Chapter 1795: Innocent City

Ye Liuyun, his clone, and Ye Tiandao each held a blade, guarding the city gate, buying as much time as possible for the skeleton puppets while also trying to kill as many of these starving people as they could, using the chance to hone their sword intent.

Facing these low-level undead, they didn't need to use true essence.

Just sword intent was enough.

Only when a large number of undead rushed in did they become busier.

Ye Liuyun and the others kept honing their sword intent until dawn.

The clone again used fire flame power, directly incinerating the corpses.

The skeleton puppets also gathered a lot of resources back.

Ye Liuyun recalled his clone, Ye Tiandao, and the skeleton puppets to rest.

He felt it was time to leave, lest people learn he had destroyed a city and come after him.

But the black smoke from burning the corpses still attracted a flying boat.

From the flying boat came over twenty martial cultivators, with realms ranging from second to third.

These people all held the same short swords.

Although they wore different clothes, Ye Liuyun still felt they were like soldiers of an army.

Otherwise, ordinary martial cultivators would not have such uniform weapons.

After those martial cultivators landed, they used divine sense to scout the situation inside the city.

A leading middle-aged man frowned and asked Ye Liuyun, 'What happened here?'

'I don't know; when I arrived, it was already like this.'

'A lot of starving people came, so I casually killed some.'

Ye Liuyun replied.

'Hmph, do you think I'm a fool?'

'It wasn't like this before.'

'And this place is obviously just destroyed!'

That middle-aged man stared at Ye Liuyun and pressed for an answer.

'So you mean I destroyed it?'

Ye Liuyun retorted impolitely.

'Seek death!'

A martial cultivator beside him immediately swung his blade and rushed at Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun didn't back down; he raised his hand and slashed out a blade.

At the same time, he had his clone put on the invisibility cloak and seize their flying boat.

With a 'hiss', that cultivator's blade hadn't even fallen before it stopped in place.

Immediately, a blood line burst from his middle, his body split in two and fell down.

'Attack!'

That middle-aged martial cultivator also gave the order, leading the others to charge up.

He didn't actually believe Ye Liuyun could have destroyed the city; he just wanted to ask for details.

Unexpectedly, Ye Liuyun dared to resist even against over twenty of them.

After yesterday's battle, Ye Liuyun's realm had truly shown as early third stage, but compared to his late third stage, it was still insufficient.

But as long as they were blade-wielding martial cultivators, Ye Liuyun wasn't worried; moreover, these few people's sword intent was far inferior even to Ye Tiandao's.

So he easily, one slash each.

Under the pressure of his overbearing sword intent, these martial cultivators couldn't even raise their blades, only standing in place waiting for him to cut them down.

'Retreat quickly!'

That middle-aged martial cultivator also realized they were being suppressed by Ye Liuyun's sword intent, so he wanted to withdraw.

But Ye Liuyun would not easily let them go.

He continuously slashed out sword intent, while pursuing and killing, and also had the black panther collect corpses and elixir pellets.

Inside the flying boat, only two first-realm martial cultivators piloting it were each slapped to death by the clone, leaving them unable to flee.

Afterward, the clone emerged from the flying boat, facing the martial cultivators running back, and also slashed out blade after blade.

'Puff, puff, puff!'

The three martial cultivators beside that middle-aged leader were each struck by a blade and fell to the ground.

This left him unable to tell how Ye Liuyun's blade was being swung.

'How did they suddenly come from ahead?'

While he was puzzled, Ye Liuyun and the divine soul of his identity simultaneously rushed into his sea of consciousness, devouring his divine soul and beginning a soul search.

This search actually let him find two important pieces of information.

The first piece of information: these martial cultivators were indeed soldiers from the north.

Their entire unit, under the leadership of their leader, was also employed by the lord of Innocent City.

Innocent City is merely a gathering place for fugitives.

No matter the region, no matter how great the crime, once one reaches Innocent City, they can receive the city lord's protection.

Thus Innocent City has become a paradise for criminals.

The lord of Innocent City is said to be of late fourth-stage realm.

Moreover, after long accumulation, there are not a few masters of third and fourth stage within the city.

But including the Innocent City lord, none dare to easily leave Innocent City.

Thus the lord of Innocent City hires northern troops to help them handle affairs outside.

This time, the City Lord needed to refine a special pill, so he had soldiers in the army disguise themselves and kidnap a famous Alchemist and bring him over.

But before they even reached Innocent City, the Alchemist, after learning which pill was to be refined, said a special purple crystal flower herb was needed.

They inquired widely and heard that the City Lord here could provide that purple crystal flower, but it required a hundred Imagery Crystal Stones in exchange.

So the City Lord immediately prepared a hundred Imagery Crystal Stones and sent someone to make the exchange.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived, they found the city empty.

They tried to ask Ye Liuyun, but were counter‑killed by Ye Liuyun.

They had not expected that anyone would dare to kill the City Lord's men on the border battlefield.

The Flying Boat they rode bore a clear Innocent City insignia.

Ye Liuyun only then glanced at the insignia on the Flying Boat, sneered, and instantly refined the Flying Boat, pulling it into the Space World.

He also found those hundred Imagery Crystal Stones inside the middle‑aged man's Storage Ring!

"Ha ha, that was truly effortless! I don't care what Innocent City is!"

However, those hundred Imagery Crystal Stones have all sorts of attributes; most of them are useless to them, so they'll have to exchange them later for stones they can actually use.

After Ye Liuyun destroyed the bodies and erased the traces, he immediately went forward to chase Xiao Yunfang and the others.

The second important piece of information he uncovered was that Xiao Yunfang's party had already been discovered by those soldiers.

Although they were hired by Innocent City, they also belonged to the Northern army and received military pay.

Thus they immediately reported to the Northern army.

At present, the Northern army has also mobilized several elite squads training nearby to ambush Xiao Yunfang and the others.

Xiao Yunfang's group had previously spotted this Flying Boat, but because they recognized the Innocent City insignia, they never imagined Northern soldiers were aboard and thus did not intercept it.

The soldier's Sea of Consciousness map was extremely detailed, containing a complete map of this border battlefield.

Nearby major forces also possessed detailed information.

"This map is truly timely!"

In Ye Liuyun's mind, a series of retreat and counter‑attack plans instantly formed.

"We've been delayed a day and a night; I don't know if we can make it in time!"

Ye Liuyun quickened his pace.

At this moment, Xiao Yunfang's party was clearing the battlefield.

They had just encountered a small band of bandits, fought, and annihilated them all.

"I wonder if that guy is alive or dead now!"

Xiao Yunfang suddenly thought of Ye Liuyun.

The city Ye Liuyun went to, they had never entered before.

Its defenses were too tight, unsuitable for a siege.

But she at least knew that the cities here were essentially like bandit hideouts.

So she also regretted not having warned Ye Liuyun at the time.