Chapter 2890: Chapter 2890
During their journey, Qiong Qi was busy equipping all the ferocious beasts with artifacts to defend against soul attacks.
Their plan was simple: launch a surprise assault on the Zhou Clan’s location where the Five-Colored Body Tempering Stones were stored—straightforward and brazen.
Thousands of ferocious beasts caught the Zhou Clan completely off guard. The elders guarding the Five-Colored Body Tempering Stones unleashed their soul attacks, only to find every beast shielded against them. In moments, the defenders were slaughtered, and Ye Liuyun swiftly seized the precious stones.
When the Zhou Clan’s elites saw Ye Liuyun taking the Five-Colored Body Tempering Stones, they immediately launched a coordinated soul assault against him. Yet, he remained unfazed. Instead, their own souls were devoured by the Ten Thousand Gods Decree, leaving them vulnerable to backlash. The ferocious beasts seized the opportunity to crush their defenseless bodies.
This time, Ye Liuyun and his forces targeted the Zhou Clan’s main branch, where powerful experts were abundant. Even with their soul-defense artifacts, the beasts couldn’t withstand the combined might of the elites and fell one after another.
The Zhou Clan’s experts weren’t just skilled in soul cultivation—they also trained their bodies with the Five-Colored Body Tempering Stones. Though their combat experience was lacking, their raw strength allowed them to hold their own against the beasts.
After securing the stones, Ye Liuyun led a contingent of beasts straight for the Zhou Clan’s Grand Elder, who had stayed behind the frontlines, directing the battle from a safe distance. The secret realm that enhanced soul power was under his control.
Under Ye Liuyun’s command, the beasts fought recklessly, trading blows with the soul cultivators. When the Grand Elder saw Ye Liuyun charging toward him, he unleashed a soul attack without hesitation.
His soul power was among the strongest in the Zhou Clan, and he was utterly confident in crushing Ye Liuyun. But the moment his soul entered Ye Liuyun’s consciousness, it was immediately ensnared by the golden radiance of the Ten Thousand Gods Decree.
*"The Grand Elder’s soul power truly is formidable!"*
Ye Liuyun had always considered his own soul strength exceptional, yet the Grand Elder’s soul was twice the size of his own.
Realizing the danger, Ye Liuyun dared not provoke the Grand Elder’s remaining soul. And the Grand Elder, having suffered a loss, wasn’t foolish enough to send his second soul into the fray.
*"One soul is enough!"* Ye Liuyun called out, ordering the other beasts to focus on killing the Grand Elder.
Meanwhile, he and the Silver-Armored Steel-Scaled Tiger took advantage of the Grand Elder’s distraction to seize control of the soul-enhancing secret realm.
The Grand Elder quickly realized Ye Liuyun’s true objective and urgently commanded his forces to prioritize eliminating him.
"Stop them!" Qiong Qi commanded, and all the ferocious beasts surged forward to intercept the Zhou family’s elites, preventing them from approaching Ye Liuyun.
As for the soul attacks they launched at Ye Liuyun, Qiong Qi paid them no heed, knowing that Ye Liuyun possessed the Myriad Soul Token. No matter how many souls flooded into his consciousness, the token could handle them all.
However, the reality was that Ye Liuyun was struggling to keep up with the Myriad Soul Token’s absorption capacity. Each of the Zhou family’s elites had a stronger soul force than his own. If they attacked one by one, the token could manage effortlessly. But with dozens of battle-ready souls charging in simultaneously, even the Myriad Soul Token was overwhelmed.
Forced to adapt, Ye Liuyun began branding some of the stronger souls with slave seals, compelling them to fight for him—both offensively and defensively. This barely tipped the scales in his favor, allowing him to swiftly eliminate a portion of the invading souls. Meanwhile, his own two soul entities continuously unleashed Nether Ghost Flames to accelerate the destruction of the intruding souls.
This ordeal only strengthened Ye Liuyun’s resolve: he *had* to seize the Zhou family’s secret realm that enhanced soul power. The sheer strength of the Zhou family’s souls was undoubtedly due to that very realm.
As Ye Liuyun raced toward the secret realm, he successfully branded the soul of the Zhou family’s Grand Elder with a slave seal. Upon reaching the realm, he immediately released that branded soul to begin claiming it.
But at that moment, the Grand Elder himself charged forward, using his remaining soul force to wrest control of the realm from Ye Liuyun.
"Kill the Zhou family’s Grand Elder—now!" Ye Liuyun urgently transmitted to Qiong Qi.
Without hesitation, Qiong Qi directed the ferocious beasts to attack the Grand Elder. Yet the Zhou elites swiftly formed a protective circle around him, cutting down any beasts that dared approach.
Seeing the beasts struggle to break through, Qiong Qi ordered them to self-detonate instead. The explosive power of a Dominator-level or Unity-level beast detonating its core was immense—equivalent to unleashing every ounce of energy stored within their primal cores in an instant.
With a deafening *BOOM*, a nearby Unity-level beast exploded, sending several Zhou martial artists flying. Seizing the opportunity, several Dominator-level beasts rushed in and detonated themselves as well. A series of blasts later, the defensive ring around the Grand Elder was finally shattered.
Iron Ox and Silver-Armored Linhu seized the moment to strike the Grand Elder. Though his physical resilience was formidable, the combined force of their attacks sent him reeling—alive, but severely wounded. Now injured and vulnerable, he could no longer contend with Ye Liuyun for control of the secret realm.
With a whoosh, the Divine Soul Secret Realm was uprooted from the ground and entirely absorbed into Ye Liuyun’s spatial world.
Without hesitation, Ye Liuyun seized the Great Elder’s soul, forcing him to transfer control of the secret realm before extinguishing his consciousness.
"Mission accomplished—let’s move!" Ye Liuyun called out, summoning the Spirit Cat Battleship.
Meanwhile, Qiong Qi swiftly recalled all the Divine Unity realm beasts, while the remaining Dominator-level beasts scattered around the battleship and promptly self-destructed, creating chaos to block the pursuit of the Zhou family’s experts.
Seizing the opportunity, Qiong Qi dashed into the Spirit Cat Battleship. Ye Liuyun activated it immediately, and in the blink of an eye, the vessel tore through the void, leaving the Zhou family’s territory far behind as it accelerated into the distance.
The remaining beasts, still under Qiong Qi’s control, detonated themselves to ensure no captives fell into enemy hands.
A thunderous explosion later, the Zhou estate lay in ruins, littered with casualties. By then, Ye Liuyun’s battleship had long vanished without a trace.
Reinforcements from across the Zhou family’s domain rushed to the scene, but it was too late. The clan leader and elders, consumed by fury, immediately dispatched their strongest cultivators to hunt down Ye Liuyun’s trail.
Not stopping there, they brazenly broadcasted the incident, ordering all planets under their control to intercept the Spirit Cat Battleship. Confident in their ability to reclaim the stolen secret realms and treasures, they saw no need for secrecy.
Yet, Ye Liuyun’s battleship outpaced even the spread of their alerts. Before the Zhou family’s message could reach every planet, he had already escaped their sphere of influence.
"Over half our beasts are lost—especially the Dominator-level ones. None remain," Qiong Qi reported grimly after assessing their losses.
"The Tang and An family secret realms won’t be easy targets either," Ye Liuyun mused. "Perhaps we should focus on cultivation first, strengthen ourselves, and then strike the other two families later?"
He agreed that their current strength made further assaults too risky. For now, it was wiser to regroup and prepare.
