Chapter 3346

The Yin Souls absorbed by the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner had already told Zhuge Feiyu what was happening here.

They did not know where the gravity here came from, either. They only knew that there was a local tribe, and that one of its Soul Masters possessed extremely powerful soul energy and could easily annihilate them.

If they refused to obey that spirit master’s commands, he would punish them. As for the tribe, they had never dared approach it. The tribespeople rarely came out, relying instead on puppets to do things for them.

By then, all the puppets around the formation had already been killed by the giant spirit beasts. Qiong Qi therefore dispelled the formation as well.

Everyone followed Ye Liuyun in the same direction. They all wanted to see who was controlling these puppets from behind the scenes.

"The gravitational environment here is actually an excellent place to temper your bodies. Don’t use your true essence. Try to train with your physical bodies as much as possible!" Ye Liuyun even offered them some advice.

With him there, everyone finally felt completely at ease.

The demonic beasts all revealed their true forms and directly resisted the gravity here. The others also withdrew the true essence protecting their bodies and used the gravity here to temper their physical bodies.

Ye Liuyun did the same. He released both of his clones and had them guard the two sides of the group. The demonic beasts also dared to take the initiative, charging out to fight the approaching skeleton and stone puppets to their hearts’ content. When they grew tired, they returned to the group to rest.

Ye Liuyun and his clones also took the opportunity to blast the puppets to death with divine essence. Fighting here was more challenging than fighting on the battle platform.

Although his physical body was powerful and the gravity here had little effect on him, fighting was still more difficult than it had been on the battle platform. He felt that this level of difficulty suited him better.

After exhausting all his divine essence, he stopped consuming the divine essence stored in the essence-storage stones. Instead, he used the power of heaven and earth to continue fighting and tempering himself. He often braced himself against the tremendous pressure and flew into the air to attack the skeleton puppets, using them for practice.

In fact, Ye Liuyun’s divine soul had already discovered the local martial cultivators mentioned by the Yin Souls. These martial cultivators seemed to belong to a small tribe numbering only three or four hundred people. There were not many of them, and they all wore animal skins.

The tribespeople’s cultivation realms were not particularly high either; they seemed to be only at the early stage of the Unity Realm. One of them was probably the martial cultivator with the relatively powerful divine soul who was controlling the puppets.

That martial cultivator looked like a sorcerer. He held a staff with a wolf’s head set into it. The wolf’s head seemed to amplify his divine soul power. Each time, it emitted extremely powerful divine-sense fluctuations that transmitted his commands to the puppets.

If he used Soul Travel Beyond the Void to unleash his blade intent, he could kill that martial cultivator directly. However, he felt that these puppets were perfect for practice, so he did not make a move.

However, he discovered that the local martial cultivators were also being suppressed by the gravity here. They had probably grown accustomed to it, though, as their movements were completely unaffected.

"I hope they know something about the situation!"

At present, all Ye Liuyun could do was hope that these tribespeople knew something about the source of the gravity.

At that moment, the martial cultivator controlling the puppets was doing his best to summon all the nearby puppets toward Ye Liuyun. He had seen Ye Liuyun walking straight toward them and believed that Ye Liuyun might have discovered them.

The tribal martial cultivators had also grown tense. Each took up a weapon and prepared for battle.

Knowing that their cultivation realms were low, Ye Liuyun paid them no mind. He merely sensed that the soul pressure grew stronger the farther forward he went. It was probably related to the wolf’s head in the spirit master’s hand.

Before long, some of the Tang Family disciples behind him, whose divine soul power was relatively weak, had begun to feel frightened and no longer dared to continue forward.

Ye Liuyun did not force them. He merely had Tang Xinyao take them into her spatial world first.

The remaining people all had powerful divine soul power. They followed Ye Liuyun all the way to the front of the tribe, where they saw the martial cultivators within it.

The native martial cultivators did not attack first. Instead, they stood ready for battle inside the settlement, while quite a few puppets remained outside.

"I have no interest in your tribe, so you don’t need to worry. Do you know where this gravity comes from?"

Ye Liuyun did not attack them directly. Instead, he questioned them.

The native martial cultivators looked at one another, as if they could not understand what he was saying. One of them shouted at them several times, but they could not understand the natives’ language either.

Ye Liuyun then communicated directly with the spirit master through divine sense and questioned him.

When the spirit master saw that Ye Liuyun could still communicate with him through divine sense while standing before the wolf’s head, he was startled. But he also understood this time that Ye Liuyun had not come for them, so he immediately spoke up and informed the other tribespeople.

Only then did he reply to Ye Liuyun: "All we know is that this power comes from a cave. There is someone inside, and he is extremely dangerous. Anyone who goes there will die! The puppets and Yin Souls that went there also died!"

"Tell me where it is, and I’ll go take a look. We have no intention of targeting you. We only want to leave this place!" Ye Liuyun told him.

The spirit master slowly shook his head. "He won’t let you leave after you learn his secret!"

"Who? You mean the person in the cave?" Ye Liuyun pressed.

The spirit master explained to Ye Liuyun, "Yes! He is extremely powerful. He gave us this wolf’s head and told us to guard this place and protect ourselves!"

Ye Liuyun glanced at the wolf’s head. It was indeed a wolf’s head, but someone had refined it into a treasure capable of amplifying divine soul power. It was indeed an extremely unique artifact-refining technique.

However, now that he knew it was a living person, there had to be a way to deal with him. Ye Liuyun was determined to go. Otherwise, he would never find a way to leave this place, and he could not remain here forever.

"We’re not afraid. Just tell me!" Ye Liuyun said confidently.

The spirit master no longer hesitated. Instead, he pointed toward a distant mountain hollow and told Ye Liuyun and the others to go there themselves.

Ye Liuyun did not waste any more time with them and immediately led everyone there. The martial cultivators in the tribe watched them in astonishment, discussing among themselves how Ye Liuyun and the others were going to their deaths.

The spirit master no longer urged the puppets to attack Ye Liuyun. Instead, he closed his eyes, released his divine sense, and followed Ye Liuyun and the others, observing their movements.

His own divine soul power could only be considered relatively strong within the tribe. In reality, it was even inferior to that of ordinary martial cultivators at the same realm outside. Ye Liuyun had never intended to attack them in the first place.

"Could they be deceiving us?" Lei Ming asked Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun shook his head. "The gravity over there is indeed stronger."

His physical body had already sensed that the gravity grew stronger the farther forward they went.

He had tempered his body in a secret realm of the power of heaven and earth, so he had an extremely clear sense of tremendous pressure. He even tried using the power of heaven and earth to resist the pressure and found that it was indeed effective.

However, he immediately withdrew the power of heaven and earth, doing his best to seize the opportunity to temper his physical body. If they encountered a powerful enemy later, he could catch his opponent off guard.