Chapter 3474

With the information in the Omniscient’s sea of consciousness, Chen Yueying finally understood the entire process of how she had been deceived. Moreover, the techniques the Omniscient had used to fish for information from her were chilling when she thought about them carefully.

“I really am an idiot! You saw through it long ago? Why didn’t you warn me?”

Only after she understood everything did Chen Yueying ask Ye Liuyun.

“I did warn you. It’s just that you were already completely bewitched at the time, so you didn’t realize I was warning you!” Ye Liuyun continued speaking to her in the same calm manner.

He merely told Chen Yueying, “This is already the second time I’ve saved you! You’d better cherish the opportunity. I won’t have many chances to be there to protect you! If you continue trusting others so easily in the future, you’ll surely die!”

Ye Liuyun immediately had the Omniscient’s clone hand over all the resources it had obtained earlier.

The Omniscient’s clone had all the resources belonging to the bandit group stored in its spatial world. Ye Liuyun was spared the trouble of searching their lair and obtained all their resources in one go.

Ye Liuyun immediately devoured the Omniscient’s divine soul. The Omniscient had already notified his subordinates, who were all hurrying here to hunt them down. They had to find a way to avoid these mercenary bandits.

Fortunately, he used his Red Eyes to cast an illusion, making a native chieftain believe that the Omniscient had betrayed them, killed their people, and even captured quite a few of their tribesmen. Ye Liuyun then had Peng Lie and the others release the chieftain so that he could return and report what had happened.

“Hopefully the natives will get into a bloody fight with these mercenaries, so we can profit as the third party!”

Ye Liuyun did not know whether the remaining mercenaries and the natives would fall for it. By now, he estimated that the mercenaries already knew he had killed the Omniscient. With the Omniscient dead, the contracts in their seas of consciousness would disappear as well.

Whether those mercenaries would avenge him or clash with the natives was something he would only know after seeing how things developed.

Chen Yueying stood silently to one side, secretly reflecting on her own mistakes and regretting how readily she had trusted others. She had been sold out and was still helping the seller count the money. Fortunately, Ye Liuyun had been protecting her; otherwise, she would have been doomed this time!

After falling into these people’s hands, she did not even know whether she could be rescued. But if they violated her, she would truly rather be dead than alive. The thought of it still filled her with fear.

After recalling Peng Lie and the others, Ye Liuyun found that everyone on his side was still alive and that no one had died in battle, while all the mercenaries had been killed.

“Clear the battlefield. Leave the corpses for the demon beasts! All of you, go back and recover as quickly as possible. Prepare for the next battle.”

Ye Liuyun took them all into his spatial world, then had the captured native martial cultivators lead the way toward the native tribe.

More than thirty of the native martial cultivators he had captured remained, all of them at the third or fourth level. Their strength was actually not weak.

He fully released his divine sense and searched for the whereabouts of the mercenaries and the other native martial cultivators. If they encountered them on the way, he would see whether there was a chance to sow discord between the two sides.

They did not charge directly into the native tribe. Instead, they waited far outside it and watched for the natives’ reaction.

When he had previously searched their souls, he found that even some ordinary local martial cultivators did not know where their chieftain had hidden the phoenix flame. Yet all of them were certain that they had indeed seen that terrifying flame before.

There was also a supreme treasure in their tribe, hidden inside the tiger-head totem and kept in the chieftain’s possession.

At that moment, the chieftain of the native tribe was also summoning all the martial cultivators in the tribe and preparing for battle.

Ye Liuyun also saw their tiger-head totem. He carefully examined it with his Golden Eyes and discovered that a piece of jade divine bone was actually hidden inside the tiger’s head.

“No wonder the local martial cultivators regard it as a supreme treasure. It really is a treasure for body refinement!”

Ye Liuyun was already pondering how to seize that treasure.

However, their chieftain kept holding the tiger’s head, so he would have to wait for an opportunity.

Although their chieftain was only at the sixth level of the Void Realm, Ye Liuyun’s Golden Eyes revealed that he not only had a powerful physical body, but also extremely solid true essence. His divine soul was no weaker than that of an ordinary martial cultivator, making him the strongest person in the tribe. He clearly would not be easy to deal with.

Meanwhile, the mercenary bandits were also without a leader. Several chieftains gathered together to discuss what they should do.

One chieftain proposed, “This time, we’ve offended a disciple of the Thousand Spirits Sect and the Heavenly King’s daughter. No matter how well-connected we are, I’m afraid we won’t be able to stay here any longer.”

“But all our resources are in the boss’s hands, and I doubt we’ll ever get them back. In my opinion, we should rob the local natives, seize some resources, and then immediately disband to avoid retaliation.”

This suggestion won everyone’s approval.

“Let’s do it. We’ll all attack together and make one last haul. Kill anyone we see!”

Thus, the bandits gathered together and charged toward the native tribe in overwhelming numbers.

Ye Liuyun was somewhat surprised to see the two sides start fighting as soon as they met.

“Even better. I don’t have to stir up trouble at all—they’re fighting among themselves!”

He had his group hide far away, while he himself merged into the void and observed the battle from a distance.

As soon as the two sides exchanged blows, the native tribe suffered a disadvantage.

These natives were not skilled at launching divine-soul attacks. The mercenaries immediately took advantage of this and captured quite a few native martial cultivators. As a result, the natives could no longer tell which of them were their own people and which had been brought under the mercenaries’ control.

Thus, the first few groups sent out by the natives were completely wiped out, while many of their people were captured by the mercenaries, strengthening the latter’s fighting force.

Afterward, however, the martial cultivators sent by the natives grew stronger and stronger, and they also had the advantage in numbers. In one encirclement, they killed more than half of the mercenaries.

However, many of the stronger native martial cultivators were also lost. The two sides could be said to have suffered mutual destruction.

In the final battle, they met in front of the native tribe.

The mercenary chieftains did not care about the casualties at all. In any case, they intended to make one last robbery and then disband. If all their men died after they wiped out the natives, the few chieftains left would instead get to divide up more resources.

The native chieftain, however, was worried that continuing the fight would greatly weaken their strength, so he prepared to negotiate.

“Everything that happened before was caused by the Omniscient betraying us! Now that the misunderstanding has been cleared up, and since this has nothing to do with you, we can still continue cooperating.

“Our strength is evenly matched now. There’s no need for us to fight until both sides suffer heavy losses, is there?”

The native chieftain stepped forward, intending to persuade the several bandit chieftains to stop fighting.

But the bandits had already made up their minds. Besides, so many of their subordinates had died. If they did not continue fighting, they would have no way to explain themselves.

Thus, the several chieftains immediately launched divine-soul attacks at the native chieftain together.