Chapter 2198: Dual Strike

Nearly half of the Imperial Guard's rear troops, seeing that the front army was clearly no match, immediately made a decision.

Retreat!

The Leader was dead, no one was leading them into battle, and they could not wait to die.

So someone shouted, and the thousands of soldiers fled together!

"Catch up with them!"

Ye Liuyun immediately took four other Xuan‑named senior strongmen, together with Xuan Yun and three others, and chased those Imperial Guard.

Ye Liuyun himself also used spatial overlapping to chase after them.

He pursued at the tail of the unit, using Spiritual Soul Attack to control one, then withdraw another.

The seven strongmen positioned on the sides of those Imperial Guard drove them toward the center; after gathering them together, they struck with a palm, killing or wounding twenty‑to‑thirty people.

Ye Liuyun and his clone then collected the loot.

Thus, Ye Liuyun and those seven strongmen pursued those Imperial Guard for a whole day.

They captured a large number of Imperial Guard.

Finally, when Ye Liuyun saw the numbers were about equal, he directly deployed the Sharp Blade Corps to begin intercepting the fleeing Imperial Guard.

Those Imperial Guard reacted quickly; once they realized they could not escape, they immediately surrendered.

When Ye Liuyun had captured these Reinforcement Troops and returned to the battlefield, he found that his dispatched Soul Cultivators and Martial Cultivators had also taken many Imperial Guard prisoners.

Combined, they had captured over six thousand Imperial Guard strongmen.

After Ye Liuyun placed Slave Seals on these Imperial Guard, he began to understand why they collapsed so quickly and surrendered so decisively.

It turned out that although these Imperial Guard were quite powerful, they had not fought for a long time; aside from their arrogant bearing, they were somewhat cowardly.

Moreover, these people knew the Zhongxing Wangchao better.

They bullied the common folk, fought easy battles, scared opponents a bit, and fought desperately for the Zhongxing Wangchao, which they never actually intended.

Therefore, when they fought and encountered danger or a desperate opponent, they would immediately retreat.

Ye Liuyun handed these six thousand people, along with the previous six hundred‑plus captives, all to Ye Tiandao, letting her immediately lead the Sharp Blade Corps back to the East Cloud Dynasty to train these new soldiers.

Ye Liuyun then returned to the main army, informed Xiao Yunfang to split forces and seize resources as quickly as possible, and then withdrew immediately.

He knew that the Zhongxing Wangchao had lost ten thousand Imperial Guard and would certainly keep fighting them.

The area Ye Liuyun occupied contained abundant mineral vein resources of all kinds.

Besides seizing Chengzhu Fu, all those mineral vein resources must be taken away.

Thus Ye Liuyun and Xiao Yunfang led thirty thousand soldiers to continue the siege, while the other troops were divided into several squads to start excavating mineral veins everywhere and seize resources.

The Zhongxing Wangchao's ten thousand Imperial Guard that were annihilated immediately became a laughingstock among the Martial Cultivators of the Central Region.

They still did not know that those ten thousand Imperial Guard were wiped out by Ye Liuyun, who led some captives and a few senior strongmen.

If they learned this, the impression of the Zhongxing Wangchao in their hearts would become even weaker.

Mo Xiaotian also did not expect that ten thousand Imperial Guard could be completely annihilated so easily.

He immediately dispatched more than twenty Ninth Layer Summit strongmen of the dynasty, along with twenty thousand Imperial Guard, to rush over.

But by then Ye Liuyun's army, already laden with abundant resources, had withdrawn to Fengqi City.

They also used the Teleportation Array to retreat swiftly.

When the dynasty's strongmen arrived, the result was the same as before: a mess waiting for them to clean up.

Yet Ye Liuyun, after this battle, not only seized abundant resources but also acquired many strong Martial Cultivators.

And just after Ye Liuyun withdrew to the Eastern Region, a shocking piece of news spread throughout the East.

Fifty ferries of the Zhongxing Wangchao sank entirely in the Boundless Sea.

Of the thirty thousand Imperial Guard, only three thousand Ninth Layer Late Stage Martial Cultivators managed to escape back.

