Chapter 2962: Chapter 2962
Xuan Yuanling promptly informed Wu Qingcheng about Ye Liuyun’s mention of power of bloodline inheritance.
Upon learning this, the women immediately began gathering resources to enhance their power of bloodline, making it a priority in their cultivation. Even if their realms didn’t advance, they couldn’t afford to let their power of bloodline lag too far behind—lest Ye Liuyun lose interest in them.
Ye Liuyun noticed their focus on power of bloodline but didn’t pay it much mind. After all, cultivation progress was always a good thing, so he left them to it.
With the army’s return imminent, he had plenty of other matters to attend to.
Tong Xin and the other weapon-refining master had upgraded Ye Liuyun’s Energy Storage Stones and Energy Conversion Cauldrons, expanding their capacity to sustain him for ten full uses even after he reached the Unity Realm.
Pleased with the improvements, Ye Liuyun also requested they update the women’s equipment first.
Meanwhile, in the spatial world of his first clone, Hei Shan and the Tiger-Head Beast King had finished selecting elite warriors from the ancient demon army—200,000 in total—and had begun training them in battle formations.
Hei Yan and Sha Ying, serving as Hei Shan’s guard captains, organized a demonic guard unit from the strongest warriors. The skeletal puppets acted as overseers, executing any demon soldiers who violated discipline on the spot.
The remaining demon soldiers returned to the demon planet, standing by as reserves.
However, Hei Shan encountered difficulties in training. As the ancient demons and original demonic forces grew stronger, traditional battle formations became increasingly impractical. Moreover, the warriors had to hold back during drills, fearing they might shatter the entire planet.
The ancient demon planet, a relic from the primordial world, was sturdier than most, but even it couldn’t withstand concentrated attacks from too many demons at once. Ordinary planets were even more fragile—a single powerful demon could crack one apart.
Ye Liuyun consulted Yu Xiaofeng and found that they faced similar issues. As the soldiers’ strength grew, their old formations became less effective.
Now, troops had to spread out widely to coordinate, making it impossible to fully utilize the formations’ original power.
"For now, let’s focus on discipline, formation drills, and teamwork," Ye Liuyun decided. "Once Broken Horn returns with the alien army, we can learn from them. The surrendered soldiers from the Golden Tiger Corps likely have formations better suited to our current strength."
He wasn’t overly concerned and simply instructed Hei Shan to continue drilling the army in discipline and coordination. As for specialized combat formations, they would wait for Broken Horn’s return to refine them further.
In no time, Yu Xiaofeng’s army had fully assembled, and Ye Liuyun used the Black Teleportation Tower to bring them back first. Then came the alien army led by Broken Horn, which was also retrieved by Ye Liuyun after the battle concluded.
Ye Liuyun even had Xuan Yuanling specially arrange for an uninhabited planet to serve as their temporary garrison.
Yu Xiaofeng’s original million-strong army had now dwindled to six hundred thousand. However, the average strength of the ordinary soldiers had risen to the sixth level of the Dominator Realm.
The elite Blade Corps, once much larger, now numbered just over ten thousand. Yet among them, over a thousand had broken through to the Unity Realm, while the rest were uniformly at the peak of the Dominator Realm—ninth level.
Broken Horn’s alien forces, initially fewer than three hundred thousand, had grown in number through battle, now reaching three hundred thousand. Most of their soldiers were at the eighth or ninth level of the Dominator Realm. Broken Horn and the other former ninth-level Dominator elites had all advanced to the Unity Realm, with their numbers also swelling to over a thousand.
Not only had their strength increased, but they had also stockpiled vast quantities of alien corpses as both food and resource reserves.
Ye Liuyun and his clones spent considerable time meticulously verifying that none of their souls had been compromised before allowing them to settle in for rest and reorganization. He also ordered them to streamline their forces down to two hundred thousand, ensuring every remaining soldier reached the ninth level of the Dominator Realm.
Both Ye Liuyun and Yu Xiaofeng, along with the other commanders, couldn’t help but marvel: "The aliens truly advance faster through devouring!"
Soon after, Ye Tiandao arrived with the Demon-Slaying Battalion to join the main forces. After rigorous training, the battalion had met the Blade Corps’ standards, numbering around two thousand. However, Ye Liuyun chose not to merge them with the elite unit.
Most of these warriors were martial cultivators imbued with Buddhist radiance, and Tang Xinyao—whimsical and unpredictable—had a leadership style entirely different from Ye Tiandao’s. Ye Liuyun decided to keep them as a separate force, believing they might yield unique advantages in battle.
Thus, Ye Tiandao returned to the Blade Corps with a group of Unity Realm experts who had passed training, including Li Daoyuan, to conduct unified reorganization. Those Unity Realm cultivators who fell short were left behind for the Blade Corps to use as sparring partners.
Hei Shan also brought out his two hundred thousand-strong Demon Legion and two hundred thousand Ancient Demon Legion, allowing them to mingle with the other forces.
Pei Yong, too, led out his reserve army of a million soldiers, giving them a breath of fresh air and exposing them to the auras of the stronger warriors to boost their motivation for cultivation. He and Yu Xiaofeng also discussed whether to replenish the main forces with some of these reserves.
Only after witnessing the sheer scale of these armies did Tang Xinyao’s Demon-Slaying Battalion truly grasp the extent of Ye Liuyun’s power. They even took the time to inspect the Demon, Ancient Demon, and alien legions, awestruck by their formidable strength.
With that, the various armies began their reorganization—re-equipping, restructuring, and refining their formations. All the commanders gathered to strategize new battle formations and training plans.
Broken Horn handed over all the collected Three-Eyes to Ye Liuyun, who in turn entrusted them to his second avatar for refinement. Meanwhile, Feng Qiong had been assisting the avatar in enhancing its mastery over lightning and the dual forces of yin-yang flames, rapidly boosting its combat capabilities.
After absorbing numerous planets imbued with Buddhist radiance, the avatar’s fusion of Buddhist and demonic powers had nearly caught up to Ye Liuyun’s main body. Once its lightning and flame abilities were further refined, its strength would be almost on par with the original before the campaign began.
Ye Liuyun also opened the Soul Secret Realm to all, including the alien soldiers, allowing them to temper their spiritual power—a generous benefit for the entire army. For the commanders, he prepared even more valuable resources to aid their cultivation.
Once the commanders devised new training regimens and battle formations, they divided their time between drilling troops by day and cultivating by night, ensuring neither task was neglected.
Those with insufficient spatial worlds, like Tang Xin Yao and Tang Hao, were personally guided by Ye Liuyun to claim planets for expansion. They also focused on refining their spatial realms in preparation for absorbing more celestial bodies.
Alchemists, weapon-refining master, and formation masters worked tirelessly to replenish the armies’ equipment. With the soldiers’ increased strength and prolonged individual combat engagements, Ye Liuyun ordered the formation masters to equip each warrior with ten defensive arrays—enough to withstand attacks from experts at the fifth level of the Unity Realm.
Meanwhile, the army commanders bartered their spoils with Xuan Yuanling in exchange for necessary resources.
Wen Yuan, on the other hand, dedicated himself to researching formations that could reinforce planets against devastating assaults from powerful foes. The goal was to prevent critical worlds from being shattered too easily in future battles. Though soldiers could now fight in the void of space, some planets still needed preservation—preemptive measures were essential.
