Chapter 99: Is This the Template of the Desolate Heaven Emperor?

“Escaped? What terrifying strength!”

“Two Cave Heaven Realm marquises, and they managed to escape right under the noses of two Kings. Is it that their strength is too overwhelming, or are those two Kings just trash?”

At this moment, a King muttered aloud, and immediately everyone’s expressions shifted.

Those two Kings, already furious from being repelled by Ye Wushang, completely lost their patience upon hearing this remark.

“Impudent! What are you, to dare question this king?”

“This king thinks you’re tired of living. Cultivating for a hundred years, yet only a third-level Starsea King—die!”

Without any hesitation, the two enraged Kings vented their fury on the Starsea Realm third-level King who had spoken.

“Damn it!”

The one who had spoken now looked utterly distressed.

He hadn’t expected them to explode like this. He had only said one casual sentence, yet he was already besieged.

In an instant, though the earlier clash had just ended, a new battle erupted again.

The other Kings who had just arrived bore witness to the fight, and soon realized: these two Kings’ strength was definitely not ordinary.

The two second-level Starsea Kings, joining hands, pressed the third-level King back step by step.

They thought it over, and found it deeply unbelievable.

With such power, these two should have easily overwhelmed those juniors. Yet those two Cave Heaven Realm marquises still escaped.

This could only mean one thing.

Those two marquises were too strong.

No more precisely, Ye Wushang’s strength was utterly monstrous.

They already had some idea of Su Xiaoxiao’s power.

Formidable, terrifying if they had been in the same realm as her back then, they probably wouldn’t have even withstood one move.

But compared to a King, Su Xiaoxiao was just “passable.”

She could perhaps hold her own against a newly advanced King.

But in front of these veteran Kings, she was still far from enough.

The battle raged on, until finally the third-level King cursed angrily, then retreated.

“Bastards! Couldn’t deal with one Cave Heaven junior, and instead vented your anger on me. I think you should check if your brains are still intact!”

He forced the two back with a killing strike, then shattered the void and left.

Seeing him go, the two Kings did not pursue.

Clearly, they had only wanted to vent a little, and having done so, didn’t wish to cause further trouble.

Meanwhile, Ye Wushang had already taken Su Xiaoxiao far away, disappearing from their sight.

But he did not yet know that at this very moment, a heaven-shaking event was taking place in the Great Xia Imperial Dynasty.

After making sure no one was following, and suppressing their auras, the two finally slowed their pace.

“Thank you,” Su Xiaoxiao said softly, gazing at Ye Wushang’s handsome face with relief.

Ye Wushang shook his head, speaking with mock solemnity.

“No need. Don’t feel burdened. I just didn’t want you to die before repaying me those four hundred million spirit stones.”

Hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao couldn’t help but smile, her beauty like flowers blooming in spring.

Ye Wushang stared, momentarily dazed.

Su Xiaoxiao noticed his gaze, lowered her head slightly, and her cheeks turned crimson.

As a descendant of the Nine-Tailed Fox, she naturally knew what such a gaze from a man meant.

Had it been anyone else, she would have erupted in fury.

But coming from Ye Wushang, she felt no disgust only a faint, secret delight.

“This… what are you planning to do now?”

“I don’t know,” Su Xiaoxiao shook her head. “I’ll just hide for a while. I don’t have anywhere else to go.”

“The Illusory Spirit Fox’s blood essence isn’t ordinary. If you recklessly show yourself, you’ll be hunted down. If you’re willing, come back with me to the Ye family. No one will be able to find you there.”

“This” Su Xiaoxiao hesitated.

Not that she was unwilling, but with her special bloodline, once exposed, it would not only bring calamity to herself, but might drag the Ye family down too.

And though Ye Wushang knew her secret, could she truly trust him to keep it? They hadn’t known each other long.

As if sensing her thoughts, Ye Wushang’s calm voice came again.

“You’re worried about your Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline being exposed, right? Don’t. In my clan, there’s a great formation that conceals fate itself it can perfectly help you awaken your fourth tail.”

Su Xiaoxiao’s beautiful eyes widened in disbelief.

She never imagined her well-hidden secret would once again be seen through.

The first to discover it was Tao Yaoyao, though thankfully without malice.

Now Ye Wushang was the second.

She couldn’t help but doubt whether her concealment was worth anything at all?

