Chapter 3208: Stone Origin

Ye Liuyun wasn't showing off his strength; he just wanted to be a bit faster.

Although he was also fighting, his Divine Sense covered the whole Secret Realm. He could clearly see the other teams' progress. So he wanted to reach the square before the Royal Palace first.

Inside that stone statue was a gray Primordial Power, which his Golden Pupil saw from afar.

Shi Yuan's physique is special, rarely finding resources especially suited to him. The Primordial Power inside the statue resembles the stone primordial power he once absorbed. So Ye Liuyun wanted to get there first, seize that power, lest it fall into others' hands.

But when they went around the buildings and saw the square's sight, they were also somewhat surprised.

"Your map didn't mention so many stone statues!" Ye Liuyun complained to Luo Yu.

What he saw filled his vision: the whole square was covered with stone soldiers. He roughly counted about five hundred. Only these soldier statues were life‑sized, previously blocked by the buildings.

Moreover, the square had a formation shielding Divine Sense detection; his Divine Sense had previously not detected so many statues.

"I didn't expect so many either! What should we do?" Luo Yu also felt a bit panicked.

She had never been to this Secret Realm before, and the map only marked this place as dangerous, with stone statues guarding it, but didn't specify their number.

At that moment, a squad of stone soldiers suddenly opened their eyes in unison and began to move. Then this squad raised stone shields, waved stone spears, and charged toward the street where Ye Liuyun and his group were.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil noticed that each stone soldier's body contained a stone primordial power, though the soldiers' primordial power was much smaller, far less than that of the largest statue.

"What else can we do? Just kill them!" Ye Liuyun immediately released the Snow Wolf and Magic Flood Dragon, letting them join the Demon Wolf in dealing with those stone soldiers.

Upon engaging, Ye Liuyun also found that the soldiers' strength was roughly at the Return to One Ninth Layer Early Stage; even the leading soldier was only at Ninth Layer Mid Stage, so they weren't hard to handle.

Only their numbers were somewhat larger, with a squad having over fifty.

"This is a great opportunity for Shi Yuan to seize resources!"

Ye Liuyun thought,

Here, he immediately released twenty Return to One Late Stage strongers, having everyone help collect the stone soldiers' Primordial Power. He himself also joined the battle, using Spatial Power and Heaven and Earth Power to fight those stone soldiers.

Luo Yu's strength wasn't a match for those soldiers; she could only watch from behind.

She also realized the soldiers weren't very strong, felt much more relieved, thinking the four Monster Beasts could handle them. Unexpectedly, Ye Liuyun then released another twenty Ninth Layer Late Stage strongers.

"He really carries many strongers with him!" Now Luo Yu is completely at ease.

Moreover, seeing Ye Liuyun actually blast to death Return to One Ninth Layer Early Stage stone soldiers, she also looked at his strength in a new light.

"So his strength is this great!"

The strongers Ye Liuyun released, together with the earlier Monster Beast, could each take down a stone soldier in one or two moves, quickly wiping out the stone soldiers before them.

Moreover, they were collecting the stone soldiers' Primordial Power while fighting.

The Demon Wolf also collected a stone soldier's Primordial Power, but after trying to absorb it, found he couldn't, so he immediately tossed it to the Snow Wolf for her to take.

After Ye Liuyun finished off those stone soldiers, he immediately led everyone straight toward the square.

"Ah, don't go over..." Luo Yu wanted to shout for Ye Liuyun to stop, worried he would draw all the stone soldiers over.

But she shouted too late. The soldiers on the square all opened their eyes at once and came alive, charging at them.

"Alright, you're strong, so willful!"

Luo Yu sighed helplessly, hiding at the entrance of the street leading to the square, not daring to pass, fearing to attract stone‑soldier attacks on her.

The Demon Wolf also, after killing two more stone soldiers, immediately retreated to guard Luo Yu's side, fearing she might be ambushed.

Ye Liuyun was deliberately luring the stone soldiers. Unexpectedly, the effect was better than he expected, and all the stone soldiers were drawn to them.

They had been moving quickly in their final stretch, with no one else reaching here, so the stone soldiers had no other target and all charged at them.

So Ye Liuyun sped up further, releasing another thirty Ninth Layer Late Stage strongers to jointly slay those stone soldiers.

Booming sounds echoed nonstop on the square. So

The stone soldiers were all blasted to pieces, and their Primordial Power was immediately collected by those strongers.

"What treasure is the energy inside those stone soldiers?" Luo Yu curiously asked the Demon Wolf.

The Demon Wolf in human form shook his head: "I don't know what energy it is; I can't absorb it!"

"Then why does he painstakingly collect those things?" Luo Yu muttered to herself.

She also realized that Ye Liuyun's enthusiasm for killing those stone soldiers was precisely for that energy.

Not long after, the square was littered with rubble; all the stone soldiers had been swept clean by them.

Ye Liuyun also immediately stored those fifty strongers into the Space World, lest they be discovered. The square has a formation blocking Divine Sense detection, so outsiders can't see him releasing that many strongers.

For now, only the Snow Wolf and two Magic Flood Dragons remain by Ye Liuyun's side, all on guard against that largest statue.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil had already seen the statue's Primordial Power beginning to operate. The statue also opened its eyes, looking down on Ye Liuyun and the others.

And as the statue awakened, its pressure was released.

"Taixu First Layer's pressure!"

After feeling the statue's strength, Ye Liuyun immediately released two avatars. At the same time he sent a Transmission Voice to the Magic Flood Dragons, letting them manifest their true forms to pull down the statue's legs. He had the Snow Wolf use Spatial Power to attract the statue's attention.

The two avatars then used the Hunting Demon Bow and the Item bow respectively to launch long‑range attacks on the statue's arms.

"Attack!"

Ye Liuyun didn't wait for the statue to fully activate, but had everyone launch the attack first.

Seeing them move, the statue quickened its motions, also raising the giant sword it was leaning on.

"Boom, boom" two booms, each avatar shot an arrow, blasting the base of the statue's arms. The stone there was blown away in a large chunk, forming a deep pit. However, the statue is too huge; one or two arrows certainly couldn't break it.

The stone statue immediately locked onto the two avatars, about to bring down its sword, when the Snow Wolf suddenly appeared before it, spewing a blast of cold air toward its eyes to shroud them.

The statue instantly changed target, slashing at the Snow Wolf. But the Snow Wolf struck once and fled, so the sword naturally cut nothing.