Chapter 1825: Rising to Great Success

"Alright then, Ling'er, settle the bill!"

Ye Liuyun also smiled and rephrased, saying.

When Xuan Yuan Ling heard Ye Liuyun call her, her face flushed even more, and she immediately stood up, saying, "Let's go, everyone here is handling the accounts, no need to pay!"

"High‑end!"

Ye Liuyun praised it in a word, didn't ask the price, and simply followed Xuan Yuan Ling out.

Xuan Yuan Ling naturally intended to take a carriage back.

Ye Liuyun's route didn't coincide with hers, so he simply took his leave and departed.

After they part ways, Xuan Yuan Ling remained seated in the carriage, smiling, finding Ye Liuyun very amusing.

As she kept thinking, her face suddenly reddened again.

"I wonder if he noticed my thoughts?"

Ye Liuyun then took a detour, releasing a clone to scout Xuan Yuan Yu's situation, while he returned to the Royal Mansion to cultivate.

To prevent Xuan Yuan Ling from monitoring his movements again, he had the clone use Thousand Illusion Technique to assume another's appearance, entered to confirm that Xuan Yuan Yu was indeed in Nuan Xiang Ge, checked the guards around him, then left immediately, returning to the Royal Mansion cloaked in the Invisibility Cloak.

On the afternoon of the second day of cultivation, Ye Liuyun went back to the restaurant he had visited before to sit idly and gather information.

Most people were discussing He Lian Xiu's martial contest and marriage recruitment.

Ye Liuyun listened for two hours, his ears felt like they were forming callouses, yet he heard no new news.

So he had no choice but to return to the Royal Mansion.

After night fell, he donned the Invisibility Cloak and slipped out of the Royal Mansion again, quietly.

Along the way, he removed the Invisibility Cloak, changed out of his military uniform, and both he and his clone assumed other people's appearances, then hurried separately toward Nuan Xiang Ge.

Now that his realm has advanced, the duration of his Thousand Illusion Technique transformations can be extended to two hours.

Xuan Yuan Yu was watching performances in the main hall, with Ye Liuyun and his clone seated on his left and right sides.

Then the clone began shouting loudly, drawing Xuan Yuan Yu's attention.

"Damn it, how dare they ruin my mood! Where did that barbarian come from? Drag him out and tear his mouth to shreds."

Xuan Yuan Yu wouldn't let anyone disturb his dance‑watching, so he ordered the nearby guards to drag the clone out.

"What are you, thinking money makes you great?

You're just a spendthrift!"

The clone retorted, cursing.

"What, you dare insult me? Kill him!"

Xuan Yuan Yu immediately urged the guards to act.

"Seeking death!"

The clone snorted coldly and launched a Spiritual Soul Attack.

The clone's Soul, after absorbing a massive amount of Divine Soul Power in the City of Innocence, was no weaker than Ye Liuyun's own Soul power.

Xuan Yuan Yu, only at the early stage of the fourth‑tier realm, couldn't block the attack at all.

Without Ye Liuyun even needing to act, Xuan Yuan Yu's Soul was instantly annihilated.

Then the clone used poison and Demon Qi; a single palm strike killed the two third‑tier mid‑level Martial Cultivators who rushed over.

"Ah!"

People in the hall screamed and scattered in all directions.

The guards of Nuan Xiang Ge also locked onto the clone and charged at him.

Xuan Yuan Yu was killed by them; if they couldn't catch the real culprit, they would have no way to report to Xuan Yuan Lou later.

At the same time, they immediately sent word to Xuan Yuan Lou, urging them to send people quickly to surround and capture the murderer.

The clone remained unhurried, drew a magic staff, and used poison and Demon Qi to start slaying the guards of Nuan Xiang Ge.

Seeing that his intervention was no longer needed, Ye Liuyun also ran out of the hall with the others, observing the situation from outside.

Soon, the clone killed several third‑tier late‑stage guards and also burst out of the hall.

But Nuan Xiang Ge still had two fourth‑tier early‑mid Martial Cultivators present.

The clone was undaunted, taking on two at once; his body bristled with poison and Demon Qi, so the two Martial Cultivators dared not approach and could only attack from a distance.

