Chapter 2265: Chapter 2265 Wait Leisurely for an Exhausted Enemy
As soon as the foreign race’s Omnipotent Level expert was vanquished, Yuan Hao and the others immediately resumed to normal condition.
Ye Liuyun instructed them to gather the remaining foreign race, leaving them for the Devil-sealing Stele to handle. Meanwhile, the Beastman army was tasked to clean up the battlefield.
After Liang Xue and her warriors disembarked from the Cosmos Battleship, Ye Liuyun stored it away.
It was best to avoid using the Cosmos Battleship unless necessary, to prevent its premature exposure.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun’s clone absorbed the divine souls of the remaining foreign race to enhance his Divine Soul power. The Demon Sealing Stele on the other hand consumed their physical forms.
Just like that, the foreign race fortress was successfully invaded, a far less gruesome outcome than Ye Liuyun had anticipated.
Ye Liuyun promptly ordered Li Xianying to report their progress to Li Yuanlang.
He was equally astonished upon receiving the news.
Simultaneously, Ye Liuyun informed the martial practitioners under his control, instructing them to spread the news of the fallen foreign race among their peers.
In another setting, the foreign race troops attacking Ruan Haotian suddenly went berserk and launched a frenzied, all-out assault on him and his forces.
They had received news of their base’s destruction and the rise of a new sophisticated military.
With their stronghold gone, they knew their inevitable doom was near. Thus, they attacked with reckless abandon, desperate to annihilate the human martial practitioners before them as much as they physically could.
The number of martial practitioners under Ruan Haotian’s command had decreased to under three thousand. They had no choice but to cling on to artefacts and defensive formations, barely surviving until reinforcement arrived.
However, with the foreign race’s sudden frenzy attack, their defence crumbled, forcing them into close combat with the enemy.
Because they could not retreat, they battled fiercely, slaughtering all foreign races before them.
Both armies had never before engaged in such a vicious fight.
Before the reinforcement could arrive, Ruan Haotian suffered the bitter fruit of his own creation and succumbed to the battle.
Upon receiving the news, Ye Liuyun merely sent his scouts to keep an eye on the movements of the foreign race.
He soon discovered that the foreign race was assembling and charging toward his position, palpably determined to engage in a desperate battle to reclaim their base.
The sixty thousand foreign race who were returning to their base would take about another half a month to arrive at the base.
Ye Liuyun decided to let his troops rest and recuperate as they waited for the enemy to arrive.
He dug out all the resources provided by the Jiuyou Devil and began to focus entirely on improving his strength.
Whatever elixirs or medications that he could use to enhance his physical strength or condense his soul, were consumed by him.
Inspired by the breakthrough of the Devil Vine, he felt that it was time for him to accelerate his progress.
Every time he finished consuming the valuable elixirs, he would spar with the Devil Vine to deplete his energy completely before he focused on cultivation.
The Devil Vine had grown so powerful that it had to be cautious when sparring with him. Even a small slip could shatter Ye Liuyun’s body.
Within the Xuankong Stone, over a hundred and fifty days had passed as Ye Liuyun and his clone continuously absorbed energy. Through his sparring with Devil Vine, he finally broke through to the intermediate eighth level.
Despite the reduced time required for this breakthrough, it significantly utilised more resources than before.
If the Jiuyou Devil hadn’t given them to him for free, he probably would have been hesitant to utilise them.
Even more impressive than his cultivation level was the simultaneous enhancement of his physical body and Divine Soul, which brought his whole strength to an all-new level.
Ye Liuyun still had much to enhance about his Buddhist-Devil strength, the Elemental Spirit Secret Skill, and the power of heaven and earth.
Meanwhile, the sixty-thousand army of the foreign race had returned and was now stationed outside the city walls.
Ye Liuyun, along with his clone, led the Blade Legion into a fierce battle outside the city, testing the true extent of his newly enhanced abilities.
He found that he could now hold his own against an intermediate ninth-level foreign race expert, not only due to his improved combat skills but also because his physical body could now withstand their attacks.
His Divine Soul was even more formidable, and he took the opportunity to absorb the foreign races’ Divine Soul along with his clone.
During the battle, he intentionally gave the Beastman and Dark Legion soldiers the chance to fully engage in combat, allowing them to revel in the slaughter.
It took a full day for the conflict to ultimately end.
The Devil Vine and the Devil-sealing Stele were entrusted with the responsibility of cleaning up the battlefield by absorbing the energy of the foreign race.
The fact that Ye Liuyun succeeded in eradicating sixty thousand foreign races was, without a doubt, an incredible accomplishment for the whole of mankind.
When the martial cultivators reached the eastern front and discovered that the foreign race had eradicated Ruan Haotian and his thirty thousand men, they unanimously elected Li Yuanlang as their leader.
Ye Liuyun entirely concurred with this choice and had Li Xianying convey his endorsement to Li Yuanlang, who then accepted the position.
Li Yuanlang immediately led more than thirty thousand martial practitioners in pursuit of the foreign races.
However, the foreign races had come to a halt by then.
The surviving foreign race on the battlefield totalled over 60,000. They had just learnt that Ye Liuyun had slaughtered the previous batch of 60,000 who had returned to the base as reinforcement.
Realising that returning to the base would result in definite death, the foreign race divided into many small squads of a hundred and dispersed around the region. This technique required human martial practitioners to spend a large amount of time eradicating them.
They hoped to delay their extermination until the foreign race sent in another batch of reinforcement.
Ye Liuyun, having learned of this development through his scouts, discussed the situation with Li Yuanlang. They decided to leave Yuan Hao behind with the Dark Legion to defend the city.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun took the Beastman to sweep through the foreign race’s territories, making his way toward the human base and withdrawing from the battlefield.
During this mission, he seized an immense amount of resources from the foreign race, which he intended to bring back to the Beastman for their training and improvement.
The Dark Legion would have to wait until they returned to the base before exchanging their resources with the Alliance of Merchants. For the time being, they were to remain stationed here to train and aid Li Yuanlang in defending against the oncoming foreign race troops.
Li Yuanlang, in turn, divided the martial practitioners into tiny squads of a hundred, keeping a space between them while they scouted the region for foreign races.
Along the journey, martial practitioners showered praises on Ye Liuyun and the Beastman. Ye Liuyun couldn’t help but feel satisfied as he saw their morale rise and their confidence restored.
The human martial practitioners, who had once harboured a deep-seated fear of the foreign races, now carried themselves with a newfound air of confidence.
During his journey, Ye Liuyun managed to ambush and eliminate several foreign race squads. Along the journey, he even crossed paths with Li Yuanlang,
During their meeting, Li Yuanlang proposed that Ye Liuyun take on the role of Grand Commander.
"You’ve far outdone me in leading troops into combat," Li Yuanlang confessed. "Without your resolute action, we would not have accomplished such a triumphant win. This achievement is completely your merit!"
However, Ye Liuyun rejected it, stating that he needed to return and reorganise. Once the Beastman had improved their skills, he intended to go to other planets or continents to form alliances. Li Yuanlang reluctantly accepted his decision.
Yao Guangyao also praised Ye Liuyun and assured him that he could claim anything he wanted directly from the Alliance of Merchants. It was evident that Yao Guangyao no longer considered him an outsider.
With that, Ye Liuyun led the Beastman back to the base, where they used the Conveyor Formation to return to the Alliance of Goddesses.
