Chapter 565: Stirring the Hornet

The woman, seeing her brother's soul gone without return, saw his physical body collapse to the ground and immediately went into a panic.

Anxious at heart, she only focused on a fierce attack and neglected defense.

But the Mourning Bell in Ye Liuyun's hand is, after all, a divine artifact. Moreover, Ye Liuyun's realm is not much different from hers alone, so she has no way to deal with Ye Liuyun.

Conversely, Ye Liuyun kept searching for a chance, preparing to trap her with the Mourning Bell.

As the woman released a strand of Divine Sense, intending to rush into Ye Liuyun's Sea of Consciousness to see the situation, Ye Liuyun seized the opportunity, invoked the Mourning Bell, and directly enveloped her.

"Hoo!"

Ye Liuyun finally let out a breath. "No danger, only surprise! Fortunately my soul is relatively strong; otherwise I might not have been able to escape even if I tried!"

Ye Liuyun thought for a moment and decided to avoid these Outer Region Martial Cultivators as much as possible. Their strength far exceeds that of Martial Cultivators on the Cangyun Continent.

Against two Tian Gang Ninth Rank opponents, he fought so laboriously, with both Spiritual Soul Attack and the Mourning Bell, and even used the Ten Thousand Gods Command!

With a "Dong!" of a bell, Ye Liuyun's thoughts were pulled back.

"It seems the woman couldn't resist and struck the Mourning Bell!"

Ye Liuyun retracted the Mourning Bell. The woman collapsed on the ground, her soul already extinguished.

In his soul domain, the two others' souls were also nearly depleted. Ye Liuyun immediately activated the Soul Search technique to gauge their strength.

After the Soul Search, Ye Liuyun became more convinced of his earlier thought.

The Outer Region disciples are overwhelmingly strong.

In their Sea of Consciousness, there are two exceptionally strong individuals. One, who gets along well with the two, is nicknamed Yong Ye Mo Huang. He is at the Yin Yang Yi Chong realm, and his specialty is Spiritual Soul Attack.

The other is their senior brother, also the strongest disciple of Night Demon Palace, called Xing Jian Mo Huang, a sword cultivator. It is said his sword intent has already cultivated a sword seed. His realm is also the Yin Yang Er Chong pinnacle.

"According to Vice Alliance Leader Yao's classification of realms, these two Martial Cultivators of the Yin Yang realm should both be called Earth Emperor. How do these people cultivate? To reach such a high realm in their twenties?"

Ye Liuyun had always thought his own cultivation was fast enough. Now it seems those from beyond the domain also cultivate at a swift pace.

Ye Liuyun took both of their Storage Rings, opened them, and saw that the Spirit Stones inside were of higher grade than his, and there were quite a few.

"Medium‑grade Spirit Stone?" Ye Liuyun examined the Spirit Stones and packed them into his own Storage Ring. At the same time, their Storage Rings also contained a number of high‑tier medicinal herbs.

"There's quite a lot of good stuff; no wonder they cultivate so fast!" Ye Liuyun collected everything, then used Golden Crow Holy Fire to turn the two corpses into ash.

Next, he simultaneously hurried to absorb the soul power he had just gained and continued searching for Liang Xue.

After only a few steps, he discovered that Qu Ling'er, whom he had previously seized, was chasing this way under the lead of her senior brother Wen Feng.

In front of Ye Liuyun, seven or eight disciples of Night Demon Palace clad in black robes were also rushing here.

"Could it be that I've been discovered?"

At that thought, before being found by others, he immediately vanished into the void and fled to the distance.

Qu Ling'er and Wen Feng arrived first. Sensing the recent battle's energy ripple here, they began searching around after arriving.

Soon, that group of black‑robed people also arrived.

"Yong Ye Mo Huang!"

Wen Feng, seeing the black‑robed leader, was startled and instinctively pulled all his junior brothers behind him.

Yong Ye Mo Huang glanced at him and said calmly, "I'm looking for the Night Hawk Twins; I won't trouble you. Their Divine Sense left in the Token just now dissipated, likely meeting death. The last location shown in their Token is here."

People of Night Demon Palace all possess a special Token that can determine life, death, and location. This is also prepared specifically for Secret Realm exploration.

Yong Ye Mo Huang, upon seeing these few members of the San Yuan Sect, knew they could not kill the Night Hawk Twins. So he first spoke to steady them before asking for details.

Conflicts among the major sects are frequent. Especially Night Demon Sect, a Demon Cultivator faction, where killing and looting are commonplace; they usually strike whenever they see others at a disadvantage. Hence he had to explain first, telling them his purpose.

"How long have you been here? What do you know about the situation?"

He sensed the battle aura here while questioning those from the San Yuan Sect.

Hearing him say that, those from the San Yuan Sect relaxed a bit.

Wen Feng first replied, "We are also tracking a Golden Pupil youth. He previously seized my junior sister."

"Golden Pupil youth?" Yong Ye Mo Huang, puzzled, repeated the question, then asked, "Is he from the Ice Fire Sect?"

This time, only three sects entered.

If they were from the San Yuan Sect, they would certainly know each other. If they were from their own Night Demon Sect, the black robes would also be recognizable to the San Yuan Sect. That's why he asked whether they were from the Ice Fire Sect.

"No! Not from any of our three sects. We suspect he may come from a Xiao dao of some domain." Wen Feng replied.

"Oh? From other Dao xu?"

Thinking of this, Yong Ye Mo Huang also began to ponder.

"If this youth can enter this Secret Realm, it shows that the Secret Realm has other passages connecting to the outside. If we can locate this youth, entering the Secret Realm will become much easier, without needing to ally with the other three sects. We could come in at any time."

Immediately, he also inquired in detail about the process of Qu Ling'er's abduction and her conversation with Ye Liuyun.

"Cangyun Continent? An island called Cangyun?" Yong Ye Mo Huang felt the name sounded familiar but couldn't recall at the moment.

Nevertheless, he promptly reported the situation to the Xing Jian Mo Huang who led the team this time.

And the San Yuan Sect members had long informed their senior sister Xiao Mingyue of the situation.

The leaders on both sides made the same decision: split half their forces and start searching toward the direction where Ye Liuyun appeared.

Their focus wasn't on Ye Liuyun's kidnapping or killing of their fellow sect members, but on capturing Ye Liuyun to ask how he entered this Secret Realm.

Thus, the two sects each dispatched over twenty people, launching a net‑type search.

Ye Liuyun hadn't expected that stepping in would land him in a hornet's nest. Yet he quickly realized these people were searching for him everywhere.

Therefore he was even more careful and cautious to avoid meeting these people.