Hell Emperor.

Chapter 399 Ye Jie - Take Action
Unable to resist Meng Junyao's repeated requests, although Ye Jie didn't want to get involved in this matter, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and come out.

Seeing that Ye Jie was thin and not as brave as a monster, the shrimp soldiers showed some contempt in their eyes:

"You lonely ghost over there, this is not something you should get involved in. If you know what's good for you, get out of here right now. I'm going to chop you with my sword and make sure your soul flies away!"

Hearing this, Ye Jie laughed in surprise. Ever since he became the Lord of Yama Palace, all immortals, no matter which side, were respectful to him. Even the Azure Dragon Saint, who disliked his skills, at least maintained the most basic courtesy on the surface. He hadn't heard the name of a lonely ghost for a long time.

Ye Jie looked at the fish demon and said calmly: "My name is Ye Jie, may I know your name..."

"I am the Bighead Fish King of the Dark Rock River Basin. Listen carefully, little devil. With my power as a demon, I am enough to deal with both of them. You don't have to do anything. Just help me take up a place in the challenge. When the duel begins, find a place to hide. If you get hurt accidentally, I can't save you."

Ye Jie nodded. This was what the Big Head Fish King had said to Meng Junyao before. It seemed that he was absolutely confident in his own strength.

"Okay... Then I will challenge you to a duel, but don't expect me to do anything."

Things have come to this point, Ye Jie had no choice but to say this. In his perception, the Big Head Fish King was only at the early fifth level, while the Shrimp Soldiers were at the late fifth level. The Crab General who was not very prominent at the side had even reached the level of a first-level demon king.

I don't know what the Bighead Fish King relies on. He dares to challenge two monsters with higher realms than him at the same time. Could it be that he has some top-level magic weapon? If so, Ye Jie really wants to open his eyes.

The bighead fish king finally found everyone to challenge him, but the crab general refused to do it again and cast a suspicious look at Ye Jie:

"Wait, why did you find a ghost? This is a duel between our demons, how can we allow ghosts to participate?"

As the Crab General revealed Ye Jie's identity, the surrounding monsters began to talk about it.

"That's right. What qualifications do ghosts have to participate in a duel between demons?"

"How did this ghost get into the Dragon Palace? Get him out now!"

"I don't know where this lonely ghost came from. He doesn't even have a body, but he dares to interfere in the duel between the monsters!"

Facing the discussion of the monsters, the big-headed fish king was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to respond. It was Ye Jie who took the initiative to speak to the monsters around him, "What's wrong with ghosts? Although the monsters are strong for a while, they will eventually age. Can't you see your own life span in your mind? In time, you will all become ghosts. You look down on ghosts now, but when you die and become a ghost like me, the ridicule you receive now will fall back on you."

After Ye Jie's rebuttal, the surrounding monsters looked at each other, speechless for a moment.

Monsters are not as afraid and sensitive to death as humans, but this does not mean that they do not understand what will happen to them once they die. After Ye Jie's reminder, these aquatic monsters also realized that death is also their inevitable end. Birth, aging, illness and death are the laws of nature, and monsters cannot escape it either.

In other words, Ye Jie in front of them was their fate. Although humans and monsters were different in race, once they became monsters, they were just souls. Who could laugh at whom? Thinking of this, the monster who had just been arguing was suddenly speechless.

Seeing that the demons were silent, the Crab General hummed and finally spoke: "They can't say this, but I can! Ordinary demons will die, but I am a first-level demon king, and the corresponding one is a first-level immortal. Don't you know that the demon king can transcend life and death?"

In response, Ye Jie just shook his head: "What if you are a demon king? As long as you reach that level, you will still be threatened by the heavenly tribulation. What's worse is that under the bombardment of the heavenly tribulation, I'm afraid you won't even be able to be a ghost, and your soul will be completely shattered. Even if you can find a way to avoid the tribulation, can you avoid the five decays of the gods? I'm afraid you will become more like a ghost than a ghost, how can you talk about transcending life and death?"

The crab general was stunned, and the look in his tiny black eyes when he looked at Ye Jie became different. He felt that the ghost in front of him was not at all like he appeared to be. Under the seemingly calm surface of the lake, there was actually an unbottomed abyss.

The shrimp soldier couldn't help it any longer and urged, "Why waste time talking to them? Since they want to fight, then we should just accept it! Why should we be so timid? Let me teach them a lesson!"

"Be careful... That ghost was able to reveal such a secret as the Five Degenerations of the Celestial Beings. I only heard the Dragon King mention it once by chance. Although I don't know his origins, he gives me a very unusual feeling..."

