Yan Dan Sheng, after conversing with the Blood Lotus Mysterious Maiden, completely relaxed and summoned his true form.
Outside the barrier, the Qilin, hidden within the clouds, saw Yan Dan Sheng's true form approaching from afar and quickly said, "Your Majesty, wake up! We've finally found him!"
Ye Ling slightly opened his eyes, glanced at Yan Dan Sheng outside the barrier, and a smile touched his lips. "It seems luck is on our side this time. We've hooked another big fish. Miao Rui, you go deal with Wang Le in the manor. I'll go meet Yan Dan Sheng."
"Yes!"
Yan Dan Sheng, outside the barrier, was unaware that Ye Ling had set his sights on him. Upon arrival, he wasted no time, launching a punch towards the barrier.
The barrier of the Wang Family Manor, as he had anticipated, was not easy to open from the inside. However, from the outside, with just a slight application of force, it could be easily breached.
Inside the manor, Wang Le, seeing the barrier break, was incredibly excited. He quickly knelt and kowtowed to Yan Dan Sheng, saying, "Your Excellency is peerlessly valiant!"
However, as Wang Le excitedly knelt and kowtowed, he felt an overwhelmingly powerful aura press down from above him, casting him into shadow.
Wang Le blinked in surprise and instinctively looked up, only to see a Qilin, appearing from nowhere, pouncing towards him!
"What is that thing?"
Yan Dan Sheng's expression changed as he saw a Qilin appear out of thin air. Just as he was about to strike and kill the Qilin, he felt a sharp, menacing aura emerge from behind him, causing his entire body to tremble!
"What is this?"
Cold sweat beaded on Yan Dan Sheng's forehead, and his hands began to tremble slightly.
Ye Ling's voice sounded from behind him, "Yan Dan Sheng, shall we have a little chat?"
Large drops of cold sweat trickled down Yan Dan Sheng's forehead. He stiffly turned around and saw Ye Ling standing before him with a smile. Gritting his teeth, he forced himself to say, "Ye Ling, I've been looking for you for a long time. How dare you appear before me?"
Ye Ling looked at Yan Dan Sheng's feigned composure and chuckled, shaking his head. "I see you're quite sensible. Moreover, you're the Blood Lotus Mysterious Maiden's brother. Why don't you defect to my side? After all, Xuan Xiao doesn't treat you like a person."
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Yan Dan Sheng's pupils contracted slightly, and he exclaimed in surprise, "What do you mean?"
Ye Ling smiled and said, "Just as it sounds. I want you to join the Demonic Palace."
"That's impossible!"
Yan Dan Sheng refused Ye Ling without a second thought. Although he feared Ye Ling and didn't want to be his enemy, his fear of Ye Ling was far from enough to make him betray the Shadow Hall!
Furthermore, Ye Ling's cultivation had not yet recovered, so there was no way he would betray the Shadow Hall!
Ye Ling was not surprised by Yan Dan Sheng's direct refusal and chuckled, "Are you sure you've thought this through? Xuan Xiao specifically sent you to deal with the Demonic Palace, clearly intending for you to be fodder. I pity you, which is why I'm offering you a chance to live. If you're smart, you'll know how to choose."
"Following the Shadow Hall leads nowhere."
"Ye Ling, stop playing coy. You're only at the late stage of Saint realm now, and you're injured. If we were to fight, I wouldn't be afraid of you!"
Yan Dan Sheng stared intently at Ye Ling and continued, "Besides, I've heard that you highly value the human realm's Hua Guo and won't allow it to be harmed in the slightest. If we fight here, your beloved Hua Guo will be destroyed."
The battles between Saints were world-shattering. Moreover, the human realm was not as sturdy as the Immortal Realm or the Underworld. Two Saints fighting in the human realm would only bring devastating blows, and in severe cases, could even cause the entire human realm to collapse!
Since the Great Desolation era, the human realm had remained unscathed precisely because the various divine kingdoms cherished their territories within it. When Saints had conflicts, they usually resolved them in the Immortal Realm, without affecting the human realm.
Yan Dan Sheng was precisely exploiting Ye Ling's desire to protect Hua Guo, believing that Ye Ling would not dare to fight him here.
However, Yan Dan Sheng never imagined that Ye Ling wouldn't care about his threat at all!
Ye Ling chuckled lightly, "If you think you have the ability to harm even a single blade of grass in the mortal world in my presence, then by all means, try."
"You!!!"
Hearing Ye Ling's words, anger flared in Yan Dan Sheng's eyes, and he clenched his fists tightly.
He sensed extreme contempt in Ye Ling's words.
For Ye Ling to say such a thing was tantamount to not considering him a factor at all!
Even a cornered rabbit would bite. Although Yan Dan Sheng feared Ye Ling, he was now successfully provoked. His entire aura began to surge.
The night sky was shrouded in dark clouds, and the surrounding space began to warp. An extremely terrifying aura emanated from Yan Dan Sheng.
With a grim expression, he gritted his teeth and said to Ye Ling, "Ye Ling, don't look down on me. If you were at your peak, I would show you some respect, but it's different now."
"Since you look down on me so much, don't blame me for making a move. If Hua Guo is destroyed because of our fight, you'll be to blame!"
Yan Dan Sheng roared, transforming into a streak of red light and charging towards Ye Ling. Fiery flames ignited around him, and a majestic Flame Lion manifested behind him, melting the surrounding space.
If no one intervened, Yan Dan Sheng would turn the entire capital into lava in the next second!
Ye Ling watched Yan Dan Sheng charge towards him with a smile. He simply unleashed his Devouring Domain, completely stripping Yan Dan Sheng of all his power, instantly turning him into an ordinary person!
"What is this!!!"
Yan Dan Sheng suddenly couldn't feel the power within him. Before he could even figure out what had happened, he plummeted from the sky!
"Ahhh! Help me!!!"
Yan Dan Sheng struggled in mid-air, his eyes filling with increasing terror as he watched the ground rapidly approach.
When Xuan Xiao dispatched him to deal with the Demonic Palace, he had a premonition that he might die, but he never imagined he would die by falling!
For a Saint to die from falling was likely unprecedented in history!
Yan Dan Sheng struggled desperately, but he couldn't use any spiritual power, only freefall.
"It's over! I'm doomed!"
Yan Dan Sheng closed his eyes as he saw the ground mere meters away, his life flashing before his eyes.
He had already envisioned himself splattered into a meat paste.
However, at that moment, Ye Ling instantly appeared before Yan Dan Sheng, steadily grabbing his clothes and using his spiritual power to dissipate the momentum.
Yan Dan Sheng slowly opened his eyes and looked at the ground, which was less than a meter from his head, breaking out in a cold sweat.
Ye Ling threw Yan Dan Sheng onto the ground and, looking at him with dust all over his face, asked with a smile, "Now, do you still want to fight me?"