Chapter 1565: Purgatory Strongman

The Underworld God, far in the Nether Realm, received the news immediately.

"Ye Liuyun's strength is growing! We can't wait any longer!"

The Underworld God also knows that Ye Liuyun is playing hide‑and‑seek with him while boosting his own strength.

But he is alone and cannot intercept Ye Liuyun.

So this time he rushed straight to the Nether Realm's Purgatory and fetched a few prisoners.

Any Yin Soul that enters the Purgatory is mercilessly tormented by hellfire, yet cannot die.

That feeling is to suffer punishment while alive.

Even the most vicious Yin Soul does not want to stay in the Purgatory.

The Underworld God directly found several powerful Yin Souls and began negotiating with them.

"You all still have several hundred years of sentence in the Purgatory.

Now I give you a chance: if you help me kill a person, I will grant you freedom!"

"These powerful Yin Souls are: a golden‑winged great roc, a wild boar, a Martial Cultivator who looks like a beggar, a thin‑monkey‑like elder, and a Bazuzhizhu."

These Yin Souls, whether in life or after becoming Yin Souls, have always been arrogant strongmen.

Most of them gathered the power of many Yin Souls from the Nether Realm, which is why they were imprisoned in the Purgatory.

Now, to kill Ye Liuyun, the Underworld God can only offer to release them as a condition, letting them act to help.

"Even the illustrious Underworld God comes to beg us?"

"Don't forget, you were the one who captured us in the first place!"

The speaker, with a sarcastic tone, is the thin‑monkey‑like elder.

He has a nickname, Yan Tu, and at first glance he seems even inferior to an ordinary Martial Cultivator.

He has been tormented in the Purgatory for many years and, of course, harbors deep hatred toward the Underworld God.

The beggar's hair covers his face, hiding his expression.

He was once a famous assassin, known as Ghost Hand Yi Dao.

He uses throwing knives.

The remaining three ferocious beasts all eye the Underworld God greedily.

If it weren't for the Underworld God's absolute control inside the Purgatory, they would have pounced and torn the Underworld God apart long ago!

The Underworld God, however, doesn't care about their attitude at all.

He coldly says, "Whether to exchange for freedom or continue to suffer in this Purgatory, you decide yourselves!"

&

"Kill whom?"

At that moment, the beggar—who is Ghost Hand Yi Dao—suddenly spoke.

His voice is hoarse and deep, making listeners feel oppressed.

"Ye Liuyun, a Martial Cultivator of the early stage of the Celestial Sovereign.

I want the Mourning Bell and Hundred-Refined Soul Banner on his body; the person must also die!"

The Underworld God says directly.

"You can't kill him?"

Yi Dao retorts.

"He has a teleportation treasure; each time I try to catch up, he uses that treasure to evade.

It's not that I can't kill him, but that I can't catch up to him."

The Underworld God explains.

After a moment of silence, Yi Dao's voice sounds again: "I agree!"

The Underworld God nods and immediately signs a Divine Soul Contract with him.

Moreover, the contract is simple: if he can kill Ye Liuyun and retrieve the treasure, he will not have to return to the Purgatory.

One leads, and the other Yin Souls also agree.

Although they all resent the Underworld God, they do not want to remain in this Purgatory to endure torment.

Even if they seek revenge on the Underworld God, they must wait until they regain freedom.

These Yin Souls are all at the Ninth Tier of the Celestial Sovereign, and each is exceptionally powerful.

Although they have not yet reached the Divine Realm, each has its own abilities and does not take the Underworld God seriously; that is why the Underworld God imprisoned them.

After signing Divine Soul Contracts with them, the Underworld God also gave the several of them detailed information about Ye Liuyun's location, travel route, and the characteristics of his treasure.

Then, the Underworld God, according to their request, dispatched a Nether warship to transport them to the designated locations.

Only the golden‑winged great roc needed no transport; it flew out of the Nether Hell toward Ye Liuyun's direction.

Now the Underworld God sends people to hunt or ambush Ye Liuyun, and they will no longer use the death mark to locate him.

Because the Yin Souls can find the death mark, but doing so would expose their own positions.

Therefore, they simply ambush along Ye Liuyun's travel route, launching sudden attacks and denying him the chance to use his teleportation treasure to escape.

After the battle on Ye Liuyun's side ends, he captures four Nether Ghost Ships and obtains a large amount of material used as bait, so his exertion was not in vain.

Among these supplies are many cultivation resources; Ye Liuyun feels he is ready to breakthrough.

Thus he expands the Side Courtyard again, extracts all resources from the bandits' Storage Ring, then activates a Defense Array and goes to the Xuan Kong Shi to cultivate.

& The others are also pulled back into the Space World for cultivation and improvement.

Ye Liuyun and his clone, two people, absorb energy together.

As his Primordial Spirit Secret Technique grows stronger, the speed of absorbing and refining energy also accelerates.

However, each incremental realm advancement now consumes a great amount of time.

Fortunately there is the Xuan Kong Shi; otherwise he would really need a long time before he could raise his realm again.

They stayed in place for over ten days before Ye Liuyun's realm broke through to the fourth level of Heavenly Sovereign.

The unprecedented powerful strength made Ye Liuyun unable to resist seeking an opponent to test it.

He and his clone locked onto the Food Star Beast here as their target.

After Ye Liuyun and his clone consolidated their realm and refreshed all the Mysterious Origin in the Storage Yuan Stone, they began searching for the Food Star Beast.

He also stopped using his own Flying Boat, instead letting Xiu Luo allocate some Yin Souls to help him pilot the Nether Ghost Ship.

The Nether Ghost Ship's speed is not as fast as the Flying Boat, but it is also convenient for them to search for the Food Star Beast in the Fog Sea.

Even if the Warship were destroyed by the Food Star Beast, he would not feel sorry.

In Ye Liuyun's memory, each Food Star Beast is a colossal giant, unbeatable.

So even though his strength has increased now, he still needs to be extra careful.

Moreover, Food Star Beasts are social ferocious beasts; if not careful, they will provoke them to attack as a group.

But when he saw the Food Star Beast again, he couldn't help feeling somewhat disappointed.

"They are all Earth Sovereign level, and why does their size also not seem very big!"

Ye Liuyun began to mutter to himself.

Fortunately, Man Shu was also accompanying Ye Liuyun on the Nether Ghost Ship; hearing him speak, she asked for the reason.

"It's not that they've become weak; it's that you've become strong!"

Man Shu laughed.

"Maybe!"

Ye Liuyun directly flew out of the Warship and provoked the entire Food Star Beast clan.

He also got into a fight with the Beast King of that group of Food Star Beasts.

Now, with his realm, that Beast King couldn't even swallow him if it tried.

No matter how great the suction it releases, it cannot move Ye Liuyun.

"Not fun!"

Ye Liuyun directly launched a Spiritual Soul Attack, extinguishing the Food Star Beast's Soul, and then stored its corpse in the Space World.