Chapter 1814: Chapter 1814 Greatly Replenished Divine Soul
Several deep cuts marked the back of Slasher, deep enough to see flesh.
Not only did the wounds not heal, the Devil Qi had begun to permeate his body.
He hadn’t expected his carelessness to place him in such a perilous situation.
"I must play my trump card. Otherwise, I’m gonna die in this brat’s hand!" At this thought, a knife shadow swiftly sprang out from his Ocean of Consciousness.
Incredibly, he had refined the seed of his sword intention into a long blade that could attack people’s Divine Soul. Then, he aimed it at Ye Liuyun’s Ocean of Consciousness.
"Ah!" Xiao Yunfang shrieked.
Yet Lei Ming and the others all wore the expressions of gloat.
The next moment, Slasher spewed a mouthful of blood. At the same time, he was struck in the heart by a slash from Ye Liuyun, splitting it open.
"How is this possible?" Slasher was somewhat in disbelief. His previously unbeatable trump card was now destroyed instantly, resulting in a backlash that even took his life.
"Nothing’s impossible!" Ye Liuyun said with a laugh.
His Golden Phantom Eyes had long discovered the sword intention seed in Slasher’s Ocean of Consciousness had been refined into a battle blade intended to attack his Divine Soul.
So, the strike that targeted Slasher’s heart was, in fact, premeditated. Ye Liuyun was just waiting for Slasher to launch an attack first.
"I don’t believe it!" As Slasher said these words, he let out his Divine Soul into Ye Liuyun’s Ocean of Consciousness.
He needed to find out what was happening even if he was in the brim of death. It was only when his Divine Soul was enveloped by the golden light from the Universal God Token that he finally understood everything.
But soon after, his Divine Soul was refined into Divine Soul Force and directly supplied to Ye Liuyun.
The Divine Soul Force of Ye Liuyun immediately took a qualitative advancement as well.
The refined seed of sword intention was akin to the heavenly treasures that greatly replenished the Divine Soul.
Plus, the Divine Soul Force inherent in Slasher was not weak, to begin with. Thus, Ye Liuyun’s Golden Armored Divine Soul swiftly enhanced in double.
"Thud!"
The body of Slasher fell to the ground. At least he could now die with closure after knowing the cause of his death.
Ye Liuyun kept away Slasher’s Interspatial Ring, weapon, and virtuoso. As for his body, he simply burned it away.
"That unlucky fella! I haven’t even used my avatar!" Ye Liuyun sighed in his heart.
"He’s...dead, just like that?" Xiao Yunfang was still slightly dumbfounded.
Ye Liuyun, however, chuckled and retorted, "What else do you think? He was burned to ashes. How can he not be dead?"
Though Ye Liuyun said that, he still took to heart her previous attempt to put her life on the line for him.
"Guys, focus on your cultivation! This is just the beginning of the battle. There will be stronger opponents waiting for us!" Ye Liuyun then instructed everyone before he, along with Lei Ming and the others, retreated into the Xuankong stone to speed up their cultivation.
The power of heaven and earth, the Spatial Force, and the Elemental Spirit Secret Skill were the areas Ye Liuyun was currently focusing on enhancing.
In the short term, there was no way for him to contend with the lord of the foreign race based on his realm alone.
However, he had been in constant battle recently. His advance energy was cultivated to a solid state and his realm could also break through. Therefore, he planned to first cultivate various forces and then, on the way to Yin-soul Mountain, take turns with his avatar to enhance his realm.
He didn’t plan to stay too long, only expected to cultivate here for just three days. This was also to allow everyone else to restore their strengths to their peak levels.
As for Quan Zhicheng and Xiao Yunfang, they had used all the resources they could muster.
However, Xiao Yunfang, having just broken through to the late stage of the Third Realm, found it difficult to leap to the Fourth Realm all at once. Her strength could only rise to the peak of the Third Realm before she exhausted her resources once more.
