Chapter 3068

Hongbo is just a loose cultivator. He had been hanging around the Xu Dan Sect area before, so he knows the sect's situation well and often uses the Xu Dan Sect's name to scare people.

But he hasn't done anything too outrageous; he just takes small advantages to avoid being discovered by the Xu Dan Sect.

Ye Liuyun thought about it and really didn't kill him; instead, he planted a Slave Seal on him and took him into the Space World.

Although Hongbo is not a member of the Xu Dan Sect, he has traded with several of its disciples, reselling some pills he bought from them to the black market near the Xu Dan Sect. Ye Liuyun plans to use him in the future to get close to those Xu Dan Sect disciples, and also let him act as a guide to go to that pill black market to scout for bargains.

Afterwards, Ye Liuyun took the Snow Wolf and the Metal Puppet, and then collected all the Storage Rings from the corpses.

He Lingwu wasn't dead yet; he had just been knocked unconscious.

Ye Liuyun released a Soul, intending to devour its Soul after performing a Soul Search. But he suddenly learned that He Lingwu was going to enter the Secret Realm through the selection, and he immediately paid more attention.

He Lingwu had never entered that Secret Realm before; he had only heard that the disciples of the He clan who entered the Secret Realm could quickly increase their strength.

However, the He clan has a strange rule for disciples entering it: each person must bring two guards inside, but each time those guards are killed by various dangers in the Secret Realm, and not a single one can get out.

However, the disciples themselves usually have about half of them able to come out of that Secret Realm. But those who come out, aside from remembering what they gained, cannot remember anything else.

After Ye Liuyun learned of this information, he also found it quite strange.

"The He clan requires bringing guards in, but the guards never come out, which seems like offering sacrifices to that Secret Realm. Yet those who come out can't remember what happened; they must have had their memories wiped by the Secret Realm."

Ye Liuyun felt that the Secret Realm was more like the Space World of a He clan expert, and he also used a Slave Seal to seek confirmation from He Yunzhang.

But He Yunzhang told Ye Liuyun that the Secret Realm is not something the He clan can control; rather, the Secret Realm itself is strange, and the He clan has yet to uncover its true nature.

However, the Secret Realm is relatively friendly to disciples with He clan bloodline, so the He clan sends disciples in for training while hoping to explore

and gather more information.

After years of trial, the He clan knows that each time they send people in, eighty percent will die in that Secret Realm, while the rest are definitely He clan disciples.

They also tried sending more guards in, but the result was that not only did all the guards die, but not a single disciple remained either.

Thus the He clan gradually worked out a pattern: each year they send over a hundred disciples and over two hundred guards in, and finally over fifty He clan disciples come out. This is the best ratio they can achieve.

The He clan has also sent in some Elder experts, but the results are the same. Those He clan members who come out all gain something: some obtain high-end resources, some acquire high-end cultivation methods and secret techniques, and some even improve their sword intent, blade intent, and other artistic conceptions.

This strange phenomenon, on the contrary, makes Ye Liuyun very curious.

He thought it over and decided to give the adventure a try. He has He Lingwu in hand; at a critical moment he can transform into He Lingwu's appearance to substitute for him, he can also hide in He Lingwu's Space World, or use the Black Tower to leave. Look at the book.

He immediately planted a Slave Seal on He Lingwu, then fed him a drop of Life Spring Water to let him recover from his injuries.

Afterwards, he himself used the Thousand Illusion Technique to transform into the appearance of one of He Lingwu's guards, pretended to have raised his cultivation level, and also feigned being injured, then followed He Lingwu back to the He clan.

After He Lingwu returned to the He clan, his family also asked about the situation. He only said he had failed to seize the pills and was beaten up; his family didn't pay much attention, merely telling him to recover quickly and not delay the selection, and no one paid attention to the guards beside him.

Ye Liuyun also immediately settled down to cultivate in peace at He Lingwu's residence, awaiting entry into that Secret Realm.

That day, the city's garrison troops were fully mobilized, they raided the local chamber of commerce, killing everyone inside to the last person, drawing the attention of the whole city.

Waiting for the Chengzhu Fu to send people out to intervene, Yu Wenqiang had already killed everyone and seized all the resources. His reason given to the Chengzhu Fu was that the chamber of commerce had deliberately let Ye Liuyun escape.

At that time, everyone in the chamber of commerce had already been killed dead, leaving no witnesses, so the Chengzhu Fu could do nothing about him. In the end, the matter fizzled out, and the Chengzhu Fu could only recruit a new chamber of commerce again.

The Second Clone had already used the Black Tower to take away a Marrow Washing Pill. Before leaving, it also went to find Yu Wenqiang and took away the chamber of commerce resources he had seized.

For just one pill, activating the Black Tower once seems not worth it. But Ye Liuyun's cultivation foundation is now very solid, and the quality of his Divine Core is rising quickly. He estimates that his cultivation realm will soon be able to break through.

So he couldn't let the Second Clone's breakthrough leave its overall strength too weak. Fortunately, Yu Wenqiang had robbed the local merchants' guild, so even if using the Black Tower for transmission consumed several more times, those resources would not be exhausted.

He also found some seventh-eighth grade true-rank pills from the merchants' guild resources and gave them to He Lingwu, letting him barely consolidate his overall strength. After He Lingwu used them, the effect, although not as good as using ninth-grade true-rank pills, was still better than nothing, and all his abilities still improved somewhat.

In the selection competition, he actually stood out, winning first place and receiving a high-grade battle armor as a family reward, which could be considered to give him better safety protection after entering the Secret Realm.

Ye Liuyun didn't even go to watch his match, nor did he care about the He family's situation; instead, he kept accelerating his cultivation inside the Second Clone's Space World, striving to raise his realm to Guiyi Fourth Layer before entering that Secret Realm.

He and his two clones were simultaneously using the Exchange Yuan Cauldron to absorb energy and convert it into Divine Core. This time his breakthrough was from the early stage to the middle stage of the Guiyi realm, so he needed more energy.

The speed of condensing Divine Core was indeed much faster than that of Mysterious Origin; as soon as he focused on cultivation, the quality and quantity of Divine Core began to surge rapidly, quickly putting Ye Liuyun into a breakthrough state.

This breakthrough, Ye Liuyun had already accumulated plenty of combat experience in the Wilderness Sea; the impact of the Divine Core was not obvious, merely gently and slowly widening the meridians, not even rupturing those tiny meridians inside his body.

Afterwards, the Divine Core circulated and surged within his meridians for a long time before returning to the core pellet, after which it boiled and condensed, raising its quality to Guiyi Fourth Layer.

However, after the quality of the Divine Core increased, the core pellet had much empty space again; to fill it, a large amount of energy was needed again. But the whole process was much smoother and safer than before.

Ye Liuyun then also absorbed all the energy from the Storage Yuan Stone, continuing to convert it into higher-quality Divine Core. He then continually used the Exchange Yuan Cauldron to transform energy and fill it into his body.