Chapter 2693: Chapter 2693
Through soul-searching, Liu Yunyao finally realized that this squad belonged to Liu Yunheng’s forces and had been deliberately stalling her under orders. Yet she had foolishly helped them hunt demonic beasts.
"How dare they deceive me like this! Did they really think I was that gullible?"
Blinded by fury, Liu Yunyao devoured the squad leader’s soul and stormed into their warship, slaughtering every last soldier until none remained. Meanwhile, the demonic lion scavenged all their resources, even stripping the abandoned warships bare.
"Get rid of all the communication talismans in their storage rings—we can’t risk being tracked," Liu Yunyao commanded, her mind now sharp and focused.
The demonic lion obeyed immediately, sorting through the spoils and discarding the talismans. Pleased with its efficiency, Liu Yunyao rewarded it with a high-capacity Interspatial Ring to carry more loot.
Once the soldiers were dealt with, she returned to report to Ye Liuyun.
"I was careless earlier. I didn’t realize Liu Yunheng was onto us," she admitted, her voice tinged with regret.
Ye Liuyun simply shook his head. "We can’t harvest this Devil Beast realm now—it’ll only bring you trouble."
"So... we came all this way for nothing?" Guilt gnawed at her. Her mistake had wasted his time.
"Not entirely," he replied with a faint smile. "Didn’t Liu Yunheng send an army? Consider this more training." He urged her to replenish her energy in her doppelgänger’s spatial realm and refill her energy-storing stones, preparing for battle.
"You mean... the two of us against Liu Yunheng’s entire army?" Doubt flickered in her eyes.
"Are you scared?" he teased.
"I’m worried about *you*," she murmured.
Ye Liuyun chuckled. "How will we know who’ll come out on top unless we try? Go train. Don’t worry about me—handling these soldiers is well within my abilities."
Seeing Liu Yunyao’s confidence, Liu Yunyao said no more and immediately went to replenish her vital energy.
The other women and demon beasts, upon learning that a battle was imminent, also began preparing eagerly, ready to join Liu Yunyao for some action.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun absorbed demonic energy on the spot, cultivating the power of heaven and earth as well as spatial energy, circling the planet countless times.
Just as Liu Yunheng’s army marched toward this demon beast world, the barbarian tribes also received intelligence from their scouts and promptly dispatched their own forces in this direction.
The barbarians didn’t actually know what the Liu Lin Dynasty was planning—they were merely taking precautions to avoid being ambushed.
The moment these two armies set out, Ye Liuyun’s golden pupils had already detected them.
"Perfect timing. Two hundred thousand soldiers should be enough for us to stretch our limbs," Ye Liuyun remarked. He delegated tasks to his doppelgänger, instructing it to lead Lei Ming, the Demon Vine, and the Giant Demon Clan to eliminate the barbarian forces.
As for himself, he would protect the women and demon beasts while dealing with Liu Yunheng’s army. Liu Yunyao, in particular, was likely their primary target, so Ye Liuyun also had Xenocide and Phantom Hand conceal themselves to guard her covertly.
Among his women and demon beasts, Liu Yunyao was the weakest in cultivation—everyone else was at least at the first level of the Dominator Realm, and each had taken extensive defensive measures. Ye Liuyun didn’t need to focus too much on protecting them.
The only regret was that Liu Yunheng hadn’t accompanied his army. Otherwise, they could have eliminated him—the biggest obstacle—right then and there.
The moment Liu Yunheng’s forces arrived, Ye Liuyun led his group in a direct assault. Shockingly, they charged forward in a formation that encircled the enemy army.
The opposing troops were utterly baffled—until Ye Liuyun’s group closed in and revealed their cultivation levels. By then, it was too late to retreat. Several commanders were killed instantly, and every strike from Ye Liuyun’s side claimed countless soldiers’ lives.
Liang Xue’s sword pierced through the entire army from front to back in a single thrust, her blade’s energy—several meters wide—slicing through the ranks like paper. Wu Qingcheng, Man Shu, Little Lan Bing, and others unleashed their frost power, freezing thousands into ice sculptures in an instant.
The Vermilion Bird’s soul attacks felled entire swaths of soldiers at once. When the Dragon Girl revealed her true form, a single sweep of her body reduced scores of soldiers to pulp. Even A Xing, Piao Yun, and the others slaughtered countless troops with every strike.
Liu Yunyao watched, stunned. The enemy’s hundred-thousand-strong army was completely overwhelmed—this wasn’t a battle but a one-sided massacre.
Normally, even a single Dominator-level expert would be difficult for them to withstand, let alone facing so many at once. The soldiers immediately threw down their weapons and fled in panic.
Liu Yunheng’s deployed formation master seized the chance to ambush Liu Yunyao, trapping her within a confinement array. However, he was swiftly struck down by Xenocide with a beam of dark energy. The array itself was shattered by a single palm strike from Ye Liuyun, leaving Liu Yunyao virtually unharmed.
Realizing that Ye Liuyun was secretly protecting her, Liu Yunyao cast aside all hesitation. She summoned her dragon-elephant mount and charged straight into the heart of the enemy forces.
"White Tiger, take your legion and cut off the fleeing soldiers—don’t let a single one escape!" Ye Liuyun commanded.
With a resounding roar, the White Tiger unleashed his pack from his spatial realm, encircling Liu Yunheng’s army and herding the fleeing soldiers back inward, trapping them once more.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun’s clone had already sprung into action. Thunderclap revealed her true form, surging into the barbarian horde wreathed in demonic energy and crackling lightning. The Demon Vine extended its tendrils, sealing off escape routes.
The clone led the giant demon warriors in a devastating assault, testing his newly ascended Dominator-tier strength and spatial powers in the process.
**BOOM! BOOM!**
The earth-shaking impacts from his attacks dwarfed even Ye Liuyun’s own, sending tremors through the void itself. With a single spatial lock, he froze the battlefield, then unleashed a devastating palm strike that obliterated nearly half the barbarian army in an instant.
The shockwave alone sent the remaining soldiers flying, their terrified screams cut short as the Demon Vine devoured them whole. A single tendril could now snatch dozens of soldiers at once, but when it chose to lash out instead, the carnage was even more gruesome.
Meanwhile, Hatu swung his spiked bone club with brutal force, reducing every soldier within dozens of yards to a bloody mist.
Unable to resist testing his own powers, Ye Liuyun focused his golden pupils on the densest cluster of enemies and unleashed twin flames—one yin, one yang—engulfing the battlefield in a blazing inferno of contrasting hues. His flames, now imbued with sentience, grew stronger by the day.
Then, with a thought, he withdrew the fire and unleashed a wave of frost, freezing the charred corpses in place. A final barrage of lightning reduced the frozen statues to shattered fragments of ice.
