Chapter 3408

Ye Liuyun and his clone both used the Thousand Illusions Technique to alter their appearances, and transformed the gilded armor into the attire of an ordinary martial cultivator.

He discovered that using the Thousand Illusions Technique to change his appearance in the Void World merely consumed a little more divine essence, without otherwise affecting his ability to use it. His divine essence was abundant now, enough to sustain the technique for several days, so he had no need to worry about running out.

“I’ll have to test it in actual combat to know how effective it is!” Ye Liuyun also felt that he should look for more opportunities to fight in the future.

Ye Liuyun had carried out missions alongside Xiao Han and the other soldiers, so there were many powers he had not dared to reveal. As a result, he had always felt constrained.

Now that no one was watching him anymore, he finally let loose and used his abilities freely.

After reaching the bandits’ hideout, Ye Liuyun and his clone first fought the two scouts using the power of heaven and earth. The battle alarmed the other bandits, who came to surround and attack them. Only then did they use soul attacks to plant slave seals on all of them.

Even the bandit leader at the second level of the Void Realm was easily brought under Ye Liuyun’s control.

Afterward, Ye Liuyun left his clone outside while he brought the bandits into the clone’s spatial world. There, he casually sparred with them, releasing and testing both of his fire spirit and his thunder spirit. He also tried out his bloodline pressure on different people, and used soul-searching to learn how strongly these abilities affected them.

He did not leave out the Buddhist-Demonic power or the source of poison, either. First, he gained a comprehensive understanding of the level of his various abilities. Only then did he focus on improving the power of heaven and earth.

The clone also conducted a comprehensive test, but his bloodline, divine essence, and physical body were now far behind Ye Liuyun’s, and he certainly could not catch up in a short time. The only thing that could still be of some use was the clone’s considerable soul power.

Thus, he stayed outside to monitor the situation and continued looking for suitable opponents to practice against, no longer in a hurry to catch up with his true body.

Soon, they discovered an even larger bandit group. It was a veteran band of bandits that had operated in the area for a very long time.

Whenever the army came to suppress the bandits, they would use scouts sent far ahead to detect them and evade them in advance. This time, however, Ye Liuyun had come alone, which was why he encountered them.

The bandits immediately sent out a group of men to rob Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun was delighted, since he could finally fight without restraint here. Before the other side could even make a move, he charged forward and engaged them. His clone attacked with soul power from behind, helping him suppress the additional martial cultivators.

Ye Liuyun also unleashed all of his power of bloodline. When there were many opponents, he killed them with one slash each. Against the remaining few, he practiced fighting with the power of heaven and earth, using his physical body to withstand their attacks and improving his power of heaven and earth under pressure.

This selfless, frenzied fighting allowed him to focus on observing the changes in his strength, grasp the feeling of wielding the power of heaven and earth, and even learn quite a bit from his opponents.

Under the pressure of battle, he had no choice but to seize every opportunity and improve his strength as quickly as possible.

The leader of this bandit group was a middle-aged man named Meng Yunshan. He, too, was a martial cultivator who had come to the Void World from the God Realm.

Back then, he had not possessed enough source power to soak in that kind of spiritual liquid, so he had been tossed aside to recover on his own. After recovering, he was assigned to work as a miner. Unwilling to be exploited, he organized his companions and fled with them.

However, he was betrayed by his companions and beaten half to death by the mine’s manager, who threw him out of the mine like a dead dog.

Because he had no identity, he was captured many times and forced into slavery, suffering every kind of humiliation. During yet another escape, he was caught by the local patrol soldiers and thrown into this land of exile.

From then on, his temperament grew ruthless, and he gradually organized this bandit group. Now that he saw Ye Liuyun’s ferocity, he was eager to recruit him.

So he did not hurry to act. Instead, he kept sending people to test Ye Liuyun’s strength. After one group was slaughtered by Ye Liuyun, he sent another, stronger group, and even had the bandits face Ye Liuyun one by one.

Ye Liuyun could also tell that the bandits were testing his strength. But he did not care and simply treated it as practice. Since he had dared to attack these bandits today, he had never intended to let them escape. In the end, he would either kill them or capture them to use as training partners.

His Golden Eyes could see the strength of every bandit, so in each battle he tried to use the power of heaven and earth as much as possible, resorting to some other powers to assist only when he could not win.

Meng Yunshan happened to be sending people to test him one by one, which suited him perfectly for thoroughly assessing all aspects of his strength through battle.

Almost no one could withstand even a single exchange against his soul attacks. After killing the martial cultivator with the strongest soul power, he stopped using that ability. Even when the martial cultivators he encountered afterward launched soul attacks at him, he retaliated by other means.

If a martial cultivator sent their soul into his sea of consciousness, he would simply plant a slave seal and take that person for his own use.

He could also easily suppress these martial cultivators with his power of bloodline, so he stopped using that as well.

His sword intention was invincible among martial cultivators of the same rank. As for divine essence, martial cultivators in the same realm were no match for him either.

In the end, even Meng Yunshan could see that Ye Liuyun’s weak points were Spatial Force and the power of heaven and earth. His Spatial Force was weak only in comparison with experts at the second level of the Void Realm; against martial cultivators of the same realm, he was still no match for them.

But Ye Liuyun’s power of heaven and earth was genuinely far behind. Even after so many desperate battles, his current power of heaven and earth could only barely contend with his opponents well enough to preserve his life. It was extremely difficult for him to injure anyone.

Therefore, after Ye Liuyun finished off this group of bandits, Meng Yunshan did not send anyone else out. He did not make a move himself, either. He had seen that Ye Liuyun’s soul, bloodline, physical body, and sword intention were all stronger than his own, and he might not even be Ye Liuyun’s opponent.

He simply walked over and began chatting with Ye Liuyun. “You came from the God Realm?”

“That’s right. I arrived less than two months ago,” Ye Liuyun answered candidly.

“Less than two months?” Meng Yunshan was even more astonished when he heard this.

To be able to cultivate true essence and a physical body of such strength after arriving only two months earlier, while also bringing out his soul and bloodline powers, was enough to show that Ye Liuyun’s strength had already been formidable to begin with.

Once he adapted to the environment here and could bring out his Spatial Force and the power of heaven and earth, challenging opponents at higher levels would no longer be a problem.

One had to understand that challenging opponents across levels in the Void Realm was far more difficult than in other realms. The gap between each level was enormous.

Ye Liuyun had even fused with a clone, yet his realm had still not broken through directly to the second level of the Void Realm. This alone showed how great the gap between them was.

“Would you be willing to join my bandit group? I’ll make you the vice leader! Without an identity, it’ll be very difficult for you to get by in the Void World!” Meng Yunshan said to Ye Liuyun sincerely.

“How do you know I don’t have an identity?” Seeing how sincere he sounded, Ye Liuyun decided to learn more from him.