Chapter 2201: No Troops to Dispatch

During Ye Liuyun's continuous advance, the Zhongxing Dynasty actually sent no troops to intercept.

It's not that Mo Xiaotian doesn't want to send troops, but that he currently has no troops to send.

He now has only the remaining fifty thousand Imperial Guards, and some martial cultivators from the royal family.

If he sends all these people out, he won't even be able to hold the royal palace.

He could send more Imperial Guards, but if the number is too few it's useless, and if it's more he can't produce them.

After the leader of the defeated troops brought his soldiers back to the Royal City, many soldiers directly became deserters.

That leader was also left unchecked, and Mo Xiaotian killed him in a fit of anger.

As a result, the previous force of a hundred thousand troops, after fleeing, ended up with only over ten thousand left, which could hardly be called an effective fighting force.

Mo Xiaotian immediately launched a conscription drive across the entire territory.

However, after Ye Liuyun set this example, slightly stronger forces began to oppose the local Chengzhu Fu and refuse conscription.

Some weaker forces also united to resist conscription.

Gradually, some warlords who carved out their own territories formed.

Even weaker forces had some who fled with their entire clan's martial cultivators and resources to join Ye Liuyun.

The whole Central Region heard that Ye Liuyun does not forcibly conscript.

Therefore, the cities Ye Liuyun captured, although just experienced the baptism of war, immediately recovered prosperity.

Moreover, Ye Liuyun and his subordinates have ample management experience, allowing both local martial cultivators and those who came to join him to develop freely.

It's enough to simply keep all resources in one's own hands.

In contrast, the Zhongxing Dynasty is getting worse and worse.

Voices of resistance keep rising everywhere, and even some Chengzhu Fu have been looted and overthrown.

Anyone can see that the Zhongxing Dynasty now has no troops to send.

But after some emerging forces grew stronger, they also began to fight among themselves.

This has led to constant warfare throughout the Central Region.

A large amount of resources originally monopolized by the Zhongxing Dynasty are now being seized and divided by many forces.

Although the Zhongxing Dynasty still sends some strong warriors and Imperial Guards to suppress the rebels, many of these forces scatter at the first clash, and after they leave, they regroup again.

At this point, Ye Liuyun instead halted his advance and simply waited for the Zhongxing Dynasty to collapse on its own.

He merely let Liu Yang and Mo Shaowen each take twenty thousand reinforcement troops and some Black Armor Soul Cultivators, heading respectively south and north to attack cities, seize resources, and capture strong martial cultivators.

Especially to exterminate those rebel forces that took the opportunity to harm the populace.

Thus, Ye Liuyun instead became the maintainer of order in the Central Region.

So Ye Liuyun's reputation spread farther and grew louder.

His voice replacing that of the Zhongxing Dynasty also grew higher and higher.

Mo Xiaotian now finds himself surrounded by enemies on all sides.

He wanted to recall half of the hundred-thousand-strong garrison guarding Soul Crossing Mountain, but was directly refused by the army's leader, Yuan Hao.

"Leaving fifty thousand troops, it's impossible to defend Soul Crossing Mountain.

"Either keep all of them stationed there, or send them all back!"

Yuan Hao also showed his contempt for the dynasty's authority.

Yet Mo Xiaotian still dared not send anyone to act against him.

Yuan Hao's hundred-thousand-strong force is his inheritance from his father, which he took over.

This hundred-thousand-strong force has already become the Yuan family's private army.

If he dared to act against Yuan Hao, this hundred-thousand-strong force might fall apart again.

By then, he would truly have no troops left.

Then those newly risen forces from all over would march together to attack the Royal City.

The reason these people dare not attack the Royal City now is that they know he has that hundred-thousand-strong force and fifty thousand Imperial Guards.

Only now has Mo Xiaotian truly begun to regard Ye Liuyun as a serious opponent.

