Chapter 3467

With a thunderous boom, Ye Liuyun and the puppet were both sent stumbling back several steps. Yet Ye Liuyun was completely unharmed, while a large chunk had been blasted off the stone puppet’s fist, leaving it jagged and uneven.

“These Jade God Bones really are incredible. I didn’t even feel any pain!” Ye Liuyun looked at his fist and arm bones, astonished to find them completely unharmed. He immediately gathered his strength, preparing to strike again.

But just like the previous one, the stone puppet suddenly released the aura of the Ninth Stage, then bowed to Ye Liuyun and submitted to him.

Having learned from his previous experience, Ye Liuyun first used his divine sense to communicate with the stone puppet and make it acknowledge him as its master. He had it stand guard outside the stone chamber and protect him together with the previous stone puppet.

The stone puppet also told Ye Liuyun that once he refined the armor and long spear, the door to the stone chamber would open automatically.

Ye Liuyun once again entered the stone chamber without a hitch. There was only one suit of armor and one long spear inside. He refined them effortlessly, and the stone door opened once again.

He spent far less time entering the stone chamber this time than he had the last. Refining the armor and weapon had also been extremely simple.

Ye Liuyun was not skilled in using a long spear, so he gave both the armor and the spear to Xiao Yunfang on the spot.

When he came out again, none of the martial cultivators asked what treasure he had obtained. They all knew that asking would be pointless.

Ye Liuyun now had two stone puppets at the Ninth Stage of Taixu accompanying him. Even if all of them attacked together, they could no longer break through the puppets’ defenses. The old man who had previously borne a grudge against Ye Liuyun had also hidden in the back, not daring to make a sound for fear that Ye Liuyun would come after him.

Ye Liuyun could not be bothered to argue with them and simply walked toward the last stone chamber.

The martial cultivators’ hearts sank even further. Ye Liuyun had already taken the treasures from two of the three stone chambers. If he took another, there would be nothing good left for them. But they could no longer stop him, even if they tried. All they could do was watch helplessly.

“That’s enough. Do you really intend to take all the good things here?” the strongest martial cultivator finally asked, unable to hold back any longer.

“Why not? You don’t have the ability to take them, and you won’t let anyone else take them either?” Ye Liuyun countered directly.

“We simply haven’t figured out a way yet! If we all attack together, we might well be able to defeat that Onyx!” the martial cultivator insisted.

Ye Liuyun shrugged and said indifferently, “Then attack if you have the ability! You can even try to snatch them from me. I haven’t stopped you!”

The martial cultivator was rendered speechless by his anger. In the end, he could only say, “You... you’re so young, yet you’re already this greedy and shameless! With so many of us here, do you really intend to offend every one of us?”

“Heh, say whatever you like! But what can you do to me?”

Ye Liuyun let out a light laugh. Threats were the thing he feared least. Anyone else in his position would do the same: if they could take the treasures, they certainly would, and they would not leave any behind for others. Everyone relied on their own ability to obtain treasures, so why should he be the one to leave some for the others?

Faced with the two stone puppets standing behind Ye Liuyun, the martial cultivators were all left speechless. Without the strength to back them up, their words were useless. Some of the more clearheaded ones had even begun keeping their guard up against the next wave of illusion attacks.

Ye Liuyun also approached to within ten zhang of the stone puppet.

“Could it be three stages higher than me again this time?” he wondered to himself.

But as soon as he finished thinking that, the stone puppet’s cultivation level across from him indeed changed to the Fifth Stage of Taixu.

“It really is!” Ye Liuyun could not help praising himself for guessing correctly.

“Haha! Let’s see how you’ll fight this time!” The strongest martial cultivator could not help laughing when he saw what had happened.

The martial cultivators still watching Ye Liuyun could not help smiling as well, feeling that his greed had brought retribution upon him.

Some of them had actually already guessed that the stone puppet’s cultivation level would increase. They had merely been watching the spectacle, and none of them had any intention of warning him.

“How will I fight it? Heh, I’ll take my time. Let’s see which of us can’t afford to keep this up!”

Ye Liuyun merely sneered and attacked the stone puppet. The Myriad Gods Token in his sea of consciousness flashed once again.

Only then did the martial cultivators realize that as long as Ye Liuyun slowly wore down the stone puppets, the attacks from the vengeful spirits on their side would not stop.

As expected, Ye Liuyun did not clash head-on with the puppet this time. Instead, he adopted a delaying tactic. He was also afraid that he might use too much force and damage the puppet.

A stone puppet at the Ninth Stage of Taixu was an extremely valuable fighting force, and he could not destroy it. Thus, he did not use his saber, relying solely on his physical body and left arm to maneuver around the puppet, searching for its weaknesses and striking only occasionally.

“Stop!”

At that moment, the strongest martial cultivator suddenly shouted at Ye Liuyun.

He was worried that their remaining numbers would continue to dwindle, which would leave them even less capable of dealing with Ye Liuyun. Thus, he wanted Ye Liuyun to stop so that the illusion would disappear.

He even wanted to approach Ye Liuyun and lure the stone puppet into attacking the vengeful spirits produced by the illusion. But the stone puppets had no intelligence and remained completely unmoved by the vengeful spirits created by the illusion.

“Go kill him!”

Ye Liuyun instead gave the order to one of the stone puppets. The stone puppet immediately attacked, charging toward the strongest martial cultivator as well.

“What are you doing?” The martial cultivator was startled. He had never expected Ye Liuyun to order the stone puppet to attack him.

“Killing you, of course! Can’t you even tell? You idiot!” Ye Liuyun chatted with him while fighting. His pressure was far lighter, after all, since the puppet he was facing was only at the Fifth Stage of Taixu. Even if he did not defend himself and let it attack him freely, it still could not kill him. He was wearing sixth-rank gilded armor, after all.

“You win. I apologize—I admit my mistake, all right? Have the stone puppet help me block the attacks, and I’ll give you a handsome reward!” The martial cultivator could only admit defeat helplessly and plead with Ye Liuyun.

A single attack from the stone puppet sent him flying, shattering the bones in both of his arms.

Ye Liuyun did not have the Onyx stop. He merely said calmly, “You don’t need to reward me handsomely. Once you’re dead, I’ll take whatever I need myself!”

“Are you planning to take this opportunity to kill all of us?” Seeing the Onyx charge at him again, the martial cultivator tried to bind the others to himself.

“That’s right! Kid, don’t push us too far! You’re watching so many of us martial cultivators suffer, and you still won’t stop?”

The old man who still held a grudge against Ye Liuyun was also about to reach his limit, so he blamed all these illusion attacks on Ye Liuyun, trying to incite everyone to join forces against him.

“Damn it!” The bearded martial cultivator suddenly cursed while fighting. “It’s all because of you two bastards! You drove that kid mad and dragged the rest of us into this mess!

That kid saw through your little schemes long ago. Do you think threats will work? You two idiots brought this death upon yourselves, so don’t drag us down with you.”