"So they are indeed Sword Crystals!"
Ye Yunfei charged into the palace and saw large piles of crystalline stones stacked inside, resembling small mountains. These crystals were in a unique state, each resembling a tiny sword and radiating swirling sword-light. The sword energy they had seen outside the palace was released by these very crystals! The conditions for forming Sword Crystals were extremely demanding, requiring an environment saturated with vast amounts of sword energy. Therefore, the number of Sword Crystals was far too scarce! Although Ye Yunfei had been a Heavenly Emperor in his previous life, the number of Sword Crystals he had obtained was not high. Now, with huge piles of Sword Crystals stacked within this palace, Ye Yunfei felt somewhat excited.
At that moment, the Main World beings began collecting the Sword Crystals!
"Hun Lao, coordinate with me. I'm taking all these Sword Crystals for myself!" Ye Yunfei said to Hun Lao.
With such precious cultivation resources right before his eyes, seizing them was only natural for Ye Yunfei. In a martial artist's world, fighting fiercely, even to the death, over cultivation resources was utterly commonplace.
"Good!" Hun Lao nodded.
Swoosh!
Ye Yunfei's figure flashed as he employed his spatial translocation technique, appearing directly in the center of the palace. He then simultaneously unleashed both the Time Reversal Art and Time Blade Secret Techniques. A powerful surge of temporal energy instantly spread out, enveloping a large group of Main World beings. Their bodies froze in place, unable to move.
"I'm here too!" Hun Lao called out lightly, employing a secret technique that twisted and locked space, forcibly sealing a large area and rendering those Main World beings even more immobile!
Under the combined arts of Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao, both time and space were sealed. The Main World beings were both shocked and furious, each struggling with all their might, but they could not break free from the constraints of time and space for the moment.
Among them were several half-step emperors at the Great Perfection level, who resisted with all their strength, their faces flushing crimson with effort. However, the temporal and spatial secret techniques employed by Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao were too profound, making it impossible for them to break free in a short time.
Swoosh, swoosh...
Hu Miao, Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, Huang Shang, Ice Demon Man, Situ Kong'er, and the others, who were already prepared, appeared one after another and began seizing the Sword Crystals in the palace.
Their movement speed was astonishingly fast, especially that of the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, whose speed could be described as extreme. It flashed past, and before anyone could see clearly, it had seized pile after pile of Sword Crystals. Ye Yunfei secretly transmitted a message, telling the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm not to swallow those Sword Crystals. These crystals were too precious and rare. Ye Yunfei knew that if the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm couldn't resist the temptation, it would likely just swallow and refine them. Ye Yunfei had come to the Sword Grave specifically to use the resources here to elevate his sword path level, so he planned to use these Sword Crystals for sword path cultivation.
"Fine, but you have to refine a batch of pills to compensate me," Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm said somewhat reluctantly via sound transmission.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the vast majority of the Sword Crystals in the palace were all collected clean by Hu Miao and the others, leaving only a few scattered crystals on the ground.
"Let's go!" Ye Yunfei shouted softly, waving his sleeve to teleport Hu Miao and the others into the Phantom Tower, then rushed out of the palace.
At that moment, Xiao Tingting, leading her Sword-Guarding Manor disciples, had just charged into the palace. Watching as Hu Miao and the others instantly collected all the Sword Crystals clean, they were amazed but also felt a sense of loss. Because they hadn't managed to get a single piece of Sword Crystal.
Swoosh!
Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao rushed out of the palace, charging towards another palace in the distance.
These palaces must contain many treasures related to the sword path!
"Let's follow them!" Xiao Tingting hurriedly led her Sword-Guarding Manor disciples after Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao.
"Damn it!
Damn it!
These Sword Crystals should have belonged to our Tianyi Sword Sect!
They were actually all snatched away by that kid, leaving us with only a few dozen pieces!"
"Reprehensible!
We clearly discovered them first!
That kid just jumped in halfway and snatched them away!"
...
It wasn't until after Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao had left that the Main World beings in the original palace regained their freedom of movement. Looking at the almost emptied palace, they roared in anger one after another. These beings were all from the Tianyi Sword Sect of the Main World. They had discovered the Sword Crystals in this palace first and thought they would have a bountiful harvest, never expecting Ye Yunfei to snatch them all away mid-way. This feeling was too infuriating!
"We must take revenge!
People of the Tianyi Sword Sect absolutely cannot be bullied by creatures from the outside world!" someone roared, wishing they could immediately charge out and fight Ye Yunfei to the death.
"Let it go. Let's suppress our anger for now and continue exploring and treasure hunting," the leading man calmed down and said solemnly.
