The Sun Moon Divine Hall is the weakest among the four sacred grounds. While their overall strength and number of experts surpass the Mighty Heavenly Swion, they fall short when pared to the Absolute Monarch Sanctuary and Supreme O Pace. However, the Region holds the highest number of peak-level, Level 10 Monarchs, pg the Sun Moon Divine Hall below them in ranking.

  The same holds true for their Heavenly Monarch, Ye Meixie, who is the weakest among the four leaders. Xuanyuaian and the Saint Emperor are evenly matched in battle strength, with the Sn of the Seas ranking just below them.

  The most guarded location in the Sun Moon Divine Hall is the sect treasury, where all their resources are stored. It is protected by numerous Monarchs and reinforced with powerful formations.

  The space trembled as Yun Wuji and Huan Caiyi appeared by the treasury. After sweeping the treasures in the Mighty Heavenly Swion, Yun Wuji had e here, ready to help these folks keep their treasures "safe" as well.

  After all, Yun Wuji was such a "good guy"—he'd go out of his way just to make sure their valuables were stored somewhere extra secure.

  Four mid-rank Monarchs stood guard at the treasury, oblivious to Yun Wuji's sudden arrival. Even the formatioiculously crafted to detect spatial teleportations, remaiterly silent.

  In Yun Wuji's presehis supposedly imperable barrier was nothing more than a decorative backdrop.

  Yun Wuji took Huan Caiyi's hand and strode boldly past the guards. Huan Caiyi's eyes widened in disbelief as she g him, utterly shocked.

  'They didn't notice us?!'

  Catg her expression, Yun Wuji gave her a smug look that seemed to say, See how awesome I am?

  He was quite proud of his mastery over the Law of Spaothing in this lower pne could block him.

  'If this guy ever chose to be a pervert, no woman would be safe from his evil hands,' Huan Caiyi thought.

  If Yun Wuji could have heard her thoughts, he'd probably spit blood from anger before smag the daylights out of her, shouting, "I'm not some sneaky pervert! If I want to see a woman naked, I'll do it openly!"

  Bypassing the guards, they walked through the barrier as if it did, finally ing face-to-face with the massive treasury. Shelves upon shelves lihe room, each stocked with precious treasures, ly arranged and carefully protected by smaller barriers. Ahout a specific token who tried to touch them would immediately arm the sect.

  'As expected, the fastest way to get rich is to plunder… I mean, borrow resources from others,' Yun Wuji thought, a smile tugging at his lips as he sed the vast treasury.

  In a fsh, he moved like lightning, st the treasures and resources in the Sky Poison Pearl. His hands slipped effortlessly through the barriers, which didn't eve to his presence.

  "Alright! Now that we've ed everything, it's massacre time!" Yun Wuji cpped his hands.

  "Hmm, did you tact Yun ghai? How is the situation in the Mighty Heavenly Swion?" Huan Caiyi asked, standing in a er as she waited for him to finish ing up the treasury.

  "Old man Yun is an expert at the Peak Monarch level, and he has the 7 guardian families and 40 Duke Pces with him, each sending all their Monard Tyrant experts, in addition to 25 giants who are eaparable to Level 10 Monarchs," Yun Wuji spoke casually. "They've already killed more than half of the elders and one sword attendant. It's only a matter of time before they up all the trash."

  "I've already notified the uardian Families, Duke Paces, and other experts to be ready," Yun Wuji said, then looked around and added, "This pce is suitable for setting off an explosion, but... it's a bit too desote."

  "How about detonating a small oo attract their attention, and the off the main one?" Huan Caiyi suggested casually, her entiy trasting with the cold, cruel words that came naturally from her lips.

  Yun Wuji nodded with a chuckle and praised, "As expected of the cruel Demon Empress! You easily think of a way to massacre people."

  "Hmph!" Huan Caiyi s his mogly praised words and turned her head away.

  "Fug violent tsundere!" Seeiypical tsundere rea, Yun Wuji muttered under his breath.

  "I told you that I am not a tsundere!!!" Huan Caiyi shot back, her cold gre intensifying.

