Chapter 3473

“You...”

Even Wanshitong was a little stunned. He had not expected Ye Liuyun to strike so decisively.

Although the indigenous people nearby would soon rush over to reinforce them, his subordinates would still suffer heavy casualties.

So he immediately said to Chen Yueying, “Sister Chen, where is Big Liuyun? I already told him that we mustn’t offend these mercenaries! Hurry and make him stop!”

“Huh? You told him that before?” Chen Yueying only then found it strange.

“Sigh, this mercenary group numbers more than a hundred, and its connections are extremely complicated. They have been gathering medicinal herbs here for years and are very familiar with the local indigenous people. If we provoke them, the indigenous people here will probably help them! Then we’ll be besieged by both the mercenaries and the indigenous people! Sister Chen, hurry and make them stop. Once they start fighting, it’ll be too late!” Wanshitong urged Chen Yueying.

“Oh!” Pressed by his urgency, Chen Yueying had no time to think and immediately contacted Ye Liuyun. However, Ye Liuyun replied that he was fighting those mercenaries.

He was indeed fighting the mercenaries. Taking advantage of Peng Lie and the others charging forward, he had first launched soul attacks at several bandits with somewhat lower cultivation levels amid the chaos.

Then, through soul-searching, he learned that these ordinary bandits had merely signed a collective allegiance contract. Only the mercenary leading the group had directly signed a master-servant contract with Wanshitong.

Thus, Ye Liuyun immediately had Peng Lie and the others concentrate their attacks on the martial cultivator leading the group, while he used soul attacks to control the rest as much as possible.

Seeing that casualties were now unavoidable, Wanshitong could only trick Chen Yueying into coming out, hoping to take her hostage.

By then, the indigenous martial cultivators nearby had also rushed over and surrounded them. When Chen Yueying’s divine sense detected them, she realized that Ye Liuyun must have discovered long ago that they were surrounded, so she was even less willing to leave the formation.

The leader of the mercenary group was soon killed by the combined efforts of Peng Lie and the others. The remaining mercenaries were also brought under Ye Liuyun’s control, and under his command, they immediately attacked the indigenous martial cultivators who had come to surround them. Their targets were the indigenous leaders and others whom Ye Liuyun had not controlled.

At that moment, some of the indigenous people under Ye Liuyun’s control received a message ordering them to pretend to attack Wanshitong and lure Chen Yueying out of the formation.

“Heh, that’s perfect!”

Ye Liuyun immediately ordered the indigenous martial cultivators under his control to attack Wanshitong. This time, they attacked for real, making absolutely sure to kill him on the spot. Ye Liuyun himself also mingled among them to keep Wanshitong from escaping.

Peng Lie, meanwhile, led the remaining martial cultivators in battle against the rest of the indigenous people.

“Sister Chen, save me!” Wanshitong immediately pretended that he could not withstand them and called out to Chen Yueying for help.

Chen Yueying wanted him to enter the formation disk as well, but Peng Lie had set it up, and it could accommodate only her.

At that moment, an indigenous martial cultivator at the fourth level of the Supreme Void realm charged over first and punched straight at Wanshitong’s face.

Wanshitong narrowly dodged the attack while frantically calling out to Chen Yueying to save him.

Ye Liuyun saw all of this. Through a clone disguised as a bystander, he could easily tell that Wanshitong was concealing his cultivation and deliberately not fighting back.

Chen Yueying, however, was frantic with worry. She thought Wanshitong’s cultivation was too low and that he would soon be unable to withstand the indigenous martial cultivators’ attacks.

Thus, in her panic, she had no choice but to draw her long sword and rush out of the formation disk to help Wanshitong fend off the indigenous martial cultivators’ attacks.

“Sigh, what a foolish woman!” Ye Liuyun sighed inwardly, but he did not order the indigenous people to stop.

At that moment, Wanshitong was secretly delighted. He deliberately dodged the indigenous martial cultivators’ attacks, moving farther away from the formation disk and luring Chen Yueying even farther away.

Chen Yueying did not think much of it either. She immediately rushed to Wanshitong’s side with her sword raised, then took out another formation disk and tried to set it up. There were too many indigenous martial cultivators surrounding them, and she could not hold them off alone.

She wanted to use the formation disk to protect herself and Wanshitong inside it while waiting for Ye Liuyun and the others to return and rescue them. But just as she was setting up the formation disk, a palm strike suddenly came from behind.

The palm strike was too close for her to defend against in time, leaving her no choice but to rely entirely on her armor to withstand it.

With a loud bang, Chen Yueying was sent flying. The formation disk and long sword in her hands both slipped free. After she fell to the ground, indigenous martial cultivators pressed their long spears against her throat and chest, leaving her no choice but to surrender.

She also looked at Wanshitong in confusion.

Wanshitong let out a sinister laugh and immediately ordered the indigenous martial cultivators beside him, “All right, no need to keep acting. Hand her over to me, and go eliminate the other martial cultivators! You only needed to bring a few of them over. Why did so many come!”

He even complained that the indigenous people had gone a little too far with their act.

“You... you’re a spy?” Chen Yueying finally realized what was happening.

However, contrary to Wanshitong’s expectations, one of the indigenous martial cultivators—a martial cultivator at the fifth level of the Supreme Void realm—landed a solid punch in the middle of his back.

Because he had to disguise himself as a guide, he could not wear protective clothing or armor. Thus, the punch struck him with full force, and he immediately spat out a mouthful of blood.

Immediately afterward, the two indigenous people in front attacked together, each throwing a punch and sending him flying backward.

Several cracking sounds rang out as his bones broke. Clearly, even his breastbone had been fractured.

Then the fifth-level indigenous martial cultivator who had attacked first threw another punch, striking him directly where his origin core was located. The blow shattered his origin core and even broke his lumbar spine.

The body-refining strength of the indigenous martial cultivators was indeed extraordinary. The force of this punch was comparable to a full-strength strike from a sixth-level Supreme Void expert.

“Pfft!”

Wanshitong had been beaten without the slightest ability to fight back. Before he could even understand what had happened, he collapsed limply to the ground.

The indigenous martial cultivators followed up by piercing his shoulders and other places with their long spears and lifting him into the air.

This series of unexpected turns left Chen Yueying completely dazed, unable to make sense of what had happened.

By then, Ye Liuyun had merged into the void. When he emerged again, he had returned to his original appearance.

“Let her go!”

At Ye Liuyun’s command, the indigenous people finally released Chen Yueying.

“You! You discovered me long ago?”

Wanshitong also suddenly understood. Ye Liuyun was the hidden victor waiting behind the scenes!

Ye Liuyun did not want to waste words on him. He immediately released his divine soul and began searching his soul. Only then did he learn that this Wanshitong was a clone, while his true body was actually hidden within the clone’s spatial world.

He immediately planted a slave seal on this clone of Wanshitong and ordered him to release his true body.

As soon as the true body emerged, the indigenous martial cultivators pierced him through with their long spears, turning him into a human pincushion.

His true body also knew that he was no match for them. He released his divine soul and charged toward Chen Yueying’s sea of consciousness, only to be controlled by Chen Yueying’s fire phoenix flames and red-eye illusion technique. She then searched his soul to learn how he had been deceived.