Chapter 314: Farewell to the Ancient Azure Dragon

Fen Moli was incredibly powerful, but his temperament did not match his strength. His personality was as volatile as fire; otherwise, he wouldn't have attacked Yun Che in the ranking tournament due to Fen Juecheng's severe injuries. Yun Che's sarcastic words infuriated him. "You little beast! You're still talking tough even facing death! Your survival sixteen months ago was a great gift from heaven to me! Today, I will ensure you die without an intact corpse."

"With you?" Yun Che sneered, his face full of derision. "During the ranking tournament, I was justly defeating Fen Juebi, that waste from your Burning Heaven Clan, yet you shamelessly attacked me in front of everyone... After leaving the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm, you even launched a despicable sneak attack when no one was expecting it! Burning Heaven Clan's Grand Elder? Bah! You're just a mad dog, biting indiscriminately, with no regard for seniority or decency. Do you, a stinking mad dog, even deserve to kill Yun Che?"

As the renowned Grand Elder of the Burning Heaven Clan, Fen Moli rarely heard disrespectful words, let alone such vicious insults. His hair instantly stood on end, sparks crackling in it, and his hands trembled with extreme rage. "You little beast... I'll take your life first, then rip your mouth to shreds!!"

Fen Moli lunged forward, a terrifying aura exploding from him like a bursting bomb. A deep purple, dragon-shaped flame ignited around his body, swirling up and down. The fiery dragon then coiled around his arms, hurtling straight towards Yun Che.

Fen Moli attacked in a fit of extreme rage, holding nothing back. Where his body passed, a deepening furrow was ploughed into the ground below. Fen Duancang and Fen Moyu, standing on either side, were directly pushed back by the terrifying aura. Even though they also cultivated the Burning Heaven Art and knew Fen Moli's strength well, they couldn't help but feel a tremor of fear. Clearly, Fen Moli was completely enraged. Under Yun Che's vicious taunts, he had largely lost his composure. They quickly retreated to avoid being caught in Fen Moli's furious assault. As for stepping forward to help... that was simply out of the question!

A vast wave of energy surged towards him. The dry grass and dead trees in front, to the sides, and even behind Yun Che burst into flames, yet his face showed no fear. Instead, he let out a wild laugh. "Hahahaha, you mad dog, you dare call yourself 'your daddy'? Mad Dog Fen Moli, take a sword from your Grandpa Yun!!"

His explosion of aura not only failed to intimidate his opponent but also provoked even more vicious insults. Every cell in Fen Moli's body felt like it was about to explode, and every pore was furiously releasing rage. "You little mongrel! If I don't tear you into ten thousand pieces, I swear I'm not human!!"

The fiery dragon on Fen Moli's arms became even more frenzied, concentrating all its power into his hands, vowing to shatter Yun Che into the finest dust with a single blow. Yun Che, however, showed no intention of fleeing or dodging. He raised his heavy sword and roared as he charged towards Fen Moli... He could feel how terrifying the incoming blow was; it was the pinnacle of a peak expert at the half-step King Profound Realm, unleashed in a fit of rage!

Just as the two were about to collide, the heavy sword in Yun Che's hand suddenly vanished, and a defensive power erupted instantly.

"Cloud Sealing, Sun Locking!"

Boom!!

The space trembled, the earth groaned, and a purple tongue of flame, hundreds of meters long, shot skyward, painting a large section of the sky purple. In an instant, the hundred-meter radius surrounding them became a sea of purple fire, with dragon-shaped flames darting wildly within it. Vegetation, dead wood, and even rocks burst into fierce flames... From within the flames, a figure shot away like a meteor into the distance, instantly vanishing from Fen Moli and the others' sight. A voice, filled with hatred and killing intent, brazenly echoed from afar:

"Fen Moli, old dog! One day, I will personally take your dog's life!"

After Fen Moli's full-power strike, his body experienced a brief moment of depletion. However, he clearly felt that he had not struck Yun Che's body, but a hard barrier. Although the barrier shattered under his attack, it had blocked over ninety percent of the force, failing to inflict severe injury on Yun Che. Moreover, Yun Che's receding voice was strong and resonant, showing no signs of grave injury or weakness. He immediately realized that Yun Che had deliberately provoked him, then used his full-power strike, unleashed in a fit of rage, as a means to escape!!

Fen Moli's entire being felt like a powder keg on the verge of exploding, his blood threatening to burst within him... He had been tricked by Yun Che *again*! He had been made to run around in circles like a foolish dog! His entire body trembled, and then he charged like a mad dog in the direction Yun Che had fled, his furious roars deafening. "Yun Che... I will kill you!! Kill you!!"

Fen Duancang paused briefly, struck by a sense of familiarity with Yun Che's escape method. Just three days prior, Yun Che had used this exact tactic to bypass layers of obstacles and abduct Fen Juecheng! At that time, he had used Fen Moran's full-power strike to propel himself directly in front of Fen Juecheng. However, executing such a move was by no means easy! Yun Che's ability to withstand Fen Moran's full-power blow without injury had already shocked him. He never imagined that, after taking Fen Moli's full-power strike head-on, Yun Che wouldn't just avoid death, but wouldn't even be severely wounded! Instead, he had used the force to escape! That was a full-power strike from a half-step King Profound Realm expert! It wasn't something easily borrowed! Even another peerless expert at the half-step King Profound Realm would surely be severely injured by such a direct blow.

