After Ye Liuyun returned to the Ferrybridge Galaxy, he found himself floating in the starry void and realized that the two demon legions must have already hauled the planet away.

He swept the surrounding planets with his golden pupils, located the demon legions, and immediately set off to rejoin them. Once back, he never showed his face; instead, he stayed inside the spatial world of his avatar and cultivated.

His soul power now far surpassed every other aspect of his strength. As soon as he returned, he refined all the golden serpents he had collected to boost his physical body. The two avatars first refined the flame and lightning powers they had harvested.

The demonic beasts and the women focused on condensing their souls. They consumed every soul-condensing pill the Void Core Sect had refined,pushing their soul power to the limit and frequently entering the soul secret realm to compress their souls.

Yet their original soul power was far weaker than Ye Liuyun’s, so the soul force they could absorb was naturally less. Even a single dragon soul was almost too much for them.

The beasts managed better; the women struggled far more. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Next, the beasts sorted the captured ferocious beasts, pulling out every resource that could be useful.

The extra pair of crimson pupils no woman wanted—red eyes were too frightening—so they were given to the Demonic Lion, granting it illusion-casting power.

All other elemental resources were refined at once. The flood-dragon corpses Ye Liuyun had gathered were divided among the demonic beasts.

Lei Ming had more resources than she could use. Beyond the beasts’ share, she still hadn’t found time to absorb the slain dragon bodies.

Long Nu had already begun refining the true dragons. The Nine-Headed Demonic Dragon, like Lei Ming, planned to absorb various elemental powers first, then the flood-dragons and true dragons.

Chi Lian had absorbed enough power of bloodline in the later battles to break through early to Unity Sixth Tier; she was now refining beast cores to consolidate her realm.

The women also benefited, receiving some special-attribute resources. While cultivating soul power, they refined these energies. Ye Liuyun told them to keep training, to refine every resource they had collected, and to emerge only after absorbing a dragon soul and breaking through.

He sent every beast and every woman a dragon corpse to refine themselves. Resources they couldn’t use they could trade away; unusable dragon scales were saved for armor.

Right now everyone had more cultivation resources than they needed. Ye Liuyun didn’t force them to finish everything at once; he let them set their own pace.

Ye Liuyun and his avatars each took a dragon corpse and began refining.

Dragon scales went to the War God Armor to raise its defense; the blood within the corpses was refined into their bloodlines. Horns, bones, and tendons were fused into their own bones and tendons. Even the dragon meat wasn’t stored—its draconic aura and energy were absorbed directly into their bodies. The vital essence in the cores was converted to divine essence to raise their realms.

When he finished refining one entire dragon corpse, his bloodline, physique, and divine essence all surged. He and his avatars then absorbed the remaining galaxy source, pushing their realm to mid-Unity Fifth Tier.

He didn’t rush out. Instead, he extracted all the dragon blood from every corpse, focusing solely on doubling the power of bloodline of himself and his avatars. It took only a hundred-plus dragon corpses.

Because the blood had been stored too long, its potency had faded, yet Ye Liuyun was still satisfied. Resources able to double one’s bloodline strength were rare.

He then took blood-condensing pills to compress his bloodline further. He and the two avatars refined another dragon corpse, raising bloodline and physique once more and stabilizing their realms before preparing to move out.

The beasts and women had long since reached their limits. They had obtained far too many resources; plenty of top-grade materials still remained.

Among the women, only Ye Tiandao—whose previous breakthrough had been too rapid—did not advance this time. Everyone else broke through.

Genv and Little Lan’er reached Unity Fourth Tier. Xiao Yunfang, Meng Qingyin, and Li Xinran rose to Unity Third Tier. The rest reached Unity Second Tier.

Li Xinran, however, wasn’t Ye Liuyun’s woman and had followed him for only a short time, so she received neither dragon soul nor dragon corpse. She was treated the same as Tang Xinyao’s group: lacking only those rarest resources, she had every other cultivation material she needed.

Even so, Li Xinran and Tang Xinyao’s group were more than content. Tang Xinyao and the others had broken through to Unity Fifth Tier; Li Xinran had already surpassed her father Li Daoyuan by one full tier.

After the alien war ended, Ye Liuyun released Li Daoyuan, but Li Xinran insisted on staying with Ye Liuyun—she believed she would progress faster at his side.

And so it proved: even without special favor, her cultivation advanced more quickly and she obtained more resources than before.

The moment Ye Liuyun emerged, everyone petitioned for battle. He led them in nonstop fighting for days until every Storage Essence Stone was exhausted, then returned to rest.

This time the Devil Vine feasted; in those few days they stormed more than ten cities without pause.

Every time they stormed a city, Ye Liuyun—or one of his clones—would slice open the defensive array and the city gate with a single, effortless swing, and even then he had to hold back for fear of cleaving the entire planet in two.

The planets here, however, were far sturdier than the ones before. As long as no one deliberately tried to obliterate the whole world, its core essence could endure.

Most likely the local martial cultivators fought so often that the planetary essence stayed on constant alert, so its usual vigilance was higher.

Once the gate fell, the others charged in and slaughtered at full force, wiping out nearly every powerful bandit in moments. The stragglers were left for the women to practice on.

The women’s cultivation levels weren’t high yet, but each could fight two full realms above her own. The demonic beasts were even more monstrous—three realms above was no problem.

Ye Liuyun himself was on another level: in terms of soul force he was already invincible within the Unity realm. A mere release of his bloodline pressure could cut most Unity Eighth-Step cultivators’ strength in half.

He had tested it on the two devil flood dragons: relying only on power of bloodline, he could suppress them down to the initial stage of Unity Ninth-Step.