Chapter 3430

Zhao Yuanpei had already described Ye Liuyun’s appearance to Zhao Yu’an through a voice-transmission talisman. After comparing them, Song Qingyun saw that their clothing and appearance were similar enough, and immediately ordered the remaining guards to attack.

The guards beside him had just charged out of the formation disc when the Yin-soul at the seventh level of the Taixu Realm let out a roar as well. Leading the Yin Souls around it, it charged forward and stopped them all.

The Yin Souls also took the opportunity to charge into the guards’ seas of consciousness and engage their divine souls in battle. With their superior numbers, the Yin Souls held an overwhelming advantage. Before long, one guard after another had his divine soul destroyed, and their bodies collapsed to the ground.

The moment Song Qingyun saw that the guards had been stopped, he released his own divine souls and sent them into Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness. One of his divine souls had already been refined into a soul origin, while the other was still relatively large.

Ye Liuyun, however, remained unmoved. He merely instructed the Yin-soul at the seventh level of the Taixu Realm to save the storage rings and corpses of these people for him.

Song Qingyun’s corpse immediately collapsed inside the formation disc, lifeless. Ye Liuyun had already pulled both his soul origin and his divine soul directly into the Soul-Refining Cauldron to refine them.

The Yin-soul was hesitating over whether to go save Ye Liuyun when it suddenly heard him speak and realized that he was completely fine. It immediately let out a roar to notify the other Yin Souls, then led Ye Liuyun toward the bottom of the valley shrouded in Yin aura.

“Please, Young Master, save me! This humble woman, Chen Yueying, will be eternally grateful and will certainly repay you!”

At that moment, the woman actually sent Ye Liuyun a voice transmission asking for help.

Ye Liuyun thought it over. The woman seemed able to see through his Thousand Illusions Technique, yet she had not exposed him, and he had no idea what she intended.

Regardless, he decided to assess the situation first. If he could help, he would lend her a hand. Thus, he replied, “Stay inside the formation disc and don’t move. We’ll talk after I’ve completely subdued these Yin Souls!”

“Thank you! I shall do exactly as you command, Young Master!” Chen Yueying immediately thanked Ye Liuyun as well.

Ye Liuyun then followed the Yin-soul toward the bottom of the valley.

Only after reaching the bottom did he see several female Yin Souls. They had originally been at the sixth or seventh level of the Taixu Realm, but by now they had all grown extremely faint. They would probably dissipate before long.

“We beg the Lord of the Netherworld to show mercy and save our lives!”

The women all bowed to Ye Liuyun and begged him for help. The Yin-soul that had brought Ye Liuyun there also knelt and pleaded with him once more.

Ye Liuyun did not hesitate. He immediately summoned Zhuge Feiyu and used the Soul Banner to take them in. Only then did he ask them about the situation there.

It turned out that they had originally been martial cultivators native to this planet, but the God King had once sent troops to exterminate them. After their deaths, their Yin Souls had all hidden here. They had intended to protect the planet, but unexpectedly, their strength had continued to weaken, and they were now on the verge of being unable to hold on.

The Yin Souls here, whether human or ferocious beast, were all their own clansmen or spirit beasts. Thus, they could not bear to devour others to strengthen themselves and could only wait here for death.

At the bottom of this canyon was the planet’s power of origin. Ye Liuyun could directly refine this power of origin and take the entire planet away.

“There are quite a few Yin Souls nearby as well. Why don’t we take this opportunity to absorb more of them? Once you reach this place, you can open the Gate of the Netherworld immediately as well,” Zhuge Feiyu suggested to Ye Liuyun.

“Very well. First, absorb these Yin Souls into the Soul Banner and have them help you intimidate the Yin Souls that enter later. I’ll go deal with those martial cultivators and Azure Apes first.”

Ye Liuyun immediately agreed, feeling that this was a good opportunity to open a passage to the Netherworld and strengthen the power of its Yin Souls.

He then returned with the Yin-soul at the seventh level of the Taixu Realm.

The Yin-soul let out a roar, notifying all the Yin Souls to enter Zhuge Feiyu’s Soul Banner.

Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, arrived outside Chen Yueying’s formation disc. “You can come out now. It’s safe here!”

“Thank you! May I ask how I should address my benefactor?”

Chen Yueying immediately rose and led everyone out of the formation disc, thanking Ye Liuyun.

At the same time, she sent Ye Liuyun a voice transmission: “Young Master, is there some reason you don’t show your true appearance? If you’re in trouble, I can help. I’m an inner disciple of the Thousand Spirits Sect.”

Upon hearing this, Ye Liuyun was startled. Had Chen Yueying discovered his true appearance?

“How did you know?” Ye Liuyun asked her through a voice transmission as well.

Upon hearing this, Chen Yueying removed a defensive treasure hanging around her neck. Only then did Ye Liuyun’s Golden Eyes see that her divine soul also had a pair of red eyes. She could probably see the appearance of his divine soul.

“It seems there are still quite a few capable people in the Taixu World!”

Ye Liuyun sighed inwardly, then nodded and admitted, “That’s right. I really can’t reveal my identity. I hope you can keep this secret for me, Miss Chen.”

“You really did kill Zhao Yuanpei? Is that why you concealed your appearance, for fear that the Marquis’s Residence would find out?” Chen Yueying asked Ye Liuyun curiously.

Ye Liuyun nodded and admitted it, then explained why he had killed Zhao Yuanpei.

“I see. I’d heard long ago that Zhao Yuanpei was good for nothing, but I never expected him to be so despicable. However, with Mr. Ye’s strength, why are you serving in the army as merely a minor commander?”

“I came to the Taixu World from the lower realm only a little over three months ago. I joined the army merely to find somewhere to settle down and obtain an identity for myself...”

Before Ye Liuyun could finish speaking, the Azure Apes opposite them saw that the Yin Souls had all been taken into the Soul Banner and that the humans were showing no reaction. They began to grow restless and move closer, intending to seize the power of origin.

Zhuge Feiyu immediately shook the Soul Banner again, releasing all the Yin Souls once more to intimidate the Azure Apes.

The Azure Apes, however, were unwilling to accept this and did not want to retreat immediately.

“Are all of these your subordinates?” Ye Liuyun asked Chen Yueying.

Chen Yueying immediately understood that Ye Liuyun was worried someone might leak the information, so she quickly pleaded with him.

“They were all guards I hired. Although they were hired by me, they don’t know your true appearance. There’s no need for you to harm them. At worst, you can erase their memories and then let them leave!”

Chen Yueying could tell how powerful Ye Liuyun’s divine soul was, so she felt that there was no need for him to kill these people.

These people had followed the rules throughout the journey and had also fought desperately to help her. She did not want them to be implicated.

“Very well. We’ll discuss it later. Let’s deal with these Azure Apes first!”

Ye Liuyun agreed, then began summoning the Gate of the Netherworld.

The entire sky dimmed along with it. Then that dense aura of death appeared once more, and the Gate of the Netherworld began to emerge bit by bit.

The gate then opened, and Asura led an army of ten million Yin Souls out to stand on both sides of the gate and maintain order. Bai Su, meanwhile, brought the Soul-Suppressing Mountain and guarded the inside of the Gate of the Netherworld, lest any powerful Yin-soul cause trouble.

Zhuge Feiyu also brought the Yin Souls he had just subdued to guard the entrance. Whenever a powerful Yin-soul appeared, he would run it through the Soul Banner as well, ensuring the Netherworld’s safety.