Chapter 3002: Chapter 3002
"Alright, next time we attack a city, you can go ahead and take one as well," Li Qingyang said, handing Ye Liuyun and the others a small flying vessel for easier travel.
But Liu Yan’s mind was still reeling. He glanced between Ye Liuyun and Li Qingyang in disbelief.
"Don’t worry. If they dare to go, they’ll be fine," Li Qingyang reassured with a wave, dismissing them.
"Brother, this feels like a dream. Are you really going through with this?" Liu Yan muttered, still dazed.
"Brother Liu, trust me—we’ll be fine! If things go south, we can always retreat," Ye Liuyun reassured him before slipping back into his spatial world to share the news with the others.
Upon hearing they could finally act freely, the group grew even more eager to restore their energy reserves.
When they reached the next planet, Ye Liuyun and his team departed early—though shadowed by scouts from the Dragon Head Bandits. Their small flying vessel quickly caught the attention of a powerful expert at the sixth level of Guiyi.
"Don’t mind them. Charge straight in!"
Ye Liuyun ordered Tang Xinyao to pilot the vessel directly toward a city. Meanwhile, Li Qingyang’s group targeted another. Ye Liuyun had chosen a city far enough from Li Qingyang’s to avoid detection.
Their vessel plunged straight into the heart of the city. The first clone, leading the beasts and Tang Xinyao’s team, stowed the vessel and immediately launched their assault from the center. Ye Liuyun and his second clone, cloaked in invisibility, hovered above, monitoring the situation.
The Dragon Head Bandit expert trailing them was baffled—how could such a small force dare attack a city outright? He kept his distance, wary of an ambush.
Yet after a long wait, no reinforcements arrived for Ye Liuyun’s group. Worse, it became clear their combat prowess was formidable—even Guiyi fourth-level warriors couldn’t hold them back.
Meanwhile, within the city, the few martial cultivators who had reached the fifth level of the Guiyi Realm were instantly slain by the first doppelganger using soul blades.
"If this keeps up, they really could wipe out an entire city!"
The thought flashed through his mind as he pulled out a communication talisman to report the situation to the Dragonhead Bandit Group.
"Eliminate them! A lone squad dares to attack our city—do they really think we’re easy prey?" came the furious reply from the powerful leader.
Without hesitation, he locked onto the first doppelganger leading the assault and charged forward. But before he could close the distance, he sensed spatial fluctuations around him, followed by two overwhelming bloodline pressures bearing down on him.
The sheer force of these bloodline auras made it clear—their cultivators were at a higher realm than his own. And with both attackers striking simultaneously, his strength was instantly suppressed, leaving him with only sixty percent of his usual power.
"Damn it, it’s a trap! They have hidden elites lying in wait!"
The realization struck him—ambushers of a higher cultivation level had been lying in wait.
At the same moment, Ye Liuyun and the second doppelganger each swung their blades at him with devastating force. Sensing the terrifying sword intent radiating from the strikes, the man grew even more certain—these ambushers were far stronger than him.
Desperate, he activated his communication talisman. Even if he died here, he had to warn the others—no more of his comrades should fall into this trap.
"Hidden elites—stronger than me—"
Before he could finish, the two blades struck. His suppressed strength left him defenseless. With a thunderous explosion, the sixth-level Guiyi Realm expert was torn apart in an instant.
"Could this be considered a form of coordinated attack? Not bad at all!" Ye Liuyun mused, surprised by the effectiveness of their combined bloodline suppression. Even a sixth-level Guiyi martial artist had been powerless to resist.
The doppelganger nodded in agreement. "The bloodline suppression worked well. How about we capture a few fifth-level Guiyi cultivators next for some training?"
"Good, pressure makes for faster progress!" Ye Liuyun nodded in agreement.
However, there were only two remaining experts at the fifth level of Guiyi in the city. They immediately took action, using the power of time and soul force to brand the two with slave seals. The other captives used for practice were mostly martial artists at the fourth level of Guiyi.
The demonic beasts like Thunderclap and the Dragon Maiden also went all out, fighting without restraint, their roars echoing continuously. This drew the attention of many martial artists outside the city, who came to investigate.
Without any strong guardians around to deter them, their group quickly attracted the notice of powerful figures outside the city. Opportunists looking to take advantage of the chaos were everywhere.
As a result, the number of powerful enemies and common bandits Ye Liuyun and his group had to deal with far exceeded their initial expectations.
"Perfect timing. We were just worried about not having enough practice targets, and now they’re delivering themselves to us!"
Ye Liuyun and his clone made no effort to stop the outsiders from entering the city. They only intervened when facing experts at the fifth or sixth level of Guiyi.
But with just the two of them, they soon became overwhelmed as experts slipped past the city walls from all directions.
Left with no choice, Ye Liuyun released the Demon Vine once more, ordering it to absorb corpses while helping protect the group. Though the Demon Vine hadn’t yet reached the sixth level of Guiyi, it wasn’t far off, and blocking attacks from powerful enemies wasn’t an issue.
Just as Ye Liuyun and the others thought the situation was under control, a small flying vessel marked with the insignia of the Dragon Head Bandit Group swiftly approached.
With a sweep of his golden pupils, Ye Liuyun detected three experts at the sixth level of Guiyi inside.
A smirk tugged at his lips—he thought they were just here to deliver themselves as prey.
But upon closer inspection, he noticed something unusual about the trio.
They seemed young, yet one of them—a cold-faced man dressed in black—possessed an astonishingly dense concentration of true essence. Even Ye Liuyun was taken aback.
"I wonder if I’ll be able to achieve such a level of true essence refinement when I reach that stage."
The other two cultivators’ true essence might not be as condensed as his, but it was certainly no weaker than martial cultivators of the same realm.
One of them, a man dressed in dark green robes, immediately sensed Ye Liuyun’s probing. Suddenly, the surrounding natural energy around him erupted, forming a surging force of heaven and earth, and his entire figure instantly blurred into an ethereal haze.
In the end, he vanished completely—not even Ye Liuyun’s golden pupils could detect his presence.
"Such formidable control over natural energy! It even shields his divine soul!"
Ye Liuyun couldn’t help but be astonished.
When he turned his attention to the last martial cultivator, the man merely smiled faintly in his direction. Clad in white robes, he had clearly also sensed Ye Liuyun’s scrutiny. But in the next instant, he flashed away, stepping out of the flying vessel and dissolving into the void.
"A master of spatial power!"
A jolt of alarm shot through Ye Liuyun’s heart. Without hesitation, he ordered his first doppelganger to gather everyone into the spatial world and warn them—powerful enemies had arrived.
