Chapter 2782: Chapter 2782
Ye Liuyun was pleasantly surprised to find that the local demonic tribes weren’t xenophobic. He agreed to their request—when his forces reclaimed demonic planets in the future, they would leave half the territory for these tribes to inhabit.
The alien invaders’ advance had slowed, but their momentum remained unstoppable, steadily conquering planet after planet. However, they couldn’t hold onto their conquests—the moment they withdrew, Ye Liuyun’s doppelgänger would reclaim the worlds.
Using the teleportation black towers, the doppelgänger shuttled between battlefronts, absorbing and refining these planets at an accelerated pace within pocket dimensions. Alone, he had already assimilated over two hundred demonic worlds—far more than the rest of the forces combined.
Eventually, the aliens adapted. Before retreating, they began siphoning off the planets’ core energies, leaving nothing for Ye Liuyun.
"This can’t go on," Ye Liuyun muttered, his expression darkening. "If they keep draining these worlds, all the resources will fall into their hands!"
Determined to turn the tide, he focused on finding a way to control the alien advance. The solution was clear: he needed to trap them between two fronts—preventing them from advancing to plunder more worlds while also cutting off their escape.
By now, Ye Liuyun’s forces, though not yet strong enough to decisively crush the aliens, could certainly make retreat difficult.
Acting swiftly, he and his doppelgänger circled behind the alien army. Deploying five million troops under Qin Peng’s command, with Yuan Hao, Xiao Yunfang, and Meng Qingyin spearheading the assault, they seized several occupied planets, effectively sandwiching the invaders between their forces.
Once the strategic encirclement was complete, Ye Liuyun didn’t press the attack. Instead, he maintained the stalemate, matching every alien advance with his own, keeping relentless pressure on them.
The blue-armored elder with the broken horn quickly sensed the danger. In response, he dispatched his prized million-strong blue-armored legion, rallying every available elite warrior for a desperate assault, hoping to shatter Ye Liuyun’s forces in one decisive blow.
But the battle didn’t go as planned.
Ye Liuyun and his doppelgänger struck first, using temporal powers to capture numerous alien elites. The Violet Kylin then unleashed a devastating wave of attacks, followed by the alien mercenary squad, the Demon-Sealing Stele, the Demon Vine, and the Vermilion Bird, which together crippled the enemy’s strongest fighters.
Meanwhile, Yuan Hao’s one million troops, bolstered by fifty thousand silver-armored vanguards, clashed fiercely with the blue-armored legion. Equipped with Spirit-Cat gear and other advanced weaponry, they overwhelmed the aliens.
Just as the invaders attempted to retreat, Xiao Yunfang and Meng Qingyin’s forces ambushed them, encircling the bulk of the blue-armored army. The remnants fled in disarray—only to run straight into Kui Shan and Qiang Hui, each leading five hundred thousand soldiers in a relentless pursuit.
In the end, fewer than two hundred thousand of the blue-armored alien warriors managed to flee back to their own kind, and even their dispatched elite forces suffered over fifty percent casualties.
But that wasn’t the end of it. Ye Liuyun had sent the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon ahead to notify the demonic races, instructing them to gather their forces and attack an alien planet garrisoned by five hundred thousand troops. He assured them that most of the alien elites would be lured away by then, and in return, the demons only needed to hand over the corpses of the slain aliens.
Naturally, the demons agreed. The corpses were useless to them—they couldn’t convert them into energy. What they really wanted were the resources stored in the aliens’ spatial rings. It was a perfect arrangement where both sides got exactly what they needed.
So while Ye Liuyun was engaged in battle, the assembled demonic forces struck an alien world, wiping out all five hundred thousand stationed troops. The alien corpses were then handed over to the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon as promised.
For the alien race, this battle was nothing short of a crushing defeat—a devastating blow that left them severely weakened.
The blue-armored elder with the broken horn immediately ordered a further retreat, sensing imminent danger. But by then, Ye Liuyun had already cut off their escape route. The alien army was trapped, with no way out unless they could break through the demonic frontlines—and even if they succeeded, the losses would be catastrophic.
Ye Liuyun’s alien warrior squad had suffered nearly seventy percent casualties, but he had also captured a significant number of prisoners. Though their numbers were now less than half of what they once were, the surviving warriors were all at the seventh or eighth level of the Dominator Realm, making them even more formidable in combat.
Meanwhile, the alien forces had lost most of their top-tier fighters. The corpses of the three-eyed aliens were stripped of their eyes, which Ye Liuyun and his allies refined to further enhance their Golden Pupil abilities.
All the alien corpses collected from the battle were fed to the Demon Vine and the Demon-Suppressing Stele, allowing both to grow stronger.
As for the Vermilion Bird, its cultivation soared straight to the eighth level of the Dominator Realm after absorbing an overwhelming amount of soul energy from fallen elites. The sudden surge even destabilized its foundation, forcing Ye Liuyun to send it back into his doppelgänger’s inner world to absorb primordial energy and consolidate its newfound power.
After devouring countless alien corpses, both the Demon-Suppressing Stele and the Demon Vine retreated into deep slumber, falling silent for the time being.
But the aliens knew nothing of this. Fresh from their crushing defeat, they dared not attempt another attack.
Not that Ye Liuyun was worried. Even without those three powerful allies, his alien warrior squad was now more than capable of holding its own.
The balance of power had shifted—while the alien forces, caught between two enemies and unable to replenish their strength, would only grow weaker.
On another front, the demon army led by Yu Xiaofeng had swelled to five hundred thousand strong, all recruited from warriors at the third, fourth, and fifth levels of the Dominator Realm. Their elite forces now numbered over ten thousand, exclusively comprising those at the sixth level of the Dominator Realm or higher.
The weaker demons who either couldn’t meet the recruitment standards or had no desire to enlist remained scattered across various planets, waiting to be collected by the avatar into the spatial world—where they would serve as reserve forces for future campaigns.
No sooner had the avatar wrapped up the battle against the alien race than it immediately shifted focus to harvesting demon-occupied planets, working tirelessly day after day.
Ye Liuyun surmised that the aliens would soon seek an opportunity to flee.
If he were in their position—knowing they were outmatched—he would certainly devise an escape plan. Thus, he kept a close watch on the blue-armored elder with the broken horn, monitoring his every move.
Though the demons lacked sophisticated tactics, they were far from foolish. The recent battle had left the alien forces severely weakened, a fact the demons clearly recognized. They began concentrating their strength, launching counterattacks to halt the aliens’ advance and even reclaiming several planets in the process.
This relentless pressure from both sides left the alien forces trapped in the middle, unable to maneuver.
To compound their misery, the demons continuously dispatched small raiding parties to harass them. These were suicide squads, fighting to the last man unless annihilated. The aliens had no choice but to deploy their own elites in response, leaving them in a state of perpetual unrest.
After their clash with the blue-armored alien army, Yuan Hao, Xiao Yunfang, and Meng Qingyin had all sustained injuries and withdrew to the rear to replenish their troops and recuperate. Meanwhile, the remaining three armies maintained a stranglehold on the aliens from three separate directions, ensuring no avenue of escape.
