Chapter 2974: with translation of chapter title

"With your divine soul power, you dare to release it to threaten us?" Ye Liuyun said disdainfully.

"Haha, you guys aren't lacking in courage. But I'm not alone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, more than twenty divine souls rushed into their warship. However, those people's divine souls were much weaker than theirs.

After those divine souls rushed into the warship, they also sized up Lei Ming, Long Nv, Tang Xinyao and the other women; at a glance you could tell what they were after.

"How about it? Scared? You outsiders don't know how strong we are! We are the strongest Soul‑Ferrying mercenary gang here. Join us, hand over your wealth, and I'll spare your lives; otherwise..."

While he was speaking, Ye Liuyun already released his second clone, letting it use divine soul to protect everyone, while he himself sent out divine soul to devour the mercenary leader; Lei Ming and the others also all released divine soul, picking the souls they could handle and dragging them into the Sea of Consciousness to devour.

The remaining mercenary gang's divine souls, seeing how strong these people's divine souls were, tried to flee, but were all subdued by the soul pressure released from the second clone, their divine souls shocked into stillness.

Ye Liuyun acted the fastest, dragging that leader's divine soul into the Sea of Consciousness and handing it over to the Ten Thousand Gods Command to annihilate, then immediately rushed out again, pulling one soul after another, dragging two more divine souls into the Sea of Consciousness to devour. While others dealt with one divine soul, he had already snatched seven.

In the blink of an eye, the divine souls that had rushed into their warship were all killed by them. Then Ye Liuyun and his clone burst out of the warship, using soul pressure to subdue the remaining martial cultivators, devouring their souls one by one.

The corpses and storage rings of those martial cultivators were also swept away with a wave of his hand. He gave the corpses to the demon beasts, and casually tossed the storage rings to Lan Xin, letting the women of the Space World organize them.

This soul battle was the shortest in time they had ever fought, yet it was the most dangerous.

A soul attack, if slightly off, can mean instant death—far more perilous than physical combat.

"His divine soul power has become this strong!" Tang Xinyao had seen Ye Liuyun's divine soul size before, never expecting him to improve so quickly.

But afterward, Ye Liuyun also put the warship away.

"We're about to reach the Du Qiao Star System; this warship is a big target, inconvenient for fighting. Since the people here make a living by banditry, we'll also act as bandits!

"Whoever seizes the resources gets to keep them! Everyone, let loose and fight to your heart's content!" Ye Liuyun said to the crowd.

The demon beasts cheered, stirring the Tang family's few disciples, who were also eager to try.

However, Ye Liuyun still reminded everyone to wear their armor properly and equip treasures that defend against soul attacks.

Actually, there was no need for him to say it; after that battle, the Tang family's disciples and the few demon beasts with weak soul power had already put on their soul-defense treasures.

"We'll take the lead! Du Qiao Star System, we're here!" Lei Ming leapt out first, roaring toward the distant star system. The thief-cat demon lion also excitedly jumped onto Lei Ming's shoulder, also ready to act.

Seeing that combination, Ye Liuyun and the demon beasts couldn't help but laugh, estimating that the martial cultivators on the Du Qiao Star System were about to be unlucky.

Tang Xinyao was still curious; she had never really seen that thief-cat in action, not knowing what abilities it had.

The thief-cat smiled at her, then vanished for a moment; when it returned to Lei Ming's shoulder, it said to Tang Xinyao: "Look at your storage ring."

Tang Xinyao scanned her storage ring with divine sense and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Haha!" Everyone joined in the laughter.

Afterwards, the thief-cat vanished again, then returned the items from her storage ring to her.

"This..."

Tang Xinyao was also speechless. Even though the thief-cat stole from her storage ring right before her eyes, she couldn't feel how it did it.

This group of them walked forward laughing and joking, soon encountering other martial cultivators. At first, the numbers they met were fewer than theirs, just following them from afar, which Ye Liuyun and company didn't mind.

But as these people gathered more and more, they began to surround them.

"Enough numbers, we can strike!" Seeing them move, Ye Liuyun immediately reminded the others to prepare to attack.

Once they drew near, without further talk they launched an attack; Ye Liuyun and his allies also went straight for the kill. He also released several ancient demon puppets, surrounding these people to prevent them from fleeing.

This time there were also martial cultivators at the Guiyi Triple Layer; Ye Liuyun tried them, relying on Heaven and Earth Power, but they were still not his match, so he didn't press the attack, instead leaving that strong one to Long Nv.

He, his clone, Lei Ming, the Nine‑Headed Demon Dragon, Tang Xinyao, Tang Hao, and the three Xuanwu demon beasts all vied to pick on Guiyi Double Layer martial cultivators.

The Purple Qilin, however, only picked low‑rank opponents, not daring to take risks. So Ye Liuyun let the Purple Qilin and the Vermilion Bird take charge of protecting Chilian, having her help absorb bloodline power, then distributing it to Ye Liuyun and his clone.

The other demon beasts were all sparring with martial cultivators of the same realm. Bai Hu and Shi Yuan were also quite capable, able to take on several Guiyi Realm cultivators, but fighting Guiyi Double Layer cultivators was still rather taxing for them.

Along the way they never restrained themselves—talking, laughing, eating, drinking, and making no effort to conceal their figures.

The martial cultivators here were all greedy for wealth and careless of life; when few in number they'd gather before striking, when many they'd swarm all at once.

Thus they could have one or two battles each day, slaughtering nonstop all the way.

Moreover, the closer they got to the Du Qiao Star System, the stronger the martial cultivators they encountered. They also fought with greater enjoyment.

Ye Liuyun and company's Golden Pupils also saw from afar the situation on the Du Qiao Star System: everywhere were bands of bandits, plus some towns, but those were also gathering places for larger bandit groups.

However, to reach the nearest planet might still take several days; they estimated there would be plenty of tough battles ahead.

At that moment, Wu Qingcheng suddenly called out to Ye Liuyun, telling him that in the storage rings of the martial cultivators here she had found quite a few good things.

Ye Liuyun immediately returned to the Space World to see what good things had been found. Wu Qingcheng had recently gone to look for resources, and only then was Lan Xin informed that they had recently acquired many good things.

This also drew Wu Qingcheng's attention; she immediately told Ye Liuyun, fearing he hadn't noticed the good resources here.

What Wu Qingcheng showed him was a ten‑thousand‑year‑old blood spirit root, plus a piece of five‑colored crystal stone that actually contained five‑colored thunder source.

Ye Liuyun recognized that thunder source—it represented the five‑colored heavenly thunder of divine punishment. And that ten‑thousand‑year blood spirit root was certainly not something that could be plucked from an ordinary place.

The appearance of that blood spirit root had already grown to resemble a human foot, obviously indicating it was about to transform into a demon. Using it to enhance bloodline would surely have an extraordinary effect.