by Feng Yise
Inside the dark dense woods, several figures crisscrossed, the battle situation very intense.
A white figure passed through between more than a dozen black monsters. The situation was alarmingly dangerous.
However, that white figure was extremely nimble. No matter how dangerous the situation, he could always turn danger into safety in the end.
This white-clothed youth was precisely Ye Yuan.
Currently, close to a year's time already passed since Ye Yuan entered the Dragon Eye Cave.
Ye Yuan's aura was much stronger compared to when he just came in.
In this one year, Ye Yuan hunted several thousand rank six abyss monsters, obtaining large amounts of black crystals.
Of course, how could one not wet their shoes if they frequently walked by the roadside? Ye Yuan naturally encountered Empyrean Realm abyss monsters before too.
But Ye Yuan was long prepared. He had long laid down the spatial node technique. The moment he ran into Empyrean Realm abyss monsters, he would immediately run.
Therefore, although the abyss monsters here were strong, Ye Yuan's survival ability was stronger.
Up until now, Ye Yuan did not encounter real danger either.
"True Sword Hollow Etch!"
A roar came over, noiseless sword energy instantly erupted with horrifying energy. Three black abyss monsters were directly blown up.
"Roar, roar!"
The remaining abyss monsters seemed to have become enraged, pouncing toward Ye Yuan crazily.
"Humph! You brutes really have no idea of death or danger! Grand Universe Palm!"
Ye Yuan gave a cold snort and suddenly fired a palm out.
The dragon pranced the vast expanse of open ground, roaming the nine heavens unhindered.
Four to five abyss monsters were directly blown up!
"Roar, roar, roar!"
The remaining abyss monsters became even more furious, one ball of horrifying energy undulations after another exploded by Ye Yuan's side.
"True Sword Hollow Etch!"
With another noiseless sword energy, Ye Yuan reaped the lives of the abyss monsters without any mercy.
Battling for a day a night, Ye Yuan finally annihilated all of these abyss monsters.
"Huu … This batch of guys are really formidable, even if a Ninth Firmament True God was here, they would probably be blown up in one move by them too," Ye Yuan huffed a turbid breath as he spoke.
The strength of this batch of abyss monsters, all of them were above Eighth Firmament True God Realm.
But their combat strength was extremely horrifying. Human Ninth Firmament True Gods were not their match at all.
Ye Yuan's present strength already infinitely approached an Eighth Firmament True God. Coupled with his fleshy body's strength, he had virtually no opponents under Empyrean.
But even so, with his strength, he also expended tremendous effort before slaying them.
Ye Yuan packed up all of the black crystals and said with a smile, "Heh, this batch of abyss monsters are strong, but the black crystals are also purer and stronger. With this batch of black crystals, I should be able to break through to Eighth Firmament Origin Pill!"
In this one year, Ye Yuan completely treated the Dragon Eye Cave as a cultivation treasure land.
As long as he saw rank six abyss monsters, Ye Yuan's two eyes would definitely shine, killing them.
If Long Chi was here, he would definitely be angered until he vomited blood.
His method that he thought of as brilliant became Ye Yuan's wedding gown.
But in this one year, Ye Yuan also figured out some of the Dragon Eye Cave world's rules.
Which place was dangerous, which place was safe, which place had powerful abyss monsters coming and going, he had an idea in his heart.
As long as he did not overshoot this boundary, there was no great danger.
This dense forest at present belonged to a more dangerous place. There were many late-stage True God Realm abyss monsters coming and going.
Following the increase in Ye Yuan's strength, the initial-region's abyss monsters already did not pose any challenge to him.
Finding a secluded place, Ye Yuan laid down a bunch of protective array formations and started refining the black crystals.
When the devilish energy entered the body, Ye Yuan's realm started loosening up.
Several days later, Ye Yuan's aura skyrocketed, finally stepping into Eighth Firmament Origin Pill.
"Breaking through is getting harder and harder!" Slowly opening both eyes, Ye Yuan could not help saying with an emotional sigh.
