The Unlucky Five Heroes of Xuanlan

“Take me to your Furui God.”

As a Martial God, Sotuofeiren had definitely crossed paths with the Overlord of the Wing Realm.

However, he wasn’t familiar with the Guardians.

Chen Yi could only find the Furui God through him, and then use the Furui God to get in touch with their Guardian.

Chen Yi had already searched the entire range covered by his divine sense, but he hadn’t found the Guardian.

As for the Furui God, Chen Yi was unfamiliar with the area and had no idea which Martial God was this so-called Furui God.

So he needed to capture a local and have him show the way.

In order to save his life, Sotuofeiren’s cultivation had plummeted after the collision earlier. He wasn’t even a Martial King anymore.

Relying solely on his innate wings, his flying speed was far too slow. Chen Yi simply bound him with an Immortal-Binding Rope, grabbed the other end, and carried him along as he flew.

“The Sky City is in the stellar domain. You’ll have to break through the sky-land barrier first.”

Every plane had its own stellar domain.

Chen Yi leaped into the air like a cannonball, shot straight into the heavens, and smashed through the sky-land barrier head-on.

“Now what? Which direction?”

When he looked down, Sotuofeiren, who was dangling from the other end of the Immortal-Binding Rope, was already foaming at the mouth. Chen Yi had been flying far too fast.

Chen Yi slapped him awake.

“Th-that way…”

Chen Yi continued flying at breakneck speed with Sotuofeiren in tow.

Along the way, Chen Yi suddenly sensed fluctuations caused by spatial turbulence. He immediately stopped.

His divine sense locked precisely onto the source.

On a distant star, five Martial Gods were surrounding a smoking artifact and discussing something.

After getting a clear look at the five Wingfolk, Chen Yi couldn’t help smiling.

“Didn’t expect to run into some familiar faces.”

With that, Chen Yi changed direction and flew toward the five Martial Gods.

Sotuofeiren, dangling behind him, hurriedly warned him, “Senior! You’re going the wrong way!”

Chen Yi ignored him.

On this star, named Alsha, the Xuanlan Five Heroes were gathered around the immortal artifact known as the “Wall-Breaker,” fretting over it.

“It failed again, Big Brother.”

“Big Brother, where did you even get this thing? Could it be defective?”

“Quit whining! Fifth, your artifact-refining skills are the best among us. Figure out what went wrong just now and fix it!”

Xuanlan Fifth climbed inside the immortal artifact, which stood over a hundred meters tall and looked like a gigantic pumpkin. After fiddling around inside for a while, he crawled back out, covered in soot.

“Big Brother, are you sure there really isn’t a blueprint? This thing is way too complicated.”

Xuanlan Big Brother anxiously slapped his hands together.

“Put your heart into it! Don’t you want to ascend to the True Realm?”

Xuanlan Fifth took a deep breath.

“Fine! If I can’t repair this immortal artifact, I, Xuanlan Fawu, will hang myself right here on Alsha!”

Before he could finish speaking, a gigantic flaming palm descended from the heavens and smashed the Wall-Breaker into pieces.

The entire star shook violently from the impact. A huge, bottomless, charred handprint was left behind where the palm had struck.

The Xuanlan Five Heroes stared blankly at the enormous crater and the immortal artifact that had been blasted into fragments. They remained dumbfounded for several seconds.

Xuanlan Fifth was the first to speak.

“Big Brother, can I take back what I just said?”

The five Xuanlan brothers looked up at Chen Yi and angrily demanded, “Who are you? Are you looking to die? How dare you smash something belonging to the Xuanlan Five Heroes!”

Chen Yi held Sotuofeiren by the rope and looked down at the five men with a smile.

“So you were planning to use this thing to get to the Human Realm.”

At those words, the five Martial Gods panicked.

“How does he know we’re going to the Human Realm?”

“Who told him?”

“We’ve never told outsiders where we’re going. Even the Furui God only knows that we want to go to another plane. He doesn’t know exactly which one!”

