Chapter 2359: Shocking the Marquis's Mansion

The assassins brought by the clone immediately suppressed the martial cultivator experts beside Hong Kun as soon as they acted.

Seeing the situation turn dire, Hong Kun immediately had his subordinates cover his retreat.

But by then there were no strong experts left beside him.

Suddenly, the Magic Vine extended vines from underground again, encircling Hong Kun and the martial cultivators beside him and began to devour them.

Hong Kun actually wore a protective garment of extremely high rank; the Magic Vine tried to bite it but couldn't.

Thus it surrounded him in the middle, with several vines constantly lashing.

Hong Kun's strength was no match for the Magic Vine; being whipped by it, he flew back and forth in the air, relying solely on the protective garment to stay alive.

After the Magic Vine whipped him for a while, although he didn't suffer any fatal injury, he was still left dazed and disoriented.

At that point, the Magic Vine coiled around him and directly absorbed his internal energy.

And that protective garment, under the Magic Vine's full-force entanglement, finally had some spikes break through its defense and pierce into Hong Kun's body.

After sensing that it had begun to draw his power, the Magic Vine then pulled him into the ground and hid.

Ye Liuyun and his clone also continuously launched Spiritual Soul Attacks at the Super God Realm martial cultivators, controlling them to become his own forces.

The people Hong Kun brought were now terrified out of their wits by the Magic Vine and those fierce beasts and demon beasts.

Many people surrendered one after another.

However, Ye Liuyun only accepted the surrender of the Super God Realm experts.

Others who wanted to surrender were not given a chance; instead, he forced them to practice on the fierce beasts and demon beasts.

After eliminating all the Super God Realm martial cultivators, the clone immediately sent the assassins to Hong Kun's mansion to eradicate the root.

Ye Liuyun took stock of the Super God Realm martial cultivators he now controlled, which numbered over twenty.

He then had them surround the area, leaving the remaining battle for the fierce beasts and demon beasts to fight freely.

Ye Liuyun and his clone also joined the team protecting the women, swapping out the Illusion Hand and a few Xuanwu Monster Beasts, letting them also have a go.

Such a small-scale battle was nothing in Ye Liuyun's eyes.

But the martial cultivators Hong Kun brought had long since been frightened out of their wits.

They had not experienced battle for far too long.

Moreover, because of Hong Kun's status, nobody usually dared to offend them, so they had lost their fighting spirit.

Thus, at this moment, seeing their comrades torn apart by fierce beasts, they dared not lend a hand.

Over five hundred people each fought on their own, most merely thinking of fleeing, so they were quickly wiped out entirely by the fierce beasts.

At that moment, the Magic Vine also drained Hong Kun's internal energy, picked up his corpse and leapt out of the ground, handing the Storage Ring to Ye Liuyun.

"There's something good inside!"

The Magic Vine also told Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun scanned inside with his Divine Sense and found that the good stuff inside was indeed plentiful.

Especially a transplanted fruit tree inside, bearing a golden, gleaming fruit that caught the eye.

Ye Liuyun examined the fruit carefully and discovered he didn't even recognize it.

The energy within the fruit was actually extremely rich, and it was golden in color.

However, the fruit is not yet fully mature.

He transplanted that fruit into his own Space World, having Yu Er help tend to it.

Preparing to, after the fruit matures, use the Omnipotent Cauldron to transmute it into his own Mysterious Origin.

Ye Ling saw it and then told Ye Liuyun: "You can directly absorb this fruit.

The effect will definitely be better than absorbing it after you transmute it.

I feel that this golden energy possesses tremendous explosive power.

Possibly directly absorbing its energy could yield several times the effect."

"All right!"

Ye Liuyun also prepared to wait until the fruit matures and then give it a try.

Ye Ling also helped bury many Divine Crystals underground near the fruit to supply it with energy.

After Ye Liuyun and his clone led the people in cleaning up the battlefield, the clone returned to Black Kill, while Ye Liuyun brought the Song Girl back to an inn in the city.

At that moment, the two subordinates sent by Marquis Wanwei, who had been hiding far away, seeing Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl return to the city, dared to go inquire about the situation.

But all they saw was a ground stained with blood, flesh, and uneven pits.

At the scene, not even a corpse or a weapon could be found.

The two looked at each other and could only truthfully report to Marquis Wanwei.

"They were all killed?

You didn't see the process?"

After receiving the information, Marquis Wanwei was also greatly surprised.

He originally thought it would be good enough if Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl could escape Hong Kun's pursuit.

Five or six hundred people were all counter-killed by Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl; he couldn't figure out how they managed it.

He immediately recalled those two and then had people investigate Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl's background.

But the information he ultimately received was that the two were merely insignificant figures from Bright Moon City.

This made him even more curious about them.

"Since they have no powerful backing, we should all the more try to win them over."

Marquis Wanwei, upon thinking this, had people move in next door to Ye Liuyun.

However, this time it was not to surveil Ye Liuyun and his group, but to monitor others who approached them.

Inside Hong Kun's mansion, when Ye Liuyun returned to the inn, a burst of battle fluctuations also erupted.

But when the patrol team arrived, they found that Hong Kun Manor's interior had already been blasted into utter chaos, as if it had suffered a raid, with many buildings blown down.

Even more strangely, they only found bloodstains, not a single corpse.

The corpses had already been collected by the assassins, left for the clone to feed to the demon beasts.

Soon, the news that the entire Hong Kun household had been exterminated spread throughout Wanwei City, and everyone knew that Hong Kun's son had been killed by the Song Girl.

Therefore, everyone was speculating whether the extermination of the Hong Kun family was related to Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl.

The matter of Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl also attracted the attention of another major power.

That was Mu Yuantang.

After losing his daughter, Mu Yuantang has been investigating the murderer.

He spent a considerable amount of Divine Crystals before discovering that the assassin who killed his daughter might be someone called "Liuyun".

Even if he could bribe the assassins, he could not confirm that it was Liuyun who did it.

He merely felt that Liuyun was the more likely culprit.

Up until the time his daughter was killed, he had been with Ye Liuyun's sister, the Song Girl.

Moreover, the assassin "Liuyun" and Ye Liuyun differ by only one character, making him inevitably suspicious.

What puzzles him is that, after investigation and confirmation, the assassin Liuyun and this Ye Liuyun are not the same person.

Because the two have simultaneously appeared in different places.

Therefore, he has been looking for an opportunity to personally interrogate them.

However, because the Song Girl is participating in a competition, it is inconvenient for him to act.

Now that the Hong Kun household has been exterminated, he can seize this opportunity to arrest Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl for interrogation.

Thus, he immediately dispatched a squad of soldiers to surround the inn where Ye Liuyun was staying, using the investigation of the Hong Kun case as a pretext to apprehend Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl.

Ye Liuyun never imagined that his personal grudge against Hong Kun would draw the local garrison over.

But upon thinking that Mu Yuantang and Mu Tianyang are father and daughter, he felt the matter was not that simple.

So he immediately activated the Defense Array to buy himself some time to think.

He needs to consider whether he should flee immediately.