789: Chapter 785: The Battle Intensifies 789: Chapter 785: The Battle Intensifies However, the chop from Ye Tian was a feint; as Ye Zhihuan returned the stroke to meet the attack, Ye Tian’s blade suddenly twisted.
The chop originally aimed at Ye Zhihuan’s spine turned into a horizontal slash!
“What’s going on?”
Ye Zhihuan was utterly surprised.
If Ye Tian had truly chopped at his spine with full force, even he couldn’t have completely blocked it with a palm defense.
That is to say, had Ye Tian executed a vertical chop, he could have achieved a successful strike, but instead, he abruptly changed his move to a horizontal slash.
With a horizontal slash, given Ye Zhihuan’s capabilities, he could easily avoid it.
Ye Zhihuan’s body slightly moved back, dodging Ye Tian’s slash.
Although he avoided the blade, Ye Zhihuan suddenly sensed something was off!
Ye Tian hadn’t put full force into the slash; he only forced Ye Zhihuan to step back.
Then, with a tap of his foot, Ye Tian leaped high, escaping from the Ye family’s forbidden backyard.
“You little bastard, playing tricks!”
Ye Zhihuan hadn’t expected Ye Tian to just slip away; he certainly wasn’t going to watch Ye Tian escape.
“Beep beep beep beep beep beep~~~~~~~~”
Ye Zhihuan blew a whistle, then suddenly leaped toward the direction where Ye Tian was fleeing.
Ye Tian kept complaining; he hadn’t expected Ye Zhihuan to have a tool to summon his companions.
One Ye Zhihuan was troublesome enough; if the four elders of the Ye family joined hands against him, he would hardly be able to cope.
However, it was no wonder, given that he had intruded into the Ye family’s forbidden area and stolen their greatest secret.
Naturally, the Ye family would be relentless in their pursuit.
If it were merely a matter of Qinggong, Ye Tian would not consider Ye Zhihuan a threat, but currently, he was in the Ye family’s territory in Two Rivers Town.
Here, the Ye family had a geographical advantage!
Ye Tian had just fled the town, planning to dash into the woods, when suddenly a burst of Palm Force came from above his head.
“Where are you going?”
The palm was fierce.
If Ye Tian had kept running at full speed, his brains would likely have burst under the impact.
Thus, he had to slow down, swinging his wooden sword to force the person using the palm to retract it.
Ye Tian achieved his purpose, and the person immediately let out an “Eh?” sound, retracting the palm and stepping back.
Even though he had repelled the opponent’s palm, in just a blink, his escape route was blocked!
Ye Zhihuan immediately caught up, blocking Ye Tian’s path.
“Kid, you won’t escape this time, will you?”
Ye Zhihuan said sternly.
The person who had just struck with his palm, now by Ye Zhihuan’s side, turned out to be Ye Zhirong, the youngest of the four Ye brothers!
“Ye Tian, what are you doing?
Why are you clashing with the Clan Leader?”
Amazement showed on Ye Zhirong’s face.
The Ye family and Night King Hall were allied, and as the leader of Night King Hall, Ye Tian was not supposed to clash with the leader of the Ye family as it would signify the breaking of the alliance!
For Ye Zhirong, who became close to Ye Tian after some initial fights, the last thing he wanted to see was a fallout between Night King Hall and the Ye family…
“…”
Facing Ye Zhirong’s question, Ye Tian remained silent, knowing well in his heart that he had touched the Ye family’s sore spot!
Seeing Ye Tian remain silent, Ye Zhirong turned to Clan Leader Ye Zhihuan and said, “Clan Leader, could there be some misunderstanding here?”
Ye Zhihuan smirked coldly and said, “Misunderstanding?
What misunderstanding?
This fellow broke into our family’s forbidden area on his own and even stole the text from the stone bench.
I saw everything with my own eyes.
How could there be any misunderstanding?”
“What!?”
Ye Zhirong was shocked.
When he had brought Ye Tian into the Ye family’s courtyard, he had repeatedly warned him about the forbidden area in the backyard, the family’s greatest secret, which outsiders were not allowed to enter.
Had Ye Tian possessed any sense, he wouldn’t have recklessly entered it because it could lead to the collapse of the cooperative relationship between Night King Hall and the Ye family.
In such a scenario, both Night King Hall and the Ye family would stand alone and be vulnerable to destruction by other forces.
Ye Zhirong couldn’t understand why Ye Tian would commit such a reckless act.
“Ye Tian, do you have anything to say?
Is everything really as the Clan Leader has said?”
Ye Zhirong questioned Ye Tian sharply, who could only offer a bitter smile.
“Mr.
Ye, I indeed entered the Ye family’s forbidden zone and saw some things, but I had no choice but to do it!
Right now, I must obtain the complete version of the Innate Cultivation Technique, and this technique is indeed within the Ye family’s forbidden area!”
Ye Tian had said everything he could, and it was up to Ye Zhirong to judge the rest.
Upon hearing Ye Tian’s words, Ye Zhirong also looked astonished!
“Innate Cultivation Technique?
What Innate Cultivation Technique?
The members of the Ye clan have never practiced any Innate Cultivation Techniques, so how could the methods of Innate Cultivation Technique be recorded within the forbidden grounds of the Ye clan?”
