Chapter 734: Experiencing Danger

Ye Liuyun finished replenishing his true essence, then began to train his soul again.

As he applied various powers, his soul again struggled to keep up.

Before, he had to divert part of his auxiliary soul to participate in attacks because he used too many attack methods, which slowed his true essence replenishment.

Anyway, there was plenty of time inside the Xuan Kong Stone. He came out too early; his two masters would be surprised by his true essence replenishment speed. It would be better to take the opportunity to strengthen his soul further.

His soul had actually improved somewhat. This ultra‑intense use itself is a tempering and improvement for the soul.

However, Ye Liuyun felt the improvement speed was still not fast enough.

So this time he still focused on training his soul, letting the soul undertake more tasks and gradually increasing the difficulty.

This time, with prior tempering, his soul's improvement became much faster.

Ye Liuyun again checked for gaps and improved every lacking aspect of his various powers.

His Nether Ghost Fire had absorbed another Mysterious Dark Azure Flame and was already beginning to absorb the next one.

At that moment he finally emerged from the Xuan Kong Stone. Song Yan and Qian Feng had been waiting anxiously.

According to Ye Liuyun's cultivation speed, he should have come out earlier. They therefore guessed he was buying time to improve his other abilities.

They now had nothing to teach him; he had to keep exploring and improving through actual combat.

So they could only accompany Ye Liuyun and act as his protectors.

From the time Ye Liuyun entered the Hundred Battles Arena until now, nearly two days have passed.

The two of them just watched from outside, not feeling bored at all; instead, they watched with great interest.

Ye Liuyun emerged from the Xuan Kong Stone again, and this made the two of them brighten up.

They both felt Ye Liuyun was not only more spirited, but also carried an extra aura of fierce dominance.

This stems from his constant fighting and slaughter. Although he wasn't killing real people, the danger involved was quite real.

The Hundred Battles Arena can truly kill people.

Every battle requires a martial cultivator to go all out in slaughter.

Whenever Ye Liuyun now thinks about re‑entering the Hundred Battles Arena, he brims with fighting spirit, and his killing intent and domineering aura are aroused as well.

Therefore, his very aura can now intimidate martial cultivators of the same realm.

Song Yan and Qian Feng also looked forward to Ye Liuyun's next performance.

This time Ye Liuyun, as soon as he stepped onto the stage, met an opponent of comparable strength.

He wielded a blade in one hand and the Qiankun Palm in the other, simultaneously attacking with his Golden Pupil, giving it his all from the start. One barrage of attacks directly took down his opponent.

Next he also employed spatial power and the Buddha‑Demonic Golden Body. In short, he cycled through every ability he could use, training and improving them.

By the fifty‑fifth match, the Hundred Battles Arena finally produced an opponent of the Yin‑Yang Seventh Layer, a full three layers above Ye Liuyun.

Moreover, this realm is already the late stage of the Yin‑Yang Realm; its strength far exceeds that of a Yin‑Yang Sixth Layer opponent by more than a little.

Even Elder Song Yan and Elder Qian Feng outside grew nervous.

Qian Feng kept his hand on the energy‑filling control of the arena; if Ye Liuyun fell into danger, he could promptly withdraw the spirit stones.

Ye Liuyun also felt the pressure.

His opponent's innate ability was already impressive; taken alone, he would be considered a heavenly‑talent disciple of the Lingxiao Sect.

Now the opponent's realm is three levels higher, and his strength already far surpasses that of Mo Yang.

Moreover, Ye Liuyun did not want to use his soul or divine weapons; otherwise, continuing the fight would be meaningless.

"Good! Only by truly experiencing danger can I improve faster!"

Ye Liuyun immediately made up his mind and began to size up the opponent's traits with his Golden Pupil.

Although the opponents on the Hundred Battles Arena are formed from spirit energy, the pathways of their true essence circulation are just like a normal person's and can be observed by him.

"As expected of a Yin‑Yang Seventh Layer, the true essence quality is remarkably high!"

Upon discovering his opponent's true essence, Ye Liuyun couldn't help but compare it to his own.

He found that his own true essence still had room for further compression.

The more true essence is compressed, the greater its density and the higher its quality.

After discovering the problem, Ye Liuyun immediately began to improve it.

From each opponent Ye Liuyun could absorb something; at the very least, it could remind him which direction to improve.

At the same time he was also considering how to defeat this opponent.

Each palm strike from this opponent carried tremendous, earth‑shaking force. Not only was his true essence power far greater, but his Heaven‑Earth power was also far superior to that of any opponent Ye Liuyun had faced before.

Using his previous methods would consume a lot and at best only achieve a draw.

Against such a strong foe, his physical body also bore great pressure; each attack leaked in part, requiring him to block it with his flesh.

So he himself knew he couldn't sustain it for long; prolonging the fight would put him in real danger.

To win, he still needed to employ some new tactics!

Thinking this through, Ye Liuyun fought with his old methods while trying to control spirit energy using the second stage of the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique.

He not only wanted to prevent the opponent from absorbing spirit energy, but also to use that energy to attack the opponent.

Ye Liuyun was also inspired by the Hundred Battles Arena.

Since the Hundred Battles Arena can transform spirit energy into his opponents, using the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique he could at least transmute spirit energy into arrows for attack.

Having thought of this, he began to put it into practice.

First he gathered the spirit energy around the opponent into a single arrow and shot it at him.

However, this spirit‑energy arrow was not dense enough; the opponent's released pressure scattered it, rendering it utterly harmless.

Ye Liuyun wasn't anxious; if one attempt failed, he would try again.

This time he condensed the spirit energy more tightly before launching the attack.

The result was considerably better than before, yet the opponent still swatted it away with ease.

His attack, though ineffective, at least distracts the opponent and isn't entirely useless.

So Ye Liuyun repeatedly kept raising his skill, gathering arrows and shooting them at the opponent, and while advancing the Controlling Spirits technique at this stage, he also continuously disrupted the opponent.

Moreover, the speed at which he gathers arrows keeps increasing, and the attack frequency also rises.

Now, his opponent dares not be careless and must allocate energy to fend off the arrows. The pressure Ye Liuyun faces instantly lessens considerably.

Outside the arena, Qian Feng, excited, shouted, "Good, good! See, my disciple is impressive, right? He's even started using Controlling Spirits to launch attacks!"

To this, Song Yan could not help but admit that Ye Liuyun's cultivation talent is indeed far stronger than that of some Heavenly Talents within the sect.

They can all see that Ye Liuyun started from nothing, beginning to cultivate this technique step by step.