Chapter 3349

Ye Liuyun discovered that the martial cultivator’s Interspatial Ring actually contained several living women, all of them at the eighth or ninth level of the Guiyi Realm.

The Interspatial Ring also contained a substantial amount of origin power from the Void World, along with some high-end cultivation resources, presumably prepared by the martial cultivator for his own use.

Ye Liuyun left the Interspatial Ring alone for the time being. He immediately returned to the cave entrance and recalled both clones into his spatial world in case anything went wrong. He also stopped borrowing the spatial world’s power.

Then he kept the martial cultivator’s corpse under close watch with his Golden Eyes and divine sense before restoring the flow of time to normal.

As expected, the martial cultivator did not realize what had happened in time, and his corpse fell stiffly to the ground.

“Phew!”

Ye Liuyun let out a long breath. Only then did he ask the Book Demon what they should do next.

The Book Demon had been just as worried for him, even breaking into a cold sweat on his behalf. Now that the problem had been resolved, he felt much more relaxed as well. “Just wait. Once this planet merges with the Immortal Realm, the pressure will gradually weaken!”

“Can’t we take this world with us?” Ye Liuyun asked.

“Of course we can. But even if you take it away, it will still be assimilated into an ordinary planet. I think you’d be better off waiting until the pressure lessens, then extracting the origin power and using it as a cultivation resource!” the Book Demon advised.

“All right, then!”

Ye Liuyun agreed at once and continued retreating outward, stopping only when he reached a place where his physical body could withstand the gravity.

He released his two clones again, then informed everyone that the danger had passed and told them to continue into the valley and take the opportunity to temper their bodies.

Half a day later, Ye Liuyun clearly felt the pressure on him ease considerably. He tried taking two steps forward and reached the limit his physical body could endure.

“Have I adapted to it, or has the gravity begun to weaken?” Ye Liuyun asked the Book Demon.

The Book Demon began mocking him again. “You managed to adapt to this much in half a day? What are you thinking? Obviously, the gravity has begun to weaken! And it will continue weakening faster and faster until it reaches the same level as on the other planets here.”

Ye Liuyun did not argue with him. He simply focused on sensing the pressure, moving forward a little whenever it weakened. Sure enough, he advanced faster and faster.

Before long, the others also felt the pressure ease, and their divine senses were now able to detect Ye Liuyun. Seeing that he was safe and unharmed, they finally felt relieved.

It did not take Ye Liuyun long to enter the cave again.

The pressure inside the cave was uniform, so as soon as he entered, he reached the bottom once more and dug out the martial cultivator’s core, keeping it for the demonic beasts to use in their cultivation.

Only then did he begin refining the martial cultivator’s Interspatial Ring, collecting the resources inside and conducting soul searches on the women within it.

All of the women had accidentally entered this planet and been captured alive by the martial cultivator, who kept them for his own amusement. Ye Liuyun immediately explained the situation to them and told them that he would release them all once the gravity had completely disappeared.

In fact, the women already knew what had happened. With the martial cultivator’s death, the master-servant contracts they had been forced to sign disappeared. They had previously been worried that whoever found the ring would continue to control them.

The women were not the only ones celebrating. The martial cultivators in the local tribes were also cheering at that moment. They had not been forced to sign master-servant contracts. The spirit master had sensed the pressure easing and guessed that the powerful martial cultivator had already been killed by Ye Liuyun and the others.

They had not originally belonged to this world either; the martial cultivator had simply captured them and brought them here. Now that he was dead and the gravitational restrictions were gone, they could finally return to their own planets.

Two days later, the planet’s crushing gravity no longer impeded Ye Liuyun’s movements. He released all the women and notified the martial cultivators from the tribes as well, telling them that the planet was about to collapse and that they should leave as soon as possible.

The spirit master thanked Ye Liuyun on behalf of the tribal martial cultivators, and they all left the planet. Only then did Ye Liuyun begin extracting the world’s origin power. Afterward, he brought out a flying vessel he had found inside the martial cultivator’s Interspatial Ring.

The flying vessel was a third-grade Void-rank treasure, several times faster than his first-grade Void-rank vessel. Traveling in it, they would soon be able to catch up with their army’s fleet again.

Ye Liuyun still had everyone pilot the flying vessel while he returned to the spatial world to continue cultivating, making use of the high-end resources he had just acquired.

Even after a planet was assimilated, the origin power of the Void World remained golden and possessed extremely high energy quality. Together with the origin power Ye Liuyun had extracted earlier, it was just enough for him to use in cultivation.

Although absorbing it still resulted in some waste at his current level, its effects were far better than those of other kinds of origin power. After giving it some thought, Ye Liuyun decided to use it anyway to improve the quality of his divine essence.

He was about to break through from the late stage of the ninth level of the Guiyi Realm to its peak. He had already absorbed quite a lot of energy, and using such high-quality energy during the breakthrough could save him a great deal of time.

However, once he began using this origin power, he discovered that his current divine essence did not waste much of it during absorption. Its efficiency was at least far higher than that of the energy he had used before. After he and his clones had each used three portions, the quality of their divine essence improved noticeably, and their realms began to break through.

Therefore, after his breakthrough, he did not conserve it. Instead, he absorbed another six or seven portions of origin power from the Void World to stabilize his realm.

After breaking through to the peak of the ninth level of the Guiyi Realm, his efficiency in using this origin power became even higher, and very little energy was wasted.

“It seems that the quality of my divine essence is already approaching that of a martial cultivator in the Void Realm!” Ye Liuyun speculated inwardly.

He temporarily could not bring himself to use the remaining origin power from the Void World, so he went to the battle platform for another round of combat and training. Relying solely on his divine essence, he now had no opponents there. Thus, the battle platform’s artifact spirit arranged for him to fight two opponents at once, allowing him to train while consuming his divine essence.

After practicing for a while, he was able to fight four opponents alone. Even the battle platform’s artifact spirit advised him that continuing to train there would not be of much use and would consume too many resources, telling him to go outside and find opponents to practice against. The opponents condensed by the battle platform also required origin power.

He and his clones took turns going out to hone their combat skills. This consumed resources not only for their own cultivation but also for the battle platform, and the expenditure was astonishing. After a month, more than a thousand portions of origin power had been completely used up in training.

Thus, Ye Liuyun dug out the martial cultivator’s other cultivation resources and continued improving his strength in other areas.

He had never used resources from the Void Realm before, and their effects were remarkably strong. Using these high-end resources, he further refined and strengthened his bloodline and also increased the strength of his physical body.

The martial cultivator, however, did not possess many resources for improving the divine soul. Ye Liuyun found only two slightly higher-grade pills for condensing the divine soul.

When he used them, their effects were excellent. They compressed the size of his divine soul by nearly half, making it much more solid.