Invincible Young Master in the City-Chapter 1553 - 1549: You Are the Heavenly Tribulation Yourself

Like the previous two ruins, the third one was also filled with powerful spiritual bodies that Ye Fan couldn’t distinguish. As these entities approached, Ye Fan could feel the potency of the spiritual energy, incomparable to someone at the pre-Transcendance Tribulation Stage.

It seemed as if he was simultaneously facing an assault from hundreds of cultivators who had transcended the tribulation and ascended.

Not only him, even with the help of the Mysterious Lady and the Plain Girl, they were only entangled by these spiritual bodies and couldn’t break free.

"Retreat!" This time, Ye Fan decisively gave the order to withdraw. He could trigger the mechanisms of the spiritual bodies, but he couldn’t stop them.

Actually, without Ye Fan’s reminder, the Mysterious Lady had already started moving in the direction they came from, heading up the "tunnel" they had dug towards the surface. As for Ye Fan and the Plain Girl, they still needed to accompany the female cultivator sent by Ta Mo and Sang Yuan. Without lingering, they quickly escaped the surface of the Ta Yuan star and reached a point several hundred kilometers above it in the atmosphere.

"Ye Fan, do you know what you are doing? Are you trying to prevent me from finding that little girl surnamed Li by constantly obstructing me?" the Mysterious Lady said angrily.

Ye Fan replied, "Why do you say that, senior?"

"It’s obvious! The little girl surnamed Li hid my daughter on the Ta Yuan Star, and now you’ve released those powerful spiritual bodies. How are we supposed to search now?" the Mysterious Lady retorted in rage.

Ye Fan replied coldly, "Senior, don’t always use your own attitude towards others to speculate about how they view you. This time, I wanted to help you, while also helping myself. We are in a cooperative relationship, why would I sabotage in secret? You think releasing those spiritual entities is a bad thing? Then let me tell you, after they were released from the three ruins, I sensed a massive elemental energy core emerging from within the Ta Yuan Star. If nothing unexpected happens, Zhao Jun and the others should be in that energy mass!"

The Mysterious Lady closed her eyes to sense it, but couldn’t feel anything. She angrily said, "Are you fooling me?"

"Whether I’m fooling you or not, senior, you will know if you follow me!" said Ye Fan. He then used his body’s elemental power to open a passage from the mid-air of the Ta Yuan Star to its inner crust, allowing them direct entry to the core.

With suspicion, the Mysterious Lady looked at Ye Fan, and finally sighed, "Ye Fan, I hope you aren’t deceiving me, because if you do, even if I can’t defeat you right now, I’ll make you pay! Let’s go!"

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This time, Ye Fan did not bring Ta Mo or the female cultivator, but only the Plain Girl and the Mysterious Lady.

Ye Fan knew the elemental power at the core of the Ta Yuan Star was excessively strong. He doubted that Li Zhaojun would venture to such a perilous place, yet he could vaguely sense her presence.

It was a strange mental connection. The deeper he went, the more he felt Li Zhaojun’s presence, but he couldn’t discern what the aura truly indicated.

At the time, the Wheel of Space-Time Li Zhaojun operated was still spinning, and her array remained incomplete. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

But Li Zhaojun had already sensed the approach of Ye Fan from above. Without any blockage this time, Ye Fan would appear before her in less than a minute. With him present, especially as he tried to stop her, she couldn’t focus on completing the final ritual.

"You... help me stop him!" Li Zhaojun instructed the black shadow, "But you mustn’t hurt him!"

"Human girl, do you really think you’re my master? I said, in this matter, our relationship is equal. You cannot command me..." The black shadow seemed discontent being ordered around by Li Zhaojun, yet it eventually relented, "Very well, since you wish to complete this ritual, I’ll help you!"

Upon finishing, the black shadow drifted off, moving in the direction of Ye Fan’s approach.

This black shadow was comprised neither of spiritual nor elemental power. When the force appeared before Ye Fan, he realized its presence through the Copper Mirror.

"Be careful!" Ye Fan warned the Mysterious Lady and the Plain Girl while using elemental power to fend off the attack.

His elemental powers clashed with the strange force of the shadow, generating an immense explosive force that caused a massive explosion in the Ta Yuan Star’s crust. The surrounding elemental forces shattered, while the mantle and crust were torn apart directly.

Even though Ye Fan wasn’t at the surface, he knew a seismic upheaval engulfed the entire Ta Yuan Star, drastically altering its landscape. He was thankful that no ordinary residents occupied the planet anymore.

Even with all his might, Ye Fan barely managed to reach a stalemate against the shadow.

Unable to press the attack further, he withdrew a short distance, positioning the Mysterious Lady and the Plain Girl to guard each side, asking, "Who are you?"

Through the Copper Mirror, a vague form appeared, one that wasn’t human but seemed like a spiritual body. Yet it appeared different, neither a living nor dead entity, more like a material spirit, but unlike it too. The power it emanated wasn’t elemental, and Ye Fan couldn’t grasp its origin.

"Boy named Ye, I was sent by your woman to kill you, hahaha. Once you’re dead, no one can prevent her from operating her array!" the black shadow sniggered.

This voice was heard clearly by both the Mysterious Lady and the Plain Girl, not just through the Copper Mirror.

The Mysterious Lady sneered, "Ye Fan, did you see that? That was sent by the little girl surnamed Li to stop you and kill you. If she intended to harm you, would you still defend her?"

"Should I believe anyone who randomly claims to be sent by Zhao Jun to kill me?" Ye Fan responded.

"Haha, Ye Fan, I don’t care whether you believe it or not, but I think you’re pitiful, even betrayed by your woman!" scoffed the Mysterious Lady. "However, it’s also fitting, out with the old and in with the new. How hard is it to find other human women? If you desire goddesses, I can provide them. Just don’t stop me, let me kill the girl named Li!"

Ye Fan wasn’t distracted by any side. He sought the black shadow’s whereabouts, asking, "You claim, Zhao Jun sent you?"

"Indeed, she’s performing a ritual below. This ritual is to alter you, to bring about the complete death of this timeline’s you and bring forth another timeline’s you. Isn’t it interesting? Hahaha! I told her about this method because you’ve already succumbed to demonic influence. Soon, you’ll become a merciless demon, and though you’re able to avert the heavenly tribulation, all life will still face destruction because of you. You’ll become the prophecy of the heavenly tribulation’s final Chapter. Scary, isn’t it? You yourself are part of the calamity; you’re not qualified to save it!"

The black shadow roared.