Spsh!

  At the edge of the Illusory Demon Realm, a group of people emerged from the water with a resounding spsh and nded on the shore.

  "The harvest this time is barely passable. At this rate, our ranking will drop out of the top 100," one of them stated, his toinged with dissatisfa.

  "There's nothing we do about it," another person replied with a helpless shake of his head. "Lately, the beasts have been abandoning their territories areating deep uer. Some have even started f groups."

  "There's no point talking about this. Let's report our mission first," their leader said with a frown, he was also uled by the phenomenon.

  Without another word, he shot toward the south. The others exged brief gnces but didn't object, promptly following him.

  A small base had been structed not far from the shore, which served as both a rep station and a resting area for hunters. Those who pleted their hunting duties would e here to submit their progress reports and recover before heading out again.

  There were numerous bases like this scattered across the Profound Sky ti and the Illusory Demon Realm. These bases served as hubs for the tless teams dispatched in all dires, tirelessly huntis.

  However, this base stood out from the others, as the one presiding over it was her than the Demon Empress herself, Huan Caiyi! Her presence gave the base unparalleled significe.

  The group desded to the ground, passed through the identity verification process, and proceeded to the mission hall to report their aplishments and hand over the profound cores they had collected.

  However, at that moment, the group came to an abrupt halt. The leader's eyes widened in shock, his body freezing in pce. He turiffly, only to find that all of his team members wore the same expression of disbelief!

  It wasn't just them, almost everyone iire base shared the same look of surprise, shock, and fear.

  From the dire of the sea, they felt multiple terrifying auras bearing down on them!

  If it had been just multiple auras, it wouldn't have been such a big deal. Even if dozens of peak Monarch Realm beasts appeared, they would have been swiftly dealt with by Her Majesty, the Demon Empress. However, what they sensed now was something far more terrifying. They felt tless auras pressing down on them!

  With his te Tyrant Profound Realm cultivation, the leader was able to sehat at least 40,000 Monarch-level beasts and hundreds of thousands of Overlord-level beasts were approag!

  "Heavens! What... what is this?!!!" The horrifying number caused his legs to go weak. With his heart pounding in his chest, he slowly turoward the dire of the sea, dread creeping up his spine.

  Under everyone's watchful gazes, the surface of the o suddenly began to violently. The waves collided chaotically, and from the depths of the sea, tless pilrs of water shot up into the sky, t like giants emerging from the abyss.

  The water cascaded bato the sea, revealing an army of colossal beasts, each standing over a hundred meters tall. The sheer number of them, coupled with their massive size, blotted out the sky, casting a dark shadow over the nd. The oppressive atmosphere sent a chill through everyone present.

  "I... told you that recklessly huntis... would lead to their crazed retaliation," one of his teammates muttered, his voice trembling. "We're finished... we're absolutely finished!"

  At this moment, in her courtyard, Huan Caiyi took out a Sound Transmission Jade a a message to Yun Wuji: "They are finally here."

  After receiving his reply, she flew from her position, s into the sky and stopping a few kilometers away from the army of beasts. Her voice was cold and anding as she spoke, "What is the meaning of this?!"

  "You evil humans and demons, wantonly sughtering our kind for no reason, all just to collect our beast cores!" A blue dragon, leading the army of beasts, shot out from their ranks with a furious roar. Its voice rumbled like thunder as it gred at Huan Caiyi. "And now you have the gall to ask us what the meaning of our as is?!"

  Over the past few months, thousands of Monarch-level beasts and more than a huhousand Overlord Beasts had been sughtered. This relentless killing spree ehe beasts of the sea, stirring a fierd uing wrath. In respohey had gathered an immense punitive force, ready to annihite these hateful earth-dwellers who had dared to attack their kind.

  Huan Caiyi remained pletely unfazed, her gaze cold as ice. "My husband needs your cores for cultivation. Given that, it is only natural for us to hunt down your kin and collect them."

  She sneered with unmasked disdain. "What's the big deal in sughtering your kind? Why resist? Is it so difficult to accept?"

  With a wave of her hand and a tone dripping with righteous arrogance, she tinued, "We didn't even bother questioning why you didn't simply present your cores to us. And now, you dare to retaliate? Preposterous!"

  "..." Everyone on the base stared up at their Demon Empress with wide, incredulous eyes.

  What's unreasonable and overbearing, you ask?

  This. This is the very definition of unreasonable and overbearing!

  "...You...you!" The blue dragon's eyes widened in shod fury. This little demon girl actually had the audacity to reprimand them for defending themselves?!

  "Old dragon, stop wasting time talking to her! We're not here for words!" A giant white sepped forward, his voice seething with suppressed anger. He gnced down at the base, then turned his gaze to Huan Caiyi, his words dripping with malice. "We've e for reveoday, we will bathe this p blood, and tomorroill exterminate every st one of these despicable creatures!"

  "Oh, really?" As soon as the snake finished speaking, the space beside Huan Caiyi trembled. A crack split open, and Yun Wuji stepped out, his eyes glinting with i as he looked at the snake. "Is that so?"

  "Lord Yun! It's Lord Yun!" As Yun Wuji appeared, the despair that had settled over them began to fade, repced by hope. The people around looked at him with tear-filled eyes, their voices trembling as they shouted in unison.

  "Lord Yun is here! We are saved!" A few people colpsed to the ground, overe with relief. Tears streamed down their faces as they whispered.

  "Kyaa! Lord Yun Wuji is so handsome, I want his baby!" A group of girls couldn't help themselves, their eyes sparkling with admiration as they shouted, their voices filled with infatuation.

  "Do you think he stop them? There are tless of them, while Lord Yun is just one person," a man said quietly to the person beside him, his voice filled with doubt and .

  "Heh, don't ask such a question. Do you think this is some Xianxia novel, and that we're just generic bystanders who always doubt the protagonist's abilities? Lord Yun is unparalleled uhe heavens; he will surely crush them," the other replied with disdain, his tone filled with unwavering fidence.

  "Who are you?" The blue dragon demanded. He examihe young man before him, his beast instincts screaming that this individual was a terrifying presence, one whose power could not be uimated.

  "I am her husband, the man who ordered yhter," Yun Wuji said with a calm smile, his tone casual as if he were discussing the weather. Before anyone could respond, he tinued, "Holy, you took lohan I expected. I've been waiting for you to gather for quite a while now."

  "You..." The blue dragon's fury fred up, but he froze when he processed Yun Wuji's st words. His voice trembled with disbelief as he asked, "You... purposely lured us?!"

  "Of course," Yun Wuji chuckled, his smile widening. "It's so troublesome to track all of you down one by one. Isn't it better if you all gathered together and delivered yourselves to me?"

  The Profound Sky ti occupies only 1% of this vast space, yet it's already many times rger thah. The o covers a staggering 97% of the area. If his people were to hunt these beasts down one by o would take years, even decades, to up all the high-level beasts.

  "Arrogant! Even if what you said is true, do you holy think you defeat all of us by yourself?" the white snake spat, uo hold bay longer.

  "Easy, easy, bro, calm down," Yun Wuji said with a disapproving look. "Snakes are supposed to be cold-blooded, right? Why are you so angry? What's the big deal? I'm just trying to sughter you, it's not wetting worked up over."

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