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"Ling'er," Ye Futian raised his head and called out to the delicate figure in the air, a pale expression on his face . Although the teenage girl still looked weak, she stood there firmly, allowing the rampaging wind to billow on her body . Her clothes fluttered and her hair blew wildly while the youthful girl's face had tears streaking down it . Evidently, she was scared . She was not even 19; how could she not fear death? However, even though she was scared, she still stood there, like a duckweed in the wind that could be blown apart easily .
As the figure burned itself into Ye Futian's head, at that moment, Ye Futian suddenly remembered the time they first met . At that time, Long Ling'er had been willful and unruly, and he could barely stop himself from beating her up . However, after more interaction with her, he found out that she was simply too lonely . Although she was the only daughter of the West Mountain Dragon Clan, her young heart had many worries that she could not tell anyone . He remembered the little girl crying under the moonlight as she thought of her uncle . Now, she had finally grown up and had come to the Holy Zhi Palace to cultivate . However, such a calamity had befallen her because she had come to send him off today .
As the Light of Punishment descended, time felt like it had stopped . Ye Futian had tears falling from the corner of his eyes . He had thought that he would never cry again, but many things were beyond his control . As he watched the destructive light about to devour Long Ling'er, Ye Futian watched all this unfold in pain, but he was powerless to stop it . Not only Long Ling'er, he, but Yu Sheng and Jieyu would also become victims of this calamity .
However, at this moment, a mysterious power descended upon the area . Time really stopped and a Light of Punishment landed on the dragon-shaped jade . The pendant suddenly let out a brilliant glow and an imposing matrix appeared in the sky above Long Ling'er's head . The matrix was formed by countless lines interweaving and there appeared to be a dimension within the matrix . A terrifying aura emanated from the dimension . Next, rays of brilliant light glowed and a divine Purple-Gold Dragon emerged from the pendant's matrix under everyone's astounded gazes . The Purple-Gold Dragon was humongous and its gaze was imposing as it stared at the Vermillion Bird in the air .
"Dragon Soul," the Magi's expression changed as he uttered . This sudden reversal stunned Ye Futian as well . He did not expect that the jade pendant that Ling'er wore had a dragon soul within it .
The giant Purple Gold Dragon had a dominant aura and on its head . They could faintly see a middle-aged man with his hands behind his back . This caused a huge visual impact on the onlookers . Long Ling'er was equally stunned as she raised her head and looked at the dragon .
"Uncle Long," Long Ling'er mumbled as her heart raced . This was her uncle's dragon . She often rode on it when she was younger . As she looked further up the Purple-Gold Dragon, Long Ling'er could no longer hold in her tears as they streaked down her face . She shouted out softly, "Uncle, have you returned?"
The middle-aged figure turned and looked at Long Ling'er . He was dressed in green robes and had hair that was black like ink . His expressive eyes appeared to have the galaxy in them, and he looked at Long Ling'er with a doting gaze, then smiled and said, "Ling'er, you've already grown this big . "
"Uncle . " Long Ling'er could not stop her tears as she replied, "I'm not dreaming, am I?"
"Uncle promised to protect you," the middle-aged man smiled and replied . He then turned around and looked at the three Sage Plane experts in the air, his expression turning cold abruptly and his eyes filled with killing intent .
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"Senior, this is a misunderstanding," the Magi in the air explained . He could already guess who the person who had appeared in front of them was . He was the prodigy who had once appeared in the top ranks of the Barren Sky Ranking like a shooting star, the previous Clan Leader of the Barren State's West Mountain Dragon Clan—Long Yitian .
"You dare touch my Dragon Clan's little princess . " Long Yitian stood with his hands behind his back and his tone was stone-cold . The Purple-Gold Dragon flew into the air towards the Vermillion Bird and opened its mouth, swallowing the Vermillion Bird .
The three Sages expressions' turned pale and the person at the front shouted, "Retreat!"
Long Yitian's expression was cold as an ancient Guqin appeared . He strummed the Guqin's strings and the heavens resonated with it . The dragon he was on resonated with the heavens as well and in an instant, there were three large dragon shadows rushing towards the three Sage Plane cultivators .
The three Sage Plane cultivators were shocked and they turned around to unleash their strongest defenses . However, what awaited them was the dragon shadow rushing directly into their heads and shattering their Spiritual Wills . The three of them then fell to the ground powerlessly . Three Sage Plane cultivators, one of them who was a Magi, were killed in one blow .
Although it was unknown how much of his peak battle ability Long Yitian could unleash now, he must have been an elite Sage Plane cultivator . The difference between him and the three people was probably the same as Ye Futian and a fresh Noble Plane cultivator .
The ancient Guqin disappeared and Long Yitian turned around to look at Long Ling'er . Long Ling'er descended directly onto the Purple-Gold Dragon and walked to Long Yitian's side .
"Uncle, I missed you so much . " Long Ling'er pounced into Long Yitian's embrace and he rubbed her head with a doting expression .
"What a silly lass, you're already so big . Why are you still crying?" Long Yitian asked gently . The demeanor he had when he killed the three Sage Plane experts was all gone and he now looked just like a kindly elder .
"Then, will uncle stay from now on?" Long Ling'er raised her head and looked at Long Yitian in anticipation .
