Chapter 1786: Recovering Resources

Zhang Wencai and the others, seeing Ye Liuyun's Flying Boat pursuing them, thought they had encountered bandits again and muttered how unlucky they were.

When they saw that Ye Liuyun emerged from the Flying Boat, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's going on with you?

Where's Pei Yong?"

Ye Liuyun, seeing their terrified faces one by one, couldn't help but become suspicious.

"We've run into bandits!"

"Lord Pei Yong, to cover us, led men to confront the bandits and let us go first!"

The Martial Cultivators hurriedly spoke one after another.

"Go quickly; perhaps we can still rescue Pei Yong and the others!"

Zhang Wencai pointed toward a direction and told Ye Liuyun to go immediately.

Without a word, Ye Liuyun turned back to the Flying Boat and chased straight toward the direction Zhang Wencai indicated.

Pei Yong and his group were first surrounded by bandits, who robbed them for valuables and weapons.

Yet those bandits wouldn't relent and tried to recruit them.

They could never join the bandits, so Pei Yong led a few Martial Cultivators to fight those Martial Cultivators, buying the others a chance to escape.

However, the opponents had third-tier Martial Cultivators; Pei Yong gave his all but only held them off briefly. He and four Martial Cultivators ultimately failed to escape and were bound and taken back by the bandits.

At this moment, the bandits tied them up in the mountain stronghold, hung them high, and were whipping them one by one to force submission.

Two Martial Cultivators had already been beaten to death; Pei Yong and the remaining two Martial Cultivators were now barely clinging to life.

After Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense detected them, he immediately recalled the Flying Boat and sent a clone wearing an Invisibility Cloak to rescue them.

This band of bandits, even at their strongest, were only third-tier late-stage, and numbered just over two hundred, not a large force.

Ye Liuyun could fight them without using Magic Vine.

He, Lei Ming, Long Nv, and Ye Tiandao all activated the Shadow Concealment Technique and rushed there.

Black Panther and Man Shu hadn't learned the Shadow Concealment Technique, so they waited at the rear and would charge forward once Ye Liuyun and the others arrived.

Before Ye Liuyun could arrive, a bandit cracked a Martial Cultivator's skull with a single lash, clearly having lost patience.

Another Martial Cultivator, seeing this, realized that without surrendering there was only death, so he yielded.

"If they'd done it this way earlier, it would have been fine! No need to be despicable!"

A bandit sliced the rope binding him with a single stroke, threw him to the ground—effectively setting him free.

"And you?

I've run out of patience!"

The bandit then pointed at Pei Yong and asked.

"Hmph, if you have the guts, give me a good one! Want me to join your misdeeds? Dream on!"

Pei Yong at this moment was already prepared to die.

"Fine! Since you're a man, I'll grant you that!"

The bandit said, drawing his knife and stepping forward.

Suddenly, he felt a spatial fluctuation behind him.

He too was a third-tier early-stage Martial Cultivator, with strong perception.

A sudden sense of danger surged.

He lifted his knife backward, trying to block the rear attack, but only blocked air.

With a "Puff" sound, the bandit's head hit the ground.

Ye Liuyun's clone, with that slash, employed Spatial Power; when it appeared, it had already bypassed his defense and cut straight into his neck.

Ye Liuyun now can enter the second layer of void, making his Spatial Power even stronger.

"Puff, puff, puff..."

With a few light sounds, several bandits beside Pei Yong also had their heads hit the ground.

The rope suspending Pei Yong was also cut cleanly.

Then, Pei Yong was immediately pulled into Space World by the clone and vanished before everyone's eyes.

"Eh?

What's going on?"

The bandits, after reacting, all stared at each other in confusion.

The bandit leader of the stronghold carefully probed with Divine Sense but found no clue.

"Could it be a master stronger than me?"

He speculated in his mind.

At this moment, Ye Liuyun, Lei Ming and the others arrived, several Black Shadows surged into the stronghold, then revealed their forms and began slaying the bandits.

Black Panther now also carried Man Shu, rushed in at speed, and quickly joined the fight.

Ye Liuyun struck with a palm, casually slashing at the bandit leader, while his clone drew a golden divine bow and shot him an arrow.

The bandit leader used all his strength to block Ye Liuyun's palm, but was pierced by a golden divine arrow, leaving a hole.

The clone also wanted to test the current arrow's power and its consumption of Mysterious Origin.

"It can fire six arrows!"

The clone assessed the Mysterious Origin cost and told Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun immediately also drew the golden divine bow, shot six arrows in succession, and eliminated the highest-level bandits one by one.

The remaining ones they gradually killed.

After more than an hour, they finally eradicated all the bandits here.

Without the Magic Vine's participation, some bandits fled far away, but none escaped Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense detection; using the gilded divine bow, he shot them down one by one.

Ye Liuyun and his clone again consumed the Mysterious Origin inside the Storage Yuan Stone completely.

After these days of battle, they felt that the Mysterious Origin had become more solid, so they deliberately drained the Mysterious Origin from the Storage Yuan Stone to replenish it with a more solid Mysterious Origin.

Afterwards, they began to clean up the battlefield.

Ye Liuyun went to take all the resources from the Treasure Vault.

The others together took off the Storage Rings from the corpses and handed them to Lan Xin.

The elemental pellets were dug up to be used as cultivation resources, and the corpses were given to the Black Panther as food reserves.

Pei Yong and the others' Storage Rings and weapons were also found in the Storage Ring of the Martial Cultivator whom Ye Liuyun had killed first.

Afterwards, Ye Liuyun calculated the time and realized it was time to return.

Thus he released the Flying Boat, bringing everyone back on the return journey.

Then he had his clone put on the Invisibility Cloak, released Pei Yong, and made Pei Yong think that Ye Liuyun had captured him into the Space World.

"We've escaped?"

Pei Yong asked Ye Liuyun.

"Mm!"

Ye Liuyun nodded, letting Pei Yong take back his Storage Ring.

Pei Yong looked around and asked again: "Isn't there still one Martial Cultivator who hasn't died?"

"He hasn't already surrendered to the bandits, has he?"

"I just killed him offhand!"

Ye Liuyun replied.

"Sigh! Actually he was also forced into it!"

Pei Yong sighed, and didn't want to say more.

"Maybe! But I know you persisted to the end and never surrendered!"

Ye Liuyun said calmly.

"I'm just a worthless life!"

Pei Yong said self-mockingly.

"Who isn't a worthless life! But integrity, not everyone has it!"

Ye Liuyun took out a drop of Life Spring Water and gave it to Pei Yong to drink.

Pei Yong's injuries were relatively severe; without the Life Spring Water, he estimated he wouldn't recover within a month.

"Life Spring Water?"

Pei Yong knew it was a good thing, and he was extremely grateful to Ye Liuyun.

"Don't bother with thanks; just rest well!"

Ye Liuyun smiled and comforted him to rest and recuperate.

He then recalled his clone and Lei Ming and the others, letting them return to cultivate.

Soon, he met Zhang Wencai and the others waiting for them outside the city gate.

They dared not stray too far from the city, fearing another encounter with bandits and also worrying about Pei Yong, so they waited here.

Ye Liuyun put away the Flying Boat and returned everyone's Storage Rings and weapons to them.