Forced to Marry a Female Billionaire CEO-Chapter 694 Playing with Fire Leads to Self-Destruction

No one had expected things to develop this way.

They had assumed that after Ye Yunfeng dealt a lethal blow to Ye Feng, he would naturally flee with his only remaining son. Even the most vicious tiger won't eat its own cubs. It's human nature.

Yet, they never anticipated that Ye Yunfeng would kill Ye Chong with a single palm strike.

Xu Ke gritted his teeth. Ye Yunfeng is truly ruthless! He knew Ye Yunfeng had killed Ye Chong for the sole purpose of devouring him.

Ye Chong's current power was trivial to Ye Yunfeng, at best providing only a sliver of strength. But Ye Yunfeng was just a hair's breadth from reaching the Half-Step Peak, and Ye Chong's power was precisely what he needed!

Even though Ye Chong wanted to escape with his father until his dying breath, Ye Yunfeng still struck his own son down without a moment's hesitation...

He had truly abandoned all humanity. It would be more accurate to say he had cast it aside completely.

But now, even though Xu Ke and the others understood Ye Yunfeng's intentions, it was too late to stop him.

The moment Ye Yunfeng seized Ye Chong, the Demonic Qi in his own body surged into his son. Immediately, after circulating once through Ye Chong's body using the Ye Family's Cultivation Technique, the father and son's techniques synchronized, becoming one seamless whole.

The next moment, Ye Chong's power flowed back into Ye Yunfeng's body. As the True Qi surged in, Ye Chong's corpse shriveled at a rate visible to the naked eye...

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

At this moment, a continuous roar seemed to erupt from within Ye Yunfeng's body. It was the sound of accumulated Demonic Qi breaking through his barriers like an unstoppable force.

He was stepping into the Half-Step Peak Realm!

Half-Step Peak! Even if it was just half a step, it was a qualitative leap beyond the Innate Great Perfection Realm!

"Hahahaha..."

Absorbing the power from his son's still-warm corpse, Ye Yunfeng felt an unprecedented sense of fulfillment. He laughed wildly, appearing utterly maniacal in his ecstasy.

This power was simply too wondrous. It made Ye Yunfeng feel as if the very heavens and earth were under his control!

In fact, it wasn't just a feeling. Stepping into the Half-Step Peak Realm allowed one to attempt to control the Power of Heaven and Earth. And now, on the Ye Family's back mountain saturated with Demonic Qi, he was fighting on his own invincible home ground!

At this moment, even though a third of Ye Liang's men were already dead and no longer posed a threat, the expressions on the faces of the survivors grew even more grim, their hearts sinking into despair.

"What do we do?" Han Wang rasped. "Will the Helmsman come?"

Their only hope was Xu Zhentai!

All eyes focused on Hu Deyao.

Hu Deyao's heart sank. He took a deep breath and said, "I don't know. The Helmsman's whereabouts are a mystery to everyone."

"Besides," he continued, "with this much Demonic Qi suppressing True Qi, the Helmsman might not be able to win even if he did come..."

Just as Xu Zhentai could effortlessly crush the three Fire Guards, Ye Yunfeng could now slaughter everyone here with absolute ease! Even if Xu Zhentai arrived, determined to fight with all his might, it was uncertain whether he could defeat Ye Yunfeng in a place so saturated with Demonic Qi!

Hearing this, everyone swayed, their hopes extinguished, their faces ashen.

Just then, Xu Ke shouted into the distance, "Don't go any closer!"

He panicked when he saw Wong Qifu, teeth clenched, still intending to move forward and stop Ye Yunfeng. Having fought a master in the Peak Realm before, Xu Ke knew Wong Qifu was not strong enough to interrupt Ye Yunfeng's breakthrough.

Hearing his shout, Wong Qifu knew it was futile and immediately retreated. Her expression was grave as she asked, "What do we do?"

"I..." Xu Ke gritted his teeth, his mind racing for a solution.

From a distance, Ye Yunfeng, still absorbing the power from Ye Chong's body, laughed heartily. "Xu Ke, stop racking your brain. You don't even have a chance to escape. What could you possibly do?"

As his voice fell, an invisible force suddenly descended upon the entire back mountain of the Ye Family estate...

BOOM!

In an instant, everyone felt an uncontrollable weight press down on them, as if gravity had suddenly doubled. Following that, they felt countless tendrils of Demonic Qi crazily burrowing into their bodies. Their True Qi was being devoured at an even more ferocious rate...

"What's happening?"

The sudden development shocked everyone present.

Xu Ke's pupils constricted. This was one of the signs of a Peak Level Maestro taking control of the heavens and earth. Ren Gu used these sorts of tricks whenever he wanted to play dirty.

