Chapter 3161: Chapter 3161
“Work with Jiang Yuntian and you’d better watch your back—that guy is no pushover!” Jiang Yunmo warned him.
“Mm.” Ye Liuyun nodded in agreement; he already felt the same way.
After stashing the resources, Ye Liuyun had everyone inside his spatial world prepare for war. He also had Gao Yutang report the outcome to Jiang Yunmu. Though he hadn’t fought directly, robbing the crown prince’s supplies still counted as completing the mission.
Jiang Yunmu wanted to renege, but when Ye Liuyun threatened to keep hammering his forces, he could only accept his fate.
Ye Liuyun checked the timetable: Jiang Yunyang’s army would land on the beast world right when the men he’d sent back would reach the Fire-Seal Galaxy.
So he gathered all the martial cultivators he’d planned to use for practice, formed a five-hundred-man squad, gave them a top-tier flying shuttle looted from a major power, and ordered them to intercept as many of Jiang Yunyang’s men as possible. Even if the dynasty ambushed and wiped them out, he wouldn’t lose sleep over it.
Jiang Yunmo would handle the rest with his own people; Ye Liuyun didn’t need to worry. He himself would soon be fighting Jiang Yunyang’s main force—there’d be no shortage of sparring partners.
The weapon-refining master and alchemists also threw themselves into work. Their usual tasks were light; most of their time was spent mentoring the original craftsmen. Now, with ample materials, they began forging armor and refining pills for the two demon legions.
The spatial worlds of both clones had a hundred and fifty days—not overly generous—but Ye Liuyun would squeeze out every extra hour he could.
Once everything was arranged, he used the teleportation black tower to reach the Tianmen Galaxy and wait for the array masters Jiang Yunmu had hired.
While waiting, Ye Liuyun and his clone left only one body outside on watch and resumed devouring dragon souls—every bit of growth counted.
His bloodline had just hit its current ceiling; it would need tempering before it could rise again. His physical body had absorbed as much of the dragon corpse as it could for now; only the crucible of battle could unlock the next stage.
Everyone knew they were about to face the Fire-Seal royal army, so they focused single-mindedly on powering up. Resources were no longer scarce—Ye Liuyun opened every recent haul to those around him, letting them take whatever they needed.
After devouring vast numbers of corpses, the Devil Vine finally broke through to the middle of the ninth tier. When it woke, it swallowed two more origin crystals and declared itself ready for war.
About ten days later, Ye Liuyun and his clone could no longer push their soul power higher. The clone spotted a void-class shuttle streaking through the starry sky toward them. Golden pupils confirmed it carried the Myriad Transformation Sect’s array masters, and he double-checked with Qiong Qi.
“Jiang Yuhai! A famous grand array master indeed,” Qiong Qi verified.
Ye Liuyun and both clones shifted into the appearance of local cultivators and flew out to meet the shuttle.
This time, Jiang Yuhai and several Myriad Transformation disciples were escorted by a full guard unit led by a late-ninth-tier powerhouse. The guards were wary; the moment they disembarked they surrounded Ye Liuyun’s group, demanding identity verification.
Ye Liuyun simply froze time and, together with his clones, planted slave seals on everyone. He swept them into his spatial world, activated the black tower, and jumped straight to the beast world.
Once there, he had Jiang Yuhai lay down a defensive array first. The late-ninth-tier guard went to the second clone. The newly captured guards were released to patrol the perimeter against beasts while the camp was set to wait.
Jiang Yunyang’s army hadn’t arrived yet. Ye Liuyun sent the first clone into space to locate the royal fleet and gauge their strength, while dispatching two demon flood dragons to the flood-dragon clan to deliver word and rally the other major beast tribes against the human invasion.
The flood-dragon clan knew Ye Liuyun’s power, and the two emissaries explained the situation; cooperation came easily—none of them wanted their home turned into a human slaughterhouse.
Some beast packs were persuaded and agreed to fight alongside them, though they refused human command. Others didn’t trust the flood dragons and vowed to act only when the human army actually struck.
“That’s enough for now. Once they see the enemy’s strength, they’ll know unity is survival,” Ye Liuyun judged. He left the two demon flood dragons with their kin to keep communication open.
The first clone soon sighted the distant royal armada.
Through golden pupils he studied them carefully: fifteen thousand vessels in total. Only fifty thousand troops wore the Fire-Seal dynasty’s standard armor. Among them, merely five hundred were ninth-tier experts, nearly ten thousand were seventh- or eighth-tier, and the rest were mostly mid-Unity realm, with another ten thousand at third-level Unity.
The remaining hundred thousand soldiers wore mismatched armor of every color and style—clearly conscripted vassal troops. Most were early Unity, with some still at peak Sovereign.
“Mediocre strength, weak morale, and Jiang Yunyang isn’t even here—just a commander leading them.”
Ye Liuyun’s assessment was blunt: this army was inferior to the Death Legion; they merely had higher cultivation bases.
They clearly didn’t take this battlefield too seriously either. Still, an army of this caliber was more than enough to wipe out mindless beasts that knew nothing of battle formations. What they hadn’t expected was Ye Liuyun to be here.
Ye Liuyun immediately relayed the intelligence to the Demon Flood Dragons, telling them to wait until the enemy force made landfall, then charge the hundred-thousand surrendered soldiers with every beast above the fourth tier of Unity. After one hard strike, they were to pull out together.
The rest of the Fire Seal Dynasty’s troops he would handle himself—otherwise the beasts would suffer crippling losses.
The Demon Flood Dragons agreed and passed the orders on.
Ye Liuyun had modest expectations for the beasts: with no unified command, a single shock charge that mauled the surrendered army and gave him an opening for a surprise attack would suffice.
He had Jiang Yuhai dismantle the formation, recall the guards, and head into the starry void to scout possible landing sites for the Fire Seal Dynasty.
He fixed on a broad plain—ideal terrain for a large-scale landing.
Then he asked Wu Xiang and Jiang Yuhai to set up formations on distant peaks, and had commanders like Yu Xiaofeng come out to observe the battle and gauge the Fire Seal Dynasty’s strength.
With those two grand formation masters handling the arrays, Yu Xiaofeng and the others would be perfectly safe.
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