by Feng Yise
"How would I know? Maybe he has a hobby for collecting those black crystals! But even if this thing is placed inside storage rings, it will also cause irreversible corrosion to people," Long Xun said with uncertainty.
Along the way, he was also very curious.
It was just that he was startled by Ye Yuan's strength and did not dare to open his mouth at all.
Powerful abyss monsters were as weak as paper in front of Ye Yuan. Ye Yuan killed them as easily as killing chickens and slaughtering dogs.
"Alright, this place should be safer. We can stop for a while," Ye Yuan said coolly.
The moment Long Xun heard, he hurriedly ran over and asked: "Your Excellency, what instructions do you have?"
Ye Yuan said, "I collected quite a few tarnished black devil crystals along the way. So I'm going to cultivate for a while. You guys protect me."
The moment these words came out, Long Xun three people's eyes went wide and he opened his mouth wide and asked, "Y-Y-Your … Your Excellency is going to use tarnished black devil crystals to cultivate? I-I-I … didn't hear you wrongly, right?"
Long Xun was too surprised, resulting in his tongue being tied even when talking.
Long Xun even thought that Ye Yuan had some weird hobby, who knew that Ye Yuan was actually using this to cultivate.
Using such pure devilish energy to cultivate, wasn't this courting death?
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "Why? Is there a problem?"
Long Xun said, "These … These tarnished black devil crystals are the crystallization of abyss monsters' devilish energy, it's where their essence is located. The devilish energy contained inside is extremely harmful to martial artists. You … You're actually going to use it to cultivate? How to cultivate?"
Ye Yuan said coolly, "I have my own ways. You just need to care about standing guard."
Ye Yuan casually laid down a few array formations and started cultivating on the spot.
One ball of black energy after another flowed out of the tarnished black devil crystals, being absorbed into the body by Ye Yuan.
This scene appeared extremely strange.
Long Xun three people's eyes went wide, their face dumbfounded.
"He really absorbed devilish energy! My god, his absorption speed is also too fast! Isn't he afraid of blowing up?" Ao Ming said dumbfounded.
"Heard that there are some people among humans that are eager for quick success and will frequently cultivate some unorthodox paths. Could it be that he's that kind of martial artist?" Long Qing said.
Smack!
Long Xun directly gave him a slap at the back of his head and scolded, "Fool! His Excellency's divine essence undulation is incomparably pure! How does he look like a devil cultivator? Also, His Excellency's divine essence is incomparably thick, far surpassing same rank powerhouses. Are you freaking blind? Which Eighth Firmament True Gods have you seen that have such horrifying strength?"
Long Qing had an innocent look. But thinking about it, it was also true.
Ye Yuan's divine essence was incomparably pure and orthodox. It was impossible to be a devil cultivator.
But this kind of cultivation means still brought him incredible shock.
"But … But this is also too peculiar! Forget about a human! Even if it's the fiend race, they also don't dare to absorb tarnished black devil crystals like this!" Long Qing said indignantly.
Long Xun looked at Ye Yuan with worship and said, "His Excellency isn't an ordinary person! This devilish energy is merely a form of energy in the end. Abyss monsters are able to make use of it to become incomparably powerful. In theory, the human race and demon race should naturally be able to utilize it too. It's just that ordinary cultivation methods are completely unable to stop the devastation of the devilish energy. Looking at it this way, His Excellency's cultivation method must be extremely impressive!"
Long Xun had some knowledge and understood it very quickly.
Only when the other two people heard did they come to a realization. But their eyes when looking at Ye Yuan gradually turned from fear to respect.
The devilish energy that they feared like a tiger actually became a great tonic to Ye Yuan.
"Tsk tsk, really too incredible! I can even feel that His Excellency's realm is rising rapidly. This is Eighth Firmament True God!" Ao Ming said with a sigh of admiration.
The other two people deeply felt that way too.
After several days, Ye Yuan refined all of the tarnished black devil crystals. His realm had a considerable rise once more.
