Chapter 1790: Chapter 1790 Get The Resources Back
When Zhang Wencai and his companions saw Ye Liuyun’s flying vessel approaching, they initially assumed they had encountered another band of robbers and lamented their bad luck.
However, upon recognizing Ye Liuyun, they breathed a collective sigh of relief.
“What happened to you? Where is Pei Yong?” Ye Liuyun asked, noticing their terrified expressions.
“We were ambushed by bandits!”
“Pei Yong stayed behind to fight them off so we could escape!”
The martial practitioners spoke up eagerly.
“Hurry, maybe we can still save Pei Yong and the others!” Zhang Wencai pointed in a direction, urging Ye Liuyun to follow.
Without hesitation, Ye Liuyun returned to the flying vessel and sped towards the indicated direction.
Pei Yong and his group had been surrounded by bandits demanding their valuables and weapons.
However, these bandits were relentless and intended to recruit them as part of their gang.
Pei Yong refused and fought back with a few martial practitioners to buy time for the others to flee.
However, faced with a third-tier martial practitioner among the bandits, Pei Yong and his four companions were ultimately captured and taken back to the bandit camp.
Now, the bandits had them bound and suspended, whipping them one by one to break their will.
Two martial practitioners had already succumbed to the beatings, and Pei Yong, along with the remaining two were barely conscious.
Upon detecting them with his Divine Sense, Ye Liuyun halted the flying vessel and sent his clone, clad in the Concealcape, to rescue them.
The bandit camp consisted of no more than two hundred men, with the strongest among them being a late third-tier practitioner.
Ye Liuyun didn’t need the Devil Vine for this fight.
With Lei Ming, Dragon Lady, and Ye Tiandao, Ye Liuyun employed the Xenocide-hidden Skill and advanced towards the camp.
Black Panther and Manshu, not versed in the Xenocide-hidden Skill, waited to charge once the others had engaged.
Before Ye Liuyun arrived, a bandit, having lost patience, whipped another martial practitioner’s head, causing it to burst.
Seeing this, the last surviving martial practitioner knew his only option was to surrender.
"Would it not have been good for you to have done this sooner! Do you seriously enjoy getting into troublesome situations!" A bandit sneered, cutting his bonds and throwing him to the ground.
“What about you? My patience is running thin!” The bandit leader snarled at Pei Yong.
“Do your worst! I’ll never join your ranks!” Pei Yong spat, ready to face death.
“Fine! I’ll grant you that!”
The bandit leader drew his blade and approached Pei Yong.
Suddenly, he felt a spatial disturbance behind him.
Being a third-tier practitioner, his instincts kicked in.
He swung his blade backward to block an attack, only to find nothing there.
With a plop, the bandit’s head was cut down.
With a swift slash enhanced by spatial power, Ye Liuyun’s clone decapitated the bandit leader.
Ye Liuyun had now attained the ability to access the second layer of the void, significantly enhancing his power of space.
"Puff...puff...puff..."
A series of soft thuds resonated as several bandits surrounding Pei Yong fell, their heads severed from their bodies.
The rope suspending Pei Yong was also sliced through.
He was swiftly transported into the Spatial World by Ye Liuyun’s clone, vanishing from sight.
“What’s going on?” The remaining bandits exchanged bewildered glances.
The leader of the bandits, using his Divine Sense to investigate, found no trace of the assailant.
"Could there be an expert stronger than me?" He speculated internally.
Just then, Ye Liuyun, Lei Ming, and the others stormed into the bandits’ stronghold. Shadows darted forward, revealing themselves as they began dispatching the bandits.
Black Panther and Man Shu, who had lagged behind, soon joined the fray.
Ye Liuyun casually struck the bandit leader with a palm while his clone unleashed an arrow from the Illusionary Gilded Bow.
The bandit leader, straining to block Ye Liuyun’s palm strike, was subsequently pierced through by the arrow.
The clone wanted to try the power consumption of this arrow.
"I can shoot six arrows." The clone confirmed with Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun, hearing this, immediately drew his own Gilded Divine Bow, loosing six arrows in quick succession, eliminating the highest-ranking bandits.
They continued the slaughter systematically.
After more than an hour, they had exterminated the bandits. Despite the absence of the Devil Vine, none escaped Ye Liuyun’s Divine Sense. He hunted down the fleeing bandits with the Illusionary Gilded Bow, ensuring none survived.
Ye Liuyun and his clone depleted the Storage Stone’s advanced energy reserves.
They found out the energy was more condensed after recent battles. This prompted them to exhaust the reserves deliberately to replenish with more refined energy.
They then proceeded to clear the battlefield. Ye Liuyun secured the resources from the treasure trove, while the others collected the Interspatial Rings from the corpses, handing them to Lan Xin.
Virtuosos were extracted for cultivation resources, and the bodies were given to Black Panther for sustenance.
They retrieved the Interspatial Rings and weapons belonging to Pei Yong and his companions from the first martial practitioner Ye Liuyun had killed.
Realizing it was time to return, Ye Liuyun decided to leave.
Ye Liuyun deployed the flying vessel and set off.
His clone, cloaked in the Concealcape released Pei Yong, making him believe he had been stored in the Spatial World by Ye Liuyun.
“We escaped?” Pei Yong asked, still dazed.
Ye Liuyun nodded and handed the Interspatial Ring back to Pei Yong.
Pei Yong looked around and asked, “Wasn’t there another martial practitioner who survived?”
“He surrendered to the bandits. I took care of him,” Ye Liuyun replied.
“He was left with no choice,” Pei Yong sighed, unable to say more.
“Perhaps. But you resisted until the end,” Ye Liuyun noted calmly.
“I’m just a wretched soul,” Pei Yong said with a bitter smile.
“We all are, but not everyone has integrity.” Ye Liuyun offered a drop of Vital Waters to Pei Yong.
The Vital Waters would help his recovery from severe injuries that would have taken a month to heal otherwise.
“Vital Waters?” Pei Yong recognized its value, feeling deeply grateful to Ye Liuyun.
“Save your thanks. Rest well,” Ye Liuyun smiled, comforting him.
He then sent Lei Ming and the others back to resume their cultivation.
Soon, they met Zhang Wencai and the others waiting anxiously outside the city gates.
They didn’t dare to stray far because they were afraid they would encounter another bandit gang again. They were also worried about Pei Yong, so they waited there.
Ye Liuyun put the flying vessel away and handed their Interspatial Rings and weapons back to them.
