Chapter 1094: The Plot Fails

Ye Liuyun also says to Qin Peng: "My safety, you don't need to worry about. What you're thinking now is, if they retreat without fighting, how shall we encircle and annihilate them!"

Using ordinary soldiers to attack a Yi Cheng equipped with a Defense Array, unless you fill it with tens of thousands of men, you can't see any effect.

Someone like King True Essence, who has long been on the battlefield, would never waste soldiers like that.

If their assassination plan fails, a more likely outcome is that they turn to another island, capture it to vent their anger. Or when they return, they might pass through Ye Liuyun's territory and loot it wildly.

That way they look good on face and can claim a victory.

All these were analyzed by Xia Tianqiong for Ye Liuyun. She indeed understands the thoughts of the nobles at court very well.

Ye Liuyun told Qin Peng all these concerns, so he could be ready.

In fact Qin Peng had already prepared a contingency plan in advance. If the opponent is defeated, there are several possible choices.

Now he only needs to consider the opponent's full‑army retreat; then he will simply have to mobilize more forces to deal with it.

After everything was ready, Ye Liuyun and his group just waited calmly for King True Essence's great army to arrive.

Just before the enemy army arrived, Ye Liuyun also climbed onto the city wall, staring at the distant Warship fleet.

This time King True Essence and Lord Nan jointly deployed 250,000 troops, with several hundred Warships, marching grandly toward Ye Liuyun's Yi Cheng.

Ye Liuyun watched those hundreds of Warships and felt his blood boil.

Behind him, everyone's hearts raced. Though they knew this side would win, they were still shocked by the scene before them.

After the Warships approached, another thirty thousand soldiers, fully armed, were ready for a siege.

At this moment, the Martial Cultivators who had been marked with Slave Seals by Ye Liuyun also received the signal, telling them to launch a surprise attack on Ye Liuyun when the great army began the siege.

Ye Liuyun thought to himself, "Seems the city‑guessers really got it right!"

Soon, the drums on the opposite side sounded.

The "dong‑dong" drumbeats rattled every heart into trembling.

Some fresh recruits who had never seen a large battlefield now didn't know what to do.

They blindly followed the Team Leader's slogans, performing practiced motions, mechanically moving with the others, forming ranks, preparing to repel the soldiers below the city.

As the drum tempo quickened, the opposing thirty thousand soldiers finally moved, charging faster and faster, finally sprinting toward the city wall.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil swept the area but found no Tianzun Realm strongmen. Not even an Earth Sovereign level—just ordinary soldiers.

Then he used Primordial Spirit Secret Water to search and discovered one "Shadow" among them!

"Hm? Shadow member?"

Ye Liuyun felt suspicion. Weren't all the Shadows already eliminated? How could one still appear in King True Essence's army?

This person's Shadow Concealment Technique was clearly masterful, not like a novice's. Moreover, his covering moves were executed perfectly.

A Tian Zun Yi Chong of that realm moving so cautiously is evidently an experienced assassin.

"Xiao Lanbing, capture that guy for dad in a moment!" Ye Liuyun said to a little girl in front of him.

That little girl was very short, and the city wall was relatively high, so she could not be seen from outside.

She had no interest in war, just stood quietly, listening to the sounds outside.

Until Ye Liuyun transmitted the scene below to her with Divine Sense, she locked onto that Tian Zun Yi Chong's Shadow member.

"Got it!" the little girl answered crisply.

"Be careful, he may use a divine artifact!" Ye Liuyun warned her.

"Hmm, I'm not scared; dad also gave me a divine artifact, I'll catch him," the little girl said confidently.

"As long as you don't kill him outright, a half‑kill is fine!" Ye Liuyun added for the girl.

At this time, the soldiers below the wall had already begun the siege.

The captives Ye Liuyun had taken had already received questioning from King True Essence, asking why they had not acted yet.

Yet Ye Liuyun ordered them not to reply.

Anyway, the Shadow would be coming up soon; whether they answered or not made no difference.

"Archers, prepare… draw bow… release arrow!" the Team Leaders shouted to the soldiers.

Some new recruits were fearful, but under the shouts they managed to steady their minds and, following the Team Leader's commands, shot arrows in unison, killing the attacking Martial Cultivators.

"Release arrow… release arrow…" on the wall, a rain of arrows descended in rows, and the charging soldiers fell in lines.

Then that Shadow member suddenly leapt forward, lunging straight at Ye Liuyun.

At such close range and such a high realm, if Ye Liuyun had not detected him beforehand, he could not have evaded.

Yet Ye Liuyun did not dodge at all.

And just as that Shadow cleared the wall, thinking he had the upper hand, a little girl in blue clothing sprang out in front of Ye Liuyun and slapped him hard with a palm.

That sudden strike startled him.

He should have startled Ye Liuyun, but instead he was the one frightened by Ye Liuyun's side.

Because he had previously probed with Divine Sense and never detected that little girl.

The little girl used some method to completely suppress her aura, even deceiving his Divine Sense.

Xiao Lanbing is a blue ice snake, and this aura‑hiding ability is the Turtle Breath Method taught by the Xuanwu Sect.

The name may sound unpleasant, but it is very practical.

Though she had just begun practicing, she could only suppress her aura, not become invisible, yet that was already enough.

With a "boom" sound, a strong battle wave of Tianzun Realm shattered a section of the city wall, creating a crack. The crack was small and did not affect overall defense.

Under Xiao Lanbing's palm, that Tian Zun Yi Chong Shadow was smashed into a block of ice.

Then Xiao Lanbing gestured, pulling him toward herself and tossing him at Ye Liuyun's feet.

Ye Liuyun, at the moment the Tian Zun Yi Chong was frozen but not yet dead, had his Soul, Chen Tao, extremely weakened, receive a Slave Seal, and immediately Xiao Lanbing thawed him.

She also fed him a drop of Life Spring Water, saving him.

Meanwhile, King True Essence and Lord Nan looked at each other, shook their heads helplessly, and promptly ordered a retreat.

Just as the attacking soldiers retreated like a tide, the gates of Moyu Yi Cheng suddenly opened, and a unit of elite troops charged straight out.

These elite troops were superbly equipped and rode ferocious beasts, moving with great speed; before those soldiers could even withdraw, they were overtaken and cut down like melons and vegetables, the elite troops catching up to and slaughtering the retreating soldiers.

"An ambush!" Prince True Essence exclaimed, secretly feeling that something was amiss.