Chapter 2994: Striking Amidst Chaos

That evening, as soon as it got dark, Liu Yan came to find Ye Liuyun and the others.

The clone saw him coming and immediately let Tang Xinyao and the others out, then went straight out of the big tent to wait for him.

Liu Yan also politely clasped his hands toward them to show thanks, then waved for them to follow, and left right away.

This sight left the other martial cultivators and those several captains astonished, not knowing what they were up to. The other expedition team members also had no idea what had happened the previous night.

Ye Liuyun and the others waited in Liu Yan's big tent for a while, and once it was completely dark, they followed Liu Yan's group onto the flying boat and set off toward the target city.

Li Qingyang saw Ye Liuyun and the others arrive, merely nodded at them without greeting. Then he used True Essence to condense a terrain map, assigning defensive positions to all the bandit captains. Each strong person's position was marked on the map, though traitors were marked with black dots and ordinary martial cultivators with red dots.

The clone committed the map entirely to memory. Ye Liuyun, based on where their flying boat had stopped, had already begun plotting the order of attack with the thief cat.

Inside the flying boat there were actually more than thirty Sixth Layer Sovereign experts. However, they all wore the same clothes, so Ye Liuyun couldn't tell which were members of the bandit gang and which were outside reinforcements.

The flying boat stopped early to avoid drawing the attention of martial cultivator experts. The ordinary members of the bandit gang all rushed to their predetermined ambush spots, while those experts remained temporarily inside the flying boat, not moving with them.

After the clone moved away from the flying boat, it first let the thief cat go set up an ambush. When they reached their defensive position, it then released Ye Liuyun, who was wearing the invisibility cloak.

Ye Liuyun also traversed the void, rushing in haste to the red‑dot marked positions to act against those Sixth Layer experts who were not traitors, first using Time Power to freeze time, then implanting a Slave Seal on those experts and storing them in the Space World.

There were three Sixth Layer experts in this area; after he controlled them with this method, he immediately returned to the ambush site where the clone and others were waiting, remaining invisible while awaiting the experts who would try to flee from here.

The thief cat waited for the experts inside the flying boat to move out, then they formed groups of three, scattering to rush to each traitor's location. The thief cat struck first, stealing from them one by one in order. Each time, shortly after he acted, martial cultivator experts came rushing in to kill.

The experts dispatched by the First Star Bandit Gang were also astonished; after killing people, they found no loot at all.

But this time, fewer traitors managed to escape. Because some of the traitors' life‑saving treasures had disappeared, they could only fight the three experts head‑on and were ultimately slain.

Only a few traitors far away, upon receiving the news, fled in advance.

The martial cultivator fleeing toward Liu Yan's side was merely a Fifth Layer Guiyi expert; Ye Liuyun did not go to intercept him himself, but had the clone bring Tang Xinyao and the others to block him.

Liu Yan also brought his subordinates to help, blasting that expert with an attack. When their reinforcements arrived, the traitor's True Essence had already been exhausted, and he was directly killed.

Not only on their side, but in other directions as well, battle explosions erupted.

Not long after, the thief cat ran back, and Ye Liuyun stored him in the Space World.

"We've secured more than twenty; the others either have already started fighting or got the news and fled early." The thief cat explained to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun praised him a few sentences. Their target tonight numbered over thirty; only more than ten had fled, so this result was already quite good.

Suddenly he noticed a Sixth Layer expert charging toward this place, with two of their own people far behind in pursuit.

Ye Liuyun immediately used Time Power to rush over, devouring that expert's soul, then took his storage ring, and promptly withdrew.

The person being chased suddenly fell from mid‑air, causing the two experts pursuing him to also be astonished. They cautiously approached to investigate, and only after confirming the person was indeed dead did they stare at each other, baffled as to who had struck.

But when they discovered that person's storage ring was missing, they immediately turned back to look for it, still thinking that the person had thrown it away beforehand.

Out.

Afterward, no more experts came charging from that direction. Ye Liuyun stayed where he was, absorbing the divine soul power he had just devoured.

The tremors from battles in other directions also gradually faded. Not long after, Liu Yan received the withdrawal news and, feeling relieved, led Ye Liuyun and the others back.

He didn't know Ye Liuyun had already intercepted a Sixth Layer expert for them. But he thought that being able to stop a Fifth Layer expert was already good, at least saving a few of his subordinates from death.

Ye Liuyun also immediately rushed to the clone's vicinity, where the clone used Space Translocation to store him in the Space World.

On the way back, Liu Yan lavishly praised their combined‑formation technique and promised them two hundred units of Primordial Power, which he gave to the clone on the spot.

After returning to the flying boat they immediately turned back. But those experts gathered together to study tonight's strange events; two traitors were severely wounded and captured alive, yet one of their storage rings was empty while the other's ring still contained all its resources.

Those experts could only use Soul Search to understand the situation. But the results they found were also unclear to them—how their own resources had been stolen.

Li Qingyang also frowned, suspecting that perhaps a high‑level expert had also acted simultaneously. But it seemed that even if someone had intervened, it wasn't aimed at them and didn't affect their actions.

In the end he couldn't figure out the cause, so he could only wait and see what happened. If it really was someone helping them, that would be a good thing.

At this moment Ye Liuyun was in the Space World celebrating with everyone. The thief cat had stolen plenty of good stuff tonight, enough for everyone to make a boost.

Liu Yan also found an opportunity to praise Li Qingyang about Ye Liuyun and the others' combined formation. Li Qingyang likewise praised the clone, then on the spot declared that they would henceforth join his bandit gang.

After returning to the camp, the clone and company immediately went back to their own big tent to go cultivate.

Liu Yan also specially assigned two bandits to stand guard for Ye Liuyun and the others, so that the expedition team members wouldn't get curious and disturb their cultivation.

They still have to fight tonight; they need to cultivate with all their strength to recover True Essence before they can fight again.

The clone also brought Tang Xinyao and the others back to the Space World to share the spoils. After gathering the loot, they first went back to replenish True Essence, then used those high‑end resources to cultivate.

Ye Liuyun continued to refine fire‑attribute Primordial Power, while the clone donned a five‑colored rosy robe to temper his body, simultaneously refining some sea‑beast essence blood to boost his Bloodline Power.

Other high-end resources, Ye Liuyun also gave a lot to the women, letting them also seize the time to raise their realms. Especially women whose realm is Sixfold Sovereign, including Qin Mengxi, Ye Liuyun focused on taking care of them, letting their realms quickly catch up.