Then she recalled that strange probing force in the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion earlier, as if trying to strip away all her disguises.

It must have been Ye Wushang’s doing then.

“You don’t need to worry I harbor any ill intent. If I truly wanted to harm you, I have countless ways. For instance, I could ask Ancestor Ye Zhen to act. Even if you broke through to Starsea, you couldn’t withstand a peak Deity-Sealing elder. Isn’t that right?”

Hearing this, Su Xiaoxiao’s heart was moved.

No matter how she looked at it, Ye Wushang bore her no malice.

“Alright. I’ll go with you.”

Finally, she agreed to return to the Ye clan with him.

Thus, the two traveled together toward the Ye family.

Ye Wushang glanced at Su Xiaoxiao’s icy-cold expression, the corners of his lips curling into a faint smile.

Who would have thought that this century-old fox would be so simple-hearted?

If it had been someone else with ulterior motives, she might already have been tricked into ruin.

No wonder, he thought, that in ancient tales fox spirits always favored scholars.

What he didn’t know was that Su Xiaoxiao’s awakened fox tail was extraordinary.

Normally, anyone with ill intentions toward her would instantly trigger its warning.

Yet before Ye Wushang, her fox tail gave no response.

This could only mean one thing: Ye Wushang truly had no evil designs on her.

That was why she felt safe following him back.

Successfully “tricking a little fox home,” Ye Wushang’s mood was unusually good.

But just then, he noticed his storage ring flicker and the communication jade slip inside was glowing.

Curious, he took it out and sank his consciousness into it.

The moment he read the message, his expression changed drastically.

A killing intent so vast it pierced the heavens erupted from him.

Su Xiaoxiao was nearly suffocated by the terrifying aura.

And this wasn’t even directed at her—had it been, she might have collapsed entirely.

She realized with horror: he still hadn’t shown his full strength just now.

Against two Kings, he had not even fought with all his might.

If he did, how terrifying would he be?

But what kind of news could shake this always calm and composed man so violently?

Ye Wushang’s face was frosted with coldness, his eyes brimming with murderous intent.

He wasted no words. Handing her a clan token, he said.

“Take this and go to the Ye family. Find anyone they’ll take you in. Wait for me to return, and I’ll arrange for you to absorb the Illusory Spirit Fox blood essence.”

Without waiting for her reply, he vanished on the spot, moving so fast he nearly tore the void apart.

Boom~~!

In an instant, Ye Wushang’s figure sped toward the Great Xia Imperial Palace.

At that very moment, a shocking event was unfolding there.

Four half-King powerhouses had surrounded Xia Zixuan, preventing her from moving an inch.

Below, in the palace grounds, many royal experts of the Great Xia clan lay dead or injured.

Clearly, the imperial palace was under immense siege.

“Cousin Miss, the young master, was only invited to our clan as a guest. Please don’t overreact. The Sikong family won’t harm him.”

One half-King spoke coldly, eyeing Xia Zixuan with a strange hint of surprise. This woman’s power had grown unexpectedly formidable.

Xia Zixuan’s gaze was frosted with killing intent, her voice like ice.

“Return my son, or I will see the Sikong family annihilated none shall live!”

At these words, the half-King’s face darkened, murderous intent flashing.

“What should we do?” another asked.

The leader didn’t hesitate.

“Kill her. Don’t bother with the rest!”

Another frowned. “But the Ye family may not accept this easily.”

The leader sneered.

“Don’t worry. To Ye Wushang, Xia Zixuan is nothing more than an outside mistress, never properly married. Besides, didn’t Sikong Mingyue already become his concubine? She’s the legitimate daughter of our Sikong clan. Do you think he would turn against us for an outside mistress?”

“Furthermore, that secret within Ye Tianhuang’s body was discovered by Young Master with his Heaven-Gazing Divine Pupil. No outsider knows. Ye Wushang likely doesn’t either. There’s no way he’d risk opposing the Sikong clan for the illegitimate child of a mistress.”

“At worst, we’ll just send extra resources as compensation later. As long as this doesn’t hinder Young Master’s plan, once it succeeds, the Sikong clan will definitely rise beyond Tianluo Daozhou to a richer province and stand immortal through the ages!”

Convinced, the other three half-Kings nodded grimly.

“Kill!”

In an instant, their killing intent erupted, ready to strike Xia Zixuan down.

Yet at that very moment.