Chapter 608: Breaking Free from the Barrier

Liang Yu’s gaze turned cold, and he said icily, "Kid, stop playing games. I’ve seen more geniuses than you’ve seen Martial Kings. There’s no way Gale Light Academy could produce a disciple like you. I suggest you just confess the truth."

Ye Xuan sneered, "That just shows your ignorance. A frog in a well cannot know the vastness of the heavens. Heroes are not judged by their origins; kings and nobles can rise from the humblest of beginnings. Even a shallow pond can nurture a True Dragon, waiting for the day it soars and shocks the world."

Liang Yu’s eyes glinted coldly as he grinned ferociously. "Kid, are you comparing yourself to a True Dragon? How laughable. You think you can get away with saying nothing? Once I capture you, it won’t be up to you anymore."

Liang Yu had no desire to waste more words with Ye Xuan. With a cold sneer, a frosty look appeared on his face.

"Elder Wen, I’ll leave this kid to you in a moment. I only have one request: anyone can escape, but this kid must be captured."

The golden-robed, middle-aged Wen Yanhui nodded, his gaze savage. "Master Liang Yu, you can rest assured."

The two unleashed the full might of their Martial Sovereign pressure. In an instant, the very air seemed to freeze.

Ye Xuan’s expression darkened. He could feel that the pressure they were now emitting was much stronger than before. Clearly, neither of them had been using their full strength in the previous fight.

Ye Xuan’s eyes flickered, and he suddenly sent a telepathic message, "Vassal Jiuchen, everyone, I will lure away this Elder Wen in a moment. You all go help Su Xiuyi deal with Liang Yu."

"What?" Jiuchen and the others were shocked. "How can you do that?" they asked hurriedly.

Previously, even with all of them working together, they had barely been able to withstand Wen Yanhui’s attacks. If it was just Ye Xuan alone, what chance of survival would he have?

"My mind is made up. Don’t worry, I’ll be fine."

Before his words had even faded, and without waiting for Jiuchen and the others to respond, Ye Xuan activated his Aethereal Wings. WHOOSH! He instantly transformed into a streak of light and shot out of the valley.

"Everyone, with a great enemy before us, we must each find our own way out. I’ll be taking my leave first."

At the same time, a clear, booming laugh entered everyone’s ears.

This sudden turn of events left everyone dumbfounded, completely stunned.

Jiuchen and his group, having been warned, were only a little surprised, not completely shocked. But many others knew nothing of Ye Xuan’s plan, and seeing this, they were all instantly frozen in place.

"Xuan Ye actually ran away?"

Tianlun and the others stared wide-eyed, their expressions blank.

They never would have imagined that Ye Xuan would do something like this under these circumstances.

Fleeing in the face of battle was considered one of the most shameful acts possible.

"No, Ye Xuan wouldn’t do that. He must have a plan."

Yun Aoxue and her group shook their heads, refusing to believe that Ye Xuan would do such a thing.

However, if Ye Xuan’s actions could deceive even Tianlun and the others, it went without saying that Wen Yanhui and Liang Yu of Infinite Mountain were also completely fooled.

"Kid, don’t even think about escaping." The two were startled at first, but they reacted instantly. Wen Yanhui quickly made a gesture with his large hand, and a golden rainbow of light shot out from his palm, streaking directly toward Ye Xuan.

"Golden Light Cage!"

Just as the golden rainbow was about to reach the space above Ye Xuan’s head, it suddenly burst apart, transforming into a dense web of golden threads that descended like a great net, sealing off his escape routes.

"Shadow Transformation Skill—Burst!"

At that moment, Ye Xuan’s figure suddenly exploded, splitting into three afterimages that shot off in three different directions.

"Damn it!" Wen Yanhui’s face darkened. Without a second thought, he directed the golden light to envelop one of the figures. Swept up by the Golden Light Cage, that figure instantly shattered, dissolving into Profound energy before disappearing.

Wen Yanhui instantly knew he had caught a fake and his face turned livid with rage.

"What are you standing around for? Go get that kid and bring him back!" Liang Yu shouted, exasperated.

If he weren’t certain that Wen Yanhui’s strength was insufficient to kill everyone from Gale Light Academy, he would have been the first to charge after Ye Xuan himself.

SWOOSH!

With a flicker, Wen Yanhui’s body transformed into a streak of golden light and vanished over the horizon in a flash.

Jiuchen and the others’ expressions changed, and they looked as if they wanted to rush forward to help.

"Your opponent is me." Liang Yu instantly blocked Jiuchen and the others, a savage smile on his lips. "One Martial Sovereign and a few Martial Kings. I hope you won’t make this too boring for me."

WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

He suddenly threw out a series of Array Discs.

BZZZZZZ!

The air in the area immediately grew hazy as an invisible power spread out, enveloping Jiuchen and everyone else.

Kill!

Without another word, Su Xiuyi and the others roared and charged forward.

BOOM!

Amidst a deafening roar, a great battle erupted.

「Dozens of miles outside the valley.」

Ye Xuan’s figure moved like lightning, constantly weaving through the air.

Suddenly, a golden beam of light shot from behind him like a bolt of lightning, appearing at his back.

"Halt!"

A furious roar echoed as a massive, phantom golden palm rumbled down, crushing toward him.

