Chapter 3469

As soon as the stone chamber door opened, Ye Liuyun received a spiritual transmission from the stone puppets, who told him that all three stone chambers had been breached and that the cavern was about to collapse.

The stone puppets also told Ye Liuyun that he would have to use the method of merging into the void he had just learned in order to leave the cavern.

“Do you know where the source power of this secret realm is?”

Ye Liuyun asked the stone puppets.

The stone puppets actually told Ye Liuyun that it was beneath this mountain. Moreover, it was an extremely powerful source force that Ye Liuyun could take away.

“But once I take it away, how am I supposed to deal with the soldiers guarding the outside?” Ye Liuyun wondered to himself.

“You idiot! Didn’t you just learn how to merge into the void? Use the power of time to get out, leave this place, and travel through the void!” the Book Demon reminded Ye Liuyun.

“That’s right! I’ll use that method!”

Hearing this, Ye Liuyun immediately perked up. He quickly stored away the three stone puppets, merged into the void, and left the cavern. When he reappeared, he was already outside the mountain. The cavern began to collapse immediately afterward.

Ye Liuyun paid no attention to the collapsing cavern. Instead, he released the three stone puppets again and had them help excavate the source power.

He had just lost three golden dragon puppets at the fourth level of the Void Realm, only to gain three stone puppets at the ninth level of the Void Realm. By any calculation, he had still made a huge profit.

The three stone puppets were at such a high level that they excavated the source power extremely quickly. One of them split open the foot of the mountain with a single punch, then stomped down and shook the ground apart, exposing the source power beneath it.

Ye Liuyun did not leave any of it behind and took it all away. He then merged into the void and headed for the entrance and exit of the secret realm.

After merging into the void, the overlapping voids within the secret realm no longer affected him much. They were all void, after all, and he could even use the passages along his route to increase his speed.

While merged into the void, he could still sense that there were actually some people remaining in the secret realm. They were martial cultivators who had been transported to different locations by the spatial passages.

Traveling through the void was also much less strenuous for him now. With merely a thought, he could shift himself there instantly. Thus, before the secret realm had time to react, he had already reached its entrance and exit.

At this time, after the secret realm’s source power disappeared, the overlapping voids and illusions had only just begun to lose their effect.

Ye Liuyun did not delay. He immediately used the power of time to leave the secret realm, then moved far away and continued merging into the void to hide at a great distance.

“This method of merging into the void can actually make me invisible!” Ye Liuyun suddenly realized that merging into the void was much like becoming invisible.

“It won’t work against martial cultivators with powerful spatial abilities!” the Book Demon told Ye Liuyun.

After traveling some distance, Ye Liuyun brought out the flying ship and had Peng Lie pilot it.

“Let’s go pick up your daughter first. From now on, she can settle down in my spatial world. It’s absolutely safe there, so you can rest easy!” Ye Liuyun had not forgotten about Peng Lie’s situation.

After signing a master-servant contract with Peng Lie, Ye Liuyun already knew that Peng Lie had never intended to scheme against him. He had entered the secret realm solely to earn money and obtain better cultivation resources for his daughter.

“Thank you, Master!” Peng Lie thanked him repeatedly.

Ye Liuyun then returned to his spatial world and used the method of merging into the void to approach Chen Yueying.

Chen Yueying was taking out all kinds of delicious food to tempt Leiming into telling her about Ye Liuyun, so she did not notice him at all. Leiming’s Spatial Force was even weaker than Ye Liuyun’s, so he did not sense anything either.

Ye Liuyun then tried it on Chen Xiang. Chen Xiang sensed something as well, but this was Ye Liuyun’s spatial world, which should have been absolutely safe, so he paid it no mind.

Ye Liuyun next tried approaching several other martial cultivators who had just signed master-servant contracts with him. Since they were at high realms, the one at the sixth level of the Supreme Void immediately detected the spatial fluctuations. Yet when they entered the void, they could not find anyone.

Ye Liuyun could now shift himself a great distance in an instant, far beyond the range of their spiritual sense. Thus, the moment they entered the void, he could take the opportunity to escape.

The martial cultivators were therefore extremely curious. When Ye Liuyun tried approaching them again, they even attacked the void directly. However, because Ye Liuyun had merged into the void, they were unexpectedly unable to force him out.

Their attacks were also endured and dispersed by the void, so he suffered no real harm.

In the end, those martial cultivators had no choice but to report the situation to Ye Liuyun. Only then did he stop, telling them that it had been caused by his cultivation, though he did not explain the actual circumstances.

Only after finishing his experiments with this new ability did Ye Liuyun go to call Chen Yueying out. However, Chen Yueying simply refused to leave his spatial world.

Chen Yueying said to him, “We’re traveling anyway, so let me tag along and enjoy the benefits. I can cultivate with accelerated time in your spatial world!”

Ye Liuyun thought that made sense, so he stopped trying to drive her away. Instead, he found a quiet place and continued cultivating the space-time technique he had just obtained.

He had already found the barrier to the fourth layer of the void and was striving to merge into it as soon as possible.

Moreover, he had obtained a great many cultivation resources during this exploration of the secret realm, so it was time to focus on improving his realm. Thus, he also used the time spent traveling to cultivate his divine essence properly.

Several days later, Peng Lie picked up his daughter and moved into Ye Liuyun’s spatial world. Only then was Chen Yueying forced to come out and guide Ye Liuyun.

They were heading to the location of the final sect mission they had undertaken on this trip: finding an indigenous tribe and locating a fire phoenix that was about to undergo nirvanic rebirth.

The so-called nirvanic rebirth of a fire phoenix meant that it would be reborn through flames. The one they were looking for had been beaten so badly that it could no longer manifest its physical form. It was currently in the form of flames and was said to have been hidden away by an indigenous tribe.

Ye Liuyun and the others’ task was to find that mass of flames and bring it back to the sect to complete the mission.

The reason Ye Liuyun and Chen Yueying had accepted this mission was that Ye Liuyun himself possessed extremely powerful flame energy, making it worthwhile whether they handed it in to complete the mission or absorbed and refined it themselves.

Moreover, the sect had not specified how much they had to submit. As long as they handed in a wisp of the fire source, it would count. Thus, they could absorb part of it and keep only a little of the fire source to complete the mission, benefiting in both ways.

However, the indigenous people there were said to possess extremely powerful physiques and to be rather unfriendly. If they encountered them, a fierce fight would be unavoidable.

That was why Chen Yueying put on her armor, prepared for battle while also taking the opportunity to temper herself.

Ever since learning how much Ye Liuyun had experienced, she felt that she was far behind him. After learning that several of Ye Liuyun’s women could even lead troops into battle, she felt even more pressured.

As for Ye Liuyun having many women, she was no longer particularly bothered by it. Given Ye Liuyun’s strength and experiences, he was worthy of the admiration of so many women. Besides, among those women, she was not the only princess—there was even a queen among them.