  "You'll always be a tsuo me if you keep ag like one."

  ...

  "Heavenly Monarch! The situation in the Mighty Heavenly Swion is strange," 17th Elder Ye Shuraed, his voice tehe spies sehat there was a devastating explosion there, but shortly after, we lost tact with them."

  "This is iroubling. From the clues we've gathered, it's easy to deduce that they are utack, and it must be someone very strong," Ye Meixie said, standing on the baly with his hands csped behind his back, his eyes fixed on the dire of the Mighty Heavenly Swion.

  "But... who has the power to attack them? Could it be the Absolute Monarch Sanctuary?!" Ye Shuran's expression turned serious. The Absolute Monarch Sanctuary was the stro of the four sacred grounds, with 166 monarchs in total. Among them, there were three Spiritual Masters at the 10th level of the Monarch Realm, in addition to their stro member, the Saint Emperor.

  If they were to attack the Mighty Heavenly Swion, wouldn't they also e for them, who are only slightly weaker than the region?!

  "That's impossible. The Saint Emperor would never do something so foolish," Ye Meixie shook his head. "The sacred grounds mutually restrain each other. If oo attaother, the others would simply watch from the sidelines, letting them destroy each other and then attack the victor."

  Ye Shuran heard the Heavenly Monarch's expnation and found it reasonable, but his curiosity couldn't be tained. "Then who is it?!"

  "I suspect it's the Illusory Demo—" Ye Meixie began to reply when suddenly, he was interrupted by a violent explosion.

  BOOOMMM!

  A massive mushroom cloud erupted from the dire of the sect's ter!

  "This?! It's ing from the treasury!" Ye Shuran excimed in astonishment as he looked toward the source of the explosion. "This... this sario is familiar!"

  "Yes! This is the same thing that happened before the Mighty Heavenly Swion was attacked," Ye Meixie replied, his voice cold with realizatiohen ordered, "Inform everyone. I want to see who is so brave enough to attack my Sun Moon Divine Hall!"

  With a final goward Ye Shuraransformed into a beam of light and shot toward the dire of the explosion.

  Without needing Ye Shuran to inform them, all the elders and Sun Moon Divine Envoys rushed from all dires toward the source of the explosion!

  ...

  "This..." Divine Envoy Bzing Sun looked down at the pit beh him. The pce where the treasury had oood was now just a massive, gaping hole. "What happened here?!"

  "The... The treasury is gone...! Who did this?!" Elder Ye Juanyun's voice was ced with both shod fury. "Who has the gall to do this?! They're c death!"

  "Calm down!" Ye Meixie anded, spreading his seo locate the source of the disturbance.

  "There's something strange over there... What is that?"

  At that moment, the space trembled like waves, then began twisting like woven silk.

  "Retreat! Quickly, retreat!" Ye Meixie's pupils shrank as a terrible sense of dread washed over him. He shouted and fleithout hesitation!

  "Run!" A few reacted quickly, s as fast as they could.

  BOOOOMMMMM!

  The space colpsed, unleashing a devastating explosion—tens of times more powerful than the previous one.

  The explosion swallowed all those who were too slow to react, obliterating them into dust; nearly a third of those present were killed i.

  The aftershock struck those desperately fleeing for their lives, hurling them far from the bst and severely injuring anyone below the Monarch level.

  *In case you're unfamiliar, "Monarch" refers to the Sn Profound Realm, while "Overlord" corresponds to the Tyrant Profound Realm.*

  Almost immediately, chaotic red beams shot out from the ter of the explosion, slig through everything in their path like hot khrough butter.

  "Agh!" A disciple in the Overlord realm who had barely survived the initial bst was struck by one of the beams, his body splitting in two before he could react. A miserable cry escaped him as blood and ans spttered to the ground.

  "Nh!!!" More disciples were hit by the relentless beams, their cries were cut short. Every one of them was below the Monarch realm, too slow and vulnerable to withstand the lethal assault.

  ...

  "Who... who did this?!" As the explosion subsided, Ye Meixie finally stopped fleeing. Turning around, his face froze in shock. A massive, scorched pit y before him, with hot magma seeping from its depths. Nearby, the mutited bodies of his sect's disciples were strewn across the ground, silent remnants of the devastating bst.