Even Ye Zhirong, one of the four elders of the Ye clan, did not know whether there was an Innate Cultivation Technique in the Ye clan, and Ye Tian was also taken aback.
“Not the Innate Cultivation Technique?
Then what exactly are the words written on the stone bench in the back courtyard?”
“That is just recording the history of the Ye clan in tadpole script.
Because of the long passage of time, the method of translating the tadpole script has long been lost, so no one knows that part of the Ye clan’s history from the writing!”
Ye Zhirong spoke truthfully, and judging by his expression, there seemed to be no falsehood…
Ye Zhihuan immediately added, “Indeed, that is the case!
The history of the Ye clan is exactly what is carved on the stone bench in the back courtyard.
However, which part of the history has already been lost in the river of time, so no one knows.
But even so, designating the back courtyard as a restricted area and preventing anyone from peering at the words on the stone bench has been a command passed down by the Ye clan from generation to generation.
Even if the stone bench was already covered with moss, this command is still valid!
Ye Tian, although I do not know why you have come to pry into the secrets of the Ye clan, you have been deceived.
By probing into the Ye clan’s critical point, the Ye clan cannot tolerate you!”
“I have been deceived?
I don’t think so!”
Ye Tian couldn’t agree with Ye Zhihuan’s words.
Taoist Wu Chen, a blind Taoist who hid away in Laojun Temple, was uninvolved in worldly affairs, and lived a life of detachment and desirelessness.
Such a person shouldn’t likely deceive himself, right?
Besides, there was no benefit for Taoist Wu Chen in deceiving him; since there was no profit to be had, why bother?
“Not likely?
Ye Tian, do the bad people of the world have the words ‘bad person’ written on their face?
You’ve been deceived yet are completely unaware, how pitiful for you!”
Ye Zhihuan sarcastically stated, but Ye Tian just shook his head.
“Clan Leader, trust, but do not doubt!
Even though I, Ye Tian, am not particularly capable, these eyes of mine are keen.
I can still discern whether a person is good or bad, and if they mean well or ill towards me!”
Ye Tian firmly stated, but Ye Zhihuan was too lazy to talk further with Ye Tian!
“Ye Tian, people like you who naively believe in those with ulterior motives and have acted in ways that harm the Ye clan—even if we let you live and return, you are a threat to the world!
Thus, today, right here, you shall leave your life behind!”
Ye Zhihuan harshly declared, then raised his hand, heading straight for Ye Tian.
Since there was already a fracture between them, Ye Zhihuan, in front of Ye Tian, saw no need to hold back.
His palms, like heated iron blocks, had not even reached Ye Tian and already made him feel an immense heat!
Facing such an attack, Ye Tian could not clash with it directly but only held a wooden sword and then suddenly swung…
A forceful blade wind headed straight for Ye Zhihuan, but Ye Zhihuan’s cultivation of ‘Essence of the Sun’ Inner Strength had reached its pinnacle, and he was not afraid of the Life Weapon that could slice through iron like mud.
“Boom!”
Ye Zhihuan’s palm and the wind of the wooden sword collided, causing a ferocious explosion.
Ye Zhihuan’s burning Palm Force dispersed the blade wind created by the wooden sword.
“Boy, your moves are useless in front of the ‘Samadhi True Fire’!”
Ye Zhihuan coldly stated, and Ye Tian realized that his current opponent’s strength was in no way inferior to Sima Feng’s.
In fact, in some sense, Ye Zhihuan was even more formidable!
The martial artists of the Ye clan practiced a force of nature named ‘Essence of the Sun,’ which, as the name suggests, involved absorbing power of light, and Clan Leader Ye Zhihuan was among the best.
Ye Zhihuan could convert light energy into heat energy and cultivate it within his body, refining it into the lethal technique ‘Samadhi True Fire,’ with immense offensive power that almost no one could withstand.
The only weak point was probably Ye Zhihuan’s age, so his speed wasn’t very fast, but once Ye Tian was entangled in Ye Zhihuan’s techniques, he simply couldn’t find a chance to escape.
“Swish, swish, swish~~~~~”
Facing Ye Zhihuan’s ferocious attack, Ye Tian countered offense with defense, continuously slashing out three strikes, each brimming with lethal intent.
“Hmph!
Boy, you can’t escape!”
Ye Zhihuan was not sloppy either.
He waved his hands as if weaving a net, effectively shielding his body so airtight that under the scorching Palm Force, Ye Tian’s indestructible sword technique with the wooden sword seemed to have no effect at all—neither the sword momentum nor the wind following the sword strikes could break through Ye Zhihuan’s defenses.
Ye Tianxin was shocked.
The combat power that Ye Zhihuan was displaying now was far stronger than what he had shown earlier in the back courtyard of the Ye clan!
Could it be that he held back earlier?
Ye Tian reminisced incessantly, realizing that during the confrontation in the forbidden area of the Ye clan’s back courtyard, Ye Zhihuan had intentionally held back, probably because he was afraid that his attacks would destroy the forbidden area.
Now, since they had already arrived outside of Twin Rivers Town, Ye Zhihuan’s attacks no longer had any scruples, and his moves were completely unrestrained…