"Elder Ouyang, Elder Ouyang!" In the cultivation chamber, Ye Chen cried out in overwhelming grief.

But Elder Ouyang could no longer answer him.

"Duanmu Ying, if I don't kill you, I swear I'm not human." Ye Chen's eyes turned blood-red, and his fists clenched tightly as his entire chest filled with rage, even his teeth were nearly ground to pieces.

He vowed that no matter how powerful Duanmu Ying was, he would kill her to avenge Ouyang Zhong.

After a good while, Ye Chen gradually calmed down.

Wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, with a thought, he placed Ouyang Zhong's corpse into the Human Emperor's Space.

Right now, he couldn't let anyone know he had seen Ouyang Zhong's last moment, otherwise, Duanmu Ying would very likely kill him to silence witnesses.

So he had to first store Ouyang Zhong's body in the Human Emperor's Space and pretend nothing had happened.

"Elder Ouyang, when I have the power to kill Duanmu Ying, I will make sure you rest in peace, just bear with it for now." Ye Chen said mournfully.

His Human Emperor's Space was completely isolated from the outside world, so storing Ouyang Zhong's body inside would prevent any decay.

Even so, Ye Chen didn't want Elder Ouyang's body to stay in the Human Emperor's Space for too long, he truly wished to let Ouyang Zhong be laid to rest as soon as possible.

"Become stronger, I must become stronger, otherwise, not only can I not let Elder Ouyang rest in peace, I can't even protect Teacher Ouyang!" Ye Chen's heart surged with a strong sense of crisis.

Before dying, Ouyang Zhong entrusted Ouyang Xue to him, surely because something major was about to happen.

If Ye Chen didn't quickly grow stronger, Ouyang Xue would be in mortal danger at any time.

If anything were to happen to Ouyang Xue, how could Ye Chen face Ouyang Zhong's spirit in the heavens?

"Elder Ouyang's death, I cannot tell anyone yet, especially Teacher Ouyang, if she knew Elder Ouyang had perished, she might collapse instantly!" Ye Chen sighed inwardly.

He planned to keep this hidden until the time was right, before telling Ouyang Xue.

Otherwise, Ouyang Qingxue might not be able to bear such a blow.

Humm!

A cup of tea later, Ye Chen once again sat cross-legged on the white mat, starting to compress and refine the True Qi within him.

Though his heart was filled with immense grief, he had no choice but to continue cultivating.

Only by becoming strong enough could he kill Duanmu Ying and seek justice for Ouyang Zhong.

"Old Shi, that old dog Ouyang Zhong has disappeared, he might have already returned to Celestial Flame City and leaked our affairs, if all the cultivators in Celestial Flame City found out about this, even I couldn't silence them." At this moment, in a secret chamber within the Duanmu Family residence, Duanmu Ying's face was covered in an icy chill, her expression incredibly grim,

said.

She and Xiahou Shi had returned to Celestial Flame City as quickly as they could, yet they still hadn't found any trace of Ouyang Zhong.

This made her feel somewhat uneasy.

If Ouyang Zhong went for broke and made public the matter of Duanmu Ying's ambush, the consequences would be unimaginable.

She couldn't very well kill all the inhabitants of Celestial Flame City to silence them.

"Master of Profound Sword Peak, you're overthinking this, that old dog took the Nine Revolutions Profound Pill, whether he can return to Celestial Flame City alive is an issue, and even if he did return, he'd surely be on his last breath, how could he have time to make this public?" Xiahou Shi, beside Duanmu Ying, chuckled coldly, as if everything was within his grasp.

"I'll send someone to investigate and find out." Duanmu Ying nodded in agreement.

If Ouyang Zhong had indeed made the affair public, it would already be spreading like wildfire throughout Celestial Flame City, Duanmu Ying just needed to send someone out to investigate and she'd know the result.

Half an hour later.

"No, that old dog Ouyang Zhong hasn't shown up in front of everyone." After receiving the report from her subordinates, Duanmu Ying couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As long as Ouyang Zhong hadn't made the affair public and caused a commotion, Duanmu Ying had no fear.

Even if Ouyang Zhong had told some confidants about it, she could have them silenced.

Furthermore, even if those confidants spread the word, they wouldn't have enough evidence to prove that Ouyang Zhong was killed by her, which posed no threat to Duanmu Ying.

"I told you not to worry, that old dog is surely dead by now, those who took the Nine Revolutions Profound Pill are incurable, now, it's time for me to go back and prepare, when the Ouyang Family is completely abandoned by the Azure Sky Immortal Sect, it will be the family's end." Xiahou Shi spoke expressionlessly, with a terrifying killing intent emanating from him.

Whoosh.

Following that, his body vanished into the darkness.

"Now that old dog is dead, the War King Hall is leaderless, it's time to send our Profound Sword Peak students to take over the War King Hall." Duanmu Ying's eyes gleamed brilliantly, and she said excitedly.

She had coveted the cultivation resources of the War King Hall for a long time, but due to Ouyang Zhong, she was never able to achieve her wish.

In fact, some high-ranking members of the Ouyang Family had long been bought by her, they all agreed to let students from the other three factions enter the War King Hall, even persuading Ouyang Zhong to concede, but Ouyang Zhong never listened.

But now, Ouyang Zhong was a dead man and could no longer obstruct her plans.