If it was a body-protecting profound art... what kind of profound art could possibly be so incredibly powerful?!

"Let's catch up quickly!"

Fen Duancang and Fen Moyu quickly followed Fen Moli, charging forward.

Although "Cloud Sealing, Sun Locking" had blocked ninety percent of Fen Moli's power, the remaining ten percent still left Yun Che feeling extremely unwell. He clutched his chest, flying a great distance until his momentum finally faded. After landing, he assessed the terrain, reactivated the Ice Cloud Barrier around himself, and simultaneously waved an arm, sending a profound energy blast hurtling towards a canyon in the northwest. Meanwhile, under the cover of the Ice Cloud Barrier, he himself charged towards the Black Wood Forest in the northeast.

This time, he was employing the same old trick. But profound energy blasts were too mystical; even someone of Fen Moli's caliber couldn't possibly understand what they were! In this area specifically chosen by Yun Che, all the terrain obstructed vision, making it useless even from a high vantage point. To track someone, one could only rely on locking onto their aura... Thus, without a doubt, the frenzied Fen Moli directly pursued the northwest direction, plunging into the canyon, until the "Yun Che's aura" he had locked onto suddenly vanished completely.

Fen Moli stopped, and Fen Duancang and Fen Moyu quickly caught up. They looked around, frowning, "That kid's aura has vanished again... What's going on?"

"He can't escape!" Fen Moli's eyes coldly scanned the surroundings, purple flames flaring on his hands. "His aura vanished right here. He must have used some method to conceal his presence and body... He's nearby, he can't escape!!" As he spoke, Fen Moli thrust his right hand forward, and a fiery dragon slammed into the mountain wall on the right with a "boom," leveling more than half of it. "Do you think we won't find you if you hide?! Today, I'll tear this ground apart three feet deep, and you'll still die without a burial place!!"

Amidst his furious roars, streams of purple flame rained down from the sky, collapsing mountain walls. Even the ground was blasted with one massive crater after another. Before long, the desolate and lonely dry canyon, where even profound beasts were unwilling to reside, was utterly ravaged, quickly turning into a vast sea of fire...

While the dry canyon was suffering its undeserved destruction, Yun Che had already ventured deep into the Black Wood Forest. After confirming no one was pursuing him, he let out a breath, clutched his chest, and collapsed into a bush.

Yun Che's clothes were tattered, and his chest was a bloody mess, but these were only superficial wounds, not affecting his internal organs. After several gasping breaths, Yun Che slowly sat upright. He placed his right hand on his left shoulder and, with a forceful snap, heard a "crack" as his dislocated arm popped back into place. He shifted his body, leaning his upper back against a large tree, closed his eyes, and swiftly began cultivating the Great Way of the Buddha.

The misdirection caused by the profound energy blast, combined with the murky aura and dense, strange trees of the Black Wood Forest, made it easy to get lost within it. Therefore, it would be difficult for the Burning Heaven Clan to find him for some time. After an hour of quiet recovery, his injuries had healed by sixty to seventy percent. He opened his eyes, no longer lingering, and after discerning his direction, carefully headed north.

The misdirection of the profound energy blast was undoubtedly perfect, as no profound practitioner in the Azure Cloud Continent believed anyone could completely "separate" their own aura. Therefore, Fen Moli and the others were convinced that Yun Che had fled to the northwest, focusing their seven-person search predominantly on that area. After two consecutive days of finding nothing, they finally, exasperated, shifted their search towards the northeast. By that time, Yun Che had already, during those same two days, carefully traversed the perilous Sky Profound Beast territory and journeyed deep into the center of the Deathly Wilderness.

This was an empty expanse of land, some parts pitted and uneven, others as flat as if sliced by a blade.

Even after two years, the traces of Chu Yuechan's fierce battle against the Twin Serpents of Heaven and Earth remained perfectly preserved here. At the same time, there were no new footprints from profound beasts... Although the Twin Serpents were destroyed, their lingering prestige and the faint aura of a Dragon God still deterred the profound beasts of the Deathly Wilderness, keeping them from approaching.

On the vast, empty land, the sole undestroyed small mountain stood out, looking particularly solitary. Beneath it was a dark, cavernous opening.

"Finally, I'm back here," Yun Che murmured softly. After vigilantly scanning his surroundings, he quickly rushed towards the cave beneath the small mountain.

Stepping into the entrance, the light immediately dimmed. Everything here was just as he remembered... What he could never forget most was that this place... was where he and Chu Yuechan had become intimate. And because of their union here, threads of destiny intertwined, never to be severed... along with an unexpected crystal of life.

After a moment of silence, Yun Che cast aside the distracting thoughts in his mind, looked up, and asked, "Primordial Azure Dragon, are you still there?"

Almost the instant Yun Che's voice faded, a boundless, immense aura, like the sky itself collapsing, descended. Simultaneously, in the dark expanse above, a pair of deep, azure eyes, like the sky, opened.

"Human who inherited my bloodline, you have returned. This is much sooner than I anticipated. In less than two years, you have already reached the late stage of the Earth Profound Realm... Very good."