Chapter 3361
Ye Ling had some ordinary civilians with no cultivation realm, as well as martial cultivators whose realms were too low, leave Ye Liuyun’s spatial world through teleportation arrays, lest they be unable to withstand the strain when it connected with the Taixu World.
That was why, during this period, people were leaving Ye Liuyun’s spatial world every day.
As for those who remained, Ye Ling would have them gather as much as possible on a few planets. Once they reached the Taixu World, she would gradually release its pressure onto them, allowing them to adapt little by little.
Yue Hong, meanwhile, had completely become Ye Ling’s assistant, helping her with everything. Her strength was far inferior to Ye Ling’s, but staying together allowed the two of them to improve one another. Recently, both of their strengths had increased considerably.
Inspired by this, Ye Liuyun had the origin spirit demons in the spatial world of his first clone begin helping relocate the human martial cultivators as well. He also had Qiong Qi and the other formation masters set up teleportation arrays connecting to the Alliance of Myriad Gods, allowing those people to leave smoothly.
When the Alliance of Myriad Gods learned that Ye Liuyun was preparing to go to the Taixu World, they once again began worrying that no one would protect them after he left.
Ye Liuyun certainly would not give up going to the Taixu World just to protect the Alliance of Myriad Gods. He merely promised to leave behind some forces to guard them, while making it clear that they would ultimately have to rely on themselves.
Only then did the Alliance of Myriad Gods begin to feel a sense of urgency. They organized several armies of a hundred thousand soldiers each and began sending them throughout the starry sky to temper themselves and cultivate their own protective forces.
They wanted to take advantage of the time before Ye Liuyun left. If the armies encountered danger, they could still ask Ye Liuyun for help. Once he was gone, they would truly have to rely on themselves.
Although Ye Liuyun had said he would leave behind forces to guard them, there certainly would not be many. Besides, those powerful experts might not necessarily obey their orders after Ye Liuyun left.
Ye Liuyun strongly approved of their decision and told them to go ahead and try. However, he warned them not to touch the star systems he had already conquered, but to train their troops in other directions instead.
“Let them make a mess of things on their own. They won’t die without you!” the Book Demon reminded Ye Liuyun again when it saw that he was about to meddle in their affairs once more.
Ye Liuyun also felt that this made sense. They had to experience things on their own, or they would always develop a sense of dependence.
Ye Liuyun therefore devoted himself once more to condensing the power of his divine soul. He was now tempering his divine soul with his own flames and thunderbolts. It was no easy task either, but an extremely painful and agonizing process.
He still needed the help of the Myriad Gods Token every time to make it through. He also refined the divine souls of his two clones himself. After cultivating for a while, his entire body would often be drenched in sweat. At intervals, he would soak in the Vital Waters to recover from the depletion of his life force.
The results, however, were surprisingly good. After cultivating for half a year in the clones’ spatial world, the soul origin was already able to be used as before.
The soul origin was even smaller than before, but it had become much denser, and its features had regained their former clarity.
When he released the pressure of his divine soul now, it was even more terrifying. Whether he roamed the void with his soul in his own spatial world or in that of his clones, everyone throughout the world could feel his pressure.
𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
“Let’s go outside and try it!” Ye Liuyun thought of testing it in the outside world.
“You should first throw those three half-souls in as well and refine another soul origin. They’re too weak to be of much use if you keep them,” the Book Demon advised Ye Liuyun.
The three divine souls surrounding the soul origin each possessed only half the power of a complete divine soul. If they remained as they were and slowly devoured divine-soul power to grow, who knew when they would become that powerful?
“What about the two clones? By then, each of them will have only the power of one divine soul. They won’t be able to launch a divine-soul attack at a critical moment.”
Ye Liuyun also felt that the three remaining divine souls were very weak. But if he fused them into one, then at a critical moment his two clones would have no divine soul left to guard their seas of consciousness, and they would be unable to release the soul origin to attack their opponents.
The Book Demon thought it over and said, “Sigh, you have too many clones! If you ask me, you should simply reclaim one clone and strengthen your power in every aspect. Wouldn’t that be better? Perhaps you could immediately reach the Taixu realm and break through directly!”
“You’ve made quite a few clones, but none of them are strong enough! Just look at the Demon Clan’s Holy Son. Its clones are all so powerful—the Demon Clan must have even stronger existences!”
Ye Liuyun hesitated for a moment, but ultimately rejected the Book Demon’s suggestion.
“No. The clones are extremely useful right now. Their role is even greater with a major battle approaching. Even if I am going to reclaim a clone, it will have to wait until after we defeat this demon.”
Thus, he merely threw another dragon soul into the Soul-Refining Cauldron, allowing the divine souls to devour and improve themselves one dragon soul at a time. Although this was slow, at least when he released the soul origin to launch an attack, one divine soul could remain in his sea of consciousness to control his body, defend, and evade attacks.
The Book Demon did not press him further. It knew that Ye Liuyun had no time to reclaim a clone now, so it could only wait until he had finished this battle.
Ye Liuyun and his clones waited a few more days, allowing each of the three divine souls to refine the power of one condensed divine soul. Only then did they leave the spatial world and come outside for some fresh air.
As it happened, the black-armored soldiers outside reported that the Demon Clan’s army had reached the planet opposite them, so Ye Liuyun came out to inspect the situation as well.
Ye Tiandao had also successfully restored his soul origin. Ye Liuyun brought him out too so that he could test the power of his soul origin.
During this time, Ye Tiandao’s cultivation realm had broken through to the eighth level of the Return-to-One Realm. His true essence was also extremely solid, making it a completely normal breakthrough with no instability in his realm.
But as soon as he came out, he discovered that a divine soul from the Demon Clan was scouting their military camp by roaming the void with its soul.
Ye Liuyun immediately called over a black-armored soldier to ask about the situation. However, the black-armored soldiers had noticed nothing unusual. Ye Liuyun had sensed that divine soul only because he frequently roamed the void with his soul and possessed a powerful divine soul himself.
“The Demon Clan really has sent another powerful divine-soul expert. But since it’s here, it might as well not leave!”
Ye Liuyun smiled and secretly summoned some demonic beasts, preparing for everyone to strike together. He also assigned each of them their roles.
He was ready to make a move himself as well. However, he could not reveal his soul origin yet, so both he and his clones would have to attack using that relatively weak divine soul.
Ye Liuyun then led the black-armored guards transformed from his clones, Ye Tiandao, and a group of demonic beasts out of the main tent.
The Demon Clan’s divine soul was one of Qi Sang’s soul origins, and it was considerably stronger than Ao Yan’s soul origin.
The Demon Clan’s vanguard had only arrived at the planet opposite them the day before and had come here to scout the situation. However, seeing that only puppets and black-armored soldiers were patrolling the military camp, they had not dared to act rashly.
Now that it saw Ye Liuyun emerge with quite a few people, it naturally began paying close attention to them.
Suddenly, it noticed an old man in tattered clothes at the end of the group, drawing a formation with his hand. He looked like a formation master.