Chapter 574 - 493: The End of Fuyun, Capturing the Nascent Soul

Chapter 574: Chapter 493: The End of Fuyun, Capturing the Nascent Soul

Simultaneously, maintaining two rule-based skills was putting an astonishing drain on Su Ye’s Magical Power!

This war of attrition was not a sustainable strategy!

The Dreamwardens asked, "Sea-spawn, do you need help?"

Their tone was tense. If Fuyunzi’s Nascent Soul escaped, they would be in big trouble!

The resources they had invested in this ambush were by no means small!

The Fire Element Monarch’s grievous injuries, the Grotto Heaven’s power used to empower Su Ye... these expenditures had once again depleted their supply of Divine Power, which they had carefully conserved after refining the Dao Source.

If the ambush failed and Fuyunzi escaped, it would be a devastating loss!

It could even cause the entire battle for the Grotto Heaven to collapse!

"It’s fine."

Su Ye said calmly.

It was in his nature to plan meticulously before acting. He had a countermeasure ready long before he made his move!

BUZZ.

Behind Su Ye.

A pitch-black passage expanded, and the power of the Netherworld surged forth.

"Go!"

Su Ye formed a hand seal, and Fuyunzi’s Nascent Soul flew into the pitch-black passage.

The other end of the Netherworld Transmission Passage connected to the Ghostly Flood Dragon.

...

At this moment, inside the Ghostly Flood Dragon.

"It’s here!"

Jiaojiao’s eyes glinted sharply.

Her expression a mixture of nervousness and excitement, she stared intently at the Netherworld passage.

The next moment.

BUZZ!

Fuyunzi’s Nascent Soul emerged from the passage!

Not daring to be careless, Jiaojiao waved her hands, and the gates to the embryonic divine kingdom within the Ghostly Flood Dragon swung open!

Fuyunzi’s Nascent Soul was sent into the divine kingdom!

"Suppress!"

Jiaojiao’s expression was solemn.

The divine kingdom’s power within the quasi-Tier 5 spirit ship erupted completely!

It used the full might of the embryonic divine kingdom to suppress Fuyunzi’s Nascent Soul!

"No..."

Fuyunzi’s Nascent Soul struggled ceaselessly.

Fear gradually crept onto its face.

Then, after a few breaths’ time.

It closed its eyes in unwilling resignation and stopped struggling.

This Nascent Soul True Monarch was trapped on the Ghostly Flood Dragon, becoming yet another prisoner in its cage!

Fuyunzi was now forced into an unnatural quiet, like a psychiatric patient after a prefrontal lobotomy!

Suppression successful!

"Excellent!"

"A clean capture!"

A pleased smile crept onto Su Ye’s lips.

Taking advantage of the opportune time and place, his plan had been executed to perfection, even exceeding his expectations!

He had slain Fuyunzi’s physical body and captured his Nascent Soul, making the Sword Sect Nascent Soul his captive!

A live capture.

That was far more difficult than simply killing him.

It was only with the Dreamwardens’ assistance, combined with the restrictive environment of the Grotto Heaven, that Su Ye had managed to pull it off.

Otherwise, out in the open, Fuyunzi’s Nascent Soul could have escaped its body and fled for hundreds of miles. At his speed, Su Ye could only have watched helplessly, completely unable to give chase.

’A Sword Sect Nascent Soul... I wonder how many secrets of the Cultivation Realm and how many divine cultivation manuals he possesses? And the experience of ascending to the Nascent Soul realm and undergoing the tribulation is also something I need. Fuyunzi’s memories are an absolute treasure trove!’ Su Ye thought to himself with growing excitement.

And then.

At this very moment.

Su Ye’s eyebrow twitched as something appeared before his eyes.

A faint blue light screen materialized, and a message appeared on the data panel.

[Tier 5 Spirit Ship Advancement]

[Other conditions have been met]

[Nascent Souls: 0/3]

[Live Nascent Soul detected. Refine?]

[Yes/No]

[Note: The Nascent Soul’s activity will diminish over time. After four years, this Nascent Soul’s activity level will drop below the required threshold for refinement.]

"Hm?"

Su Ye’s eyebrow twitched.

’Capturing Fuyunzi came with an unexpected reward? A cultivator’s Nascent Soul is actually a requirement for the Ghostly Flood Dragon to advance to Tier 5!’

"But..."

"Three Nascent Souls?"

"According to the panel, I still need two more Nascent Souls to meet the requirement..." Su Ye’s mouth twitched. The advancement requirement was a bit too harsh.

In the outside world, even if one could kill a Nascent Soul cultivator, capturing one alive was extremely difficult.

"This advancement requirement... where am I supposed to find you two more Nascent Souls?"

Su Ye clicked his tongue and muttered to himself.

With that.

He selected [No].

