Li Chen and the others, who had been smiling before, suddenly changed their expressions!
As everyone had expected, they stayed here to block the door, but who could have anticipated that a Martial Saint would appear?
It should be known that for ordinary sects, a Martial Saint is the highest honor of the sect!
Moreover, they were familiar with the leaders of the nearby sects, but they had never seen this young Martial Saint before!
There seem to be so many Martial Saints today. First, Sect Leader Zhang captured one, and now another one has appeared!
As the figure approached, all the martial artists present were intimidated by its overwhelming pressure and unconsciously held their breath.
Li Chen and Yu Chenwei also quietly retreated to the edge of the black iron gate. With their cultivation, they couldn't afford to provoke a Martial Saint.
It didn't matter. This Martial Saint must have come for the cave's opportunities. They should lay low for now and make plans after Sect Leader Zhang and the others come out.
After all, with two Martial Saints protecting them, and the one they captured, three Martial Saints working together would be more than enough to win.
While thinking, the two suddenly felt something was off... because the young Martial Saint that appeared in the distance seemed to be charging straight toward them!
"Something's wrong!" Li Chen clenched his fists and looked at the golden streak of light tearing through the sky. His voice changed, "Why do I feel like this Martial Saint is coming for us?"
"Don't panic, it's definitely just your imagination. After all, we don't know him, and we have no grudges..." Yu Chenwei tried to stay calm, but sweat was already forming on his forehead. "Anyway, let's move further away from the cave entrance!"
"Right!"
Before the words were even finished, the two didn't even care about guarding the cave anymore. They immediately retreated dozens of miles like startled birds.
The next moment, the golden streak of light was right on top of them. The sky, once clear and sunny, was instantly swallowed by rolling dark clouds. The figure hovered in mid-air, causing the entire world to freeze in place.
The young Martial Saint appeared handsome, seemingly calm, but there was a layer of frost in his eyes, clearly not happy.
The pressure radiating from his body made the air within a hundred miles freeze, leaving only the sound of people's hearts beating in their chests.
"This is bad!"
Li Chen suddenly realized, because he noticed that the cold gaze of the Martial Saint seemed to pierce him like a blade, completely ignoring the nearby cave!
Then—
Fang Yuan's figure suddenly blurred, and the people present only saw a flash of light, unable to track his movements.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by a deafening explosion, Li Chen flew backward like a kite with a broken string. Amid the collapse of the mountain rocks, the sound of cracking bones could be clearly heard, making one's teeth ache.
In the smoke and dust, a strong smell of blood quickly filled the air, causing everyone to shudder.
[Killed the Grandmaster of the Sun Moon Sect, Virtue Points +120000!]
"What!!"
Yu Chenwei's liver and gallbladder nearly split, his blood seemed to freeze instantly.
In panic, he pulled the jade token from his waist, his voice trembling uncontrollably, "Predecessor, please forgive me! I am an inner sect elder of the Sun Moon Sect, please, calm your anger..."
"Slap!"
A crisp sound suddenly interrupted his pleading. Fang Yuan's right palm appeared to brush casually, but at the moment of contact, it exploded with earth-shattering power.
Yu Chenwei's head exploded like a ripe watermelon, splattering the area within several meters in blinding red.
"Too much anger, can't be contained..."
Fang Yuan muttered, shaking his wrist. After being tempered by nine layers of Heavenly Thunder, his Martial Saint body's strength was far beyond that of the majority of Martial Saints.
Just such a casual slap was enough to effortlessly explode the head of a Grandmaster.
[Killed the Grandmaster of the Sun Moon Sect, Virtue Points +120000!]
In the blink of an eye, two powerful figures from the Sun Moon Sect had died.
Fang Yuan's gaze remained cold as he thought, the people who dared to kidnap his subordinates were probably not good either, so it was clean and efficient to eliminate them all.
Based on his communication with Ruan Tianhe, they had already entered the cave, so Fang Yuan decided to go in and check as well.
After all, this was a cave belonging to a Heavenly Realm expert, and the treasures inside would be highly attractive to a Martial Saint like him.
With this thought in mind, Fang Yuan's figure flickered and turned into a streak of light, shooting straight into the cave's entrance!
...
The entire world suddenly fell silent.
The scattered cultivators present stood frozen in place, still in shock from what had just happened.
The decisiveness of the Martial Saint's actions and the speed with which he killed was almost too fast to comprehend.
Fortunately, this Martial Saint didn't bother with them, the onlookers. Otherwise, they would have been in danger too...
Looking at the two Grandmasters' completely unrecognizable bodies on the ground, the crowd was shaken to their core.
While it wasn't surprising that a Martial Saint could kill a Grandmaster, the ease with which it was done was terrifying.
What was even more chilling was that this person knew the two were from the Sun Moon Sect, yet he still killed them without hesitation!
How daring... Wasn't he afraid of retaliation from the Sun Moon Sect?
Who was this Martial Saint, and where did he come from?
But with the two Sun Moon Sect Grandmasters dead, hope began to rise in the crowd's eyes.
No matter who this Martial Saint was, he had done them a huge favor by clearing the obstacle.
Now the cave's entrance was wide open, and they could enter to seek opportunities.
...
A sudden dizzying sensation overwhelmed Fang Yuan.
He instinctively held his breath, suppressing the discomfort that surged within him.
Was he motion-sick?
He stood firm, looking around in surprise.
He had expected to see a celestial palace, but instead, he saw a towering mountain peak that pierced the clouds.
The entire mountain was covered with lush greenery, swaying in the wind, with the fresh scent of plants and the cool breeze rushing toward him.
"So that's it, the mountain gate is just a teleportation array..."
Fang Yuan understood, feeling like a country bumpkin who had never experienced such a wonderful array before.
It seemed like he had a lot to learn. In the future, he should set up a few more teleportation arrays in the lower realms to make traveling between the eastern and western continents much easier.
Fortunately, this higher realm was not as dangerous as Fang Yuan had imagined. He had thought that Martial Saints would be everywhere and Grandmasters would be like dogs, but it seemed not to be the case.
Moreover, Fang Yuan noticed something else. The people from this realm naturally possessed one or more Dao Bodies.
It was like the scattered cultivators outside. Some of them weren't even Grandmasters, but Fang Yuan could sense the Dao Body aura from them...
He couldn't help but think that people from the higher realms had an innate advantage over those from the lower realms. This was completely normal. After all, in his past life, being born in Magic City versus being born in Southern River would lead to two completely different lives!
This was the importance of birth...