Chapter 3166: Chapter 3166
“Your Highness, if Ye Liuyun has those vicious beasts on his side, we’ll be walking straight into their claws. We could be torn apart the moment we arrive!”
The deputy commander understood at once that rushing in was reckless; at the very least they should send scouts first
Besides, the army’s top experts had vanished without a trace—no one even knew how they’d disappeared. If they blundered forward, they’d likely meet the same fate.
“They’re just beasts—what’s there to fear?” Jiang Yunyang refused to listen
His profits had been cut off by Ye Liuyun, and now the army itself was under attack. How could he not fight to the death?
Unable to restrain him, the deputy commander quietly dispatched several squads to scout ahead.
As Jiang Yunyang’s remaining 150,000 troops struck camp and boarded their warships, Ye Liuyun’s battle was already drawing to a close.
The surviving royal soldiers could hold out no longer; once their commander fell, they surrendered en masse
Of the martial cultivators at the seventh and eighth tiers, more than three thousand remained, and Ye Liuyun accepted them all. The demon army had taken over twenty thousand prisoners.
On the second doppelgänger’s front, only five thousand soldiers were left. The tiger-headed beast King led a squad of demon cavalry in a charge that wiped out half of them and beheaded their commander; the rest surrendered at once.
All prisoners were herded away by the demon army. The three thousand elite soldiers penned in by the devil vines were made to sign a collective oath of allegiance and were then taken into Ye Liuyun’s spatial world.
At that moment the beasts finished off every surrendered soldier and royal trooper, then turned on the demon legion itself.
Ye Liuyun and his people had already regrouped to watch the first doppelgänger process the prisoners. When the beasts attacked, they didn’t hesitate: three fire-carts were rolled out and opened up at full power.
Beasts were mowed down in swaths, unable to close the distance.
Ye Liuyun and his second doppelgänger used temporal power to launch soul assaults on several Beast Kings, planting slave seals and rifling through their memories.
They learned that advance teams of powerful beasts had first seized the Demon Flood Dragon Patriarch and Ye Liuyun’s two flood dragons, preventing the entire race from joining the fight.
The Beast Kings intended to wipe out Ye Liuyun’s forces once and for all, ensuring no one would ever hunt beasts here again.
Ye Liuyun fixed his gaze on a Golden Tiger King and ordered it to release the Demon Flood Dragon Patriarch and the two flood dragons from its spatial world. This tiger had been the mastermind, rallying the beasts against Ye Liuyun while also scheming against the flood-dragon clan.
The tiger’s entire body gleamed like molten gold; its flesh was impervious to blades or bullets. Without a soul attack, even the fire-carts couldn’t kill it.
“Clever plan, wasn’t it? Think you’re the only one with brains?” Ye Liuyun had already decided—this Golden Tiger King would die.
At that moment a pack of golden tigers charged through the fire-carts’ barrage, trying to rescue their king.
“Order them to freeze where they stand and await my command.”
Ye Liuyun issued the order through the Golden Tiger King. The fire-carts ceased firing, and the captured Beast Kings roared out commands to their tribes. Every beast halted, lying flat and waiting.
The first doppelgänger finished gathering the prisoners and stowed the demon army. Ye Liuyun likewise tucked everyone else into his spatial world, leaving only the Beast Kings and the three fire-carts beside him.
“Sort it out among yourselves. I helped you fend off the human army, and you tried to murder me for it. If I’m not satisfied with your answer, I’ll exterminate every last beast on this planet and wipe the world itself from existence.”
With that, he tossed them aside to confer on their own. Meanwhile, he used soul force to plant slave seals on the golden tigers one by one, bringing them all under his control.
Only then did the Demon Flood Dragon Patriarch roar at the Golden Tiger King, rebuking its treachery. The tiger hung its head in silence. Every other beast lay still, subdued.
They had seen the fire-carts’ power; those weapons truly could annihilate them all. Even if the golden tigers had reached Ye Liuyun, they could not escape his soul attacks.
And now their kings were bound by a single thought—if Ye Liuyun willed it, they would die on the spot.
At that moment, Ye Liuyun waved his hand again and swept the whole pack of golden tigers into his spatial world. The Golden Tiger King panicked at the sight, but Ye Liuyun promptly collected it as well.
The beast horde under the king’s command let out uneasy roars, yet when the remaining beast kings roared once, none dared move again and they all dropped back to the ground.
“This Golden Tiger King is the chief culprit. These golden tigers are all accomplices; I have to deal with them. I won’t hunt down the rest of you—handle it yourselves!”
Ye Liuyun simply announced his verdict; none of the beasts dared resist.
Afterward, the several ferocious beast kings conferred briefly and reached a decision. On ordinary days they each governed their own tribes, but if outsiders attacked, they would all obey the Demon Flood Dragon race’s lead and resist the enemy together. The Golden Tiger King’s territory would be handed over to the Demon Flood Dragons for management.
These feral beast reached consensus remarkably fast. Ye Liuyun had them all sign contracts with the Demon Flood Dragon patriarch, then removed their slave seals.
He had barely finished dealing with the beasts when he received a message from Jiang Yuntian: Jiang Yunyang’s entire army was marching straight toward them.
Ye Liuyun immediately told the beast kings to return and prepare for battle; when the time came they would still be sent against the surrendered-troops army.
Hearing they would face the surrendered soldiers—no real danger and plenty of food to gain—the beast kings readily agreed. Ye Liuyun thus let them first devour the corpses, then lead their respective hordes back.
The two Demon Flood Dragons he temporarily lent to the patriarch to help subjugate the Golden Tiger King’s domain.
Once the beast hordes withdrew, Ye Liuyun released the surrendered soldiers and conferred with Yu Xiaofeng and the other commanders on how to handle them.
They found the prisoners troublesome. They had no time to train them, yet without training the men were too lax to meet their standards. Keeping them idle would consume vast resources.
In the end Ye Liuyun decided: Cui Daoran would first pick men to replenish his Ferocious Bandit Regiment to five hundred, then hand them all to Xiao Heng as cannon fodder for the next battle.
Cui Daoran promptly selected fifteen hundred soldiers at the seventh or eighth level, had them fight in groups of three at the same rank until only one survived, and only then accepted the victor.
The corpses of the slain were collected by Cui Daoran and traded to the demon army for resources.
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