Ye Xuan’s expression remained unchanged. The instant the giant palm fell, the lightning on his Aethereal Wings flared, and his speed surged. He narrowly dodged the palm’s attack and hovered in mid-air.

BOOM! The giant palm crashed to the ground. A golden light exploded upward, sending shockwaves in all directions. The earth was torn asunder, rubble churned, and the surrounding trees and rocks were pulverized into dust.

"You’re fast, kid. What, not running anymore?"

Wen Yanhui, shimmering with golden light like a gold-armored titan, yelled coldly.

Ye Xuan gave a cold smile. "Run? From a mere Tier Eight Martial Sovereign? Why would I need to run?"

Wen Yanhui’s gaze was cold. "You’re arrogant, kid. I wonder if you’ll still be so arrogant in a little while."

He wasted no more breath. As he spoke, the Profound energy in his body surged wildly. A giant golden palm once again coalesced in the air, shimmering with countless specks of golden light and radiating an overwhelming pressure.

Runes flowed across the surface of the palm. This was Wen Yanhui’s signature move, the Golden River Great Hand Seal. With a sneer, he sent it crashing down on Ye Xuan.

A contemptuous smile appeared on Wen Yanhui’s face. "Kid, last time, you needed all those people to help you break my Golden River Great Hand Seal. This time, you’re all alone. I’d like to see how you break it now."

Beneath the golden hand seal, the very air solidified. The Domain Realm boundary force of a Martial Sovereign expert was fully unleashed, sealing off all of Ye Xuan’s escape routes and trapping him within this patch of sky.

"Hahaha, I bet you didn’t expect this, kid! With all those people from before, I might not have been able to capture you so easily. But you just had to run off on your own. Now you’re all by yourself. I’ve sealed the space around you; there’s no escape. You’re simply courting death!"

Wen Yanhui’s laughter was wild. He could already picture Ye Xuan struggling and begging for mercy under his palm.

Ye Xuan rubbed his nose and chuckled. "My friend, aren’t you getting a little ahead of yourself?"

With a flicker of his body, lightning surged around him. Like a slippery fish, he wiggled twice in the air and broke free from Wen Yanhui’s restraints, escaping the attack range of the Golden River Great Hand Seal.

"What?"

Seeing this, Wen Yanhui cried out in shock, "How did you break free from my boundary’s restraints?"

A Tier Eight Martial Sovereign can control a certain amount of space, creating a Domain Realm boundary. The effectiveness of this boundary differs based on the strength of their cultivation and their depth of understanding of spatial principles.

The Golden River Great Hand Seal, being a Profound Grade, High Tier martial skill, inherently possessed the ability to lock down space. A Martial King caught within it could only watch helplessly as the giant palm descended, completely unable to escape its range.

That was why, just now, Jiuchen and the others could only use their full strength to attack the Golden River Great Hand Seal instead of dodging it.

But now, Ye Xuan had broken free from the Golden River Great Hand Seal’s restraints in just a few moves, which made Wen Yanhui’s eyes almost pop out of their sockets.

"Damn it," he roared, quickly redirecting the Golden River Great Hand Seal to strike at Ye Xuan once more.

Ye Xuan sneered coldly. With another flash of his body and a few twists, he once again escaped the attack range of the Golden River Great Hand Seal.

"Impossible! How can a mere Tier Seven First Layer Martial King escape the restraints of my boundary?" Wen Yanhui rubbed his eyes hard, his face a mask of disbelief.

"Heh, what’s so impossible about it? It’s quite simple, really," Ye Xuan chuckled.

Other Martial Kings would be completely unable to break free from a Domain Realm boundary. That’s because they haven’t broken through to the Martial Sovereign realm, haven’t comprehended spatial principles, and have no idea how a Domain Realm boundary is even formed.

But Ye Xuan, who had been a Tier Eight Peak Martial Sovereign in his past life, couldn’t have been more familiar with it.

In his past life, Ye Xuan possessed the Profound Treasure, the Heavenly Cloud Star-Shattering Shuttle. It was ranked in the top ten on the Profound Domain’s Profound Treasure list. Its greatest strength was its ability to shatter the starry sky, traverse space, and move like a phantom.

The reason Ye Xuan had been able to wield it and make a great name for himself was precisely because his understanding of spatial principles was so profound that even some Nine Heavens Martial Emperors might not have been his equal in that regard.

Therefore, when it came to understanding spatial principles, this Tier Eight First Layer Wen Yanhui was a hundred, even a thousand times, inferior to Ye Xuan.

Although the Ye Xuan of this life was only a Tier Seven First Layer and couldn’t yet create his own Domain Realm boundary, his understanding of spatial principles had already reached an extremely profound level.

Therefore, the idea that Wen Yanhui could restrain him with such a crude boundary was simply a joke.

Of course, this was only because Wen Yanhui’s cultivation level wasn’t high and his understanding of spatial principles was not particularly strong. If it were any Tier Eight Second Layer Martial Sovereign, even though Ye Xuan’s understanding of spatial principles would still be higher, he would have had a much harder time breaking free due to the limits of his own strength.

’Damn it.’

Seeing that his Golden River Great Hand Seal was completely ineffective against Ye Xuan, Wen Yanhui flew into a rage. His gaze turned icy as he said, "Even if you can break free from my boundary, it won’t change the fact that you will be captured today."

After saying this, his eyes filled with viciousness, and he lunged at Ye Xuan again.