Chapter 1772: Chapter 1772 Quiet Cultivation
The Spatial World of Ye Liuyun has transformed into an environment more suitable for cultivation.
Lan Xin rejoiced more and thrived in the rush of everyday life, finding the process of cultivation inside rather delightful.
On the way back, Ye Liuyun intentionally captured several beasts of lower realms, allowing his clone to accompany Lan Xin in training against them.
Even though Lan Xin was not his main focus for nurturing, given an opportunity, Ye Liuyun still hoped for her to enhance as much as possible.
"Wow? How did you return five or six days ahead of schedule?"
Pei Yong was a bit curious at the early arrival of Ye Liuyun.
"Couldn’t help it, there was an unexpected event in Regal Beast Mountain with four strong masters battling. The people from the two prominent families all rushed to the incident. We dare not proceed further and had to retreat," Ye Liuyun didn’t inform Pei Yong that the mineral vein was seized by him.
"So, you don’t have much to show for it!" Pei Yong was a bit worried and questioned.
"Not really. I looted plenty on my way!" Ye Liuyun chuckled and headed back to the Xuankong Stone for cultivation followed by others.
"You little chap, I knew you wouldn’t return without making some gains."
Pei Yong gave a knowing smile, guessing Ye Liuyun must have gained a lot to return this early.
After practicing quietly for a few days, Ye Liuyun noticed that, before departing, there were only around a hundred martial practitioners left for the next airship trip.
The flying vessel was replaced by a slightly smaller one, bearing the sign of the royal palace.
Ye Liuyun guessed that no one would dare to provoke them on their journey henceforth.
So, on the way, Ye Liuyun and his companions practiced in the Xuankong Stone, consuming all kinds of resources they had looted.
The two great families fully utilized their Alora Crystals and Elixir Pills.
Once Ye Liuyun and his companions had depleted these resources, they began to absorb the spiritual stones replaced from within the Spatial World, consuming them all first.
Next, Ye Liuyun refined all the remaining elixir pills that could be produced to ensure everyone had enough supplies to persist to the Royal City.
Lei Ming, Man Shu, Dragon Lady, and the others had successively elevated their cultivation levels to the latter stage of the second layer during the journey.
In the meantime, Ye Liuyun had already advanced his state to the peak of the second level. Thus, he put a pause on energy absorption, waiting to enhance his advance energy before making the breakthrough.
Both he and his doppelganger started to absorb different forces like lightning and fire for comprehensive improvements.
As for the power of heaven and earth, he was relying on the Heaven and Earth Pills to enhance it bit by bit.
After two months, Ye Liuyun and his group had ample practice inside the Xuankong Stone.
On their journey, the Royal Mansion’s flying vessel encountered no obstacles, managing to reach the outskirts of the Royal City smoothly.
Instead of entering the city, the flying vessel halted at an encampment outside specially prepared for these martial practitioners.
By the time Ye Liuyun and his group arrived, there were already four to five hundred martial practitioners residing there.
"You will wait here for the final selection, after which you’ll be brought into the Royal Mansion," announced a supervisor with a third layer cultivation.
Then, all the supervisors led their subordinates into the dwelling.
Pei Yong’s subordinates currently consist of just a few people, including Ye Liuyun and three other martial practitioners. Moreover, these martial practitioners have all advanced their cultivation to the early stage of the second level.
Most of the martial practitioners who had reached there had successfully achieved the early stage of the second layer or even higher.
"Shouldn’t you guys also elevate your realms?" Pei Yong reminds Ye Liuyun.
Accordingly, Ye Liuyun and others uniformly advance their realms to the initial stage of Two-Heavens realm. Even the Black Panther did the same.
Seeing this, Pei Yong was somewhat speechless. He never thought that even the Black Panther had been hiding its realm.
"Not enough! At least raise it to the mid-stage of the Two-Heavens realm!" Pei Yong stated outright.
Seeing Ye Liuyun and the others hesitate for a moment, Pei Yong transmitted a message to Ye Liuyun: "If the realm is too low, you cannot enter the royal palace."
Consequently, Ye Liuyun again instructed everyone to raise their realm to the mid-stage of the Two-Heavens realm.
On seeing Black Panther also upgrade to the mid-stage of the Two-Heavens realm, Pei Yong couldn’t help but smile with resignation. He guessed this rascal must have been devouring corpses along the way.
Subsequently, Pei Yong arranged accommodation for Ye Liuyun and his party. Most of the people on this flying vessel were accommodated in a large tent.
Within the tent, there were no beds, only some meditation mats for their cultivational practice.
"Our next meeting should be in the royal palace!"
Pei Yong bid farewell to Ye Liuyun and his party.
He truly believed Ye Liuyun and his party would definitely pass the examination, so it was pointless to reveal excess information.
The other inspectors were also busy preparing their martial practitioner for what was coming next, giving them final instructions.
"How many more are going to be eliminated?" Ye Liuyun transmitted a message to Pei Yong.
"At least half!" Pei Yong responded curtly, without further ado, he departed with the other inspectors.
Ye Liuyun and his group were left here, yet no one came to manage them.
Aside from the soldiers standing guard at the entrance of the base, stopping them from leaving casually, everyone inside was a martial practitioner, without a single overseer or administrator.
Everyone was busy focusing on cultivation, and no one dared to cause trouble.
Ye Liuyun and his group still had some resources that were not fully absorbed, so they weren’t in a rush.
However, when he cultivated now, he always had one person staying outside with his duplicate self, watching over the Xuankong Stone, to prevent accidents.
In the following days, there were overseers bringing people to live here every day.
Each group that came in would settle in a large tent, with a headcount of nearly a hundred each, and their strength was more or less similar.
Ye Liuyun noticed that at least 10% of the martial practitioners had reached the stage of the second layer’s mid-phase. And some people’s aura suggested that they would likely reach the second layer’s mid-phase in a few days.
"These people have all been through hundreds of battles, but at least half of them still have to be eliminated, what a shame!"
Ye Liuyun didn’t understand why these people weren’t sent to the battlefield for practice, even if they could only kill one foreign race, it was still a good thing!
However, he didn’t have the right to voice his thoughts now; he could only wait for the arrangement.
He was determined to enter the Royal City. Even if it wasn’t for the purpose of acquiring the Alora Crystal promised by Xuan Yuan Hong, he still wanted to participate in the battle against the foreign race.
More than ten days later, after the final group of martial practitioners entered, the large gate of the base finally closed.
A voice directly transmitted: "In ten days, martial practitioner whose realms have not reached the mid-phase of the second layer will all be eliminated!"
Once the voice finished speaking, there was no more movement.
"This is a harsh move!" Ye Liuyun immediately let everyone out, preparing them for the battle.
Many martial practitioner looked at each other, unsure of what to do.
Some of them thought it was unfair. They had gone through great pains to get here, and they were the last ones standing out of thousands of people, yet they were going to be eliminated.
Nonetheless, no matter how much they complained, they received no response.
Some quick-reacting martial practitioners immediately turned on those with lower cultivation levels nearby, seizing their resources. They even went as far as taking their virtuous cores and directly absorbing them!
Very quickly, the encampment was engulfed in a frenzy of killing. Martial practitioners with cultivation levels below the second stage were slaughtered almost immediately. Following that, even many martial practitioners at the early stage of the second level were killed by those around them.