The Crab General became more and more frightened as he spoke. Years of caution allowed him to tell at a glance that something was wrong with Ye Jie.

Unlike the cautious Crab General, the Shrimp Soldier didn't think too much. He raised his giant sword and aimed it at the Bighead Fish King. His sharp mouthparts made a sharp shrimp sound:

"We accept this challenge! I warned you a long time ago, but you refused to listen and even tried to stir up a conflict between the Dragon Palace and the immortals, making other monsters live in unrest. It seems that I cannot let you go. If you die under my Sea-covering Sword, you can't blame anyone else!"

As the shrimp soldier finished his words, the surrounding monsters suddenly cheered, and the wildness in their hearts was completely aroused, as if they had already seen the tragic death of one party in the duel.

When the duel started, the big-headed fish king reminded Ye Jie: "Little devil, you better hide well, let me deal with them alone..."

Before he finished speaking, the giant sword in the shrimp soldier's hand swept over, rolling up huge waves. The wrath of the East China Sea was hidden in it. Anyone who stood in front of this giant sword would be an enemy of the entire ocean.

The bighead fish king raised his sword to resist, but the giant sword broke the steel sword in his hand with such force that it crushed dry weeds and rotten wood, and also knocked his whole body flying out. His round belly was completely flattened, and he exhaled more than inhaled, and fell to the ground unable to move.

The winner was decided with just one move. Even Ye Jie was dumbfounded for a moment:
"Hey, aren't you going to fight them both? How come you can't even withstand one blow?"

The bighead fish king was speechless. From his mouth, he kept opening and closing, spitting out a series of bloody bubbles. He completely lost his ability to fight. He listened carefully and finally heard intermittent words from the faint breath: "His knife... is so heavy..."

"With your strength, you want to stand up for your people and offend those immortals who are not to be offended? You will only bring disaster to the Dragon Palace and cause more of your people to die because of you. If that's the case, then prepare to die!"

The shrimp soldier succeeded in his attack and took advantage of the situation to pursue. He swung the giant sword in his hand, bringing up a dark and heavy sword light. The sword body as big as a door panel fell down, and was about to completely flatten the bighead fish king. When the sword body fell halfway, there was a sudden strong resistance in front, which completely stopped the falling giant sword, just like a huge wave that was intercepted by an indestructible reef. No matter how hard the shrimp soldier tried, the giant sword did not move at all.

"What……"

The shrimp soldiers were stunned for a moment, but saw Ye Jie appear in front of the falling giant sword at some point. He raised his right hand high, and with just one hand, he caught his full-strength attack. His body did not move at all, and he did not feel embarrassed at all, as if he was strolling in the garden.

Ye Jie's thin arms contained a huge strength that shocked the shrimp soldiers. When he tightly grasped the sword, no matter how hard the shrimp soldiers tried, the giant sword could not break free. This scene shocked the shrimp soldiers. Even the strongest claws could not possess such strength!
"Hmm...it turns out it's the sword that's the problem."

Ye Jie felt it for a while, and then he commented casually: "The actual weight of this sword is much heavier than it looks. I don't know what it is made of, but it must weigh at least 5,000 kilograms. No wonder the Bighead Fish King couldn't even withstand a single blow."

The shrimp soldier stood there in a daze, unwilling to believe that the lonely ghost who came from nowhere could be so powerful. He increased his strength and was about to take the giant sword back from Ye Jie, but suddenly his hand loosened, and after Ye Jie felt it, he let go of the giant sword.

This was really a tough time for Xia Bing. He had not yet restrained his strength, and Ye Jie's action of letting go of the giant sword caused him to suffer a great loss inadvertently. His whole body was deflected by his own strength, and when he retreated, his steps shook, and he almost fell to the ground, being crushed by the heavy giant sword.

"You! You evil ghost, how dare you play such a trick? Take my trick again!"

The shrimp soldier's face was full of ferocity. He had suffered such a great loss in front of Ye Jie, and under the eyes of all the monsters. How could he bear it? How could he continue to be a guard of the Dragon Palace in the future? He was determined to fight Ye Jie to the end.

The Crab General saw that the situation was not good, so he quickly pulled it back and persuaded it, "The ghost's strength is extraordinary. From the fight just now, it is enough to see that you are no match for him. Let me do it."

After that, the Crab General protected him behind him and said to Ye Jie: "Who is this sacred person who is visiting the Dragon Palace? Can you tell me your name?"

