Chapter 1976: True Dragon Soul

Ye Liuyun immediately releases one of his Soul, supplementing the clone's Sea of Consciousness, fearing his Divine Soul Power would be drained.

But this time, the vortex extracts his Mysterious Origin.

The vortex suddenly tries to drain the clone's Mysterious Origin. The clone instantly controls the boiling level of the Mysterious Origin, and the vortex indeed stops extracting immediately.

However, its extraction speed is too fast; a Yuan Dan of the clone is instantly sucked empty.

Then the clone fixes its eyes and fires a Technique.

This Technique is about as thick as the earlier Black Light, and at once melts the skull, shooting directly into the mountain wall, carving a long passage, then gradually dissipates.

Ye Liuyun and the clone both follow the passage to take a look, finding it extends several li, the entrance about as thick as a water bucket, and later gradually narrows.

"It seems these eyes not only have strong offense, but can also discern whether the attack is aimed at a physical object or a Soul, and summon different powers according to the need!" Ye Liuyun analyzes.

Immediately after, the clone replenishes Mysterious Origin with Storage Yuan Stone, then attempts again.

Still concentrating his mind, stirring emotions, but only lets a small portion of True Essence boil up.

The vortex inside the eyes rotates again, and the extracted power is indeed limited.

This time the emitted white beam is much thinner than before, and after piercing the skull, it only shoots a few dozen zhang into the mountain wall.

"Well controlled!" Ye Liuyun also feels glad for the clone.

Then the clone tries several more times, familiarizing with this feeling and the control of energy usage, the size of the attack area.

Finally practices to emit only a tiny ray, boring through the wall a zhang deep.

"That's enough to take down a strong Martial Cultivator!" Ye Liuyun confirms.

The clone stops practicing, replenishing all Mysterious Origin with Storage Yuan Stone.

Next, Ye Liuyun returns to Xuan Kong Shi to cultivate, replenishing the Mysterious Origin inside the Storage Yuan Stone. The clone, cloaked in Invisibility Cloak, hides near the Teleportation Array, waiting for another Jiaolong to return.

With the clone's eyes, Ye Liuyun now doesn't worry that the Jiaolong could escape.

They must first eliminate the other Jiaolong, then open the Treasure Vault, lest it be disturbed midway.

Only after two days does the Formation generate spatial fluctuations, and the other Jiaolong is finally teleported over.

It had just waited for Sword Young Master to arrive there, then was teleported back, proudly leading Sword Young Master over.

But the next second, its head is struck by a Technique, pierced with a huge hole, then with a "Boom—" it falls to the ground.

Ye Liuyun also emerges from Xuan Kong Shi, pulling that Jiaolong into the Space World.

"Let's go!" Ye Liuyun calls to the clone, then takes Long Nv, and together rush to a Cave inside the Jiaolong's nest.

"Dragon Qi!" Long Nv immediately transmits to Ye Liuyun: "This should be the source of the dragon qi we felt outside! Far stronger than that Jiaolong!"

Ye Liuyun nods; he also feels a pressure inside this Cave.

According to the Jiaolong's memory, at the end of this passage lies another huge stone chamber, containing a tea table with a dragon character on it.

He recalls the dragon hunter saying that as long as dragon qi is input into that dragon character, a mountain wall will open, revealing the Treasure Vault.

However, when Ye Liuyun and his party enter that stone chamber, they find a middle‑aged man in black robes sitting by the tea table, watching them.

"Dragon Soul! It's a true dragon Soul that transforms beasts!" the clone tells Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil can only see that it is a Soul form, cannot discern a Monster Beast, nor its true body.

But Long Nv excitedly bows to the middle‑aged man, addressing him as senior!

The middle‑aged man looks at Long Nv, nods satisfactorily, then his eyes turn into golden‑black vertical pupils, and stare at Ye Liuyun and the clone.

Ye Liuyun and the clone, as if under a binding spell, stand frozen, unable to move, even unable to summon Divine Soul Power.

The clone's Invisibility Cloak is suddenly lifted, revealing his figure.

In Ye Liuyun's Sea of Consciousness, the Ten Thousand Gods Command instantly radiates brilliance, resisting the middle‑aged man's control over Souls.

"I've already got the two of them under my control; they can't even summon Divine Soul Power. Kill them, and the Treasure Vault behind me is all yours!" the middle‑aged man says, sweeping his hand over the table; the mountain wall behind him slowly opens to both sides.

The three of them see that it is a space about the same size as here, but the ground is covered with Crystal Stone piled over a person high, all Top‑grade Divine Crystals that Ye Liuyun and his companions have never seen before.

The artistic Crystal Stone also lays a layer atop the Divine Crystals, each as big as a human head. Everywhere is a glittering expanse.

Various other treasures and weapons are scattered haphazardly. There are many boxes of pills, and some boxes stacked together containing various colored Crystal Stones, some lids open.

Hanging from the ceiling is a massive Azure Dragon, though it is already dead. In its mouth it holds a jade scroll, likely the most important treasure here.

These treasures are all valuable, and numerous. Anyone who sees them would be tempted.

If not for Ye Liuyun's Ten Thousand Gods Command not reacting, he would have suspected it was an illusion.

Yet he does not act, waiting to see what the Dragon Soul intends to do.

"Senior, they're not villains. It's me… it's my man!" Long Nv says, cheeks slightly flushed.

"Huh? Two men?" the middle‑aged man is also a bit surprised.

"One is the clone!" Long Nv explains simply.

"Alas! What a pity!" the middle‑aged man sighs: "They've even been cheapened for humans!"

The vertical pupils in his eyes revert to human shape, and he no longer controls Ye Liuyun and the clone.

Ye Liuyun retorts: "What's wrong with humans? Your beast transformation was also to become human!"

The middle‑aged man looks at Ye Liuyun, then at the clone, and coldly says: "Don't think that because you killed that foreign tribe outside, you can challenge me! If I kill you, it will be as easy as snapping fingers!"

Ye Liuyun nods, also acknowledging his strength. This Dragon Clan strongman, even after death his Soul remained for such a long time and still so strong. He must have been even stronger in life.

"We killed that foreign tribe not because of you, nor do we argue with you. You weren't killed by us, so no need to get angry. We're just here for the treasure!"

As Ye Liuyun speaks, his Golden Pupil flashes, pulling Long Nv and the clone back into the Space World.

"What are you doing?" the middle‑aged man again shows vertical pupils, staring at Ye Liuyun.

Yet Ye Liuyun remains unmoved; the Ten Thousand Gods Command shines in his Sea of Consciousness, letting him act freely.

He walks straight to the middle‑aged man's opposite seat and sits down.

The middle‑aged man also looks at Ye Liuyun in surprise, not expecting Ye Liuyun could still move.

He then directly charges into Ye Liuyun's Sea of Consciousness.