Chapter 3659: Overnight Stay at the Side Courtyard

After the two finished talking, having had enough wine and food, Li Yuan again invited Ye Liuyun to return to his temporary Side Courtyard to stay.

Li Yuan's Side Courtyard was quite ordinary, not very large, but clean and tidy.

"This is only my temporary residence, I hope Young Master Ye won't dislike it!" Li Yuan also feared that Ye Liuyun might think he was being negligent toward him.

"No problem, I'm not that particular!" Ye Liuyun truly didn't care about these matters; after all, he was returning to his own Space World to cultivate, and a room that could block others' sight was enough.

So Li Yuan took his leave and went back to prepare, letting Ye Liuyun cultivate on his own.

Ye Liuyun left Gu Changhong and the Demon King outside to keep watch, arranged a formation for them with runes, and then returned to the Space World to cultivate.

After returning, he first greeted the Monster Beasts by his side, telling them to prepare for an expedition to a dangerous place, and also took a look at their realms.

The Monster Beasts had recently devoured a large amount of ferocious beast elixirs, and the harvested resources were freely available to them, so their realms had all improved.

Except for Qiong Qi, the other Monster Beasts had all advanced to above the Seventh Layer of Taixu. Qiong Qi had recently spent more energy on runes, so his cultivation was a bit slower and remained at the Sixth Layer of Taixu.

Chi Lian and Zhu Que, in battle, absorbed a large amount of Martial Cultivator bloodlines and Divine Soul Power; their realms had already broken through to the Eighth Layer of Taixu and were consolidating.

Xiong Tianchuan, who had been following Ye Liuyun, also reached the Eighth Layer. The Mastiff's realm also rose to the Seventh Layer; he had not shied away from eating those Martial Cultivator corpses. Moreover, the Mountain Cat and Fei Yan he later captured had realms that had already reached the Ninth Layer Summit.

Ye Liuyun equipped them all with some life‑saving treasures, so they wouldn't easily die in battle.

The Monster Beasts by his side received even more treasures, and their grades had also improved. They now had abundant artificers, giving them chances to upgrade treasures, and Ye Liuyun would certainly satisfy them first.

Tang Xinyao's realm was nearing the Sixth Layer Summit, and Chen Yueying's realm had also advanced to the Sixth Layer.

Ye Liuyun, after checking their equipment, suddenly recalled the ring on Long Nv's hand.

According to Wang Wenli, the red gem on that ring came from the demon beast world on the other side of the passage; Wang Wenli had found it in a slain demon beast's Storage Ring.

This kind of gem contained immense power, and even Sun Que said that if one could obtain such an item, the Kuailei's strength could still be enhanced.

Even if the quantity is small, giving the people around Ye Liuyun some upgraded equipment could easily boost their combat power by dozens of times.

Wang Wenli, at the Cave Heaven First Level, could use that red ruby to generate the power of the Fifth Level of Cave Heaven; that was already more than just a fewfold increase. The power of the Cave Heaven realm differs vastly from one level to the next.

Ye Liuyun thought it over; entering the passage still carried certain risks, and if Li Yuan couldn't get through, he needed a backup plan. As the thirteenth son of the God King, Wang Wenli could certainly go in.

Moreover, he had gone in before and knew the interior better. So he summoned Wang Wenli again, and also had him bring along three hundred Great Void Ninth Level mercenaries, to avoid a massive battle later.

Wang Wenli immediately used the Teleportation Array to rush here, then became invisible to rendezvous with Ye Liuyun, and was left by Ye Liuyun outside the Cultivation Room to keep watch together with Gu Changhong and the Demon King.

The Seventh Divine Son and the Ninth Divine Son really sent a few subordinates here, but all were killed by the three of them, and they never disturbed Ye Liuyun's cultivation.

Ye Liuyun was busy using the energy from the golden egg to further boost his Divine Soul Power. During this period, he devoted all the golden energy to strengthening his soul sources, doubling both his purple‑eyed soul source and the red‑eyed soul source within his duplicate Sea of Consciousness.

Now his strongest soul source was already three times his own height, and the other soul sources were at one and a half times strength. For an ordinary Ninth Realm Martial Cultivator, having a soul source cultivated to this state was the normal standard.

As for Mingshe's soul source, he still hadn't finished absorbing and refining it; the remainder would be slowly assimilated.

Afterwards Ye Liuyun went to cultivate Spatial Power. Among the captives he had seized, there was a Cave Heaven Realm Martial Cultivator with relatively strong Spatial Power, already able to sense the barrier of the Eighth Void layer. Unfortunately, he hadn't yet manifested his Spatial Power, and Ye Liuyun restrained him with runes.

Now that person had been forged by Sun Que into a Kuailei, completely loyal to Ye Liuyun, and could accompany him in practicing Spatial Power. Ye Liuyun named it Zhan Kong.

With Zhan Kong's help, Ye Liuyun had just sensed the barrier of the Seventh layer of space and was preparing to breakthrough.

However, that day, although he broke through the Seventh Void, he was immediately forced out, realizing his Physical Body could no longer endure the pressure of higher‑level voids, so he returned to reinforce his Physical Body again with the golden egg's energy.

He also sourced many body‑refining materials from the recent resources to increase his Physical Body's strength.

Outside one day, Ye Liuyun had ten days inside the Space World, which was enough for him to raise his Physical Body's strength by another level before taking action.

However, he had originally hoped to have time to breakthrough a minor layer realm, but now he could only postpone it temporarily.

When Ye Liuyun finished cultivating and stepped out of the Cultivation Room, he saw that the outside scenery had changed; the entire Side Courtyard had become a ruin. Li Yuan was there with two Martial Cultivators waiting, and upon seeing Ye Liuyun emerge, he immediately stood up.

"What's going on?" Ye Liuyun asked Gu Changhong right away.

Gu Changhong instantly tossed a few half‑dead Martial Cultivators out of the Storage Ring.

"These Martial Cultivators tried to ambush the master!" Gu Changhong said, pointing at them.

He didn't know how Ye Liuyun would deal with these people, so he didn't dare to kill them outright and kept them alive.

Ye Liuyun was about to reprimand Gu Changhong and the others for being indiscriminate, but Li Yuan immediately explained, "Don't blame them; those people acted recklessly and didn't even fear implicating others!"

"That trouble was also caused by me!" Ye Liuyun said, about to hand over some resources as compensation, but Li Yuan stopped him.

He truly didn't care about a single Side Courtyard: "It's just a Side Courtyard; we'll rebuild it, Young Master Ye, don't worry. Let's set off right away!"

"Alright then!" Ye Liuyun, seeing that Li Yuan didn't mind, stopped hesitating and immediately placed Slave Seals on those Martial Cultivators, brought them into the Space World and tossed them to Sun Que.

Before departing, he also brought Wang Wenli and Gu Changhong, as well as the Demon King—both Kuailei—into the Space World. Their attire was too bizarre, and going out would attract attention.

"Master, there are still people watching outside!" Wang Wenli immediately sent a Transmission Voice to Ye Liuyun. His assassin‑like keen sense had already detected that someone outside was still monitoring them.

"No problem, let them follow!"

Ye Liuyun didn't mind.

Recently the encoding issues have been severe, giving us more motivation to update faster; please click to exit reading mode. Thank you.