Long Xun immediately moved close and said with a fawning look, "Your Excellency is really too incredible, to actually use the tarnished black devil crystals as divine essence stones! Little Xun admires!"
Ye Yuan rolled his eyes at him and said, "Enough boot-l.i.c.k.i.n.g, go!"
"Alright! Your Excellency, Little Xun will follow you in the future. You mustn't discard Little Xun!" Long Xun thickened his skin and said.
In this Dragon Eye Cave, was there anything more useful than latching onto a thick t.h.i.g.h?
With a powerhouse like Ye Yuan around, as long as they did not encounter Empyrean Realm abyss monsters, they could practically do whatever they pleased.
This way, the chances of finding a spatial rift would also increase greatly.
Ye Yuan said coolly, "That will have to depend on your performance."
… …
Ye Yuan brought the three people and pushed through all the way. Half a month later, the party arrived in a valley. This place was the base of Long Xun and the rest.
However, inside the base was full of desolation, everything in a terrible mess like it had just experienced a great battle.
"Big Brother Xun! It's Big Brother Xun who returned!"
Inside the dense woods by the side, several people suddenly scurried out.
When these people saw Long Xun, each and every one of them was inexplicably agitated.
"Shouting and wrangling for what? Eh? Xiaochun, what's wrong with you?"
Long Xun was just about to berate the few people and make them offer greetings to Ye Yuan, but he discovered and each and every one of them had bloody noses and swollen faces, all carrying injuries on their bodies.
When Long Chun saw Long Xun, he actually burst out crying with a 'wah'.
"Big Brother Xun, we're so miserable these few days that you weren't around!" Long Chun had snot and tears running. Looks like these few days, they were oppressed.
Long Xun frowned and said, "Shut up for me! Speak! What in the world happened?"
Long Chun complained tearfully, "Big Brother Xun, it … it was all done by Long Zhaotian! He left the words, setting a time limit for you to surrender within three months! If you don't surrender, he'll raze our base to the ground and let us not even have a place to stay."
Long Xun was greatly enraged the moment he heard and howled: "Motherf*cking Long Zhaotian! F*cking hell, when the tiger isn't home, the monkey calls himself king! Brothers, follow me, I'll go and pummel the sh*t out of this guy right now!"
As he said, Long Xun was just about to rampage but was held back by Long Chun.
"Big Brother Xun, you mustn't! Long Zhaotian he found an Empyrean Realm helper! He's formidable to the extreme. We aren't a match! Even their camp already changed their leader too!"
Long Chun's words were like a basin of cold water splashing down, drenching Long Xun until his heart turned cold.
"W-What did you say? E-Empyrean?" Long Xun said with a stupefied face.
At this time, Ye Yuan slowly opened his mouth and said, "Just an Empyrean. Look how it scared you until you're like a grandson."
The moment Long Chun heard Ye Yuan talk like this, he immediately spoke up to scold, "Who the hell are you, to dare speak to Big Brother Xun this way?"
Chapter 2140 - Big Brother Tian is Very Awe-inspiring
Terrific lad!
Long Chun unexpectedly bursting out this sentence frightened Long Xun until he fainted and regained consciousness se
veral times.
Long Xun three people's faces changed greatly.
Smack!
Long Xun directly gave a blow to the back of Long Chun's head, nearly beating him to the ground.
"Disrespectful! To dare speak to Lord Ye Yuan like this, are you tired of living?"
Long Xun reproached Long Chun fiercely, then turned around and put on a smiling face as he hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, this child is insensible. Please don't stoop to his level."
"L-Lord? This guy is merely an Eighth Firmament True God human, even inferior to me. Why are you, Big Brother Xun, calling him lord?" Long Chun had a doubtful face.
Not just Long Chun, the others all looked at Long Xun with great surprise.
What kind of character was their Big Brother Xun? He actually bowed his head in submission and was obedient toward a human who was not strong, saying yes repeatedly with servility.
Long Xun wished to smack Long Chun to death with one slap right now. He roared angrily at Long Chun and said, "What? Not even listening to Big Brother Xun's words anymore, is it? Call him His Excellency! From today onwards, Lord Ye is our boss!"
