Chapter 3396

Only then did the Marrow Washing Pill begin refining his divine essence. His divine essence was already exceptionally high quality, and with the combined effects of the Void Fruit and the Marrow Washing Pill, its quality was soon elevated by a substantial degree. His cultivation realm also began to break through.

Ye Liuyun also took out the source power of the Void World that he had accumulated earlier and absorbed it, making the entire breakthrough process proceed smoothly.

During the breakthrough, he once again felt a significant increase in his power over heaven and earth—and this increase was by no means slight. It was as if the channels that had been blocked all this time had suddenly opened, and the power of heaven and earth was now surging into his body.

The moment Ye Liuyun made even the slightest use of the power of heaven and earth, everything around the cultivation chamber he was in was blasted by that immense force and collapsed.

At that moment, the heavens and earth of the Immortal Realm also sensed his breakthrough. Dark clouds began gathering in the sky, preparing for the thunder tribulation.

The world’s lightning spirit was quite excited when it saw that it was Ye Liuyun, thinking that it finally had a chance to give him a vicious strike. But when it sensed the aura of two clones breaking through as well, it was stunned on the spot.

“Three people? This fellow has two clones, and they’re both this strong?”

By then, Ye Liuyun had also completed his breakthrough and was absorbing source power to stabilize his realm.

He had already sensed the lightning source gathering in the sky, but he was not worried in the slightest. In fact, he even wanted to take the opportunity to seize some more lightning source and refine it.

Thus, he and his two clones did not separate. Instead, they prepared to undergo the tribulation together and receive the baptism of the thunder tribulation liquid together.

However, after waiting for quite a while without seeing the thunder tribulation strike, he looked up at the sky curiously.

The thunder tribulation in the sky was also extremely frustrated, at a loss as to what to do in this situation.

This was the first time it had ever encountered a true body and two clones undergoing tribulation together. Usually, only the true body underwent the tribulation, while the clones were simply brought along.

Moreover, Ye Liuyun was already extremely powerful by himself. With two additional clones, the lightning spirit felt that it might not be able to strike him down at all.

So after being stunned for a while, it saw that Ye Liuyun had no intention of putting away his clones and proactively sent him a reminder through divine sense, telling him to withdraw them.

“What? The clones aren’t allowed to undergo the tribulation?” After receiving the lightning spirit’s reminder through divine sense, Ye Liuyun frowned as well.

Then he and his clones shot into the sky together, plunged into the clouds, and each tore down several strands of lightning source.

“What are you doing? This isn’t a rule I made up! How can there be three of you in one world?” the lightning spirit roared at Ye Liuyun in displeasure.

But it was communicating through divine sense, so to everyone else, it sounded like a booming crash of thunder.

“No one told me about this rule before, and I didn’t know about it either. What are we supposed to do now? Can’t you make an exception? After all, my clones have also met the requirements for a breakthrough.” Ye Liuyun began negotiating with the lightning spirit.

The lightning spirit naturally refused. It insisted that only one person could undergo the thunder tribulation; otherwise, it would not allow Ye Liuyun to break through into the Void World.

At that moment, the Book Demon offered Ye Liuyun some advice: “I think having too many clones is useless anyway. Why not withdraw one clone first and strengthen your overall abilities?

Keeping just one clone is enough. Having too many really is useless—instead, they’ll only divide your cultivation energy and resources.”

“But even if I withdraw a clone, I’ll still need time!” Ye Liuyun was also somewhat speechless. He couldn’t exactly merge with his clone in front of a crowd and make the thunder tribulation wait for him there.

“Just discuss it with the lightning spirit,” the Book Demon said indifferently.

So Ye Liuyun negotiated with the lightning spirit again: “Since you insist, I can agree, but you have to give me some time. I had no idea you had such a rule, so I need to go back and make some preparations.”

The lightning spirit thought it over and actually agreed.

What Ye Liuyun did not know was that if the lightning spirit refused to let him break through to the Void realm, then in theory, every time he used the power of the Void realm in the future, the lightning spirit would have to come and strike him.

However, the lightning spirit estimated that being able to strike him once would already be pretty good. If it struck him several more times, all of Ye Liuyun’s lightning spirits would become stronger than it, and it would still be unable to do anything to Ye Liuyun. That was why it agreed only after careful consideration.

Ye Liuyun thought the lightning spirit was simply showing special consideration to someone about to break through to the Void World. Otherwise, he would certainly have taken the opportunity to fleece more lightning source from it.

The lightning spirit immediately withdrew, arranging with Ye Liuyun to return a month later.

Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, immediately changed locations within the City Lord’s Manor and resumed cultivating.

Everyone waiting for Ye Liuyun to break through was utterly baffled. They had all sensed the change in his aura and witnessed the thunder tribulation beginning to form, but none of them knew what Ye Liuyun had communicated to the lightning spirit.

Ye Liuyun did not explain anything to them. He only said that his breakthrough had been postponed, then immediately went off to cultivate. As for the lightning source he had just seized, he gave it all to Lei Ming.

Everyone wore similarly bewildered expressions, unable to understand what it meant for a breakthrough to be postponed. Moreover, Ye Liuyun had actually reached into the thunder tribulation and seized several strands of lightning source, a feat that left them utterly astonished.

“Could it be that breaking through to the Void realm can be negotiated?” someone speculated wildly, but no one had an answer.

Before cultivating this time, Ye Liuyun first studied the matter with his clones. Only then did he enter the first clone’s spatial world together with the second clone. The second clone then moved all the planets in his spatial world into the first clone’s spatial world, allowing Ye Liuyun to merge with the second clone.

Merging their souls was the simplest part. Their souls could already be exchanged between them, and one soul could even be assigned to the first clone.

Merging their bloodlines required Yue Hong’s help. She had to transfer as much of the second clone’s power of bloodline as possible into Ye Liuyun. Since Ye Liuyun would still need to merge their physical bodies and divine essences afterward, insufficient power of bloodline would also affect the merging of their bodies, core pills, and divine essences.

Of course, Ye Liuyun could complete the merger gradually on his own, but the lightning spirit had given him only one month. Even with accelerated time in the clone’s spatial world, three hundred days would not be enough.

The clone was now a peak ninth-level Unified Realm expert. The power it had accumulated over so many years could not all be transferred at once. With Yue Hong’s help, however, the time would be just about sufficient.

Yue Hong had been with Ye Liuyun for a long time now, and with Ye Ling guiding her all this time, she was no longer as haughty and spoiled as before. Knowing how important this was to Ye Liuyun, she readily agreed and immediately began working with him to merge the clone.

Ye Liuyun only needed to focus most of his energy on merging their physical bodies, core pills, and divine essences. He was quite familiar with this process. Just like refining a dragon’s body, he only needed to absorb it bit by bit.

Ye Liuyun and his clone had both just used the Marrow Washing Pill to refine their physical bodies, so there was already considerable room for improvement. Since they shared the same origin, refining the physical body was faster than refining a dragon’s body. However, he also had to proceed in sync with Yue Hong’s merging of their power of bloodline.