Chapter 2250: Chapter 2250 Marching Toward the Battlefield
Ye Liuyun could finally settle into a focused state of cultivation.
He devoted most of his time to cultivation since he had reached the primary Eighth realm. Yet, he was still a distance away from the intermediate Eighth level.
For most people, reaching this level would typically require several years of practice and cultivation accumulation before they could advance further.
However, with the aid of the Xuankong Stone and the enhancement of his Bloodline Power, Ye Liuyun could already cultivate at a pace that was dramatically faster than an ordinary person.
Even still, Ye Liuyun was aware that he had much to accomplish after witnessing the sheer power of the foreign race in combat and figures like Zhao Hu and Yao Guangyao.
He dared not lower his standards for the quality of his advanced energy, even though he wished to boost his strength quickly. Until he had perfected his advanced energy to its utmost potential, he would not proceed to the next level.
So, to avoid making a hasty breakthrough, he spent far more time than everyone else, continually repressing his development.
Many of the women around him were in a similar situation. Even with the Xuankong Stone, their progress was relatively slower because most of them had cultivated Double Virtuosos. While this made them stronger in combat, it also significantly slowed their cultivation speed.
Ye Liuyun and his clone focused solely on honing their advanced energy, ignoring all other concerns. They got a lot more done in less time than if they had worked alone since they cultivated together with complete concentration.
In between cultivation sessions, Ye Liuyun often took those around him into the spatial secret realm, allowing them to enhance their Spatial Force as well.
After roughly two months of continuously compressing his advanced energy, Ye Liuyun finally reached a point where he could no longer suppress his progress. He suddenly released his restraints and broke through to the mid-stage of the Eighth realm.
He found that his strength had multiplied by more than tenfold after this breakthrough, which was far more than the typical improvement of five or six realms. This phenomenon was largely due to the new bloodline technique he had recently mastered.
After stabilising his new realm, Ye Liuyun returned to the foreign race battlefield to test his abilities. To his surprise, he found that he could now face against foreign race of primary Ninth Layer. His combat power had crossed yet another minor threshold.
With the addition of his sword intention and Spatial Force, dealing with primary Ninth Realm foreign races became relatively effortless.
"Hmm, with a bit more improvement in physical and Divine Soul strength, you’ll be ready to truly test yourself on the foreign race battlefield," the Book Demon remarked, clearly pleased with Ye Liuyun’s current achievement. However, it still felt that his physical and Divine Soul strength still needed slight improvement.
Thus, Ye Liuyun remained on the foreign race’s battlefield, focusing on honing his physical body and devouring the foreign race’s Divine Soul.
Meanwhile, Tong Xin had completed the construction of the space vessel and was conducting tests.
Conversely, Qiong Qi and the Purple Flame God were occupied with altering the appearance of the foreign race’s enormous warships to avoid being mistaken for the enemy once they ventured into the cosmos.
The foreign race warships were made of materials strikingly similar to black gold, albeit using a different mix of metal blends.
Their lack of use of this metal in the foreign race armour suggested that the material was scarce.
To further lessen Ye Liuyun’s reliance on human soldiers, skilled weapon-refining masters like Qiong Qi had crafted tens of thousands of sets of armour, weaponry, and equipment. Additionally, they had constructed over a thousand puppets specifically for siege warfare, tunnelling, and aerial patrols.
As soon as Ye Liuyun saw that preparations were almost done, he ordered Yuan Hao and Qian Mian to oversee ten thousand ninth-level martial practitioners as he led the Blade Legion and let his clone lead the Beastmen troops.
Yu Xiaofeng rallied all the seventh- and eighth-level martial practitioners to support Yuan Hao’s forces. Ye Liuyun had complete control over all of the puppet beasts for the trial run.
All of Ye Liuyun’s three main forces launched their attack simultaneously.
Ye Liuyun’s group was the smallest but targeted the lowest security areas. Cloaked in his Invisible Cloak, Ye Liuyun swiftly reached the foreign race’s city walls.
He maximized the effectiveness of the puppet beasts, using them for reconnaissance, breaching walls, and launching underground assaults, making his team the first to penetrate the foreign race base.
Ye Liuyun commanded his Blade Legion to sweep up scattered Corpse Demons and foreign races’ remains throughout the battlefield after slaughtering the foreign race within the city and seizing their resources.
The other two groups stormed out of the city, annihilating every foreign race in their path. After that, they broke through the city walls and attacked the foreign race bases with war chariots.
After the battles, all three forces retreated to the martial practitioners’ base, exchanging the virtuosos they collected for resources needed by the soldiers.
They then shut down Expert Battlefield to prevent retaliation from foreign race experts.
Following the fight, the troops had sufficient supplies to last for several years.
A considerable quantity of resources was accumulated by Ye Liuyun. Now that all was set, Ye Liuyun started getting prepared to lead the soldiers to the actual foreign race battleground.
All they could do now was to wait and see how the foreign race would react to this situation.
The foreign race, on the other hand, was naturally furious.
They had painstakingly secured reinforcements of two hundred thousand troops, but before they could even be deployed to the actual battlefield, Ye Liuyun had annihilated a hundred twenty thousand of them during the trial phase. Their rage was palpable.
They threatened the Alliance of Goddesses while sending their experts to attack the martial practitioners’ base.
However, upon breaching the base, they found it completely deserted. There was not even a Conveyor Formation left behind. The foreign race expert could only vent their frustration by utterly destroying the already empty base.
However, Ye Liuyun remained unfazed by their threats and tantrums.
"Nothing but empty threats! Let’s see what you’ve got on the battlefield!" he scoffed.
The foreign races, angered by Ye Liuyun’s behaviour, could do nothing but threaten to deploy more soldiers to the impending wars.
Seizing the opportunity, Ye Liuyun announced that the Expert Battlefield would no longer be inaccessible and that all future conflicts would be fought directly on the battlefield.
Eventually, the foreign race decided to shut down their Expert Battlefield.
After all, their Expert Battlefield had been destroyed multiple times, and they concluded that it was more cost-effective to deploy their forces directly into the actual battlefield.
However, Ye Liuyun decided to retain the primary trial battlefield. He believed that the primary trial battlefield was beneficial for enhancing martial practitioners’ combat skills.
Ye Liuyun refused to deploy the martial practitioners trained by Yu Xiaofeng, who were at the seventh and eighth levels of cultivation, to the battlefield. Instead, he concealed this army as a strategic reserve for future needs.
It was his way of quietly nurturing the next generation of soldiers. They also doubled as the clandestine guard of the Revival dynasty.
Ye Liuyun had laid down strict rules for them. Yu Xiaofeng was to arrange their entry into the secret realm for cultivation. They were forbidden to step onto the battlefield against the foreign race until they had reached the ninth level of their cultivation.
However, Ye Liuyun imposed no such restrictions on other martial practitioners across the land. They could be enlisted themselves from the local City Lord Manor, and after being vetted by the city lords, they would be sent to Regalty to be handed over to Yu Xiaofeng. From there, they would be uniformly dispatched to the battlefield by the Alliance of Goddesses.
Ye Liuyun was escorted to the battlefield by his bevy of women, including Liang Xue, Lei Ming, and Dragon Lady. The rest of the men would stay put to safeguard the dynasty. The dynasty could be safely guarded by them because they were accompanied by numerous senior elders of the Fairy Clan.
Once everything was in place, Ye Liuyun gathered all his troops into his Spatial World. Through the Conveyor Formation of the Alliance of Goddesses, they set off for the true battlefield against the foreign races.
