Chapter 742: Feint East, Strike West

"Yes." Qian Yuan replied, then led Ye Liuyun into an unremarkable passage.

After walking for a while, they stopped.

The spot where they stopped was filled with high‑grade Spirit Stones.

"The Qian family's Mineral Vein is truly massive!" Ye Liuyun thought to himself upon seeing it.

The Qian family's Mineral Vein's scale rivals four or five other veins elsewhere, no wonder the Qian family is so wealthy, possessing immeasurable wealth.

"Master, the distance to the spiritual marrow here is already the closest!"

Qian Yuan reported to Ye Liuyun.

"Hmm, now go check the spiritual marrow. Try to stall the Elder guarding the spiritual marrow for a while longer." Ye Liuyun sent Qian Yuan away.

"Yes!" Qian Yuan replied and continued forward.

Ye Liuyun could sense his location through the Slave Seal, so he wasn't worried about losing him.

He didn't waste time, immediately activating the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique and began violently drawing spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy rushed in like seawater flooding a core, quickly being transmuted into True Essence.

At the same time, he kept mining Spirit Stones and loading them into his Storage Ring.

If he weren't afraid of being detected by some Elders' Divine Sense, he would have summoned Lei Ming and others to dig together.

Some Elders' Divine Sense swept over, saw him mining Spirit Stones, and assumed he was labor hired by Qian Yuan.

It wasn't Qian Yuan's first time mining Spirit Stones; the Qian family didn't lack that few Spirit Stones, so no one cared.

Ye Liuyun's Soul was inherently very strong. As soon as Divine Sense swept over, he immediately halted cultivation, then slowed his Spirit Stone digging, behaving like an ordinary servant.

After the Divine Sense passed, he resumed cultivation and accelerated his digging.

Moreover, he didn't stay digging in one spot.

He followed the Mineral Vein, moving continuously, excavating layer by layer.

This way he wouldn't create a huge pit, nor easily arouse the guardians' suspicion.

By now, Qian Yuan had reached the spiritual marrow and began casual conversation with the Elder guarding the Spirit Stone.

The spiritual marrow lay there; he had seen it long ago.

Ye Liuyun also received this information through the Slave Seal.

However, Ye Liuyun let him stay there and keep chatting with the Elder.

During the first half of the night, Ye Liuyun continuously absorbed and mined Spirit Stones.

His realm was also elevated by abundant spiritual energy to the Yin‑Yang Fourth Realm Late Stage.

"That's enough, prepare to act!" Ye Liuyun glanced at the Spirit Stones he had mined—there were many—and then stopped.

He sat cross‑legged on the spot, activated the Primordial Spirit Secret Technique, and suddenly began violently drawing energy toward Qian Yuan's direction, no longer caring about being discovered.

Qian Yuan was chatting with the Elder when both suddenly noticed spiritual energy gathering outward, startling them both.

"What the master is up to?" Qian Yuan felt a bit uneasy.

"What's happening?" the Elder asked, then immediately extended his Divine Sense to investigate.

Under normal circumstances, his Divine Sense wouldn't detect the spatial area he occupied.

But this anomaly affected his area, so he decided to probe.

Upon looking, he actually found a servant nearby violently drawing spiritual energy.

"That servant came from you?" the Elder asked Qian Yuan.

"What servant? I don't know!" Qian Yuan, following Ye Liuyun's orders, pretended ignorance. His Divine Sense wasn't as strong as the Elder's, so not seeing it was normal.

Then he feigned nervousness: "I'll go check the situation!" he said, running toward Ye Liuyun.

"Pretending? Yin‑Yang Fourth Realm? The young master is no match!"

At that thought, the Elder instantly vanished into the void and rushed toward Ye Liuyun to prevent anything happening to Qian Yuan.

He thought that eliminating Ye Liuyun would be over in an instant.

However, his Spatial Power could only let him enter the seventh layer of space.

The moment he neared Ye Liuyun, he suddenly realized the seventh layer of void he occupied was sealed; the Spatial Power around him had solidified.

Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun seized the chance from the eighth layer of void, using his telekinetic skill to swap the real spiritual marrow with a fake one.

At that moment, the Elder was channeling his surrounding power to break the seal and emerged from the void.

Everything Ye Liuyun did was completed in an instant, and even the Elder didn't notice.

At this point, Qian Yuan also rushed over.

"Elder! I brought that servant!" Qian Yuan shouted.

"What?" the Elder, about to strike Ye Liuyun, was taken aback. "Didn't you say you didn't know?"

"Misunderstanding!" Qian Yuan, panting, explained, "He's actually a hired guard, not a servant!"

Ye Liuyun also ceased cultivation at that moment, standing beside Qian Yuan like a guard.

"I was in Five Yang Yi Cheng, recently offended a Bojiao master, so I hired a guard and agreed to bring him here to train. When you said 'servant' just now, I didn't react!"

Qian Yuan added that to the Elder.

Without a word, the Elder extended his Divine Sense toward the spiritual marrow. He found Qian Yuan unusually suspicious tonight; he rarely chats with him for so long.

But seeing the spiritual marrow still present eased his mind, though he still urged them to leave quickly.

"Young master, I think you should avoid bringing outsiders here. It's already late; you all should leave quickly!"

Though the Elder was courteous to Qian Yuan, here he still held authority.

He thought Ye Liuyun, a stranger, was too close to the spiritual marrow, unsafe.

"Elder's warning noted, I'll take him away now!" Qian Yuan, following Ye Liuyun's order, bid farewell to the Elder and led Ye Liuyun out of the Mineral Vein.

"Leave the Qian family!"

After going out, Ye Liuyun again continued to give Qian Yuan orders.

"Huh? You don't want the Spirit Core?" Qian Yuan was a bit puzzled.

"Right. Move quickly! The faster the better!" Ye Liuyun gave him no further explanation, only kept urging him.

"Yes!" Qian Yuan also dared not ask further, and directly led Ye Liuyun out of the Qian family.

After leaving, Ye Liuyun again initiated a Soul Search on Qian Yuan.

This time, he actually erased all of Qian Yuan's memories from this period!

Qian Yuan now only knows that, like everyone else, he lost to Ye Liuyun in the bidding process. He now has taken a Spirit Stone and intends to go back to settle accounts with Ye Liuyun.

He just entered a Mineral Vein, had his servant mine enough Spirit Stones, and now is heading back to Five Sun Yi Cheng!

The other memories have already been wiped clean by Ye Liuyun, and to him they are as if they never happened.

The reason Ye Liuyun expended so much effort handling his memories is to completely eliminate any lingering concerns.

Even if the Qian family members chase to Five Sun Yi Cheng and try to investigate thoroughly, it will still take some time at least.

By then, they would have already left the Five Sun Domain!