Chapter 3489

Hearing this, Xiong Tianchuan suddenly burst out laughing. “You’re right. My cultivation is so much higher than yours. If I still didn’t let you use your Guardian Divine Seal, I’d be too pathetic!”

“I’m done fighting. I admit I can’t beat you! From now on, I’ll stay here with you and fight alongside you. If there’s no one to fight, I’ll spar with you!”

“I figure that if you didn’t use that short sword, I should be about evenly matched with you!”

Ye Liuyun couldn’t help laughing when he heard this. He hadn’t expected to recruit a subordinate just like that.

“Demonic beasts really are easier to deal with!” he thought to himself.

“All right, then. We’ll sign an equal contract first, and you can stay here after that!”

To be safe, Ye Liuyun decided to establish the terms first and worry about trust afterward.

Xiong Tianchuan didn’t hesitate either and agreed at once. Only after they had signed the contract did he tell Ye Liuyun, “I heard some marquis put a bounty on you. Quite a few people in the sect are interested, so I figure you’ll have plenty of fights soon!”

“So that’s why you agreed so readily?” Ye Liuyun was left speechless.

“What marquis?” Chen Yueying still didn’t understand. After thinking for a moment, she realized that it was probably the Heavenly Domain Marquis who had put a bounty on Ye Liuyun’s head to avenge Hou Yuanqing.

“Whatever your reason, I’ll take you to my spatial world and introduce you to a few companions!” Ye Liuyun immediately told Xiong Tianchuan to relax, then brought him into his spatial world and introduced him to the demonic beasts.

Although his cultivation was higher than that of Ye Liuyun’s demonic beasts, his power of bloodline was far inferior to theirs. In the presence of ferocious beasts such as the Draconis, Thunder Dragon Beast, Nine-Headed Demon Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Vespera, Xiong Tianchuan instinctively felt somewhat afraid.

Xiong Tianchuan rarely encountered demonic beasts of his own kind. Seeing so many of them all at once made him feel as though he had found a home. Thus, after Ye Liuyun showed him around, he immediately started calling Ye Liuyun “Big Brother” and clung to him.

He couldn’t reveal Ye Liuyun’s secrets, so he told others only that Ye Liuyun was powerful and that following him offered a promising future. Only Chen Yueying understood that it was probably the demonic beasts around Ye Liuyun who had attracted him.

The news that Xiong Tianchuan had chosen to follow Ye Liuyun caused another stir throughout the sect.

This made the less powerful disciples dare not target Ye Liuyun anymore. Even if they could kill Ye Liuyun, they would be unable to deal with Xiong Tianchuan if he came after them with his life on the line.

Thus, when it came to the Heavenly Domain Marquis’s bounty, these disciples could only leave it to the elite disciples.

“How many elite disciples are there in the sect?” Ye Liuyun asked Chen Yueying.

Chen Yueying told him, “There are only a dozen or so elite disciples from my generation. If you count all the previous generations together, though, there are quite a lot! However, there’s no way to verify how many of them are currently in the sect.”

Ye Liuyun nodded, then began discussing with Chen Yueying his plan to find a place to station his soldiers.

“You’re going beyond the domain? Isn’t that too dangerous?” Chen Yueying hadn’t expected Ye Liuyun to want to go beyond the domain to find a place to station his troops.

“I have no choice! I can’t afford to wait any longer. More and more people in the army are breaking through to higher realms, but afterward, they have no cultivation resources. We can’t keep dragging things out like this! It’s better to go out and take a chance. Maybe I’ll find an opportunity!”

Ye Liuyun explained helplessly.

Chen Yueying pondered for a long while before suddenly asking Ye Liuyun, “I want to go adventuring with you. Can you take me along? I’ll bring enough cultivation resources myself, and I can protect myself. You won’t need to worry about me!”

“You want to go adventuring with me beyond the domain? Aren’t you afraid something might happen? Staying in the sect or going home to cultivate would be much safer, and you wouldn’t lack resources!” Ye Liuyun didn’t quite understand. Chen Yueying didn’t seem like someone who enjoyed taking risks.

“But following you will give me more experience! That way, I won’t be deceived by others again in the future!” Chen Yueying was quite good at explaining herself, finding a reasonable excuse for her request.

After hearing her explanation, Ye Liuyun agreed.

“That’s true. If you aren’t afraid of danger and want to follow me, then go ahead! If we encounter danger, I won’t abandon you. It’s just that I don’t know what the situation outside will be like, and I’m afraid I may not be able to look after you when the time comes!”

Chen Yueying beamed with delight and immediately suggested, “Before we leave, why don’t we exchange all the points we have? We don’t know when we’ll be back!”

Ye Liuyun agreed as well. “All right. Let’s bring Liao Yaotian and the other two along too. There’s no point in leaving them here by themselves!”

Chen Yueying immediately went to make the arrangements, while Ye Liuyun summoned Peng Lie and the others and took them all into his spatial world.

Feng Yunjie waited outside, preparing to exchange all the points he had. Xiong Tianchuan and several other inner-sect disciples were there as well, all ready to leave the sect with Ye Liuyun.

Before long, Chen Yueying brought Liao Yaotian and the others over, and they headed together with Ye Liuyun toward the points exchange hall.

The moment this group left their residence, they attracted a great deal of attention. The more timid martial cultivators didn’t dare approach them, afraid that if someone attacked Ye Liuyun, they would be caught in the crossfire.

Moreover, with these people around, there was no point in martial cultivators below the seventh level of the Void Realm making a move. They certainly wouldn’t be able to injure Ye Liuyun.

Suddenly, two powerful soul sources rushed into Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness one after another. The speed of the soul attacks left everyone completely unable to defend against them.

This sudden turn of events startled everyone. Ye Liuyun, however, merely smiled faintly and continued on with the others without pausing for even an instant.

The ones who had attacked him this time were the soul sources of two martial cultivators. They were two disciples at the sixth level who had cultivated soul sources, and they had joined forces to deal with Ye Liuyun.

But as a result, both of them suffered a backlash and were now slumped dejectedly on the ground behind a mountain peak.

Only after searching their souls did Ye Liuyun learn that the Heavenly Domain Marquis had placed a bounty of thirty Source Powers on him, making him quite valuable indeed. At that price, even elite disciples at the seventh level would probably be tempted.

Clearly, Ye Liuyun’s divine soul had detected two disciples at the seventh level monitoring them from a distance.

Ye Liuyun, however, continued on without showing any reaction, pretending he hadn’t noticed.

As long as these seventh-level disciples didn’t manage to catch him off guard, Ye Liuyun wasn’t particularly worried about them.

“How are you? Are you all right? Is the flame defense in your sea of consciousness really that powerful?” Chen Yueying asked Ye Liuyun again with concern, worried that he had been injured.

Ye Liuyun glanced at her. Knowing that she meant well, he deliberately sent her a voice transmission as a reminder: “I’m fine! Don’t ask about it aloud in the future, lest people learn too much about me!”

Only then did Chen Yueying understand what Ye Liuyun’s glance had meant.

“I’ll be more careful from now on!” she immediately apologized to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun didn’t blame her. He merely reminded her, “It’s fine. I was afraid that if I didn’t answer you, you might misunderstand. Remember this from now on: anything related to our strength should be discussed through voice transmission.”