Chapter 266: I Will Die First Even If We Have to Die

Ao Qianqian was not one to hide her feelings. She liked Ye Guan, and everyone knew about her feelings. After all, she had never really attempted to hide it. She liked Ye Guan, and she was willing to do anything for him.

In fact, she was willing to die for him!

Ye Guan smiled meekly while staring at Ao Qianqian, but he didn’t reply to her.

Ao Qianqian grinned. She already knew the answer to her question.

Ye Guan carried her in his arms.

“You won’t die, and I’ll die first, even if we have to die.”

Ye Guan opened his palm, revealing a soul wood. It was the soul wood that he had obtained at the Undying Clan. Ye Guan filled it with his profound energy, and the soul wood emitted a light that enveloped Ao Qianqian.

Ye Guan heaved a sigh of relief when Ao Qianqian stabilized.

The soul wood was protecting her soul from further injuries.

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Ye Guan then put away the soul wood inside the tiny pagoda and forced himself to stand up. Ye Guan’s fleshly body was no more, and he was currently in his soul form.

If Ao Qianqian hadn’t taken the brunt of the attack earlier, his soul would have perished along with his fleshly body.

Ye Guan came to his senses upon hearing a loud explosion. He turned and saw Ba Wan fighting the Jin Guards. Ye Guan looked around and was surprised to see three corpses belonging to the young talents of the Jin Guards.

He truly didn’t expect that Ba Wan would be so strong.

Just then, a Jin Guard left Ba Wan and rushed toward Ye Guan.

He decided to eliminate Ye Guan first, as the latter’s injuries were severe.

Ye Guan’s eyes narrowed, and his expression turned into that of ruthlessness as he vanished into thin air.

Shwing!

Instant Death Strike.

Ye Guan moved as fast as possible, and he left nothing but afterimages in his wake, along with a shrill cry that reverberated across the battlefield as his sword tore through spacetime.

The oncoming Jin Guard fell to his knees while holding his throat. Ye Guan’s Instant Death Strike had lacerated his throat, effectively sealing his fate. However, Ye Guan’s figure had become visibly blurrier after the attack.

Boom!

A loud explosion occurred, prompting Ye Guan to turn around. The last remaining Jin Guard had just perished beneath Ba Wan’s fist. Ye Guan stared at her with a serious expression. It seemed that he had still ended up underestimating her strength.

He fought six Jin Guards by himself, while Ba Wan only had to fight five.

Ye Guan ended up winning, but he and Ao Qianqian had almost died.

However, Ba Wan looked relatively unscathed. Ye Guan reckoned that even if the Jin Guard hadn’t abandoned his fight with Ba Wan to execute Ye Guan, Ba Wan would have still emerged victorious. She was just too strong!

Ba Wan walked up to Ye Guan and said, “I could fight ten of them by myself at once as long as I’m full.”

Ye Guan went silent at that.

Ba Wan didn’t seem to be lying.

She could truly fight ten Jin Guards by herself as long as she was full.

Of course, Ye Guan didn’t have the luxury to cook for Ba Wan at the moment.

He took out the chunks of dragon meat that he had cooked beforehand and gave it to Ba Wan. The storage ring was capable of preserving food, so the dragon meat that Ye Guan had cooked a while ago still looked fresh.

Ba Wan’s eyes brightened, and she had to have been starving because she ate with gusto.

Ye Guan stared deeply at Ba Wan.

He was curious about her Physique. What kind of Physique was so strange?

He asked inwardly, “Senior, can you tell me more about her Physique?”

The mysterious voice said, “She gets stronger the more she eats.”

Ye Guan was astonished. “She gets stronger as she eats?”

“Yes,” the mysterious voice replied.

Ye Guan was silent. It was no wonder that Ba Wan seemed ignorant about cultivation methods. She truly didn’t need one, as she just had to eat to become even stronger.

The mysterious voice continued. “She’s gotten stronger since she started following you, and it’s all because of the quality of the food you’ve been feeding her.”

