Chapter 3447

“You just stood there watching and didn’t even come help me! You’re a pretty lousy guard. Your punishment is to roast meat for us!” Chen Yueying pretended to complain angrily at Ye Liuyun, but in truth, she merely wanted to mooch a meal of roasted meat.

“Haha, wasn’t I giving you a chance to practice? All right, you’ve been walking for half a day anyway. You should rest and recover some of your true essence. I’ll roast meat for you!”

Ye Liuyun happily agreed and began roasting meat for them.

After they finished eating and everyone had more or less recovered, they continued onward. Ye Liuyun took charge of clearing the way, while the others simply watched the excitement. With Ye Liuyun’s divine sense scouting ahead, they had no need to worry about being ambushed by ferocious beasts.

The commotion caused by Ye Liuyun’s battles grew louder and louder. Ferocious beasts at the fifth level of the Taixu Realm were far stronger than those at the fourth level.

From the very beginning, Ye Liuyun could only fight with his saber. He also had to use his divine essence and Buddhist-Demonic power to protect his body in order to fight the ferocious beasts to a draw, and he had to withstand some of their attacks with his physical body.

To temper his physical body, he even removed his gilded armor and refrained from manifesting his God of War Armor, relying entirely on his physical body to contend with the ferocious beasts. His clothes were soon shredded, and he was frequently clawed and wounded, yet he fought with immense enjoyment.

“I really didn’t expect this guy to be into this sort of thing!” Liao Yaotian was so astonished by Ye Liuyun’s frenzied fighting that he hardly knew what to say.

Chen Yueying, on the other hand, wasn’t particularly surprised. She had seen Ye Liuyun cultivate so desperately before.

“Is he even human? He’s just like a ferocious beast!” Chen Mo and Qi Tianlin exclaimed repeatedly as they watched. Every time a ferocious beast managed to claw Ye Liuyun, they tensed up along with him.

After fighting five ferocious beasts in succession, Ye Liuyun had nearly exhausted his divine essence. He finally stopped and prepared to lead everyone back.

“That was exhilarating, but my physical body is still quite a bit weaker than that of a ferocious beast at the fifth level of the Taixu Realm!” he thought to himself. After they returned, he planned to use the resources he had just obtained to exchange for some body-tempering liquid and further strengthen his physical body.

Just then, a savage bear at the sixth level of the Taixu Realm charged into the range of Ye Liuyun’s divine sense, heading straight toward them.

The savage bear appeared to be injured. Blood trickled from its mouth as it huffed and puffed its way toward them.

Soon, the burly man pursuing it also entered the range of Ye Liuyun’s detection. The man was at the sixth level of the Taixu Realm and was wearing the robes of an inner sect disciple.

“Let’s go!” Ye Liuyun immediately called out, leading everyone around the area to leave. He had no desire to run into such a powerful opponent.

But the disciple threw another punch at the savage bear from a distance, startling it into changing direction and sending it charging toward them again.

“Looks like we can’t avoid it after all!” Ye Liuyun felt deeply helpless.

At that moment, Chen Yueying also noticed the savage bear and the martial cultivator and told Ye Liuyun, “That man is called Xiong Tianchuan. He’s a demon beast, and his true form is a black bear.

No one in the Thousand Spirits Sect dares provoke him. They say he has an extremely violent temper! We should avoid him as much as possible!”

“A demon beast?” Ye Liuyun was somewhat curious, but he didn’t want to run into him right now either, so he could only continue trying to evade him.

But the savage bear had probably noticed them as well. No matter how they tried to avoid it, it charged toward them, clearly intending to divert the disaster onto them.

“Damn savage bear!”

Ye Liuyun cursed it inwardly, so he naturally had no favorable impression of it. Thus, when the savage bear drew near, he launched a soul attack first, directly devouring its soul.

When Xiong Tianchuan arrived and saw that the savage bear was dead, he froze for a moment before roaring, “Who did this?”

Only then did Ye Liuyun use his Golden Eyes to see Xiong Tianchuan’s true soul form. It was indeed a black bear.

He stepped forward of his own accord and stood in front of the others. “I did it. It charged toward us. We couldn’t just wait for it to kill us, could we?

Although I killed it, its physical body is intact. You can take it.”

Ye Liuyun had assumed that Xiong Tianchuan wanted to take the savage bear as food, so he offered him the body. He had no intention of competing with him for it and inviting trouble.

Who would have thought that Xiong Tianchuan didn’t care about the savage bear at all? He didn’t even spare it a glance, instead turning his attention to Ye Liuyun and the others.

“I went to all the trouble of finding a target to practice on, and you killed it just like that! How about you guards practice with me? If you can beat me, I’ll let you go!”

Xiong Tianchuan did not provoke Chen Yueying. He didn’t know her identity; he simply disdained striking women.

“You’re a sixth-level Taixu Realm martial cultivator, yet you want us, who are only at the second level of the Taixu Realm, to practice with you? Do you really think that’s fair?” Ye Liuyun retorted.

Xiong Tianchuan frowned at that, then roared, “Then what am I supposed to do? I haven’t had enough of a fight yet! It’s not like I can count that woman in too, right?

How about this? I won’t use my true essence or the power of heaven and earth when I fight you! You’re not allowed to use soul attacks either. How’s that?”

He had also realized that Ye Liuyun’s soul power must be quite formidable, since he had killed the savage bear so easily. Thus, he chose what he considered a fair method.

“Heh, even if you don’t use your true essence or the power of heaven and earth, there’s still quite a gap between the physical body of someone at the sixth level of the Taixu Realm and ours at the second level!” Ye Liuyun continued talking with him.

He could tell that although Xiong Tianchuan had a bad temper, he still followed his own rules. He didn’t strike women, nor did he want to take advantage of others. He was probably just blunt by nature and not nearly as frightening as Chen Yueying had described. The people in the academy likely didn’t understand the temperament of demon beasts very well, which was why they had trouble getting along with him.

“Who told you to be at such a low level? Then what do you suggest we do?” Xiong Tianchuan asked, somewhat dejectedly.

“How about this? Their physical bodies aren’t strong enough. Fighting them wouldn’t be any fun for you. I’ll fight you instead. I’ll use my full strength, while you use only your physical body. If I can last more than three moves, you can no longer hold us responsible.

But if you go beyond three moves, then you can count it as me accompanying you in practice. I’ll do my best to hold out as long as possible, but I don’t have much true essence left, so I don’t know how long I can last. I can only promise to do my best.

I can also promise you that once I’ve strengthened my physical body, I’ll come find you and fight you again. If once isn’t enough, you’ll have another chance to battle me. How about it?” Ye Liuyun offered another suggestion.

Chen Yueying had initially wanted to stop Ye Liuyun, fearing that he would be injured, but she moved her lips and ultimately said nothing. She figured that since Ye Liuyun dared to make such a proposal, he must have some confidence in it, so she refrained from causing him trouble.

Xiong Tianchuan thought it over. Even if Ye Liuyun used his full strength, Xiong Tianchuan’s physical body could withstand it. Moreover, Ye Liuyun had promised that they could fight again in the future, which made him feel that this person was rather interesting.

Thus, he agreed without hesitation. Even three moves would be better than having no one to fight at all.

“All right, then. I’ll let you attack first!” Xiong Tianchuan was quite magnanimous.