  His body began to tremble violently. Rage filled him, but a chilling fear crept into his heart as well. He still hadn't glimpsed the culprit behind this devastation, and the lingeriails of what had happeo the Mighty Heavenly Swion only deepened his dread.

  "Heavenly Monarch, what should we do?!" The Sun Moon Divine Envoys and elders flew toward him, their faces pale with shod fear after experieng the world-shaking explosion.

  *Megumin would have had a mental asm if she had withis explosion.*

  "..." Ye Meixie didn't ahem. He stood still, his gaze fixed o before him.

  After a few seds, the space twisted once again, and a massive crack appeared. From it, giants over a hundred meters tall flew out oer another.

  "Hmph! Vile bastards from the Profound Sky ti, today we will wash away our realm's hundred years of shame!" The moment one of the giants emerged from the rift, he gred at them, his voice dripping with hatred and murderous i.

  One... two... three giants. They kept ing until more than fifteen giants were floating in the air, all staring down at the people from the Sun Moon Divine Hall.

  After the giants emerged, more people flew out from the rift, each with varying cultivation levels—some were at the Monarch realm, while others were at the Overlord realm.

  Finally, as the st of them emerged, Yun Wuji, followed by Huan Caiyi, stepped out from the space crack.

  The moment he appeared, the giants who had been gring down at the people of the Sun Moon Divine Hall respectfully stepped aside, parting to make way for him.

  "o meet you, Ye Meixie. Let me introduce myself," Yun Wuji stepped forward, his tone calm and posed. "I am the one who killed your son. I've e to give you the ce to take your revenge."

  "...You! It's You!!!" Ye Meixie instinctively took a step backward, his eyes shrinking in fear.

  Back when he had sent Ye Guying to track down the killer of his son, Yun Wuji had killed Ye Guying, and Ye Meixie had received the st memory of his death. That memory still terrified him, even after many months had passed.

  "Who are you? What is yoal in attag our Sun Moon Divine Hall?!" Divine Envoy Heavens Equal stepped forward and asked in a heavy voice.

  Yun Wuji ignored him and addressed the fifteen giants, "Split into three teams. Two of you deal with the Level 10 Monarchs, and the st team will hahe other Monarchs with the help of others."

  "As for me, I'll deal with Ye Meixie myself. After all, I'm merciful enough to give him a ce to avenge his son."

  "Yes, Lord Yun Wuji!" Everyone behind him, except for Huan Caiyi, replied respectfully and rushed toward their enemies.

  "You stay here and deal with any emergencies. If something happeer the space crad run away," Yun Wuji said to Huan Caiyi before transf into a silver beam of light, flying strain toward Ye Meixie.

  He had already activated Deus Ex Maa earlier, before ing.

  "..." Huan Caiyi watched his figure disappear into the distance, her gaze plicated. She wao tell him to be careful, but the wot stu her throat.

  "..." Ye Meixie gripped his sword tightly, his entire being focused on fronting this formidable enemy.

  He didn't dare let his attention stray for even a moment. However, before he could fully prehend what was happening, Yun Wuji appeared in front of him, seizing his head with one hand. He spun him around several times before hurling him far, far away.

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

  Ye Meixie was hurled with immense force, his body breaking the sound barrier multiple times. "Damn it!" After traveling a long distance, he finally mao steady himself, forcefully ing the residual impact from the throw.

  Swoosh!

  "!!!" Suddenly, a chill ran through his body, every hair on him standing on end as the unmistakable feeling of death loomed behind him!

  With an almost impossible rea, he twisted his body to the left. But the moment he moved, a sharp silver light pierced through his shoulder, slig ly through his arm at the joint.

  "Argh!" Ye Meixie let out a painful cry as he clutched his shoulder. Turning around, he found Yun Wuji still standing there, his finger poi him. From that fiip, a sharp silver sword light emanated.

  Ye Meixie exhaled a cold breath. If he had been even a fra of a sed slower, the sword light would have cleaved him in two!