Chapter 3364
In the previous battle, Ye Liuyun did not bring out the Demon-Sealing Stele because he was worried that it might go straight for the enemy army’s commander. If that happened, the Demon-Sealing Stele might be surrounded and attacked by the demon race’s experts, and he might not even be able to retrieve it.
Afterward, Ye Liuyun led the ten thousand female soldiers away at full speed. With the Azure Wind Wolves using Spatial Force to retreat, the demon race found it even harder to pursue them and could only reorganize its forces for the time being.
In this battle, the demon race lost sixty to seventy thousand soldiers. Against an army of two million, that was not a particularly heavy loss. However, although they had won the battle, they all felt as if they had strength but nowhere to use it.
Ye Liuyun refused to fight them head-on, and they did not know his true strength. They also had to be wary of sneak attacks, so they could only advance cautiously and steadily.
Qisang and the other powerful martial artists were likewise uncertain of Ye Liuyun’s intentions. Qisang had suffered a heavy loss, and his soul power was certainly much weaker than before, yet Ye Liuyun had not attacked and had instead retreated.
Thus, even while the demon army was resting, it remained fully prepared for battle. The Ninth-Level Peak experts among the soldiers patrolled around the camp and the commanders’ quarters without daring to relax for even a moment.
Qisang and the other experts also kept their divine senses trained on the surrounding area at all times. Any slightest disturbance would make them tense.
Seeing their vigilant appearance from afar through his Golden Eyes, Ye Liuyun secretly laughed to himself.
“If this happens a few more times, those hot-tempered demons will probably change their tactics! We must be ready to withdraw at any moment, so we don’t get trapped by them.” Yu Xiaofeng analyzed the situation calmly.
Ye Liuyun agreed with Yu Xiaofeng’s analysis as well. He knew that sooner or later, the demon race would be unable to hold back and would make a move.
“That would be perfect. We can take the opportunity to kill more of them. If they keep fighting so cautiously, I won’t have many chances to act!”
After talking for a while, Ye Liuyun had his clone come out and use his Golden Eyes to observe the enemy’s situation, while he returned to the clone’s spatial world to accelerate the cultivation of his soul power.
After the demon army waited for another two days and saw that Ye Liuyun’s group still showed no signs of movement, it once again set out in pursuit, heading toward the next planet.
Ye Liuyun’s group used the same tactics as before, fighting as they retreated and immediately withdrawing as soon as the enemy began to get serious. He only came out during battle; the rest of the time, he remained in his clone’s spatial world, using accelerated time to fully assimilate the new soul essence.
The two clones also took turns coming out and used the Soul Refining Cauldron to raise their soul power as much as possible.
This time, when Ye Liuyun’s group withdrew, the demon race did not send anyone after them. They wanted to see what he would do, so their casualties were even smaller.
Ye Liuyun’s group, however, had truly withdrawn. They retreated to the next planet, showing no sign that they had made any arrangements.
Although the demon race had no idea what scheme Ye Liuyun was plotting, this method was at least effective. They therefore continued advancing steadily as a whole army, reclaiming the planets they had lost one by one.
They did not stop until they had driven Ye Liuyun onto the final planet.
Because the demon race had been stopping and starting throughout the campaign, Ye Liuyun’s new soul essence had already developed discernible facial features. Given a few more days, he would probably be able to complete its refinement.
At that moment, the demon race finally lost patience and sent two teams of powerful soldiers to launch a sneak attack. Each team consisted of three thousand Ninth-Level Peak soldiers, making them true elite troops.
Although they had acted very discreetly, those two teams of experts could not escape the Golden Eyes of Ye Liuyun’s clone and Yu Xiaofeng. The two of them discovered the teams as soon as they appeared within the army and gathered.
The demon race also knew that, at such a short distance, it could not conceal their movements, so it made no great effort to hide them. The two teams charged straight at Ye Liuyun’s group from two directions, hoping to catch them off guard through sheer speed.
At such close range, those experts used neither flying vessels nor warships, allowing them to arrive even faster.
Ye Liuyun immediately emerged from the spatial world and released the ten thousand female soldiers. Ye Tiandao led one group, while Yue Ying led the other, and they went to meet the demon race’s elite troops in battle.
The demon race was watching Ye Liuyun’s every move. When they saw that he had actually changed his style this time and begun to meet them in battle, they all turned their attention to the fight.
In truth, Ye Liuyun had merely seen that the opportunity was rare and wanted the female soldiers to come out and practice freely. The ten thousand female soldiers had been cultivating at accelerated speed inside the clone’s spatial world and had already spent several years there.
By now, all of their previous weaknesses had been made up for, and their cultivation had risen to the late ninth level of the Unity Realm. With the Azure Wind Wolves beneath them providing assistance, they could use their power of bloodline to fight these Ninth-Level Peak demons. This was just the right chance to truly test the results of their cultivation.
Therefore, Ye Liuyun did not release the Demon-Sealing Stele or the demon beasts this time. He simply let the women fight on their own.
As soon as the two sides clashed, the female soldiers and the Azure Wind Wolves beneath them released their power of bloodline together, suppressing the demon race’s elite troops. They then used the strength they had recently cultivated to begin slaughtering the demons in a one-sided massacre.
Those elite demon soldiers had never expected such a miserable fate. Their cultivation was suppressed to the early ninth level as soon as the battle began, and some of them could barely withstand the Azure Wind Wolves’ attacks, let alone those of the female soldiers.
They were surrounded and slaughtered by the female soldiers from the very beginning, and the battle ended in less than an hour.
The demon army and its experts were too far away to sense the power of bloodline released by the female soldiers. They assumed only that these women were overwhelmingly powerful, since they could kill Ninth-Level Peak experts so effortlessly.
For a time, they therefore did not dare send any more elite troops to launch sneak attacks. However, after nearly half a month of stalemate, the demons had also grown increasingly irritable. Some commanders could no longer resist the urge to lead their troops into battle.
The demon commanders also felt that since sneak attacks by experts and elite troops had both failed, they could only rely on the numerical advantage of their main army to fight this battle.
Thus, he immediately sent out the remaining four hundred thousand troops in the vanguard. He had three armies of one hundred thousand each surround the planet where Ye Liuyun was located, while another army remained behind to provide support to any of the three armies at any time.
After seeing their movements, Ye Liuyun and Yu Xiaofeng immediately made the appropriate arrangements.
They both felt that this was an opportunity to destroy one of the demon race’s armies, and ultimately chose to attack the army on the far left. After finishing the battle, they would withdraw, then take the planet in another direction and occupy it as a base for stationing their troops.
By then, Ye Liuyun’s assimilation of the soul essence should also be nearly complete. Jiang Yuanhai’s army of five hundred thousand should have arrived as well. They would then be able to launch a counterattack and wipe out the demon race’s two-million-strong army.
Ye Liuyun first collected Yu Xiaofeng and the Black-armored soldiers inside the warship into the spatial world, leaving only an empty warship behind. He had Qiong Qi and the other formation masters set up layer upon layer of formations on it, waiting for the demon race to send out its troops.
Only after the three demon armies responsible for the attack drew near did Ye Liuyun use Spatial Force to leave the flying vessel and fly toward the army on the left.
He first arrived at the rear of that army and released the female soldiers. He then went to its right flank and released thirty thousand of the strongest soldiers from the demon legion, along with their firepower battle chariots. He did not release the entire demon legion to take part in the battle.