Within the ancestral land of the Celestial Gold Race, after making some preparations, the Grand Mage had Ye Yunfei sit cross-legged upon a high platform carved with all sorts of special symbols. Then, with a soft shout, the Grand Mage and the two Elders all sliced open their palms. Streaks of Bloodline Essence surged forth and descended towards Ye Yunfei on the platform.
Ye Yunfei performed a blood fusion secret art that the Grand Mage had just taught him and began to fuse with this Celestial Gold Race Bloodline Essence.
The Grand Mage and the two Elders were the most core members of the Celestial Gold Race; their Bloodline Essence was naturally the purest within the clan.
And so, Ye Yunfei continuously fused with the Celestial Gold Race Bloodline Essence.
Approximately half a day later.
The Grand Mage and the two Elders moved away from the platform, found a place to sit down cross-legged and recuperate.
Each of them had transmitted at least one-fifth of their Bloodline Essence to Ye Yunfei, and they felt somewhat tired.
Of course, the Bloodline Essence they had lost could be fully restored through rest or supplementing with sufficient cultivation resources.
On the platform, it took Ye Yunfei a full day to perfectly fuse the Bloodline Essence transmitted by the Grand Mage and the two Elders, completely integrating it as part of his own bloodline.
"Now, let's see if I can use the secret art Transform Body into Artifact to fuse with Deity-realm treasures."
Having perfectly fused the Bloodline Essence, Ye Yunfei announced to the Grand Mage and the two Elders, entered the Phantom Shadow Tower, immediately took out a batch of Mystic Immortal-level treasures, and began fusion.
First were Primary Grade Mystic Immortal treasures.
One hour later.
Ye Yunfei successfully fused a Lower Grade Mystic Immortal treasure!
Next, Ye Yunfei continuously fused one Mystic Immortal-level treasure after another.
Middle Grade Mystic Immortal treasures, Upper Grade Mystic Immortal treasures!
In one go, he fused several hundred Mystic Immortal-level treasures!
Including over a dozen Top Grade Mystic Immortal treasures!
"Let's try True Immortal treasures!"
Ye Yunfei took out a Lower Grade True Immortal treasure.
After roughly a year of attempts, Ye Yunfei managed, with great difficulty, to successfully fuse with this Lower Grade True Immortal treasure.
But Ye Yunfei felt that fusing this one Lower Grade True Immortal treasure with his physical body was already extremely taxing, so he stopped attempting to fuse any more True Immortal treasures.
"It seems that what level of treasure can be fused using this secret art Transform Body into Artifact is related not only to one's bloodline but also to one's strength. My current physical power is roughly at the level to battle a Perfected Mystic Immortal, so right now I can fuse Top Grade Mystic Immortal treasures. But fusing True Immortal treasures is extremely taxing." Ye Yunfei muttered to himself.
"My physical body has fused with several hundred Mystic Immortal-level treasures; it's incomparably hard. Even if I stand still now, just letting an average Mystic Immortal attack me, they probably still couldn't harm my flesh. I have to say, the Celestial Gold Race's core heritage secret art, Transform Body into Artifact, is truly terrifying."
Ye Yunfei stopped his cultivation, stood up, clenched his fists, felt his current physical quality, and smiled.
At this moment, Ye Yunfei felt his physical body was practically indestructible!
"My current physical power should be around two million six hundred thousand draconic jin, right?" Ye Yunfei said to himself.
Fusing several hundred Mystic Immortal-level treasures brought the most significant change to Ye Yunfei's physique: it became much harder. But his physical power had also increased quite a bit.
"With just my physical power alone now, I can easily battle a Perfected Mystic Immortal!" Ye Yunfei declared.
Previously, in that Small World belonging to the Great Strength Demon God, after Ye Yunfei's physical power had broken through two million draconic jin, he killed the Barbarian God Sect's Elder Zhong. Now at two million six hundred thousand draconic jin, he could battle a Perfected Mystic Immortal! Moreover, with his current body's hardness, even letting a Perfected Mystic Immortal punch him a few times wouldn't be much of a problem, whereas an average Perfected Mystic Immortal would likely be blown apart by a single punch from Ye Yunfei!
"My overall combat power within the Mystic Immortal level must be approaching invincible." Ye Yunfei revealed a confident expression.
Swoosh!
Ye Yunfei flashed out of the Phantom Shadow Tower and appeared before the Grand Mage and the two Elders.
"Young Master Ye, how did it go? Did you fuse the Bloodline Essence we transmitted to you?" The Grand Elder immediately asked.
"Thank you, all three. I have perfectly fused the Bloodline Essence you transmitted to me." Ye Yunfei nodded with a smile.
"Grand Mage, how about this: I will set up a few dozen Formations to hide that Teleportation Altar. It won't be easily discovered unless an Earth Immortal expert arrives. This way, you can all safely leave here and return to the temporary dwelling I arranged for the Celestial Gold Race. If you continue staying here, you might be targeted by more enemies later. Because I've offended a few major factions in the Main World, anyone connected to me will be in danger."
