From that direction, a sharp and aggressive aura surged upward—clearly, a powerhouse was heading their way at full speed.
The Cheng family was a notable force in Water Blue City, and naturally, they had Transcendent Realm experts among their ranks. Sensing the fluctuations of battle in the garden, they immediately rushed over to investigate.
Before the person even arrived, a piercing shout rang out: "Who dares run wild in my Cheng family estate?"
Yang Kai raised an eyebrow, standing in place and waiting calmly, with no intention of fleeing.
The newcomer had a cultivation at the first level of the Transcendent Realm, on par with Yang Kai's current strength. Although there were two of them, Yang Kai showed not the slightest fear.
In battles between cultivators of the same level, no one could defeat him.
Moments later, from the left and right simultaneously, two elders descended—one wearing an earth-yellow robe, the other in pale blue. Upon seeing the carnage in the garden, their expressions hardened.
Yang Kai's brow furrowed, however, because he noticed that both elders were missing limbs. One had lost an arm, the other a left leg. In place of those missing limbs, some kind of artifact had been substituted—it looked lifelike, but gave off a cold, metallic sensation.
"Boy, did you kill these people?" The yellow-robed elder immediately roared in fury, his eyes nearly splitting with rage.
Yang Kai gave a slight nod, making no effort to deny it.
"Why did you kill our Cheng family members? What grudge or enmity do you have with our family?" the blue-robed elder screamed hoarsely in anger.
"No grudge. No enmity."
"Then why did you strike so ruthlessly? Do you take our Cheng family for easy prey?" As they spoke, the two elders began condensing their True Yuan, clearly preparing to strike and avenge the dead.
Yang Kai's composure and calm told them that this opponent clearly had some skill. Moreover, when they probed him with Divine Sense, he was like a bottomless pit—impossible to read at all. This made them somewhat wary, wondering what kind of background this young man could possibly have. So young, yet his strength was so unfathomably deep.
"If you don't give us an explanation today, our Cheng family will never rest until it has settled this score with you!" The yellow-robed elder's face flushed crimson as he gritted his teeth and bellowed.
"Never settle this score?" Yang Kai let out a low, cold laugh. "Fine by me. Let's fight first, and then we'll talk—I have some questions for you!"
The young man who had died didn't know where Meng Wuya and Xia Ningshang had gone, but these two elders might know.
As he spoke, his scorching Divine Sense erupted suddenly, carrying with it an intent that could incinerate all things. It struck toward the two elders without any warning, invisible and soundless.
The two elders were no younglings—they had cultivated for many years, and the defenses of their sea of consciousness were far from fragile. Furthermore, they both wore artifacts designed to protect the soul.
But it wasn't until the protective artifacts on their bodies began to glow that they even realized what was happening. Sensing that scorching aura, their faces changed drastically, filled with indescribable terror.
After receiving guidance from Elder Li, Yang Kai had gained a certain level of proficiency in wielding the Fire of Divine Sense.
The Fire of Divine Sense was not only extraordinarily useful in alchemy—it was equally formidable in combat.
This was his first battle after advancing to the Transcendent Realm, and his opponents were two cultivators of the same level. Naturally, he wanted to thoroughly test his current combat strength.
So he held nothing back.
But what he hadn't expected was that the two of them would be this fragile. The defenses of their sea of consciousness had been torn apart with ease—if not for those two protective artifacts kicking in, this single strike would have been enough for Yang Kai to incinerate their souls.
Even so, the two elders broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly deployed their full repertoire of techniques to guard their bodies.
Yang Kai withdrew his Divine Sense Fire in an instant, his figure shooting toward the two like lightning.
Two palms struck—boom, boom. The two elders' bodies were sent flying like paper kites, coughing up blood continuously in midair.
They hit the ground, and before they could even scramble to their feet, Yang Kai's figure was already before their eyes—looming like an unclimbable mountain, blotting out the sunlight above them, plunging their vision into darkness.
There was no power to resist at all!
The two elders simply could not accept this outcome.
Yang Kai himself was somewhat dissatisfied. He felt that seeking out same-level opponents to spar against had been a mistake.
A dangerous aura enveloped the two elders, rooting them to the spot. They didn't dare make a single move, forced to lie on the ground as a chill seeped into their hearts, their minds plunging into an abyss of pitch-black darkness.
"Who exactly are you?" The yellow-robed elder still had some backbone. Suppressing the fear in his heart, he tried to probe Yang Kai's origins.
Yang Kai shook his head. "Who I am is none of your concern. I have some questions for you. If your answers satisfy me, I might let you go. If they don't... heh heh... your Cheng family will be wiped off the face of the earth today!"
His cold and merciless words made their blood run cold. They nodded repeatedly and hastily. Judging from how Yang Kai had handled them, he truly had the ability to annihilate the entire Cheng family.
"Two years ago, did your Cheng family receive an old man and a veiled woman?" Yang Kai stared directly into their eyes as he asked in a low voice.
The moment these words left his mouth, the two elders' faces went white, as though some horrifying memory had resurfaced. Panic filled their eyes.
The yellow-robed elder spoke: "So you're with them! Young brother, the black sheep of our Cheng family made a mistake, and he paid the price. Even the two of us were punished because of it. It's been two years now—why must you drive us to total destruction?"
The blue-robed elder nodded hastily as well. "Our Cheng family has already learned its lesson. Shouldn't this matter be finished by now?"