Chapter 3409

Meng Yunshan said quite naturally as well, “Who among those with status would be willing to come to this godforsaken place?”

Ye Liuyun thought for a moment, then asked, “There are still quite a few people in my spatial world who have no status. Do you have any way to resolve that?”

He wanted to see whether Meng Yunshan had any way to resolve the status issue for his entire army.

Meng Yunshan helplessly shook his head and said with a bitter smile, “If we had a way, would we still be bandits here? We’ve merely banded together for warmth and are trying to survive.

“As for the solution you mentioned, it’s not as though there isn’t one. If you’re strong enough, you can carve out a world of your own. Otherwise, you can only struggle along like this for now!”

Meng Yunshan was not boasting; he was simply telling the truth, which instead left Ye Liuyun with a favorable impression of him.

“You’re being honest, at least. Indeed, everything ultimately comes down to strength!”

Ye Liuyun also felt that asking had been pointless. Without sufficient strength, there was no way he could resolve the status issue for so many people.

Even so, he still asked Meng Yunshan, “Do you think it’s possible to lead a force and carve out a world of our own?”

Meng Yunshan looked at Ye Liuyun seriously, then laughed. “Haha, anything is possible. But even I wouldn’t dare imagine it. Even if you can accomplish it, it won’t be until after you reach the ninth level of the Taixu Realm!

“I estimate it would take at least several dozen, perhaps even a hundred years. And that’s assuming you have extraordinary talent, sufficiently powerful bloodline strength, and enough luck to survive until then.

“If you hole up in a place like this without any resources, how quickly do you think you can cultivate?”

Hearing this, Ye Liuyun nodded and said to Meng Yunshan, “You’re right. I need to leave this place and search for resources. So I won’t be joining you!”

Meng Yunshan merely smiled and did not try to force Ye Liuyun to stay.

“All right. Everyone has their own ambitions, and I won’t force you to stay. But I can give you some information. Farther west, there’s an unclaimed planet with a Cangyuan Canyon. There should be some cultivation resources inside. However, if you’re below the fourth level of the Taixu Realm, you won’t be able to enter at all.”

Meng Yunshan had also guessed that Ye Liuyun had great ambitions and would not remain here wasting his time, so he told Ye Liuyun what he knew, thinking it might be of some help to him.

He himself no longer dared to leave this exiled planet. He both loathed the martial cultivators of the Taixu World and knew he was no match for them. All he could do was slowly improve his strength here.

He was not strong enough to go to that unclaimed planet or Cangyuan Canyon anyway, so he might as well do Ye Liuyun a favor.

“Why are you telling me this? I’ve killed so many of your men...”

Ye Liuyun sensed that Meng Yunshan had no intention of fighting him. He also looked somewhat apologetically at the corpses strewn across the ground before him. He felt that what Meng Yunshan had said was true: these bandits had merely banded together for warmth and to obtain some cultivation resources. It was just that, unable to rob anyone else, they could only prey on the weak here.

Meng Yunshan, however, explained lightly, “Actually, it’s quite simple. I saw my former self in you—the way I was when I first arrived here. I hope you can accomplish what I couldn’t! Although I also think you’ll fail to fulfill your dream, having some hope is still a good thing!

“Besides, I can’t keep you here. Your soul force is too powerful, and you may well have other trump cards. I don’t want to fight you to the death. It’s better to make a friend and leave myself another way out.

“As for these dead men, they’re utterly insignificant in the Taixu World. No one even regards us as human beings. Slaves are worth less than feral beast. This place lacks everything except people like us.”

There was a trace of sorrow in Meng Yunshan’s voice, and Ye Liuyun could no longer bring himself to attack.

“All right, then. I’ll consider you a friend! I still need to train here for a few days before I can leave. I hope we won’t have any more misunderstandings!”

As Ye Liuyun spoke, he also revealed his true appearance.

The sudden change in Ye Liuyun’s appearance startled Meng Yunshan as well. He had not expected Ye Liuyun to possess such an ability.

“Perhaps your hope will become reality! Until we meet again!” Ye Liuyun cupped his hands toward Meng Yunshan, then changed direction with his clone and went elsewhere to find people to practice against.

Watching Ye Liuyun’s departing back, Meng Yunshan muttered, “I hope it can come true!”

After saying that, he ordered his men to clean up the corpses on the ground and instructed them not to attack Ye Liuyun or his clone if they encountered them again.

“This is what they call becoming acquainted through a fight! It seems Meng Yunshan has been through quite a lot as well!”

Ye Liuyun and his clone chatted as they walked.

“Yeah! He was probably forced to come here too. If you’re not strong enough, you’ll be bullied wherever you go!” His clone sighed in agreement.

“Then let’s hurry up and improve our strength!”

Ye Liuyun did not dwell on it. No matter what happened in the future, improving his strength was the priority right now. His power of heaven and earth was still far too weak.

By now, he had more or less finished training all his other abilities. From then on, Ye Liuyun sought out somewhat weaker opponents in battle, specifically to practice his power of heaven and earth.

He used Spatial Force for both traveling and defense, improving these two weakest abilities. Every day, he had his clone constantly search for people to fight. When there were no opponents, he went to the clone’s spatial world to practice against the captives they had seized.

Seven days later, he finally raised his power of heaven and earth to the point where it could barely contend with opponents of the same rank.

“That’ll do for now. I’ll go back and help Xiao Han get through this round of the contest, then find a way to search for resources on that unclaimed planet to the west!”

Ye Liuyun could only train up to this point, so he left himself more time for the return journey to avoid any accidents.

However, when he passed through Meng Yunshan’s territory on his way back, his divine sense detected the corpses of bandits scattered everywhere around Meng Yunshan’s lair.

There were three young people outside the cave at the lair, all wearing the same uniform, as though they were disciples of some sect. Two men and one woman were blocking the entrance to a cave. One of the men, sword in hand, was pointing it at several wounded bandits.

Ye Liuyun and his clone immediately rushed over to see what was going on.

Although he had not known Meng Yunshan for long, they had just become friends, and he did not want to stand by and watch him die.

Before he could get close, he heard the sword-wielding man’s sinister laughter. “Let’s have you listen to the screams of your comrades. Aren’t they pleasant?”

With that, the man thrust his sword into a bandit’s lower abdomen, then twisted and lifted it, digging out the bandit’s essence core.

The bandit was in agony and terrified, screaming incessantly, while the man laughed loudly beside him. The other man and woman watched with faint smiles from behind, completely unmoved by the swordsman’s cruelty.

Ye Liuyun swept his golden eyes over them and found that all three were probably at the third level of the Taixu Realm, with extremely solid true essence.

After seeing through their cultivation levels, he felt more at ease. He was no match for them himself, but he still had the golden dragon Puppet.