Long Chun and the rest exchanged glances, clearly somewhat hesitating.
But in the end, they still chose to listen to Long Xun's words and called out.
"Boss!"
Ye Yuan waved his hand and said, "Big Brother Xun is still your boss. I don't have the spare time to be your boss."
Long Xun hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes, what kind of character is Your Excellency? Why would you take fancy on being a boss? That … Your Excellency, your meaning just now is … you think nothing of Empyreans too?"
Ye Yuan said coolly, "Think nothing of them or not, I'll only know after having a crack at him. Alright, find a secluded place. I'm going into a closed-seclusion."
Along the way, Ye Yuan hunted many abyss monsters again. The harvest was enough for him to be in a closed-seclusion for a while.
After Ye Yuan left, the baffled looking Long Chun finally could not resist opening his mouth and asking, "Big Brother Xun, this … What in the world is going on here?"
Long Xun looked at him fiercely and said, "If you don't want to die, shut your mouth for me! You don't look at how he's only Eighth Firmament True God. If he wants to annihilate us, one finger is enough!"
Long Chun still did not believe this as he said, "Eighth Firmament True God? One finger to wipe us out? Huhu, Big Brother Xun, you really know how to joke!"
"Who is freaking joking with you? You didn't see His Excellency taking action! Do you know how we came back along the way?" When Long Qing was saying this, his face still carried an intense look of fear.
"How did you return? Could it be that you didn't walk back?"
Long Qing smiled coldly and said, "We walked back, but he also killed all the way back! Along the way, the abyss monsters that died in His Excellency's hands are no less than a thousand!"
"What? How is this possible!" Everyone had a look of disbelief.
Long Xun laughed coldly and said, "Believing it or not is up to you guys! The three of us saw it with our own eyes, so could it still be fake? Don't blame me for not warning you guys. If you all want to seek death, feel free to go and provoke him!"
Long Xun swung his hands and left, leaving behind the crowd with dumbfounded faces.
… …
Long Xun had already lived in Dragon Eye Cave for a long time and indeed had some ability.
This camp was in the abyss monsters' no-mans-land and there were actually no abyss monsters that came close. It was rather quiet, perfect for Ye Yuan's closed-seclusion.
Ye Yuan refined the tarnished black devil crystals; his realm also slowly stepped closer to Ninth Firmament True God Realm.
Three months later, Long Zhaotian brought a group of people and came fighting to the doorstep.
"Long Xun, looks like you won't shed tears without seeing the coffin! Today, Big Brother Tian, I, will trample your camp!" Long Zhaotian was awe-inspiring as he shouted.
Long Xun said in a cold voice, "Long Zhaotian! You took advantage of the fact that I wasn't around and injured my, Big Brother Xun's, brothers! This score, we should also settle it properly!"
Long Zhaotian laughed loudly and said, "Long Xun, looks like you still haven't figured out the situation! Let me tell you, our boss is an Empyrean Realm powerhouse. You dared to defy her elderly self, you're dead for sure!"
Long Xun similarly laughed loudly and said, "It's you who didn't figure out the situation! Do you think that only you found a backer? On Big Brother Xun's trip out, I also found a backer!"
Long Zhaotian's expression changed, extremely surprised in his heart.
This guy wasn't putting up a bold front, right?
"Hahaha, Long Xun, do you think that you can scare me, Big Brother Tian, away with one sentence? You acknowledged a boss? Call him out. This father of yours will pummel him to a pig's head!" Long Zhaotian said with a loud laugh.
He completely did not believe that Long Xun found an expert too. How could there be such a coincidental thing?
He just found an expert here and an expert popped out on Long Xun's side too?
"Oh? It's you who said that you're going to pummel me into a pig's head?" A figure landed, looking at Long Zhaotian very calmly. It was precisely Ye Yuan.
"Ye Yuan!" When Long Xun and the rest saw Ye Yuan, they hurriedly bowed in salute.
When Long Zhaotian saw Ye Yuan, he was first stunned, then immediately burst out laughing.
