Lord of All Gods

Ye Liuyun and Luo Yu searched as they slowly walked forward, leaving a trail of fresh footprints behind them.

"It seems this dynasty was once glorious for a time. I wonder why it declined!"

Ye Liuyun sighed inwardly at the rise and fall of dynasties, then curiously asked Luo Yu, "Why was the Hongtian Dynasty destroyed?"

Luo Yu let out a sigh and told Ye Liuyun, "It was all because of that cultivation technique! At the time, none of the surrounding star systems had martial cultivators who could break through to the Taixu realm, so they all came here looking for a way. And the dynasty wasn’t willing to share this technique with all the martial cultivators, so wars kept breaking out. Later, the martial cultivators even organized allied armies to attack the dynasty. After several rounds, the dynasty couldn’t sustain itself anymore. In the end, after a great defeat in one final battle, before being slaughtered, they sealed the royal city into a secret realm and hid it away."

Ye Liuyun nodded, feeling that this reason matched his guess pretty well. With such a cultivation technique that everyone knew about, it would be strange if no one tried to seize it.

After walking forward for some distance, the golden light from the Myriad Gods Token in his sea of consciousness disappeared. Ye Liuyun estimated that they had walked out of the range where illusion techniques were being cast—considering they had passed through their first danger.

He released his divine sense and discovered that most of the martial cultivators at the entrance who had fallen under illusions had already been gnawed into piles of white bones by those rats. Other martial cultivators who had escaped from illusion zones also began exploring in all directions. For now, no conflicts or battles had broken out between them.

Cern Qifeng and Sima Qianhua’s two teams were both taking that widest road straight toward the royal palace. But they had already encountered traps and mechanisms—half of their recruited martial cultivators were dead. However, their own people were walking at the rear and remained relatively safe.

As they walked on, his divine sense noticed fresh footprints at a shop entrance—clearly someone had just entered.

He immediately activated his Golden Pupils and discovered this shop was actually a merchant guild. Several martial cultivators were hidden behind walls; more were concealed on second and third floors—a total of about ten people from a team that had just entered.

The counters and other areas in merchant guild didn’t appear newly destroyed by them; he estimated this place had already been searched when secret realm first opened previously—these people probably found nothing but noticed him approaching prepared to rob him instead.

Ye Liuyun released Snow Wolf test whether she still affected by illusions—indeed Snow Wolf no longer affected—so he released two Demon Jiao as well letting them rob hidden martial cultivators inside shop instead.

Those martial cultivators’ realms weren’t high; having not seen powerful beings like Snow Wolf Demon Jiao before—they thought under illusions—that’s why dared target Ye Liuyun.

Now with Snow Wolf Demon Jiao releasing pressure—those people barely dared resist; some immediately surrendered—but Ye Liuyun completely ignored letting Snow Wolf others clean everything up directly—to prevent these people following them later.

So didn’t cause much commotion—most killed by Snow Wolf devouring their souls directly.

Luo Yu never felt anything about illusions; seeing Ye Liuyun release demon beasts knew should safe finally released her own Demon Wolf too.

Demon Wolf after coming out didn’t follow Snow Wolf others rob instead guarded beside Luo Yu using divine sense scout surrounding environment.

Soon Snow Wolf others withdrew from merchant guild handing over those people’s storage rings Ye Liuyun.

"They all surrendered why still kill them? Using them scout path would better!" Luo Yu puzzled asked Ye Liuyun?

"If don’t kill they’ll keep following us waiting until encounter real dangers find treasures they’ll strike!

We have map can handle dangers ourselves instead if these people escape later will expose our secrets."

Ye Liuyun still explained her anyway regardless whether she could understand his actions wouldn’t affected by her influence anyway?

Fortunately Luo Yu actually felt made sense didn’t blame him? She usually acted cautiously carefully fearing expose own identity held little goodwill toward Fire Seal Dynasty’s martial cultivators either?

"Fine you can handle dangers fine then!"

She only worried dangers here exceeded expectations Ye Liuyun others couldn’t handle wanted capture more cannon fodder scout path that’s all?

Next forward speed slightly increased too outside royal palace no treasures just traps mechanisms so didn’t need search everywhere just focus handling dangers fine?

Hadn’t gone far yet when Ye Liuyun called Luo Yu stop while focused staring underground?

"What happened?" Luo Yu strangely asked hadn’t reached dangerous area ahead yet?

But just as she finished asking, she also felt the vibrations coming from underground. Then, the ground bulged with mounds of earth, as if something was about to drill out.

Ye Liuyun immediately brought Luo Yu and the others into the air, telling them: "There are vines underground!"

"Vines? But those aren’t obstacles on this path!" Upon hearing this, Luo Yu sent her spiritual sense to probe the nearby paths. As it turned out, the martial cultivators who had walked down those routes were already surrounded by vines as well.

The vines looked like dried-up branches. Even with a True Rank Grade Nine weapon, one slash couldn’t cut through them—it took several strikes to sever a single vine. Yet more vines kept emerging from underground, wrapping around those martial cultivators.

However, these vines weren’t like demonic vines that absorbed people’s energy. Instead, they desperately constricted around the martial cultivators, strangling them to death.

At this moment, similar vines drilled out beneath their feet and wrapped toward them.

Ye Liuyun used his Cross-Space Golden Pupils to release Golden Crow Sacred Flame toward the vines. His Golden Crow Sacred Flame now had an extremely powerful flame spirit—strong enough to annihilate these vines—so there was no need for him to let his demonic vine act.

Any vine that stretched out was instantly burned to ash by the Golden Crow Sacred Flame.

"This Golden Crow Sacred Flame is almost enough to fight against early-to-mid stage Return One Rank Nine martial cultivators!" Ye Liuyun also assessed the strength of his Golden Crow Sacred Flame, feeling that his fire and lightning powers shouldn’t be neglected either—they could be used more often.

He didn’t even need to control the Golden Crow flame spirit; once released, it circled around them and protected them as they continued forward.

Seeing how powerful Ye Liuyun’s flame spirit was within his fire element power, Luo Yu couldn’t help but feel much more relieved.

"It seems all those rumors about his abilities are true! This makes us much safer!"

She had been worrying all along that their strength wouldn’t be sufficient to find that cultivation technique manual.

Ye Liuyun casually chatted with Luo Yu: "Probably vines spreading over from elsewhere. After so many years have passed, it’s normal for them to have developed over here."

"We should also be extra careful of other dangers—we can’t completely rely on what’s marked on the map anymore. They’re probably stronger than expected. Otherwise your family’s predecessors would have taken everything long ago!"

Luo Yu nodded: "I think so too!"

But then she suddenly remembered something and took out a detoxification pill, asking Ye Liuyun: "The danger ahead is poisonous gas... but I only prepared one detoxification pill..."

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