Lord of All Gods

"What does this mean? Are you declaring war on me?" Ye Liuyun asked Jiang Yuntian.

"Please don’t misunderstand, my lord. Father King is simply worried that you might take the resources without handing anyone over!" Jiang Yuntian explained.

Ye Liuyun merely smiled, and immediately kept Jiang Yuntian behind, handing him a teleportation array disk.

He told Jiang Yuntian: "You can head back directly. But tell Jiang Yuantang that if I don’t receive the resources within one hour, I’ll destroy your divine soul."

With that, he put away all the martial cultivators and used the black tower’s teleportation to leave, vanishing without a trace once more.

Jiang Yuntian notified Jiang Yuantang while making his way toward the dynasty’s troops.

The dynasty immediately dispatched divine soul experts to examine Jiang Yuntian’s sea of consciousness and confirm his identity.

Jiang Yuntian’s identity was quickly verified. However, their divine soul experts discovered that removing the slave mark Ye Liuyun had planted was far beyond what one hour could accomplish, and they had no confidence they could do so without damaging Jiang Yuntian’s divine soul.

Ye Liuyun’s divine soul power was simply too formidable. No one dared claim they could remove his slave mark without harming Jiang Yuntian’s divine soul, let alone risk a prince’s life on such an attempt.

Jiang Yuantang didn’t dare take the risk either, fearing that Ye Liuyun might force Jiang Yuntian to harm himself. He had no choice but to send the resources through the teleportation array disk to Ye Liuyun.

"Haha, this really is a profitable business. No wonder bandits exist even in the Fire Seal Dynasty!"

When Ye Liuyun and the others laid eyes on the resources, they couldn’t help but burst into delighted laughter.

He also made good on his promise, immediately removing Jiang Yuntian’s slave mark and completing the transaction with the Fire Seal Dynasty. He then busied himself distributing the resources for everyone to use.

With these resources, Ye Liuyun, his clones, the demon beasts, and the women had everything they needed for cultivation — enough to advance two or three major realms, and sufficient to boost their divine soul, bloodline, physical body, and other aspects of strength by several tiers.

"The Fire Seal Dynasty really is wealthy!" everyone exclaimed.

Ye Liuyun nodded in agreement. "And this is only one-tenth of what Jiang Yuntian estimated. The resources in the Fire Seal King’s hands are probably far greater!"

He also felt that from now on, they should keep targeting the Fire Seal Dynasty. Otherwise, given everyone’s current cultivation levels, obtaining enough cultivation resources would be extremely difficult.

"Then why haven’t they produced any experts who’ve broken through to the Taixu Realm?" Lei Ming asked Ye Liuyun, puzzled.

Hearing Lei Ming’s question, Ye Liuyun’s excitement settled somewhat, and he said to everyone with a hint of concern: "I’m afraid breaking through to the Taixu Realm requires more than just sufficient resources. As for exactly what they’re lacking, they haven’t been able to figure it out either.

Even the Fire Seal King’s strength in all aspects has already reached the standards of the Taixu Realm. He lacks nothing in terms of resources, yet he still cannot break through.

My guess is that it might be related to the insufficient quality of their true essence. Their cultivation techniques are probably the problem — the techniques they use to cultivate true essence are still far from meeting the requirements of the Taixu Realm."

"When we break through, will we run into this problem too?" the demon beasts and women all began to worry.

Ye Liuyun nodded: "For now, it all depends on whether Moteng, those two demon flood dragons, and the snow wolf can break through smoothly when the time comes. If they manage it without issues, the demon beasts should be fine.

But for human martial cultivators breaking through, I’m afraid this problem will definitely arise. Going forward, we should pay close attention to techniques that improve the quality of true essence."

Ye Liuyun’s supreme divine essence technique couldn’t be passed on to others, but he and those around him all knew that such techniques must exist — they simply hadn’t encountered one yet.

Ye Liuyun added: "Before we find such a technique, you should all try to improve the quality of your true essence in the meantime. Train through battle, and frequently refine your true essence with the Essence Condensing Art.

Once you reach the seventh level of the Guiyi Realm, don’t rush to break through. Focus primarily on boosting your overall strength. Make good use of these resources."

Ye Liuyun still had hundreds of dragon souls, dragon bodies, and origin pills, and he had just made considerable gains in bloodline strength, so he distributed most of the resources sent by the dynasty to the others.

The soldiers were also well-supplied and didn’t need to go into battle for the time being, giving them a perfect opportunity to cultivate in peace and advance their cultivation levels.

Ye Liuyun also planned to use this time to find Qiong Qi and check on his progress. By now, he had enough weapon refiners and pill refiners — the only thing he was missing was a formation master.

So he set out once again from the Barren Sea, having his avatar take on the appearance of a wealthy young nobleman. He boarded an ordinary True-rank ninth-grade flying vessel, bringing along Snow Wolf and the two Demon Flood Dragons—both transformed into human form—as his escorts, and made his unhurried way toward the Myriad Transformation Sect.

At this time, within the imperial palace of the Fire Seal Dynasty, a constant stream of powerful experts and praetorian were coming and going, all of them busy trying to capture Ye Liuyun and gather intelligence on his forces.

Jiang Yuantang had even dispatched a number of powerful cultivators to garrison every single planet. The praetorian, too, were spread out in groups of a hundred thousand, each group holding watch over a stretch of planets.

The Bridge-Crossing Star System, the Barren Sea World, and several frontier star systems had all been given special attention in Jiang Yuantang’s deployments. He had even recalled hundreds of thousands of troops from the front lines to bolster the defenses.

After returning, Jiang Yuntian had holed himself up inside the imperial palace and refused to come out, quietly working to restore his power of bloodline. He had brought back no useful information whatsoever—all relevant details had been wiped clean by Ye Liuyun.

Jiang Yunyang and Jiang Yunmu, on the other hand, both saw this as an opportunity to expand their own power and influence. They frequently ventured out to win over the various major factions. Even the Ninth Prince, Jiang Yunhan, felt a glimmer of hope.

Now that the First Prince was injured and the Sixth Prince was dead, the other two princes weren’t much stronger than him. And so Jiang Yunhan immediately began actively courting the support of the various major factions.

Along the way, the avatar spotted no small number of warships and flying vessels rushing off in every direction—there was no need to ask; it was easy enough to guess that the Fire Seal Dynasty was reinforcing the defenses of its planets.

"Let them stay busy. They won’t find me anyway."

Ye Liuyun paid it no mind, simply letting his avatar continue on toward the Myriad Transformation Sect. Along the way, he stopped at several planets, wandering around and taking in the sights, looking every bit like a pampered young heir out on a leisurely tour.

The avatar was frequently subjected to probing scans by powerful cultivators, but he didn’t care in the least—he let them check to their hearts’ content without any fuss. Those cultivators watching from the shadows, seeing how completely at ease the avatar was without a trace of nervousness, assumed he was nothing more than an ordinary young man from some noble family, and none of them gave him any trouble.

They all figured that Ye Liuyun must have caught wind of the situation and teleported away long ago. Surely he wouldn’t be strolling around so brazenly right under their noses with such a dense deployment in place.

Jiang Yuantang, in truth, thought much the same. All the commotion he was stirring up was really just meant to drive Ye Liuyun out of the Fire Seal Dynasty.

Now that Ye Liuyun had grown his wings, any attempt to deal with him without concentrating his full military strength was bound to fail. So Jiang Yuantang had no desire to drag things out any further—if Ye Liuyun would just leave, that would be good enough.

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