At this time, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao had already charged into another palace. This palace stored a staggering number of magical treasures, all related to the sword path. Among them were quite a few long swords of the Heavenly Emperor level! Furthermore, Ye Yunfei spotted several sets of matched long swords. After refining these matched swords and releasing them in battle, they would automatically form sword formations with formidable power.
A group of Main World beings had already entered this palace ahead of them and were preparing to collect the treasures.
"Hun Lao, let's move," Ye Yunfei said.
"Good," Hun Lao nodded.
Then Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao repeated their trick—one using temporal martial skills, the other using spatial techniques—instantly sealing the space-time within the palace. The Main World beings inside immediately became immobile. Hu Miao, Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, Huang Shang, and the others rushed out, swiftly collecting the magical treasures within the palace.
"They've already collected quite a few treasures earlier. I'll make them hand them all over!" Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm suddenly targeted the Main World beings and shouted loudly. Then, with a swoosh, it charged towards the Main World beings, beginning to search and plunder the items on their persons.
In shock and fury, the Main World beings unleashed their energy pressure waves, trying to repel the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm. However, the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm's mastery of spatial energy was incredibly profound. It used its racially inherited spatial secret arts, completely ignoring the energy of those Main World beings, and continuously stripped away their spatial rings and various treasures.
Seeing this, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao fully cooperated, intensifying the suppression on whichever target Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm was looting to ensure they couldn't resist.
"Damn it!
These are my own belongings!"
"Get lost!
Dare to rob me, and you'll regret it!"
...
As their possessions were looted by the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, the Main World beings couldn't help but roar in anger.
In the blink of an eye, all the magical treasures in this palace were collected clean by Hu Miao and the others—not a single piece remained.
"Let's go!" Ye Yunfei flicked his sleeve, teleporting Hu Miao, Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, and the others into the Phantom Tower, then rushed out with Hun Lao.
At this moment, Xiao Tingting had just led her Sword-Guarding Manor disciples into the palace, once again witnessing firsthand how Ye Yunfei's group collected the treasures within, feeling both envy and admiration.
"We'll follow them!" Seeing that Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao had already left the palace and were charging into the distance, Xiao Tingting hurriedly led her disciples after them. She understood that within this city, she and her Sword-Guarding Manor disciples were only safe if they stuck with Ye Yunfei! She had no other choice!
"Damn it!
We, disciples of the Sword Valley, were actually robbed! And by a kid from the outside world at that! What a disgrace!" After Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao departed, cries of grief and indignation echoed from the palace they had just left.
Following this, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao continuously entered one palace after another, harvesting vast amounts of treasure, including many sword path secret manuals. Whenever they encountered Main World beings attempting to compete for treasure, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao would directly employ their temporal and spatial secret arts to seal them, preventing them from seizing resources. The Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm, with almost no sense of propriety, seized the chance to plunder the Main World beings' valuables every time.
In this manner, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao entered and exited over a dozen palaces in a row, harvesting an ocean-like quantity of treasure! And the vast majority of these treasures were related to the sword path!
"Damn it!
That tree actually stole all my belongings!"
"Damnable tree!
It nearly stripped me bare! I'll slice it into a thousand pieces!"
...
Angry roars continuously rose across this land as the Main World beings robbed by the Golden-Horned Dragon Silkworm jumped with rage, their howls shaking the heavens.
"Just what kind of place is this Sword Grave? It looks more like a treasure vault, with treasure-filled palaces everywhere. Why is it called the Sword Grave? Also, the ancestors of Sword Emperor Pavilion and the Murong Clan mistakenly entered this Sword Grave. From where did they obtain the 'One Sword Calms the World' sword skill? Could it have been from among those sword path secret manuals?" Hun Lao couldn't help but ask Ye Yunfei.
"We have indeed obtained many sword path manuals. We can look through them later. Perhaps many profound sword skills are recorded within," Ye Yunfei replied.
Just then.
"Look!
There's a massive tomb ahead!" Hun Lao suddenly looked forward and said to Ye Yunfei.
Ye Yunfei gazed in that direction and indeed saw a colossal tomb, standing imposingly on a desolate plain ahead. The air above the plain was completely filled with dense sword energy, churning endlessly in numbers so vast it made one's hair stand on end. The scale of this massive tomb was immense, standing on the plain with a towering, sky-piercing visual effect.
"Could this be the true Sword Grave?" Gazing from afar at the massive tomb embraced by the rolling tides of sword energy, Ye Yunfei and Hun Lao couldn't help but murmur softly.