Ye Guan remained silent. Just then, he recalled something, and he looked up to find his sister fighting Hao Xuan in a boundless patch of spacetime. They were quite far away—a few domains[1] away, but Ye Guan could feel the intensity of their bout.

Ye Guan’s expression turned grim. Hao Xuan truly deserved to be the strongest member of the True Universe’s young generation. Of course, his sister was incredibly strong as well.

The mysterious voice suddenly said, “You should take this time to heal up.”

Ye Guan snapped back to reality, and he hurriedly sat cross-legged to heal himself.

He looked at the group of Divine Spirits in the distance and saw that they were staring at him as well. Quite a few of them were walking toward Ye Guan, but it seemed that they were hesitating because they were too weak to withstand any attacks from Ye Guan.

However, Ye Guan was currently in his soul form, which meant that he was at his weakest. It was a temptation that most of them couldn’t resist, as they knew that if they were to attack now, they would most likely succeed.

“Ba Wan!” Ye Guan yelled, “Show them how to shake the heavens!”

Ba Wan gulped the food that she was chewing and rushed in front of Ye Guan before pushing both of her palms forward.

Boom!

An entire kilometer of spacetime ahead of Ba Wan was obliterated, leaving nothing but a dark patch of spacetime. The Divine Spirits hurriedly retreated, and they stared at Ba Wan with fear in their eyes. Even Ye Guan was afraid.

Ba Wan was truly incredibly powerful.

Ba Wan swept her gaze across the distant Divine Spirits before wolfing down the rest of her food. She seemed afraid that the Divine Spirits would steal her food from her.

Meanwhile, Ye Guan focused on recovering once more.

“Everyone!” a young man yelled in the Divine Spirits’ ranks. He took off to the skies, and then he swept his gaze across the other Divine Spirits and shouted, “He’s in the middle of recovering, so this is our golden opportunity to kill him.

”There are only two of them while there’s a myriad of us. We have to be brave! We can’t let the two of them deter us from attacking lest we become the laughingstock of the All Worlds. Our relatives will also mock us for our cowardice!”

The Divine Spirits were silent. Moments later, a young woman hesitated before saying, “The Divine Dusk Guards and the other young talents of the Jin Guards are coming soon. Isn’t it better if we just wait for them?”

The young man shook his head. He stared deeply at Ye Guan and said, “He’s extremely strong. He’ll become a huge headache to handle if we were to allow him to recover his fleshly body. We must ensure that he won't recover his fleshly body until our reinforcements are here.”

A fierce glint fleeted across the young man’s eyes as he shouted, “Those who are Immortal Realm and above should follow me to kill him!”

He then took the lead and rushed toward Ye Guan. His goal was to stop Ye Guan from recovering his fleshly body. He wasn’t alone; more than ten thousand Divine Spirits followed closely behind him.

The sheer number of the oncoming Divine Spirits made them appear as though they were a massive army. The energy undulations that they were emitting made everything between heaven and earth quiver incessantly.

Meanwhile, the Divine Spirits below the Immortal Realm didn’t dare to make a move. They weren’t afraid of death; they simply knew that they wouldn’t be helpful even if they entered the fray.

They couldn’t even track Ye Guan’s movements, so they would only become baggage if they were to make a move. Ye Guan’s expression darkened. He tried to stand up when Ba Wan suddenly said, “You heal up; I’ll handle them.”

Ba Wan tore a chunk of dragon meat, and she rushed to meet the oncoming Divine Spirits while chewing on her food. She took to the skies and swiped downward as if she were forcefully seizing something.

“Seize the Moon!”

Rumble!

The surrounding spacetime abruptly collapsed as a colossal illusory hand manifested and swung downward. It seemed intent on seizing something, creating a surreal sight reminiscent of someone attempting to seize the moon for themselves.

BoomI

A few hundred Divine Spirits were swept away by the illusory hand. Those unfortunate enough to have stood at the frontlines were obliterated. They couldn’t even scream as the hand reduced their fleshly body and soul into ashes.

However, Ba Wan wasn’t done just yet.

She thrust her palms forward and yelled, “Shake the Heavens!”

