Chapter 2234 Fooling Them

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

…

One after another, screams kept coming.

One Celestial Venerable after another was directly sucked into the blood pool.

The Celestial Venerables were panicked; they simply couldn't see their opponents.

Wu Jiang's face was extremely grim, and he said in a deep voice, "This is usually just an area where sixth-rank experts operate. How did all these ghostly things suddenly pop up?"

Ye Yuan's eyes flickered as he said, "A precious treasure emerging from the world—such anomalies are normal. Sun-Moon Heavenly Eye, open!"

Ye Yuan had undergone seven Nirvana Tribulations, and his Sun-Moon Heavenly Eye had long been cultivated to an extremely high level.

At this moment, as the Sun-Moon Heavenly Eye opened, the world immediately became different.

In the blood light, dim shadows moved all around.

These creatures hid within the blood light, which became their natural barrier.

Even Celestial Venerables found it hard to detect them.

Swish!

One of the shadows suddenly sprang up and flew toward Mad Blade Ghost Venerable.

But Mad Blade Ghost Venerable was completely unaware.

Ye Yuan's gaze sharpened, and he shouted coldly, "Sword of Will, slash!"

A transparent sword instantly coalesced and, at an unimaginable speed, slashed toward that shadow.

"Squeak!"

The shadow let out a strange cry and, with a whoosh, dove into the blood pool.

Hearing the strange cry behind him, Mad Blade Ghost Venerable shuddered in alarm, realizing he had just brushed past the gates of hell.

Nine Lives Heavenly Emperor's eyes flickered slightly, and he exclaimed in admiration, "Such solid soul force, almost materialized! His divine soul must have already reached the seventh-rank great perfection! This kid is no simpleton!"

Ghost Ruin Heavenly Emperor sneered, "Seventh-rank great perfection, so what? How much longer can he last here?"

Nine Lives Heavenly Emperor nodded, "The stronger he is, the better for us, of course! With him here, at least we can hold off on making a move for a while. With the blood pool's mutation, plenty of good things will pop out. But correspondingly, it will also be much more dangerous."

The other Heavenly Emperors nodded one after another, deeply agreeing.

After Ye Yuan struck down that shadow, he stopped acting.

When it's none of your business, stay aloof.

In such an environment, sticking one's neck out leads to no good end.

If it weren't to save Mad Blade Ghost Venerable, he absolutely would not have made a move.

From time to time, ghost path experts were directly dragged into the blood pool.

Nine Lives Heavenly Emperor pointed at Ye Yuan and said, "You, go and eliminate all those shadows!"

Ye Yuan frowned and said in a deep voice, "What if I say no?"

Nine Lives Heavenly Emperor's tone carried an unyielding authority as he said flatly, "If you don't act, you die."

Clearly, with their eyesight, these Heavenly Emperor experts could see those shadows.

But none of them was willing to make a move.

Those shadows were all soul bodies; killing them all would consume a great deal of soul force.

The Heavenly Emperor experts clearly wanted to conserve their strength to deal with the dangers ahead.

Nine Lives Heavenly Emperor's words carried far more weight than Ghost Ruin Heavenly Emperor's.

After all, he was a super expert at the second heaven of Heavenly Emperor!

Beside him, Ghost Ruin Heavenly Emperor sneered incessantly, "Kid, if you're cannon fodder, you'd better have the awareness of cannon fodder! Go, or die!"

These Heavenly Emperor experts simply didn't care and laid it all out plainly.

Before them, Celestial Venerable experts could only be cannon fodder.

Celestial Venerable experts might dominate the mortal world.

But before Heavenly Emperor experts, they were still ants!

Ants have no right to negotiate!

Ye Yuan's expression shifted between gloom and uncertainty, but he delayed in making a move.

Wu Jiang's expression changed slightly as he urged, "Brother Ye, survival is paramount. We can't afford to provoke Heavenly Emperor experts!"

