Bu Si Gui saw Ye Ling sit down to cultivate after taking his attack head-on, and his entire face fell, looking extremely displeased.
He felt immensely insulted!
"You good-for-nothing Ye Ling, do you really think I don't exist? Is that it?"
"There's a limit to underestimating people!"
Bu Si Gui gnashed his teeth in anger. He stared intently at Ye Ling, who was sitting below, and once again gathered a large number of runes around him, preparing to unleash his next attack.
As for Ye Ling, he acted as if Bu Si Gui didn't exist at all, engrossed in comprehending the runes that Bu Si Gui had sent into his body.
At this moment, Ye Ling was like a thirsty student, absorbing all the knowledge he craved.
The standoff between Bu Si Gui and Ye Ling made the atmosphere on Buzhou Mountain incredibly bizarre for a time.
Seeing Ye Ling sitting in the cage, Bai Wuchang, who was watching from afar, also had a flicker of worry in his eyes. He asked Ye You, "My lord, is it truly alright for the Emperor to be so careless?"
With the Saint Bu Si Gui still gathering his offensive power nearby, Ye Ling sitting down to cultivate right under the enemy's nose was an act of extreme arrogance!
If the opponent were a weakling with little cultivation, Ye Ling's actions might be understandable.
But Bu Si Gui was a Saint!
Even with supreme confidence in his own strength, shouldn't he at least put on a show of facing the enemy?
Bai Wuchang couldn't understand why Ye Ling was doing this now.
Ye You, however, knew her brother's cultivation level. Even if Bu Si Gui increased his cultivation by another major realm, he wouldn't be able to harm Ye Ling in the slightest.
She wasn't worried about Bu Si Gui's threat. Instead, she was concerned that her brother's current cultivation might go awry and lead to qi deviation.
However, Ye You also knew that she couldn't help much. She could only say, "Brother should have his own plans. Let's just mind our own business. This is only the people from the Shadow Hall who have arrived. We don't know where the Void Organization is hidden yet..."
Hearing Ye You's words, Bai Wuchang swallowed slightly and nodded, "Y-yes, I understand..."
Although he didn't know where Ye You got her confidence from, in the current situation, it was no longer something he, a mere Celestial Palace realm immortal, could participate in.
No matter how perilous the situation, he couldn't help at all. The only thing he could do now was to flee as far as possible.
As Bai Wuchang fell silent, he refocused his attention on Ye Ling.
Within the rune cage, Ye Ling sat cross-legged as if petrified, as if he had stopped breathing altogether!
The power of the runes gathered around Bu Si Gui grew stronger and stronger, and the runes coalescing in the air began to resemble those used by extraterrestrial powerhouses.
Each rune contained immense energy.
Bu Si Gui was already sweating profusely, his eyes bleeding, and his spiritual energy was completely depleted.
This time, Bu Si Gui had staked everything.
To compensate for the enormous spiritual energy deficit, he had even drawn in all the demons and evil spirits on Buzhou Mountain, plundering their energy to continue condensing runes!
"This set of runes is already infinitely close to the true inheritance of the Creation God... Ye Ling, you will pay the price for your arrogance!!!"
Bu Si Gui roared, condensing the surrounding runes into a great sword!
He held the sword with both hands and slashed fiercely at Ye Ling!
The rune great sword tore through space, even siphoning all the spiritual energy from Buzhou Mountain, attempting to crush Ye Ling in one blow!
The foundation of Buzhou Mountain, under the impact of Bu Si Gui's powerful aura, was already riddled with cracks and was in danger of shattering at any moment!
"This is bad! Buzhou Mountain is going to collapse!"
Bai Wuchang sensed the terrifying aura released by Bu Si Gui, his face filled with horror, and a storm of shock surged in his heart!
If Buzhou Mountain collapsed, the sky would lose a pillar, and the Three Realms would be destroyed!
In that case, all living beings would suffer, and everything would fall into chaos!
Yet Ye Ling remained seated, ignoring everything outside.
"So that's how it is... the path of runes is so vast, it can completely form its own cultivation system..." Ye Ling murmured, his heartbeat quickening.
At this moment, Ye Ling had entered a state of self-forgetfulness, constantly comprehending the runes.
In the path of cultivation, above the ninth rank were the Celestial Palace, then True Martial, Saint, Emperor Realm... breaking through the Emperor Realm meant achieving Supremacy!
Before encountering runes, Ye Ling had broken through to Supremacy and reached the Dao Venerable Realm, a level unprecedented on the Eastern Xuan Continent. After that, he had always felt that his cultivation realm had hit a bottleneck. In the current world, without a guide from predecessors, it was difficult for him to advance further!
But after encountering runes, he discovered that the path of runes could be considered an entirely new path of cultivation!
If he truly mastered runes, the power he could unleash would be unimaginable!
It would far surpass that of a Dao Venerable!
At this moment, Bu Si Gui attacked!
"Die for me!!!"
Bu Si Gui roared, and the rune great sword was already above Ye Ling's head!
Boom!
Just as Bu Si Gui's great sword was about to strike Ye Ling, a surge of demonic energy erupted from Ye Ling's surroundings, followed by the condensation of runes one after another in mid-air.
Bu Si Gui's rune great sword collided with the runes condensed by Ye Ling, and the entire great sword transformed back into runes, scattering in the air!
Not only that, but the rune cage that had trapped Ye Ling also dispersed, reverting back into runes.
"Impossible!!!"
Bu Si Gui's pupils contracted violently, his face filled with utter shock!
By transforming the rune-condensed object back to its original state, had Ye Ling mastered runes?
What kind of monster was this?
Bu Si Gui knew very well that he had cultivated diligently at the foot of Buzhou Mountain for a thousand years to control the power of runes!
Even with such diligent study, his current mastery of runes was merely superficial, he hadn't even scratched the surface!
But now...
Bu Si Gui saw the runes around Ye Ling, which clearly indicated that Ye Ling had mastered the method of using runes!
In just that short moment, Ye Ling's cultivation had surpassed, or even exceeded, his thousand years of hard work?
Upon thinking of this, Bu Si Gui felt a deep sense of despair.
This was... such unfairness?
"The path of runes..."
Ye Ling slowly opened his eyes, exhaled a breath of turbid air, his heart filled with excitement.
He still hadn't truly entered the path, and the runes he mastered were merely a simplified version used by extraterrestrial powerhouses.
But even so, he felt that he could easily kill an Emperor Realm cultivator with just runes!
If he continued to delve deeper into the path of runes, Ye Ling himself didn't know what kind of path he would ultimately tread.
"You, you are..."
Bu Si Gui looked at Ye Ling in terror, still unable to accept the reality.
His appearance this time was precisely to take advantage of Ye Ling being controlled by the rune cage, and to use the nature of runes, which ignored cultivation realms, to completely defeat Ye Ling and then easily take the ultimate power within Ye Ling's body.
Unfortunately, his ideals were too grand, causing Bu Si Gui to find it difficult to accept the current stark reality.
Ye Ling slowly stood up, waved his hand to disperse the surrounding runes, and looked at the trembling Bu Si Gui before him, chuckling lightly, "Kneel."