Ye Ling stood in the air. Below him, Shangqing Mountain had completely collapsed, with dust filling the sky and obscuring everything.
"Ye Ling!"
A Yun flew out from the shattered Shangqing Mountain and said, "Nuoying's punch has destroyed the entire Shangqing Palace. There's nothing left for me here."
"I can see that." Ye Ling looked at the dust billowing below, pursed his lips, and sighed, "Nuoying... she's a bit violent."
Below Shangqing Mountain, amidst the buried boulders, Nuoying stood before the Shangqing Palace Lord, whose body was now only half intact. A flicker of surprise flashed in her eyes. "Huh? You can actually survive one of my punches? It seems I need to get serious..."
"Don't... don't underestimate me..."
The Shangqing Palace Lord struggled to regenerate his shattered flesh, his face contorted as he glared at Nuoying. "I'll kill you!!!"
The Shangqing Palace Lord roared, his supreme power erupting completely. The boulders burying them instantly turned to dust!
The barrier that enveloped Shangqing Palace transformed into energy and surged into the Shangqing Palace Lord's body, causing his aura to soar.
"Take this punch!"
A crisp voice rang out, and Nuoying delivered another fierce punch to the Shangqing Palace Lord's face!
*Bang!!!*
The space below Shangqing Mountain was directly shattered by Nuoying's punch. Endless spatial storms leaked from the broken void and swept outwards.
The Shangqing Palace Lord, before he could even cry out, was utterly annihilated by Nuoying's strike, his soul scattered!
Ye Ling, witnessing all this from the air, couldn't help but purse his lips, feeling a sense of trepidation.
The Shangqing Palace Lord was, after all, a supreme expert.
For Ye Ling to deal with him, he would have had to meticulously plan a trap, luring the Shangqing Palace Lord into Mo Jian's ambush.
But now, before Nuoying, that supreme expert hadn't even uttered his own name before being killed by Nuoying's two punches...
Ye Ling didn't know why, but he felt a hint of envy towards such simple and brutal combat.
After the Shangqing Palace Lord was killed by Nuoying's punch, the shattered space slowly healed. Nuoying stretched lazily, then pushed off with her legs, soaring into the air like a cannonball. She flew to Ye Ling's side and said with a smile, "Ye Ling, I'm done on my end. How about you?"
Seeing Nuoying's smile, Ye Ling's mouth twitched slightly. He then nodded, "D-done."
He had essentially won by doing nothing.
"Good brother!" Nuoying laughed and threw another punch towards Ye Ling's chest.
Ye Ling's expression changed slightly at this, and he quickly retreated to dodge.
Even so, Ye Ling felt the force of Nuoying's punch sting his body.
'Just how strong is this girl?'
Feeling Nuoying's powerful punch, Ye Ling found it hard to imagine the true power of her full-force strike.
After missing her punch, Nuoying realized she had gotten carried away again. She quickly apologized to Ye Ling, "Sorry, I always forget how strong I am. Luckily, I didn't hurt you!"
"It's fine... just be more careful next time," Ye Ling smiled at Nuoying, secretly resolving to be more cautious around her in the future, lest he end up disabled by accident.
"Okay! I'll definitely be careful next time!" Nuoying nodded firmly, appearing to have remembered. However, whether she would forget again later was anyone's guess.
With Nuoying having dealt with Shangqing Palace in a single punch, Ye Ling didn't waste any more time. He said to Nuoying, "Nuonuo, I might have to temporarily leave the Origin Upper Realm. Are you sure you want to come with me?"
"It's fine, I'll just follow you anyway," Nuoying replied with a smile.
She had no specific goals in the Origin Upper Realm, and she was unfamiliar with this world. Ye Ling was the only person she had met, so naturally, she would follow him.
Most importantly... although Nuoying was simple-minded, she wasn't foolish. She could sense that Ye Ling's identity was definitely not as simple as she imagined!
By following Ye Ling, she could uncover more secrets.
Moreover, she had a premonition that Ye Ling had the ability to send her back to the Tianyi Universe.
Although she didn't know how Ye Ling's strength could achieve this, she just had this intuition.
Her intuition had always been accurate since she was young.
This time, she chose to trust Ye Ling and her intuition.
Ye Ling nodded slightly. "Well... you can come with me, but I have to emphasize that if you follow me, you must obey my orders. Without my permission, you cannot act on your own. Otherwise, we part ways immediately. Do you understand this?"
"No problem," Nuoying smiled. "Listen to the superior officer! I'm a scout, I have the basic qualities."
"In that case, let's depart."
Ye Ling wasted no more time. He closed his eyes and sensed the mark he had left within the Celestial Star, confirming its exact coordinates.
"What is this?"
When Ye Ling sensed that the Celestial Star's position was changing rapidly, and that his connection to it was intermittently breaking, his expression changed slightly.
"What's wrong?" A Yun asked, noticing the change in Ye Ling's expression.
Nuoying also asked with concern, "Did something happen?"
Ye Ling's expression turned grave. He immediately tore open space, constructed a teleportation channel directly to the Celestial Star using runes, and quickly said to Nuoying and A Yun, "There's no time to delay. Come with me to save someone!"
Ye Ling had initially thought that the Celestial Star had already left the Origin Upper Realm and rendezvoused with Bai Qingxuan Yu...
But to Ye Ling's surprise, the Celestial Star was still in the Origin Upper Realm, and its position was changing rapidly. This could only mean that the Celestial Star was in the midst of a fierce battle... or being pursued!
Regardless of the situation, the Celestial Star's condition was not optimistic!
After constructing the teleportation channel and explaining the current situation to the two women, Ye Ling said no more and rushed in.
A Yun followed closely behind!
Nuoying saw Ye Ling and A Yun quickly enter the teleportation channel. A faint glow flashed in her eyes, and she muttered, "Seeing how tense Ye Ling looks, I guess I'll have another fight. I didn't get enough of a thrill from the Shangqing Palace Lord. I wonder if the next opponent will be tough."
"I'm truly looking forward to it!"
Saying this, Nuoying's eyes began to shine, and she immediately chased after Ye Ling and A Yun, entering the spatial rift.
The teleportation channel closed. The three of them were in Mozhou, leaving behind only the ruins of Shangqing Palace.
The sudden destruction of Shangqing Palace was like a depth charge, causing an uproar throughout Mozhou, catching all the cultivators of Mozhou off guard.
With the demise of Shangqing Palace, the sects and powers that were usually suppressed by it began to swell with ambition. They started fighting again to claim dominance over Mozhou, igniting a bloody storm.
However, those sects and powers fighting for power in Mozhou could never have imagined that everything they were fighting for would become meaningless.
The three individuals who caused the destruction of Shangqing Palace had already arrived in the Origin Upper Realm through the teleportation channel constructed by spatial runes, to a place that no one had reached for countless ages...
The center of the continent.
There, within the Origin Upper Realm... was the place where the Source of Seeds existed.