Chapter 393: Someone Is Watching

Ye Liuyun and his companions hurried to cultivate in the Secret Realm, and the Primordial Power was not consumed much.

When the time to leave was about to arrive, Ye Liuyun gathered everyone into the Storage Ring and also collected the remaining more than half of the Primordial Power.

Once the Primordial Power was stored in the Storage Ring, the mystical qi supply in the Secret Realm immediately became thin.

At that moment, spatial fluctuations arrived, and Ye Liuyun and the other outsiders were all teleported back to their respective domains. Thus, when the Secret Realm finally collapsed, Ye Liuyun had already returned to the Northern Domain Alliance.

He appeared in the same Grand Hall where he had left last time. With him returned Qu Chen Feng and another Elder of the Heavenly Gang Realm.

Alliance Leader Cheng Yi, seeing only three people return, was somewhat surprised. He didn't ask further, merely told them to go back to cultivate and consolidate what they had gained inside, and then await the Alliance's orders.

Thus, Ye Liuyun returned to his own peak to take a look, and searched around for Mo Ya, but found nothing. He hadn't seen Mo Ya for a long time and didn't know where he was now.

He asked the Metal Puppet, confirmed that Mo Ya was still alive, and therefore wasn't too worried. Alliance members going out on missions is a perfectly ordinary matter.

Ye Liuyun also took the opportunity to learn about the Alliance's battle situation with the Corpse Demons.

Upon asking, Ye Liuyun was greatly shocked. The fights against the Foreign Tribe and Corpse Demons were extremely brutal, and more than half of the experts on both sides had been killed or wounded.

Worried about the safety of those at the Sacred Martial Academy, Ye Liuyun immediately used the Teleportation Array to rush to the Barbarian border. The Teleportation Grand Hall had already opened a direct teleport point to the border, so Ye Liuyun didn't need to travel himself; he was directly teleported into the border city.

What he didn't know was that Qu Chen Feng had been monitoring him. As soon as he left, Qu Chen Feng immediately produced a Transmission Talisman, sent out several messages, and then hurried to the border as well.

After some inquiries, Ye Liuyun finally located the Sacred Martial Academy's base. Upon arrival, he first went to see his master; seeing the master unharmed, he felt considerably relieved.

He remains deeply grateful to the Grand Elder for his cultivation and care. Moreover, the Grand Elder is a high‑end combat asset of the academy, and Ye Liuyun has constantly worried about the Grand Elder getting into trouble.

He reported his cultivation status to his master, then went to find the people at Lingyun Pavilion. Fortunately, those he knew were all safe, though some had minor injuries.

Then he visited the Great Zhou Branch Institute's base. Director Nan Feng, Hall Master Huo Lie, Steward Yue and others were present; the only thing that pained Ye Liuyun was that the Mystic Saint who had once protected him and taught him illusion arts died in battle. His own defenses were relatively weak, and the Corpse Demons were barely affected by illusion, so as soon as he arrived, he fell in his first fight.

The person he had once called teacher turned out to be the first to fall. Shocked, Ye Liuyun could only mourn silently in his heart. He then took out some Holy Artifacts and handed them to Director Nan Feng so they could boost their strength.

Afterward, feeling depressed, he returned to Lingyun Pavilion's base and gave some pills to the Iron Army. Then he went to the Great Zhou Dynasty's camp to meet King Tianyun and members of the Ye Clan.

King Tianyun, though wounded, was not seriously injured. The Ye Clan sent out several Elders and young disciples. Ye Tianci and Ye Mingzhen, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, happened to be there as well.

Both of them are now in the later stage of Sea Transformation. If not delayed by the battle with the Corpse Demons, they would have been transferred to the Main Institute.

When they saw Ye Liuyun, they couldn't help remarking how quickly his realm had advanced. Even within the Ye Clan and the branch institute, their own progress was considered fast. They didn't expect Ye Liuyun to be even faster.

Ye Liuyun left them some pills and gave each of them a False Holy Artifact.

Afterwards, Ye Liuyun slipped out of the city to scout the Corpse Demons' side. His Divine Sense, from afar, detected several Alliance members of the Heavenly Gang Realm trailing behind him.

He didn't pay much attention, assuming they were merely people on a mission.

But after walking for a while, he sensed something off. He must have been targeted. These people were clearly tailing him. Though the distance was far, their path unmistakably followed his, deliberately keeping more than five hundred li away.

Such a distance is undetectable to cultivators of ordinary Primordial Core level. Only someone with a strong Divine Sense like Ye Liuyun could notice, otherwise only Martial Cultivators of the Heavenly Gang Realm could perceive it.

Only then did Ye Liuyun scrutinize the followers and discover that among them were two people he had once rescued in the Giant Spirit Tribe's Secret Realm.

"Seems they're after the Primordial Power!" Ye Liuyun's mouth twitched slightly, unconcerned. Since these people were greedy, he didn't mind eliminating them on the spot to prevent them from spreading the news and causing greater trouble for him.

Resolute, he headed straight for the Corpse Demons' main base. He had been in this area several times and was fairly familiar. As he walked, he suddenly vanished into the void, accelerated, and completely shook off those people.

His current Divine Sense can detect at least eight hundred li, even up to a thousand li, though at a thousand li some details are less clear. Yet noticing a few people is sufficient.

Immediately, he commanded Hell Mingshe to summon the Corpse Demons and encircle those tailing ones. Hell Mingshe is now much stronger than before; it can temporarily control Corpse Demons of the first and second Heavenly Gang levels.

Thus, it transmitted information to the Corpse Demons, revealing the positions of those tailing individuals. The Corpse Demons immediately swarmed over, encircling those Alliance members.

Since this place was not far from the Corpse Demons' main base, the clash attracted even stronger Corpse Demons, and even a fifth‑rank Demon Cultivator of the Heavenly Gang, accompanied by some Corpse Demons, rushed over.

The few who followed Ye Liuyun were all at the early stage of the Heavenly Gang Realm; under that Demon Cultivator's attack they had virtually no ability to counter and surrendered outright after a few exchanges.

"Useless!" Ye Liuyun hadn't expected these people to forgo a fight and surrender outright.

He scanned the Corpse Demons' side with his Divine Sense and immediately withdrew, lest those people expose him. Moreover, he needed to keep a distant watch over the situation here to prevent those people from rebelling.

If those people remain alive, the chance of rebellion becomes higher. He must find a way to kill them.

"Alas! Had I used a Spiritual Soul Attack to deal with them, it would have been easier. Now it's even more troublesome!"

Ye Liuyun's regret at this point was useless; he could only stay at a distance and watch.

Not long after, Ye Liuyun spotted squads of Corpse Demons emerging from the main base, beginning to search everywhere.

"Looks like those people sold me out!"

Ye Liuyun shook his head helplessly. Had he known then in the Secret Realm, he would have killed those people outright.

"Too soft‑hearted! I need to learn from this. As a Martial Cultivator, human hearts are treacherous; when ruthlessness is required, you must act!" He sighed helplessly.