Chapter 2471: Chapter 2471
After hiding for several days, Ye Liuyun learned from members of the Black Kill organization, such as Mosha and Youming, that they had no intention of hunting him down.
"It seems Xiao Qiwu isn’t ready to sever ties with me completely!"
He also felt that there was no immediate need to confront Black Kill.
However, the Holy Land Dynasty was now issuing a worldwide manhunt for Ye Liuyun.
Not only that, they had begun raiding Black Kill’s secret strongholds across the regions, clearly aiming to pressure the organization into handing him over.
Ye Liuyun decided to reach out to the Holy Land Dynasty via a communication talisman. While he wasn’t afraid of being hunted, the wanted status tarnished his reputation and could hinder future alliances with them.
Yet the Holy Land Dynasty arrogantly demanded his immediate surrender, along with the forfeiture of his treasures, equipment, and armies.
"Have you lost your minds? You think you have what it takes to make me surrender?" Ye Liuyun fumed, his voice sharp with indignation.
"Millions of alien races couldn’t stand against us—what makes you think your meager forces can compete? Dream on if you think we’d ever ally with you!"
The Holy Land Dynasty’s reply was resolute, their confidence unshaken, dismissing any notion of cooperation with him.
Ye Liuyun felt a chill at both Black Kill’s inaction and the Holy Land Dynasty’s arrogance.
"These self-important fools won’t take us seriously unless we make them bleed. If they’re hell-bent on courting death, then we’ll oblige them with a brutal lesson!"
With that thought, he ordered Yu Xiaofeng to prepare the troops for battle, intending to strike at the Holy Land Dynasty’s fleets and armies to force them into retreat.
To ensure success, he personally scouted the enemy’s military deployments.
Currently, the Holy Land Dynasty maintained a force of a million soldiers stationed at Satellite Island, with another two million spread across the starry expanse surrounding their home planet, guarding its periphery.
"Xiaofeng, you take the Blade Corps, the Beast Legion, and half a million troops to lead the assault on Satellite Island. Yuan Hao, Man Feng, Han Mutong, Sui Fenghu—you don’t need to commit all your forces. Just deploy the Falcon Battleships to intercept and attack the fleets from the Sacred Dynasty in space, cutting off their reinforcements. I’ll take the martial cultivators and formation masters to sabotage the teleportation arrays."
After finalizing the strategy, Ye Liuyun wasted no time putting it into action.
First, he and the Qiong Qi stealthily approached the teleportation array on Satellite Island, mapping out their plan of destruction. Then, leading a force of martial cultivators, over a hundred war chariots, and thousands of soldiers armed with energy cannons, he launched a direct assault, obliterating the array before the defenders could react. By the time the garrison forces scrambled to retaliate, Ye Liuyun had already slipped away through the Dark Teleportation Tower.
Next, he unleashed his main army, ordering Yu Xiaofeng to commence the attack. Yuan Hao, Man Feng, and the others also released their Falcon Battleships, raining down a devastating first strike on Satellite Island’s garrison forces. Their Swift Swallow fighters were nearly wiped out before the Falcons even turned their sights toward the stars.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun infiltrated the enemy’s martial cultivators once more, lying in wait to ambush any elite reinforcements. Throughout the operation, any cultivators tasked with repairing the teleportation arrays were either captured or eliminated, ensuring the arrays remained inoperable. Without them, the Sacred Dynasty couldn’t dispatch reinforcements—neither elite fighters nor additional troops.
The sudden, overwhelming assault left both the Sacred Dynasty and the Black Killers reeling in shock.
From the very start of the battle, Satellite Island’s Swift Swallow fleet was almost entirely annihilated. Yu Xiaofeng then launched a second wave of attacks, combining Falcon strikes, war chariots, puppet beasts, and energy cannons in a relentless bombardment. Once the enemy defenses were sufficiently weakened, the Beast Legion moved in to mop up the survivors.
The remaining half a million troops primarily served as a defensive perimeter, securing the flanks and rarely engaging directly.
During the chaos, Tong Xin and the Qiong Qi also took the opportunity to field-test their armored warriors, refining the exosuits in real combat. Even with only seventh-level Immortal Realm cultivators piloting them, the suits allowed them to unleash attacks rivaling second-level Heavenly Realm power. If ninth-level Immortal Realm or even first-level Heavenly Realm cultivators wore them, they could easily hold their own against third-level Heavenly Realm opponents.
If these exosuits could be mass-produced, Ye Liuyun would no longer face a shortage of elite soldiers—he could effortlessly forge an unstoppable army.
And in the vast expanse of space, the battle was an even more resounding victory.
Against the formidable Falcon fighters, the Swallow crafts stood no chance. The massive warships of the Holy Land Dynasty became nothing more than live targets for the Falcons, and countless soldiers met gruesome deaths—crushed by spatial pressure as their vessels were blasted apart.
Within just days of the conflict’s onset, the Holy Land Dynasty had already lost five fleets in the cosmos, each numbering a hundred thousand strong.
With the Falcons enforcing a blockade, both the Holy Land Dynasty and the Black Killers initially planned to dispatch elite forces to capture Ye Liuyun—but none dared to make the attempt. Even their most powerful warriors couldn’t breach the Falcons’ defensive perimeter. Any ship they sent would be doomed from the start.
Faced with this, Xiao Qiwu of the Black Killers had no choice but to reach out to Ye Liuyun, urging him to reconsider.
"These soldiers will be needed to fight the alien invaders. If you slaughter them now, aren’t you just aiding the enemy?"
"So what?" Ye Liuyun shot back coldly. "If they refuse an alliance, why should I spare them a thought? The Holy Land means nothing to me. Let it burn."
This time, Ye Liuyun showed no deference to the Black Killers. Xiao Qiwu knew he had provoked the man’s wrath—and that his own past actions bore some responsibility. He didn’t press further, instead advising the Holy Land Dynasty to back down.
But surrender was the last thing the Holy Land Dynasty wanted. At first, they hurled threats, vowing all-out war against Ye Liuyun.
"Your Falcons may be strong, but they can’t hold against our numbers!"
True to their word, they mustered three million troops in the Holy Land, threatening a full-scale assault. They stockpiled warships and Swallow crafts, betting sheer quantity could overwhelm the Falcons’ blockade.
Ye Liuyun remained unfazed. His response was brief: "Come whenever you’re ready."
He knew the Holy Land Dynasty wouldn’t dare escalate to total war.
Those three million troops might breach his defenses—but at what cost? With their forces decimated, how would they repel the alien threat later?
Meanwhile, on another front, Yu Xiaofeng had already crushed over four hundred thousand soldiers stationed on Satellite Island, taking a hundred thousand prisoners.
These troops were no match in terms of equipment or combat strength against the demon beast legion. Reinforcements from the Sacred Dynasty couldn’t break through, and even escape by warship was impossible—any vessel attempting to flee would be blasted out of the sky by the patrolling hawks.
Morale among the soldiers had plummeted. They crumbled at the first sign of battle, surrendering en masse, their defensive lines collapsing as they retreated in disarray. Yu Xiaofeng swiftly seized their base, driving them out completely.
During the takeover, nearly 200,000 more soldiers were captured, marking a total and utter rout for the Sacred Dynasty’s forces, now scattering in every direction.
With the satellite island secured, Yu Xiaofeng dispatched another 500,000 troops to round up the fleeing stragglers. Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun ordered several squadrons of hawks to launch sporadic strikes against the Sacred Dynasty’s regrouping armies. These relentless, unpredictable bombardments further shattered their already broken morale.
