The terrifying light erupting from the Heavenly Feather Prince’s forehead managed to block the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord for a moment. Perhaps because of the bloodline connection, when the Holy Lord’s palm pressed against the Heavenly Feather Prince’s forehead, he paused briefly, allowing the prince to narrowly escape with his life. However, the prince was still gravely injured because of this. Several of his subordinates supported him, and he was unable to stand on his own. The accompanying powerhouses each took out pills and fed them to the Heavenly Feather Prince, which finally allowed him to regain a bit of strength.
The light on the Heavenly Feather Prince’s forehead faded away. Nothing could influence the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord any longer. A violent aura suddenly erupted from him, locking onto everyone present. Ye Chu felt as though he had plunged into an ice cellar, his entire body on the verge of freezing solid.
Everyone, including the Heavenly Feather Prince, had faces ashen as death. They could almost guess what their fate would be.
Just as the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord was about to strike, several groups of people arrived from the distance. They had all been drawn here by the brilliant light earlier. When this group appeared, their attire immediately told Ye Chu and the others who they were.
They were all descendants of absolute powerhouses from various sides, extraordinary figures in their own right.
Although these people shocked Ye Chu, he did not pay them much attention. What he stared straight at was Ou Yi among them. Ou Yi held a mirror in his hand, glancing at it from time to time, then making tsk-tsk sounds, his face showing satisfaction and infatuation.
“Ou Yi!” Ye Chu used every ounce of strength he had left and shouted towards Ou Yi. His voice echoed through the vast space and finally caught Ou Yi’s attention.
The group had originally thought that such a surge of brilliant light meant some treasure was emerging. But when they saw the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord standing there with his hands behind his back, every single one of them revealed expressions of terror and frantically retreated.
This was an existence they absolutely could not afford to provoke. No one dared to have any designs on him. They retreated madly, afraid that the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord would notice them and lock onto them, leading to their deaths.
Ou Yi’s gaze fell on Ye Chu, and he could not help but freeze for a moment. He had not expected Ye Chu to appear here. Wasn’t he supposed to have gone to his weak martial uncle’s family? How had he ended up in this place?
Seeing that the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord was about to strike and kill Ye Chu, Ou Yi’s expression changed. He stepped forward into the centre of the scene.
As the crowd fled, they were slightly stunned to see this. Looking at Ou Yi walking into the field, they all widened their eyes. “Has this kid gone mad? Doesn’t he recognise the corpse spirit in front of him? Going up there is no different from seeking death!”
Ye Chu watched Ou Yi walk out, and his face also filled with alarm. He did not believe Ou Yi could withstand such a corpse spirit. Ou Yi stepping forward was undoubtedly sending himself to death.
Ye Chu had been desperate just now and wanted Ou Yi to save his life, but at this moment he somewhat regretted calling out to him. This fellow was clearly not right in the head. It would not be strange if he harboured delusions of blocking the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord.
“Go!” Ye Chu strained to shout a single word towards Ou Yi, gesturing for him to leave.
But Ou Yi ignored Ye Chu. He walked straight up to the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord, drew two circles in the air with his fingers in a strangely curved motion, then pointed at the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord and shouted, “Ou Yi says: let there be love!”
When Ye Chu heard this sentence, he nearly spat out a mouthful of blood. This guy really was not normal. Asking this guy to save him had been his biggest mistake. What was he doing? Did he think he was God? God said let there be light, and so the world was filled with light?
It was not just Ye Chu. Everyone else looked at Ou Yi in stunned disbelief, thinking this was some lunatic who had popped out of nowhere and was foolish to this extent.
Just as everyone was on the verge of vomiting blood from frustration, the scene in front of them made their eyes widen in shock. The originally violent aura actually began to recede. The raised arm slowly lowered. The Heavenly Feather Holy Lord simply stood there quietly.
“This…”
Ye Chu and the others felt the icy, oppressive pressure on their bodies disappear. They stared blankly at the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord, who now stood as docile as a lamb, finding it utterly unbelievable. The Heavenly Feather Prince in particular stared wide-eyed, beams of light shooting from his pupils as he fixed his gaze on Ou Yi.
“He… he…”
A crowd of people pointed at Ou Yi, but none could utter a complete sentence. What kind of method was this? To make a corpse spirit so obedient!
Ye Chu let out a soft breath. Looking at Ou Yi, who had once again picked up the mirror and was tsk-tsking in admiration, he felt this fellow was far too mysterious. This was the corpse spirit of an absolute powerhouse, yet with just one infuriating sentence he had calmed it down.
Ye Chu recalled how Ou Yi had once described the Ancient Nightmare Forbidden Land to him. Back then Ou Yi had not taken the forbidden land seriously at all, speaking of it as though it were a tourist attraction. At the time Ye Chu had scoffed. But seeing this scene now, Ye Chu felt that this place really could become Ou Yi’s personal tourist spot.
If even such a corpse spirit could be rebuked into submission by him as though he were God with a single sentence, then what in this forbidden land could possibly threaten him?
The surroundings fell into complete silence. Everyone was shaken by this. Ou Yi clearly had not noticed the atmosphere. After admiring his own handsomeness in the mirror for a while, he turned his gaze to Ye Chu and said, “Weren’t you going somewhere else? How did you end up in this place?”
“I stumbled in by mistake!” Ye Chu took a deep breath to calm the shock in his heart.
“Stumbled in, huh?” Ou Yi muttered, then grinned mischievously. “I didn’t lie to you, did I? It’s fun in here, right? I’m planning to carve my handsome face here so it will be preserved forever in the Ancient Nightmare!”
That one sentence made many people’s mouths twitch. Fun? When they had first entered, they had been ignorant of the heights of heaven and depths of the earth, thinking themselves so powerful. It was just a forbidden land, after all. Even if they could not reach the depths, they could easily retreat. But now, thinking back, they had been far too arrogant. If they had a choice, they would never come here again even if beaten to death. This place was not somewhere they could set foot!
“It really is fun!” Ye Chu gritted his teeth, looking at the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord standing quietly beside Ou Yi, struggling to keep his emotions from exploding.
The Heavenly Feather Prince stared at Ou Yi, unable to understand what kind of person this man was. But seeing that Ou Yi could make the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord stand quietly, he stepped forward and said, “Many thanks to you, sir, for saving our lives. But could I ask for your help with one more thing? This corpse spirit is my ancestor. I wonder if you could assist me in taking him away?”
Ou Yi glanced at the Heavenly Feather Prince, then said simply, “No one can take away the corpse spirits from here!”
Those words made the Heavenly Feather Prince frown. He looked at Ou Yi and said, “I must take him away!”
“Do as you please!” Ou Yi paid him no further attention.
The Heavenly Feather Prince turned towards the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord standing quietly there and reached out to grab his corpse body, intending to take it away.
But the moment his fingers touched the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord, the Holy Lord’s eyes snapped open fiercely. The Heavenly Feather Prince retreated madly, his face filled with horror.
The Heavenly Feather Holy Lord, who had just been quiet, struck down with a palm. In an instant he obliterated one of the powerhouses who had come with the Heavenly Feather Prince. The body shattered into pieces.
Ou Yi watched this scene as though it were nothing unusual. When he saw the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord suddenly lunge towards him, a single drop of blood suddenly appeared on Ou Yi’s fingertip. The drop of blood shot out and landed on the Heavenly Feather Holy Lord’s forehead. The imprint on the Holy Lord’s forehead was pierced straight through, creating a bloody hole. The Heavenly Feather Holy Lord let out a miserable howl and smashed into the stone mountain.