Chapter 3418: The Azure Monkey Blockade

Ye Liuyun released Shi Yuan, having it forge a path ahead, hurrying toward Cangyuan Gorge.

He recently acquired many high‑grade weapons and Defense Artifacts, and equipped Shi Yuan with them. Shi Yuan should handle ordinary dangers without much trouble.

During their earlier fight, they kept hearing roars echoing from within the gorge. He hadn't been able to attend to it then, but now he thought to have Shi Yuan listen.

But after Shi Yuan emerged, the Azure Monkeys were silent.

Soon they reached the entrance of Cangyuan Gorge and sensed True Essence turbulence from battles inside the gorge.

Ye Liuyun also warned the others: "Earlier I saw a group ahead, about a dozen Martial Cultivators, all seemingly at Taixu Third or Fourth Layer, probably explorers!"

But perhaps those people went too far; Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense still cannot detect them, and his Golden Pupil is blocked by the winding gorge, so he can only guess they have likely clashed with the Azure Monkeys.

At that moment, several Azure Monkeys leapt out of the gorge, blocking their path. The leader was at Taixu Fourth Layer, accompanied by two at Taixu Third Layer, two at Taixu Second Layer, and five or six at Taixu First Layer.

The leader roared at Shi Yuan, and Shi Yuan immediately reported to Ye Liuyun: "It says this gorge is their territory; they won't let us in. There are no resources inside, and the deep gorge is dangerous!"

"Can we ask what danger it is?" Ye Liuyun asked Shi Yuan to try communicating with that Azure Monkey.

Shi Yuan let out a low growl, but the opposing Azure Monkey was clearly impatient, letting out a "Aooo" roar, standing upright, pounding its chest with both hands to intimidate them, demanding they leave at once.

"It won't tell us, just make us leave quickly!" Shi Yuan told Ye Liuyun, while also revealing its three‑headed, six‑armed true form and drawing various weapons.

"Then let's fight!"

Ye Liuyun surmised that only dangerous places hold resources. Moreover, after just breaking through his realm, he needed to gauge his own strength. So he released two golden dragons to aid the group in battle.

Chen Xiang faced the Taixu Fourth Layer Azure Monkey directly, the two golden dragon Kuailei blocked the Taixu Third Layer monkeys, Ye Liuyun and Meng Yunshan each fought a Taixu Second Layer Azure Monkey, and Shi Yuan, with its three heads and six arms, took on the remaining Taixu

First Layer monkeys, capturing them all.

Ye Liuyun did not use weapons or elemental power, but directly employed Divine Core, throwing a hard punch at the Taixu Second Layer Azure Monkey to test his own strength and Physical Body.

With a "Boom" roar, Ye Liuyun and the monkey landed even, but the monkey emerged unscathed, not stepping back, while Ye Liuyun's arm bone cracked from the shock.

"It seems this monkey's Physical Body is far stronger than mine!"

Ye Liuyun, thinking this, healed his wound while the other hand delivered another punch; this time he used both Divine Core and Heaven and Earth Power, driving the monkey back without injuring himself.

"Roar!" wap.

The monkey, enraged, slapped at Ye Liuyun repeatedly. Ye Liuyun blocked twice, and after gauging his Taixu Second Layer power, he stopped using Divine Core to brute force, instead unleashing his golden dragon Guardian God Seal to clash with the monkey.

Since entering the Taixu World, Ye Liuyun's Guardian God Seal has been compressed to thirty zhang in size. However, because his seals have devoured Dragon Souls, they fight with great agility and strong autonomy.

Moreover, Ye Liuyun strives to have them use less Divine Core and more Heaven and Earth Power. When the Guardian God Seal employs Heaven and Earth Power, it operates far smoother and far more powerful than Ye Liuyun himself, making it virtually unbeatable against peers.

Seizing the chance, Ye Liuyun also grasped Heaven and Earth Power. After eliminating that Taixu Second Layer monkey, he drew the Demon Slaying Sword, swapped in another golden dragon Kuailei, and engaged a Taixu Third Layer monkey.

The golden dragon Guardian God Seal helped him defend; attempting a cross‑level challenge while using less Divine Core strained the seal. Even with Divine Core, it might still fail to defeat a Taixu Third Layer opponent.

Relying on sword intent, Heaven and Earth Power, and the seal's protection, Ye Liuyun could barely hold a draw with the Taixu Third Layer monkey.

Indeed, these monkeys' strength far exceeds ordinary Martial Cultivators. Their Physical Bodies have an edge, their Heaven and Earth Power is strong, and their True Essence is fairly condensed.

Meng Yunshan employed his own treasure sphere to smash the opponent, gaining the upper hand. Chen Xiang used Spatial Power to maneuver around the foe, striking occasionally and draining them with surprise attacks

but their overall strength was insufficient for a true duel.

Only Shi Yuan fought with ease; by now the battle was over. He eliminated the Taixu First Layer monkeys with weapons.

In the end, Ye Liuyun wore down the opponent's True Essence to nothing, then slashed them with sword intent. Meng Yunshan won through his treasure, and Chen Xiang exhausted the foe's power with Spatial Power before killing them.

But Meng Yunshan and Chen Xiang had no strength left to fight again and needed to return to recover True Essence.

Ye Liuyun thought it over and decided he needed to restore some Divine Core, to be safer.

Thus he recalled Shi Yuan back to the Space World, exited Cangyuan Gorge, dug a Cave outside the gorge, stationed the two golden dragon Kuailei to guard outside, set up a Defense Array Plate, and then returned to the cultivation planet within the Space World to accelerate Divine Core recovery.

Now without a clone, whenever he returns to the Space World to cultivate, he must arrange proper defenses, lest danger finds him.

Fortunately his Divine Core consumption this time was modest. He didn't waste a Taixu Divine Crystal, but used the previously stockpiled True Dragon Core Pill, transmuted it with a Conversion Core Cauldron, then absorbed it.

Now the Conversion Core Cauldron can no longer meet his Divine Core needs; the energy it yields is only marginally higher in quality than that in the True Dragon Core Pill, still requiring his own absorption and conversion.

Thus Ye Liuyun spent over ten days inside the Space World to fully replenish his Divine Core.

When his cultivation session ended, he emerged to scout. Calculating the time, the Martial Cultivators coming to rescue Zhao Yuanpei should be arriving soon, and they likely already know Zhao Yuanpei is dead.

"Those people will definitely keep tracking Meng Yunshan's whereabouts. If I stay here, they'll surely find me. If I appear and lure them into Cangyuan Gorge, I might be attacked by the monkeys and be unable to get out myself."

His Golden Pupil scanned the Xingkong, and indeed spotted a distant Flying Boat racing toward here at great speed.

"Eleven Taixu Fifth and Sixth Layer strongmen! Too powerful, we can't force it!"

Ye Liuyun pondered briefly, then his eyes lit up; he immediately used the Thousand Illusion Technique to assume the form of a nearby Barbarian Bear, collected the Defense Array Plate, and approached with the two golden dragon Kuailei.