Chapter 2210: High-End Combat Power

Ye Liuyun's three armies each advance while recruiting Martial Cultivator elites and conscripting soldiers.

Each time they capture a city, they send the acquired resources and Martial Cultivators back, then leave only a few soldiers to garrison the city, ready to retreat at any moment via the Teleportation Array.

The Zhongxing Wangchao does not continue to intervene.

But many of the rebel forces that were surrounded and scattered by the Imperial Guard across the lands have fled to Ye Liuyun.

Thus Ye Liuyun's army also expands rapidly.

Soon, a new problem arises.

Liu Yang and Mo Shaowen, lacking experience in managing soldiers and still using a lax method of overseeing Martial Cultivators, cause both of these armies to descend into chaos.

After receiving the news, Ye Liuyun immediately orders Liu Yang and Mo Shaowen, with all their units, to rendezvous with Yu Xiaofeng, who will coordinate a unified reorganization and allocation.

When these soldiers gather together, a total count shows the number has reached over three hundred thousand.

The Martial Cultivator elites are all assigned to Ye Tiandao for training.

Ye Tiandao also leads these Martial Cultivator elites back to Qiming City.

The Imperial Guard that Ye Liuyun had subjugated in a previous battle have mostly recovered, and Ye Liuyun hands them over to Ye Tiandao as well.

Ye Tiandao's force suddenly expands to sixteen thousand people.

The numbers become too large for Ye Tiandao to manage, so Ye Liuyun summons He Lian Xiu, Pei Yong and others, placing them under He Lian Xiu's command of a hundred‑thousand army.

He also selects six thousand weaker Martial Cultivators from Ye Tiandao's troops, handing them to He Lian Xiu for training, to strengthen her army.

All the teams that have defected or surrendered are first handed to Pei Yong for processing, refining the entire army's management system.

The army's advance stalls again.

Ye Liuyun is not in a hurry.

He orders the army to advance steadily and firmly, refusing any risky thrusts; even if they were to withdraw entirely to the Dongyun Wangchao, it would not matter.

Meanwhile, the Western Region, where Ye Liuyun has never dispatched troops, has become the most lively gathering spot for various rebel forces.

The hundred‑thousand army stationed at Duhun Mountain never intervenes, allowing these forces to seize the Zhongxing Wangchao's City Lord's residence and regional resources.

In the Central Region, the eastern, southern, and northern districts have been almost half occupied by Ye Liuyun.

Only in these districts is there no fighting.

The forces within his occupied zones know Ye Liuyun commands hundreds of thousands of troops, so no one dares to act rashly.

Some anti‑Zhongxing Wangchao forces that tried to seize resources have been driven outside Ye Liuyun's occupied area.

After this round of war, the Zhongxing Wangchao only occasionally sends Imperial Guard units to crush the more troublesome rebels, and never again attacks Ye Liuyun.

Even though they know the defenses of Ye Liuyun's occupied cities are weak, they still take no action.

They think that even if they recapture them, Ye Liuyun will take them back, so there is no point.

At this moment, Ye Liuyun suddenly receives a message from senior Alien Battlefield Administrator Li Hongtao.

He is delivering a message on behalf of the Ten Thousand Gods Alliance.

"The Alien Battlefield is under heavy combat and needs reinforcements!"

Ye Liuyun feels deeply concerned about this.

The Zhongxing Wangchao has not yet shown its true strength, yet he must already pull elite troops; once the Zhongxing Wangchao truly strikes, he will be in even greater danger.

But he still asks, "How many people are needed?

What realm?"

Li Hongtao replies to Ye Liuyun: "Currently on the Alien Battlefield, Martial Cultivators of Ninth Layer Early Stage and Mid Stage are equivalent to ordinary soldiers.

Only Martial Cultivators of Ninth Layer Late Stage can be considered elite soldiers.

At present, there are many vacancies among soldiers of each sub‑realm of the Ninth Realm.

The Ten Thousand Gods Alliance knows your current situation, but the Zhongxing Wangchao provides too little support to the Alien Battlefield.

After Mo Xiaotian suffers several defeats, he finds more excuses not to supply troops.

Moreover, even if he sends people, their combat power is weak; they are only there to siphon resources.

Therefore the Ten Thousand Gods Alliance can only ask you for help: from each of the three sub‑realms of the Ninth Realm, provide one thousand Martial Cultivators.

They will not let you help for free; they will compensate you with abundant resources!"

Li Hongtao also knows Ye Liuyun's difficulties, so he does not request Ninth Layer Summit elites from him.

Ye Liuyun immediately agrees.

"Alright.

I will definitely send reinforcements.

As for exactly how many I can send, let me consider it and get back to you."

Li Hongtao, seeing Ye Liuyun's attitude, is also pleased and awaits his news.

Ye Liuyun immediately summons Song An, Yu Xiaofeng, Qiong Qi, Xiao Yunfang, He Lian Xiu, Ye Tiandao, Pei Yong, Liang Xue, Xia Tianqiong and Xia Lingshuang to discuss.

"The Zhongxing Wangchao currently has ten thousand soldiers and forty thousand Imperial Guard that can be mobilized at any time.

The Western Region's Yuan Hao's hundred‑thousand army has stayed on standby, its attitude unclear.

The Zhongxing Wangchao's hidden true strength has not been revealed.

The resources we obtain in the central area, even with the army's growth, can at most sustain us for another three months.

More importantly, the situation at the Alien Battlefield is severe, requiring our reinforcements, and each of the Ninth Layer Early, Mid, and Late Stages needs at least a thousand Martial Cultivators.

The Ten Thousand Gods Alliance also promises to compensate us with some resources.

Thus I have gathered everyone to hear your opinions on how much impact drawing these forces from our army would have."

After Ye Liuyun finishes speaking, he lets everyone share their views.

"The Zhongxing Wangchao's Imperial Guard fights us with such desperation! They have forty thousand men; is it hard to pick three thousand?"

"Why do they have to ask us for troops?"

Song An was very dissatisfied with the Ten Thousand Gods Alliance's request.

"People of the Zhongxing Wangchao are not putting in effort on the Alien Battlefield; it is probably the Ten Thousand Gods Alliance's people who cannot control those Imperial Guard, and thus cannot get them to sign the Divine Soul Contract, right?"

Ye Liuyun guessed.

Ye Liuyun added, "However, the Ten Thousand Gods Alliance has been supporting us.

And in resisting the Foreign Tribe invasion, we should have contributed some force!"

"Destroying the Zhongxing Wangchao, I have no objection to our whole army marching to the Alien Battlefield.

When the time comes, I would have no hesitation to go, but pulling so many experts now would pose a huge hidden risk for us!"

Song An said bluntly.

"Indeed!"

Yu Xiaofeng also said, "Among our various armies now, we don't have that many strong ones; they are all concentrated in the spearhead unit.

The reason our advance is slow is because high‑end combat power is scarce.

If we were to pull that many at once,

it would probably affect our advance speed even more."

Xiao Yunfang also said, "Although our army's numbers are not small now,

the truly deployable combat power is only the former Hundred Thousand Death Legion soldiers, and their realms are all Martial Cultivators of six to eight layers.

The rest are just some Reinforcement Troops and those who have come to join us.

Training these people to reach Death Legion combat power would take at least a year or two of honing.

If we have such high‑end combat power, we could still lead them.

If not, then time is needed to exchange for combat power.

But such a long period, we lack sufficient resources to sustain it."