After confirming this, Lu Ye's heart calmed down.
He turned to look at the bound cultivators and silently raised his hand, flashing the light of the battlefield imprint on his back.
The four people's expressions changed. One of them forced a smile and said, "Fellow Daoist, we are also from the Grand Heaven Alliance. Please save us."
What answered him was a ray of light from a flying tool. That ray of light pierced through the man's head and flew out. It swept towards the others and killed them one by one.
One of them shouted angrily before he died, "You will die a horrible death."
Lu Ye didn't know if he would die a horrible death in the future. In any case, the person who shouted like that was already dead.
If these people were really from the Grand Heaven Alliance, they would definitely show their battlefield imprints. Since they didn't show it, it could be confirmed that they were from the Myriad Devil Ridge. Naturally, there was no need to be polite.
The four Immortal Essence Guardians were still standing at the side, as if they didn't see anything.
Lu Ye instructed Hu Po. Hu Po rushed out and came to the side of an Immortal Essence Guardian. Hu Po opened his mouth and sucked him in. That Immortal Essence Guardian instinctively struggled, but it didn't have much effect and was quickly swallowed by Hu Po.
Lu Ye did the same thing to the remaining three and turned them into Nightmare Spirits.
After releasing the transformed Nightmare Spirits, Lu Ye found that their strength didn't change much. It was about the same as before. It seemed that Liu Sanbao and the team leader's strength had dropped a lot. It might be because they were cut by him, or the Nightmare Spirits transformed by Hu Po couldn't exceed a limit.
After all, Hu Po's strength wasn't high.
As for which reason it was, it still needed to be verified. However, even if it was the first reason, Lu Ye didn't have a good solution. If he didn't cut them a few times, it would be difficult for Hu Po to swallow them. This was an unsolvable situation.
Now that he got five Nightmare Spirits, including Liu Sanbao, Lu Ye had a total of six Nightmare Spirits under him.
No one had ever done this in the Immortal Essence City. Over the years, the cultivators who entered the Immortal Essence City fought with the Immortal Essence Guardians and the enemy cultivators. Every time they fought, their brains were almost beaten to a pulp, but they didn't gain much.
This was because the Immortal Essence City itself didn't give many benefits to cultivators. The biggest benefit was a place called the Soul Cleansing Pool. That place could temper a cultivator's divine soul. The divine soul was something that couldn't be seen clearly and couldn't be touched. Spirit Stream Realm cultivators were temporarily unable to come into contact with it.
However, once a cultivator broke through the True Energy Realm and reached the Spirit Sea Realm, they would have Spiritual Will. The source of Spiritual Will was the cultivator's Spiritual Soul.
Therefore, if they could take some of the water from the Soul-Cleansing Pond out, it would be extremely attractive to any warrior of the Spirit Sea Realm.
There was once a cultivator who coincidentally brought a few drops out and offered them to the elders of the sect. They were rewarded with many treasures.
However, it was said that the Soul-Cleansing Pool was the core of the Immortal Essence Defenders, so that place was heavily guarded by the Immortal Essence Defenders. A group of Spirit Stream Stage cultivators couldn't possibly break into the Soul-Cleansing Pool.
Lu Ye didn't have any ideas about the Soul-Cleansing Pool. That wasn't realistic. What he wanted to do now was very simple. He wanted Hu Po to transform as many Nightmare Spirits as possible. This way, no matter what dangers he would face later, he would have a way to deal with them. If he could transform an army of Nightmare Spirits, then even if he faced the hundred or so cultivators of the Wind Flower Courtyard, Lu Ye wouldn't be afraid.
He already had six Nightmare Spirits under his command. In addition, he also had Yiyi's strength, so he didn't have to be so careful anymore.
He swaggered along the street with Hu Po, occasionally searching the buildings on both sides of the street to see if he could find anything good.
The result was to his great disappointment. There were many buildings on both sides of the street, but he couldn't find anything useful in them.
Lu Ye gave up on this idea. The Immortal Essence City was indeed not suitable for him to come and fish for benefits. The Boundless Mirage Realm was connected to this kind of place. It was really a bit of a scam.
After an incense stick's worth of time, he encountered a patrol team of Immortal Essence Defenders. There weren't many of them, only six of them.
When they saw each other, the captain immediately pointed in Lu Ye's direction and shouted angrily, "Take him down!"
A few Immortal Essence Defenders immediately rushed over.
To the captain's great surprise, not only did Lu Ye not run, but he also rushed over to meet him. As he rushed over, Nightmare Spirits appeared from within Hu Po's body to meet the Immortal Essence Defenders.
In a split second, they were locked in a fierce battle.
The captain on the other side was clearly startled, and his expression became even more furious. "Impudent!"
When he finished speaking, Lu Ye had already crossed the battlefield of the Immortal Essence Defenders and rushed in front of him. Hu Po, who was crouching on his shoulder, let out a tiger's roar at the captain. The suppressive force caused him to pause, and by the time he came back to his senses, a Spirit Binding Shackle had already bound him. It was the captain of the Immortal Essence Defenders under Hu Po's command who had attacked him.
Caught off guard, the captain was tied up tightly. Hu Po had already rushed in front of him, opening its mouth and sucking fiercely.
Beside Hu Po, Lu Ye's hand was on the hilt of his saber, ready to attack.
In the end, Lu Ye didn't have the chance to attack. After being bound by the Spirit Binding Shackle, the captain's resistance weakened a lot, and Hu Po swallowed him up with a little effort.