Ye Jie waved his hand: "It doesn't matter who I am, just treat me as a lonely ghost passing by."

The crab general's forehead was covered with cold sweat. It seemed that the contemptuous words he had said before had offended the ghost in front of him, making him unwilling to reveal his identity. He could only say, "This duel itself has nothing to do with you. You are just implicated in it. Hand over the bighead fish to us, and you have nothing to do here."

In response, Ye Jie simply said: "The Bighead Fish King has already been defeated, why do you have to kill him? Why do you still want to kill him?"

The Crab General sighed, looking at the Bighead Fish King with a helpless look in his eyes: "He is full of resentment for the injustice suffered by his fellow tribesmen, and no one knows what he will do. If he offends those immortals, the Dragon Palace cannot bear their wrath. In order not to implicate more monsters, we have to get rid of him. Letting him go will only create an unstable hidden danger for the Dragon Palace."

Ye Jie glanced at Crab General. Before this, Crab General had tried to stop this matter many times and was unwilling to let the duel happen. It was not because he was really afraid of the challenge of the Big Head Fish King, but because he did not want him to get hurt.

At this time, the bighead fish king who was lying on the ground suddenly gasped for air, and more bloody bubbles came out of his mouth. Seeing this, Ye Jie also walked over, leaned over and asked him: "Do you have anything to say?"

The big-headed fish king grabbed Ye Jie. From the flat, lifeless fish eyes, Ye Jie saw a familiar persistence. He then heard him say, "Are only the descendants of immortals qualified to participate in the Ascension Conference? We have all taken out the Ascension Order, so why do we monsters deserve to be inferior to others?"

Ye Jie remained silent. He didn't know how to answer this question. After all, there was a difference between humans and monsters, and Ye Jie was not a monster, so he couldn't answer from a fair standpoint. However, from the eyes of the big-headed fish king, Ye Jie also caught a glimpse of a familiar look.

That insistence on seeking justice, that determination not to be moved by other people's words, exists in the eyes of the bighead fish king, and there is no falsehood. Even if he is not understood, the heart of the bighead fish king will not be shaken.

This discovery made Ye Jie couldn't help but sigh deeply. A monster like the Big Head Fish King, or a human, would be treated as an alien no matter where it was.

"This is none of my business, but since you are so lucky as to invite me to challenge you together, it means that we are destined to be together, so I will help you this time." Ye Jie spoke slowly and made a decision.

Perhaps it was out of a sense of debt to someone, or perhaps it was the Bighead Fish King's persistence that touched Ye Jie's heart and moved him deeply. Now that things had come to this, he could no longer just sit there and do nothing.

As Ye Jie finished speaking, the soldiers and generals beside him all subconsciously felt something was wrong. When Ye Jie stood up, they looked directly into those powerful eyes and realized what kind of person was standing in front of them. In those eyes was the raging rage of a dragon.

"Be careful……"

Before the crab general finished his words, he saw the shadow of a dragon appear. In just a moment, the shrimp soldier flew backwards, with several terrible scratches on his armor, and his entire body was almost torn apart.

The crab general felt equally uncomfortable. He felt an unstoppable force coming at him. His golden crab shell exploded. All he could hear was the loud roar of a dragon that was about to rise from the abyss.

The monsters around were all horrified, but they saw that even though Ye Jie had a thin body, it was as if there was a divine dragon hidden inside his body, and with just one claw and one kick, he took care of all the shrimp soldiers and crab generals.

By the time the dragon's roar subsided, the shrimp soldiers and crab generals had already fallen to the ground, barely breathing, and unable to get up at all.

"This is impossible... With this power, you are definitely not an ordinary ghost. Who are you..."

Shrimp Soldier held his breath, not daring to believe it. In the collision with Ye Jie, he felt the throbbing from the depths of his soul. If Ye Jie had been a little more powerful, he would not have fallen to the ground seriously injured, but his body would have been broken by that move, and even his soul would not have been able to escape. There was such a huge gap in strength between the two!
The Crab General also had a bitter look on his face. He had known for a long time that the ghost must be extraordinary, but he had not expected that his true strength was so terrifying. There was even dragon energy brewing in his body, which was absolutely incomparable to monsters like them.

"Master of the Golden Wheel Palace...what kind of wind blew you into this Dragon Palace?"

Just as Ye Jie was slowly finishing his training, he heard a majestic voice next to his ears. Many sea monsters were familiar with that voice. The owner of the voice was none other than the Dragon King of the East China Sea who dominated this place.

(End of this chapter)