Chapter 2179: Chapter 2179 Invasion of Experts
Ye Liuyun immediately found a martial practitioner in the advanced eighth level from the death cell, imprinted him as a servant, and instructed him to start practising the Phantom Illusion technique.
Song An reported to Mo Xiaotian that he had discussed with Ye Liuyun on the matter, pending Ye Liuyun’s terms.
At the same time, Ye Liuyun asked Yu Xiaofeng to inform the Fairy Clan about the Zhongxing Dynasty’s intent to buy access to the Conveyor Formation.
Of course, the Fairy Clan wouldn’t want the people from the Zhongxing Dynasty to attack them. They clearly understood Ye Liuyun’s intentions as well. To deny the Zhongxing Dynasty on their behalf, the Fairy Clan would have to pay a certain price.
Therefore, the Fairy Clan promptly agreed to Ye Liuyun’s proposition and offered to pay him double what the Zhongxing Dynasty offered.
Ye Liuyun was satisfied with the Fairy Clan’s understanding.
"After going through a war, these Fairy Clan members have become much more sensible," he remarked somewhat emotionally.
Subsequently, Ye Liuyun staged an act.
He had a death row convict take the place of Song An. He was burned to death within Regalty to show the public he wouldn’t jeopardize everyone’s safety for personal gain, which earned him massive praise from the public.
He also made public the price offered by the Zhongxing Dynasty, prompting the Fairy Clan to pay according to the price which was at a doubled rate.
This series of operations earned Ye Liuyun both reputation and resources from the Fairy Clan but enraged Mo Xiaotian.
"Hmph! A Fairy Clan in the East and a Ye Liuyun. They thought they could stop me by blocking the Conveyor Formation?"
Mo Xiaotian dispatched hundreds of experts of the advanced ninth-level to cross the Endless Sea for the purpose of killing Ye Liuyun and the Fairy Clan’s experts, to redeem their previous faults.
These martial practitioners didn’t have much choice. The new ferry hadn’t arrived yet, so they had to rush to other ports and risk themselves by crossing the Endless Sea with other ferries.
Fortunately, they made it across the Endless Sea without mishap, and half a month later, they arrived on the western coast of the eastern region.
It was the only ferry port in the East, and Ye Liuyun soon received the news of their arrival.
With so many martial practitioners not hiding their aura, they were easily spotted as they crossed the town.
Moreover, once these martial practitioners arrived in the East, they found the locals to have low cultivation levels, so they continuously robbed the towns along the way and looted a lot of resources.
They didn’t bother to conceal their realm, believing that Ye Liuyun would be powerless against them. They planned to grandly march to Regalty’s Eastern Fortress.
Although the fortress defenders fought to the death, they were no match for these experts and were wiped out almost instantly.
The experts within the fortress were robbed. If they came across any beauties, they would abduct them as well.
News spread fast, and the entire East was shaken. It’s widely rumoured that the Zhongxing Dynasty has begun to invade the East. The civilians along the way had begun to flee.
Of course, Ye Liuyun wouldn’t let them disturb the peace of the East, and upon receiving the news, he cleared out the Eastern Fortress of any spies from the Zhongxing Dynasty.
He then deployed the peripheral fortress defenders to reinforce the lines, trying to slow down the progress of these martial practitioners, allowing the civilians on the route to evacuate first.
Yu Xiaofeng dispatched two teams of 100,000 soldiers to the Eastern frontier. One travelled to the Eastern ferry port, while the other marched to a ferry port in the southern region.
Although they knew it was too late for them to fully stop the expert’s invasion, they could at least do preparation work to prevent future attacks.
This army of 200,000 was originally made up of those who were disqualified to enter the Dark Legion. Although their strength was not as strong, with the support of the Formation, they could withstand the docking of any uninvited ferries.
Yu Xiaofeng issued orders for them to prohibit any ferries from docking. If they sighted a vessel, they were to launch a full-scale attack.
Yu Xiaofeng headed to the eastern ferry port. In the South, he let Mu Lian arrive at the ferry port first, then waited for the army to arrive. When they do, he will take charge of the army’s defences.
Before this, neither Ye Liuyun nor Yu Xiaofeng expected that the Zhongxing Dynasty would deploy troops to cross the Endless Sea to attack them.
He took it upon himself to lead Meng Changjun, Liu Yang, and a hundred soul cultivators to intercept the incoming martial practitioners.
Ye Liuyun did not use his flying vessel but collected these martial practitioners into his spatial world. Taking turns with his clone to use the Spatial Folding technique to hasten the journey. This method was even faster and allowed him to simultaneously cultivate his Spatial Force.
With the support of Ye Ling and the Multipurpose Cauldron, Ye Liuyun did not have to worry about the consumption of his advanced energy along the journey.
Despite his relentless effort, it still took him twenty days to intercept these martial practitioners.
By the time he arrived, the martial practitioners had already wreaked havoc on more than ten small cities and were currently attacking the local Mortar City.
Mortar City was a major city in the area. The local garrison was substantial, and with additional reinforcements from nearby, they gathered an army of twenty thousand and over two thousand martial practitioners to intercept the invaders.
The city lord, along with all of the martial cultivators from the city lord’s manor, joined the battle, ready to die defending against the enemy.
However, in the eyes of the experts of the Zhongxing Dynasty, the troops were merely nuisances.
When the conflict began, the army and martial practitioners were barely able to withstand the onslaught. However, as fatalities mounted, their resistance weakened.
An advanced ninth-level expert could obliterate the soldiers with a single strike.
"Fight to the death!"
The city lord led his fearless troops and martial practitioners into the battle with none of them fleeing or retreating.
The martial practitioners of the Zhongxing Dynasty were quite helpless. Every city they encountered put up a fierce resistance.
Although they had high cultivation levels, casualties in their team were inevitable.
Particularly in this battle. Even they were overwhelmed facing tens of thousands of soldiers who attacked. They lost three experts and seven to eight others were wounded.
Even when it was clear they could no longer withstand the oncoming invasions, they continued to plunge forward. They would capture a martial practitioner and land a brutal attack on them, disregarding the strikes from others. Their strategy was simple, to use themselves as pawns to take the enemy down with them.
"The folks from the east may not be powerful, but they’re brave and not afraid of death! At this rate, we may not even reach Regalty without our entire army being wiped out!”
The team leader, a martial practitioner, was contemplating their next move.
Battlefield explosions echoed, and suddenly, following a flurry of genuine energy strikes, a teenager appeared in the dust-filled air.
"Attack!"
With a cold shout, hundreds of martial practitioners materialized in the air, launching divine soul attacks against them.
A white beam projected from the teenager’s side, sweeping toward the crowd.
Meanwhile, the soldiers and martial practitioners defending the city started to cheer.
"It’s Overlord Ye. We are saved!"
The leader glanced at Ye Liuyun. "He’s courting death!”
He was initially delighted but soon noticed that the white ray discharged from beside Ye Liuyun had killed more than ten of his experts.
At the same time, his Divine Soul-defense treasure was being manipulated by a martial practitioner with an overwhelming divine soul power.
"These soul cultivators are extremely powerful!"
Just when he was about to counterstrike Meng Changjun who was attacking him, Ye Liuyun’s divine soul made another fierce attack.
With support from Meng Changjun, his Divine Soul defence treasure could not withstand the assault from Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun’s divine soul invaded his Ocean of Consciousness, erasing his soul contract, and imprinted a Slaving Seal on him.
"This...is such a strong divine soul power!"
Words failed him, and his opponent captured him before he had the chance to draw his weapon.
