Chapter 1997: Can Scavenge

Ye Liuyun looked after that and was greatly disappointed, shaking his head repeatedly.

The Steward and Ling Er, seeing this, strongly urged Ye Liuyun to check out slaves of other realms.

Ye Liuyun thought, since he's already here, might as well look around more, then later go to the Beast Market; even encountering a few strong beasts would be fine.

So, under the Steward's guidance, he walked while browsing, scanning the surrounding slaves with his Golden Pupil.

When encountering Martial Cultivators of the Fifth and Sixth Layers whose True Essence was relatively solid, he had the Steward select them, intending to bring them back for Ye Tiandao to train, adding them to the Sharp Blade Corps to boost its high-end combat power.

Suddenly, Ye Liuyun noticed a ragged little girl and stopped in his tracks.

Though the girl showed no realm, Ye Liuyun could see her True Essence was at the Second Realm, and her True Essence bore a dragon pattern, identical to Long Nv's.

She must be a shape‑shifting Monster Beast of the Dragon Clan.

"I want this one too!"

Ye Liuyun pointed at the little girl and said to the Steward.

"This little girl has no realm, but she could make a good maid!"

The Steward said, immediately opening the iron cage and pulling the little girl out for Ye Liuyun.

The little girl stared at Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil as if it could see through her, trembling in fear.

Ye Liuyun, ignoring the girl's filthy clothes, lifted her up directly.

"Be careful! This little girl likes to bite!"

The worker overseeing the girl warned Ye Liuyun.

Sure enough, the girl bit Ye Liuyun's arm.

Ye Liuyun wasn't angry; after all, his Physical Body couldn't be bitten.

He simply used his Divine Sense to transmit a voice to the girl: "You need not fear, I will take you back to the Dragon Clan."

"In the Space World, there's an older sister of your Dragon Clan; go in and stay with her, okay?"

Hearing this, the girl immediately relaxed, widened her eyes, looked at Ye Liuyun, then slowly nodded.

Ye Liuyun then had the Steward remove the collar from her neck, and sent her into the Space World for Long Nv to care for her.

This whole operation left Feng Hong Xiu, Qing Yan, and Ling Er staring at Ye Liuyun in astonishment.

"Is Young Master Ye a pervert who likes little girls?"

Ling Er thought to herself, her favor for Ye Liuyun instantly plummeted.

Qing Yan kept her eyes fixed on Ye Liuyun, seeing no lewd intent, yet she couldn't understand his actions.

Only Feng Hong Xiu guessed that Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil had noticed something odd.

The other Martial Cultivators Ye Liuyun chose, she could see were solid in realm, already greatly admiring Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil's special ability.

She was now merely curious about what was special about this little girl.

Yet she knew Ye Liuyun was her employer; though curious, she held back from asking.

Next, Ye Liuyun encountered a half‑beast werewolf in the Early Fifth Layer.

The werewolf's lower leg still bore a half‑beast legion's knee pad.

Ye Liuyun likewise recognized it as a soldier of the half‑beast legion.

However, the werewolf's condition was poor, injured in many places, lying on the ground to rest.

Ye Liuyun asked the worker overseeing the werewolf: "Why isn't it healing?"

The worker hurriedly replied: "This guy is dishonest and extremely ferocious; after healing, he'll attack anyone he sees…"

The werewolf, hearing the voice, opened its eyes and glanced at Ye Liuyun.

With a glance, seeing Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil, it was stunned.

Immediately it crawled toward Ye Liuyun, lying low on the ground.

The Steward, the worker, Ling Er and others were all taken aback.

"Don't expose my identity!"

Ye Liuyun instantly transmitted a voice to the werewolf: "How did you end up captured here?"

"Yes, Leader."

"I am a leader of a thousand‑person squad, wounded on the battlefield, captured by humans, sold here."

The werewolf also transmitted back.

"Are you alone?

Or are there other half‑beasts?"

Ye Liuyun continued to ask.

"Leader, we have not seen any other of our kind!"

The werewolf replied.

"I want this one too, let it out."

Ye Liuyun said to the Steward: "Do you have any other half‑beasts here?"

"Currently only this one.

Half‑beasts have a huge presence on the border battlefields; catching them is not easy!"

The Steward explained to Ye Liuyun.

At this time, the worker overseeing the half‑beast also carefully opened the iron cage, letting it out on its own.

Normally the half‑beast would go berserk at any chance, but it didn't expect the werewolf to calmly crawl out and squat at Ye Liuyun's feet.

"Open its collar!"

Ye Liuyun directly ordered the worker.

"Sir, that's not possible! Though it's calm now, once it goes mad it truly will eat people!"

The attendant hurriedly tried to dissuade him.

Don't worry, I guarantee it won't cause trouble!

Ye Liuyun said calmly.

That won't work either; if it goes berserk and hurts a guest, that would be bad.

The attendant really didn't dare to release the werewolf.

Ye Liuyun had no choice but to look at the steward.

The steward also felt that the werewolf was unusually obedient this time, as if it had seen its master, so he was also a bit hesitant.

Ye Liuyun immediately took out a top-grade divine crystal and threw it to the steward.

I'll guarantee it; I'll remove its collar right away!

Ye Liuyun said threateningly.

Okay, okay!

The steward also immediately agreed.

But...

The attendant still tried to intervene, but the steward slapped him directly across the face with a crisp 'pak' sound.

The steward then scolded: 'The guest has a request—what nonsense are you spouting?'

Just open it as I say; with the guest's guarantee, what do you have to worry about!

Yes, yes!

The attendant covered his face, feeling wronged, repeatedly agreed, took out the token, and removed the collar from the werewolf's neck.

Ye Liuyun immediately gave the werewolf a healing elixir and instructed him: 'I didn't let you move—you must not move, got it!'

Yes!

The werewolf respectfully acknowledged, took the elixir and swallowed it, then followed Ye Liuyun faithfully, leaving the attendant dumbfounded.

Even the steward noticed that Ye Liuyun was not ordinary, and his attitude toward Ye Liuyun became even more respectful.

What Ye Liuyun finally took a liking to was a martial cultivator covered head to toe in poisonous sores.

He saw with his golden pupils that the martial cultivator was originally at mid-Seventh Layer, but all his true essence was used to suppress the deadly poison within, making his aura even weaker than that of a Fifth Layer martial cultivator.

Moreover, he was about to lose control of the toxin and would soon die from poison outbreak.

The foul stench emanating from the poisonous sores made even the guards keep their distance.

Feng Hong Xiu and the others stopped far away, unwilling to move forward any further.

This person is about to die from poison; how about giving him to me?

Ye Liuyun asked the steward.

But he thought to himself: 'I didn't expect to be able to pick up a bargain here!'

The steward saw that this person was already at death's door; keeping him would mean they'd have to handle the corpse, so it would be better to give him to Ye Liuyun, and he immediately agreed.