The rest, whether sunk in the sea or fled to the opposite shore, could not return.

At this moment, Yu Xiaofeng was sending over a thousand escaped captives to the Royal City to receive unified training from Ye Tiandao.

After the ferries sank, the two to three thousand Ninth Layer Late Stage Imperial Guard heading for the Southern Region ferry terminal were brutally bombarded by Yu Xiaofeng, wiping out half of them.

The remaining half, with True Essence depleted, were either bombarded to death or fell into the sea.

In the end, after discussion, these people collectively surrendered and all signed loyalty contracts.

The Zhongxing Wangchao subsequently suffered a double blow.

One hundred thousand Imperial Guard had already been lost, nearly half of them.

The hundred thousand troops sent to the Southern Region had been waiting to cross the sea.

Now that the ferries are gone, they must continue waiting.

Mo Xiaotian could not understand why the ferries suddenly malfunctioned.

According to the Imperial Guard who returned, the ferries' Defense Array suddenly failed when encountering temporal‑spatial turbulence, causing the hulls to fracture, so many strongmen did not have time to escape and were swallowed by the sea.

But the Martial Cultivator strongmen sent to take over the ferries repeatedly confirmed that the ferries would certainly have no issues, and each had been inspected in advance.

So in the end, nothing could be done.

Mo Xiaotian could no longer afford further expenditure at this point.

If the fighting continued, his resources would be completely exhausted.

Thus he could only order the hundred thousand troops waiting in the Southern Region to withdraw for rest, and from then on never again mentioned attacking the East Cloud Dynasty.

But his silence did not mean Ye Liuyun would cease his actions.

"We should counter‑attack soon! Leave one hundred thousand troops in each part of the Southeast Region for defense! The remaining hundred thousand troops prepare to enter the central zone for combat!"

Ye Liuyun told Yu Xiaofeng.

"Alright!"

Yu Xiaofeng also eagerly agreed and went down to make arrangements.

He never dared to imagine that he would one day break into the Central Region.

At the ferries of the southeastern two regions, after leaving 100,000 garrison troops each, Yu Xiaofeng also brought the remaining soldiers rushing back to the Central Dynasty to meet with Xiao Yunfang, and they reorganized the army.

Ye Tiandao also began training the Spearhead Unit.

The Spearhead Unit expanded from its original 3,000 members to 12,000 all at once, tripling its size.

Its strength is now enough to match the Imperial Guard of the Zhongxing Wangchao.

All the armies are actively preparing for war.

Ye Liuyun also summoned an administrator from the Ten Thousand Merchants Alliance to order higher-grade equipment and weapons.

The mineral vein resources they seized are just enough to barely sustain the replacement of military equipment.

Ye Liuyun also sneaked again to the Alien Battlefield, taking his entourage to hone and increase their strength.

Three months later, Ye Tiandao's Spearhead Unit had completed basic training and now needed to undergo combat training.

Yu Xiaofeng's Death Legion of 100,000 troops has also been fully reorganized, fully equipped and ready to depart.

All the soldiers' preparations and weapons have been completely replaced.

Such a massive army and strong force, the Dongyun Dynasty cannot afford to maintain them, and must send them to the Central Region to seize resources.

Thus Ye Liuyun kept Jin Yuanhui and the others recently brought from the Mortal Realm in the Royal Palace, and had Feng Hong Xiu take some Martial Cultivators of the Red Luan Pavilion along to the Central Region to establish a branch of the Red Luan Pavilion.

Ye Tiandao's Spearhead Unit was also taken by Ye Liuyun into the Space World, and he also brought a hundred Soul Cultivators from the Black Armor Guard, transmitting through the Black Tower to Linhai City.

After the previous battle, the Zhongxing Wangchao also began to learn from Ye Liuyun; aside from the Royal City's teleportation array, all other contacts with the Alien Battlefield were completely cut off.

The Royal City's teleportation array also used to inspect the souls of martial cultivators, so Ye Liuyun can no longer enter the Zhongxing Wangchao by going through the Alien Battlefield.