Chapter Fourteen: The Despondent Tianlong Guard Captain

  "Ah! You're asking for it, ahhhhh!!!"

  In the blink of an eye, a team of eight Tianlong Guards sent by the Tianlong Society's leader to hunt down Ye Lin were killed. In the end, except for himself and one Tianlong Guard he had saved before, no one else escaped. This result was unbearable for the Tianlong Guard captain. Thinking about returning to the Tianlong Society and possibly facing punishment from the society's leader made him almost go mad.

  "Ah!!!!!!"

  The Tianlong Guard stared at the ferocious Iron-Backed Sword Dragon Beast, his eyes wide with fear, a line of blood flowing from one of them. His long hair fluttered without wind, curling up in layers like waves. Looking into his eyes, it seemed as if he wanted to swallow the Purple Iron-Backed Sword Dragon Beast whole.

  "Animals, go die!"

  Suddenly, Tian Long Wei's aura burst out tenfold, and even the powerful Tie Bei Sword Dragon Beast was beaten by him until its entire body's sword bones were fractured.

  For a moment, the Heavenly Dragon Guard seemed to have eaten something extraordinary, his whole body radiating energy in all directions. With one sweep, he shook off the exhaustion of being beaten by the Iron Back Sword Dragon Beast, leaving no power to counterattack. It was hard to believe that this was still the same Heavenly Dragon Guard from earlier.

  "This guy is quite resolute, he actually dared to self-destruct his yuan dan."

  Ye Lin, who had been hiding in the corner, suddenly changed his expression, narrowed his eyes slightly and said with some shock.

  Originally, Ye Lin's plan was to lure the Tian Long Wei and the Tie Bei Sword Dragon Beast into a fight, using the Tian Long Wei's hands to kill the Tie Bei Dragon Beast, then he would appear again, leading the group of Tian Long Wei away. At that time, he would make another move, with absolute speed, to obtain the corpse of the Tie Bei Sword Dragon Beast.

  However, the result was far beyond Ye Lin's expectation. He did not expect that Tie Bei Jian Long Shou would be so ferocious, and the entire Tian Long Wei team composed of ten Lian Qi period warriors had no chance to fight back. In this way, Ye Lin's purpose of hunting Tie Bei Jian Long Shou could not be achieved.

  But who would have thought that just as Ye Lin was about to give up and sneak away, this Tianlong Guard Captain would be so willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of realizing Ye Lin's goal, even daring to self-destruct his Yuan Dan. Honestly, Ye Lin was truly grateful to him, grateful for his heroic sacrifice.

  To know, the elixir field for a martial artist is like the heart to humans in general, it is the foundation of everything. A martial artist, if he loses his elixir field, will be destined to only be a strong physical cultivator for his entire life.

  Although for the vast majority of people, a peak state of physical refinement is already their lifelong pursuit, for some people with strong innate talent and abundant resources, that would be tantamount to digging one's own grave.

  No matter whether it's refining the essence, refining the energy, or refining the aura, all the energies being cultivated come from the transformation of the yuan dan. What's most important is that when one reaches the ascending dragon realm, they must undergo nine transformations of the yuan dan to advance into the pre-heavenly stage.

  It can be said that after the foundation building period, the yuan dan is the fundamental basis for all cultivation. Without the yuan dan as a transitional station, a warrior's path of cultivation will also come to an end from then on.

  The most important thing is that the self-destruction of Yuandan is extremely dangerous. If there isn't a strong physical body to guarantee it, self-destructing Yuandan can easily cause one's own physical body to explode, which would be a path to certain death. Even if the physical body is incredibly strong and can withstand such violent energy, the Dantian, as the location of Yuandan, may still be exploded. Without an extremely powerful cultivator to guide the energy, regulate the Dantian's Qi, and repair the Dantian, it is also very likely that the Dantian will become a leaky Dantian, unable to gather Qi again, thus ending one's cultivation path.

  So to say, the self-explosive yuan dan is absolutely the last resort for a martial artist to fight to the death. Similarly, it is also the last resort for a martial artist to perish together with his enemy after falling into despair.

  But for a martial artist, self-detonating the Yuan Dan is absolutely a test of their courage.

  In short, one sentence, self-destructing Yuan Dan also means that this warrior has gone to the end of the road.

  The Heavenly Dragon Guard now also feels extremely tragic. What was originally a very easy task, ended up forcing himself to self-destruct his Yuan Dan.

  However, he also knew that if he didn't self-destruct his yuan dan, he would undoubtedly die. Only after self-destructing his yuan dan could he use absolute strength to force out a way to survive.

  However, the self-explosion origin pill can only increase his strength for at most ten minutes. In other words, after Tian Long Wei took the self-explosion origin pill, he only had ten minutes to make use of it. Once the time was up, he would once again become a martial artist in the Refining Body realm with only a strong physical body but no strong actual power.

  "Die, die, die..."

  With only ten minutes to spare, if he couldn't kill the beast within that time frame, then there would be no other way out but death. Under the stimulation of this life-or-death crisis, Tian Long Wei Zhang could no longer care about anything else and brought out all his ultimate skills.