Ye Yunfei thought for a moment and said this to the Grand Mage and the two Elders.
"Young Master Ye, the Formations you set up can hide the Teleportation Altar? It won't be easily discovered unless an Earth Immortal expert comes?" Hearing Ye Yunfei's words, the Grand Mage felt both pleasantly surprised and disbelieving.
"I'll set them up and you can see the effect for yourselves." Ye Yunfei chuckled.
Thus, Ye Yunfei went to the front of the ancient Teleportation Altar of the Celestial Gold Race, took out a large quantity of array-deployment materials, and quickly began setting up formations. With Ye Yunfei's current formation skill, it naturally took only a moment to arrange several dozen formations.
Rumble…
Ye Yunfei waved his sleeve, activating dozens of formations simultaneously, which released all sorts of formation energy that instantly and completely hid the Teleportation Altar.
"I truly can't sense that Teleportation Altar anymore! Young Master Ye, your formation skill is truly marvelous!" The Grand Mage and the two Elders could no longer detect any trace of the Teleportation Altar.
"Don't worry. Even a True Immortal-level expert coming here wouldn't necessarily sense there's a Teleportation Altar here unless they knew about it beforehand. So you can leave here with peace of mind." Ye Yunfei stated.
"Alright. Young Master Ye, we trust you!" The Grand Elder nodded.
"By the way, Grand Elder, I have some cultivation resources here, a gift to serve as resources for your Celestial Gold Race." Ye Yunfei took out a spatial ring and handed it to the Grand Elder. The ring contained a large batch of physique-refining materials, most of which had been gifted to Ye Yunfei by the Great Strength Demon God.
"Young Master Ye, these cultivation resources are far too valuable!" The Grand Elder took the spatial ring, sensed its contents, and upon discovering the various physique-refining materials inside were all astonishingly valuable, immediately tried to decline.
"It's fine. Please accept them." Ye Yunfei insisted.
"I'll escort you back." Ye Yunfei thought for a bit and offered.
Now that forces from those major Main World factions were hunting people associated with him across the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds, Ye Yunfei was worried these three members of the Celestial Gold Race might be discovered.
"Young Master Ye, you don't need to escort us. We have a token; activating it will summon someone to take us back to that temporary dwelling Small World." The Grand Elder said, taking out a token and activating it directly.
Indeed, a moment later, a middle-aged man quietly appeared outside the Celestial Gold Race headquarters and came before the Grand Elder.
"So Young Master Ye is here too." The middle-aged man, seeing Ye Yunfei, greeted him.
Ye Yunfei noticed this middle-aged man was a High Grade Mystic Immortal.
"It seems the Light Faction has some power, to casually send out a High Grade Mystic Immortal," Ye Yunfei mused inwardly.
"Young Master Ye, I'll take them back now." The middle-aged man said.
"Alright, many thanks." Ye Yunfei hurriedly replied.
The middle-aged man waved a hand, transferring the Grand Mage and the two Elders into a spatial treasure, then executed a movement technique, disappearing into space in the blink of an eye.
"Now to go check on Tianying Realm." Ye Yunfei thought it over, directly activated the Space Teleportation Token, and soon arrived in Tianying Realm.
A group of unknown experts had also intruded into Tianying Realm, all of them members of those major factions from the Main World. Among them, the strongest were also five Mystic Immortal experts—because True Immortal level experts dared not casually barge into worlds of the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds.
The Tianying King had already relocated with most of the Tianying Realm's forces but had left behind a portion of people who were very weak or ordinary mortals without cultivation.
Unable to locate the main force of Tianying Realm, these people from the major Main World factions flew into a rage and actually began slaughtering those weaklings and mortals without cultivation.
Naturally, Ye Yunfei showed no mercy, directly going on a killing spree, exterminating all these Main World personnel, then silently left Tianying Realm. He performed the Hidden Shadow Secret Art and traveled through the chaotic void.
"I've killed so many people lately. It's estimated that soon after the news reaches them, those major Main World factions will definitely send more people to investigate. Only, with my current strength, there's no need to be afraid. As long as I don't encounter True Immortal experts, I can crush anyone. If a True Immortal expert does come, I can just hide in any world of the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds, and they can't do anything about me." Ye Yunfei sneered.
Just then, a token on Ye Yunfei's person suddenly began vibrating.
Ye Yunfei immediately took out that token. It was the very one given to him before by the Fat Monk and the Old Man. According to that Old Man, this token was a specially crafted token of the Light Faction, a tool for mutual communication among its members.
Back when that Old Man handed this token to Ye Yunfei, he had said that in five more days, a Light Faction member would contact Ye Yunfei and then they'd begin the operation to search for those missing former experts of the Light Faction. But now over ten days had passed, and finally someone was contacting him.
In truth, Ye Yunfei had been waiting all this time.
"Are you on Feixian Continent?" A voice came from the token, sounding somewhat anxious.
"Yes." Ye Yunfei was momentarily stunned, unaware of the situation, then answered.
"Be careful, I've been targeted by people from the Dark Faction; they're currently chasing me. They've probably found you too. Be careful." The voice came again from the token.
