Chapter 2200: Undermining Morale

The soldier Ye Liuyun pretended to be was marked with a Slave Seal during the earlier battle and drawn into the Space World.

Ye Liuyun expects that Zhongxing Wangchao will certainly send more strongmen to guard the army, to prevent further sabotage by Ye Liuyun and his group.

He hides among the enemy troops to eliminate those strongmen, and after wiping them out, can fight wildly again.

Such sabotage can greatly undermine the enemy's morale.

The Hundred Thousand Death Legion was shuffled around repeatedly yet never got a chance to fight; its morale was already low, and Ye Liuyun's rampant sabotage made it even weaker.

Everyone around Ye Liuyun is cultivating inside the Space World and within the Xuan Kong Shi.

But Ye Liuyun can quickly recover by means of the Universal Cauldron.

Sure enough, as Ye Liuyun expected, Zhongxing Wangchao soon dispatched another twenty Ninth Layer Late Stage and two Ninth Layer Summit strongmen.

But this time they were ordered to stay within the army and not go into battle.

Thus, after arriving, they stayed obediently in the garrison and did not show themselves.

Not only did they avoid showing themselves, they even concealed their cultivation levels, blending among the soldiers.

They thought that if Ye Liuyun came again, they could catch him off guard.

However, Ye Liuyun saw all their actions.

Their dispersal among the soldiers actually gave Ye Liuyun the chance to act.

These Martial Cultivator strongmen, many of whom are royal family members, have no contracts signed in their Sea of Consciousness, so Ye Liuyun can strike them without others noticing.

Moreover, each of these proud strongmen despises even wearing items that defend against Spiritual Soul Attacks, making it even easier for Ye Liuyun to act.

Within three days of their arrival, all twenty Ninth Layer Late Stage Martial Cultivators had already been marked with Slave Seals by Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun has not acted on the two Ninth Layer Summit Martial Cultivators yet.

He is waiting for his own Martial Cultivators to fully recover.

A few days simply aren't enough for those Martial Cultivators to recover.

But Ye Liuyun uses the Universal Cauldron to make them quickly restore their True Essence.

As long as each Martial Cultivator pre‑loads True Essence, the Universal Cauldron generates the same amount of energy.

However, Ninth Layer Summit Martial Cultivators need to fill Divine Crystals twice before their True Essence can be fully replenished.

These Ninth Layer Summit Martial Cultivators consume a staggering amount of Divine Crystals—tens of times more than Ye Liuyun requires.

This both alarms and pains Ye Liuyun.

The Martial Cultivator strongmen Ye Liuyun has captured lately are all royal‑supported elites, each with many Divine Crystals in their Storage Ring.

But those Divine Crystals were all consumed at once.

"Resources! We need more resources!"

Ye Liuyun orders them to rest quickly, then immediately prepares to start the battle.

Each day his army pauses, it consumes resources.

If the army here is driven back again, Zhongxing Wangchao will be unable to mount a large‑scale attack for the time being.

Half a day later, the Martial Cultivators in his Space World were ready, and Ye Liuyun and his clone immediately struck another Ninth Layer Summit Martial Cultivator.

The clone released both Souls, but he only unleashed one Soul to assist.

Given the current strength of his Soul, three Souls would be enough to take down that Martial Cultivator.

What surprised him was that, to ensure his safety, the Martial Cultivator had signed an equal contract with another Ninth Layer Summit Martial Cultivator, and the two cooperated in this way.

Thus, when Ye Liuyun's Soul surged into that Martial Cultivator's Sea of Consciousness, the other Martial Cultivator immediately became aware.

Nevertheless, this does not change the outcome; Ye Liuyun instantly releases the Martial Cultivators and the Magic Vine from his Space World to counterattack.

Unexpectedly, those Martial Cultivators failed to seize the Magic Vine.

The Ninth Layer Summit Martial Cultivator was first entangled by the Magic Vine, which was about to devour him.

The Martial Cultivator, unwilling to give up, released his Soul, discovered that the Magic Vine could not be attacked and its core was nowhere to be found, while other Martial Cultivators carried items that defend against Spiritual Soul Attacks, so he rushed into Ye Liuyun's Sea of Consciousness.

"That makes it easier!"

Ye Liuyun chuckled darkly, ordering the newly subdued strongman to join the fight and capture the Imperial Guard Ninth Layer Late Stage strongmen.

He then released Liang Xue, Lei Ming and Long Nv, and began another round of frenzied battle.

This time, the Martial Cultivators Ye Liuyun released were not only tasked with intercepting the Imperial Guard but also with helping capture them.

Ye Liuyun assigned each of them ten slots, permitting only more, not fewer.

Thus, when the battle ended and Ye Liuyun's group withdrew, they captured over two hundred Imperial Guard.

In Zhongxing Wangchao's army, strongmen were wiped out twice, the camps were breached twice, and more than six hundred Imperial Guard were captured or killed.

Even before the battle began, they had already suffered huge losses.

Scouts sent to recon the enemy never returned.

Feeling as if they were being butchered, they immediately petitioned Zhongxing Wangchao to withdraw.

However, just as Mo Xiaotian hesitated whether to withdraw, Ye Tiandao arrived with the Dagger Corps, followed by the Hundred Thousand Death Legion.

Ye Tiandao's Dagger Corps now boasts countless strongmen; using a combined Formation, they shattered the city gate in a single blow, saving the need for siege equipment, and then rushed in to slaughter.

"Stop them!"

The Leader of Zhongxing Wangchao's army ordered the soldiers to intercept.

However, the Imperial Guard scrambled to rush toward the Teleportation Array, preparing to flee.

They even fought with some soldiers who were also trying to escape.

When battling the Death Legion, those Imperial Guard showed no temper, but they were ruthless toward their own soldiers.

A barrage of fierce blasts scattered the surrounding soldiers' flesh and blood.

In the end they activated the Teleportation Array and fled back first.

The surrounding soldiers were left dumbfounded by this maneuver.

Some soldiers simply threw away their weapons.

"Stop fighting! Why should we risk our lives for them!"

"Exactly, stop fighting! They don't treat us as humans!"

Many soldiers simply laid down their weapons, preparing to surrender.

"Retreat!"

Seeing this, the Leader also realized they couldn't hold, and directly withdrew the troops.

However, many soldiers simply stood where they were, unwilling to follow him back.

He also understood these soldiers and did not force them.

"Those who want to leave, follow me onto the teleportation array!"

Thus he was the first to step onto the teleportation array.

Many soldiers also followed, teleporting away.

When Ye Tiandao led his troops to the teleportation array, he found soldiers everywhere who had discarded their weapons.

Of the 100,000-strong army, over 60,000 remained here.

She also immediately signaled to stop the fighting, letting the main force handle these prisoners.

Yu Xiaofeng also had a headache; he hadn't expected to receive so many surrendered troops at once.

They could only have them first sign the Divine Soul Contract pledging allegiance to the Death Legion, then settle them in place, awaiting further processing.

"Continue the campaign, take the entire Southern Region! The City Lord's manor and resources everywhere must be seized!"

Ye Liuyun and Song An's opinions were also completely in agreement.

Thus Ye Tiandao and Yu Xiaofeng continued onward.

They also had Pei Yong come over to arrange for soldiers to garrison the cities they had captured.