Chapter 2780: Chapter 2780
The blue-armored alien immediately ordered his subordinates to eliminate the entire demon tribe to prevent any leaks. Ye Liuyun collected all the corpses before following them as they retreated.
By the time they reached the planet where they had first landed, over a dozen blue-armored aliens had already gathered there. Having realized their cover was blown, they planned to regroup with their main forces and launch a full-scale assault.
Staying any longer would risk capture by powerful demons, who would undoubtedly send even stronger reinforcements next time. However, the blue-armored aliens were cunning—anyone returning to the fleet would first undergo a soul inspection before being allowed aboard.
Left with no choice, Ye Liuyun implanted slave seals on all of them, stashed them away in his spatial world, then shapeshifted into a demon to wait for the arrival of both the demon elites and the alien forces.
Within days, the demons dispatched over fifty experts at the seventh or eighth level of the Dominator Realm, scouring each tribe one by one to rescue the clan leaders and elders who had been under alien control.
Upon learning that the invaders had fled, they didn’t pursue. Instead, they left a dozen elites behind to monitor the situation while the rest hurried back to report.
Ye Liuyun swiftly took control of these remaining demons and learned that they were mobilizing forces to resist the aliens—though their single large tribe was no match for the overwhelming might of the alien army.
Their clan leader had reached out to other tribes for aid, but time was clearly running short.
The stationed elites had another mission: to evacuate demons from the surrounding planets to the main tribal stronghold. Ye Liuyun sent them to spread the order while his accelerated clone rushed over to harvest these demon-inhabited worlds.
For now, he had Lei Ming, the Demon Dragon, the Demon Vine, A Xing, and Lin Fei’er—all of whom cultivated demonic energy—handle the collection. By the time his clone arrived, they had already secured two planets.
The demons were baffled. How could entire planets vanish the moment they evacuated? They sent numerous scouts to investigate, but Ye Liuyun’s golden pupils detected them in advance, allowing him to evade detection.
Meanwhile, the alien fleet had begun accelerating. Unable to contact their dispatched blue-armored operatives, they knew their covert infiltration had failed—now, a direct assault was their only option.
The faster they moved, the less prepared the demons would be. The three colossal warships had already been stowed away, and the entire alien army now advanced toward the Scorpio Galaxy in a vast armada of ten-thousand-capacity vessels.
Demon scouts soon spotted the approaching fleet and relayed the news.
Though aware of the scale of the invasion, the other tribes were slow to react. Left with no alternative, the nearby clans gathered every demon above the fourth level of the Dominator Realm and deployed them into the void to face the enemy.
This demonic tribe controlled over two hundred planets and had gathered tens of thousands of warriors. Yet, these forces appeared pitifully inadequate against the onslaught of the alien invaders.
The rest of their kin had already fled to seek refuge with other tribes. Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun sent his doppelganger with Lei Ming and the others to seize the opportunity and collect these demonic planets, while he himself kept watch over the unfolding battle.
The demons sent forth their strongest warriors, and naturally, the aliens responded in kind. However, the invaders deployed only a handful of Eighth-Level Dominators, instead positioning the three-eyed aliens at the vanguard of their elite forces. Unaware of the three-eyed aliens’ terrifying power, the demonic tribe placed their own Eighth-Level Dominators at the front lines.
The moment the battle began, the demons suffered devastating losses. Their foremost elite fighters were obliterated in an instant by alternating waves of white and black light.
The alien forces then advanced en masse. While the three-eyed aliens remained stationary, the rest of their warriors surged forward. Meanwhile, the three-eyed ones encircled the entire battlefield, attacking the demons from the outside in.
Ye Liuyun could already foresee the demons’ fate—every last warrior of this tribe would be slaughtered.
So, he intermittently employed his temporal and soul powers to capture the three-eyed aliens. By the battle’s end, the entire demonic force had been annihilated, reduced to mere cultivation resources for the invaders. Ye Liuyun, however, had seized over fifty three-eyed aliens—a substantial haul.
He gave some to Lei Ming to enhance her golden pupils, while the rest were assimilated into his own alien legion.
The invaders emerged victorious, though the loss of fifty-odd three-eyed aliens was dismissed as casualties inflicted by the demons. But when they attempted to land, they discovered their target planets had vanished.
Assuming the demons had reclaimed them, they had no idea that Ye Liuyun’s doppelganger and Lei Ming’s team had raced against time to gather the nearby planets into their spatial realm before the battle concluded. They then retreated to refine their spoils.
Left with no choice, the aliens sought another landing site, attacking a planet belonging to a different tribe and establishing it as their new stronghold.
The moment they secured their foothold, they launched relentless assaults on the tribe’s other planets, constructing defensive lines around their base to create strategic depth.
Witnessing this, Ye Liuyun realized the alien elder with the broken horn was no amateur in warfare—he was a formidable tactician not to be underestimated.
Without delay, Ye Liuyun used the Black Tower of Teleportation to retrieve all five million of his troops back into his spatial realm. He ordered their commanders to observe the aliens’ combat tactics firsthand, ensuring they were well-prepared for the battles to come.
Although he wasn’t ready to assist the demonic forces just yet, he knew he would eventually intervene. It’s just that the alien invaders were currently too powerful—acting now would be too costly.
When Yu Xiaofeng and the others returned, they too had gained a firsthand understanding of the alien invaders’ strength.
"I suggest we have the demonic army launch an attack from another direction—the Scorpius Star System," Yu Xiaofeng proposed to Ye Liuyun. "We can capture powerful demons while expanding our forces and seizing their planets. We’ll keep pushing forward until we engage the alien invaders directly!"
Ye Liuyun nodded in agreement, thinking it would be a waste to let the demonic resources be depleted by the aliens.
He then ordered Yu Xiaofeng and his clone to lead Thunderclap, the Demon Vine, the Demon-Sealing Stele, the Nine-Headed Netherdrake, A-Xing, Lin Feier, and other demonic cultivators—along with the demonic army and the elite Vanguard Corps—to attack the demons from another front.
Their goal was to subdue and claim planets rather than slaughter the demons, preserving as much of their fighting force as possible.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun remained behind to monitor the alien invaders, ambushing their strongest warriors to weaken their forces.
In every battle that followed, he took advantage of the chaos to capture or kill key alien warriors. Occasionally, when he encountered particularly powerful demons, he seized them as well—though he acted discreetly. With the power of time masking his movements, neither the aliens nor the demons could easily detect his actions amid the fighting.
