Chapter 640: Refining the Technique

This Mourning Bell was originally something from Hell. The Underworld God, once aware, will definitely take it back.

So, up to now, he hasn't dared to strike the Mourning Bell himself.

"Ding"—a light chime. The ordinary weapon shattered into seven or eight pieces. The Mourning Bell, however, made no sound at all.

"Seems ordinary treasures won't work."

Ye Liuyun, seeing the ordinary weapon ineffective, asked Wu Qingcheng: "Qingcheng, do you have any low‑grade spiritual artifacts in your hand?"

His question made Wu Qingcheng pause. At their current realms, they no longer carry any spiritual artifacts.

"I have." Ru Yue produced a spiritual long sword, handing it to Ye Liuyun. "This sword has long been useless; I never threw it away, and destroying it wouldn't be a loss."

Ru Yue also knew Ye Liuyun intended to use the spiritual artifact to smash the Mourning Bell.

Ye Liuyun thanked him, lifted the sword, and struck at the Mourning Bell.

"Dong"—with that sound, the Mourning Bell finally rang. The long sword shattered in response.

Ye Liuyun's Divine Sense continuously monitored Yao Qinglian's condition.

Although outside they only heard a faint chime, inside the Mourning Bell the sound was substantial; even Yin Yang Liu Chong Yao Qinglian was jolted into unconsciousness.

Ye Liuyun immediately opened the Mourning Bell, pulled Yao Qinglian's Soul into his own Soul domain, performed a Soul Search, and examined her cultivation method.

The Spatial Power technique Yao Qinglian practiced is a method called the Yùn Kōng Jué. It includes not only applications of Spatial Power but also fundamental systematic explanations of spatial structures and layering.

"Extracontinental techniques truly surpass those of the Cangyun Continent!" Ye Liuyun exclaimed, overjoyed.

The information was abundant; Ye Liuyun engraved it all into his Sea of Consciousness to study later, but he still had other matters to attend to.

He also extracted all of Yao Qinglian's bloodline essence and absorbed it to strengthen his own Bloodline Power.

After absorbing Yao Qinglian's bloodline, Ye Liuyun felt his own bloodline quality had greatly increased.

"It seems Yao Qinglian's own bloodline quality isn't low either!" Ye Liuyun thought to himself.

Ye Liuyun directly kicked Yao Qinglian's Physical Body to Shi Yuan.

Shi Yuan, protecting Su Miaoyin, has a realm lower than Bai Hu, so whenever Ye Liuyun obtains good resources, he first gives them to Shi Yuan to help him catch up to Bai Hu.

Within this short half‑year, Shi Yuan's realm rose to Tian Gang Fifth Layer, matching Ru Yue.

If he were to absorb a Yin Yang Liu Chong strongman's core, he might breakthrough again.

Shi Yuan thanked him and, with a single claw, extracted Yao Qinglian's core.

"Ah! Ye Liuyun, you demon!" Xiao Mingyue shouted outright.

Seeing the Sect Elder's Soul annihilated, his bloodline absorbed, and his core dug out, Xiao Mingyue finally couldn't hold back.

Ye Liuyun glanced at her and immediately cast the demon net he had captured last time toward her.

Last time Xiao Mingyue entered the Secret Realm, she brought a divine artifact—a temporary loan from the Sect for exploring the Secret Realm. This time she followed the Elder inside, so she wasn't allowed to bring an artifact.

Ye Liuyun had expected her to use that crescent staff to resist, but she didn't even fight back and was immediately enveloped by the demon net.

"So smooth?"

Ye Liuyun promptly retracted the net, pulling Xiao Mingyue along, and stored them both in his Storage Ring.

He hadn't intended to kill Xiao Mingyue. Though they had used each other last time, he still felt some remorse, and when he couldn't threaten her, he would have let her go.

The remaining male disciple wasn't so lucky; Ye Liuyun let the ferocious beasts launch an attack, exterminating him.

Afterward, he lowered the Formation Flag and led everyone back to the Cave.

After returning, he first went to check on Liang Xue.

Liang Xue had resumed cultivation, so he didn't disturb her.

Then he inspected all the captured Storage Rings, and uncovered two cultivation manuals. They were likely the ones the disciples hadn't finished, taken from the Sect.

One was a sword technique; Ye Liuyun didn't even glance at it, and simply handed it to Wu Qingcheng to ask others if they wanted it.

The other was a Demon Race palm technique called Mo Tian Hand.

Ye Liuyun opened it, studied it carefully, and felt its power might not surpass his Bà Tiān Divine Fist. Yet its True Essence circuitry offered many references, especially its ability to fuse Demon Qi into True Essence to boost potency.

After reading it, he was deeply moved.

When he previously employed Bà Tiān Divine Fist, he sometimes added Golden Crow Holy Fire or Buddha Light Power, but merely blended them without stacking, causing those forces to be wasted.

Ye Liuyun decided to refine it this way, stacking more forces to amplify the Bà Tiān Divine Fist.

"Everyone, seize the time to cultivate and prepare for the next battle!"

After gathering the techniques, Ye Liuyun gave everyone a heads‑up and set off to cultivate.

"Will they come again?" Lei Ming asked.

"Definitely! And next time they'll be stronger!"

Ye Liuyun recalled Tang Yao's greedy gaze and knew he wouldn't easily give up.

Within Yao Qinglian's Soul, he had already uncovered information about Tang Yao, learning that he was specially summoned as the key figure to breach the Secret Realm.

"That Tang Yao is at the Yin Yang Eightfold realm. Moreover, he knows formations, so even Skeleton Puppets aren't his match."

Although Ye Liuyun grasped Tang Yao's strength, he couldn't devise a good countermeasure and would have to see how things unfold.

The immediate priority was to boost his own power as much as possible, gaining a better chance later.

He had just obtained two extracontinental techniques: one to enhance his fist art, another to boost Spatial Power.

Even with a stronger fist technique, he couldn't contend with vastly higher realms, so he prioritized cultivating Spatial Power first, hoping to find a breakthrough there.

The Yùn Kōng Jué Ye Liuyun acquired not only vastly expanded his applications of Spatial Power but also provided invaluable systematic spatial knowledge.

The more fundamental the material, the more he lacked.

He entered the Xuan Kong Shi directly, beginning to digest the spatial system information.

"So all layers of space overlap! Higher layers aren't necessarily deeper."

Ye Liuyun had thought that each spatial layer was parallel, requiring continual depth to reach deeper layers.

That slight difference gave Ye Liuyun a great insight.

Then my several layers of space—can't they be changed at will?

He started testing while learning.