Chapter 2355: Chapter 2355 Resources
Besides the obvious iron box, there were more than thirty Stygian members’ insignias, likely to repay Ye Liuyun for saving her life...
Ye Liuyun immediately handed over this equipment to Tong Xin, asking him to study it.
"The thing you gave me earlier, is it called Vital Waters?" Serena asked again.
"Yes," Ye Liuyun replied curtly.
"Do you have more? I can exchange them for points." Serena inquired.
"Nope!" Ye Liuyun immediately refused. He had plenty of points himself and didn’t need to trade for them.
Although he had many bottles of Vital Waters, such a resource was rare in this world. As they say, scarcity makes things valuable, especially something that could give someone an extra life. He definitely intended to trade it for a good price.
Serena thought for a moment and then said to Ye Liuyun, "I need the Vital Waters to save a friend. Here are two rare treasures. Will you trade me two more drops?"
As she spoke, she tossed another Interspatial Ring to Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun scanned the contents with his Divine Sense and was surprised to find two fist-sized crystal stones inside the ring. One was blood-red, and the other was deep blue, both swirling with red and blue energy respectively.
Ye Liuyun probed deeper into the crystals with his Divine Sense and was startled. The red one contained energy that could enhance bloodlines, while the blue one had the power to strengthen one’s Divine Soul.
Just from the aura he sensed, he knew these treasures would be immensely valuable to him.
"Got any more?" Ye Liuyun asked Serena in turn.
"One more blue one, but I was saving it for myself." she admitted frankly.
"Hand it over, and I’ll give you six drops of the Vital Waters. There are plenty of other ways to strengthen your soul. You can find another method." Ye Liuyun suggested.
After a moment’s thought, Serena agreed and tossed Ye Liuyun another Interspatial Ring containing a blue Alora Crystal of equal size.
Ye Liuyun then filled six drops of Vital Waters for her, along with some ninth-tier elixirs for enhancing the Divine Soul, which had been refined by Lin Luoyi.
Lin Luoyi’s recent alchemy skills had improved. The elixirs she made, using rare medicinal herbs from Ye Liuyun’s Spatial World, had even better effects than those sold by the guild.
When Serena received the items, she felt that Ye Liuyun had been thoughtful. She smiled slightly and thanked him.
At that moment, the entire secret realm suddenly shook, startling everyone inside.
However, Serena and the others weren’t too surprised. Then, they exchanged glances.
Ye Liuyun felt that they seemed to know the cause, so he asked, "What’s going on?"
"The secret realm is relocating. It’s likely that our entrance was detected, and it has attracted the pursuit of the Yonglie Mansion’s forces," Serena explained, a bit apologetically.
But soon, the shaking stopped. A steward came out to announce that the secret realm was relocating and urged everyone to remain calm.
Ye Liuyun was experiencing this for the first time. It seemed that the Wan Weihou had deduced that it was Stygian who had made a move against them.
Serena and the others quickly left the back hall. Ye Liuyun guessed they were probably heading to find a place to settle. Since they had already been exposed, they wouldn’t leave the secret realm for now.
As Serena was leaving, she glanced back at Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun then entered a private room to submit his task and collect his points. He also exchange the killer tokens that Serena had given him for a large amount of resources.
The steward who attended him was a little surprised. "Mu Tianyan’s task?"
"That’s right." Ye Liuyun replied calmly.
Obviously, the Stygians hadn’t witnessed the moment Ye Liuyun killed Mu Tianyan either. Most likely, their patrols had focused all their attention on Serena and her companions at the time.
Still, the steward followed protocol and awarded Ye Liuyun the appropriate points.
It was clear the steward was quite curious, but Ye Liuyun deliberately said nothing about how he’d managed to kill Mu Tianyan. Left with no choice, the steward suppressed his questions and refrained from asking.
However, to avoid any misunderstanding, Ye Liuyun explained that the killer tokens were traded from Serena—just in case Stygian suspected he had been targeting their own members.
After redeeming his points, Ye Liuyun found an inn within the secret realm and checked in.
He knew full well that the Wan Weihou and Mu Yuantang would now launch a frantic hunt for assassins. To be safe, he even notified Celestia to let the stewards handle all affairs for now and avoid showing herself.
Once settled in the inn, Ye Liuyun immediately returned to his Spatial World. Along with his clone, he began refining the blue Alora Crystal.
His Divine Soul was already incredibly strong, and he frequently compressed and refined it through cultivation.
Yet after absorbing the energy from the blue Alora Crystal, his Divine Soul managed to expel an enormous amount of residual impurities.
His Divine Soul had grown stronger by devouring various other Divine Souls. Even with the Universal God Token assisting in purification, a substantial amount of impurities had inevitably remained.
The blue Alora Crystal was evidently serving its purpose. It purified and refined his Divine Soul.
Once completely purified, his Divine Soul shrank significantly in size. Yet its golden hue became even more brilliant, glowing with a dazzling radiance.
After the purification, the remaining blue energy began enhancing the strength of his Divine Soul, causing it to gradually expand again.
When the power had grown to a certain threshold, Ye Liuyun suddenly felt a crackling surge within his Divine Soul. It was like bones frantically growing and reforming, though its size did not change much.
A sharp clarity then swept over his Divine Soul, as though he had ascended to a higher plane of existence.
"The Omnipotent Level! My Divine Soul has broken through into the Omnipotent Level!" Ye Liuyun realized immediately that it was his soul, not his physical cultivation, that had taken the lead in crossing this critical threshold.
For martial practitioners, the most challenging leap from the peak of the ninth-stage Immortal Realm to the Omnipotent Level wasn’t in cultivating their genuine energy. That could be built up steadily over time. It was strengthening the Divine Soul that proved truly difficult.
Many martial practitioners were killed in counterattacks precisely when they were using or tempering their Divine Soul power.
In fact, most who advanced to the Omnipotent Level did so with Divine Souls that still fell short of the realm’s true standard.
Even Li Yuanlang and his companions had delayed their breakthrough for so long precisely because their Divine Souls were insufficient. But in the end, unable to wait any longer, they broke through anyway.
Even now, Li Yuanlang’s Divine Soul power hadn’t reached the intensity of Ye Liuyun’s.
Of course, each person’s Divine Soul power varied when breaking through to the Omnipotent Level. Among cultivators at the same stage, Ye Liuyun’s Divine Soul strength ranked among the stronger ones.
Feeling the immense power surging through his soul, Ye Liuyun couldn’t help but think how incredibly worthwhile that resource exchange had been.
"If I ever meet Serena again, I must find out where that blue Alora Crystal came from and what it’s called!" he thought silently.
With such a treasure, those close to him could quickly enhance their Divine Soul power as well.
Just then, the Book Demon suddenly emerged and informed Ye Liuyun that his current Divine Soul strength now allowed the Time Turner’s time-freeze effect to last a full ten breaths.
"It can also rewind time by five breaths." the Book Demon added.
