Chapter 3777: Magic Vine's Great Achievement

Ye Liuyun and the Clone Puppet's Red Eye both exerted force at this moment, casting an illusion on him.

This illusion did not alter the surroundings; it merely made him suddenly feel that the force attracting the ice orb had weakened, yet he could still persevere.

"Hold on a bit longer, and I can snatch the ice orb back, then I'll withdraw immediately!" the Martial Cultivator was still urging himself.

But he failed to realize that his Ice Power was rapidly draining through the ice orb, and the ice wall before Ye Liuyun and the others was slowly receding.

The area covered by the Ice Power was also shrinking.

The merchant Elder also sensed trouble and urged the Martial Cultivator to let go.

"Shut up! I can snatch the ice orb back right now!" the Martial Cultivator retorted, unmoved. In his eyes, the ice orb was already entirely under his control.

The merchant Elder could only obediently stay silent; before a strong one, he had no right to speak.

"Perhaps the strong one still has a trump card!" he thought to himself.

Soon the ice wall vanished completely, and the aura around the Martial Cultivator grew ever weaker.

The Clone Puppet ceased concerning him, raised a hand, and shot an arrow at the merchant Elder.

The Godslaying Bow's lock left him no chance to dodge; with a "Boom" blast, the merchant Elder was blown apart into a cloud of blood mist.

At that moment, the Martial Cultivator was startled awake by the blast.

He then realized that the Ice Power remaining in his body was almost gone.

He hurriedly released the ice orb, which was instantly drawn toward Man Shu, who firmly grasped it.

The Clone Puppet then lunged forward, punching him. He barely emitted his remaining Ice Power to form an ice shield before him, but the Clone Puppet, borrowing the power of a ruby, shattered it with a single blow, even snapping the Martial Cultivator's arm bone to pieces.

Immediately he followed with another punch, slamming it into the Martial Cultivator's chest, driving him to the ground, crushing his sternum, and the person completely lost consciousness.

Then Ye Liuyun and the Clone Puppet's Soul surged into the Martial Cultivator's Sea of Consciousness, planting a Slave Seal on him.

The Martial Cultivator was tossed by the Clone Puppet like a torn rag, handed over to Xiao Lianbing.

"First use it to cultivate and improve; when you reach the Cave Heaven Realm, hand it to Sun Que to forge a puppet. Do not absorb his Primordial Power; using it to craft a puppet with Ice attributes would be fine!"

On Ye Liuyun's side, the Qiong Qi and other Formation Masters had already been released to reinforce the Formation, and then Xiao Lianbing and Man Shu were both pulled into the Space World.

Man Shu gave the ice orb to Xiao Lianbing, knowing she often fought Ye Liuyun and needed such a treasure. Xiao Lianbing immediately swallowed the ice orb into her belly for refinement, merging it with herself.

Ye Liuyun did not interfere with their cultivation, but concealed himself outside, assisting the Clone Puppet in keeping watch.

Not long after the Formation was restored, they awaited the arrival of that wood-element strongman.

The Martial Cultivator acted the same way, rushing to strike Ye Liuyun as soon as he arrived, attempting to force his way through the Formation.

He leaned on a wooden staff with one hand while flinging a handful of seeds with the other. The seeds then grew wildly, spreading toward the Formation and beginning to break it.

The Clone Puppet also hurled an Evergreen Vine, entangling with those seeds.

Ye Liuyun did not appear; instead, he quietly planted a Magic Vine seed, letting it act from underground.

"Boss, that old man's staff is strange; it's rooting underground, siphoning the Formation's power."

The Magic Vine rushed forward and identified the problem. It turned out the old man's scattered seeds were a decoy; he was actually using the staff to absorb the Formation's power to sabotage it.

"Find a way to destroy that staff!" Ye Liuyun immediately ordered the Magic Vine.

The Magic Vine, upon receiving the order, acted at once. Its current spiritual intelligence was far higher than before; after a brief observation, it pinpointed the source of the issue and directly used the Technique to fire at an energy seed beneath the staff.

The energy seed melted under the Technique, and the previously extended roots immediately began to contract.

"Hm?" the old man on the ground instantly noticed the anomaly.

"Attacking from underground? Hmph, I think you can't beat me!"

The old man let out a cold snort, thrust the staff again, driving it into the ground. From the staff sprouted a black vine, beginning to hunt the Magic Vine.

The Magic Vine, unwilling to yield, immediately coiled its vines around it.

The black vine emerging from the staff absorbed energy far less effectively than the Magic Vine; after several clashes, it was drained by the Magic Vine.

Yet from the staff, vines continued to sprout. The Magic Vine also spotted a black energy seed appearing beneath the staff.

This time it did not fire the Technique; having familiarized itself with the vine's power, it released a vine, gulped the black seed, and tore it away from the staff.

"Puff!"

The old man on the ground spat out a mouthful of blood. Those energy seeds were linked to his Soul; having them seized caused a backlash, unlike the Technique's erasure, which produced little pain.

"Absurd!"

Enraged, the old man slapped the staff with his other hand, driving it deeper into the ground.

This time, two energy seeds emerged from the staff's lower end, extending red and blue vines outward.

Having gained experience, the Magic Vine swept with the Technique, eradicating the two energy seeds, then seized the staff with a vine and dragged it downward.

"Ah!"

The old man on the ground let out a scream. He had both hands pressing the staff, but the staff suddenly surged underground; his hands were left empty, and when he tried to grasp it again, the Magic Vine had already pulled it into the soil.

He hurriedly grabbed a handful of seeds and tossed them downward.

The Magic Vine wrapped a vine around the staff and sent it to Ye Liuyun. Simultaneously, other vines tangled with the seeds the old man had thrown down.

Some seeds, before they could sprout many vines, were instantly devoured by the Magic Vine.

The old man on the ground panicked, disregarding danger, merging into the earth to grapple with the Magic Vine. Unexpectedly, the Magic Vine did not fight him; a Technique instantly annihilated him, and Ye Liuyun dragged the corpse over.

The remaining merchant Elder outside was not spared; the Magic Vine sucked him into a dry corpse, then ripped off his Storage Ring and brought it back to Ye Liuyun.

"Not bad, not bad, another great achievement, and this old fellow is yours too!" Ye Liuyun pointed at the wood-element Martial Cultivator's corpse. The person was dead; keeping him was useless, better to let the Magic Vine absorb his energy.

Including the seeds in the old man's Storage Ring, all were given to the Magic Vine to absorb energy.

Ye Liuyun examined the old man's staff and discovered that it contained another hidden realm.

The staff turned out to be a Cave Heaven World.