Chapter 3366
Ye Liuyun quickly dragged Qi Sang’s soul origin into his sea of consciousness, and the divine souls of the other powerful demons charged into his sea of consciousness as well. Together with Qi Sang’s soul origin, they were all enveloped by the golden light of the Myriad Gods Token, becoming nourishment for Ye Liuyun’s divine soul.
At this point, the one divine soul Qi Sang had left also panicked. It emerged from the sea of consciousness and charged toward Ye Liuyun’s.
Although it couldn’t understand why none of the many divine souls that had entered Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness had come back out, it no longer had the time to worry about that.
The power of this remaining divine soul was far inferior to that of its soul origin. Without its soul origin, it was a weakling who would have difficulty surviving even among the demon race. So even if it had to risk its life, it had to recover its soul origin.
“Heh heh, since you’re so determined to come here and die, I’ll grant your wish!”
Ye Liuyun merely smiled and made no attempt to stop it. Only after Qi Sang’s divine soul charged into his sea of consciousness did he swing the Demon-Slaying Saber again and begin killing demon soldiers, as though nothing had happened.
Beside the commander of the demon army, Qi Sang’s physical body also collapsed with a thud, lifeless. Several powerful demons around him had released one of their primary battle souls earlier, and many of them had now suffered backlash, blood trickling from the corners of their mouths.
They had never expected that so many powerful experts would still fail to save Qi Sang.
“These humans are this strong? They must have a treasure in their sea of consciousness that can defend against divine souls!”
The commander of the demon army had not expected Qi Sang to ambush someone and not only get himself killed, but also implicate more than twenty powerful experts around him.
However, because the battlefield had been so chaotic at the time, none of them had seen where the three soul origins that attacked Qi Sang had come from. They had only seen them enter Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness and never emerge again, so they assumed that Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness devoured friend and foe alike.
While continuing to slaughter demons alongside his demonic beasts, Ye Liuyun communicated with Yu Xiaofeng through their divine-soul contract and told him that Qi Sang had been killed, wanting to see whether they had a chance to expand their gains.
Yu Xiaofeng assessed the situation. The hundred-thousand-strong demon army that had been surrounded earlier had already been reduced to less than half its original number.
The hundred thousand demon reinforcements had also been completely stopped. At present, they were preparing to circle around from both sides and surround the Black-armored Soldiers.
“We should be able to take down those hundred thousand reinforcements as well,” Yu Xiaofeng confirmed to Ye Liuyun.
“All right, then let the demon army out.” Ye Liuyun immediately ordered Heishan to assemble the troops and release the demon legion, which surrounded the demon soldiers who had been trapped earlier.
At the same time, he withdrew the female soldiers and puppet soldiers, sending them to block the reinforcements circling around from both wings and drive them back.
The hundred-thousand-strong demon army that had been surrounded earlier had already been stunned by the attacks from all four sides. When they suddenly saw the demon legion surround them—and noticed that quite a few of them were giant demons and ancient demons—they knew they stood no chance and surrendered at once.
In the hearts of the demon soldiers, surrendering to the demon race was nothing to be ashamed of. But they would rather die in battle than surrender like human martial cultivators.
Heishan quickly rounded up the surrendered soldiers, first collecting them all into his spatial world. He then led the demon legion toward the hundred thousand demon reinforcements and attacked.
The commander of these hundred thousand reinforcements had already been killed by the Demon-Sealing Stele, and by now they had no unified command. There had originally been two commanders on the two wings, but once the puppets and female soldiers charged in, they quickly killed those two commanders as well.
The demons that remained were a scattered rabble. The demon soldiers on both wings were soon driven back, after which Ye Liuyun and the others attacked them from three sides.
When the demon legion charged in again, Ye Liuyun had the Black-armored Soldiers, female soldiers, and puppets withdraw, leaving the demon legion to deal with them.
The ancient demons also unleashed their might in close combat. Against demon soldiers of the same realm, three of them still couldn’t defeat a single ancient demon.
Ye Liuyun and his demonic beasts continued killing the high-realm demon soldiers among the demon army, easing the pressure on the demon legion.
Later, Ye Liuyun and his demonic beasts began using Soul-Sealing Pearls to capture the divine souls of high-realm demon soldiers, stockpiling resources for divine-soul cultivation.
Ye Liuyun also released the power of his divine soul and played the Prelude of the Nine Netherworlds. As a result, the demon army ceased resisting and surrendered to Ye Liuyun’s demon legion as well.
At this moment, the other two demon armies also reached the warships. But after blasting the warships to pieces, they failed to find a single soldier.
By then, each of those two armies had lost nearly thirty percent of its combat strength.
The grand commander of the demons thought it over and ultimately decided to abandon the vanguard and let them wear Ye Liuyun down first. He therefore ordered the two demon armies to charge toward Ye Liuyun and the others.
Ye Liuyun discussed it with Yu Xiaofeng, and they decided that they could fight another battle while retreating.
Ye Liuyun therefore once again mobilized the Death Legion’s firepower battle wagons to establish a defensive line, while having the puppets provide support with powerful crossbows.
The demon army was all taken into the first clone’s spatial world to reorganize and recover. The female soldiers were also taken into the second clone’s spatial world. They had fought too fiercely earlier, and if they continued, they risked exhausting their true essence.
This time, the Black-armored elites were ready for battle.
Each of the two demon armies had sixty or seventy thousand soldiers left. Breaking through the Death Legion’s firepower battle-wagon defenses would be impossible without sacrificing tens of thousands of soldiers as fodder.
As soon as the two sides engaged, Ye Liuyun directly led the Black-armored Soldiers and his demonic beasts into the enemy ranks.
As before, the Demon-Sealing Stele first smashed toward the army commander. However, after absorbing so much energy, it no longer needed Ye Liuyun’s assistance. It could drain a powerful expert’s energy on its own, and its might grew stronger with every strike.
Everywhere Ye Liuyun and the Black-armored elites passed, the ground was left covered with demon corpses. The area between the demon army and the Death Legion’s firepower battle wagons was likewise littered with shattered bodies.
The grand commander of the demons finally witnessed the strength of these Black-armored elites. He immediately recalled the three hundred thousand soldiers he had sent out afterward.
By the time those three hundred thousand soldiers reached the battlefield, the fighting on Ye Liuyun’s side would certainly already be over. If they were then attacked with full force, those reinforcements would merely be throwing their lives away as well.
The grand commander could now see that eliminating the forces in Ye Liuyun’s hands would require at least an army of eight hundred thousand to encircle them, with six hundred thousand of those soldiers joining the battle, in order to completely seal off and annihilate Ye Liuyun and the others.
So after testing the strength of the soldiers around Ye Liuyun this time, the grand commander no longer needed to send more men to their deaths. They could simply launch an all-out attack next time.
After Ye Liuyun led the Black-armored Soldiers on a rampage through the demon army, he released the demon legion, which had finished reorganizing, and had it attack the demon army in the middle from both sides.
Energy cannons on both sides bombarded them in a concentrated barrage, shrinking the encirclement tighter and tighter. In the end, all the remaining demon soldiers surrendered to the demon legion.
Heishan and the other commanders of the demon legion were all grinning from ear to ear. In this battle, they had gained at least a hundred thousand surrendered demon soldiers, along with a large amount of food and cultivation resources.