Chapter 3384
Although the Dragon Girl’s armor and gloves had been battered beyond repair, she herself had not suffered any significant injuries.
Ye Liuyun’s arm also recovered quickly. Only the Megalithic Ape’s injuries healed more slowly; a few fine cracks still remained across its petrified body.
“Looks like we still need to keep strengthening our physical bodies!”
It was only after comparing himself with them that Ye Liuyun realized how far behind he was.
These demons had not even reached the Void realm, yet their physical bodies were already this powerful. It was clear that once he reached the Void World, he would no longer be among the very strongest.
This battle had also stirred the other demonic beasts. They had originally thought themselves strong enough, but now they saw that there were still quite a few beings stronger than them.
At the very least, these demonic powerhouses possessed divine souls and physical bodies far stronger than theirs. Their control over the power of heaven and earth and Spatial Force was also superior.
After briefly cleaning up the battlefield, everyone immediately withdrew to the military camp to prepare for the next major battle.
Now that the demons had lost their powerhouses, the rest would be easy to deal with. Even a million soldiers would be no trouble for them. Ye Liuyun and the demonic beasts also returned to recover their true essence.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Liuyun refined Ao Feng’s golden bell and discovered that it was actually a third-grade Void-level treasure for divine souls. It could be used for both defense and offense.
He gave the golden bell to Ye Tiandao. Since she often led troops into battle, he felt that her sea of consciousness needed powerful defensive protection.
Ye Tiandao knew that he had the Myriad Gods Token in his sea of consciousness, so she did not refuse and accepted it.
Then, once the divine soul refined in the Soul-Refining Cauldron was ready, Ye Liuyun and his clones did as they had before, using soul blades to cut the huge soul into several pieces.
However, he and his clones had finished refining their soul sources and could now refine new ones. Thus, he divided this new soul source into six portions and had each of their current soul sources refine one.
As for the rest of Ao Feng’s divine soul, he kept it in reserve as a cultivation resource for his divine soul in the future.
Afterward, he and his clones each refined a dragon body to strengthen their physical bodies. He also gave several dragon bodies to the Dragon Girl and Lei Ming for them to refine slowly, then led the demonic beasts out to prepare for the next battle.
At that moment, the demons’ million-strong army happened to arrive outside their camp.
The demonic soldiers still did not know that their clan leader had been killed by Ye Liuyun. Following their previous orders, they disembarked from the warships and formed ranks before launching their attack.
But the bombardment from the firepower chariots they had expected did not last long. After merely suppressing their advance, the army on the opposite side charged over.
Moreover, Ye Liuyun led the demonic beasts in charging at the very front. The Demon Lion used the Wind-Thunder Fan to clear a path, blowing away all the crossbow bolts. Then Lei Ming and the Vermilion Bird swept the way clear with lightning and flames, allowing them to break into the demonic army.
The commander of the demonic army was still rejoicing that he could finally have a proper battle with these humans. But before he could finish celebrating, Ye Liuyun released the Demon-Sealing Stele and sent it crashing toward him, smashing him into a meat patty in an instant.
The two armies soon engaged in close combat. Ye Liuyun and the others, meanwhile, charged straight into the center of the demonic army.
Every slash from Ye Liuyun’s blade brought with it hundreds of spiritual-energy blades, imbued with the power of Buddhist light. Each strike cleaved a swath of demons in two. Lei Ming’s lightning and the Vermilion Bird’s flames kept the demonic soldiers from approaching.
A large-scale battlefield like this was the best resource for Chi Lian and the Vermilion Bird to improve themselves. The demonic beasts took advantage of the opportunity to fight while loading corpses into their respective spatial worlds.
The two Black Tortoises remained invisible as they captured the divine souls of the demonic powerhouses. They no longer even bothered to attack and assassinate them.
The Dragon Girl, White Tiger, Megalithic Ape, and Little Blue Ice charged recklessly through the enemy ranks to their hearts’ content. They had no need to collect the demons’ resources, merely capturing a few divine souls from time to time and throwing them into the Soul-Sealing Pearl.
Ye Liuyun fought while constantly releasing a soul source to capture the divine souls of the demonic soldiers and fill the Soul-Sealing Pearl, continuing until it was full.
At that moment, on both sides of the demonic army, two demonic legions of three hundred thousand each, led by Black Mountain and Black Rock, charged over and joined the battle.
The demonic soldiers panicked somewhat at this. Their million-man army had already been barely able to withstand the attacks of these human soldiers. Now, with another three hundred thousand enemy troops appearing on each flank, the opposing side outnumbered them in total.
Thus, some of the demonic commanders in the rear began thinking of leading their troops in retreat.
Just then, the Death Legion also appeared among the demonic army. The two clones led the Death Legion, the female soldiers, the black-armored elite soldiers, and the puppets at the forefront, encircling the million-strong demonic army and pressing inward from all four directions.
The two clones also condensed enormous spiritual-energy beasts to clear a path for the army and prevent excessive casualties. With their massive bodies, the spiritual-energy beasts could crush more than a dozen demonic soldiers with a single step.
These spiritual-energy beasts could attack not only with the power of heaven and earth, but also breathe fire and summon lightning, throwing the rear ranks of the demonic army into chaos.
The two clones also used Spatial Force for defense, then launched attacks with the power of heaven and earth, shielding the soldiers behind them while taking the opportunity to capture the divine souls of demonic powerhouses.
The million-strong demonic army was surrounded on all sides and battered from every direction, unable to gain the upper hand anywhere.
Although this demonic army’s combat strength was not weak, it was still no match for them. Ye Liuyun and the others were simply too destructive, each of them a god of slaughter. The Demon-Sealing Stele alone had already crushed countless powerful figures among the demonic army.
After charging into the demonic army, Ye Liuyun also released the Thunder Spirit and the two fire spirit in turn to test their strength. Each time, they blasted and burned the surrounding demons into ashes, leaving a large empty space.
Afterward, he began releasing his guardian divine seal and practicing how to use it for attacks.
A sweep of the golden dragon shattered a mass of demonic soldiers, while the Buddhist-Demonic Golden Body was an even greater bane to the demons. The War God bearing his own features could cleave across the battlefield with a single slash, sending a swath of demonic soldiers’ flesh and blood flying.
The demonic beasts stayed far away, complaining that there was no battle left for them if they followed him.
After half a day of fighting, Jiang Yuanhai and Xiao Heng’s armies, along with the Death Legion, began retreating one after another. Their true essence was nearly exhausted, and they had had their fill of battle. They left the demonic legions to surround the remaining demonic army.
At this point, just over three hundred thousand soldiers remained in the demonic army, while fewer than five hundred thousand soldiers remained in Ye Liuyun’s demonic legions.
At that moment, the demonic legions also brought out their firepower chariots. If the remaining demonic soldiers still refused to surrender, they could not be bothered to waste any more energy on them.
The moment the remaining demonic soldiers saw the firepower chariots, they surrendered. They had already been unable to withstand Ye Liuyun’s army even without the firepower chariots. If the chariots were used now, they would simply be slaughtered in a one-sided massacre.
“That’s more like it!” The Tiger-Headed Beast King nodded in satisfaction as he worked with Black Mountain to subdue the surrendered soldiers and clean up the battlefield.