Chapter 1857: Chapter 1857 Determined to Stay
Ye Liuyun told Yu Xiaofeng and Xiao Yunfang, "I have already marked down our attack route and resupply timing on the map. You should both look into it and see if there are any concerns. If everything is well, I believe we should move right now."
"The soldiers’ training will be conducted along the journey. We’ll travel on foot rather than by flying vessel to save time."
"Great! We’ll study it when we return!" Yu Xiaofeng and Xiao Yunfang agreed.
Ye Liuyun then went to find Tong Xin, telling him about their need for Elixirs and refined weapons to exchange for army resources.
"Can you use half a day every day to refine weapons for the army? The remaining time you can do as you wish," Ye Liuyun discussed this with Tong Xin.
"Sure!" Tong Xin agreed readily.
Next, Ye Liuyun brought Tong Xin to the market.
He took out the unused resources given by Prince Liang to be exchanged with State Crystals and Spirit Crystals in the market.
However, due to the market’s limited resources, he was unable to trade them all. Ye Liuyun then made arrangements for the rest of his undeployable items and medical herbs to be exchanged somewhere.
Then, he purchased a special cultivation space for Tong Xin, allowing him to focus on weapon refining while they were on the move.
After Tong Xin supplemented some materials he needed for his weapon refining, both of them returned to the army camp together.
The next day, the feral beasts they ordered arrived, and Bai Tianguang rushed to receive them. He brought back twenty Dragophants and twenty Falcons to the camp.
With it, they had enough feral beasts to gather information and besiege cities. Ye Liuyun would get the rest of the feral beasts he needed at a later date as he could not afford all of them at once.
The invasion plan that Ye Liuyun had drawn up did not undergo significant changes after Yu Xiaofeng and Xiao Yunfang’s review.
So, the Dark Legion advanced towards the southwest, clueless about how long the journey would take or the destination they were heading.
Ye Liuyun gave Song Changle from Mystique Mart a year’s worth of the city guards’ stipend, which would be delegated to them monthly.
Yu Xiaofeng and Xiao Yunfang were occupied with the duty of leading soldiers and training simultaneously.
After marching and training for seven days, more than three thousand newly recruited soldiers were already eliminated.
The eliminated soldiers were relieved to return to Lotherland on their own and report to the city guards. Ye Liuyun and the rest couldn’t be bothered about whether they went back or not.
However, Ye Liuyun would not desert He Lianxiu and her female troops. He frequently checked in on them using his Divine Sense. He was surprised, too, at how persistent those female troops were.
Ye Liuyun understood the reason why the female troops fought so hard. They tried to achieve a better status deserving a better treatment.
However, he didn’t expect He Lianxiu to persist as well. Moreover, she improved her genuine energy considerably.
Besides, the new soldiers had to undergo more rigorous training compared to when Ye Liuyun started. They had to strengthen their Divine Soul while maintaining their physical fitness.
Ye Liuyun’s Divine Sense would check on He Lianxiu and noticed that she and the few female soldiers had cried several times, but none of them gave up.
Soon, they would move on to practical training.
As per his plan, Ye Liuyun and his men had targeted a band of bandits to start their attack.
There were around three thousand members of this bandit group. They were regarded as a rather powerful force and even erected their city walls.
In this battle, the new soldiers were instructed to observe how the experienced soldiers attacked the enemies in formations.
This was the first time the Dark Legion tried to attack a city directly without surprise tactics. Hence, the opponent had been expecting them.
Twenty Dragophants stood in front of the army, poised to charge, while the twenty Falcons circled the army, keeping an eye on moves from the air.
Tong Xin’s beast needed a longer time to complete its refinement.
Ye Liuyun, Lei Ming, and the rest moved towards the combat formation, assuming the role of the primary troop leader.
As soon as the attack was signalled, the Dragon Lady wielded her Trident of the Poseidon and a torrent of seawater poured towards the city gates like a waterfall.