"According to the rules of the War King Hall, as long as one becomes the chief disciple of the War King Hall and their cultivation reaches the Gang Qi Realm, they are qualified to participate in the Hall Master's trial! If any of the students from our Profound Sword Peak manage to pass the Hall Master's trial, they can become the new Hall Master of the War King Hall. At that time, the cultivation resources of the War King Hall will be ours at Profound Sword Peak." Duanmu Ying said with a cold smile, her eyes filled with a deep sense of anticipation.

However, passing the Hall Master's trial is not an easy task; one must possess exceptionally strong physical power and body refining talent.

Among the students of their Profound Sword Peak, although there are some body refining geniuses, they have never cultivated the body refining techniques of the War King Hall.

Therefore, even if they do become the chief disciple of the War King Hall, they should not be able to pass the Hall Master's trial in a short time.

Of course, as long as they are given enough time to cultivate the body refining techniques of the War King Hall, there is still a great hope they can pass the Hall Master's trial.

"The students of the War King Hall are all a bunch of trash and waste; over the years, not a single one has passed the Hall Master's trial. However, that brat Ye Chen must be guarded against; although he is a waste who can't even awaken his bloodline, his body refining talent is very high. Maybe he can really pass the Hall Master's trial!" Duanmu Ying's brows suddenly knitted together, her voice icy cold.

Even she had to admit that Ye Chen's body refining talent was indeed very high, otherwise, he would not have been able to cultivate the 'Ancient Golden Elephant Technique' to the Perfection Realm in just one month.

So, she absolutely could not let Ye Chen participate in the Hall Master's trial.

Otherwise, once Ye Chen became the new Hall Master of the War King Hall, wouldn't all her years of planning turn into bubbles.

"That brat Ye Chen, although he has already become a seed student of the War King Hall, he has not yet become the chief disciple of the War King Hall. As long as he is not allowed to be the chief disciple, he will never be able to take part in the Hall Master's trial." Duanmu Ying said with a cold smile, her mouth curling with a thick sense of derision.

In recent years, because the War King Hall had gradually declined, it had become much easier to become the chief disciple of the War King Hall compared to before.

Even many candidate seed students of the War King Hall had this qualification.

And Ye Chen's strength was enough to kill even Duanmu Jie.

Once he stepped into the Gang Qi Realm, it was basically a certainty that he would become the chief disciple of the War King Hall.

It was precisely for this reason that Ouyang Zhong was planning to let Ye Chen participate in the Hall Master's trial after he entered the Gang Qi Realm.

Unfortunately, he could no longer see this scene.

"There are countless seed students from our Profound Sword Peak who can crush that brat Ye Chen. As long as they become the chief disciple of the War King Hall, Ye Chen will never have a chance to take this position! Haha! Ouyang Zhong, you really died at the right time; if you hadn't died, that brat Ye Chen might really have had a chance to become the new Hall Master of the War King Hall. As for now, it's absolutely impossible." Duanmu Ying couldn't help but sneer, her tone filled with thick mockery.

According to the rules of the War King Hall, only by defeating the previous chief disciple can one become the new chief disciple.

So, Duanmu Ying only needed to select a student from their Profound Sword Peak who could crush Ye Chen and have him compete with Ye Chen for the position of chief disciple.

Then Ye Chen would never have a chance to become the chief disciple of the War King Hall.

Moreover, besides their Profound Sword Peak, the Celestial Flame Peak and the Soul Palace would surely also send students to compete for the position of the chief disciple of the War King Hall.

Given Ye Chen's strength, wanting to sit in this position was simply a fool's dream.

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

Rumble.

At this moment, in Ye Chen's cultivation chamber, a violent Gang Qi was raging, enveloping an area with a nine-zhang radius, causing even the ground to tremble continuously.

This Gang Qi was surging out from within Ye Chen's body.

After days of painstaking cultivation, he finally compressed and refined all the True Qi in his Sea of Qi into Gang Qi.

This meant that he had now stepped into the Gang Qi Realm and become a Qi Dao Master.

If it had been in the past, Ye Chen would have been incredibly excited and happy.

But now, his face was devoid of any emotional fluctuations.

After all, the death of Elder Ouyang was too great a blow for him.

It was difficult for him to walk out of this gloom all of a sudden.

"My cultivation has reached the Gang Qi Realm, next I need to condense the other two Dragon Elephant Divine Patterns. I must go find Teacher Ouyang." Ye Chen thought to himself.

Condensing two Dragon Elephant Divine Patterns required the consumption of one million ordinary Spirit Stones.

And Ye Chen couldn't even bring out ten thousand ordinary Spirit Stones; only Ouyang Xue could help him.

"Uncle Wu, it's been three or four days since my father went into the Canglan Mountain Range, why isn't he back yet?" At this moment, in a grand hall of the main peak of the War King Hall, Ouyang Xue's brows were tightly knit, and she asked anxiously.

Beside her stood a tall, black-clad middle-aged man, the same person who told Ouyang Zhong about the appearance of the Immortal Secret Realm in the depths of the Canglan Mountain Range.

His name was Ouyang Wu, one of the high-ranking members of the Ouyang Family, and his cultivation had reached the Celestial Spirit Realm.

All along, he had been a close confidant of Ouyang Zhong.

"Miss, perhaps the Grand Elder wants to spend more time in the Canglan Mountain Range; don't worry, with the Grand Elder's strength, there are really few people in the Celestial Flame Dynasty who can threaten him." Ouyang Wu couldn't help but comfort Ouyang Xue.

"Miss, it's Ye Chen, he wants to see you." At this moment, someone reported to Ouyang Xue.

"Wonderful, let him in quickly." Ouyang Xue couldn't help but show a hint of joy.

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