As they spoke, the five men suddenly realized that the arrogant fellow in the sky was a human!

“You came from the Human Realm?”

“Congratulations. You got the answer right.”

“Why did you destroy our immortal artifact?”

“Obviously, because I don’t want you going to the Human Realm.”

“How does our going to the Human Realm affect you?”

“I’m a Guardian. What do you think?”

These five men were the five Wingfolk Martial Gods who had appeared before Chen Yi at the end of his fifth simulation.

Somehow, they had learned that the Human Realm contained a path to ascension.

After spending more than a hundred years painstakingly preparing, they had finally crossed the world barrier and reached the Human Realm.

Unfortunately, in that simulation, they had collided head-on with Chen Yi’s Swordbearer incarnation the moment they arrived in the Human Realm, and were instantly obliterated.

Now, in reality, the five men had only just begun their grand plan to reach the Human Realm when they once again ran straight into Chen Yi. Their immortal artifact for opening the world barrier had been destroyed on the spot.

They were, in a word, incredibly unlucky.

These five sworn brothers had formed their own faction in the Wing Realm. They belonged to no established force, nor had they recruited soldiers or accepted disciples.

They had no intention of cooperating with the Wingfolk authorities. They planned to monopolize the path to ascension.

That was why even the Furui God had no idea what the five of them were up to.

Hearing Chen Yi say this, the Xuanlan Five Heroes exchanged glances and began discussing in low voices.

“How could a human Guardian have come all the way here?”

“He must be bluffing.”

“But he really is human, and he looks to be at the late Qi Transformation stage.”

“Are we really going to swallow this loss? There’s only one Wall-Breaker!”

After conferring among themselves, the Xuanlan Five Heroes decided to demand compensation from Chen Yi.

“How would you like me to compensate you?”

“The Wall-Breaker is an immortal artifact capable of opening world barriers. You seem to have quite a few valuable things on you. Just give each of us five brothers one immortal artifact.”

“Sure. I’m not giving you anything.”

“You’re playing with us?”

“Yes, I am.”

“Do you even know who you’re talking to?”

“Xuan, Xuan, Xuan… what was it again? The Xuanmai Brothers?”

“Arrogant!”

The Xuanlan Five Heroes acted with perfect understanding. Seeing that negotiations had broken down, all five attacked at the same time.

They shot into the sky, took up positions in five different directions, and unleashed their signature techniques at Chen Yi.

Chen Yi merely glanced at them before swinging the Immortal-Binding Rope in his hand.

“Hey, hey, hey! Senior! Senior! I’m still attached to this thing!”

Chen Yi used Sotuofeiren as a meteor hammer.

“Boom!”

With Chen Yi’s divine power reinforcing him, Sotuofeiren became nigh indestructible. When he smashed into the Xuanlan Five Heroes, whose cultivation was at the same level, he left them battered, bruised, and with broken bones!

Even Sotuofeiren was bewildered.

“When did my physical body become this tough?”

The Xuanlan Five Heroes were beaten into a frantic retreat by this unusually mobile meteor-hammer combination.

The five men angrily shouted at Sotuofeiren, “Sotuofeiren! How dare you help an outsider! You traitor!”

Sotuofeiren was on the verge of tears.

“Can’t you tell, brothers? I’ve obviously been kidnapped!”

Chen Yi ignored the five men’s attacks and allowed their techniques to land on him. They couldn’t do the slightest bit of harm anyway.

And that was without even mentioning his abilities.

Even without them, how could five puny Qi Transformation cultivators possibly injure a supreme expert of the Peerless Realm?

When the Xuanlan Five Heroes saw their ultimate techniques and prized spirit artifacts clearly strike Chen Yi yet fail to cause even the slightest ripple, their hearts filled with dread.

The battle had also changed from the five of them surrounding and attacking Chen Yi to the five of them desperately trying to escape from him.

But how could they possibly escape Chen Yi’s clutches?