He still needed to perform a Soul Search on Fuyunzi’s Nascent Soul.

If he refined it right away, what the hell would be left to search?

Anyway, it wouldn’t lose its activity for another four years, so there was still plenty of time.

No need to rush.

...

BUZZ.

He closed the panel.

Su Ye’s ambush on Fuyunzi had seemed complicated.

However, the entire process, from his initial sneak attack to finally capturing Fuyunzi, had only taken a minute or two.

"Cough, cough..."

Su Ye coughed a few times, blood trickling from his mouth.

His dark robes fluttered, revealing a sword wound that pierced through his ribs!

Fuyunzi’s strategy of trading blow for blow had actually worked. Su Ye had been forced to take a sword strike head-on, and the resulting injury was by no means light.

Earlier.

While pursuing Fuyunzi, he had suppressed his injury.

Now that the dust had settled, the injury flared up.

However, Su Ye wasn’t worried. He had mastered the Life and Death Skill, and healing was its specialty.

BUZZ.

Su Ye sat cross-legged and began to heal his wound with a lustrous white light of life force.

As for Zheng Yunzhe?

Zheng was no fool. He had fled the moment Su Ye and Fuyunzi started fighting. By now, he was hundreds of miles away, hiding and trembling with fear.

Su Ye paid him no mind.

"Dreamwardens, order the Fire Element Monarch to keep Yuan Lan occupied."

"Once my injuries are healed, I’ll help him kill that Nascent Soul True Monarch!"

Su Ye sent via Divine Sense.

"Really?"

"That’s wonderful."

"How long will you need?!"

The Dreamwardens were overjoyed.

They had originally thought that after killing Fuyunzi, Su Ye would simply stand by and watch.

But to their surprise, he seemed to have had a change of heart and was now offering to help?

"Fifteen minutes."

"Oh, and remember to pay extra."

Su Ye replied coolly.

Killing Fuyunzi had been an act of revenge.

Originally, he had planned to stop there and quit while he was ahead.

But there was no helping it. Who could he blame but the Ghostly Flood Dragon for needing cultivators’ Nascent Souls to advance to Tier 5?

Su Ye estimated that once he left the volcanic Grotto Heaven, without its unique, restrictive environment, the difficulty of capturing another Nascent Soul would increase exponentially.

Therefore.

He had to put in a little more effort now.

...

「Soon.」

Relying on his Life Skill and his Tier 5 physique.

Su Ye’s injuries healed at a rate visible to the naked eye.

As for the Magical Power he had consumed, it was also rapidly recovering under the empowerment of the Grotto Heaven.

In just a moment.

Su Ye’s combat strength returned to its peak.

"Huu..."

He let out a soft breath and transformed into a streak of Escape Light.

At this time.

The Fire Element Monarch and Yuan Lan, two Tier 5 beings, were already locked in a white-hot battle!

Yuan Lan channeled an aura of death, which coalesced into a gigantic, pitch-black hand that he brought crashing down on the Fire Element Monarch!

Due to its severe injuries, the Fire Element Monarch was completely suppressed by Yuan Lan. Unable to fight back, it could only try to stall for time.

However.

Yuan Lan felt no sense of ease.

’Fuyunzi’s aura... it’s gone...’

’Is he dead?!’

Yuan Lan’s eyelids twitched violently, and his heart pounded with dread.

The sudden appearance of a strange Nascent Soul cultivator who had grievously wounded Fuyunzi in one blow, forced his Nascent Soul out, and then killed him—this shocking event was completely beyond his expectations.

Yuan Lan was panicking.

’If he could kill Fuyunzi, he can kill me, too!’

And.

’And then there’s this Tier 5 fire spirit!’

Yuan Lan desperately wanted to flee.

But the problem was...

’This fire spirit is clinging to me, ignoring its own injuries... and we’re inside an Array space within the Grotto Heaven. To escape, I’d have to calculate the weak points in the space...’

At a time like this, where would he find a moment to do that?

"Yuan Lan!"

Su Ye’s figure appeared, his appearance disguised.

Wreathed in black smoke and exuding a grim Demonic Qi, he looked exactly like a demonic cultivator!

"Time to die!"

Su Ye cackled.

Yuan Lan was already on guard.

It would be difficult to kill him with a sneak attack, as he’d done with Fuyunzi.

So, a direct assault was the only option!

Black and white light swirled in Su Ye’s hands. As pitch-black shadows flowed forth, he activated the Netherworld Skill and the Life and Death Skill in alternation.

The Life and Death Skill, in particular, had a higher priority and could suppress Yuan Lan’s death-based techniques. With the Fire Element Monarch joining in, it became a righteous two-on-one!

Yuan Lan was immediately thrown into an absolute disadvantage!

However.

At that very moment.

The Array space suddenly shuddered!