  "Huh? Is this, Goumaden Battofist?"

  At that moment, Ye Lin was furious. He saw it clearly, the Tianlong Guard Captain's cultivation was absolutely the Great Power Fierce Ox Fist. Ye Zhen cultivated this very same fist technique. Having fought with Ye Zhen for so long, he was naturally extremely familiar with this fist technique.

  "Damn it, is this a disciple of the Ye family?"

  Ye Lin was well aware that the Ye family's traditional and unique skills, the Great Power Cattle Fist, was one of them. This was something that an ancestor of the Ye family had spent 300 years to fully develop over a thousand years ago. It was absolutely impossible for anyone outside of the Ye family to use it.

  In other words, this Tianlong Guard is absolutely a member of the Ye family, and it's also an absolute elite.

  All along, Ye Lin had been very concerned about the matter of someone in the Ye family betraying them, as mentioned by Shangguan Wanyi. Although he was not too willing to deny it, he still found it hard to believe that such a large and respected family would have a traitor.

  But now that he has seen such a scene, Ye Lin can no longer find an excuse. The mighty and powerful Bull Fist unique to the Ye family appears, and everything is self-explanatory.

  Bang!!

  Under the violent rage of Tian Long Wei Zhang, Tie Bei Jian Long Shou finally fell, but in turn, Tian Long Wei Zhang also exhausted his last bit of energy.

  "Slap slap~~~"

  A burst of applause came from the forest, Tianlong Wei was startled and quickly turned his head to look, seeing the person who came, he asked in surprise: "Is it you?"

  "Not bad, it's me." Ye Lin walked out of his hiding place and nodded, saying.

  "Have you been hiding here all along?"

  The Dragon Guard asked with some incredulity.

  Obviously he was seen leaving from afar, how did he suddenly appear here now?

  "Not bad, if I weren't hiding here, how could I have witnessed such a good show?"

  Ye Lin smiled slightly and said in a soft voice.

  Ye Lin's expression was like a young man who had just entered the world of Jianghu, as if he were talking about something extremely interesting.

  However, in the eyes of Tian Long Wei, this young man was a more terrifying existence than the devil. If not, how could such a shocking battle be triggered? First, he used his cunning to lure the Tian Long Wei team with greed, then utilized the psychological effect on Tian Long Wei, controlling the speed with precision. Next, he led the entire Tian Long Wei into the territory of Tie Bei Jian Long Shou, and then provoked Tie Bei Jian Long Shou, causing the two sides to fight each other, making them both suffer losses, allowing him to reap the benefits.

  Looking back on all this, Tianlong Wei Chang felt even more that his tragic fate was all part of someone else's plan!

  "Are you from the Ye family?"

  Ye Lin looked at the Tian Long Guard Captain, whose hair was standing on end and eyes were bleeding, and asked in a soft voice.

  Listen to his tone, it's not about seeking proof of anything, but rather wanting Tianlong Wei to admit it himself.

  "Yes, I am of the Ye family."

  Tian Long Wei Chang also knew that when he used his powerful Bull Fist, Ye Lin would come to see him and his identity would no longer be a secret.

  "Can you tell me who you are?"

  The Ye family is a large family, occupying one-third of the Cloud Water City, far more powerful than the other three major families. Although the Great Power Fierce Ox Fist is unique to the Ye family, it is an extremely common fist technique within the Ye family, and many disciples have cultivated it.

  As soon as he learned the true identity of his opponent from this Tianlong Guard Captain, Ye Lin could roughly lock down which members of the Ye family had betrayed their own clan.

  "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that."

  Tian Long Wei naturally knew what Ye Lin was thinking, but he couldn't say it. Once he said it, those who betrayed him together would absolutely not escape death.

  "Do you think it's okay if you don't say anything?"

  Ye Lin smiled lightly and said in a soft voice.

  If it were those grandmaster-level figures from the previous life, they would have felt extremely terrified upon hearing Ye Lin's soft and gentle laughter, because they knew that this was a sign of Ye Lin's impending rage.

  "Give it a try!"

  Although his entire body's yuanqi had leaked out due to the explosion of his yuan dan, a Lian Qi stage warrior's physical body was also extremely powerful.

  "You just watch."

  Ye Lin opened his mouth again, but when he uttered the last word, the entire character "了" transformed into thirty-six pale white knife lights. The thirty-six knife lights crisscrossed and instantly locked down the entire body of Tianlong Wei's commander.

  Roar!

  Tian Long Wei had a change of heart, in his opinion, Ye Lin's own strength was extremely weak, he could threaten the Refining Qi period warriors only because of his strange encounters.

  But when Ye Lin really took action, he was devastated to discover that all his guesses were actually so ridiculous.

  "I said I would know who you are."

  Ye Lin swiftly drew his sword, each strike aimed at the vital points of the Tianlong Guard Captain, his entire being in a state of frenzy.

  Bang!!

  In just thirty moves, the heavily injured Tian Long Wei Zhang was cut off by Ye Lin's knife and flew away, along with his black iron mask.

  "Is it you?"

  At last, Ye Lin recognized this person, who was one of those who had followed Ye Chong to force him to cancel the engagement.