Chapter 2651: Chapter 2651
Thus, the alien troops had barely disembarked from their warships and hadn’t even had time to regroup when the demon army launched another fierce assault.
With the altars destroyed, the aliens had nowhere to retreat but to scramble back onto their ships in disarray. Ye Liuyun followed the same strategy as before—sending the Falcon warships in pursuit while he stayed behind to scour the battlefield, harvesting the essence energy. Then, he would leisurely tour the area with his companions, only speeding ahead when the aliens neared their next stronghold.
After several rounds of this cat-and-mouse chase, the alien forces dwindled to a mere fifty or sixty thousand, constantly on the run from Ye Liuyun.
Tolin, unwilling to abandon these soldiers, refused to dismantle the remaining strongholds, hoping they might still find a way to teleport back via the altars. He even reinforced the forward bases with additional elite alien warriors.
Unfortunately, these reinforcements proved no match for Ye Liuyun. Instead, they became yet another source of soul energy and resources for him and his allies.
The fleeing alien army eventually became too terrified to engage in battle. At the sight of Ye Liuyun’s approach, they no longer even bothered to land—simply veering their ships away and fleeing onward. Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun systematically destroyed every altar they left behind, claiming all their resources for himself.
In the end, Tolin had no choice but to grit his teeth and order the evacuation of all remaining alien outposts. If he delayed any longer, Ye Liuyun would soon be at their doorstep.
The disappearance of the next alien stronghold signaled to Ye Liuyun that the enemy had finally given up on their scattered forces. Seizing the moment, he unleashed the full might of the demon army, deploying all Falcon warships to strike the aliens mid-flight through the cosmos.
One by one, their ships were blasted apart, their crews hunted down and exterminated. The alien army was utterly annihilated, and with their defeat, the remaining outposts were swiftly abandoned.
Without pause, Ye Liuyun raced toward the alien stronghold. His spies embedded among the enemy had reported that the alien forces were preparing to flee.
By now, the aliens had fully mobilized, assembling their massive warships in what appeared to be a full-scale retreat from the Sacred Sword Galaxy. Tolin, realizing that his remaining million-strong army might not withstand Ye Liuyun’s demonic forces—and with their elite warriors already decimated—had decided against a direct confrontation.
After all, they had already plundered most of the Sacred Sword Galaxy’s resources. It made more sense to move on to fresh hunting grounds, far from Ye Liuyun’s reach.
But they had sorely underestimated his resolve. Anticipating their escape, Ye Liuyun pushed forward with relentless speed, determined to intercept them. He would not let them slip away. As long as they didn’t vanish through some teleportation altar, he would chase them to the ends of the cosmos.
Once the alien forces—now numbering in the millions—had boarded their warships, they began siphoning the essence energy from their base before launching into the void of space.
"Follow them and keep me updated at all times," Ye Liuyun immediately ordered the two alien spies to continue tracking the enemy fleet. The alien warships weren’t particularly fast—any cultivator at the Dominator level could keep pace with them.
Ye Liuyun was already close enough that he saw no need to waste resources by activating the Black Tower for teleportation. At this distance, catching up wouldn’t take long. The aliens had no chance of escape.
Moreover, he had adjusted his course based on the direction the aliens were fleeing, eliminating the need to head for their base first. He estimated he would overtake them within ten days.
Unbeknownst to the aliens, Ye Liuyun was hot on their trail. Past experiences had ingrained in them the belief that only they pursued human cultivators—never the other way around.
So when Ye Liuyun appeared at the flank and rear of their fleet, they didn’t notice at first. It wasn’t until he unleashed his Falcon warships and launched an assault on their last 100,000-class vessel that they realized they were being hunted.
Their alien warships, far inferior in defense, were quickly torn apart by tens of thousands of Falcon vessels. The surviving aliens clashed with Ye Liuyun’s forces in the void of space.
Tolin immediately dispatched elite warriors as reinforcements, but against Ye Liuyun and the Purple Kylin Snake’s mastery of temporal power, resistance was futile. No matter how many elites they sent, unless Ye Liuyun engaged them directly, they were merely delivering themselves to their doom.
The elites were almost instantly branded with slave marks and absorbed into his spatial world, while ordinary soldiers were slaughtered en masse. In desperation, Tolin mobilized another 100,000 troops to stall Ye Liuyun’s forces, buying time for the remaining warships to flee.
Watching this desperate maneuver, Ye Liuyun smirked inwardly. Instead of chasing the escaping fleet, he focused on annihilating the alien forces blocking his path alongside his companions and the demonic warriors.
Once the obstruction was cleared, he ordered the Falcon fleet to resume pursuit.
With the Falcons’ speed, Ye Liuyun had no concerns about the enemy slipping away. Even if Tolin had a month’s head start, escape was impossible.
After another warship fell to the Falcons, Tolin panicked completely. He hadn’t anticipated the sheer power of Ye Liuyun’s Falcon fleet and the demonic warriors—victory was unattainable.
He sent yet another 100,000 aliens to intercept while the remaining warships scattered in all directions. Ye Liuyun assigned one of the red-armored alien spies to track Tolin’s vessel, while the other was sent after a random ship.
Meanwhile, he swiftly eradicated the latest wave of blockers before leading the Falcon fleet to hunt down the untracked alien warships.
The Falcons split into squadrons, combing forward in a sweeping net. Whenever they located a vessel, Ye Liuyun and his forces descended, leaving no survivors.
The alien race had never suffered such a devastating pursuit before—utterly defenseless and powerless to fight back. The resources they had plundered now became stockpiled treasures for Ye Liuyun without lifting a finger.
Squad after squad of elite alien soldiers, once formidable forces, were reduced to mere cultivation resources for Ye Liuyun’s demonic army. Seizing the opportunity, Ye Liuyun and his allies captured numerous aliens, keeping them alive for training purposes. At the same time, their spiritual power underwent a qualitative leap.
Even A Xing and the others now actively employed soul attacks, relentlessly honing their spiritual strength. Through continuous devouring, refinement, and tempering during this period, their spiritual power had already surpassed that of the red-armored aliens.
Ye Liuyun’s spiritual prowess stood out even more prominently. His golden pupils had once witnessed Tuo Lin’s formidable soul force, but now, his own had risen to nearly the same level. That was precisely why he wasn’t in a hurry to hunt Tuo Lin down. Instead, he focused on eliminating other aliens first, waiting until his strength completely eclipsed Tuo Lin’s before delivering a shocking surprise.
Soon, the four alien warships that had gone untracked were all located and destroyed by Ye Liuyun. All the Falcon scouts then converged on the single remaining tracked vessel.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun took the chance to refine his spiritual power within his clone’s spatial realm. Originally, his soul force had weakened compared to his physical strength. But after the battle with the red-armored aliens, his spiritual power multiplied several times over, reclaiming its place as his most formidable asset.
