Chapter 3533: Letting Water Go

The fire fox had doubted the formation, but seeing Qiong Qi obviously trying to intimidate it, it also thought the formation couldn't last long, so it immediately began to increase its attack.

Qiong Qi, to reduce the fire fox's suspicions, also began letting the formation recover more and more slowly. However, each time the fire fox released its fire source, the hole burned in the formation wasn't big enough for it to charge straight through.

Seeing the formation recovering ever more slowly, the fire fox finally confirmed its guess was correct—that Qiong Qi was bluffing. It immediately took advantage of Qiong Qi's inattention and suddenly released its own fire spirit.

That fire spirit, having gathered all of its flame source power, instantly struck the formation off guard, blasting a large hole; subsequently the entire formation collapsed.

"Leave it to you!"

Qiong Qi shouted at Ye Liuyun, then busied himself continuing to inscribe the formation, as if trying to salvage it.

Ye Liuyun immediately had the metal puppet act, blocking it at the moment the fire fox tried to rush in.

The metal puppet wielded Heaven-Devouring, driving the fire fox back. Feeling the sharpness of Heaven-Devouring, the fire fox dared not charge head-on; it could only use true essence to engage the puppet from a distance.

But it didn't notice that its fire spirit had already been trapped by the formation Qiong Qi had re-inscribed; it lunged left and right but couldn't break out. Moreover, the fire spirit was rapidly shrinking and weakening, as the underground copper cauldron frantically drained its flame source power.

Afterwards, Qiong Qi inscribed another large formation, protecting Ye Liuyun and himself once more, lest the fire fox discover and engage them in a desperate fight.

The fire fox, fighting on, suddenly noticed its fire spirit had weakened considerably; it let out a miserable howl, fiercely slapped away the metal puppet's attack with one palm, then charged toward the formation.

Now devoid of flame, relying solely on its cultivation level, it could not break the formation at all; instead, it was staggered by an attack emanating from the formation.

Moreover, the metal puppet behind it teamed up with the formation to launch a pincer attack, trapping it inside.

Seeing Qiong Qi had succeeded, Ye Liuyun judged the fire fox's combat strength insufficient and, without its fire spirit, of little use; thus, coordinating with the metal puppet, he fired a white light directly at its chest, melting a large hole there.

However, the fire fox did not die immediately; instead, it began to flee desperately.

Left with no choice, Ye Liuyun used two red pupils to influence it and also struck its soul with a violet pupil. If he had directly shattered the fire fox's soul with the violet pupil, he feared excessive consumption, so he merely influenced its retreat to create an opportunity for the metal puppet,

He also dared not launch a direct soul attack. His golden pupil had seen that the fire fox's soul power was too strong; releasing two soul sources would not be a match. Even unleashing three soul sources in a desperate effort would not justify exposing so much power so early.

The metal puppet also seized the moment to rush over, with a single blade cleaving off the fire fox's hind half, causing it to collapse unable to move.

Ye Liuyun knew it wasn't dead, yet feigned carelessness, stepping out of the formation to collect its corpse. The fire fox's two soul sources immediately surged into Ye Liuyun's sea of consciousness, seeking to perish together with him.

Ye Liuyun had, however, already placed the soul-refining cauldron at the entrance of his sea of consciousness. As soon as the fire fox's two soul sources entered, they were shattered by the cauldron, unable to escape.

"This guy is still tough to kill!" Qiong Qi, seeing the fire fox dead, still not fully relieved, had Ye Liuyun order the metal puppet to blast the corpse with true essence, completely exploding it to dig out the elemental pellet, only then feeling at ease.

As for the fire fox's fire spirit, it was ultimately completely absorbed by Qiong Qi's broken copper cauldron.

"Haha, settled! If we could keep taking them down one by one like this, we'd reap quite a haul!"

Qiong Qi was quite satisfied with the current situation.

But his words reminded Ye Liuyun: "Do you think the vicious beasts here would let us easily take them out one by one?"

"You mean they're just stalling for now, then will hit us hard when we're unprepared?" Qiong Qi countered.

"Quite possible!"

While Ye Liuyun was speaking, his golden pupil also swept toward the mountain top's

Sweeping over, he found that there were indeed fewer flower pythons there, though the number wasn't very obvious, and the highest-level flower python was still present.

But even a few flower pythons at the seventh/eighth level realm would be enough to ambush them; therefore, afterward Ye Liuyun also began paying attention to the underground, lest those flower pythons sneak up from below.

His divine sense could now probe a fifty-li range, and his golden pupil could see even farther; he wasn't worried about surface ambushes by vicious beasts, but underground ambushes were easily overlooked.

Qiong Qi also became cautious because of this; in a place where any random vicious beast that appeared had a cultivation level far higher than his, he also dared not be careless.

Afterwards, Ye Liuyun and company found many fire-attribute medicinal herbs in the fire fox's territory, which happened to be very suitable for Qiong Qi and the Vermilion Bird to use.

Ye Liuyun directly had Qiong Qi gather them, while he stood guard for Qiong Qi, and everything remained safe and sound.

Afterwards, he and Qiong Qi encountered two ninth-level vicious beasts, but Ye Liuyun did not directly kill them this time. One was a black panther, very fast, yet trapped by the formation; finally Ye Liuyun released the dragon maiden, who, with the aid of the golden sword, implanted a slave seal on that black panther.

The other was a golden lion, lacking any special skill; it fought the metal puppet to exhaustion of true essence, was smashed half-dead by the puppet, and then Ye Liuyun implanted a slave seal on it.

Moreover, Ye Liuyun, through soul search, confirmed that their actions were all arranged by the flower-patterned snake king. This further convinced Ye Liuyun that the snake king was setting traps for them, using some vicious beasts to make them let their guard down.

Thus they walked on, and upon seeing a larger medicinal field containing many precious herbs inside, Ye Liuyun's first reaction was to think this place was a good spot for an ambush.

Although on the surface he hadn't detected such danger, they had not yet reached the medicinal field area; if there were an ambush there, then when they collected the herbs it would be extremely dangerous.

So when he approached the medicinal field, he first had Qiong Qi set up a defensive formation, especially to prevent a sudden underground attack.

"What about these medicinal herbs? Not collect them?" After Qiong Qi finished setting up the formation, he also asked Ye Liuyun.

"Of course we must collect them!"

Ye Liuyun immediately released Jiang Hu, Chang Hai, and two other mercenary leaders from the Space World, while Cheng Huofeng and Chen Qinan were left behind by him, feeling that the two knew more and were more useful than these four.

Then Ye Liuyun used the slave seal to control them to gather the medicinal herbs.

"Collect the soil together as well; each time just gather a small piece and send it back to me."

Ye Liuyun also made arrangements for them, lest after gathering too much medicinal herb they be swallowed whole by a giant python or vicious beast, wasting those herbs.

These four also knew Ye Liuyun was using them as cannon fodder, but under the slave seal's control they could only obey orders.

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