Chapter 1763: The Oriole Behind

Ye Liuyun's team then also began killing, attacking any other squad they saw and leaving none alive.

Other squads were the same, attacking whenever they encountered an opponent they could defeat.

Of the over a thousand people left on the flying boat, before even reaching King Beast Mountain, more than half had already died.

As Ye Liuyun and the others' realms rose, dealing with these lower-realm martial cultivators felt especially easy.

"It really feels like a huge realm gap from the Mortal Realm!"

Lei Ming sighed.

"Yeah! Each breakthrough requires too much energy!"

Man Shu also lamented.

The ice power within Xuecheng is being consumed too quickly.

The Divine Realm's consumption of resources far exceeds their expectations.

"We'll dig out all the resources in King Beast Mountain!"

Ye Liuyun decided.

By the time they arrived at King Beast Mountain, many martial cultivators had already gone in.

Beast roars occasionally came from within the mountain range, indicating some martial cultivators had already clashed with ferocious beasts.

Ye Liuyun and the others gazed at King Beast Mountain from afar, noticing that the mountain range's shape resembled a throne.

The highest peak was like the throne's backrest.

The mountain ranges extending on both sides were like the throne's armrests.

After observing the mountain range's trend for a while, he roughly determined that the armrests and backrest on both sides should be the locations of three divine crystal veins.

Only this kind of mountain mass could accommodate an entire vein.

"Split up!"

Ye Liuyun decided.

He sent his clone with Lei Ming, Long Nv, and the Black Panther to the right mountain range, while he himself took Man Shu and Ye Tiandao toward the left mountain range.

Splitting up would allow them to gather more resources.

The King Beast Mountain Range is rich in spiritual energy, and Ye Liuyun sensed various elemental auras within, making it a good place for resources to gather.

Many martial cultivators took the middle path, so they went the opposite way, entering from the sides.

Ye Liuyun's divine sense, when released, could now extend fifty li outward, basically allowing him to anticipate danger and discover opportunities in advance.

His divine sense had already seen that on their side, three squads of martial cultivators were clearing the path ahead, followed by more than ten unfamiliar martial cultivators lagging behind at a leisurely pace, most of them being early to mid second-level martial cultivators.

"These local martial cultivators, are they trying to rob us?"

Upon thinking this, Ye Liuyun brought Man Shu and Ye Tiandao and followed behind them to see what they intended to do.

The clone's side was the same situation.

"It seems the local martial cultivators knew we were coming, set up an ambush here in advance, hoping to swoop in for an easy gain."

Ye Liuyun analyzed.

"So should we avoid them, or…?" Man Shu asked.

"Kill!"

Ye Liuyun directly said: "This isn't in the city.

Outside the city there are no rules.

Since they want to rob us, we'll rob them!"

The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

Ye Liuyun's group followed them for half a day; the leading martial cultivators, if they went further forward, would face mid-second-level ferocious beasts.

But they were still feeling their way forward.

In that half day, they had only hunted a few ferocious beasts, with little gain, naturally unwilling.

But then, the resources here began to abound.

Many martial cultivators could enter the outer areas, but going deeper was where few ventured, and the resources remained preserved.

However, most places with resources were also occupied by ferocious beasts.

Thus those three squads of martial cultivators also gathered together, jointly dealing with the mid-second-level ferocious beasts.

After some effort, they actually managed to kill several ferocious beasts and found some second-tier medicinal herbs.

They even found several storage rings from inside a ferocious beast's den.

Probably left by earlier martial cultivators, the rings still contained some resources useless to the beasts, which they also counted as a modest gain.

But when they later encountered late-second-level ferocious beasts, these people were clearly no match, and numbers couldn't help either.

Thus the martial cultivators following behind began to close the net, wiping out those three squads entirely and seizing their acquired resources for themselves.

Afterwards they continued forward a stretch, encountered third-level ferocious beasts, and then retreated.

Only then did Ye Liuyun bring Man Shu and Ye Tiandao forward to meet them.

"Huh?

"There are still three left here, and two women! Hahaha!"

Upon seeing Ye Liuyun, this group immediately burst into wild laughter.

Ye Liuyun remained expressionless, directly launching a spiritual soul attack at their leader, a second-level martial cultivator, and took him out first.

After a soul search, Ye Liuyun learned they were a hunting squad formed by the two major local powers, specialized in hunting martial cultivators like them.

They also had a third-level leader on the middle path.

"You dare kill our chief? We are a major clan of Beast Mountain City! Do you want to die?"

These martial cultivators didn't expect that a mid-first-level martial cultivator's divine soul power could be so strong, instantly taking out their leader.

Swish!

Ye Tiandao slashed out a blade of light, also using spatial power, and the blade of light arrived instantly.

With a "Puff" sound, that martial cultivator was split in half, blood spraying on the spot.

Come on, all together, we've turned against them!

Those second-realm martial cultivators originally didn't take these first-realm martial cultivators seriously, but in just a moment, two martial cultivators were killed, and they themselves didn't dare to act, so they incited everyone to attack together.

Ye Liuyun casually slapped out two palms, seeming light and effortless, but the two martial cultivators at the front were directly sent flying by Ye Liuyun, spitting blood and collapsing unable to rise.

Man Shu also instantly unleashed ice power, freezing the two martial cultivators before her, then shattered them with a palm into ice shards scattered across the ground.

Ye Tiandao then took them out one blade strike each, using blade intent and spatial power together, leaving those martial cultivators unable to even defend.

The two remaining martial cultivators: one turned to flee, but Ye Liuyun devoured his soul; the last martial cultivator immediately knelt and begged for mercy.

"Those martial cultivators just now also begged you for mercy—did you spare them?"

Ye Liuyun retorted.

Ye Tiandao, without waiting for that martial cultivator to reply, swept out another blade.

At that martial cultivator's neck, a blood line instantly split open; he clutched his neck and collapsed.

Ye Liuyun gathered up the corpses and essence pills on the ground, then continued on his way.

By then, the corpses of those earlier martial cultivators had already been completely devoured by two late-stage second-realm fire wolves.

Seeing Ye Liuyun and the others approach, they hesitated for a moment, then charged forward again.

"Full yet still greedy?"

Ye Liuyun smiled, and a single palm strike of heavenly earth power directly slapped them away.

Boom!

The two fire wolves were knocked flat.

Knowing they were no match, they immediately turned and fled.

Ye Liuyun and Ye Tiandao followed behind, each delivering a blade strike.

The blade light burst directly from inside the two fire wolves, cutting them in half.

Ye Liuyun pursued, gathered the corpses, and sensed a strong fire aura ahead.

"There are fire resources here!"

Ye Liuyun beckoned, then led Man Shu and Ye Tiandao forward.