Ye Liuyun and his clones immediately put away their puppets and returned to the military camp on the planet behind them. He had Cui Daoran deploy ten thousand soldiers at the ninth level to guard the main tent, while he and his clones returned to the spatial world to recover their divine essence as quickly as possible.

More and more martial cultivators were gathering in the starry sky. Now that Ye Liuyun had ten thousand ninth-level soldiers by his side, none of them dared to make a reckless move. They could only wait until everyone had arrived before figuring out how to deal with him.

Ye Liuyun took advantage of these few days to fill all the storage essence stones to capacity inside his clone’s spatial world, then came out to scout the situation outside.

According to the soldiers’ reports, people had been coming to probe the situation frequently over the past few days. The soldiers were individually too weak to stop them.

Ye Liuyun immediately swept the surrounding area with his divine sense and discovered that those powerful martial cultivators were resting in a valley some distance from their camp — over a hundred of them, each with remarkably condensed true essence.

The moment he appeared, martial cultivators with powerful divine souls detected him, and they began to move. Two squads of over ten cultivators each had already left the valley and were heading his way. The remaining cultivators followed a royal elder out of the valley together.

Ye Liuyun stepped out of the army’s encampment to draw their attention, not wanting to implicate the soldiers. But what he hadn’t expected was that the two squads that arrived first didn’t come for him — they launched a direct assault on the army, clearly trying to force him to go rescue the soldiers and divide his attention.

If he moved to engage them, he would be drawn into a chaotic melee, and in the end he wouldn’t be able to save the soldiers and would be surrounded and attacked in the confusion.

So he simply sent out two clones, each charging toward one of the squads. At the same time, the remaining cultivators accelerated toward Ye Liuyun. Some even launched divine soul attacks to pin him down, while others used Spatial Force to lock him in place.

Ye Liuyun dared not be careless. He immediately activated his time power, brought time to a standstill, broke free from the spatial lock, and charged into the midst of the cultivators.

The two clones each released their divine souls, planted slave marks on both squads, and compelled them to surrender to the army on their own. Ye Liuyun then used his Golden Eyes to teleport them into the middle of the larger group of powerful cultivators.

He also dragged the royal elder’s divine soul into his own sea of consciousness and performed a soul search to learn their plans.

Only then did he focus his efforts on a select few, planting slave marks on them before storing them in the spatial world.

The ones he captured were those with powerful spatial abilities or those who had brought formidable spirit beasts, all of whom had been preparing to ambush him.

As for attacks from other sources, Ye Liuyun didn’t care. Even if someone struck him with the power of heaven and earth, his physical body could take it head-on.

Once he had dealt with those individuals, Ye Liuyun let time resume its normal flow and, together with his clones, engaged the powerful cultivators in open battle.

For a time, thunderous booms rang out without cease. Ye Liuyun was struck repeatedly by several cultivators, beaten to the point where he couldn’t retaliate. He could only release his metal puppet to block the attacks for him, buying himself a chance to catch his breath and strike back.

Suddenly, the Ten-Thousand-Spirit Order in his sea of consciousness radiated golden light, blocking an illusion technique aimed at him. In the chaos of battle, Ye Liuyun had no time to find who was attacking him with illusions. He could only first unleash his power of bloodline to suppress the cultivation levels of the cultivators before him, then cut them down with a single slash.

Though he couldn’t identify who was casting the illusions, his second clone spotted a cultivator launching a divine soul attack on Ye Liuyun. The clone immediately fixed the Red Pupil of its divine soul on the man, trapping him in the illusory realm the clone had set. Only then did the Ten-Thousand-Spirit Order withdraw its golden light.

By now, the dynasty’s powerful cultivators had fallen into a state of panic. Their plan to attack Ye Liuyun’s army and draw him out had failed. The cultivators they had arranged to ambush Ye Liuyun had all suddenly vanished, and even the royal elder leading them had been killed outright — yet none of them knew how these people had died.

Looking at Ye Liuyun, his two clones, and the puppet, they seemed impossible to kill. Even when blasted away, their physical bodies showed not the slightest damage.

Ye Liuyun and his clones had tempered their bodies to be like solid iron plates, without a single spatial gap. Even if someone used Spatial Force to deliver an attack inside his body, it couldn’t harm him — he didn’t even need to deliberately use Spatial Force to redirect the attack away. His densely compacted flesh alone would squeeze the attack back out.

However, some opponents also had formidable physiques. Even the second clone’s golden blade couldn’t cut one of them. Ye Liuyun himself encountered a cultivator with an exceptionally powerful body — the Demon-Slaying Saber could at most leave a shallow scratch, drawing a hint of blood, but it would heal almost immediately.

When faced with such difficult opponents, Ye Liuyun and his clones could only temporarily set them aside and focus on eliminating the others first. But the other cultivators were no weaklings either. Even when they could win, the cost was immense, requiring constant replenishment from the storage essence stones.

So after Ye Liuyun and his clones had fought for half a day, over ten troublesome opponents still remained. Ye Liuyun felt that their strength was nothing to dismiss, and continuing to fight would only drain his divine essence further. In the end, he once again activated his time power, planted slave marks on all of them, and stored them in the spatial world.

The two hundred of the dynasty’s finest martial cultivators had been wiped out to the last.

He then immediately collected all the corpses and returned to the army to cultivate and recover. Lan Xin had already gone through the storage rings of these individuals — every single one of them was fabulously wealthy, and Ye Liuyun was not about to let those resources go to waste.

The corpses he threw to the Demon Vine. With so many resources poured into it, the Demon Vine’s cultivation had finally broken through to the peak of the ninth level of Guiyi. It was currently continuing to devour corpses to replenish the energy consumed in the breakthrough, and before long it would be able to come out and fight alongside Ye Liuyun.

As for Ye Liuyun’s own cultivation, after replenishing his divine essence it had once again advanced to the mid-stage of the seventh level of Guiyi. His recent battles had been intense, with frequent consumption and replenishment of divine essence, which had refined its quality to a higher level and caused his cultivation to rise along with it.

After the breakthrough, he and his clones synchronized the quality of the divine essence in all the storage essence stones to mid seventh level. Then he settled in to absorb the Draconis blood essence, working to enhance the power of his bloodline.

He figured that since the Fire Seal Dynasty had sent so many people and still hadn’t been able to do anything to him, they likely wouldn’t send more for the time being. Even if the Fire Seal King was unwilling to give up, he would have enough time to cultivate.

So he and his clones cultivated in the spatial world for over a hundred days. After consolidating his cultivation level, he refined all of the Draconis blood essence to enhance his power of bloodline.

With his power of bloodline alone at this point, he could already be considered among the ranks of the truly powerful. It was just that his own standards were high — as long as someone was stronger than him, he felt a sense of crisis and would keep pushing himself to improve.

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