"I've been targeted by the Dark Faction?" Ye Yunfei was taken aback.
Just at that moment.
Ye Yunfei's expression changed; he sensed something watching him from afar.
"You've been remotely locked onto by a high-level secret art." Hun Lao immediately spoke up.
Hun Lao had been in secluded cultivation inside the Phantom Shadow Tower all this time, but his spatial energy skill was impressive enough to sense external situations at any time.
"Yes, I sensed it too." Ye Yunfei nodded. His Soul Power energy level had greatly increased recently; his perception was also very sharp.
"Most likely the Dark Faction. Don't know what level of experts they are. Fine, I'll wait for them." Ye Yunfei sneered.
Ye Yunfei strode through the chaotic void while simultaneously taking out the Space Teleportation Token and holding it in hand, ready to activate it for teleportation at any moment.
Swoosh swoosh…
Ye Yunfei sensed over a dozen black figures stealthily moving through space in the distance, rushing quickly towards his position. The speed of these black figures was terrifying, and they seemed to be using some extremely high-level concealment art, making them hard to detect. If not for Ye Yunfei's exceptionally powerful Soul Power, he might not have been able to sense them at all.
Swoosh swoosh…
In the blink of an eye, those dozen-plus black figures had already charged close to Ye Yunfei, then suddenly attacked. Each figure drew a sword and slashed towards Ye Yunfei.
Every single one was at the Perfected Heavenly Emperor Realm! The sword techniques these black figures executed were extremely sophisticated; each sword slash was mist-like and ethereal, manifesting a vast expanse of hazy, black sword shadows that made it impossible to see clearly. Even using Soul Power, it was difficult to perceive clearly.
"The Dark Faction doesn't know my true current power yet." Seeing these dozen-odd figures, who were only at Perfected Heavenly Emperor Realm strength, Ye Yunfei was first taken aback, then revealed a smile.
And indeed, Ye Yunfei's current realm was merely the Heavenly Emperor Realm; sending over a dozen Perfected Heavenly Emperors to deal with him already couldn't be considered underestimation.
"Let me test my mental force energy." Ye Yunfei mused.
He focused his intent and directly unleashed his mental force energy.
Rumble…
Vast, mighty mental force energy instantly erupted, spreading out like a giant tidal wave, instantly suppressing a portion of the surrounding space.
The dozen-plus black figures all suddenly halted, as if struck by a body-freezing technique, frozen in their original postures, unable to move at all.
Ye Yunfei slapped out a palm.
Rumble…
Ye Yunfei's palm continuously expanded, releasing terrifying physical power.
Puff puff puff…
The dozen-plus black figures exploded like a dozen-plus crimson fireworks, instantly turning into clouds of blood mist that scattered in the wind, vanishing into nothingness.
"There are still people locking onto you." Hun Lao reminded.
"I know. Let them come." Ye Yunfei's sneer deepened.
Swoosh swoosh…
The next moment, from a spot not far away, five black figures rushed out from space simultaneously, each holding a long, narrow, curved blade of bizarre shape. They emitted chilling sword qi, moving with startling speed, instantly surrounding Ye Yunfei.
Five Elementary Mystic Immortals!
"Ye Yunfei, I never imagined you would have grown to such an extent! I have to admit, among the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds, it's hard to find a second young genius of such caliber. However, why must you choose to join the Light Faction? By joining them, you're seeking your own death! Our Dark Faction has always valued young geniuses and has recruited a great number. Ye Yunfei, if you're willing to repent and join our Dark Faction, we will prioritize nurturing you. Otherwise, you won't live much longer. Believe me, within the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds, there is no one our Dark Faction cannot kill." One of the black figures spoke, his voice somewhat icy and grating.
These Dark Faction beings were enveloped by many eerie, dark symbols on their bodies' surfaces, appearing like a dark mist, which made their bodies indistinct; they looked like black shadows.
"Oh? Is that so. If within the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds there is truly no one your Dark Faction cannot kill, why don't you just kill all members of the Light Faction? That way, wouldn't there be no one opposing you?" Ye Yunfei sneered in reply.
"For our Dark Faction to want to kill all members of the Light Faction is naturally not any difficult matter. It's just the timing isn't right. When the time comes, all those in the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds who oppose our Dark Faction will be killed, not a single one left." That black figure replied.
"When the time comes, I'm afraid your Dark Faction intends to kill all living beings of the Three Thousand Major and Minor Worlds, leaving not a single one alive. Unfortunately, your Dark Faction won't get that chance." Ye Yunfei coldly replied.
Then Ye Yunfei directly attacked.
He threw a punch towards that black figure.
"Since that's the case, then go die." That black figure angrily brandished his curved sword, slashing towards Ye Yunfei.
Puff!
Ye Yunfei's fist shattered the curved sword, then with another blow, shattered the black figure itself, killing him instantly.
Next, Ye Yunfei moved like lightning, throwing punches so fast they were like thunderbolts before one could cover their ears. With one punch per target, he killed the remaining black figures, leaving none alive.