Chapter 835: Raging Rebuke

Along the way, the group discovered several corpses, all of whom had been hacked to death by random blades.

Without a doubt, Wei Cheng and his party had encountered danger.

“Everyone, be on guard!” Ye Yuan ordered.

Wei Cheng had taken the martial artists from the three sacred lands, and their strength was not weak, yet so many had been killed—clearly the danger they faced was extraordinary.

Hearing this, none dared to be careless; they all focused and became vigilant.

“Brother Ye, there seems to be fighting ahead. Could it be Wei Cheng and the others?” Sheng Jun suddenly said.

Ye Yuan also heard the sounds of battle ahead and nodded. “Very likely. Let’s hurry over!”

The group quickened their pace and followed the sounds of fighting.

Before long, they indeed saw Wei Cheng and the others, locked in a bitter struggle.

And what they were fighting was a large group of skeleton soldiers! The skeleton soldiers held standard-issue long blades and looked like an army.

These skeleton soldiers were extremely formidable, with many at the eighth rank, and they were numerous, having completely surrounded Wei Cheng and his group.

The three sacred lands had suffered heavy losses; if Ye Yuan and the others hadn’t arrived in time, they would have been annihilated.

“Go!” Ye Yuan ordered without any hesitation.

Dozens of martial artists surged forward and engaged the skeleton soldiers in battle.

Wei Cheng was covered in blood, with several cuts on his body.

Although he wielded a low-grade sacred artifact, the skeletons’ defense was too strong. He had killed several skeletons, but more kept closing in.

His hands were already numb from killing!

“Could it be… I’m going to die here? I shouldn’t have acted alone. If I had followed Ye Yuan, this probably wouldn’t have happened, right?” Wei Cheng was in despair.

Now he was filled with regret. Though unwilling to admit it, Ye Yuan surpassed him by a wide margin in every aspect.

Without a doubt, Ye Yuan was the most suitable leader for this group.

But seeing Ye Yuan steal the spotlight at every turn, Wei Cheng couldn’t stand it, so he had incited the other two sacred lands to leave the main group.

Unexpectedly, the farther they went, the fewer zombies there were, until suddenly a large number of these skeleton soldiers sprang out and surrounded them from all sides, leaving no escape.

Though he resented Ye Yuan, at the last moment of his life, he actually believed Ye Yuan could handle this situation!

“Bang!”

A skeleton soldier in front of Wei Cheng was blasted into powder!

“Bang, bang, bang…”

Soon, the skeleton soldiers around him fell one by one.

Wei Cheng’s previously dead-gray eyes regained their luster.

A figure descended like a god, giving him renewed hope. But when he recognized the figure, he couldn’t help showing a shocked expression.

“Ye… Ye Yuan! He… he came to save me!”

At that moment, Wei Cheng felt a bitter irony. He had constantly made things difficult for Ye Yuan, even luring away the martial artists of the three sacred lands. Yet in the end, it was Ye Yuan who saved him.

Ye Yuan paid him no heed and headed elsewhere.

Upon engaging, Ye Yuan’s expression also changed slightly.

These skeletons didn’t defend at all—they only attacked relentlessly!

Their bones were even harder than high-grade profound artifacts! The eighth-rank skeletons had bodies comparable to low-grade sacred artifacts! Ordinary blades could hardly harm them.

Low-grade sacred artifacts were rare in the ninth-grade sacred lands; among the martial artists present, only the young masters of the seven sacred lands and a few Formless Realm elders had them, so they couldn’t inflict real damage on the skeletons.

Wei Cheng’s group was not weak, so it was no wonder they were trapped in a bitter fight.

“Blackwind, come out!” Ye Yuan bellowed, and Blackwind burst forth with a roar.

“Roar!”

Blackwind roared and directly crushed a skeleton underfoot.

Blackwind was on the verge of transforming into a dragon, and his physical strength was almost comparable to a true dragon’s—even stronger than these skeletons!

“Blackwind, go deal with those eighth-rank skeletons!” Ye Yuan ordered.

“Yes!”

Blackwind obeyed, charging into the skeleton horde like a war chariot and engaging the eighth-rank skeletons.

Blackwind, with his true dragon bloodline, was terrifyingly powerful. His giant claws were comparable to sacred artifacts; with one swipe, even those eighth-rank skeletons were shattered.

Among all the martial artists, the only one who could match Blackwind’s killing speed was Ye Yuan.

The seventh-rank skeletons were utterly fragile under Ye Yuan’s fists.

Ye Yuan had once shattered Nalan Hong’s sword with a single punch, showing just how strong his physique was.

Moreover, Ye Yuan had fused the Primordial Dragon Bone into his arm and refined it daily. His fist was the strongest part of his body, like the diamond on a glass cutter.

No matter how strong these skeletons’ bones were, they couldn’t be stronger than the Primordial Dragon Bone.

With the addition of these two, the battle situation quickly changed. The skeleton soldiers around the martial artists of the three sacred lands were soon cleared out.

Finding a way out of certain death, the martial artists of the three sacred lands erupted in cheers.

By then, over half of the martial artists from the three sacred lands were dead or wounded—a heavy loss.

“Bang!”

As everyone was cheering, a figure suddenly flew out and slammed heavily into the cave wall.

Sheng Jun, furious, pointed at Wei Cheng and roared, “So many martial artists died because of your jealousy of talent. Are you satisfied now?”

The surroundings instantly fell silent, the cheers dying down, leaving only Sheng Jun’s raging rebuke.

“You fool, you arrogant piece of trash! As a young master, you put your own men in danger—what were you thinking? Look at them! Because of your pathetic pride, they almost died because of you! And Wang Shi died because of you too! If you can get out, how are you going to explain this to the Tianlan Sacred Land? This burial ground is so dangerous, yet you treated it like a game—you’re asking for death!”

Not far away, Wang Shi’s corpse lay among the dead, hacked to death by skeleton soldiers.

The young master of the Tianlan Sacred Land had died so ignominiously here.

Wei Cheng swept his gaze and saw the martial artists of the three sacred lands, all battered and haggard.

And all of this was his fault!

Wei Cheng found that the martial artists of the three sacred lands were glaring at him with anger. Especially those from the Tianlan Sacred Land, who wished they could kill him on the spot.

Even the martial artists of the Yunque Sacred Land were utterly disappointed in Wei Cheng.

After this upheaval, they finally understood Ye Yuan’s importance.

The situation they couldn’t handle with all their might was resolved the moment Ye Yuan arrived!

These skeletons were so powerful, yet they were nothing before Ye Yuan.

This was the gap!

“I… I… I’m sorry…” Wei Cheng choked out.