Chapter 2922: Chapter 2922
The elite disciples of the An family were no weaker in strength, relentlessly pursuing them the entire way.
Tang Lie was the first to fall during their retreat. Soon after, another male disciple was intercepted while covering for the others and was swiftly surrounded and killed by the An family’s disciples.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun acted immediately, charging straight toward the Golden Source Pool.
An elder from the An family moved to intercept him, but Ye Liuyun had no intention of engaging in a prolonged fight. With a flash of white light from his golden pupils, he cut down anyone in his path, swiftly eliminating the elders. Two martial artists at the first level of the Unity Realm attempted to block him, but they were slain in an instant by the same deadly radiance.
Ye Liuyun reached the Golden Source Pool unhindered and transferred the entire pool into his spatial world. Only then did the An family’s hidden powerhouse—a third-level Unity Realm expert—seize the moment to ambush him. But Ye Liuyun had anticipated this. The moment the attacker revealed himself, a beam of white light lashed out, killing him instantly.
**"Disaster! The Golden Source Pool is gone!"**
Back in the An family’s stronghold, the clan leader leapt to his feet in alarm.
**"Quickly! All elders, converge on the Golden Source Secret Realm! Kill every outsider!"** he roared in desperation. Then, taking his personal retinue of elders, he rushed to the entrance of the secret realm where Ye Liuyun and the others had infiltrated, stationing himself there to block any escape.
**"Everyone, listen closely—the moment anyone emerges, strike with full force! Don’t give them a chance to retaliate!"** he barked at the martial artists guarding the exit.
Meanwhile, the second clone relayed all these developments to the main body.
**"Hurry! All the An family elders are charging into the secret realm to kill you!"** Ye Liuyun immediately warned Tang Xinyao through the slave mark.
**"What?! You’ve really doomed us this time!"** Tang Xinyao could only grit her teeth in frustration, leading the few survivors in a desperate sprint toward Ye Liuyun’s location.
By now, Ye Liuyun had already secured the entire Golden Source Pool. His golden pupils detected that several elders were rapidly closing in on his position—and his clone’s.
Without another moment’s delay, he rushed toward the rendezvous point.
When he finally met up with Tang Xinyao, only three of them remained—Tang Xinyao, Tang Qianyu, and Tang Hao. A group of elite An family disciples still pursued them, though the elders had yet to catch up.
Ye Liuyun immediately released twenty martial cultivators at the Unity First Level and commanded them, "Block the An Family’s cultivators!"
Then he signaled to Tang Xinyao and the others to follow him as they fled.
Tang Qianyu, startled by the sudden appearance of so many martial cultivators, asked in astonishment, "Where did these people come from? Where did you just run off to?"
Without even turning his head, Ye Liuyun kept sprinting forward and brushed her off with a hurried reply, "Survival first! No time to explain!"
Tang Xinyao and Tang Hao didn’t hesitate—they immediately followed Ye Liuyun. Left with no choice, Tang Qianyu swallowed her questions and ran after them. If she stayed behind alone, she’d be dead for sure.
Besides, they had already been recognized by some of the An Family disciples. As members of the expeditionary force, they had encountered each other on the battlefield. The moment the elite disciples clashed with them, they identified them by their techniques. There was no way the An Family would let them escape now.
The An Family elders also sprang into action—some moved to intercept Ye Liuyun’s group, while others targeted his doppelgangers and Qiong Qi.
Qiong Qi stopped at the closest point to Ye Liuyun, first studying the secret realm’s formation to prepare for swiftly tearing open an exit. Then, he set up a defensive array to withstand the elders’ attacks, standing his ground without counterattacking as he waited for Ye Liuyun.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun sprinted toward Qiong Qi with the three Tang disciples in tow, hotly pursued by the An Family’s elite disciples and elders.
"You Tang brats won’t escape this time!" bellowed an An Family elder at the Unity Second Level, blocking their path ahead.
After their earlier fierce battles, Tang Xinyao and the others were nearly drained of their True Essence. The little they had left was barely enough to keep running—they stood no chance against a Unity Second Level elder.
They were about to halt, unwilling to charge straight into the elder’s attack range.
"Don’t stop! Keep moving forward with me!"
Ye Liuyun immediately sent them a mental message, simultaneously using his slave mark to compel Tang Xinyao and Tang Hao to stay close.
"But we’re no match for him!"
Tang Qianyu had just come to a halt when she heard Ye Liuyun’s words. Seeing Tang Xinyao and Tang Hao immediately accelerate to follow him, she couldn’t help but voice her question.
But when she noticed none of them stopping, she had no choice but to follow again—though she maintained a cautious distance from Ye Liuyun and the others, wary of the elder’s attack.
**"Keep moving! Stopping means death!"** Ye Liuyun warned her without even turning his head, then charged straight toward the elder.
The elder, seeing them rush forward, didn’t act immediately. Though his cultivation level wasn’t exceptionally high, his true essence was remarkably dense, making him a rare match for opponents of the same realm.
Noticing the elder’s hesitation, Ye Liuyun smirked, a beam of white light shooting from his golden pupils. The elder instinctively raised his hand to block, but the light was too fast—it pierced straight through his chest, leaving a gaping hole.
Without breaking stride, Ye Liuyun swept past, swiftly storing the elder’s corpse into his spatial world.
Tang Xinyao and Tang Hao exchanged relieved glances. They had assumed Ye Liuyun would use them as shields to buy time for his escape. Never had they expected him to possess such a trump card for survival.
Grateful, they lowered their heads and sprinted even closer behind him, terrified of being left behind.
Tang Qianyu, meanwhile, was stunned.
**"What kind of treasure is that?"**
She had been too focused on anticipating the elder’s attack to notice how Ye Liuyun had struck. Yet this white light had obliterated a Unity Realm elder in a single blow. She was certain such overwhelming power couldn’t possibly originate from Ye Liuyun himself.
**"Stop him! He has a powerful artifact!"**
The other An Family elders, witnessing their comrade’s instant demise from afar, also assumed Ye Liuyun had unleashed a treasure. They closed in, gripping their own artifacts, ready to strike first.
**"Shameless old bastards—resorting to artifacts against mere disciples!"**
Without hesitation, Ye Liuyun activated his temporal power, freezing time. Then, one by one, he obliterated the elders with the white light, collecting their corpses. He replenished his depleted energy with a stored essence stone before resuming the flow of time and urging Tang Xinyao’s group onward.
Meanwhile, his doppelgänger had already spotted them. Seizing the moment, it too wielded temporal power and the white light, annihilating the elders besieging it and Qiong Qi in an instant. Then, it signaled Qiong Qi to dismantle the defensive formation and began tearing an opening in the secret realm’s barrier.
**"Stay close!"** Ye Liuyun pressed forward relentlessly, Tang Xinyao and the others in tow.
Though he had temporal power and the white light at his disposal, he didn’t want to exhaust them inside the secret realm. Outside, far greater challenges awaited.