The other Immortal Essence Defenders were still fighting with their own Immortal Essence Defenders. Obviously, they were following their captain's previous orders.
After Hu Po turned the captain into a Nightmare Spirit and released him, the captain shouted in a low voice, "Everyone, stop."
The two sides immediately stopped fighting.
What happened next was simple. Hu Po stepped forward and swallowed them all, one by one.
The Nightmare Spirit team expanded to twelve people, including two captains, nine ordinary Immortal Essence Defenders, and Liu Sanbao.
Hu Po still hadn't reached his limit.
Lu Ye continued to lead him on his search.
Immortal Essence City was very big, but there were also many Immortal Essence Defenders. They patrolled in small teams, so it was easy to find them.
Along the way, they would occasionally encounter some cultivators in groups. If they were from Grand Heaven Alliance, they would naturally live in peace, but if they encountered Myriad Demon Ridge, a great battle would be inevitable.
When those Myriad Demon Ridge teams saw Lu Ye, an Eighth Order cultivator, alone, how could they be polite to him? But when they really rushed up, they were shocked to find that they weren't facing a single person, but a team of Immortal Essence Defenders!
Spirit Binding Shackles shot out one after another, binding those Myriad Demon Ridge cultivators before they could even get close to Lu Ye. Then, Lu Ye would step forward and kill them one by one.
He had taken a liking to this Immortal Essence City. This kind of ominous place was very unfriendly to other cultivators. There wasn't much profit to be made, and danger was everywhere. However, to Lu Ye, this place was simply a holy land. Hu Po's innate ability to transform into a Nightmare Spirit played a great role in this kind of place.
The number of Nightmare Spirit teams kept increasing, until Hu Po reached his limit after two hours.
Apart from Yi Yi, he could only transform thirty-one Nightmare Spirits. Including Yi Yi, he could transform thirty-two Nightmare Spirits.
This completely destroyed Lu Ye's plan of creating an army of Nightmare Spirits, but this number was still a lot, enough to deal with most of the dangers in the city.
After repeated attempts, Lu Ye finally determined that the Nightmare Spirits transformed by Hu Po were at most Ninth Order in strength. This was related to Hu Po's own strength.
Moreover, the more Nightmare Spirits there were, the greater the burden on Hu Po. Usually, it wouldn't be obvious, but if the Nightmare Spirits returned after a big battle, Hu Po would become dispirited in a short time.
Because the Nightmare Spirits' strength came from him, it would consume his strength when he recovered.
Yi Yi used to be like this. When she was injured or consumed her strength, she had to hide in Hu Po's body to recover.
Now that she was free of this constraint, she could cultivate alone and enjoy the joy of slowly becoming stronger. In addition, Hu Po could also become stronger by swallowing Spirit Pills, which was double the joy.
This was also the reason why Hu Po and Yi Yi's strength could increase so quickly. No matter who became stronger, they would improve at the same time.
Nightmare Spirits couldn't. Whether it was Liu Sanbao or the team leaders, after being transformed by Hu Po, they lost their own sentience and could only follow Hu Po's orders. When their strength was consumed, they still needed Hu Po to provide them with strength to recover.
Therefore, it wasn't necessarily a bad thing that there was a limit to Hu Po's Nightmare Spirits transformation. If there were too many of them, he wouldn't be able to withstand it.
Now that Lu Ye encountered Immortal Essence Guards, he would avoid them as much as possible and try not to clash with them. After all, there was no benefit to fighting with them and it would only be a waste of strength.
On a street, Lu Ye's eyes were lowered as he strolled forward. Since just now, he had a vague feeling that he was being watched, as if someone was secretly watching him.
The one watching him should be a Ghost Cultivator. Only a Ghost Cultivator would have the ability to appear and disappear unpredictably.
Although he was sure that he was being watched, Lu Ye didn't panic at all because he wasn't alone. If the enemy hiding in the dark dared to jump out, he would show them the strength of the Nightmare Spirit Squad.
With so many Nightmare Spirits under his command, Lu Ye didn't even need to do anything to kill the enemy. He just needed to wait for the Nightmare Spirits to bind the enemy, then he would go over and kill them.
The difficult thing now was that he couldn't catch the enemy's trace. If they were outside, he could ask Yiyi to move out and search for the enemy's trace. However, he couldn't do it here. Yiyi had tried before. In this Immortal Essence City, even if she was a Spirit Body, she couldn't escape underground. There seemed to be a layer of restriction underground.
Not only was there underground, but there were also restrictions in the air. In Immortal Essence City, the limit of flying was 100 feet. You couldn't fly any higher. This was also the reason why no cultivator dared to fly in the air. 100 feet was too short.
After a while, Lu Ye suddenly stopped and looked forward.
In his field of vision, a group of people came into view. The leader was a tall woman wearing a short shirt that revealed her slender waist. When he saw this woman, Lu Ye's eyes narrowed slightly. He suddenly realized that the enemy who was watching him in the dark wasn't a coincidence. They were here specifically to find him!
This was because he had glanced at this woman from afar in the valley. She was from the Wind Flower Courtyard.
Had he been recognized? So she was here to take revenge?
Thinking about it, thousands of people on the top of the golden light had seen his appearance, so it wasn't strange for him to be recognized.
Suddenly, waves of spiritual power surged in all directions, and there was the sound of clothes fluttering. Lu Ye turned his head and looked around. He saw that the surrounding roofs were full of cultivators, and they were all looking at him with unfriendly expressions.
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