"But the price paid is still worth it! Right now, even though I'm at the Eighth Firmament Origin Pill, in terms of divine essence thickness, I'm probably even stronger than ordinary Ninth Firmament True Gods! Putting aside True God Realms, even when facing Empyrean Realms, it's at least also not without the slightest strength to fight back anymore. After breaking through to the Ninth Firmament Origin Pill, when I unleash all of my means, even facing a First Firmament Empyrean shouldn't be anything difficult too!"
Suddenly, Ye Yuan's gaze became sharp and he said in a solemn voice, "Li-er, after I breakthrough the next realm, I'll fetch you back home! Lin Changqing, 2000 years hasn't arrived. But I wonder how gifted your so-called genius is!"
It was already close to a thousand years in a twinkle, Ye Yuan's longing for Li-er did not stop for a second.
And Lin Changqing's overbearingness was also fresh in Ye Yuan's mind.
That Lin Changqing cracked himself up to be a genius that felt that Ye Yuan was like an ant.
At that time, Ye Yuan just entered the Celestial Deity Realm, but Lin Changqing was already an Empyrean.
But a thousand years passed, Ye Yuan was already a dragon flying in the sky and only a step away from Empyrean.
What realm did he, Lin Changqing, cultivate to?
The Sea of Law the last time, as well as clearing Ask Not, both brought tremendous inspirations to Ye Yuan, with the outcome being extremely far-reaching.
Regarding the next realm, Ye Yuan already had a general idea in his mind.
Ye Yuan had a feeling that the next realm would be greatly different.
The iron law that Empyreans could not be leapfrogged was a joke at Ye Yuan here.
Ye Yuan had confidence that as long as he broke through, his strength would absolutely not be beneath Lin Changqing.
"Eh? There's actually someone here, and it's even a human."
As he was lost in thought, a voice suddenly sounded out not far away.
Another person said, "Heh, an Eighth Firmament True God? to actually be able to survive in the Star Devil Forest, really hit the jackpot!"
"Why would a human brat appear here? Could it be that … he entered from a spatial rift?"
Ye Yuan turned his head to look and saw three dragon race youths with disdain and mocking looks on their faces.
The person in the lead was a scarred youth. He walked in front of Ye Yuan and said with a smile, "Boy, do you know what place this is?"
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "Dragon Eye Cave."
The scarred youth's two eyes narrowed and could not help revealing a look of disappointment.
Knowing about the Dragon Eye Cave, then he probably did not enter from a spatial rift.
It was absolutely impossible for humans to know about this place.
The scarred youth said with a smile that was not a smile, "Oh? You actually know that it's the Dragon Eye Cave. Then you still dare to swagger about here in the Star Devil Forest? Truly, the ignorant are fearless!"
Ye Yuan smiled as he answered with a question, "Could it be that there's some genuinely safe place in this Dragon Eye Cave?"
The scarred youth could not help suffocating, being choked badly.
This place was the world abyss monsters, a safe place was just relatively speaking.
The scarred youth said, "Kid, consider yourself lucky to run into us. Walking by yourself in the Star Devil Forest
with your bit of strength, when you encounter a powerful abyss monster, you won't even know how you die. Since we met, follow us in the future. With Big Brother Xun protecting you, it won't be that easy even if you want to die too!"
"Alright," Ye Yuan said with a faint smile.
This one year had always been him going solo, it was too dreary.
Furthermore, in this kind of place, an additional person was always an additional portion of strength.
These few people were clearly veterans here already and should understand this place better. Understanding the situation from them was pretty good.
As for 'Big Brother Xun protecting you', this sort of word, Ye Yuan automatically ignored it.
Chapter 2138 - Just a Misunderstanding
Along the way, the three people were extremely careful, just thieves that entered a house, fearful of making any sounds.
Encountering a tiny bit of wind rustling, they would be like startled rabbits, slipping away with a scramble.
Ye Yuan had a relaxed look as he followed behind the three people.
This scene naturally became synonymous with acting recklessly and blindly in the eyes of the three people.
