Chapter 3458

As Ye Liuyun walked, he probed Chen Yueying’s movements with his divine sense. Seeing that she was staying obediently inside the formation, he finally put his mind at ease.

The place where the Blood Fox Ancestor was in seclusion was not too close to here.

Ye Liuyun crossed two mountains before spotting a completely barren cliff face. There was a conspicuous cave entrance in it.

Carving a cave entrance in such an exposed location made it obvious at a glance that its owner was a powerful expert who had no fear of being discovered. Martial cultivators without sufficient strength would not dare investigate it, either.

“This does serve to filter out martial cultivators with bloodlines that are too weak.”

After thinking it over, Ye Liuyun still did not dare enter the cave rashly. He did not want the Blood Fox to suddenly approach and drain away all the power of his bloodline.

At that moment, the Seal Demon Stele sent him a message. It began to stir impatiently, presumably having sensed the aura of the Bloodthirsty Demon Crystal.

“Don’t rush. The cave is too narrow. You won’t be able to use your full strength inside, and you could easily be trapped. Wait until I lure it out!”

With that thought, Ye Liuyun took a Blood Fox’s head from his spatial world and hurled it toward the cave entrance from a distance. He then hid at the foot of the mountain and waited for the Blood Fox Ancestor to come out.

“Ah! Who are you? How dare you kill my descendant!”

He did not hear a beast’s roar. Instead, an aged cry of alarm rang out.

Immediately afterward, Ye Liuyun felt himself being locked onto by divine sense, while a powerful pressure from a higher cultivation realm swept toward him. Then he saw an old man with a white beard, dressed in a blood-red robe, charge out of the cave.

“A human? I’ll drain every drop of your vital blood and avenge my descendant!” the old man roared, producing a pitch-black crystal in his hand.

At that moment, the Seal Demon Stele shot out on its own without waiting for Ye Liuyun to summon it, flying straight toward the black crystal. It did not pay Ye Liuyun any attention.

The Blood Fox Ancestor was startled as well. After sensing the power of the Seal Demon Stele, the Bloodthirsty Demon Crystal actually flew straight out of his hand and fled into the distance.

The Blood Fox Ancestor was so shocked that he could no longer spare any attention for Ye Liuyun. The Bloodthirsty Demon Crystal was the treasure he cultivated with, and he could not afford to lose it, so he immediately raised his hand and struck at the Seal Demon Stele.

His palm sent the Seal Demon Stele flying, but it curved around and continued chasing the Bloodthirsty Demon Crystal. It had not suffered any significant damage.

“What is this thing?” The Blood Fox Ancestor was baffled as well.

But suddenly, he felt himself locked onto by a terrifying force. This terrifying power was similar to the pressure a powerful expert released against a weaker opponent, leaving the weaker party completely powerless to resist.

The Blood Fox Ancestor was in the same situation now. He wanted to see what had locked onto him, but he could neither turn his body nor release his divine sense. It was as though he were standing there waiting to die.

“This power has surpassed the Void Realm? Could there be another expert here whom I failed to notice?” While he was wondering this, Ye Liuyun’s arrow had already been loosed.

The Godslayer Bow could raise an archer’s power by an entire major realm. Thus, the power behind Ye Liuyun’s arrow had completely surpassed the Void Realm. It was not only the Blood Fox Ancestor who could not withstand it—even every living thing in the entire Thousand Burial Mountain felt that terrifying pressure.

Then came a booming explosion. The arrow from the Godslayer Bow obliterated the Blood Fox Ancestor’s head, along with the soul in his sea of consciousness. Only his body remained, falling downward.

“Even I’m afraid of this power! I’d better use it sparingly in the future!” Ye Liuyun hurriedly put away the Godslayer Bow, afraid that it might draw some formidable figures here.

He immediately decided that even if he used the black-and-white light in the future, he would not easily reveal the Godslayer Bow.

The fluctuations from that arrow had actually been sensed by the martial cultivators on half the planet. However, no one could have imagined that the arrow had been fired from here or that it could affect such a vast area.

Chen Yueying was also extremely nervous inside the formation, worrying about Ye Liuyun. She thought that the Blood Fox Ancestor had used the Bloodthirsty Demon Crystal, causing such a massive disturbance.

But that terrifying pressure soon vanished, leaving her able only to speculate wildly as she anxiously waited.

After putting away the Godslayer Bow, Ye Liuyun went over and collected the Blood Fox Ancestor’s corpse as well.

Only then did he discover that there was a drop of extremely condensed vital blood in the Blood Fox Ancestor’s heart.

He immediately summoned Yue Hong and Chi Lian. They both said that it was an exceptionally pure power of bloodline, something that could not be refined in a single day.

Ye Liuyun examined it repeatedly with his Golden Eyes and divine sense. Only after confirming that there was indeed nothing wrong did he put it away, intending to refine it in the future. The drop of vital blood carried a relatively strong vicious aura from the ferocious beast, so it would take some time to refine it slowly and remove that aura.

As for the Blood Fox’s body and essence pill, he gave them all to the demonic beasts as cultivation resources.

The Blood Fox Ancestor’s Interspatial Ring also contained some origin power, high-grade crystals, and medicinal herbs for body refinement. They were presumably cultivation resources he had prepared for himself, but now they all belonged to Ye Liuyun.

The Seal Demon Stele did not chase very far before catching up with the Bloodthirsty Demon Crystal. It smashed the crystal into the ground and suppressed it there, absorbing the power within it as it did so.

Ye Liuyun followed after it but did not disturb the Seal Demon Stele. Instead, he let it absorb the crystal completely, so that it would not go on harming people later.

The crystal had already developed a rudimentary consciousness. If it continued to develop and became demonized, even the Seal Demon Stele would have difficulty dealing with it.

The crystal erupted with all its power several times, trying to lift the Seal Demon Stele away. But its independent consciousness was not strong enough, and it did not know how to use its power. Each time, it was suppressed again by the Seal Demon Stele.

The Seal Demon Stele did not grow too large this time. It was only the size of a person, which happened to be just right for suppressing the crystal.

“I am willing to acknowledge you as my master. Take this stone stele away!” The Bloodthirsty Demon Crystal suddenly communicated with Ye Liuyun through divine sense. “I can help you drain away the power of bloodline of powerful experts, and I can also help you condense transcendent-divine-level power of bloodline.

With vital blood containing this kind of power, even a single drop would let you easily crush your opponents!”

“I don’t need it!” Ye Liuyun was not tempted by it.

He now knew about an even higher level of power of bloodline. In the future, he only needed to work toward it gradually; he did not have to borrow the power of this crystal.

The crystal absorbed everyone’s power indiscriminately, without distinguishing between good and evil, and could even strengthen itself. If he allowed such a thing to grow too powerful, Ye Liuyun would no longer be able to control it. Thus, he felt it would be better to destroy it completely, lest it harm people everywhere in the future.

The crystal continued pleading with Ye Liuyun, but soon it could not even transmit its divine sense anymore, because the Seal Demon Stele absorbed not only energy but also its divine sense.

Before long, the crystal’s intelligence was erased, and it became a completely lifeless object. At the same time, the Seal Demon Stele suddenly erupted with a powerful aura, marking its breakthrough to the first stage of the Void Realm.

But its improvement did not stop there. After absorbing power for roughly another hour, the Seal Demon Stele’s aura surged again.

“Heh heh, you’re improving pretty quickly. In such a short time, your cultivation realm has already caught up with mine!”

Ye Liuyun guessed that it had broken through to the second stage of the Void Realm, and he was rather happy for it.