Chapter 3174: Chapter 3174
Ye Liuyun stuffed Luan Ping with another heap of cultivation resources, then simply waved him off to roam the cosmos while continuing his training
He also handed over a soul-defense treasure, a True-Tier-9 gilded war-armor, an ancient demon skull-puppet, and a True-Tier-9 flying shuttle
The moment Luan Ping’s silhouette vanished, Jiang Yuntian reached out again
“Jiang Yunfei’s army has hit a wall—his hundred thousand regulars plus two hundred thousand surrendered troops have split into three columns. A perfect opening; feel like striking?”
Ye Liuyun smiled, well aware Jiang Yuntai was angling to use him once more, and cut straight to the point: “What’s the price?”
“Thirty thousand sets of True-Tier-9 armor. You’ll pose as local troops and mustn’t show your real face. I’ll throw in three hundred thousand units of primal origin—your soldiers must be starved for resources by now. Whatever spoils or prisoners you take are yours. Deal?”
Ye Liuyun silently admitted the man could bargain: the terms left him no room to refuse. Three hundred thousand units of primal origin—split among Xiao Heng’s ten thousand men, that was thirty each. Add whatever he could loot, and the haul was respectable
“Fine. Send me the coordinates.” He agreed at once
Though he accepted the armor and primal origin, Ye Liuyun didn’t rush off. He simply passed the armor to Xiao Heng for equipping the troops and gave the surplus to Cui Daoran
Inwardly he calculated: “If Jiang Yunyang’s army is wiped out and Jiang Yunfei follows, only Jiang Yunmu will remain. Once that happens, the eldest prince—Jiang Yuntai—will have no rivals left. Will he turn on me next?”
Caution rising, he sought Gao Yutang for counsel
“Entirely possible,” Gao Yutang judged. “But he’ll probably borrow your blade to finish Jiang Yunmu first.”
Ye Liuyun weighed it further. With Jiang Yuntai’s cunning, nothing was ever that straightforward. If he himself could foresee this, so could Jiang Yuntai; the prince might not wait until every rival was gone. Perhaps Jiang Yunmu could be handled without him
So Ye Liuyun resolved to guard against an early betrayal
Only after that did he bid farewell to Li Yuanlang and the others
His recent return had let the Myriad Gods Alliance witness his might; anyone capable of annihilating an entire star system was not to be trifled with. His standing within the Alliance was now unshakable
In gratitude, the Alliance had erected a statue of him at headquarters—a warning to outside forces that this place was under Ye Liuyun’s protection
Elder Cang Jinsong and the council asked him to leave a wisp of divine sense inside the statue for deterrence. Ye Liuyun refused outright
“A mere strand of soul-force? Weaklings don’t need my scarecrow, and the strong won’t be scared. You all have my voice talismans—call if something happens.”
He had no wish for the Alliance to summon him for every trifle. They needed to cultivate their own strength. He even wanted the statue removed, but the old-timers wouldn’t hear of it, so he let them be
He only told Li Yuanlang, Mo Shaowen, and the rest: unless a crisis threatened the destruction of a star system, there was no need to call him back. Over-reliance would stunt the Alliance’s growth
They agreed—and, spurred by Ye Liuyun’s example, resolved to temper themselves anew and set out to wander the stars
Reassured, Ye Liuyun departed the Myriad Gods Alliance
He left his two avatars in the Azure Veil star system to keep harvesting planets. Against Jiang Yunfei’s scattered forces, the troops he had on hand were more than enough; if not, he could always capture more mid-battle
Yet before teleporting to the Imperial Sovereign star system, he checked with Jiang Yunmo for news on Jiang Yunfei. Jiang Yunmo knew only the general advance; details were scarce
He did know one thing: wherever these princes marched, no planet was left standing
Armed with that intelligence, Ye Liuyun adjusted the coordinates Jiang Yuntai had provided, shifting the landing point well away from the original, then stepped through the black teleportation tower
He emerged amid empty starlight; only with his golden pupils could he spot distant planets days of flight away
He planned to travel slowly, practicing full-range spiritual perception along the way, but before he could move, his golden eyes caught a warship lurking behind another planet.
So he sprinted forward for a full day, cautiously surveying the interior of the battleship and the planets ahead.
Jiang Yunfei truly was attacking a planet with three separate forces, but powerful experts were keeping watch on his armies from afar.
Inside that battleship were ten thousand soldiers at the ninth level of Unity and forty thousand at the seventh or eighth. None of these fifty thousand belonged to Jiang Yunfei.
“Whether these fifty thousand are Jiang Yuntian’s men or troops of the Fire-Seal Dynasty, none of them are going home.”
Ye Liuyun studied the ambush force—most of them still cultivating, utterly lacking vigilance.
The corner of his mouth lifted; he shot straight toward them. Meat delivered to his mouth had to be claimed first.
To him, these fifty thousand were easier prey than Jiang Yunfei’s scattered legions.
With his golden pupils Ye Liuyun pinpointed their commanders and strongest fighters from miles away. A spatial shift put him beside the battleship in an instant. Ignoring the hidden sentries, he blasted a white beam that tore a gaping hole through the hull and engulfed the supreme commander, killing him outright.
The sudden strike froze every hidden lookout. No one had imagined anyone would dare assault a warship packed with experts. Before they could react, Ye Liuyun had already slipped through the fresh breach.
He landed directly on the deck where the ninth-level Unity experts were stationed. Charging inward, he activated his power over time—everything froze.
Most of the army’s peak experts had been cultivating on this level. They weren’t battle-ready: no armor, no soul-defense artifacts.
A few had just released their spiritual senses to investigate when they were locked in place.
“Haha, so many experts!” Ye Liuyun could barely contain his laughter.
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