Suddenly, the fourth‑tier mid‑level Martial Cultivator was blocked by the flame power the clone unleashed.

And the fourth‑tier early Martial Cultivator's True Essence stalled.

That was the result of Ye Liuyun and the clone jointly employing the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique.

Seizing the chance, the clone rushed forward and smashed down with his staff.

This strike contained a great deal of Heaven and Earth Power and Mysterious Origin, mixed with toxic fumes and Demon Qi,

With a "Bang", the Martial Cultivator was knocked to the ground, black smoke billowing from his body, and he died from poison.

Later, facing that fourth‑tier mid‑level Martial Cultivator, the clone truly was no match.

Nevertheless, the clone launched another Spiritual Soul Attack, instantly erasing that Martial Cultivator's Soul.

Now the strongest forces in Nuan Xiang Ge have been eliminated, and no one can stop the clone.

The clone, however, did not rush away; with a gesture, he sucked up Xuan Yuan Yu's Storage Ring, poured its contents into his own Space World, then casually tossed the ring away.

He then conveniently extracted Xuan Yuan Yu's Primordial Pill.

He still needs to prove to Hua Xiangyuan that he has already taken down Xuan Yuan Yu.

After that, the clone slowly left Nuan Xiang Ge, and no one dared to block him.

At this moment, Ye Liuyun had already fled Nuan Xiang Ge amid the chaos, following several Martial Cultivators.

After exiting, Ye Liuyun changed back into his military uniform, and released Lei Ming and others, all in uniforms, keeping a certain distance from the clone.

Until the strong ones from Xuan Yuan Lou received the information and arrived, spotting the clone from afar.

Ye Liuyun only then used Space Translocation to pull his duplicate back into his own Space World.

The Martial Cultivators of Xuan Yuan Lou watched Ye Liuyun's duplicate vanish before their eyes, yet with their Divine Sense they detected no irregularity.

Moreover, they were far away at the time and could not feel any spatial fluctuations.

Suddenly, someone among them recalled the way the Eight Great Vajras had died, and reminded the other Martial Cultivators of Xuan Yuan Lou to be on the lookout for people who could become invisible.

And the few ordinary soldiers near Ye Liuyun, they naturally would not bother with them.

Thus, Ye Liuyun and his companions swaggered back to the Royal Mansion.

The King's guards, no one paid any heed to those ordinary soldiers; seeing that they all carried Tokens, they let them in directly.

At this moment, the Martial Cultivators of Xuan Yuan Lou mobilized everyone, searching the entire city for the invisible person.

They also sent the portrait of Ye Liuyun's shifting duplicate to the garrison troops at each city gate.

After Ye Liuyun returned to his residence, he went back with the others into the Xuan Kong Shi to cultivate.

No one even noticed that they had ever gone out.

At the same time, within a swirl of Demon Qi in the Grand Hall of the Western Liang Royal Mansion, a light chuckle echoed.

"Invisible cloak, Disguise Technique, powerful Divine Soul Power!"

It seemed as if the Western Liang King were muttering to himself.

Then the Western Liang King's voice carried out of the hall.

"Promote Ye Liuyun to Deputy Leader of the Imperial Guard; he may raise his own force of three thousand men!"

The messenger outside the hall immediately, immediately agreed, and then set out to search for Ye Liuyun everywhere.

"Ye Liuyun"—that name, they had never heard before.

Only after they found Zhang Wencai here did they pass the order on.

After Zhang Wencai received the order, he also felt glad for Ye Liuyun.

He did not expect Ye Liuyun to rise to fame so quickly, his position now even higher than his own.

He immediately went to inform Ye Liuyun, and even escorted him to the Imperial Guard to report.

"Ah?"

Ye Liuyun, also rather surprised, said: "I didn't do anything!"

"How would I know! Perhaps Deputy Leader Xiao put in a good word for you!"

Zhang Wencai realized it was the Western Liang King who intentionally promoted him.

But since the Western Liang King did not say so, he naturally could not speak it out first.

So he could only attribute it to Xiao Yunfang.