"What a wonderful feeling!" Ye Yunfeng roared with laughter.

In truth, one who had just entered the Peak Realm shouldn't be able to control an entire area so quickly. However, empowered by the surrounding Demonic Qi, Ye Yunfeng had leveraged its power to accomplish this feat.

Now, everyone on this mountaintop was a bird in a cage. There was no escape!

"Wong Qifu, Xu Ke, I'm very interested in the two of you now. If I can figure you out, I think my understanding of Demonic Qi will reach an entirely new level, hahaha!"

His gaze was bewitching. His vertical pupils had vanished, the whites of his eyes replaced by a solid, purple-black void. Countless twisting, luminous lines marred his entire face...

He knew now that Xu Ke's golden True Qi and Wong Qifu's Demonic Qi, which was even nobler than his own, were the keys to his ascension to the true peak. As long as he killed this couple, no one in the world would be able to stop him!

"If the two of us stay, will you let the others go?" Xu Ke asked, his eyes flickering.

"Let them go? Impossible!"

Ye Yunfeng sneered. As a display of power, he waved his hand, and dozens of strands of Demonic Qi shot out like a tempest, grievously injuring Chen Xiong and the others in an instant...

The Yin-Yang Elders fared the worst, each having an arm severed. The rest were luckier, merely vomiting blood. But even the strongest among them, Chen Xiong and Hu Deyao, couldn't help but turn pale, their auras weakening...

Facing the unstoppable Ye Yunfeng, they felt as if they had been plunged into an icy cellar, a chill seeping deep into their bones...

Such was the terror of a Half-Step Peak Level Maestro!

At that moment, watching Ye Yunfeng effortlessly crush everyone present, Xu Ke knew it was truly over...

"Hahahaha, you still want to fight me? I told you not to provoke me."

Seeing the result, Ye Yunfeng was ecstatic. Feeling the immense, surging power within him, his face twisted with excitement.

How many years have I endured for this? Wasn't it all for this very moment?

With that thought, Ye Yunfeng turned his piercing black eyes toward Xu Ke. "I'll start with you!"

As his words fell, he dropped the clothed husk of Ye Chong and took a forceful step forward, about to charge at Xu Ke.

"Aunt Lin, take Xu Ke and run!" Wong Qifu cried out, biting her lip. Her heart turned to ice, her only thought to secure one last chance for Xu Ke.

"Run? Where can you run!"

Ye Yunfeng cackled, but just as he moved, the manic expression on his face suddenly turned a ghastly pale. Then, to everyone's astonishment, the Demonic Qi in his body began to surge chaotically, spiraling out of his control...

"Wh-what's going on?!"

Ye Yunfeng's expression changed drastically. He was horrified to discover that the energy within him had gone berserk and was flowing in reverse.

"Ah... AHHH!"

A searing pain suddenly erupted from every inch of his body, as if his very flesh and blood were being torn apart.

He knew what it was. A Qi and blood backlash!

Unable to withstand the tearing sensation any longer, Ye Yunfeng coughed up a huge mouthful of blood. He stared at his own hands in disbelief, his eyes wide with terror, and roared, "Why is there a Qi and blood backlash?! Why?!"

THUD!

Ye Yunfeng could no longer control his body and collapsed to the ground. Then, like a boiled shrimp, he began to convulse violently, blood spraying from every pore...

At that moment, everyone, who had just been preparing their last words, was utterly flabbergasted.

What the hell was going on?

They were all dumbfounded. No one had ever heard of something like this happening before!

And then, Xu Ke, who had been just as dazed as everyone else, suddenly froze. His eyes widened instinctively when he heard the words "Qi and blood backlash." He remembered something, and a moment later, he began to laugh, an uncontrollable, roaring laughter.

"I know! I finally know!" he roared. "You didn't expect this, did you, Ye Yunfeng? I sabotaged you a long time ago! You're playing with fire and you're the one who's getting burned! You're just reaping what you sowed! Hahaha!"

At his words, everyone froze in shock.

Was Xu Ke saying that he was responsible for Ye Yunfeng's current state?

Holy shit! What kind of heaven-defying ability did Xu Ke possess to do something like this?

In agony, Ye Yunfeng gasped for air. He lifted his head and roared with trembling lips, "Xu Ke! Xu Ke, what did you do?!"

His eyes looked ready to burst from their sockets, his face a mask of contorted fury...

He couldn't accept it. He had been on the verge of reaching the pinnacle of his life. How could this be happening?

What in the world had Xu Ke done to him? And why hadn't he noticed a single thing?