Chapter 3372
The battle in the starry sky was still raging. The soldiers of the Death Legion had already begun taking turns heading out to hone their skills.
But the scattered demons on the other side seemed impossible to kill, surging over in an endless stream.
When Yu Xiaofeng withdrew to rest, he took the opportunity to suggest to Ye Liuyun that they release a planet to serve as a temporary base. That way, the soldiers would have a camp where they could safely rest and recover after fighting.
“That works! There are so many demons here, so we might as well use this place to train our troops!”
Ye Liuyun agreed at once and released a planet he had only recently taken in. He also released the female soldiers and the demon legion, leaving them to arrange their own rotations for battle and training. Once they grew tired from fighting, they could return to rest.
Gradually, some demons also landed on the planet and turned it into a battlefield. Demons were naturally fond of fighting, and now that they had a chance to spar with these soldiers, they were extremely enthusiastic, calling their friends and companions over.
The soldiers were also happy to have sparring partners, so both sides began treating the temporary planet as a training ground. The demons even established a base opposite them, where they could rest after battle.
By tacit agreement, neither side launched any large-scale attacks.
Ye Liuyun felt that this arrangement was quite good. They could train their troops while the soldiers acquired resources. If they could keep wearing down these demons, he would not necessarily have to go to the Sacred Demon Galaxy.
After that, he had his two clones take turns remaining in the central command tent to monitor the battlefield. He himself entered the spatial world within one of his clones to accelerate the refinement of his divine soul power.
He no longer needed to personally lead the demonic beasts and women into battle. Their divine soul power was already quite strong, and by gathering together, they could coordinate with one another.
The clone’s divine soul and Golden Eyes were now both powerful enough to monitor everything outside from within the command tent. If a powerful demon approached, Ye Liuyun would still have time to go out.
The demonic beasts and women continued using Soul-Sealing Pearls to capture the demons’ divine souls and use them as cultivation resources. Ye Liuyun first refined all eight soul essences he had stored, then lent them the Soul Refining Cauldron for them to use in turns.
The four soul essences newly condensed by the Soul Refining Cauldron were slowly refined by Ye Liuyun’s two divine souls and his clone’s two primary soul essences. Any soul essences obtained from subsequent battles were given to the clone’s two secondary divine souls to refine.
Ye Liuyun’s two soul essences were likewise divided into one that was slightly stronger and one that was slightly weaker. The stronger one was still refining the divine soul power it had absorbed earlier, so he could only temporarily store this new soul essence.
However, he discovered that as his divine soul grew stronger, the speed at which he refined soul essences also increased. He had originally estimated that he would have to wait until reaching the Sacred Demon Galaxy to finish refining the soul essences he had absorbed earlier. Now, judging by the passage of time outside, he would be able to complete the refinement after another four or five days.
Ye Liuyun could not even imagine how powerful his divine soul would become after completing this refinement.
Ever since obtaining the Soul Refining Cauldron, his divine soul had not only condensed soul essences but had also grown several times stronger. He estimated that even after reaching the Void World, his divine soul power should be enough to serve as one of his trump cards for saving his life.
Even the Book Demon could not refute this. Once Ye Liuyun finished refining all these soul essences, his divine soul power would surpass the Book Demon’s.
𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
Although he could not be considered a powerhouse in the Void World, this level of divine soul power should be more than sufficient when Ye Liuyun first arrived there, as long as he did not provoke any powerhouses.
While refining his divine soul, Ye Liuyun also exchanged quite a few bloodline cultivation resources with Yue Tianyang of the Bloodflame Galaxy and gave them to the soldiers of the Death Legion, allowing them to improve in every aspect.
The demonic beasts and women by his side had Yue Hong helping them absorb the power of bloodline within the source energy, so their strength in that regard was already quite formidable.
As for divine soul power, one Soul Refining Cauldron could not serve so many soldiers, so it could only be used by some of the commanders first.
The reason he was doing his best to improve the Death Legion was that he sensed his divine essence was about to break through. When he had broken through his realm last time, he had used the source energy of the Void World, so the quality of his divine essence was already extremely high.
Although he had deliberately kept it under control, he had spent far too long cultivating at an accelerated pace in the spatial world within his clone. Even without deliberately cultivating his divine essence, its quality would continue to improve slowly.
Therefore, after finishing his divine soul cultivation, he no longer dared to cultivate his divine essence. Instead, he first further improved his bloodline and physical body, then went out to hone his skills, continuing to strengthen his power over heaven and earth, blade intent, and Spatial Force. He also frequently used temporal power to help the demonic beasts and women capture the demons’ divine souls.
Once the demonic beasts and women had enough divine soul power to cultivate with, he lent the Soul Refining Cauldron to Yu Xiaofeng so that he could use it to reward some of the Death Legion’s elites. Although the Soul Refining Cauldron could not be used by everyone, some of the elites still benefited from it.
However, after the Death Legion had been stationed on the temporary planet for a month, it had suffered nearly ten thousand more casualties.
Ye Liuyun felt that they had trained enough, so he recalled them all into the spatial world of his second clone and sent them back to cultivate. He then had Xiao Heng’s and Li Zhaoyuan’s soldiers go out to hone their skills.
Among these two armies, there were still soldiers whose realms had not yet reached the ninth level of the Return-to-One Realm, and they also needed tempering and improvement.
The demon legion under Black Mountain, however, had suffered severe losses. Of the two hundred thousand soldiers intended to serve as cannon fodder, fifty or sixty thousand had already died. But Black Mountain had captured more than ten thousand demons of relatively high cultivation to replenish the army, so he had not really suffered a loss.
Each time, the lower-level soldiers would swarm forward to exhaust the true essence of the powerhouses or injure them, after which they would capture and bring them back.
Whenever some powerhouses were captured, they were used to replace some of the two hundred thousand elite demon soldiers. The slightly weaker soldiers replaced in this way were all transferred to the two-hundred-thousand-strong cannon-fodder legion.
After another month, the demon legion had been reduced to three hundred thousand soldiers. Xiao Heng’s and Li Zhaoyuan’s armies had each lost twenty thousand of their weaker soldiers as well.
“It’s about time! We should let those demons see the might of our army!” Yu Xiaofeng reminded Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun knew that they could not keep fighting here forever, so he directly ordered the demon legion to wipe out the demons on the temporary planet and collect the remaining resources one last time.
Xiao Heng’s and Li Zhaoyuan’s armies were responsible for sealing off the planet and intercepting any demons attempting to escape.
Jiang Yuanhai’s army, meanwhile, advanced slowly toward the Sacred Demon Galaxy, killing any demons they encountered along the way.
The demons on the temporary planet had been thoroughly enjoying their battles. When they saw that Ye Liuyun’s forces had suddenly stopped sending soldiers out to fight, the entire army began to mobilize.
They had grown accustomed to fighting and felt that these soldiers’ realms and strength were nothing special. Thus, when they saw Ye Liuyun’s army preparing to attack, they also gathered together, ready to face it in battle.
But as soon as they clashed, they realized that no matter how strong an individual’s power was, it was still completely inadequate against the army’s battle formations and the soldiers’ coordination.