Chapter 3781: Confronting the Beast Tide

The painter's formation served as an interception; the ferocious beasts at the front of the beast tide were instantly fixed in place, and even using True Essence to break the formation was impossible.

The beasts behind surged forward, colliding head‑on; even the front beasts, if not killed by the impact, were nearly all severely wounded or stunned. The rear beasts could not be stopped either, crashing layer by layer, turning the beast tide into chaos, yet the formation was instantly broken apart.

The azure ape let out a roar and charged to batter the formation, but the Clone Puppet locked onto it with a Godslaying Bow and shot an arrow.

A flash of Golden Light pierced a bloody hole in the azure ape's chest. Yet the massive ape did not fall immediately; it roared repeatedly, calling the ferocious beasts to battle.

The painter kept drawing formations out of thin air, slamming the formation onto the beasts, layer after layer, pressing them so they could no longer flee.

The Skeleton Puppet also lunged forward at this moment. Though these puppets are only human‑sized and seem far smaller than the beasts, the spots pierced by their bone spears cannot be stopped by the beasts' sturdy Physical Body, each creating a huge hole. One spear per beast, they easily dispatch those ferocious beasts.

Zhan Kong had vanished at an unknown time; when he reappeared beside Ye Liuyun, he was already carrying the head of that tribal Martial Cultivator, and even the golden lion under his command had been separated from its corpse.

Gu Changhong and Qian Meng jointly captured the souls of the ferocious beasts, while the Demon King and Bà Tiān practiced familiarizing themselves with new weapons. The Demon King switched to a beginner‑level Ghost Head Sword of the Cultivation realm.

Bà Tiān still prefers a spear, but the suitable spears had been refined by Ye Liuyun into Bai Hu, so he took a bone spear from Sun Que as a gun, its power meeting the standard for Cultivation realm weapons.

The staggering azure ape tried to charge again, but the Clone Puppet shot another arrow into its head, creating a large hole and finally causing it to collapse.

"This big guy, when it goes berserk I can't even block a single punch!" Zhan Kong said, looking at the azure ape's size and grateful that the Clone Puppet has a Godslaying Bow; otherwise they truly couldn't defeat it.

"Retreat!"

Ye Liuyun immediately returned to the formation together with the Clone Puppet, the painter, and Zhan Kong, to avoid being ambushed. The battle outside no longer required them.

Those ten Skeleton Puppets were truly formidable—high in realm, swift in movement, seemingly never tiring. With them present, the ferocious beasts could not escape.

Ye Liuyun directed the Skeleton Puppets to avoid outright killing the beasts, instead grievously wounding them and handing them to Gu Changhong and Qian Meng to capture their souls.

These Skeleton Puppets are actually very handy to control. However, one puppet was suddenly knocked airborne. In combat it revealed a flaw: its reaction when turning to defend is slower, likely due to a design issue with its body.

But it sustained little damage and could re‑engage immediately after getting up.

Ye Liuyun discovered that the other puppets share the same issue: nearly invincible in frontal combat, yet their reaction slows when they suddenly turn around.

He promptly reported the problem to Sun Que, asking him to test improvements. Sun Que replied that he had already identified the issue, linking it to the puppets lacking souls and slower reactions, and was working on a fix.

Ye Liuyun didn't bother about how he would improve it; he only cared about the result.

The battle outside ended quickly. Gu Changhong and the others harvested plenty of cultivation resources, enough for their temporary training. Ye Liuyun stored the corpses of the ferocious beasts as meat reserves.

Ye Liuyun extracted the Golden Core from the beasts and set it aside for Shi Yuan and other lower‑realm Monster Beasts to cultivate.

"These beasts must be from the barbarian tribes of the Hunter Xing Xi," the painter told Ye Liuyun. "I've seen their tribal people and beasts before; the beasts in that Xing Xi are all huge!"

"Hmm, if there's a chance later we can go there and hunt more beasts for food reserves!" Ye Liuyun noted down the name of that Xing Xi; with so many people around him, they'd soon eat up his stock.

After they cleared the battlefield, Gu Changhong, the Demon King, and others immediately began cultivation recovery, and Ye Liuyun consulted Zhan Kong and the painter about the situation beyond the domain.

After waiting for a long time with no one arriving, Ye Liuyun took the Clone Puppet back to the Space World to accelerate Soul cultivation, using the pure energy from the golden egg to speed the assimilation of the soul source, and also replenished some energy to the Chaotic Azure Lotus.

The Dragon God's Soul is too powerful; without this method, it would take at least a year and a half to fully digest the Dragon God's Soul.

Now, within his Space World, only the Taixu World's Xingqiu remain, greatly easing Ye Ling's management burden. According to Ye Ling's estimate, in less than three months all the Xingqiu's Primordial Power can be consolidated.

Without waiting for Ye Liuyun to break through to the Cave Heaven Realm, Ye Ling can already let Ye Liuyun command all the Primordial Power. Ye Liuyun also feels his Space World's Primordial Power linking more closely with him.

It's likely that after moving the Mortal Realm's Xingqiu out, the Primordial Power no longer needs to shield those planets, reducing the load considerably and now fully preparing for his breakthrough to the Cave Heaven Realm. His perception of his own Space World has also greatly improved.

"Slowing down the accelerated Xingqiu will lessen the Primordial Power's burden!" Ye Ling told Ye Liuyun.

"No rush; everyone still needs acceleration in cultivation, so maintain this for now, and we'll discuss it when I reach the Dòngtiān Jiǔchóng."

Within his Space World, Ye Tiandao and others are still accelerating their cultivation there; he must wait until their realms rise before he can consider slowing down.

Ye Ling also thought the issue minor; with abundant energy now, she can supplement more Primordial Power to offset this consumption, so there'll be no real impact.

Ye Liuyun also let Ye Ling freely replenish energy; his own resources are plentiful, and he doesn't mind the expenditure.

The Clone Puppet also added some Primordial Power to reinforce the Mortal Realm Xingqiu's barriers, protecting the Martial Cultivators within; although those cultivators haven't reached the Taixu Realm, they can already withstand seventy percent of the Taixu World's pressure.

Previously, Ye Ling continuously merged those Xingqiu with the Taixu World; each interval increased the Taixu World's pressure by ten percent, and they have largely adapted.

Many Xingqiu have already begun converting into Taixu World's Xingqiu. The conversion is relatively slow and requires continual energy supplementation.

Ye Liuyun had collected too many Xingqiu before; he couldn't instantly supply enough energy to all of them, so progress must be gradual.

Among the Martial Cultivators on those Xingqiu, many have broken through to the Taixu Realm and have already migrated to other Xingqiu within Ye Liuyun's Space World.

While Ye Liuyun was cultivating, another battle erupted outside, but Zhan Kong and the painter felt they could handle it, so Ye Liuyun and the Clone Puppet stayed put and handed the fight over to them.

Zhan Kong and his group captured alive two Cave Heaven Realm eighth‑rank Martial Cultivators. The two are twin brothers who wield a combined sword technique that can unleash the power of the Cultivation realm.