Chapter 2036: Chapter 2036 Leverage
Ye Liuyun, with the Alligator Beastman right behind him, headed straight for the horde of beasts.
In the chaotic scene, with him and the Alligator Beastman at each other’s heels, the feral beasts could not discern whether they were chasing each other or in cahoots. Nevertheless, they quickly roared out a stern warning to keep their distance.
Ye Liuyun, undeterred, pressed forward. The Alligator Beastman, unfazed by the lower-level beasts, roared back defiantly.
The Tiger Beast King heard the resonated roar and could tell that the Alligator Beastmen was set on a head-on assault. Its levels signified that the Alligator Beastman would be a tough contender.
“Roar!”
The Tiger Beast King let out another roar and most of the beasts charged towards the Alligator Beastman. Only two seventh-level beasts were dispatched to handle Ye Liuyun.
Silently deployed his Xenocide and silently killed the two beasts, while he darted into the grand hall.
The war between the beasts and the Alligator Beastman was now in full throttle. Several feral beasts that charged first were smacked down instantly by the Alligator Beastman, before being vicious bitten up.
The Beast King and the horde were fixated on the Alligator Beastman, considering it their most lethal opponent.
They usually used the main hall as a place to rest, so it was relatively vacant when Ye Liuyun entered.
“What is he doing running into the hall?” An elder observing from the edge of the secret realm was confounded. The frame structure on top of the grand hall blocked their view, so they couldn’t see what Ye Liuyun was up to.
After entering, Ye Liuyun switched places with his clone, leaving his wings with him. His clone used the Phantom Illusion technique and transformed himself into Ye Liuyun’s image.
Ye Liuyun, who had been traversing at top speed with his Soaring Boots for half a day, needed to recharge his advanced energy to maintain the ruse.
The clone’s advanced energy hadn’t yet fully recharged but was better than Ye Liuyun. It was at least enough to last him for a day.
With that, the clone dashed towards the two statues. He stretched out both hands, struck an arm of a statue while the other hand struck the head of another statue.
"Boom, boom!" Two muffled bangs echoed as the arm of a statue and the head of the other statue were blasted, with rubble scattering all over the ground.
As the clone made a casual wave of a hand, an armguard and a collar guard flew to him from the debris on the ground.
He input his divine sense into the armguard and collar guard, then turned around and left. He didn’t dare to linger for another moment, fearing that the Alligator Beastman would obstruct him.
These two objects were made to accommodate the enormous god statues, the clone carrying them looked rather foolish because they were larger than him.
Dispensing with any concerns, the clone dashed out of the hall, casually storing the shadow guarding the hall entrance into his spatial world.
Luckily, although the Alligator Beastman outside had the upper hand in strength, the sheer number of feral beasts was enough to distract it.
Upon encountering any obstructing beasts, Ye Liuyun would smash them with the two items in his hand. Even if a feral beast managed to send him flying, he would immediately stand up and flee again.
He had both the Devil Dragon and Gilded Armour. Besides, his current level had improved, so even a blow from a beast of the seventh level would not injure him.
The Elders watching were extremely curious. Some did not even understand what he was taking at first.
"Did he rush in so recklessly just to snatch these two items?"
But after the clone smashed the items a couple of times, the stone material casing the two items crumbled, revealing the inner golden material.
He soon refined these two items and it shrunk to fit his size. All the rubble and stone material covering it had been cleaned off.
That’s when the Elders in the Grand hall noticed that one item was a golden arm guard, and the other a golden collar.
The moment the clone put on the collar, it immediately emitted a golden light, shrouding Ye Liuyun’s armour.
The clone no longer defended any incoming attacks from the feral beasts. He relied on the armour to block them instead.
Subsequently, the clone wore the armguard and struck a seventh-level feral beast.
The beast didn’t pay attention and was unexpectedly sent flying away by Ye Liuyun with a thud. The beast was surprised, finding it unbelievable.
"Hahaha!" The clone couldn’t resist letting out a laugh.
These two Divine Weapons were both supreme items of the eight-level. The armguard could unleash ten times the power, while the collar could boost the armour’s protection tenfold.
Ye Liuyun’s clone easily broke through the encirclement of the beasts. Seeing that he wanted to flee, the beasts didn’t chase after him. Instead, they tightly surrounded the stronger Alligator Beastman.
The Alligator Beastman, with a simple way of thinking, saw the clone wanting to escape and initiated even fiercer attacks. It charged at the Beast King head-on, wanting to end the battle quickly and then chase Ye Liuyun.
However, it only angered the horde of beasts and made them launch a more intense attack, making it impossible for the Alligator Beastman to escape for a while.
"Excellent, everything is going as planned!" The clone praised in silence as he continued to race directly towards the Sea-Buckthorn field.
The Alligator Beastman seemed foolish. It feared that if it took a detour, it would lose its prey.
The clone didn’t dare to slow down either. He risked being caught by predators or other flying beasts the moment his speed reduced. So he continued to run at his top speed.
Sea-Buckthorn field was at the westernmost end of the secret realm. It also took Ye Liuyun nearly a day’s journey to reach.
The clone’s Divine Sense noticed that the Alligator Beastman had been following him all this while at an hour’s distance away. But the time was enough for him to study the situation here.
The clone arrived first and saw things that Ye Liuyun’s body couldn’t see.
In this Sea-Buckthorn field, many of the Sea-Buckthorn had divine souls. Their divine souls took the appearance of the Sea-Buckthorn. Although the divine souls weren’t strong, they were obviously on the verge of transforming into demons.
He didn’t dare recklessly enter the field. Instead, he released flames with his Golden Phantom Eyes from a distance. Hoping for the flame to burn the bushes here from afar. At the same time testing how the sea buckthorn would counteract.
"Why would this lad run so far to burn those?" The elders who were watching from the outside began to speculate about his actions once more.
At first, the sea buckthorn pretended to be dead as they discreetly combined their true essence to resist Ye Liuyun’s flames. Despite the intensity of Ye Liuyun’s flame, there were just too many sea buckthorns.
"If the Yang flame doesn’t work, then let’s switch to the Ying one!"
Then, Ye Liuyun tried using the Ghostic Fire of the Underworld to burn the Divine souls of those Sea buckthorns.
At this, the Sea buckthorns could no longer withstand the heat and began to contract. Eventually, all the sandthorns came together and astonishingly formed a giant sea buckthorn beast.
What was even more surprising was that the Divine souls of these sea buckthorns managed to consolidate, forming a single, powerful Divine Soul.
Seeing this, the clone realized he was outmatched and immediately turned to face the Alligator Beastman.
The huge sea buckthorn beast chased after him for a while before halting.
After several attempts, Ye Liuyun figured out that the sea buckthorn couldn’t leave the col path.
"This will be easy then! I bet that stupid Alligator Beastman will end up fighting this sea buckthorn also!"
So Ye Liuyun went around the sea buckthorn beast and hid in a spot at a distance, waiting for the Alligator Beastman to appear.
Now, his position was separated from the Alligator Beastman by a sea buckthorn beast.
The sea buckthorn beast, being too far away from Ye Liuyun, couldn’t reach him. After a while, it dispersed itself, regaining its earlier sea buckthorn field’s formation.
