Chapter 3461

“Shall we carry out the next sect mission? Which direction should we go? Point me the way.” Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, was preparing to pilot the flying vessel to the next destination.

“Don’t you ever need to rest between battles?” Chen Yueying finally asked. She had rarely seen Ye Liuyun take a break. He seemed to be cultivating all the time.

“There’s no need to stop cultivating! I’m used to being hunted down, and I’m used to fighting. I can cultivate while traveling and cultivate while fighting.” Ye Liuyun said this naturally.

Chen Yueying stared blankly at him for a while before suddenly asking, “What exactly have you been through to become this powerful?”

Ye Liuyun thought of the countless times he had been hunted down, the countless bloody battles with foreign races, and the countless times others had schemed against him. He gave a helpless, bitter smile. “You’re better off not knowing. I hope you never have to go through so much!”

Chen Yueying had heard Ye Liuyun talk about some of his experiences before. But he always made light of the dangers and would even gloss over them, which only made her increasingly curious about him. So whenever she had the chance, she would press Ye Liuyun for every detail.

After confirming the flying vessel’s direction, Ye Liuyun released a captive from his spatial world to pilot it. He chatted briefly with Chen Yueying before returning to his spatial world to refine the blood pearl.

“This guy is practically a cultivation fanatic! Am I really so unappealing that he can’t spend a little more time with me?” Chen Yueying thought gloomily for a while, then went to refine that drop of blood essence as well.

However, fully refining her drop of blood essence would be far more arduous than what Ye Liuyun had to endure. She first had to nourish it with her own bloodline to remove the ferocious beast’s baleful aura within it.

The blood pearl Ye Liuyun was refining, on the other hand, contained extremely pure and powerful energy. He soon refined it into his own bloodline. However, assimilating it completely into his own bloodline would probably take much longer.

After refining the blood pearl, Ye Liuyun enveloped the power of bloodline within it in essence blood from his own bloodline and slowly assimilated it, forging the most powerful drop of essence blood.

Afterward, he tempered his body, consuming all the body-tempering liquid. He stopped only after he had developed resistance to it and could no longer absorb any more of its energy.

His cultivation also broke through to the late stage of the second level of the Void Realm. The origin power of the Void Worlds he had recently obtained had arrived at just the right time; otherwise, he truly would have had no cultivation resources left.

Yet after his breakthrough, the resources he had just obtained were once again completely exhausted.

“It all depends on what we gain from the next mission!” He could only place his hopes on the next sect mission.

This mission was to explore a secret realm and find the location of its origin power. It was probably a mission issued by some major power, which intended to take control of the secret realm after finding its origin power.

The reason Ye Liuyun had chosen this mission was that the secret realm was said to have been the residence of a Divine King before his fall, and should contain quite a few treasures! However, many disciples had already entered it, and none had ever returned. This showed that the secret realm was also extremely dangerous.

When Ye Liuyun and Chen Yueying arrived at the entrance to the secret realm, they discovered that troops were stationed there on guard. Presumably, the major power that had issued the mission feared that whoever found the origin power would simply take the secret realm away, so it had deployed a large army around it,

so that anyone who found the origin power could only report its location to them, rather than quietly taking the secret realm away.

These soldiers merely guarded the secret realm and did not prohibit martial cultivators from entering. Yet ever since they opened the secret realm, no one who entered had ever come back out.

“Are you sure you want to go in? No one who’s entered has ever come back out!” Chen Yueying reminded him once again before entering with Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun instead asked Chen Yueying, “Are you sure you want to go in? You don’t actually have to risk yourself with me. You can wait for me outside! I have no resources, so I have to risk my life for them, but you lack nothing.”

“If you’re not afraid, why should I be?” Chen Yueying looked at him resolutely as she spoke.

Ye Liuyun knew that she had a life-preserving treasure like the Temporal Halo, which was why she was confident. So he said nothing and simply resolved to protect her as much as possible when the time came.

Thus, neither of them said anything more. They exchanged a smile and resolutely entered the secret realm.

This secret realm had a pleasant name: the Carefree Grotto-Heaven. It had once been the residence of a Divine King.

The moment they entered, they were stunned by the scenery before them.

Before them stretched a verdant meadow covered in flowers. In the distance, lush trees flourished beside a small bridge and flowing stream. Spiritual energy swirled throughout the secret realm, while immortal cranes cried out, making it seem like an immortal paradise.

“With spiritual energy this dense, the origin power of this secret realm must be extraordinary!” Ye Liuyun was not distracted by the scenery before him. Instead, he began considering the mission.

“Wow! This place is so beautiful!” Chen Yueying, meanwhile, was immediately captivated by the beautiful surroundings.

Suddenly, the Myriad Gods Token in Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness began to flash with golden light.

“An illusion?” Ye Liuyun was startled.

Yet even as the Myriad Gods Token radiated golden light, the world showed no change when he looked at it with his Golden Eyes.

“An illusion overlapping the real world?” He immediately realized that the original owner of this world had possessed extremely profound mastery of illusion techniques. Such overlapping illusions were even harder to detect.

Even if someone managed to discover it, once the illusion began to differ from the real surroundings, it would still be difficult to distinguish between the two.

“Have you noticed anything unusual here?” Ye Liuyun immediately asked Chen Yueying.

Chen Yueying also had a treasure in her sea of consciousness that defended against illusion techniques and other attacks. Although its grade was not very high, it should still have been able to offer some protection.

But this completely overlapping illusion had left her entirely off guard. Moreover, since there had been no direct illusion attack, her treasure had probably not activated either.

“No. What’s wrong? What did you discover?” Chen Yueying asked Ye Liuyun in confusion.

“Nothing. Be careful not to be affected by the illusion techniques. Let’s move forward and take a look.”

Seeing that she had noticed nothing, Ye Liuyun did not point it out. He simply stepped forward.

However, the space here was extraordinarily strange as well. That single step carried him hundreds of miles, instantly leaving Chen Yueying far behind and out of sight.

He hurriedly retreated, but only moved back one actual step. Unlike the step before, which had felt as though a mere stone’s throw had become the distance between worlds.

The Myriad Gods Token was still radiating golden light in his sea of consciousness, so he could confirm that what he was seeing was not an illusion. He immediately activated his Golden Eyes and used the power of space to sense the spatial arrangement here.

Only then did he discover that this place was practically a labyrinth of spatial disorder. The various overlapping layers of the void were constantly shifting. If someone casually took a single step, there was no telling where they would appear when they emerged again.