Just from Ye Liuyun's ability to halt his advance and deploy troops to pacify rebellions, one can see he is not ordinary.

Ye Liuyun's strength also far exceeds his imagination.

He also finally admitted that Ye Liuyun might indeed have exterminated the Spirit Clan by strength alone.

If that's the case, then Ye Liuyun's strength now at least gives him the wherewithal to contend with him.

Especially Ye Liuyun's army is not only large in number but also strong in combat power.

He thinks the only way to defeat Ye Liuyun is through martial cultivators' sneak attacks and assassinations of commanders and leaders.

Mo Xiaotian still doesn't know that, inside the palace of the Dongyun Dynasty, the Ye Liuyun there is actually an impostor, Wu Qingcheng.

He merely thinks Ye Liuyun is better at employing people and has found a good leader.

Especially when he learned that Song An was the one devising the plans, realizing he had been deceived by Ye Liuyun from the start, he became furious and insisted on killing Song An.

Ye Liuyun's side is progressing smoothly; knowing the Zhongxing Dynasty has no troops to send, he pays even more attention to guarding against martial cultivators' sneak attacks and assassinations.

He had Wu Kun set up two layers of formations in Qiming City, but the defensive effect is not very strong.

If several martial cultivators from the Ninth Layer Summit act together, the formation's defensive effect is also very poor.

But Wu Kun has already done his best; he can't blame him, and still needs to thank Wu Kun.

That day, Ye Liuyun was cultivating inside the Xuan Kong Shi, while his clone outside was worried about not being able to find a formation master.

A Black Armor Guard came in to report, saying that outside the Chengzhu Fu there arrived a disheveled old man surnamed Huo, claiming to be Ye Liuyun's friend and bringing two young people.

"Haha! I was just thinking of him, and here he comes!"

Ye Liuyun connected the earlier East Army Camp fire incident to Qiong Qi, and immediately went out to personally meet him.

Ye Liuyun changed his appearance, but Qiong Qi immediately lifted his divine sense shield and recognized him.

He and Ye Liuyun had a divine soul contract before.

But his soul is so strong that if he didn't actively lift the shield, Ye Liuyun couldn't sense him; otherwise he would have found him long ago.

"Not bad, kid, you're sensible and came to pick me up!"

Qiong Qi nodded satisfactorily.

"Haha, I was just thinking of you, and you came!"

The incarnation wasn't convenient to reveal his identity in front of outsiders, so he sent a transmission voice to Qiong Qi.

Qiong Qi immediately understood, but still deliberately said: "I'm now the palace lord of the Fire Emperor Palace; hurry up and invite me in for good food and drink!"

"Haha, please, palace lord, the grilled meat will be here shortly!"

The incarnation also made a gesturing invitation, letting Qiong Qi go in to talk.

"That's about right! Don't say it, kid, I really miss the grilled meat you make!"

Qiong Qi is still the same as before, liking to put on airs.

He affected a nod, then swaggered into the City Lord's Manor.

"These two are my newly accepted disciples, one named Huo Lei, the other Mo Ren; you'd better look after them from now on!"

Qiong Qi instructed Ye Liuyun.

"You can still take disciples?"

The incarnation immediately used his golden pupil to scan their conditions.

Qiong Qi is now at the Ninth Layer Mid Stage; Huo Lei is at the Eighth Tier Early Stage, also a Qiong Qi monster beast in human form; Mo Ren is a Human Race martial cultivator at the Seventh Layer Late Stage.

"How dare you look down on me! How can I not bring disciples with my wine?"

"I'm now the lord of a palace!"

Qiong Qi said disdainfully.

"Is Huo Lei that little Qiong Qi?"

The incarnation sent a transmission voice to Qiong Qi, asking.

Qiong Qi also felt somewhat surprised: "Kid, you've become promising, you can even tell he's a monster beast!"

"Heh heh, you're not promising, you're already at the Ninth Layer Mid Stage!"

The incarnation laughed.