Manshu, on the other hand, harnessed her Power of Ice, promptly freezing the flooded area.
Lei Ming wielded his Devil Lightning, targeting the city gates where the bandits were.
Ye Tiandao swung his blade at the city gate before Ye Liuyun struck it with his Virtuoso packed with Advance Energy combined with the Power of Heaven and Earth.
In seconds, Black Panther sprinted toward the city gate with its maximum speed.
Then, with the support of an enormous army, Ye Liuyun and the others charged towards the city wall.
With a loud cracking sound, Ye Tiandao’s blade cracked the frost-encased city wall, cleaving a substantial gap. Then, Ye Liuyun struck the gate with a palm attack.
A resounding boom followed as the city gate was smashed to pieces, collapsing the surrounding walls.
The Black Panther was the first to sprint into the city, starting the onslaught of the bandits.
The bandit leader charged at the Black Panther to attack, but Ye Liuyun was equally fast, launching a long-range sword that halted the bandit leader in his track.
The bandit leader was an intermediate fourth-level martial practitioner. Noticing Ye Liuyun’s attack, he swung his spear, deflecting Ye Liuyun’s blade.
Ye Liuyun followed up with another palm strike as the bandit leader countered from afar.
As their genuine energy clashed, a resounding boom filled the air, and the bandits nearby were sent flying into the air from the impact.
The bandit leader had no idea Ye Liuyun could deflect his strike. In his moment of surprise, he was attacked by Lei Ming’s lightning spell, causing his body to smoulder.
Before he had time to recover, Ye Tiandao’s blade whipped at him. The martial practitioner was probably donning armour. With a loud bang, he was sent flying into the air yet not fatally wounded.
Ye Liuyun tapped into the power of Spatial Force, instantly zapping himself to the martial practitioner’s side, and aimed another slash at him.
"Ah!"
The warrior couldn’t evade in time, but before his impending death, he managed to release his Divine Soul towards Ye Liuyun’s Ocean of Consciousness and release a feral beast.
Ye Liuyun was too close to avoid it, and he was flung away by a swipe of the feral beast’s claw.
He was wearing fifth-level armour, though, and while his armour was unharmed, it did show some light scratches.
That beast turned out to be a demonic wolf of intermediate fourth level. It witnessed Ye Liuyun split its master in two with a single slash, so it naturally set Ye Liuyun as a target.
"Leave it to me, you guys handle the others!"
Ye Liuyun commanded, smacking his hand towards the demonic wolf, this time deploying the power of Buddha’s halo.
Another huge boom shook the atmosphere when Ye Liuyun hurled the demonic wolf into the air after the demonic wolf charged full speed at him. Ye Liuyun’s Buddha’s halo instantly dispersed more than half of its Devil Qi away.
"Roar!"
Seeing the situation turn unfavourable, the demonic wolf tried to make a run for it.
"Trying to flee?" Ye Liuyun’s Golden Phantom Eyes glowed and a giant Golden Crow made of flames charged out and blocked the Demonic Wolf’s path.
Simultaneously, Ye Liuyun once again deployed his Buddha’s halo, enwrapping the demonic wolf body.
At this time, Ye Liuyun released his Divine Soul, bestowing the demonic wolf with a Slaving Seal before retracting his flames and chanting.
Understanding Ye Liuyun’s prowess, the Demonic Wolf obediently lay on the ground.
Ye Liuyun stopped attacking it. He collected the Interspatial Ring of the bandit leader and continued to observe the entire battlefield from the air.
When Ye Liuyun’s new soldiers saw that he could effortlessly break through the city gates and kill the bandit commander, they couldn’t help but admire him more.
"A commander of the primary third level can easily eliminate two strong opponents of the intermediate fourth level?" a confused soldier asked.
"What do you know? They claim that the commander has concealed his true level. Another soldier answered, "This story has already been spread throughout Regalty."
