Chapter 2363: Spiritual Soul Attack

After Mu Yuantang chased here, he finally discovered the battle traces and confirmed that Ye Liuyun was ahead of him.

The positions shown by the others' Transmission Talisman were left behind, and the battle traces that appeared ahead were certainly left by Ye Liuyun.

He immediately led his men to pursue.

Ye Liuyun continued using his old method, constantly luring him forward, and he no longer doubted.

But Ye Liuyun suddenly stopped.

His Golden Pupil clearly saw a swarm of poisonous bees gathering ahead.

"No wonder the ferocious beasts here are getting fewer!"

Ye Liuyun immediately ordered the soldiers under his control to covertly prepare to link their shields together, forming a defense.

He quietly released the Magic Vine, pulling himself underground.

Mu Yuantang also sensed the movement behind him, opened his Divine Sense to investigate, and a soldier shouted.

The soldier's nape was stung by a vanguard bee sent by the poisonous bees, and a large swelling appeared instantly.

Mu Yuantang was thus interrupted and had the soldier take an antidote pill.

When he turned back to check, he found nothing unusual.

At that moment, some soldiers began using flame to attack the scattered poisonous bees.

These poisonous bees were each about the size of a fingertip, easy to spot, so their march faced no pressure.

However, soon they found the poisonous bees increasing, making normal movement impossible.

Immediately after, a dark mass of bee swarm appeared in the distant sky, charging toward them.

The surrounding poisonous bees also instantly surged toward their center.

Some soldiers, stung multiple times, fell to the ground writhing in pain, a chaotic mess.

"Defense!"

Mu Yuantang also realized the danger and immediately ordered his soldiers to defend.

However, these soldiers had no preparation and merely used flame and other elemental powers to shield themselves.

Only the soldiers under Ye Liuyun's control had already prepared; they instantly formed a circle, deploying defensive shields and linking them together to create a defensive ring that enclosed them.

The others, seeing this, immediately followed suit, and the soldiers gathered nearby to form a defensive circle.

But some soldiers were left outside.

Mu Yuantang then took out a Defense Artifact and shielded himself within it.

The bee swarm then rushed forward, crashing onto their protective shields.

"What a good opportunity!"

Ye Liuyun let the Magic Vine clear a path for him; he then moved beneath a defensive circle and began launching Spiritual Soul Attacks on the soldiers one by one.

Even though the soldiers realized someone was attacking, they dared not flee, only standing their ground, and soon Ye Liuyun captured more than forty of them as prisoners.

"Retreat!"

Mu Yuantang waited a moment, saw the bee swarm had no intention to withdraw, thought they couldn't keep wearing down the swarm, and thus led his soldiers to fall back.

So the soldiers maintained the defensive circle and slowly retreated.

However, some soldiers were using fixed Defense Artifacts that couldn't be moved, so they had to stay put.

A few soldiers whose bodies were covered in flame retreated swiftly.

Mu Yuantang, with a few soldiers beside him, ran out of the poisonous bee attack zone.

"What about the others?"

He turned around and found fewer than ten soldiers with him.

"Their defensive circle must be moving slowly!"

A soldier guessed.

Meanwhile, the Magic Vine was digging soil underground.

Ye Liuyun even released the giant python he had previously captured, which helped dig, sinking all the remaining soldiers underground and then covering them with earth.

The bee swarm, having lost its target, gradually dispersed.

But after the swarm dispersed, Mu Yuantang was stunned.

Besides a few soldiers on the ground who had died from excessive poisoning, the other soldiers had all vanished.

The soldiers controlled by Ye Liuyun had already been taken into the Space World, totaling eighty‑two.

Five soldiers using protective shields were also buried underground; Ye Liuyun was too lazy to deal with them further, letting the giant python and Magic Vine clear a path through the bee‑occupied area.

Mu Yuantang waited for a long time before five soldiers crawled out from underground; the others never emerged.

Ye Liuyun, however, had already continued forward to investigate.

He estimated that the few people Mu Yuantang had left wouldn't dare chase him further.

Even if they caught up, his side still had numerical superiority, so there was no need to worry.

Better to seize this opportunity and quickly explore the Secret Realm.

The Song Girl was also released by Ye Liuyun from the Space World; after all, this was her exploration mission, and he only served to assist and deal with Mu Yuantang.

The Song Girl walked while chatting with Ye Liuyun, preparing to boost her own Divine Soul Power.

She thought Ye Liuyun's Divine Soul Power was so formidable that it was unbeatable against Martial Cultivators.

Ye Liuyun also told the Song Girl that Divine Soul Power is indeed important, but also extremely dangerous and should not be used to attack others casually.

The reason he dares to attack others is that he can see their Divine Soul Power, and the Sea of Consciousness is protected by the Ten Thousand Gods Command, so he isn't afraid of retaliation.

"At minimum, one must cultivate to three times the strength of a normal Martial Cultivator to feel relatively confident!"

Ye Liuyun thought that if one cannot see the opponent's Divine Soul Power, even being twice as strong as a normal Martial Cultivator's Divine Soul Power is unsafe.

"Because a Spiritual Soul Attack is a guaranteed kill the moment it's executed."

"There will definitely be a winner and a loser; there is no such thing as a draw!"

Ye Liuyun told the Song Girl.

"Alright then, I'll keep working to boost my Divine Soul Power and protect myself first!"

The Song Girl thought it over and indeed felt it was dangerous; after strengthening her Soul, it's still better not to proactively attack others.

At the same time, Mu Yuantang led over ten soldiers toward his main force.

He hadn't expected his loss to be so severe from that move.

After rejoining the troops, he immediately sent men back, mustered two hundred more to enter the Secret Realm, and held its entrance and exit so that Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl couldn't escape the Secret Realm.

The Marquis of Wanwei, outside the Secret Realm, learned of the news and smiled with a sense of relief.

"Looks like Mu Yuantang took a loss as soon as he entered! I wonder how the final outcome will turn out!"

Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl encountered a toxic gas attack while passing through a valley.

Inside the valley, there were strange flowers that looked extremely brilliant, but when Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl passed by, they released a large amount of toxic gas.

Ye Liuyun and the Song Girl were delighted, not only absorbing it themselves but also releasing other practitioners of the Ten Thousand Poison Heart Sutra and Monster Beasts to absorb and cultivate together.

Until those strange flowers had exhausted all their toxic gas, emitting only a faint glow, Ye Liuyun gathered everyone into the Space World and continued forward with the Song Girl.

After passing through the valley, they finally saw the distant Jue Ming Ya.

The cliff towered up into the clouds, and it was blood‑red.

The blood‑red hue wasn't the color of the rock on the cliff wall, but liquid seeping from it, like blood.

On the cliff, there were many openings, and it was unknown what dangers lay within.

The cliff face was as if carved by a knife; scaling such a sheer wall while confronting unknown hazards would certainly be quite difficult.