Chapter 2195: Chapter 2195 Expanding Territory
Ye Liuyun ordered Zhao Mingcheng to lead Liu Yang and Ye Tiandao in a series of successive conquests of nearby cities once he had taken control of Coast City.
In the span of less than three months, Ye Liuyun had gained control of almost twenty neighbouring minor cities.
Throughout this time, Ye Liuyun was more of a spectator than an active participant. Song An directed everything, while the others executed the orders.
Through diligent cultivation, he had progressed his realm to the advanced seventh level.
"It was indeed a difficult task!"
It wasn’t until now that he understood how important Ye Ling meant to him.
He would be incapable of cultivating without The Spirit Crytal’s Spiritual Demon, Ye Ling. A significant quantity of Spirit Crystal, equivalent to a few mountains, was required for the minor level advancement this time.
However, his strength had palpably increased by four to fivefold.
Especially his Tundra Bow, he could almost fully draw it now. Even if his realm was still lacking, he could face off against martial practitioners of advanced ninth level with his Tundra Bow.
His clone’s Starrazor, coupled with his sword intention, could slay a primary ninth-level martial practitioner.
For an advanced seventh-level martial practitioner, it was considered a remarkable achievement.
Ye Liuyun saw a resurgence in his cultivation pace following the advancements in his bloodline force.
"It appears that gathering resources for cultivation is a rather resource-intensive procedure. You would need a substantial amount of resources in every aspect!"
It made Ye Liuyun feel sentimental. It made sense why so many martial practitioners failed to break through to the Immortal Realm throughout their lifetime. They simply don’t have enough resources!
Few could cultivate additional time for level advancement to make up for the expenditure of resources.
During this period, Ye Liuyun took advantage of the Black Tower, returned once to the Central Continent, and brought back martial artists like Piaoyun, Lin Feier, Mo Ya, Jin Yuanhui, Lin Xueying, and Qin Peng, who had reached the Immortal Realm, so they could adapt to the environment in the Spatial World.
As Axing and his parents were not powerful enough, Ye Liuyun left him ten experts of the Immortal Realm to safeguard them.
Although these warriors suffered suppression from the power of heaven and earth, they were more than capable of dealing with ordinary mortal martial practitioners.
Ye Liuyun gradually handed over his business in the Central Continent to the Ye family.
The Ye family did not let Ye Liuyun down. As the company expanded throughout the Central Continent, the younger disciples rose through the ranks and eventually took over management.
Ye Liuyun spent a few days with his parents and Axing, without bothering himself with trivial matters. He urged them to leave the family business and devote themselves to cultivation. Before he returned to the God Realm, he imparted the secret technique of Soul-Crushing Tactic to Axing.
When he got back, he started carrying out his plan and took action against a number of nearby cities.
He had long before instructed Xia Tianqiong and Xia Lingshuang to probe these towns. They steered clear of direct clashes with the troops of the Alliance of Goddesses and focused on other forces.
In particular, if the City Lord Manor was manned by martial practitioners dispatched by the Revival Dynasty, Ye Liuyun naturally wouldn’t let them go.
Ye Liuyun wasted little time seizing three important towns in the vicinity of Coast City, thus securing enough space for his future base.
They then proceeded with caution, remaining low profile for some time, until finally consolidating their control here.
The Revival Dynasty had noticed the changes here. Knowing the city lord was replaced, they sent people to investigate several times, but Ye Liuyun’s power was too strong. After failing to seize control on several attempts, the Revival Dynasty temporarily shelved the issue.
Mo Xiaotian thought that his main problem right now was still the Eastern Dynasty. Thus, he hurriedly pushed the production of transfer ships and the recruitment of strong martial artists.
Ye Liuyun seized this opportunity to link the Conveyor Formation from the Coast City to the Eastern Dynasty.
With each transfer, Yu Xiaofeng would withdraw a few thousand of the Dark Legion frontline soldiers to be sent to Coast City. Yu Xiaofeng would use new recruits to supplement the soldiers she sent out.
Yu Xiaofeng had been continuously recruiting martial practitioners of higher realms to enhance the combat power of the Dark Legion.
Wu Kun had set up a Conveyor Formation in Mortar City, making the transportation of personnel and materials convenient.
Thus, the elite fifty thousand soldiers of the Dark Legion had been discreetly transported to Coast City.
Similarly, Xiao Yunfang came to Coast City and was in charge of training the troops. She also recruited local martial practitioners of high realms to boost the strength of the Dark Legion.
Mo Shaowen rushed to join Ye Liuyun, acknowledging the identity of Liang Xue as the new Clan leader, and decided to return to the Fairy Clan.
Mo Shaowen and others, like Liu Yang who were soul cultivators, made another trip to the western region to help Ye Liuyun capture many ninth-realm martial practitioners.
The Revival Dynasty had managed to gather a group of martial practitioners with great difficulty and hastily manufactured some ferry boats.
However, as soon as they entered the Endless Sea, they suffered revenge from the sea monsters and the whole army was wiped out yet again.
Wow, Ye Liuyun couldn’t help but burst out laughing when he heard this. "These beasts are so vengeful! I can’t wait to watch how would Mo Xiaotian handle this!"
It seemed like Mo Xiaotian was about to lose it at this point!
He was perplexed as to why he had been so unfortunate. It seemed like these sea beasts intentionally opposed him. He had dispatched martial practitioners on two separate occasions, and each time the whole army was annihilated!
Didn’t matter how flourishing the Martial Arts Dao was in the central region, they couldn’t withstand such losses. After the entire force of two thousand martial practitioners of the ninth realm was wiped out, it would be extremely difficult for him to recruit more in the future!
Ye Liuyun was informed at the same time that a massive fire broke out at night, engulfing the 100,000-strong army that Mo Xiaotian had sent to the eastern ferry port. Nearly one-tenth of his soldiers perished in this fire.
In particular, there was a significant amount of material and equipment destroyed by fire.
Ye Liuyun immediately thought of Qiong Qi.
But according to what he heard, the massive army of 100,000 men had no idea who had ambushed them and had no way of identifying the perpetrators. They had no choice but to presume it was Ye Liuyun’s entourage of martial practitioners.
Additionally, the whole army camp was nearly consumed by the fire. The work appeared to have been done by a team of individuals.
The Revival Dynasty immediately sealed the Conveyor Formation of all major cities in the East and began searching, but they found nothing, and many of their experts were killed.
In the West, Mo Shaowen and Liu Yang apprehended a number of martial practitioners and proceeded to loot the homes of two city lords, causing great commotion and distress to the Revival Dynasty.
However, when the Revival Dynasty sent their experts, these individuals had already returned to Coast City through their Conveyor Formation.
Before leaving, they deliberately destroyed the local Conveyor Formation, making it impossible for the Revival Dynasty to track them down.
Naturally, the Alliance of Goddesses wouldn’t miss this opportunity to kick someone when they’re down. They took this chance to put pressure on the Revival Dynasty, stating that the foreign race battlefield demanded the conscription of thousands of martial practitioners of the Ninth realm.
If the Revival Dynasty was unable to conscript sufficient manpower, they would have no choice but to pull resources from the Royal Court.
Thus, the Revival Dynasty began conscripting martial practitioners throughout their territory.
But after the conscription order was made, the regions that had recently sent out two thousand martial practitioners into service could no longer muster the necessary numbers. At this point, the number of participants from the West and the South was the primary concern.
But when the issued order was heard by Ye Liuyun, he didn’t seem to care. Even the distant City Lord Manor showed no response.
In addition, the Revival Dynasty was unable to dispatch agents to enquire since the four most southern cities had severed the link of the Conveyor Formation.
