Chapter 1325: Energy Exhaustion

Ye Liuyun did not want to meet the allied forces, so he wandered around the Southern Region, often changing locations.

Originally he was not far from the Foreign Tribe's old nest, and that day he wandered to a small city a thousand li away from the Foreign Tribe's old nest.

This small town was not conspicuous, its location was not important, so even though the allied forces did not station troops there, it remained empty.

Ye Liuyun thought this place was not bad; it was remote, with no allied forces, so he should be able to stay quietly for a few days.

But before he could even enter the city, he sensed a strong evil aura.

"Are there still Foreign Tribe members?"

Ye Liuyun immediately became alert.

From the intensity of this evil aura, he could judge that there were not few Foreign Tribe members inside, and they were likely quite strong.

He scanned with his Divine Sense, but found no one.

That strong Foreign Tribe evil aura was emanating from a large manor in the city. It was likely due to a neglected formation, causing the aura to leak.

"There's a formation blocking it!" Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense could not detect the situation inside either.

He himself did not dare to take the risk lightly, so he sent a stone Kuailei in to check.

The stone Kuailei went in, and not long after came out, and Ye Liuyun immediately learned the information inside.

"The Foreign Tribe's altar is actually unguarded!"

Ye Liuyun was also startled.

After the battle ended, the Fourth Prince also conducted a search but did not find the altar. Ye Liuyun had thought it had been dismantled earlier by the Foreign Tribe.

Unexpectedly, the Foreign Tribe's altar was actually hidden here.

But to be safe, this time he let ten stone Kuailei enter together, attacking from within to destroy the formation, so that the Foreign Tribe would not leave any backup.

Accompanied by a violent ground tremor, the formation was blasted open by the stone Kuailei. Attacking the formation from inside is much easier than from outside.

As soon as the formation was broken, Ye Liuyun immediately used his Divine Sense to probe the situation inside.

An altar piled with human bones suddenly appeared in his Sea of Consciousness.

"Although this altar is not large, it is extremely exquisite."

He used his Divine Sense to scan and found that those human bones were fairly uniform in size and thickness, obviously having been selected.

Moreover, the structure of the altar's stacking was much sturdier than any he had seen before.

Besides that altar, there was nothing else. Moreover, there were no living beings.

"Boom—the altar collapses!"

Ye Liuyun gave orders to the stone Kuailei.

Since it is an altar, Ye Liuyun would absolutely not leave it, and there might be remaining energy resources inside.

But as the altar collapsed, Ye Liuyun discovered that there were many empty energy crystal balls inside.

"Have the Foreign Tribe become so poor? It seems they too are suffering from energy exhaustion, which is why they haven't used the altar to send more of their kind."

Ye Liuyun was thinking when he suddenly discovered a black crystal ball pressed under a pile of dry bones. And that was exactly the source of the Foreign Tribe's evil aura.

Ye Liuyun had the stone person take out that black crystal ball.

Besides emitting an evil aura, he felt nothing abnormal about this crystal ball.

"Could this be the item the Foreign Tribe uses to summon their kin? Or do they use it to contaminate many other races?"

Ye Liuyun speculated about the purpose of this crystal ball.

"No matter what, destroy it first!"

Ye Liuyun did not do it himself; instead, he had the stone person take the crystal ball outside the city and smash it.

"Bang!" came a muffled thud

At the moment the stone person smashed the crystal ball, a large amount of Foreign Tribe aura emanated.

Ye Liuyun could even faintly hear the Foreign Tribe's roars.

Inside the stone person was a wisp of Divine Sense that Ye Liuyun had left behind; he immediately sensed that wisp of Divine Sense had been assimilated by the Foreign Tribe's aura.

"Good thing I was cautious and didn't act personally. Otherwise, so much Foreign Tribe aura would keep the Ten Thousand Gods Command busy!"

Ye Liuyun thought of this and immediately acted, using Golden Crow Holy Fire to burn it.

Golden Crow Holy Fire is supremely rigid and yang; burning away this evil aura is just right.

Even the wisp of Divine Sense inside the stone Kuailei, Ye Liuyun burned it completely, then replenished a new wisp of Divine Sense inside.

"I estimate that this crystal ball is one way they communicate with their old nest."

Although Ye Liuyun had thought of that, he dared not risk leaving it.

If this thing could attract other Foreign Tribe members, that would be troublesome.

So he carefully inspected it again, then set fire to the entire altar, burning it completely.

An allied patrol saw the fire and rushed over.

Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, put on the Invisibility Cloak, left the small town, and sought another place to stay.

"Hopefully, after this crystal ball is destroyed, the Foreign Tribe will never send anyone here again!"

Ye Liuyun silently prayed in his heart.

At the same time, he felt in his heart: "Tuomu Hai is actually not simple either!"

Such an important altar, a treasure for communicating with the Foreign Tribe, he actually did not carry it on his person, nor did he assign anyone to guard it, but instead placed it in such an obscure little place.

If Ye Liuyun had not happened to encounter it, he would really have avoided everyone's notice and left these things behind.

And once there is a Foreign Tribe that slipped through the net or a Demon Cultivator, when the blockade is lifted, they would have the opportunity to come here and take these things.

After that, they could continue to summon Foreign Tribe members over.

Just thinking about it, Ye Liuyun felt the consequences would be extremely serious.

So he took advantage of this period to patrol everywhere, looking for places that might have been missed.

Fortunately, the Foreign Tribe did not set up Altars everywhere; only this one remained.

If the Formation had not had a flaw, Ye Liuyun might never have discovered it.

Ye Liuyun's guess was correct; if it weren't for his obstruction, the Foreign Tribe's spies would have collected the resources and, before long, would have brought them over to replenish the Altar's energy.

And after the Foreign Tribe's great army annihilated the Demon Race, it opened a breach, allowing a rapid advance toward the Central Region.

Just when they seemed about to successfully seize Zhongyang Dalu, their effort fell short, being shattered by Ye Liuyun.

That Black Crystal Ball was indeed a treasure activated by the Altar, able to shift the Foreign Tribe here.

Now that thing has been completely shattered, the Foreign Tribe's stronghold has lost all contact with this place.

In the future, if they wish to come to Zhongyang Dalu, they will have to endure a long spatial journey to reach here.

Thus Ye Liuyun's act of destroying the Black Crystal Ball indeed gave Zhongyang Dalu decades of time to develop and recover.

Emperor Xia also learned the lesson and, together with the Refining Artifact Alliance, commissioned a batch of treasures that can detect Foreign Tribe aura, distributing them to every city; anyone entering a city must have that treasure used to verify them.

Later, Emperor Xia mobilized everyone across Zhongyang Dalu to jointly purge the remaining remnants of the Foreign Tribe.