The branch villages belonging to the Clear Sky Clan were annihilated.
During the battle, surging waves of Spirit Power, the clash of Spirit Abilities, and the cries of killing echoed through the mountains, alarming the Clear Sky Clan's patrolling disciples.
When they discovered that it was the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's Royal Knights, together with a troop of Spirit Masters, launching an assault on their branch village, their fury boiled over.
They hurried back to the clan's stronghold to report the matter to Sect Master Tang Xiao and the gathered Elders.
"What?!"
"The Heaven Dou imperial court dares lay hands on our Clear Sky Clan?!"
"Courting death!"
Outrage erupted among the Elders.
Though the Clear Sky Clan had secluded themselves from worldly affairs, they were not to be trifled with by the mere Heaven Dou Empire.
Tang Xiao quickly led the Elders away from the clan's mountain stronghold, rushing toward the village at the foot of the peak.
By the time they arrived, the Royal Knights and imperial Spirit Master legion had already reduced the branch village to ruins.
"Outrageous!!"
The sight before them was a wasteland, strewn with the corpses of their branch disciples.
The Seventh Elder's eyes nearly burst with blood as he roared in fury.
"You insignificant members of the Heaven Dou Empire dared to offend my Clear Sky Clan! You're courting death!"
He summoned his Martial Soul, the Clear Sky Hammer.
At his feet, nine Spirit Rings—two yellow, two purple, five black—rose in succession.
In an instant, a terrifying Spirit Power pressure burst forth, sweeping toward Ye Yu.
"You're the ones courting death!" Ye Yu only sneered.
With a thought, he released a monstrous, overwhelming Spirit Power pressure that instantly shattered the Seventh Elder's pressure and instead bore down on Tang Xiao and the elders.
"What?!"
Tang Xiao and the others paled.
It was as though a mountain weighed upon their bodies, crushing them until their frames trembled and bent. Their faces flushed red as they gritted their teeth, but they could not resist.
Impossible!
Who was this youth?
How could he unleash such terrifying Spirit Power pressure?
Despair flickered in the Second Elder's eyes.
This pressure… it was like facing the former Clan Master, Tang Chen.
Could this boy also be a Limit Douluo?
Why would a powerhouse like this help the Heaven Dou Empire to come and cause trouble for my Clear Sky Clan?
We've been living in seclusion for years. We've never offended a genius like this!
"Clear Sky Clan!"
Having firmly suppressed Tang Xiao and the Elders with power surpassing a Limit Douluo, Ye Yu coldly declared their crimes.
"You dared, during the transition of Heaven Dou's throne, to collude with Prince Xue Xing and the Fourth Prince Xue Beng, plotting to overthrow the Empire."
"When your conspiracy failed, your former Clan Master Tang Chen even brought Tang San to storm the palace."
"Such treason is punishable only by death."
"Here and now, I sentence your Clear Sky Clan to annihilation!"
"What?!"
Tang Xiao and the Elders felt suffocated by the injustice.
"Your Excellency, there must be some mistake!"
"Our Clear Sky Clan has withdrawn from the world for twenty years, never interfering in worldly matters."
"How could we collude with the royal family to usurp the throne? What possible benefit would that bring us?"
"And my grandfather Tang Chen disappeared long ago. How could he suddenly reappear just to assault the palace?"
Tang Xiao's voice was hoarse with grief and fury.
"This is a frame-up! Someone is deliberately slandering the Clear Sky Clan!"
"Could it not be the plot of Spirit Hall?"
"Your Excellency, do not be deceived!"
"Yes! This is all Spirit Hall's conspiracy!"
"We are innocent!"
The Clear Sky Elders cried out one after another, voices thick with indignation.
Some even regretted their rashness—thinking that since the attackers bore the banner of the Heaven Dou Empire, there would be no formidable powerhouse among them.
Had they known that such a terrifying expert stood with the Empire, they would have abandoned the branch family without hesitation.
But now, regret was meaningless.
"Innocent? Wronged?"
Ye Yu sneered.
"You think your words alone prove your innocence? What a joke."
"My eyes do not lie. That man held the Clear Sky Hammer Martial Soul, with Spirit Rings of eight black, one red."
"Such strength could only belong to Tang Chen himself. Do you dare deny it?"
"Clear Sky Clan—accept your death."
Spirit Rings rose beneath Ye Yu's feet: two purple, four black, three red.
His Martial Soul appeared—a towering Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree, its crystal body gleaming like sapphire, stretching a thousand meters high.
From the ground, countless roots erupted like a forest of azure crystal pythons, surging toward Tang Xiao and the Elders.
"Let's fight them to the death!"
Seeing that Ye Yu had no intention of letting them go, Tang Xiao and the elders were absolutely livid and decided to fight back with everything they had.
After summoning their Clear Sky Hammers, they prepared to fly into the air to evade the roots and retaliate against Ye Yu.
"Fight?" Ye Yu smirked.
The next moment, he activated his Ice Jade Empress Skull's Spirit Bone Ability: Imperial Extreme Heaven – Snow Dance Radiance
A wave of freezing power swept forth, instantly turning Tang Xiao and the Elders into ice sculptures.
The Blue Silver Spirit Jade Tree's roots surged upward, coiling around the frozen statues, shattering them into shards of ice that rained down.
Several Spirit Bones burst free, glittering in midair.
Ye Yu collected them with a flick of his hand, storing them into his soul tool.
Then, like a streak of lightning, he soared toward the Clear Sky Clan's mountain stronghold.
"Clear Sky Clan, prepare for your judgment!"
Standing above the mountain peak, Ye Yu summoned once more his colossal Martial Soul.
His Eighth Spirit Ability—Advent of a World of Flowering Trees—was activated.
With earth-shaking rumble, colossal Blue Silver Trees erupted from the ground, each towering more than five thousand meters tall, their crystalline vines and branches covering the heavens.
In moments, the Clear Sky Clan's mountain, its fortress-like stronghold atop, and all within were swallowed in ruin.
The disciples screamed, but none escaped. Every last one was bound by roots and consumed completely.
Within the clan, Tang Hao lay crippled in Tang Xiao's residence. His limbs shattered, his cultivation destroyed, he was a useless husk confined to bed.
When the giant Blue Silver Trees surged forth, he had no power to resist.
A root coiled around him, and in a moment of agonized despair, Tang Hao too was devoured.
His body was buried beneath the collapsing ruins.
Thus, one of the Upper Three Sects, the Clear Sky Clan, was utterly destroyed.
Its ancestral mountain collapsed into rubble, as though heaven itself had brought disaster upon them.
The Clear Sky Clan had fallen.