Chapter 2776: Chapter 2776
"So what? We have a massive army here, numbering in the millions. Even if we all perish in battle, there are still enough troops to deal with those aliens. We don’t need anyone’s help. And you’re not welcome here. Leave!" The commander outright dismissed him.
"Fine." Ye Liuyun didn’t waste any more words. If they didn’t want to cooperate, he wouldn’t force them.
But then the commander added something that completely enraged him.
"I’m warning you—don’t even think about coveting our planet! You and your people must leave immediately!" the commander shouted at Ye Liuyun.
"Is that a threat?" Ye Liuyun stopped in his tracks and turned back, his voice icy. He couldn’t believe it—after saving their lives, not only were they ungrateful, but they dared to threaten him.
Did these people even stop to consider whether they had the strength to back up such a threat?
"Call it whatever you want!" The commander remained indifferent, outright admitting it.
Ye Liuyun studied him for a moment, his lips curling in disdain. Without another word, he turned away, retrieved the Demon Vine and the Sealing Stele, mounted his falcon, and left.
But he wasn’t leaving the star system. Instead, he headed straight for the farthest planet occupied by the alien forces.
Upon arrival, he immediately took action—annihilating the aliens and absorbing the planet’s core energy.
This maneuver effectively trapped the alien forces between two fronts. Unaware of Ye Liuyun’s true power, they quickly dispatched troops to eliminate him.
But Ye Liuyun simply released the four subdued alien overlords he had previously subdued—each at the eighth level of dominance—and had them relay a message: he was only there for the planets. The alien army could continue their assault on the humans without interference. They could keep all the spoils of war, but the core energy of the planets had to be left for him.
Intimidated by his overwhelming strength, the alien forces had no choice but to redirect their assault toward the human cultivators in the star system.
For the aliens’ own development, human cultivators were a far more valuable resource than planetary core energy. To them, these cultivators were both sustenance and cultivation resources, while core energy only benefited the strongest among them. The choice was an easy one to make.
Thus, Ye Liuyun simply trailed behind the alien forces, harvesting the essence energy of the star system while the aliens took charge of attacking and eliminating the human martial cultivators.
Ye Liuyun neither aided the human warriors nor assisted the aliens—he merely followed in their wake, collecting resources. He was still fuming over the provocation from the human commander. Determined to strip the entire star system of its essence energy, he wanted to see just how the man could threaten him now.
After suffering significant losses among their elite forces, the aliens shifted tactics, amassing a vast army of undead abominations to launch assaults against the human martial cultivators. As a result, the humans found themselves increasingly overwhelmed in battle, losing planet after planet.
Originally, the human forces had boasted two supreme warriors at the eighth level of Dominance. Yet, they never deployed both at once. This fatal misstep allowed the winged alien leader—also a Dominance-level powerhouse—to eliminate them one by one.
With their top-tier strength gone, the aliens grew bolder in their offensives, while the human martial cultivators suffered crushing defeats. Their forces were especially ill-prepared for the aliens’ coordinated aerial and ground assaults.
Some among them had witnessed the Spirit Cat warships Ye Liuyun unleashed in battle and attempted to replicate them. But their crude imitations, barely matching the original in appearance, paled in performance. The moment these knockoffs entered the battlefield, the winged aliens blasted them out of the sky, rendering them utterly useless.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun continued shadowing the aliens, gradually siphoning away the essence energy from half the star system’s planets. Eventually, the invaders stopped establishing outposts altogether, wary of Ye Liuyun destroying them again. Some planets, once cleared of human resistance, were abandoned immediately, allowing Ye Liuyun to absorb entire worlds into his spatial realm.
True to his word, he refrained from attacking the aliens, merely driving them off when necessary to claim the planets unhindered.
Before long, Ye Liuyun had seized sixty percent of the star system’s worlds. The human martial cultivators were left with dwindling territory, the remaining planets split evenly between them and the aliens.
The humans had long been aware of Ye Liuyun’s activities—trailing the aliens, harvesting essence energy, and claiming planets. But if they couldn’t even handle the aliens, what hope did they have against him?
Finally, at their breaking point, they sent envoys to negotiate, pleading for Ye Liuyun’s intervention against the alien forces.
"Wasn’t your grand commander the one threatening me?" Ye Liuyun scoffed. "Now you come begging? Fine—if he wants my help, let him come here himself and kneel in apology!"
Without another word, he dismissed them outright.
Their supreme commander was an exceedingly arrogant man who would rather die than admit his mistake to Ye Liuyun. Thus, they had no choice but to persist on their own. Naturally, Ye Liuyun had no intention of lending them a hand—until they were finally cornered on a single planet.
In the final battle, the alien forces launched an all-out assault, while the human martial cultivators fought with their backs against the wall.
After swiftly collecting the remaining planets, Ye Liuyun hurried over to observe the spectacle from a distance.
Surprisingly, the commander who had once threatened him was still alive. When the man spotted Ye Liuyun, his teeth ground together in helpless fury.
Ye Liuyun simply stood by, watching as the human martial cultivators were utterly annihilated by the aliens, witnessing the commander himself torn apart and devoured by the alien elites.
"Hmph! Fool who didn’t know his place!" Ye Liuyun cursed inwardly.
At last, the resentment in his heart was fully vented.
Without hesitation, he wielded the power of time, seizing the strongest alien warrior—a Dominator of the Eighth Heaven—while obliterating several Dominators of the Seventh Heaven with a sweep of white light.
Then, he summoned his own forces: his companions, an army of 200,000 demonic warriors, the captured Dominator of the Eighth Heaven, and the Spirit Cat battleship.
"Wipe out these aliens!"
Ye Liuyun had never intended to spare them. He had merely been making a point—forcing the commander to pay for his arrogance. Now that the man was dead, it was time to act.
Together, they launched their assault, slaughtering both the aliens and their undead puppets. The enemy was trapped on the planet, with no chance of escape.
Though the aliens and their undead horde numbered in the millions, Ye Liuyun’s demonic army was overwhelmingly powerful—most were Dominators of the Fourth or Fifth Heaven. Even the later-trained 50,000 demonic warriors, bolstered by vast resources, had reached the First or Second Heaven. Crushing soldiers who barely reached the First Heaven was effortless.
As for the alien elites? They were swiftly dealt with by Ye Liuyun’s inner circle. With seven Dominators of the Eighth Heaven—two human martial cultivators and five former alien warlords—working in unison, slaughtering hundreds of Sixth and Seventh Heaven elites was child’s play. Add in the Demon Vine, the Demon-Sealing Stele, and the Vermilion Bird, all now battle-ready, and the outcome was inevitable.
And then there were Ye Liuyun himself, his doppelgänger, and the Purple Kylin Snake—all wielders of time’s power—joining the fray. The alien elites were the first to fall.
