After seeing Zhou Yu, Xu Pingchang’s face drastically changed.
"Where is Elder Ying?"
Zhou Yu smiled faintly:
"Since I’ve already caught up to you, what do you think happened to him?"
This statement was self-explanatory. A flash of panic crossed Xu Pingchang’s eyes, and he shouted with a fierce yet fearful tone:
"Zhou Yu, if you dare to kill me, the Xu Family will never let you go."
"Your entire family will die."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yu’s eyes narrowed, followed by another slap across the face.
Xu Pingchang was harshly slapped again, rolling on the ground until he collided with a huge rock, emitting a crisp sound of breaking bones upon impact.
Zhou Yu stepped forward and arrived in front of Xu Pingchang.
"You can keep threatening me!"
Having been slapped twice in a row, Xu Pingchang was in unbearable pain and even slightly delirious.
He repeatedly waved his hands.
"No no... don’t... I... I won’t dare again... don’t kill me..."
He kept begging for mercy, tears and blood mixing together, a stark contrast from the image he presented when he first confronted Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu looked at Xu Pingchang and said faintly:
"It’s good that you realize your mistake."
"Next life, be more careful."
Having said that, Zhou Yu lifted his foot, intending to end his life with one stomp.
But just at that moment, an urgent voice came through.
"Zhou Yu, don’t kill him!"
At this point, Zhou Yu’s foot was almost stomping on Xu Pingchang’s face, just a few centimeters away.
Zhou Yu turned his head and his expression froze.
Ye Mengyun was seen rapidly rushing over with a man in his thirties and an old man.
Zhou Yu’s Divine Sense instantly swept over the two men.
The young man’s cultivation had actually reached the Saint Realm, while the old man was unfathomably deep, even his Divine Sense could not probe the depths of this man.
At this moment, Ye Mengyun had already reached Zhou Yu’s side.
She grabbed Zhou Yu’s arm, pulling him aside, thereby saving Xu Pingchang.
Zhou Yu calmly looked at Ye Mengyun.
"Miss Ye, it’s really great to see you unharmed."
"If you had gotten into trouble for helping me, I probably wouldn’t have forgiven myself."
Hearing Zhou Yu speak so indifferently, Ye Mengyun inexplicably felt a pang of pain, as if she had been pricked by a needle.
"Zhou Yu, about this matter... my Ye Family owes you an apology."
"I will apologize to you later."
"But for now, can you let him go?"
Ye Mengyun pointed at Xu Pingchang.
"Let him go?" Zhou Yu frowned.
"He almost killed me, and you ask me to let him go?"
Ye Mengyun bit her lip, her eyes filled with pleading.
"Zhou Yu, I know, but still, I ask you, please let him go."
"He can’t die here, nor by your hands."
There were many things Ye Mengyun couldn’t say outright.
But Zhou Yu felt the difficulty Ye Mengyun was facing.
He was silent for a long time before he slowly said:
"Alright, I promise you."
Hearing this, Ye Mengyun’s tense nerves finally relaxed.
She turned her head toward Xu Pingchang, eyes filled with coldness.
"Xu Pingchang, today’s incident was intervened by my Ye Family begging Zhou Yu to spare your life."
"I’m letting you go now, but I warn you, if you plan to retaliate against Zhou Yu in the future, Others I do not care about, but my Ye Family will never let you go."
"You can consider this as my grandfather Ye Zhongshan’s stance."
Hearing this, Xu Pingchang hurriedly struggled up from the ground.
Just seconds before, when Zhou Yu was about to stomp him, he had already given up hope, even seeing what Ghost Gate looks like.
Now having narrowly escaped death, the only thought in his mind was to leave this place, to get away from Zhou Yu.
He staggered towards Ye Mengyun, bowing to express his thanks.
As for Zhou Yu, Xu Pingchang didn’t even have the courage to look at him again.
Then, bowing his head, and dragging his injured body, he hobbled toward the mountain’s exterior.
After watching Xu Pingchang leave, Ye Mengyun turned her gaze back to Zhou Yu.
She then took a good look at Zhou Yu’s body.
Seeing the thick bloodstains and the ghastly wounds on Zhou Yu’s body, Ye Mengyun felt as if she couldn’t breathe.
"Zhou... Yu, your injuries..."
Zhou Yu said indifferently:
"It’s nothing serious, the most dangerous moment has already passed."
A hint of shame appeared in Ye Mengyun’s eyes.
"By the way, where are those experts who were with Xu Pingchang?"
Zhou Yu said faintly:
"They are all lying in the mountain."
"And what about that Array Path Grandmaster?"
Hearing this, Ye Mengyun gasped in shock.
Ye Mengmin and Elder Mo behind her also showed a look of astonishment.
Ye Mengyun had already learned about the situation here on her way.
When she found out about the existence of the Seven-section Martial Sealing Formation, she had already despair.