"Hahaha … Long Xun, this is the expert that you found? A human, and it's even an Eighth Firmament True God? Hahaha … So formidable! I'm so scared! Brothers, let's hurry up and tuck our tails between our legs and run. The boss that they found is really too scary!"
Long Zhaotian laughed wildly, but his words were full of ridicule. Naturally, there was not a hint of really being scared.
Just an Eighth Firmament True God, so why would he take him seriously?
Long Zhaotian's subordinates immediately pandered to it.
"Yeah, we're so scared! This boss, you mustn't make a move. We're afraid that we can't hold out."
"Hahaha … Eighth Firmament True God, I'm really so scared!"
"Long Xun, you're really declining with each passing day, to actually find an Eighth Firmament True God to deceive yourself as well as others."
… …
The other party mocked away, but Long Xun responded with a cold smile.
Laugh!
Laugh to your heart's content!
A while more, you guys probably won't even have the strength to cry!
Recalling when he saw Ye Yuan back then, didn't they also had this kind of expression?
But later, their faces were slapped resoundingly.
This Long Zhaotian was posturing in front of His Excellency and even said that he was going to beat His Excellency to a pig's head, heh heh …
"Laughed enough?" Ye Yuan said coolly.
Long Zhaotian laughed hard without ceasing and said, "Haven't laughed enough yet. Let me laugh a while more. You just be happy for now. Otherwise, you'd already be pummeled to a pig's head now by Your Father!"
Bang!
His voice had yet to fade when a fist already landed on Long Zhaotian's face, sending him flying out.
With Long Zhaotian's peak rank six cultivation realm, he could not react in time at all.
Several months had passed, Ye Yuan's current strength already steadily closed in on middle-stage Eighth Firmament True God, how much stronger was it compared to back then?
If not for him reining in his strength, Long Zhaotian would already be utterly dead.
Ye Yuan knew that these people stuck together and helped each other out inside the Dragon Eye Cave.
Although both sides were on bad terms, they would not really fight to the death.
Otherwise, just this bit of people, even if the abyss monsters did not kill them, they would have long wiped themselves out by themselves.
Ba
ng, bang, bang …
The tempest-like fists landed on Long Zhaotian's body, each fist not leaving his face.
In several breaths, Long Zhaotian became a complete and utter pig's head.
The smiles of those subordinates were still stiff on their faces at this time, but could not smile no matter anymore.
Long Tian said that he was going to pummel him to a pig's head, but in a blink, he was beaten to a pig's head by him …
Chapter 2141 - Poor Memory
"Go back and tell your boss that in the future, our two camps will stay in our own lanes and mind our own business. Don't attempt to challenge my patience. Otherwise, bear the consequences yourself!" Ye Yuan said to the pig-head-like Long Zhaotian.
"Wah, wah, wah, wah …"
Long Zhaotian's eyes were full of shock and fear, opening his mouth and wanting to speak. But his face was already swollen like a pig's head and could not open his mouth at all. He could only cry loudly.
"Hahaha … Long Zhaotian, your current appearance is really exactly the same as a pig's head! Looks like I'll have to call you Pighead Tian in the future! What kind of character do you think Lord Ye is? You're purely looking for abuse yourself!"
Seeing Long Zhaotian's appearance, Long Xun started laughing heartily.
He and Long Zhaotian were almost on par in terms of strength, so they could not do anything much to the other.
But Long Zhaotian's camp was still a notch stronger than them.
The two people fought for over 20 years, and he had always been at a disadvantage. Today, seeing the other party being beaten to a pig's head, how could Long Xun not be delighted?
Beyond the joy, Long Xun's side was also extremely shocked, especially Long Chun.
They were all very clear about Long Zhaotian's strength, it was even a notch stronger than Long Xun.
But he was like a child in front of Ye Yuan, without the strength to fight back at all.
Previously, they were still looking down on Ye Yuan. Now, they felt lingering fear.
It turned out that this lord was really very impressive!
"Still not scramming? Could it be that you guys all want to become pig heads?"