Boom!

A cataclysmic explosion tore apart the spacetime in front of Ba Wan. The Divine Spirits suffered a horrible fate—they had died in an instant with their fleshly body reduced to ashes and their souls dissipating into nothingness.

Incredibly, the Divine Spirits at the rear managed to survive.

They appeared a few meters away from Ba Wan. They glared hatefully at Ba Wan, and their expressions were cold. Ba Wan didn’t retreat despite the threat they posed; she stood still, and an overwhelming amount of energy rushed out of her.

The Divine Spirits were horrified, but they didn’t stop.

Ba Wan jumped and brought her fist down to the ground as if it were a hammer.

“Bury the Gods!” she roared.

Rumble!

The skies parted, and the spacetime groaned and swayed as a massive illusory fist manifested and plummeted toward the terrified Divine Spirits.

“AAAH!” the leader of the young Divine Spirits howled in fury. He transformed into a beam of light and threw himself toward the oncoming fist. Hundreds of Divine Spirits did the same, and the resulting collision created multiple loud explosions.

The illusory fist started to fade away.

However, the Divine Spirits had paid a heavy price. Their fleshly body was no more, and the chunks of flesh and coagulated blood on the ground created a grotesque pool of gore. Unfortunately, the illusory fist continued on its way to the ground.

A massive chunk of spacetime was annihilated along with over a thousand Divine Spirits. Those who managed to run away were sent flying away, suffering severe injuries upon getting hit by the remnant shockwaves.

A cloud of dust shot at least a few kilometers into the air.

When the dust settled, the Divine Spirits no longer dared to approach Ba Wan.

Meanwhile, Ba Wan’s visage was beyond pallid. She felt extremely exhausted as the wondrous martial skills she had executed consecutively had taken quite a toll on her.

However, there were still more than eight thousand Divine Spirits before her.

Ba Wan swept his gaze across them.

The Divine Spirits’ eyes were filled with awe and dread as they stared at her from afar. She was so strong that her strength seemed to exceed some of the widely acclaimed Divine Sovereigns of the True Universe.

The fear gnawing at the Divine Spirits’ hearts made them hesitate.

Just then, a brave Divine Spirit stepped forward. He glared at Ba Wan and said, “Some of us should keep her busy while the rest should go after Ye Guan. We must not let him recover his fleshly body.”

With that, he rushed toward Ba Wan with roughly two hundred Divine Spirits in tow.

They were all afraid of death, but they had chosen to make a move in an effort to protect the True Universe.

Ba Wan balled her hand into a fist. She was beyond pallid, but she resolutely dashed toward her enemies. She had decided to face them head-on.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Ba Wan sent a flurry of punches toward the Divine Spirits, killing a few of them with every punch. Meanwhile, the rest of the Divine Spirits charged at Ye Guan.

However, Ba Wan appeared in front of Ye Guan. She took a stance with her fists in front of her, and the spacetime around her distorted as she squeezed out every ounce of strength within her.

The powerful aura she was emitting startled the Divine Spirits.

None of them dared to make a move.

“Everyone!” yelled a Divine Spirit, “We’re not going to live to see another day, and since we’re going to die, anyway, we should die for a cause! The word surrender does not exist in the dictionary of the True Universe! I’ll see myself out first!”

He decisively ignited his soul, and a few dozen Divine Spirits quickly followed after him. They knew that they had to go all out against Ye Guan and Ba Wan, and they knew that it was better for them to die fighting than die a coward.

A few hundred Divine Spirits ignited their souls at once, and the amalgamation of their surging auras created a pillar of energy that pierced the skies.

“Die!” a Divine Spirit roared and turned into a beam of light that flew toward Ba Wan.

The rest of the Divine Spirits boisterously laughed as they followed his lead.

Ba Wan licked the blood on her lips as she stared at the oncoming enemies. She wasn’t going to back down from a challenge, but she lamented softly, “If I had known I would die, I would have eaten a good, hearty meal until I was stuffed…”

1. for reference, a domain is a million miles of spacetime ☜