Chapter 3397

Ye Liuyun needed to absorb some of the energy within his physical body, temper it first, and then refine his Origin Core and Divine Essence. After refining a portion, he would wait for Yuehong to enhance his power of bloodline before returning to refine his physical body and Origin Core. He repeated this cycle over and over.

After twenty-seven days had passed in the outside world, Ye Liuyun had completely finished the refinement. Yuehong was utterly exhausted and had returned to recuperate.

Ye Liuyun’s main body was now twice as strong as his clone in every aspect. According to Yuehong, his power of bloodline would grow even stronger after he became familiar with it for a while.

Likewise, Ye Liuyun could feel that the same was true of his physical body. The energy within it was overflowing, and it was clearly more than a simple doubling through accumulation. After being refined for a while, it would become even more powerful.

It was just like his Origin Core. After the two Origin Cores merged, the space within the Origin Core was larger than before, and its walls were thicker as well.

The quality of the Divine Essence within Ye Liuyun’s Origin Core had now surpassed the Primal Power of the Void World.

He still had to keep compressing and tempering it. Otherwise, if he broke through and brought his clone along with him, the quality of the clone’s Divine Essence would not be sufficient, resulting in an unstable realm.

Thus, Ye Liuyun made use of the last thirty days he had in the clone’s spatial world and entered the pressure array disc to temper all his various powers.

The array disc had originally been most effective for tempering the physical body, but after Ye Liuyun’s body grew stronger, he could move about freely inside it under the pressure of the Void World.

So he continued increasing the pressure of the array disc until he could no longer withstand it even with his power of bloodline and Divine Essence. Only then did he stop increasing the pressure.

He not only needed the array disc to continue exerting pressure on his physical body, but also needed his power of bloodline and Divine Essence to operate beyond their limits under the intense pressure. Only then could they be properly tempered.

He did not relax at all during those thirty days. Every time he adapted even slightly, he immediately increased the pressure of the array disc again.

The pressure he could withstand now was already twice that of the Void World. Every time he increased the pressure, blood seeped from the corners of his mouth, but he still gritted his teeth and endured it.

Naturally, the results of this tempering were also exceptionally good. After sufficient tempering and repeated high-intensity use, powers of the same origin gradually merged into one.

Ye Liuyun could clearly feel that, after his various powers had completely fused, they were growing stronger at an ever-increasing rate. Then, at a certain moment, he suddenly felt his power of bloodline rise to another level.

The terrifying power radiating from it shocked even him. In his eyes, the pressure of the array disc instantly became lighter. Then his Divine Essence and physical body erupted with the same power as well.

“This is the result of perfect fusion!” the Book Demon explained. “Your powers are no longer simply stacked together. Instead, a qualitative change has arisen from a quantitative change!

“Only now have these powers truly become your own! From here on, when you improve your strength, you will be building upon this foundation.”

Ye Liuyun understood what he meant, but the changes brought about by this perfect fusion still left him deeply astonished.

This power was simply too formidable. Using only his physical body, he could withstand the pressure currently exerted by the array disc. Using only his power of bloodline or Divine Essence produced roughly the same result.

He had already pushed the pressure of the array disc to its limit; it was impossible to increase it any further. Thus, he ultimately had no way to test just how much pressure he could withstand at full strength. In any case, he knew that he would have no problem going to the Void World now.

Yet amid his excitement, he thought of his other clone.

The quality of his main body’s Divine Essence was too high, so he would probably break through soon after arriving in the Void World. Compared with his main body, however, the quality of the clone’s Divine Essence was far too low.

The Book Demon also offered his advice. “Either recall your other clone, or bring that clone along when you break through. Once he can no longer advance, recall him. In any case, it’s something you’ll have to do sooner or later.”

“What if an opportunity arises that allows the clone to reach my current level of strength?” Ye Liuyun asked the Book Demon.

The Book Demon replied, “That is possible, but you need to do it as soon as possible. Otherwise, if you bring the clone along when you break through again, his foundation will become unstable. The longer you delay, the harder it will be for him to catch up with your main body, even if he encounters an opportunity later. Once you break through two or three more minor realms, the clone won’t have much of a chance left!

“Moreover, the thunder tribulation you’ll face when you break through to the Void Realm this time will certainly be different from the time you borrowed someone else’s thunder tribulation. The clone won’t even be able to borrow its power then, and the gap between him and your main body will become even greater!”

“Let’s leave it at that for now. We’ll see what happens after we get there!” Ye Liuyun did not think too much about it. He would try his best to keep this remaining clone, but if the circumstances truly did not allow it, there was nothing he could do.

He immediately used the little time he had left to continue merging the Buddhist light within his second clone’s body. Every bit he could merge was worth merging.

Fortunately, the Buddhist light possessed by him and his second clone was not particularly powerful. Protecting himself with Buddhist-Demonic power, he tried his best to use only that power to withstand the pressure of the array disc. At last, before the Thunder Spirit returned, he finally succeeded in perfectly merging his Buddhist-Demonic power as well.

Afterward, Ye Liuyun notified Luan Ping and the others, stored his clone in his spatial world, and went outside the city to break through, lest he destroy the City Lord’s residence as he had last time.

He released the aura of the Void Realm, and the Thunder Spirit sensed it immediately.

This time, the Thunder Spirit did not waste any words. It immediately began gathering the power of thunder and lightning, while dark clouds rapidly gathered above Ye Liuyun.

Luan Ping and the elders of the Myriad Gods Alliance also waited uneasily nearby, not knowing what accident Ye Liuyun might encounter this time.

They had already sensed the powerful Void Realm aura radiating from Ye Liuyun. He had clearly broken through long ago, but since Ye Liuyun did not explain anything to them, all they could do was watch.

Ye Liuyun felt that his situation was unusual, and there was no need to explain it to them. In any case, they would not encounter such a situation when they broke through in the future.

The Thunder Spirit finally got what it wanted this time. Ye Liuyun fully met the conditions, so it could strike him with lightning as it pleased. It also knew that Ye Liuyun’s Thunder Spirit was not weak, so it immediately condensed five-colored lightning, intending to teach Ye Liuyun a lesson.

Ye Liuyun looked up at the five-colored source of lightning gathering in the sky and merely smiled helplessly.

“This fellow actually knows how to hold a grudge!”

However, he had no intention of using any power to resist. He would first endure it directly with his physical body.

At the same time, he sent a voice transmission to Luan Ping, telling him that his situation was unusual and that he had some bad blood with this Thunder Spirit. Otherwise, it would not have begun with five-colored thunder tribulation.

“Boom... crack!”

After gathering for half a day, the Thunder Spirit finally brought down the first bolt of thunder tribulation.

The sky, which had been rendered pitch-black by the dark clouds, was torn open by a bolt of five-colored thunder tribulation that came crashing down toward the top of Ye Liuyun’s head.

Ye Liuyun did not dodge. His Golden Eyes saw clearly that this was only thunder tribulation—the Thunder Spirit had still held back, refraining from using the source of lightning to strike him right away.