Chapter 3463

“There’s no way to break this. Just force your way through!” Qiong Qi knew at a glance that the formation could not be broken. Unless they cut off the formation’s energy, they would have to destroy it with brute force.

“A stone puppet at the seventh level of the Grand Void Realm—do you really think I can break it?” Ye Liuyun had never even considered breaking through the formation by force.

Suddenly, Ye Liuyun thought of how he had crossed a stretch of jungle with Chen Yueying before.

“That’s right. We can just cross over it!” With that thought, Ye Liuyun began waiting for another opportunity. If a spatial passage appeared at a suitable distance, he could use it to cross over these stone men.

What he did not know was that the dense forest he had inadvertently crossed before contained quite a few attacks combining ferocious beasts with illusions, all of which he had happened to evade.

The stone men buried underground before them were the same. Whenever the stone men launched an attack, the illusions would attack as well, making it impossible to tell reality from illusion and causing people to be struck by the stone men.

“What are we waiting for?” Chen Yueying had waited for a long time without seeing Ye Liuyun make a move, and finally could not help asking.

“Up ahead, there aren’t only seventh-grade Void-Rank stone puppets underground; those puppets have also formed a powerful formation, and we can’t force our way through it.

“So I’m waiting for a suitable spatial passage that can take us straight to the entrance of that palace.”

“Oh!” Chen Yueying replied, then obediently nestled against Ye Liuyun’s side.

She could not even see the stone men, much less the formation, and she could not make sense of this spatial maze, so she could only rely entirely on Ye Liuyun.

The sense of security Ye Liuyun gave her allowed her to leave everything to his arrangements without the slightest worry.

Ye Liuyun observed for more than two hours but still did not find a suitable spatial passage. He did, however, discover a segmented passage that could take them to the entrance of the palace. Moreover, that segmented passage appeared again.

“I’ll wait another hour. If there’s still no suitable spatial passage, we’ll use that segmented passage to get across.” Ye Liuyun considered the matter to himself.

By then, Chen Yueying was already leaning fully against Ye Liuyun, holding his arm as if she were his woman. He was busy observing the void and simply had not noticed.

Chen Yueying, however, was secretly delighted. Her face flushed crimson as she rested her head against Ye Liuyun’s shoulder. She even hoped he would keep searching for a few more hours so that she could continue leaning against him like this.

Suddenly, Ye Liuyun spotted a passage in the void leading to the entrance of the main hall. It was rapidly moving toward them.

He had no time to think, let alone explain. He wrapped an arm around Chen Yueying’s waist and charged in at full speed. Just before the passage passed the main hall, he emerged from the spatial passage in time, landing right outside the main hall.

“Haha, we finally made it! That was dangerous. If we’d been even a little slower, we would have been left inside the formation where the stone puppets were!”

Ye Liuyun had seized the opportunity and successfully crossed the stone-puppet barrier, so naturally he was extremely excited.

Although that moment had been very brief, it had been perilous. They had nearly ended up in danger, but fortunately they had made it through safely.

Chen Yueying was held in his arms, her face flushed bright red. She buried her head against his shoulder and simply refused to lift it again.

“What’s wrong? Was it too sudden? Did I scare you? I couldn’t help it just now. The passage was moving too fast. If I’d been even slightly slower, we wouldn’t have made it in time!”

Ye Liuyun thought Chen Yueying had been frightened, so he immediately explained himself to her.

“Oh.” Chen Yueying answered softly before reluctantly leaving Ye Liuyun’s embrace.

“Don’t worry. We’re safe now. The stone puppets won’t attack this place, and there’s no formation here either. I observed it all in advance. As long as we don’t go below the steps of this main hall, we’ll be perfectly safe.” Ye Liuyun reassured Chen Yueying.

Afterward, he turned his attention to the main hall’s doors and checked whether they concealed any mechanisms.

Once they reached this place, however, everything from here on was completely safe. There were not even any chaotic spatial passages around the main hall.

After looking around for a while, Ye Liuyun pushed open the doors and led Chen Yueying inside. As expected, there was no danger within.

However, the Myriad Gods Token in his sea of consciousness suddenly shone even more brightly.

“The illusion has grown stronger!” Ye Liuyun realized.

“Ah!” Chen Yueying cried out in alarm and immediately hid behind Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun had no idea what she had seen. As far as he was concerned, there was no danger at all. He immediately took Chen Yueying into his spatial world to prevent her from being affected.

“What did you see?” Ye Liuyun asked her as soon as he had brought her into the spatial world.

“An attack from a golden-armored guard! You didn’t see it? Was it an illusion?” Chen Yueying truly could not tell the difference.

“It was an illusion. Stay in my spatial world for now.” Ye Liuyun felt that Chen Yueying’s defensive treasure was completely useless, and that she herself had no way to resist such profound illusions. He decided it would be better not to let her come out again.

“All right.” Chen Yueying readily agreed, then began wandering around Ye Liuyun’s cultivation planet. Ye Liuyun did not restrict her in any way. They had an equal contract between them, and Chen Yueying would not reveal his secrets.

He himself walked around while using his Golden Eyes to examine the interior of the main hall. Everything here was ordinary. Although it could be considered high-end, none of it had anything to do with cultivation, so he could not be bothered to collect it.

Thus, after looking through several rooms in the main hall, he still did not find anything worthwhile. It was not until he reached the rear of the main hall that he finally smiled.

“I’ve finally found you! There really are quite a few good things inside!”

Ye Liuyun walked toward a stone room at the rear of the main hall. A large lock hung outside the room. Ye Liuyun drew the Demon-Slayer Saber and cleaved the lock off with a single stroke.

There was no danger here either. However, the Myriad Gods Token in his sea of consciousness flashed once more, presumably because the illusion here had grown stronger again.

The illusion could not affect him, so he simply opened the stone door. Inside were all kinds of cultivation resources, making it look like a small treasure vault.

“Haha! I’ve really struck it rich. I won’t have to worry about cultivation resources anymore!”

Laughing all the while, Ye Liuyun began loading everything into his spatial world.

By then, Chen Yueying had gone to chat with Leiming. When Ye Liuyun called for her to come and look at the resources, she ignored him.

“You keep them. I didn’t do anything, so I won’t take a share. There are so many people here with you, and they all need cultivation resources!” Chen Yueying refused outright.

“You have no idea how many good things I found! These are the cultivation resources of a God King!” Ye Liuyun assumed Chen Yueying did not realize how many resources there were. There were more than a thousand portions of Origin Power alone.

There was also a huge pile of storage rings filled with various crystals, along with many high-end cultivation resources, weapons, and treasures for different levels of strength.