Chapter 3410

“Stop!”

Ye Liuyun let out a loud shout, calling out before he had even arrived.

The three sect disciples were startled as well.

Ye Liuyun was still seven or eight li away from them. Even at that distance, they noticed him. In their view, anyone who could detect them from so far away was certainly no weakling.

Thus, the woman immediately called out in Ye Liuyun’s direction, “We are disciples of the Thousand Spirits Palace carrying out a sect mission to suppress bandits. May I ask who you are, Senior? Why are you trying to stop us?”

“If you’re suppressing bandits, just kill them. Why torture the captives?” Ye Liuyun asked coldly in return.

The authority in Ye Liuyun’s voice was naturally far greater than that of an ordinary person. As a result, the three were genuinely intimidated.

“They’re only a few lowly refugees. Why should Senior concern himself with them...” The woman was still trying to explain herself to Ye Liuyun.

But by then, Ye Liuyun had already used Spatial Force to approach them. Only then did they realize that he was merely an ordinary martial cultivator at the first level of the Taixu Realm.

Moreover, judging by his clothes, he looked much like the bandits here. At a glance, he clearly was not someone from any major power.

“Damn it! How dare you pretend to be a powerhouse and deceive us! Chengfeng Lai, help me kill this lowlife!”

The woman’s originally respectful expression immediately turned mean and vicious.

“Don’t worry, Junior Sister. I’ll let him howl in front of you for several days before he dies!” The man who had been wielding the sword charged at Ye Liuyun again with a ferocious grin.

“Kill!”

At that moment, more than a dozen bandits rushed out of the cave entrance they had been guarding. Led by Meng Yunshan, they all charged toward the swordsman.

Ye Liuyun also swung the Demon-Slaying Saber, cleaving toward the swordsman.

“Oh? Finally willing to come out?”

When the swordsman saw Meng Yunshan and the other bandits charging out, he was actually delighted. He had originally intended to sweep his sword across and kill them all at once.

But he immediately sensed the threat from Ye Liuyun’s sword intention. He could only give up on Meng Yunshan and raise his sword to meet Ye Liuyun’s strike.

At that moment, Meng Yunshan hurled a round sphere, which shot toward the man with a whoosh.

The sphere was incredibly fast. With a bang, it smashed a huge hole even through the man’s protective true essence.

With a boom, the swordsman’s blade split apart Ye Liuyun’s sword intention, and the sword light continued on toward Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun had not used divine essence in that strike, so its power was inferior to the man’s sword strike. He immediately invoked Spatial Force to layer the void before him and did his best to block the attack with the power of heaven and earth. In the end, however, the man’s sword still struck him in the chest, carving out a gash nearly an inch deep.

Then came another spurt of blood. The man had clearly been badly injured by the sphere. Not only was he sent flying, but the sound of bones breaking could also be heard.

“Kill!”

At that moment, the swordsman’s two fellow disciples also drew their swords and charged at the bandits.

The other bandits fearlessly moved to intercept them, while Meng Yunshan hurled the returning sphere at the swordsman again. Clearly, he intended to kill him and avenge his fallen brothers.

“Leave now! We’re no match for them! This is the fate of people like us!” Meng Yunshan did not forget to send Ye Liuyun a voice transmission.

Ye Liuyun remained unmoved and struck at the fallen man again. He also sent Meng Yunshan a voice transmission: “I told you, I’ve made you my friend!”

Upon hearing this, Meng Yunshan’s lips curved slightly upward. He felt that Ye Liuyun was truly loyal, willing to stand against powerful enemies for a few refugees.

With a boom, the swordsman’s barely raised true essence defense was smashed apart once more by Meng Yunshan’s sphere, and he was shaken into spitting out another mouthful of blood.

At that moment, Ye Liuyun’s saber also arrived.

“Damn it!”

The swordsman cursed. Knowing that he was beyond saving, he immediately released his soul and sent it rushing into Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness.

His soul was not weak, and its form was enormous. However, it was not sufficiently condensed and had not reached the state of a soul source.

Ye Liuyun did not care. He immediately had his clone release the two golden dragon puppets.

The bandits were simply no match for the other two. In the blink of an eye, they were on the verge of being slaughtered.

Although these people lacked combat experience, their strength was still quite good. Ye Liuyun had already suffered a serious disadvantage from clashing head-on with one sword strike, so he no longer dared to underestimate them and could only rely on the golden dragon puppets to help him fight.

At the same time, his soul source had already begun searching the swordsman’s soul.

The three of them were all outer disciples of the Thousand Spirits Sect, a famous sect in the western region. They had only recently entered the outer sect and had come here to carry out a sect mission, killing bandits to earn points.

More than a dozen fellow disciples had come with them. They were all newly admitted disciples from this batch, and a fifth-level Taixu elder had been assigned to protect them. He was probably outside the city, leading the other disciples.

After learning this information, Ye Liuyun also searched through the cultivation techniques in the sword cultivator’s sea of consciousness to learn how the cultivation techniques of the Taixu World differed.

Once he searched through them, he discovered that the cultivation techniques of the Taixu World placed great emphasis on harnessing the power of heaven and earth, giving it special prominence. The sword technique cultivated by this sword cultivator even contained a section devoted specifically to mobilizing the power of heaven and earth.

He immediately turned his attention to the battle involving the other two. They were the same, especially the other man. His sword intent was not particularly strong, so he often used his palms to block the golden dragon’s attacks, also drawing upon a great deal of the power of heaven and earth.

He immediately released one of his soul sources and sent it rushing into that man’s sea of consciousness. The two were evenly matched, so Ye Liuyun transformed the soul source into a soul saber and cleaved through one of the man’s souls. He then changed it into a Heaven-Devouring Beast and swallowed that soul before searching through the man’s other soul.

Sure enough, the man’s palm technique also contained a section explaining how to harness the power of heaven and earth.

“As expected of a higher-level world, even the cultivation techniques are far more sophisticated!” Ye Liuyun was secretly delighted. Without even going to the academy, he had obtained the academy’s cultivation techniques, and he could use them to improve the way he harnessed the power of heaven and earth.

After finishing the soul search, he destroyed and devoured that man’s soul, then moved on to attack the woman’s sea of consciousness.

However, when Ye Liuyun released his soul source into the man’s sea of consciousness, the woman had already realized that it was too solid and condensed for her to resist.

Moreover, the golden dragon’s attacks were difficult for her to withstand, so she could only rely on a fourth-grade Void Rank seal to block them.

Thus, she immediately used a voice transmission talisman to send a distress message to the elder leading them.

At that moment, Meng Yunshan hurled his round sphere once again. The sphere was not large, but it was clearly a treasure, as it actually held back the woman’s seal.

Immediately afterward, the golden dragon’s tail struck her squarely. The woman had little combat experience and failed to dodge in time, taking the blow head-on. She let out a scream and fainted on the spot.