Chapter 2603: Chapter 2603
After finalizing their strategy, Ye Liuyun first positioned all his forces accordingly. Then, together with his doppelgänger, he launched a simultaneous assault.
Their combined attack obliterated the alien altar in an instant, annihilating the foreign elites stationed there as well. Ye Liuyun then summoned the Songstress and Lan’er, instructing them to eliminate the remaining enemies and extract the source energy.
Meanwhile, he and his doppelgänger teleported straight to the alien troop garrison.
The moment they arrived, they commanded everyone to strike immediately.
Ye Liuyun anticipated that the aliens might already be on high alert. If their other strongholds came under attack, they would quickly realize his plan—to sever all their teleportation routes—and would likely rush their strongest warriors here, forcing an early confrontation.
To counter this, Ye Liuyun and his doppelgänger deliberately hesitated for a brief moment. Only after confirming that the others had begun assaulting the teleportation altars did they spring into action.
Ye Liuyun first unleashed his temporal power, then channeled the full might of his spatial realm into a single, devastating palm strike.
It was the first time he had ever tapped into the spatial world’s energy at full force, so even he had no idea just how destructive this blow would be.
To his own astonishment, the overwhelming power erupted from his palm with a thunderous **BOOM**, instantly shattering every defensive formation in its path.
The reinforced altar—bolstered by the aliens—and the elite guardians surrounding it were all reduced to dust in an instant.
But the devastation didn’t stop there. His strike detonated an entire crystal sphere of source energy within the formation, compressing the explosive force downward and driving it straight into the planet’s core.
The world trembled violently as the earth itself split apart beneath the impact. Cracks spiderwebbed across the land, branching and widening uncontrollably.
By the time time resumed its flow, the entire world had already begun to collapse. The source energy buried deep underground was blasted free by the sheer force of his attack.
Seizing the moment, his doppelgänger swiftly collected the exposed source energy into their spatial realm.
Then, side by side, Ye Liuyun and his doppelgänger could only watch in stunned silence as the world crumbled around them.
"I feel like I could smash a planet twice this size with a single palm strike!"
After observing for a while, Ye Liuyun finally spoke in a calm, measured tone.
By then, they had also received word that the others had succeeded—all the altars had been destroyed. Now, everyone was busy clearing out the remaining alien forces within the strongholds.
Without hesitation, Ye Liuyun recalled his clones and used the Black Tower of Teleportation to assist them in wiping out the remaining aliens, retrieving their core energies, and regrouping before pursuing the main alien army.
When the alien chieftain, Xing Yan, learned that several of their strongholds had been simultaneously obliterated by Ye Liuyun, he flew into a rage. This meant they had lost all footholds in the eastern region.
Sending reinforcements would take at least half a year just to traverse the distance. Ye Liuyun had already eradicated numerous alien outposts, carving out a vast buffer zone.
Xing Yan immediately split the alien forces into two groups. One was tasked with finding a new landing site nearby to construct altars in preparation for future teleportation. The other continued their assault on the Jin Clan while attempting to win over Zhou Qiang, hoping to establish an altar within the Zhou Clan’s territory.
However, Ye Liuyun had no intention of giving them another chance. Using his Golden Pupils, he had been tracking the alien army from afar. The moment he noticed a detachment of 100,000 troops veering off in another direction, he realized they were searching for a new stronghold.
He ordered his clones to keep monitoring the main alien force while he led the rest of his team—along with the Falcon and armored soldiers—to intercept and annihilate the splinter group.
With the aid of the Demon-Sealing Stele, the Demon Vine, the Purple Kylin Snake, and other powerful allies, plus the Falcon and armored soldiers, the 100,000 alien troops stood no chance. They were slaughtered before they could even mount a defense.
Even Wu Qingcheng and the others found themselves without worthy opponents. Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, focused on protecting A Xing, Piao Yun, Lin Feier, and Qing Yan, giving them ample opportunity to hone their skills.
By now, these four women could easily handle ordinary alien captains, let alone rank-and-file soldiers.
Only after they had completely exhausted the energy stored in their Spirit Stones did Ye Liuyun step in to finish the job. Then, he led the group in hot pursuit of the remaining alien forces.
"So it really is Ye Liuyun!" Xing Yan seethed upon receiving the news.
Beside him, a three-eyed alien clad in golden armor remained unfazed. "If we can’t establish altars, there’s no point wasting effort. The remaining troops there are no match for Ye Liuyun—he won’t let them succeed anyway."
"Let the remaining soldiers wear themselves out against them. We’ll just wait for the decisive battle."
The three-eyed golden-armored alien was none other than Leyton, a rising star meticulously groomed by their kind. Not only was Leyton formidable in strength, but he was also composed and shrewd—a successor in whom Starlight Flame placed great hopes.
Starlight Flame nodded in agreement. "It seems we have no choice. What a pity the humans beat us to it. Had we acted sooner and sent reinforcements in advance..."
Leyton, however, offered reassurance. "This isn’t entirely bad. It gives us more time to prepare. The other new-generation forces can further hone their skills. Besides, now we’re the ones lying in wait—let them exhaust themselves on this long march. All we have to do is bide our time."
Starlight Flame nodded again and immediately called off the search for human outposts, ordering the alien forces to launch a direct assault on the Jin Clan’s territory instead.
The alien troops en route to the Jin Clan soon learned of Ye Liuyun’s arrival. Without hesitation, they switched to smaller, faster warships and raced toward their target at full speed.
Seeing this, Ye Liuyun commanded the Hawks to pursue and eliminate as many as possible. He and his companions also gave chase using spatial techniques, cutting down the enemy wherever they could.
The aliens deployed all their Swiftwings in a desperate attempt to intercept, even sending swarms of small warships to slow Ye Liuyun’s pursuit. But these were merely delaying tactics. Ye Liuyun’s forces and the Hawks relentlessly harried the aliens, leaving a trail of shattered warships and corpses strewn across the void—some blasted apart, others devoured by demonic vines.
By the time the battered alien forces finally reached the Zhou Clan’s territory, their losses were staggering. The moment they landed, Dian Qing and Zhou Ning led a vanguard of elite martial artists in a devastating ambush, throwing their ranks into chaos. Soon after, Meng Qingyin’s newly assembled army of 100,000 surged forward.
Ling Xiao, commanding 500,000 rebel martial artists, closed in from behind, encircling the aliens for the final slaughter.
The alien army’s strongest warriors had already been decimated by Zhou Ning earlier, leaving mostly ordinary soldiers. After being hounded mercilessly by Ye Liuyun, their hopes of survival upon landing were swiftly crushed. Before they could even catch their breath, they were met with a brutal counterattack.
The alien commanders fell one by one to Dian Qing and Zhou Ning, and the remaining forces, now leaderless, scattered like headless flies. But wherever they fled, Ling Xiao’s forces cut off their escape, sealing their fate.
