Chapter 3449

This was the territory of ferocious beasts at the fourth level of the Void Realm. Ye Liuyun’s combat strength had already been greatly weakened, so he could not stay here for long.

"Why don’t you rest for a while first? I can deal with a fourth-level ferocious beast too!"

Chen Yueying was concerned about Ye Liuyun’s injuries and wanted him to stop and rest for a while.

Ye Liuyun merely smiled and reassured her. "There’s no need. Physical injuries can heal as we walk! I’m almost fully recovered now."

He had taken some Vital Waters water, so his physical injuries had recovered quickly. He had also put on the guard uniform transformed from his gilded armor.

"Should we go back and recuperate before heading out to carry out the mission?"

Chen Yueying was worried that Ye Liuyun’s injuries would not recover in time and affect his subsequent battles.

"No need. I can just recover my true essence on the way!" Ye Liuyun did not care about it at all. He had long since mastered the ability to cultivate while working.

"However, I’d like to visit the trade association first and exchange some cultivation resources before we leave," Ye Liuyun suggested.

Chen Yueying knew that he had just looted those disciples and wanted to exchange their possessions for cultivation resources.

She was only worried about Ye Liuyun’s injuries. "That’s easy. There’s a trade association within the sect, and its prices aren’t higher than those outside. I’ll take you there. But are you really sure you don’t need to rest?"

Ye Liuyun spread his arms and let everyone take a look. "Do I look injured to you now? My injuries have already healed!"

"What a freak. You recover from injuries so quickly! I clearly heard your bones breaking earlier!" Liao Yaotian looked Ye Liuyun over. He truly no longer appeared to be injured.

In fact, Ye Liuyun had not fully recovered yet, but there was no sign of his injuries on the outside. Besides, the remaining minor injuries would heal quickly once they left this place.

The Vital Waters water was still effective in the Void Realm. It contained Life Spirit Stones, and its quality was constantly improving as well.

"As long as you’re all right. You scared me half to death just now!" Only then did Chen Yueying relax a little after seeing that he was fine.

Ye Liuyun smiled as well. "It only used physical strength, so it couldn’t cause me any serious harm. How can the body improve without being tempered? If you have the chance, you should train more too!"

Chen Yueying stuck out her tongue at that. "I wouldn’t dare be as crazy as you, and I don’t have your powerful recovery ability either!"

Ye Liuyun merely smiled when he heard this. He felt that he could tell her about the Vital Waters water in the future, so she could fight without worry.

The group soon returned to the sect’s outer sect. Chen Yueying led them to the trade association, where Ye Liuyun sold every resource he had just obtained that could be sold, and even distributed some to the others. Even when his own resources were insufficient, he never forgot to share with others.

He kept only some divine crystals for cultivation on the road and exchanged all the rest for body-tempering liquid.

"You only cultivate your body. Don’t you need any other resources? If you don’t have enough crystals, I can lend you some for now." Chen Yueying was worried that Ye Liuyun was short on divine crystals but too embarrassed to ask her, so she offered first.

"This will do for now. I have all the resources I need to cultivate my divine soul and bloodline. I can use divine crystals to cultivate my true essence."

What Ye Liuyun actually needed more at present were cultivation resources rich in the energy of origin power. Chen Yueying did not have many of those resources either, and he could not possibly ask her for them, so for now he could only make do with divine crystals.

As for the resources he would need in the future, he could only wait until they raided a bandit stronghold and seized them.

There were still two days before they reached Withered Wood Cliff, where they were going to hunt down the bandits. Ye Liuyun had Chen Yueying give directions while Liao Yaotian and the others piloted the flying ship. He returned to his spatial world and used the body-tempering liquid to temper his body.

In between body-tempering sessions, he absorbed all his remaining divine crystals, doing his best to recover his divine essence. Those divine crystals were not even enough to replenish ten percent of his divine essence.

However, he used the Primordial Spirit Secret Art to absorb as much as possible from the air, and he also dug out and absorbed the ferocious bear’s essence core. Thus, before reaching the bandit stronghold, he had recovered half of his divine essence—at least enough to use if he encountered danger.

In ordinary battles, he could only rely on his sword intention and golden dragon Puppet to assist him.

The bandits here were not very highly cultivated, generally at the second or third level of the Void Realm. This gave Liao Yaotian and the others a chance to fight as well, though they were not as fast as Ye Liuyun.

With his sword intention combined with the power of heaven and earth, and using Spatial Force as well, Ye Liuyun killed one with every slash. He did not even need the golden dragon Puppet. The battle was over after the others had only killed two or three.

Fortunately, these bandits were not especially poor. Ye Liuyun and the others found quite a few resources on their bodies, so the trip had not been in vain. These resources were enough for his cultivation on the road and to exchange for more body-tempering liquid.

Ye Liuyun did not wait until they returned to the sect to make the exchange. He immediately found a trade association nearby and exchanged them directly for body-tempering liquid.

"Did you use up all the body-tempering liquid you exchanged at the sect yourself?"

Chen Yueying was shocked once again by the speed at which Ye Liuyun consumed the body-tempering liquid. They had only been on the road for two days, yet Ye Liuyun had actually used up more than ten portions. Anyone would have found that inconceivable.

In reality, Ye Liuyun had only soaked in one portion a day. However, there was no way he could reveal the secret of his tenfold time acceleration, so he could only claim that he had used all the body-tempering liquid together to enhance its effects.

"That’s far too wasteful! Besides, if you use too much body-tempering liquid, it will gradually lose its effectiveness on you!" Chen Yueying reminded Ye Liuyun.

"Mm! I’ve already felt that. The effect really isn’t as good as it was at the beginning!"

Ye Liuyun had also noticed that he no longer absorbed the body-tempering liquid as quickly as he had at first. However, he could still sense that he could use it for some time yet, since his body still had room to absorb more.

As long as he could continue absorbing it and improving, he would not stop.

Afterward, they hurried toward Blackwater Pool without stopping.

As they traveled to Blackwater Pool to exterminate the black jiao, Ye Liuyun once again used all the body-tempering liquid he had just exchanged for. He also used his remaining crystals to replenish his divine essence to seventy or eighty percent. That should be enough to deal with the black jiao.

According to the information provided by the sect, the black jiao was at the fourth level of the Void Realm. Liao Yaotian and the others certainly could not help, so once they arrived, they stopped far away and waited, leaving Ye Liuyun and Chen Yueying to approach on their own.

When the black jiao saw Chen Yueying’s cultivation from a distance, it guessed that they had come to deal with it and immediately dove into a pool of black water to hide.

"It’s at the fifth level of the Void Realm, not the fourth. This black jiao broke through recently!" Ye Liuyun’s golden eyes had already seen through the black jiao’s cultivation, and he immediately reminded Chen Yueying.

"How are you planning to deal with it?"

Chen Yueying asked Ye Liuyun so she could coordinate with him when he attacked.

"Don’t go over there. I’ll lure it out and spar with it, while also taking the chance to see how much my improved physical strength has increased."

After thinking it over, Ye Liuyun had Chen Yueying retreat as well. He would deal with the black jiao himself.