Chapter 3445

“Junior Sister, how could I attack you? Your two guards don’t know the rules. I only wanted to teach them a lesson!” Only then did Qi Shengyu withdraw his pressure and explain himself to Chen Yueying.

“They’re my people. It’s not your place to teach them. And don’t provoke me again! Let’s go!”

Chen Yueying had no intention of fighting him either. After warning him, she called to Ye Liuyun and the others, and they left.

Qi Shengyu watched them leave. Only after they had gone some distance did he reveal his true colors again.

“That bitch actually dared to point a sword at me. Did she really think I wouldn’t dare touch her?” he cursed through clenched teeth.

“Senior Brother, even if we don’t touch Junior Sister Chen, we can still kill those guards to vent our anger!” one of the disciples beside him immediately suggested.

“Exactly. They’re only a few guards, yet they dared laugh at Senior Brother Qi. Senior Brother, you don’t even need to act. We can make our move while they’re carrying out a mission and quietly finish them off. Junior Sister Chen won’t know you were behind it!” another disciple suggested.

“Mm! Go ahead, then. Be careful. Make it clean and quick, and don’t let that bitch find out!”

Qi Shengyu nodded as well, thinking this would be a good way to vent his anger. They were only killing a few guards of lower cultivation levels, so it shouldn’t cause any major trouble.

The several followers beside him immediately chased after Ye Liuyun and the others.

Qi Shengyu also turned back toward the inner sect with a sinister expression, intending to find a way to cause Chen Yueying some trouble and make her come begging to him.

None of their expressions or actions escaped Ye Liuyun’s notice. He raised the corner of his mouth and sent a message warning Liao Yaotian and the others to be extra careful.

Meanwhile, Chen Yueying was busy explaining herself to Ye Liuyun. “Sigh, I’m sorry you had to see that. That guy has always pestered me like this...”

“I understand. There are petty people like that everywhere! But you should be more cautious too. The pettier someone is, the stronger their desire for revenge!” Ye Liuyun tactfully warned Chen Yueying as well.

“Does he know that you’re a princess?” Ye Liuyun asked her.

“Qi Shengyu probably doesn’t know. In the sect, only a few inner disciples and some elders know my identity,” Chen Yueying replied.

“I suspect he knows your identity. There’s no such thing as a wall without a gap. And it’s precisely because he knows your identity that he didn’t dare argue or fight with you. You’d better be careful!” Ye Liuyun reminded her.

“Mm. Even if he does know, he wouldn’t dare do anything to me. Don’t worry!” Chen Yueying agreed, but she still didn’t take it to heart.

Ye Liuyun said no more. He didn’t want to speak ill of others behind their backs. In any case, Chen Yueying would naturally find out once those people made their move.

“When petty people seek revenge, their methods can be even more covert and vicious. Princess, you must not let your guard down!” Liao Yaotian also reminded Chen Yueying.

Although he hadn’t seen the expressions or actions of Qi Shengyu and the others, he had extensive experience dealing with people. He knew that once you offended a petty person, trouble would follow, and you had to be careful at every turn.

“All right.” Chen Yueying agreed, then led Ye Liuyun and the others toward Immortal Herb Mountain. She began talking about the Shadowless Grass they were looking for, not wanting the matter with Qi Shengyu to affect Ye Liuyun’s mood.

Ye Liuyun chatted with her while using his divine sense to track the disciples following them. He wouldn’t gain much from this mission, so he planned to plunder some extra resources from those people.

There were six of them in total, all at the third or fourth level of the Taixu Realm. They were also all inner disciples, so they shouldn’t be too poor, and their cultivation levels were just right for him to use as practice.

The Thousand Spirits Sect was truly enormous. It took them two days to reach Immortal Herb Mountain. This was not the Thousand Spirits Sect’s medicinal herb-growing base, but relatively rare herbs often grew there.

There were also quite a few ferocious beasts in the mountains, but they wouldn’t encounter any beasts with particularly high cultivation in the area they were heading to. Ye Liuyun therefore had Liao Yaotian and the other two lead the way, killing ferocious beasts to hone their skills.

However, the five of them stayed together the entire time and never split up. The six disciples following them had no opportunity to strike and maintained a distance of more than fifteen li.

They thought that since their divine senses couldn’t detect Ye Liuyun and the others, they themselves certainly couldn’t be detected either. In reality, they had always been within Ye Liuyun’s range of surveillance.

At first, Liao Yaotian and the other two made smooth progress. They easily killed ferocious beasts at the first level of the Taixu Realm, and they were also able to use beasts at the second level as practice before killing them. Their pace was extremely fast.

But they soon encountered a ferocious beast at the third level of the Taixu Realm. Ye Liuyun did not act at first, instead letting the three of them join forces to temper themselves. Only when they could no longer hold out did he casually wave his hand and kill the beast with a single palm strike imbued with the power of heaven and earth.

“That easily?”

“That’s way too discouraging!”

Liao Yaotian and the others couldn’t help exclaiming.

Even Chen Yueying was extremely surprised. “Your power of heaven and earth has improved that much?”

“I’ve mainly been cultivating this lately!” Ye Liuyun could only respond modestly.

He then went to the front of the group to lead the way, telling Liao Yaotian and the others to prepare their treasures and guard against ambushes.

Once he took the lead, the group’s pace quickened again. He easily killed every third-level Taixu ferocious beast with a single palm strike, and he also collected quite a few of their corpses as a reserve of meat.

When they reached the territory of fourth-level Taixu ferocious beasts, Liao Yaotian and the others thought he would finally use his saber. Instead, he continued to wave his palm casually, using the power of heaven and earth to fight the fourth-level beasts. Even when he encountered powerful ones, he merely added Spatial Force to his defense and attacks.

He used Spatial Force far more often than ordinary martial cultivators, though he himself felt that it was still not enough. For example, after using Spatial Force to enlarge himself, almost none of the ferocious beasts could withstand a single palm strike from him.

He also conducted all sorts of experiments as he fought, leaving the people behind him dazzled. One moment he would shrink a ferocious beast, the next he would shift it away, and the next he would use Spatial Force to cut it apart directly.

When ferocious beasts encountered such sudden attacks, they were generally unable to defend against them.

Later, when they encountered even stronger fourth-level Taixu ferocious beasts, Ye Liuyun used his power of bloodline to suppress their cultivation levels before killing them with a single palm strike.

Chen Yueying was even more astonished as she watched from behind. Ye Liuyun’s power of heaven and earth had already caught up with hers. Now even his Spatial Force had caught up with hers, and he actually had so many different ways of using it.

“I really didn’t misjudge him. His cultivation talent is far superior to mine! I wonder how much his true essence and physical body have improved!”

Seeing Ye Liuyun’s strength improve made her even happier than improving her own strength. She watched with great interest from behind, even hoping that he would take turns displaying more of his abilities.

She could see Ye Liuyun’s soul force as well. It was far stronger than hers, and he was still refining three soul sources. Once he finished refining them, his soul force would probably become even stronger.