On the other hand, Quan Zhicheng successfully ascended to the initial stage of the Third Realm.
Yet, his breakthrough attracted the attention of two martial practitioners, both at the late stage of the Third Realm, who came to the valley to investigate.
From the energy fluctuations, they speculated that someone had just entered the Third Realm and thought they could take advantage. However, upon entering the valley, they discovered that Xiao Yunfang was also in the late stage of the Third Realm.
Ye Liuyun’s Divine Sense had already detected these two martial practitioners. But he wanted to give Xiao Yunfang and Quan Zhicheng a chance to practice. So, he only sent out his avatar which was wrapped in Concealcape to observe from a safe distance.
Quan Zhicheng was still consolidating his realm while Ye Liuyun was cultivating in the Xuankong Stone, both giving off no signs of movement.
Hence, Xiao Yunfang took up her spear and shield to confront the two martial practitioners.
The two martial practitioners were initially hesitant to make a move. Yet, they couldn’t resist their lust at the sight of Xiao Yunfang’s attractive figure and immediately, dirty thoughts filled their minds.
"Let’s fight! If we win, we’re in luck! If we lose, death is but trivial!" one of the martial practitioners declared.
"Exactly what I have in mind! This woman is so tempting!" the other laughed.
The martial practitioners in Sinless City were usually desperados. They were still alive because they were lucky. They should have died long ago and thus didn’t care much about their lives.
And so, the two martial practitioners soon got engaged in combat with Xiao Yunfang.
The two were battle-hardened, and thanks to Xiao Yunfang’s upgraded shield with improved lower defense, she didn’t suffer any fatal injuries. But she did sustain many cuts on her arms and legs from their long swords.
Fortunately, Quan Zhicheng joined the battle as soon as he finished consolidating his realm, relieving some pressure off Xiao Yunfang. This allowed Xiao Yunfang to kill off one of the martial practitioners before eliminating the other.
But at this moment, she was completely drained of her genuine energy, incapable of continuing the fight.
"Hahaha! Looks like both of us have lucked out!"
Before Xiao Yunfang and Quan Zhicheng could catch their breath, two more martial practitioners revealed themselves.
It turned out that these two had been lurking in the shadows all along, waiting for Xiao Yunfang to exhaust her energy. Noticing that this was a good opportunity to take advantage of her weakened state, they appeared from the shadows.
Although Quan Zhicheng initially fended off one of the martial practitioners for Xiao Yunfang, he was promptly inflicted with serious injuries by the other, leaving him in even worse shape than Xiao Yunfang. Lying on the ground, he was barely able to move.
Leaning on her long spear, Xiao Yunfang used all her strength to stand, contemplating whether to risk her life fighting these two or put herself out of her misery by ending her life.
Suddenly, the smiles on the faces of the two martial practitioners froze in place.
"Thud, thud!" The next second, they both fell forward.
Upon examining them with her Divine Sense, Xiao Yunfang discovered a wide wound on both of their backs, clearly a stealth attack from behind.
"Who’s there?" Xiao Yunfang asked warily.
However, there was no response from Ye Liuyun’s avatar. He had already returned to the Xuankong stone to continue cultivating. The two corpses were left untouched, seemingly to allow Xiao Yunfang to claim them as her resources for her own cultivation.
After maintaining her vigilance for quite a while, Xiao Yunfang received no reply.
It was then Quan Zhicheng reminded her, "Whoever it was is probably gone by now. Gather the resources and recover yourself first!"
Only then did Xiao Yunfang proceed, collecting resources from the four martial practitioners on the ground to continue her cultivation.
Now that she had resources again, she could quickly regain her strength.
After lying on the ground for a while and recovering, Quan Zhicheng began collecting the four corpses and their virtuoso and then continued his cultivation.
Three days later, Ye Liuyun finally led everyone out of the Xuankong Stone.
He also distributed several healing pills made by Qingfeng to Xiao Yunfang and Quan Zhicheng.
"Keep these for yourselves, just in case."
