’t find much.

However, regarding her enemies, she didn’t need to guess; it must be that person whom she had severely injured with her talisman. Aside from him, her Ye family hadn’t made enemies with anyone recently.