However, the three people really had some ability in the area of avoiding abyss monsters. The moment there were some activities, they would be able to recognize it in advance and avoid it.
Clearly, these few people already had their way of survival in this Dragon Eye Cave.
Along the way, Ye Yuan baited quite a bit of verbal exchanges.
These three people were called Long Xun, Ao Ming, and Long Qing. They came from different respective earth strongholds and black strongholds and were people who committed the most heinous crimes and were thrown into the Dragon Eye Cave.
Entering the Dragon Eye Cave was basically equivalent to being sentenced to the death penalty, but it did not mean that one would die right away.
These three people were crafty and sly, finding a way to survive in this place, avoiding many dangers, and even pulled together a team of more than ten people.
Most of these people committed severe crimes in the strongholds, that was why they would be thrown into the Dragon Eye Cave.
This made Ye Yuan very surprised. These dragon clans' habitats actually all had the Dragon Eye Cave's entrances.
What kind of damn place was this Dragon Eye Cave?
But those who survived in this region were mostly not strong, being only at the True God Realm.
Long Xun had already entered the Dragon Eye Cave for over 20 years. He was already considered outstanding among this group of people.
Right now, they were currently leading Ye Yuan back to the base.
"Kid, let me tell you, if you're like this in the Dragon Eye Cave, it will be considered little even if you die a hundred times over!" Long Xun looked at Ye Yuan and said with a disappointed look.
This guy was exasperatingly slow every time, taking his own sweet time, angering Long Xun badly.
But Long Xun also felt strange in his heart, how come this kid could always keep up with the three of them?
As proud members of the dragon race, Long Xun three people looked down on Ye Yuan, this human, from the bottom of their hearts. But they had to admit that Ye Yuan's luck was very good.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Many thanks for Big Brother Xun taking care along the way."
Long Xun shot a glare at Ye Yuan and said with a cold snort, "At least you have some eyesight! Along the way, if not for Big Brother Xun, me, you'd have died ten times!"
"Yes, yes," Ye Yuan said with a smile.
"Roar, roar!"
Right at this time, several ferocious abyss monsters suddenly dashed out of the dense woods, blocking the few people's path all at once.
These few abyss monsters came extremely suddenly, like they had been lying in ambush.
Long Xun's face turned pale with a swoosh.
The auras of the few abyss monsters were very powerful and already had peak rank six cultivation realm.
As for combat strength, it absolutely swept across those in the same rank!
It was only to see Long Xun's eyes swivel around, a plan forming in his head.
He winked at Long Qing and Ao Ming, then shouted loudly, "Heh, do these brutes really take it that your Grandpa Xun is easy to be pushed around? Boy, you deal with that right-side one, leave the rest to the three of us!"
There were six abyss monsters that appeared this time, the three of them dealing with five and letting Ye Yuan deal with one sounded very righteous.
How could Ye Yuan not know Long Xun's little scheme? But he did not mind either, slowly drawing the bone sword and walking towards the abyss monster.
"Roar, roar!"
Seeing Ye Yuan slowly walk over, the group of monsters was clearly enraged, immediately pouncing over toward him.
At this time, Long Xun winked again. The three people took off and escaped in the opposite direction with extremely fast speed.
"Kid, Big Brother Xun saved you many times along the way, then you save Big Brother Xun once and stay behind to be cannon fodder! Hahaha …"
Behind, came Long Xun's delighted laughter.
Amidst the laughter, Ye Yuan did not turn his head back either, like he did not hear his words, continuing to walk over towards the abyss monsters.
Then, Long Xun's laughter abruptly stopped.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Ye Yuan stabbed a sword out, carrying along with astonishing explosion sounds.
Amidst the three people's stupefied gazes, the six abyss monsters were completely annihilated.
From start to end, Ye Yuan only unleashed one sword.
"T-T-This … How is this possible?" Long Qing's jaws almost dropped, his eyes full of disbelief.
"S-So strong!" Ao Ming similarly opened his mouth wide and said in shock.
