Chapter 2374: Chapter 2374 Conquered The City
But when Wyang Wei extended his Divine Sense back toward the City Lord Manor, he found that the situation had shifted. Ye Liuyun had already taken control of more and more of the martial practitioners within the manor.
The City Lord himself had already had his Divine Soul directly devoured by Ye Liuyun. The remaining martial practitioners in the City Lord Manor had completely lost their will to fight and were now surrounded by Ye Liuyun and his forces.
Ye Liuyun was now methodically planting Slaving Seals one after another.
A few martial practitioners who tried to resist or escape were immediately killed by Zhao Hu and Lei Ming.
The timing was perfect. Just as Ye Liuyun had finished subduing those people, the patrolling soldiers charged in.
Ye Liuyun glanced at their cultivation levels and first took control of their captain. Then, his group eliminated all soldiers below the Omnipotent Level, leaving only six Omnipotent Level soldiers alive.
He immediately had the others put on those suits of armor. Then, he released the soldiers he had previously captured, arranged them into ambush positions, and activated the City Lord Manor’s defensive formation.
Those sixty-plus bandits, also feeling extremely tense, rushed to report to Ye Liuyun after looting the merchant guild.
Ye Liuyun collected all the resources they had looted and then ordered them to disperse and prepare for battle.
Soon, squads of stationed soldiers began rushing towards the City Lord Manor.
Ye Liuyun used his Divine Sense to scan the area and found that there were only about a thousand soldiers above the ninth level of cultivation. Among them, less than two hundred were at the Omnipotent Level.
"They’re too weak!"
Ye Liuyun was still somewhat dissatisfied. With so few people, there was no need to have the Devil Vine step in.
He opened a gap in the defensive formation and allowed the soldiers to enter.
The commander of the garrison immediately led the strongest 500 soldiers into the gap, and then Ye Liuyun began to close the door, trapping them all inside.
"Who are you?" The commander, seeing that Ye Liuyun’s side was filled with Omnipotent Level experts, most of whom were soldiers, was immediately stunned.
This commander’s Divine Soul power was not very strong, and his overall strength was not the greatest. It was likely that he had risen to his position through connections.
So, Ye Liuyun immediately used his Scarlet Phantom Eyes to directly control him.
"He’s one of us! Put down your weapons!" The commander immediately ordered his soldiers to lower their weapons.
Seeing the situation, the bandits and Wyang Wei finally relaxed.
Ye Liuyun looked at these people and thought that there were too many of them. Imprinting each one with the Slaving Seal would be a waste of energy.
“We’ll form an Empyrean Legion. I’ll serve as the commander for now and you’ll be the deputy commander.” Ye Liuyun discussed with Zhao Hu.
“No problem for me! I’ve always wanted to get a taste of commanding troops anyway!” Zhao Hu replied with a grin.
Thus, Ye Liuyun officially established the Empyrean Legion, instructing the commander to bring out some armor to equip the martial practitioners he had captured.
As for his own close subordinates and Yu Yao, Ye Liuyun equipped them with armor forged by Ton Xin, which was far superior to the standard armor.
Ye Liuyun had all the martial practitioners he had captured, along with the previously captured soldiers and the garrison from the City Lord Manor. Regardless of their former positions, he made them took an oath of allegiance to the Empyrean Legion, officially making them ordinary soldiers under its command.
Ye Liuyun served as the commander of the Empyrean Legion, with Yu Yao and Zhao Hu acting as his deputy commanders.
Zhao Hu was reliable when leading troops into battle, but he lacked the patience for training soldiers. As a result, Ye Liuyun had no choice but to appoint Yu Yao as another deputy commander. He handed over the training manuals compiled by Yu Xiaofeng to Yu Yao and tasked him with overseeing the soldiers’ training.
He calmly reorganized his army within the City Lord Manor, while the soldiers outside were clueless, gathering around the manor without knowing what was going on.
But seeing the peaceful atmosphere inside and that everyone was in uniform, they figured it probably wasn’t anything serious.
But to their surprise, once Ye Liuyun had finished his preparations, he gave an order to the Empyrean Legion. “Kill all the soldiers outside. Collect their armor, interspatial rings and corpses. Then we’ll go loot some of the major powers around here to gather the resources needed for our army."
"Yes, sir!"
The soldiers responded in unison. As Ye Liuyun opened the defensive formation, they charged out like a pack of hungry wolves.
They were the most powerful experts in terms of cultivation, so killing lower-ranked soldiers was effortless for them.
The soldiers outside were so terrified that anyone who could still run immediately turned and fled.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun’s Empyrean Legion was chasing down those soldiers through the streets.
“So it was the garrison that mutinied!”
Some of the major forces in the city relaxed their guard a little seeing the soldiers fighting each others.
But when the Empyrean Legion had killed all the soldiers, there was nowhere left for them to escape.
The Empyrean Legion began looting from house to house.
For those who didn’t dare resist and cooperated fully, they forced the martial practitioner experts to join the Empyrean Legion and seized all their resources. They were refrained from unnecessary killing.
Only those forces who valued money over their lives would prompt Ye Liuyun to send the Empyrean Legion to strike for a total annihilation, wiping out entire families without leaving anyone behind.
At the teleportation formation, Ye Liuyun dispatched Liu Jing to completely dismantle the formation there. Even if other cities received the news and wanted to send reinforcements, it would take at least ten days for them to arrive.
"We’ll crush them all, no matter how many they send!" Zhao Hu interjected with a bold grin.
Ye Liuyun, along with Yu Yao and Zhao Hu, went up to the city wall to observe the terrain.
Wyang Wei, who had been watching Ye Liuyun closely all along, was now deeply impressed by him.
He never would have imagined that Ye Liuyun would make such a big move!
He reported everything he had observed truthfully to Wan Weihou.
Wan Weihou was overjoyed as well. However, he didn’t directly command Ye Liuyun. He just instructed Wyang Wei to continue cooperating with Ye Liuyun.
“What’s your next move?” Wyang Wei also asked Ye Liuyun about his plans going forward.
“Wait for the reinforcements to arrive, then seize their troops!” Ye Liuyun said decisively.
“If Jin Qianghou sends a large army, what then?” Wyang Wei asked with some concerns, still not quite used to Ye Liuyun’s bold fighting style.
“Bring however many they send, we’ll wipe them out!” Zhao Hu said boldly.
Ye Liuyun understood Wyang Wei’s concerns and explained, “At the start, he won’t send too many troops. We should try to capture as many soldiers as possible first. If they send a large army later, then we’ll retreat.”
Ye Liuyun didn’t want to reveal too much of his strength either. He wanted to try a more conventional approach to see if he could actually lead this army effectively.
However, he didn’t forget to ask Wyang Wei for military funds. He definitely didn’t want to pay out of his own pocket to support this army for someone else’s benefit.
"The soldiers need training and supplies. Please apply to Wan Weihou for the funding for these troops."
“The necessary expenses, and the small consumables don’t even need approval. The lord already told me about that beforehand.” Wyang Wei wasn’t stingy as he immediately handed Ye Liuyun a month’s worth of funding for the soldiers.
Ye Liuyun looked over it and laughed, “This funding won’t be enough to raise elite troops! You’d better apply to the Marquis as my soldiers need ten times this amount!”
Wyang Wei was taken aback for a moment, but he still went ahead and gave Ye Liuyun the funds.
He also knew that Wan Weihou didn’t really care about this small amount of resources at all.
Besides, since Ye Liuyun had made achievements, Wan Weihou would definitely agree to it. As for what happened afterward, they could wait and see how effective Ye Liuyun’s training would be first.