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Long Yitian rubbed her head and replied, "Uncle needs to go into slumber, but I will always be beside you . "
"Uncle, what is going on here?" Long Ling'er asked .
"Go back and ask your father," Long Yitian smiled and replied, then turned to Ye Futian's group .
Ye Futian also raised his head and looked at the legendary figure and said, "Ye Futian thanks elder for saving my life . "
Long Yitian nodded his head lightly and replied, "Help me take care of Ling'er . "
As he said, he raised his head and looked in the air . Could it be his mistake?
A dragon's roar sounded and Long Yitian and his Purple-Gold Dragon started to fade to nothingness . The matrix's light glowed again and the illusory figure dove into the pendant .
"Uncle . " Long Ling'er's expression was filled with longing, but she could only watch as Long Yitian disappeared . The light on the pendant darkened, but it was evidently more than a normal jade pendant .
"Ling'er, we have to go," Ye Futian said .
"Okay . " Long Ling'er cried as she nodded . After barely surviving the calamity, she knew that it was not the time to be sad .
"Let's go," Ye Futian said, and the demonized Black Wind Condor took to the skies, carrying them and leaving like a flash of black lightning . Ye Futian, Yu Sheng, Hua Jieyu, and the others all had weak auras . If another Sage Plane cultivator came, it would definitely be their end .
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This time, he did not let Ling'er go back to the Palace, for fear that she might run into something on the way back .
After they had left for a period of time, a few figures approached the area that they had left from . These were the cultivators from the Palace's edge, the Thousand Holy Islands . They saw the corpse on the ground and had curious expressions, what on earth had happened here?
"It's Ning Yuen," someone exclaimed . One of the Sage Plane cultivators who had been killed had been recognized, it was one of the disciples who had previously cultivated in the Palace; the Ning Clan's Ning Yuen .
"Let's go and report this to the Palace," one of the persons suggested . They knew that it was not a small matter and they could not make the decision .
At that moment, in the White Cloud City, the Gongsun Clan .
The Gongsun Clan Leader stared at the shattered jade totems in front of him with a grim expression . The Sage Plane cultivators they had sent out had died . Did this mean that they had failed?
To kill Ye Futian, they had even sent a Magi, how could they have failed? This was already after considering the greatest extent of Ye Futian's abilities and even factoring in unexpected circumstances . Moreover, the assassination was not planned solely by the Gongsun Clan; it had people from within the Palace participating in the planning, so the plan should have been perfect .
It was not just the Gongsun Clan . At the same time, in the Zhongzhou City's eastern region, the same scene happened in the Ning Clan . The Ning Clan Leader held the broken jade totems in his hand with a steely expression .
They were all waiting for news, what on earth had happened?
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A few days later, news had spread in the Barren State . On the day Ye Futian and his friends had left the Palace, there had been a fierce battle in the mountain ranges outside the Thousand Holy Islands . A few Sage Plane cultivators had died, including a disciple of the Palace, the Ning Clan's Ning Yuen . The other Sage Plane cultivators were rumored to be the Gongsun Clan's Sage Plane figures .
The news spread quickly throughout the Barren State and caused a huge uproar . Many people guessed that Ye Futian might have been the target of an assassination . There were people who walked the Holy Road with Ye Futian claiming that back then, Ye Futian and Yu Sheng had killed the Ning Clan's genius, Ning Huang . Ning Huang was reputed to be the elite genius of the Ning Clan in the current generation . However, he died a tragic death before he had even entered the Palace . Similarly, the Gongsun Clan's number one in the younger generation and the first in the Alchemy Conference, Gongsun Ye, was also killed by Ye Futian . So, it was not surprising that the Ning Clan and Gongsun Clan would take revenge on Ye Futian after he had been expelled by the Palace . However, why were the five Sage Plane cultivators who carried out the assassination dead?
Three of them even had their Spiritual Wills shattered and were forcefully killed . This evidently could not have been done by Ye Futian; it had to be someone especially strong who specialized in Spiritual Will attacks .
Who had protected Ye Futian and his friends? Where were Ye Futian and his friends now?
It was like they had disappeared from the Barren State . There was no news about them and they had not returned to the Zhuge Family .
In the Zhuge Family, Zhuge Mingyue was worried sick and enraged . Her Little Brother had just left the Palace and something like this immediately happened to him . This was outrageous .
In the Battle Sage Palace, Sage Douzhan was equally infuriated when he heard the news and he ordered the people in the Battle Sage Palace to investigate the matter . Evidently, there was a mastermind behind this .
At that moment, in the Zhongzhou City's eastern region, on the boundless Taihang Mountain .
Ye Futian and Yu Sheng sat at the edge of the cliff cultivating . The Spiritual Qi in the air rushed into their bodies and they slowly recovered their vitality .
Thump, thump, thump . . . At the same time, the Taihang Mountain shuddered as though a terrifying earthquake was happening . Ye Futian opened his eyes and saw many Golden Apes in the distance, landing in the same area . In front of them, the king of Taihang Mountain . Ye Futian stood there like a golden mountain .
Crash . With a thunderous sound, Yuan Hong stepped on the ground and cracks appeared in the mountain ranges . He flew into the air and with multiple crackling sounds, the other Golden Apes all flew into the air out of Taihang Mountain . The Ape Clan was leaving the mountain!