Chapter 1453: Encountering the Trap Again

In this joyful mood, the pain Ye Liuyun was enduring seemed not so hard to bear.

He also knew that with each period of endurance, some of his blood would undergo a qualitative leap.

Thus, after the medicine's effects completely wore off, all of the blood in Ye Liuyun's body had completed its enhancement.

"Ha!"

He let out a long breath.

His long robe was already soaked with sweat.

But what surprised him was that everyone else was calmly cultivating, with no one reacting as strongly as he did.

This time, before he and his avatar cultivated, he temporarily severed their connection, because their progress in bloodline cultivation differed, and he feared they would affect each other.

So he waited until his avatar finished refining the pill before re-establishing the link.

"I don't feel anything! It's just like when I ate that orange fruit before!" the avatar told Ye Liuyun.

"Could it be because I previously took a pill that enhances the soul, causing this effect?" Ye Liuyun speculated.

"That's also possible! It shows your bloodline has already risen to a certain level!" the avatar also analyzed.

"Have you reached the Divine Rank?" Ye Liuyun said, then laughed and shook his head at himself.

He had previously suffered losses repeatedly because he was overconfident.

This time, he dared not again assume his bloodline was of Divine Rank. To test it, the two of them specially went into the Space World to release their bloodline power.

In his Space World now, there were only some ferocious beasts at the Earth Sovereign level from before.

When Ye Liuyun released his bloodline power this time, even his avatar was startled and trembled all over.

The other ferocious beasts inside the Secret Realm, feeling this power, all lay on the ground and continually wailed.

Ye Liuyun himself was also startled, and immediately restrained this bloodline power.

"Too terrifying!" the avatar said to Ye Liuyun, still feeling lingering fear.

"I feel as if I were about to be attacked by a war god—such fear and oppression, plus awe, making me dare not resist! This feeling is far stronger than last time. Perhaps your bloodline power has truly reached the Divine Rank!" the avatar analyzed.

"Then I'll go out and find a Ninefold Heavenly Sovereign ferocious beast to test!"

Ye Liuyun was also half-believing, half-doubting, and could only go out to try and see.

However, he didn't rush out; instead, he and his avatar returned to the Xuan Kong Shi to continue cultivating.

Time inside the Xuan Kong Shi differs from outside; if he went out now, he would again frighten the few people outside.

But when he began cultivating again, it startled both himself and his avatar.

Ye Liuyun's speed of absorbing energy greatly increased; for the same ferocious beast's elemental pellet, he absorbed and refined it twice as fast as his avatar.

"You don't need to go out and test anymore. It's definitely because your bloodline has risen to the Divine Rank, which has boosted your cultivation speed!" The avatar thus confirmed that Ye Liuyun's bloodline had certainly reached the Divine Rank.

"I never expected that my bloodline would be the first to reach the Divine Rank!" Ye Liuyun exclaimed.

He had previously thought that his soul would be the first to reach the Divine Rank.

But as for his soul power, even now, even if he absorbed a lot of soul, it only increased a little each time.

"Would you like to try taking back my soul power here?" the avatar suggested.

He thought that if Ye Liuyun took back the avatar's soul power, he should immediately be able to reach Divine Rank soul power.

The avatar and he are the same person, so there's no need to separate them.

Ye Liuyun shook his head: "No rush, my realm is still far behind; even if other powers reached the Divine Rank, it would be useless."

Ye Liuyun felt that not only his realm, but his Heaven and Earth Power, Primordial Spirit Secret Technique, and Space Power were still far behind.

Even his Buddha Demon Power, the two kinds of flame, and sword intent had not yet reached the same level; merely raising his bloodline and soul power to the Divine Rank would be useless.

On the contrary, because these two powers are too strong, he becomes overly reliant on them, causing his other powers to improve even more slowly.

"But now I will slow down your cultivation speed!" the avatar said.

Ye Liuyun and his avatar's realms have always been synchronized, but now Ye Liuyun's true body's speed has doubled.

If he continued cultivating, it would forcibly raise the avatar's realm, making the avatar's foundation unstable.

"It's fine; I happen to have plenty of time outside, so you can just speed up your cultivation inside the Xuan Kong Shi." Ye Liuyun actually thought this was just right.

With the true body improving quickly, he can do more things outside.

The avatar, being of one mind with him, also stopped urging him and immediately began cultivating.

Ye Liuyun's true body, after cultivating for the allotted time, then left the Xuan Kong Shi.

Not long after, Meng Zhangxing, Luo Yun, and the others successively finished cultivating, their faces beaming with smiles; it seemed their bloodline power had all increased.

They were all eager to try, and were about to set out again immediately.

However, even with their bloodline power increased, they could not handle a Ninefold Heavenly Sovereign ferocious beast; they still needed Ye Liuyun to take the lead.

Ye Liuyun shared the same thought, and thus took the lead, rushing ahead to the next ferocious beast's area.

"This is the last time I will use my bloodline power before my final battle with the Underworld God!"

Ye Liuyun himself knew clearly that he was able to fight his way here not because of his own realm.

Although bloodline, soul, etc., are part of his own strength, relying too much on them would cause his realm's improvement to be overlooked.

Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense had already detected a black Qilin snake in the area ahead, which appeared to have no realm.

Behind it was a snake den; beside the den's entrance grew a medicinal herb emitting blue light, clearly extraordinary at a glance. The Qilin snake seemed to be guarding that herb, lying lazily beside it.

Ye Liuyun felt delighted and was about to charge over.

Suddenly, he stopped again.

Having been schemed against by ferocious beasts several times in the Forest Sea, he had also become wiser.

"Even if this area isn't the territory of a Ninefold Heavenly Sovereign ferocious beast, it must at least be that of an Eightfold Heavenly Sovereign. How could a Qilin snake with no realm guard such a high-grade medicinal herb?" He realized this Qilin snake was setting a trap.

But after a moment's thought, even if that Qilin snake had the realm of a Ninefold Heavenly Sovereign, he still wanted to test his own bloodline power.

Thus he continued running toward that Qilin snake.

The qilin snake's mouth corner twitched slightly at this moment, as if revealing a smile.

Ye Liuyun was still being careful, not getting too close, but the qilin snake still lazily rose up and opened its mouth to say to Ye Liuyun: "At this distance, do you think you can escape?"

"Indeed, it's a trap!" Ye Liuyun chuckled, and simply walked forward a few more steps.

Upon seeing that the qilin snake could speak, he immediately guessed that its cultivation level was definitely not low.