Finally, Ye Yuan's clenched fist relaxed. He slowly turned around, moved his body, and directly chased after a shadow.

"Sword of Will, kill!"

Ye Yuan's Sword of Will was incredibly sharp; with one slash, he directly killed that shadow.

His body moved swiftly, his strikes like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, he had killed over a dozen shadows.

Seeing that they could no longer hide, the remaining shadows all fled into the blood pool and never surfaced again.

Seeing Ye Yuan so ferocious, the Celestial Venerables were all shocked inwardly.

If that Sword of Will struck them, it would be fatal!

Although their bodies had long solidified, they were still soul bodies at root.

This kind of Sword of Will harmed them even more than divine elemental martial techniques.

Ye Yuan stopped, appearing somewhat listless and weary.

Those shadows were all seventh-rank soul bodies, comparable to mid-stage Celestial Venerables in strength.

Having killed so many soul bodies, Ye Yuan's soul force naturally couldn't "handle" it.

He looked coldly at Nine Lives Heavenly Emperor and said, "Satisfied now?"

With that, he sat cross-legged, intending to recover his soul force.

At this moment, Nine Lives said flatly, "No need to rest. Keep moving. Do you intend to make so many people wait for you to regulate your breathing?"

With that, he flicked his sleeve and said, "Continue forward!"

Ye Yuan's gaze turned cold. He suddenly stood up, as if to fight to the death, but Wu Jiang grabbed him.

"Forget it, forget it! They're all Heavenly Emperors; we can't afford to provoke them!" Wu Jiang urged.

These Heavenly Emperors simply didn't treat them as human—they drove them like livestock!

"Heh, kid, this isn't a place for you to throw your weight around! If you've got anger, swallow it! If you don't swallow it... you'll die!" Seeing Ye Yuan humiliated, Ghost Ruin Heavenly Emperor said smugly.

Nine Lives Heavenly Emperor unleashed his aura, and a terrifying pressure descended upon Ye Yuan.

"Still not leaving? Do you really want me to make a move?" Nine Lives Heavenly Emperor said coldly.

Ye Yuan's face changed several times, but finally, he took a deep breath and turned to leave.

"Very well, I'll remember this!" Ye Yuan said coldly.

"Heh, he's threatening us! A Celestial Venerable, threatening a Heavenly Emperor!" Ghost Ruin Heavenly Emperor laughed derisively.

"His strength is indeed decent, but his brains are a bit lacking—he doesn't recognize the situation," Soul Summoning Heavenly Emperor said flatly.

"A reckless fool! If he weren't somewhat useful, I'd have killed him long ago!" another Heavenly Emperor said coldly.

As for Ye Yuan's threat, they naturally wouldn't take it to heart.

In their view, if you're cannon fodder, you just have to take it!

In fact, you should even be grateful!

You don't have the qualifications to set the terms.

"Young master, you... are you all right? It's all my fault for being useless!" Mad Blade Ghost Venerable said self-reproachfully.

Ye Yuan gave him a look and transmitted his voice, "It's fine. I'm fooling them."

Mad Blade Ghost Venerable was startled inwardly and looked at Ye Yuan in shock.

How was that possible?

A soul force drain of that magnitude would be hard even for an ordinary late-stage Celestial Venerable to bear, let alone Ye Yuan?

How could he know that Ye Yuan's divine soul was already extremely solid?

After the unity of essence, energy, and spirit, his divine soul had become even more formidable, far surpassing those of the same rank.

Earlier, at Ji Zhengyang's grave in the Immortal Forest World, Ye Yuan's thoughts had been unblocked, his mind had reached perfection, and his divine soul had already attained seventh-rank perfection.

A loss of this magnitude was nothing to Ye Yuan.

During the advance, Ye Yuan could absorb more blood fiend energy and convert it into soul force to make up for the deficit.

Facing the seven Heavenly Emperors, Ye Yuan naturally couldn't reveal all his cards.

Thus, he deliberately put on an appearance of depleted soul force.