Chapter 2210: Chapter 2210 Praetorian’s Up-level
Qiong Qi has harboured a killing intent toward Mo Sang from the moment he started doubting him.
His character is ruthless and decisive, but because Mo Sang was his disciple, he wanted to be sure and gave him chances.
Ye Liuyun’s clone had great success scouring for martial practitioners with potent Divine soul power.
Ever since Ye Liuyun and others occupied Inferno City, the strong practitioners who were originally in the city had long since fled. New forces arrived later, but none of them had cultivators in the Ninth Realm.
Therefore, once the clone stepped out, he found fifteen martial practitioners with hidden identities lurking around the City Lord’s Manor.
The clone instantly enslaved a practitioner who had the weakest Divine Soul and obtained information to correctly identify all fifteen of them.
Therefore, Ye Liuyun put on an Invisible Cloak and acted together with his clone to ensure safety. He enslaved all these fifteen experts and took them into his Spatial World.
Among them, two had a Divine Soul contract with Mo Xiaotian which Ye Liuyun instantly erased.
However, Ye Liuyun learnt from them that Mo Xiaotian had informed them of Ye Liuyun’s return to the Eastcloud Dynasty. Mo Xiaotian had instructed them to switch the assassination target from Ye Liuyun to Song An.
Nonetheless, they hadn’t yet passed on the information to others before Ye Liuyun took control of them.
At this moment, Mo Xiaotian discovered the fifteen assassins he sent out had been taken down. He was so furious that he smashed his desk with one palm strike.
It annoyed him to learn that sending people off to assassinate Ye Liuyun could be so strenuous.
Mo Sang had been completely inactive and unresponsive to his messages for quite some time. It was likely had fallen like the rest too.
"It appeared that Ye Liuyun has an expert Soul Cultivator with him!"
Mo Xiaotian felt that the soul cultivator on Ye Liuyun’s side, who was capable of bringing down Mo Sang, must be extraordinary. However, he was still unable to identify the person after much contemplation.
"Could it be an expert from the Fairy Clan? Impossible! If the Fairy Clan had such an expert, they wouldn’t have submitted to Ye Liuyun. Or could it be someone from the Alliance of Goddesses? But my spies have no such intelligence!"
Mo Xiaotian racked his brain and never once thought the expert could be Ye Liuyun himself.
Ultimately, he thought of a way to deal with Ye Liuyun.
He summoned his praetorians in batches and had them all swear a Divine Soul contract with him in an effort to amplify their loyalty.
Additionally, he was aware that the soldiers’ abilities had diminished since they hadn’t been on the battlefield for so long.
Hoping this move would catch Ye Liuyun off guard.
Next, he dispatched several Royal Court’s ninth realm elders to protect the praetorian’s commander. He made him pledge his loyalty through the Divine Soul contract. Hence, the troops of tens of thousands of praetorians boldly set out to eradicate Ye Liuyun’s forces.
Upon learning that the Revival Dynasty had sent out ten thousand praetorians, the Central Region could not help but make fun of them, looking forward to their eventual downfall.
Since the Revival Dynasty dispatched the praetorians, they have not won a single battle.
When Ye Liuyun heard the news, he was confused and didn’t know what the Revival Dynasty was trying to accomplish.
"You’ve managed to go up against the Praetorian so easily in the past. But take them seriously this time! I assume that Mo Xiaotian is not a fool and would not just give you their life. You should pay extra caution since there is undoubtedly a trick in there," Song An advised Ye Liuyun.
Liuyun immediately informed Liu Yang and Mo Shaowe so they could each send ten soul cultivators as reinforcements.
He also requested Xiao Yunfang to command 50,000 new soldiers in a training exercise against the enemy. Ye Tiandao held back his power, sending only Xiao Yunfang and the Blade Legion’s 2,000 most vulnerable men to engage the enemy.
The remaining Blade Legion were stationed within a city for defence. As for Yu Xiaofeng’s Dark Legion of a hundred thousand were located in two other cities to provide defence.
Liuyun dispatched his clone to be on the lookout and observe the battle scene in stealth, as a contingency against any unforeseen calamities.
The ten thousand praetorians of the Revival Dynasty egregiously advanced towards the perimeter city of Ye Liuyun, charging in to face Xiao Yunfang’s major force.
One thousand of the Blade Legion’s two thousand men were in the forefront, facing the enemy, while the remaining soldiers readied themselves to protect Xiao Yunfang’s main force’s withdrawal from both flanks.
As soon as the battle started, Ye Liuyun realised that these praetorians were different.
This batch appeared fearless in the face of death, engaging fiercely with the Blade Legion. The whole army pressed forward, attacking simultaneously. The defensive line of the Blade Legion was instantly torn open by them.
"Retreat!"
Ye Liuyun immediately instructed Xiao Yunfang.
Xiao Yunfang had been prepared for this. The first ten thousand soldiers stayed behind to intercept, while the rest of the forty-thousand-strong force promptly retreated towards the city where Ye Tiandao was.
The one thousand soldiers from both flanks of the Blade Legion immediately integrated into the battlefield, fighting to buy time for Xiao Yunfang’s army to retreat.
Liu Yang and Mo Shaowen’s returned soul cultivation experts seized the opportunity to capture two prisoners from the battle and retreated with Xiao Yunfang’s troop.
Among the two thousand Blade Legions soldiers, bolstered by ten thousand newly recruited soldiers, applied a new joint attack formation. With it, the praetorian suffered considerable losses.
In the face of such an intense attack, the previous praetorian would have been intimidated.
However, the current batch of praetorians continued to fight fearlessly. Ye Liuyun’s force of twelve thousand simply could not withstand them.
They couldn’t afford to back down now. They would be hunted down and slain if they turned their backs on these praetorians. The only option was to fight to the death.
In less than an hour, the twelve thousand troops under Ye Liuyun were annihilated by the praetorians, without a single survivor.
Without rest, they immediately directed their attack towards the city where Ye Tiandao was. Without taking any rest, they immediately turned their attack towards the city where Ye Tiandao was.
"Release the arrows!"
After Xiao Yunfang withdrew, she made arrangements for soldiers to take the position of the Blade Legion to guard the city. The Blade Legion was more experienced in siege warfare, which in essence was fighting atop the city walls. They could do nothing more than ordinary soldiers.
When the enemy troops drew near, Xiao Yunfang gave the order, and volleys of arrows and cross bolts forced the troops to temporarily retreat.
"They’ve become stronger!" Ye Tiandao noticed the change in the enemy troops.
"They were all forced to sign a Divine Soul Contract!"
After hearing words from the soul cultivators, Ye Liuyun realised the true reason.
He swiftly ordered the soldiers in the three surrounding cities to focus on defence.
"What if they bypass the city and attack the Inferno City?" Xiao Yunfang asked with concern.
"They will definitely think of that!"
Ye Liuyun got in touch with Qiong Qi right away to find out how long the formation could hold off the enemy’s onslaught.
"With so many experts, the current formation is not strong enough. It needs to be rearranged!" Qiong Qi told Ye Liuyun.
While giving orders to readjust the formation, Ye Liuyun instructed Xiao Yunfang and others, "Let them attack Inferno City. And then we’ll close the gate to trap them in."
Noticing the current number of praetorians, Ye Liuyun observed that they had lost over a thousand men.
Ye Liuyun had lost a great deal in this battle.
Because they were experts in the ninth realm, even if they were attacked with the combination of the Formation, they wouldn’t suffer much losses.
After a brief rest, the enemy forces instantly reassembled and, marched directly towards Inferno City just as Ye Liuyun predicted.
