Chapter 1085: Effortless Response

Xia Tianqiong presented the Token and registered.

Ling Shuang took the chance to tell Ye Liuyun: "Once you enter this wooden house, you'll step into a Space World. The three of us will be separated and face the trials individually. Just try to clear them. Later this wooden house will, based on your trial results, let you choose a few fierce beasts of the same rank!"

"Does this wooden house have sentient intelligence? Where do those fierce beasts come from?"

Ye Liuyun became curious.

"Probably. Anyway, Father Emperor told me so. The fierce beasts are all cultivated within this Secret Realm," Ling Shuang told Ye Liuyun.

At that moment, Xia Tianqiong also finished registering.

"Are you ready?" Xia Tianqiong asked Ye Liuyun, adding a reminder: "The trials inside aren't dangerous as long as you don't force yourself."

"Alright!" Ye Liuyun nodded, and together with the two of them entered the wooden house one after another.

Ye Liuyun, filled with curiosity, stepped inside; after entering, he could no longer see their silhouettes and found himself in a vast primeval forest.

Then a voice rang out in the air: "First trial: Enter the cave behind the White Ape. Please choose a realm level."

"What White Ape?" Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense immediately spread out, searching for the White Ape, but found nothing.

"After you choose the challenge level, you'll naturally see that White Ape!" the voice replied.

Ye Liuyun used Divine Sense to locate the voice, but discovered there was no one to be found.

"It seems this is an artifact-like spatial treasure, not that kind of Secret Realm," Ye Liuyun thought to himself.

"Do we have to fight that White Ape?" Ye Liuyun continued to ask.

"Up to you. As long as you can enter the cave behind the White Ape, you've passed the trial!" the voice answered.

"Then may I use an artifact or a pet beast?" Ye Liuyun asked again.

"Yes, feel free to use anything!" the voice was quite patient.

"Then I choose Earth Sovereign Sixth Layer!"

Upon hearing he could use a pet, Ye Liuyun immediately raised the trial's realm to Huo Hu's level.

If judged by his level, even obtaining an Earth Sovereign First Layer fierce beast would be of little use in guarding him.

"Alright. Keep moving forward, and you'll see the White Ape and the cave." After giving the instruction, the voice fell silent.

Ye Liuyun walked forward out of curiosity.

He found that Divine Sense was of little use here, unable to probe far.

He kept walking to the foot of a mountain and indeed saw a White Ape as big as a small hill, sitting at the base. Behind the White Ape was a passage large enough for a single person to pass through.

"So simple? With Spatial Power, couldn't I just go straight in?"

Ye Liuyun thought so, but didn't dare to try it himself.

He first conducted an experiment, moving a nearby stone with Void Translocation directly into the cave.

However, the White Ape's Spatial Power was even stronger; with a single palm swipe, it intercepted the stone and smashed it into powder.

"This White Ape has such strong Spatial Power! Luckily I tested it; otherwise that palm could have shattered me!"

Ye Liuyun was relieved he hadn't rashly tried.

Ye Liuyun immediately released Huo Wu. "Let's see if you can handle it," he said, "I want to get into the cave behind it."

"Fierce beast?" Huo Wu, after seeing the White Ape, thought it was easy.

Using illusion against a fierce beast is far simpler than against a person.

Many fierce beasts cannot distinguish illusion from reality.

"Let me try!"

Saying that, they began to cast illusion on the White Ape.

At this moment, in the White Ape's eyes, a Mother White Ape suddenly appeared over ten zhang away, beckoning it.

It glanced at Ye Liuyun and Huo Hu's positions, then saw the two turning to leave.

It waited a moment longer until Ye Liuyun and Huo Hu disappeared from sight, then rushed after the mother ape. The mother ape, upon seeing it, both beckoned it and ran off into the distance, leading it away.

Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun and Huo Wu had already slipped easily into the cave.

The White Ape saw the departing Huo Hu and Ye Liuyun, but those were merely hallucinations it perceived.

"Congratulations, you've passed the first-stage trial."

The voice sounded again, and the White Ape never returned.

"This was way too easy!" Ye Liuyun thought to himself.

"Second trial: Battle a herd of beasts; please choose the highest realm for the fierce beast."

"Is the highest-realm fierce beast a single one or multiple?" Ye Liuyun feared that after choosing a high realm, a large group of such beasts would appear.

"It won't exceed three, and the three won't appear simultaneously!" the voice replied.

"Then I'll pick Earth Sovereign Seventh Layer!"

Within Ye Liuyun's Soul Banner were two Earth Sovereign Seventh Layer Yin Souls, just right to counter Earth Sovereign Seventh Layer fierce beasts.

"You can also use treasures and fierce beasts! It's just like the White Ape. If I bring in a Tianzun Seventh Layer fierce beast, wouldn't that reward my Divine Rank with a fierce beast!"

Ye Liuyun felt a bit regretful; had he known about this, he would have spent a fortune to purchase several higher-realm fierce beasts.

"Cross the ridge on the left, and you'll see the herd!" after the voice prompted, it fell silent again.

Ye Liuyun had Huo Wu don an invisibility cloak to scout for him. At the same time, he let a clone use Shadow Concealment technique, holding the Soul Banner, to cooperate with himself.

Huo Wu was the first to cross the ridge and indeed discovered the herd, about fifty beasts ranging from Creation First Layer to Earth Sovereign Seventh Layer.

However, at present only one Earth Sovereign Seventh Layer Golden Mane Hound was seen.

Annoyingly, there were three Earth Sovereign Sixth Layer ones.

This trial only limited the number of highest-realm fierce beasts, but placed no limit on those below that realm.

"At least it's only three; if they were all a herd, I'd truly be at a loss!"

Ye Liuyun muttered that the spirit vessels here were looking for loopholes, while glad the number remained within his capacity to handle.

The duplicate immediately brandished the Soul Banner and charged at those ferocious beasts.

Those ferocious beasts were caught off guard.

The two Earth Sovereign Seventh Layer Yin Souls combined their strength and quickly pulled the Soul of the highest‑realm ferocious beast into the Soul Banner.

However, he discovered that once the beast's Soul entered the Soul Banner, it vanished.

At that moment, the voice also informed Ye Liuyun that, as a test beast, neither its Physical Body nor its Soul could be taken.

"I see, then kill it!"

Ye Liuyun originally ordered those Yin Souls to surround the ferocious beasts, hoping to capture more Yin Souls.

But upon hearing they could not be taken, he simply let the Yin Souls continue the slaughter instead of laboriously subduing them one by one.

He, his duplicate, and Huo Hu all did what they could, and soon annihilated the more than fifty ferocious beasts.