Chapter 2032: Borrowing Strength to Fight the Enemy

Ye Liuyun ran straight with the crocodile monster, charging directly at the beast herd.

He and the crocodile monster were one ahead of the other, and the ferocious beasts could not tell whether they were chasing or allied, immediately roaring to warn them not to approach.

Ye Liuyun, however, did not stop at all.

The crocodile monster was unfazed by these low-level ferocious beasts and roared back.

The fierce tiger Beast King, upon hearing the sound, knew the crocodile monster was about to launch a strong attack on them.

Moreover, from their cultivations it was clear that the crocodile monster would be hard to deal with.

"Roar!"

The fierce tiger Beast King let out a roar, and most of the ferocious beasts surged toward the crocodile monster to kill.

Only two Seventh Realm beasts came to confront Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun silently released shadows, slaying the two beasts.

He himself then rushed straight into the Grand Hall.

At that moment, the ferocious beasts also began fighting the crocodile monster.

A few beasts lunged forward, only to be smashed dead by the crocodile monster, which grabbed and bit them.

The Beast King and the beasts all focused their attention on the crocodile monster, believing it to be their deadly foe.

The Grand Hall was empty; it was normally just their sleeping place, and they paid no mind to Ye Liuyun entering.

"What is he doing rushing into the Grand Hall?"

The Elders watching from outside the Secret Realm were very puzzled.

The Grand Hall's roof blocked the view, so they could not see what Ye Liuyun was doing.

After Ye Liuyun rushed forward, he first swapped with his duplicate, handing the wings to the duplicate.

The duplicate also used Thousand Illusion Technique to assume his appearance.

Ye Liuyun pushed the Sky-walking Boots at full speed for most of the day; if he didn't hurry back to replenish Mysterious Origin, his cover would be blown.

The duplicate's Mysterious Origin was also not fully replenished, but it was better than his, at least enough to last a day.

Then the duplicate rushed straight at the two statues, slapping with both hands—one palm toward a statue's arm, the other toward a statue's head.

"Boom, boom," two muffled thuds sounded, and the arm of one statue and the head of the other were shattered, the broken stones scattering everywhere.

With a move, the duplicate drew an arm guard and a collar from the rubble.

He immediately fed Divine Sense into the arm guard and collar, then turned and left.

He dared not linger a moment, fearing the crocodile monster would block him.

However, both items were sized for the huge statues, and the duplicate looked comical holding them, taller than himself.

The duplicate cared little and burst out of the hall, casually pulling the shadow guarding outside into the Space World.

Fortunately, although the crocodile monster was stronger outside, the sheer number of beasts could still entangle it.

When blocked by a beast, Ye Liuyun smashed it open with the two items in his hands.

Even if a beast hurled him, he rose instantly and kept running.

He wore demonic dragon battle armor and gilded armor, and his cultivation had risen; being knocked airborne by a Seventh Layer beast would not injure him.

Many Elders watched with great curiosity.

Some even at first could not tell what those things were.

"Is this kid rushing in so desperately just to snatch those two things out?"

But after the duplicate smashed twice, the stone exterior of the two items was broken away, revealing golden material inside.

Moreover, they were quickly refined by him.

They rapidly shrank, and the stone material on them collapsed entirely.

At this point, the Elders inside the Grand Hall realized one was a golden arm guard and the other a golden collar.

When the duplicate put on the collar, it instantly emitted Golden Light, enveloping Ye Liuyun's armor.

Further beast attacks were no longer blocked by the duplicate; the armor itself simply stopped them.

Then the duplicate donned the arm guard and charged at an early-stage Seventh Layer beast.

With a "boom," the beast, caught off guard, was blasted away by Ye Liuyun.

Even the beast was stunned, finding it unbelievable.

"Haha!"

The duplicate couldn't help but laugh.

These two artifacts were both eighth‑tier superior.

The arm guard could exert ten times the force, while the collar could increase the armor's protection tenfold.

Ye Liuyun broke outward; the beasts saw he intended to flee and did not pursue.

They all tightly surrounded the more powerful crocodile monster.

The crocodile monster, also simple‑minded, saw the duplicate trying to escape and launched a fiercer attack, even lunging at the Beast King to end the fight quickly before chasing Ye Liuyun.

This only made the beasts' attacks even more ferocious; it could not get away for a while.

"Very good, everything is proceeding as planned!"

The duplicate silently praised himself in his heart and kept running straight toward the sea buckthorn field.

The crocodile monster looked foolish.

He feared that if he took a detour, the crocodile monster would lose track.

The duplicate dared not slow down.

If his speed slowed, other flying beasts or ferocious beasts might intercept him.

So he kept sprinting at full speed all the way.

The sea‑buckthorn field is at the far west of the Secret Realm, and it also took Ye Liuyun nearly a day.

The split self's Divine Sense also observed that the crocodile monster had been chasing behind him, a distance of one shi.

But this time was already enough for him to understand the situation here.

The split self arrived here first, yet saw something that Ye Liuyun's main body could not perceive.

In this sea‑buckthorn field, many sea‑buckthorns each have their own Soul.

Their Souls also take the form of sea‑buckthorn.

Although the Souls are weak, they are clearly on the verge of becoming demonic beings.

He does not dare to rush in to try; instead, from a distance he uses Golden Pupil to unleash flame, burning the sea‑buckthorn far away, probing how they will counterattack.

"Why does this kid run so far just to burn those things?"

The Elders watching from outside began to speculate one after another.

The sea‑buckthorns initially feigned death, then jointly activated True Essence to resist Ye Liuyun's flame.

Ye Liuyun's flame is strong, but there are too many sea‑buckthorns here.

"Since the yang fire fails, then switch to yin fire!"

This time Ye Liuyun switches to Nether Ghost Fire, burning the Souls of these sea‑buckthorns.

Now those sea‑buckthorns can no longer endure, they begin to contract together, and finally all the sea‑buckthorns merge, forming a sea‑buckthorn giant.

Strangely, the Souls of these sea‑buckthorns are able to coalesce into a single, complete, powerful Soul.

The split self, seeing this, knows it cannot win, and immediately turns back to charge toward the crocodile monster.

The sea‑buckthorn monster chased him for a while from behind, then stopped.

Ye Liuyun tried several more times and discovered that the sea‑buckthorn monster cannot leave that mountain hollow.

"Then it's simple! I guess that stupid crocodile will fight this sea‑buckthorn monster!"

So Ye Liuyun circles half a turn around the sea‑buckthorn monster, stops at a distance, waiting for the crocodile monster to appear.

Now his position is such that a sea‑buckthorn monster lies between him and the crocodile monster.

The sea‑buckthorn monster, even when far away, cannot strike Ye Liuyun; after a while it disperses again, restoring the shape of a sea‑buckthorn field.