Long Xun rubbed his eyes, he was doubting if he saw wrongly or not.
But he rubbed many times and discovered that it was still the same outcome.
Abyss monsters completely wiped out!
"Is … Is this guy a freak? How can he be so strong?" Long Xun said in shock.
He suddenly recalled him showing off in front of Ye Yuan and even said 'Big Brother Xun will protect you.' It was simply like being a clown.
Ye Yuan exterminated six peak rank six abyss monsters with one sword. Wouldn't killing him be like chopping vegetables?
He thought that Ye Yuan was just a little lamb, who knew that it was a big gray wolf!
The shock in Long Xun's heart was simply unable to use words to describe.
He had mucked around in this Dragon Eye Cave for so long, how could he not have an understanding of the abyss monsters' combat power?
Back then, they ran into a peak rank six abyss monster. Five people attacked at the same time. In the end, they successfully escaped with the death of two people as the price.
Peak rank six abyss monsters swept away everything!
Hence, when he saw those abyss monsters, he thought of running away at once.
Fight?
It did not exist!
But now, Ye Yuan just unleashed one sword and dealt with six peak rank six abyss monsters. What kind of terrifying combat power was this?
Long Xun was of the proud dragon race, so he completely looked down on humans.
But now, Ye Yuan shattered his pride to smithereens with absolute strength!
Was this guy really just Eighth Firmament True God?
Ye Yuan was also very satisfied with the power of this sword.
Breaking through to Eighth Firmament True God, his strength indeed made great improvements again.
The power of True Sword Hollow Etch was more than several times stronger than before.
Dealing with these peak rank six abyss monsters naturally did not need that much effort anymore.
"H-Huhu, this lord, just now, we were just … just … It was a misunderstanding! A misunderstanding!" Long Xun had an awkward look, wanting to explain his e
arlier actions.
Except, he discovered that no matter how he explained, it was very feeble.
Witnessing Ye Yuan's strength, how could they still dare to run?
No matter how fast they were, could they be faster than Ye Yuan's sword?
That scene earlier was seriously too shocking.
Ye Yuan put away the bone sword, turned to look at Long Xun, and said with a smile, "Big Brother Xun …"
"Dare not, dare not! In front of Your Excellency, how can this lowly one dare call himself Big Brother Xun? Your Excellency, just call me Little Xun will do," Long Xun said in fear and trepidation.
Ye Yuan laughed and said, "It's still Big Brother Xun that sounds warm! Big Brother Xun doesn't need to explain anything. This Ye understands. There are dangers all around in the Dragon Eye Cave, so sacrificing the knights in order to save the queen is only human nature."
"M-Many thanks for Your Excellency's understanding!" Long Xun said with a fearful look on his face.
He did not know whether Ye Yuan really understood or was faking understanding. After all, the action previously was courting death.
"However … " Suddenly, Ye Yuan's tone changed, becoming fierce.
Long Xun's heart that just calmed down immediately jumped.
"This is the first time, I hope that it's also the last time! Next time, I won't be so pleasant!" Ye Yuan's tone gradually turned cold, making cold sweat pour on Long Xun's forehead.
Chapter 2139 - Little Xun Admires
Inside the dense woods, Long Xun three people were in front, faltering.
Ye Yuan slowly followed behind, very casual.
Along the way, Ye Yuan consecutively took action several times and it was all insta-kills, frightening Long Xun badly.
At the thought of posturing in front of Ye Yuan previously, Long Xun even had the heart to die.
"Big Brother Xun, this … this human is too horrifying! You can't deal with him!" Ao Ming whispered.
"Pooh! What are you freaking rubbing my nose in it for? Want to kill me is it?"
Long Xun was frightened by these words until he broke out in a cold sweat and almost finished Ao Ming off in a rage.
Ao Ming also shuddered and said, "Big Brother Xun, I … I didn't do it on purpose. However, what is he picking tarnished black devil crystals for? That thing's corrosive power is extremely strong. Even our dragon race's fleshy bodies can't bear it either!"