Chapter 1093

"I now actually have over 400,000 soldiers?"

After Qin Peng left, Ye Liuyun calculated and found his army had already expanded to 450,000.

And conscription continues; it will soon reach 500,000.

After his territory extended into the heart of Zhongyang Dalu, conscription became even easier.

"It's time to control the army's size." Ye Liuyun thought, directly contacting Qin Peng via transmission talisman, telling him to keep the soldiers at 500,000.

Quality over quantity; maintaining too many soldiers consumes too much.

Not long after Qin Peng left, Xia Tianqiong and Xia Lingshuang came to find Ye Liuyun.

"We've investigated thoroughly—there are thirty-two Earth Sovereign experts in total, including three late-stage Earth Sovereigns and six mid-stage Earth Sovereign martial cultivators. There are also over sixty Zao Hua Realm scouts. When do we strike?"

"Not yet! Wait until their two armies arrive here before we act."

Xia Tianqiong and Xia Lingshuang were originally in Yi Cheng, practicing simulating an intelligence network.

Unexpectedly, they discovered scouts sent by Prince True Essence. Following the clues, they uncovered the hidden martial cultivator experts.

These martial cultivators can, at critical moments, assist the outer army in breaching the city walls or attacking the lord's manor; at worst, during war they can create chaos and panic inside the city.

Even they themselves didn't expect that, just now in the simulated intelligence network, they had already achieved merit.

So recently the two of them have been building the intelligence network, becoming increasingly proactive and effective, often coming up with good ideas.

Even wiping out these Earth Sovereign experts doesn't require Ye Liuyun to deploy his monster beasts.

They themselves contacted Wu Qingcheng, who helped gather sufficient strength from the Demonic God Sect.

Currently, those Demonic God Sect experts have already entered the lord's manor via the teleportation array, awaiting their order to act.

In just a few days, the blue ice snake also successfully transformed; however, her human form turned out to be a girl over ten years old.

Lan Bing's expression was rather dull, her eyes revealing a hint of ruthlessness.

Moreover, as soon as she appeared, she called Ye Liuyun "dad," leaving him both laughing and crying.

"I think you'd be more convenient staying as a small snake coiled on my arm."

Ye Liuyun felt that carrying a child everywhere would indeed be inconvenient when handling affairs.

"No, Dad, I think this is great!"

She even walked barefoot on the ground, feeling the sensation of having legs and feet.

Ye Liuu Yun first took her back into the Space World to let her get used to the human form, then had Su Miaoyin buy her some clothes.

Afterwards, he felt the time was about right, so he sent out the eagle brothers and sisters—two dragon-eagle monster beasts—to scout the enemy forces, including numbers, warship counts, direction, and speed.

Thereafter, the enemy's two armies' information was transmitted in real time back to Ye Liuyun and Qin Peng, for them to adjust their battle strategy.

Thus, before the enemy even arrived here, they already had a clear understanding of the enemy's numbers, equipment, etc., and had prepared countermeasures.

Qiong Qi has been helping Ye Liuyun improve Yi Cheng's defense array all this time, also setting up defense arrays on several islands under Ye Liuyun's territory to prevent enemy sneak attacks that would cause economic losses.

Just one day before the enemy arrived at the city gates, multiple battles broke out within Yi Cheng.

Under Ye Liuyun's direction, Xia Tianqiong and Xia Lingshuang organized manpower to begin clearing out the enemy scouts.

They captured all the scouts in one sweep.

Afterwards, Ye Liuyun performed a soul search and learned they planned to act when he went up to the city walls to supervise the battle, directly killing him, then breaking through the city to loot extensively.

"It seems these people really underestimated me!"

Ye Liuyun felt the other side had suspicions of contempt.

Qin Peng also found it strange: "Logically, Prince True Essence and General Heping Nanhou are veteran commanders; bringing their full armies this time, how could they be so careless?"

Ye Liuyun thought and then said: "They aren't being careless; it's a genuine plan—they never told these martial cultivators anything; they only needed to know when to strike. As for how the main army would attack, they actually didn't need to know at all!"

"What's the point of doing that?" Qin Peng asked, puzzled.

"Perhaps they never intended to start a war. Instead, they wanted these martial cultivators to cause chaos, then let the real assassin strike me with a guaranteed killing blow!" Ye Liuyun guessed.

"As for Yi Cheng, whether they take it or not, they might not care at all! The main army's advance could just be a smokescreen!"

"If that's the case, it's possible! Could there be an assassin hiding in the city? A shadow? You'd better not go up onto the city walls to supervise the battle!" Qin Peng worried about Ye Liuyun's safety.

Wu Qingcheng had experience as an assassin and also helped Ye Liuyun analyze.

"It might not be in the city; perhaps they'll hide among the soldiers! When they send a team to feign an attack on the city, that assassin will take advantage of the chaos to suddenly strike me."

She felt the enemy would certainly investigate the situation, so they wouldn't clash head-on with Ye Liuyun using their main army.

And relying solely on these martial cultivators, trying to kill Ye Liuyun under the protection of many guards, the chance isn't high.

Therefore, this is definitely a smokescreen to conceal their true intent. To prevent leaks, Prince True Essence and others never told these martial cultivators the truth.

When chaos erupts, Ye Liuyun's attention will surely be inside the city—exactly the perfect moment for an outside assassin to come up and kill him.

Ye Liuyun really couldn't have imagined such an operation.

But upon reflection, it's indeed highly possible.

The city walls aren't high at all; they can't stop a high-realm martial cultivator. If that cultivator disguised himself as a soldier and mixed in, he'd easily be overlooked.

"If they want to achieve a guaranteed killing blow on me, they'd need at least a ninth-stage Earth Sovereign professional assassin, or a first- or second-stage Tianzun expert! Otherwise, I could just use a few divine artifacts to block his strike."

Ye Liuyun guessed that assassin's cultivation isn't low.

Inside the city, he had already scanned with divine sense and found no one of such high cultivation. So he suspects Wu Qingcheng's guess might be correct.

Xia Tianqiong and Xia Lingshuang wiped out the enemy scouts; although they didn't get accurate intel, from another angle they gave Ye Liuyun advance warning to prepare, which also counts as a great achievement!

Moreover, these people have all been implanted with slave seals by Ye Liuyun; once Prince True Essence contacts them, Ye Liuyun can control them to feed false information.

It actually gives Ye Liuyun an opportunity to use these people, letting True Essence Wang make a wrong decision.