Chapter 2220: Slaughtering a Hundred Thousand

According to Yuan Hao's plan, while we still have strength, we should attack on multiple fronts, give it our all, and at least we can still fight to a draw.

But he estimated that after this battle, they would be at a disadvantage.

Fortunately, his elite troops are still in the Western Region, and here we still have a hundred-thousand-strong army, so it's not without a chance to turn the tide.

However, Ye Liuyun gave him a huge surprise.

The rootless wood box that Ye Liuyun had seized from the Black-White Dual Demons earlier was put to use by him.

He knew Yuan Hao wanted to pin down his army, and would definitely not give him this opportunity.

To win as quickly as possible, he could only resort to a ruthless move.

He flew onto the formation, opened the rootless wood box, and began pouring the water of the Boundless Sea downwards.

Though the rootless box is small, it contains a universe within; it holds the black water of the Boundless Sea, enough to flood a city ten times larger, let alone this small town.

The seawater poured out, the formation was quickly breached, a large hole opened at the top, and vast amounts of the Boundless Sea's water poured down from above into the city.

As soon as Yuan Hao saw Ye Liuyun produce that wooden box, he knew they couldn't hold out.

He immediately rushed to the teleportation array and was sent back to Pass Soul Mountain in the Western Region at once.

As for those soldiers, he could teleport as many as possible, but he couldn't attend to that many.

This formation was designed from the start to defend both inside and outside.

So that they wouldn't have soldiers desert when trapped.

Unexpectedly, it now became an obstacle to those soldiers' escape.

The entire ruined town was quickly flooded by the black water.

The teleportation array was immediately destroyed.

Only over two thousand soldiers were sent away by the teleportation array.

The remaining soldiers tried to surrender, but were all drowned in the black water of the Boundless Sea, and thus perished.

By the time the formation's foundation was corroded and the formation collapsed, the hundred-thousand-strong army had almost completely corroded away.

Ye Liuyun also began using that rootless wood box to draw back the black water of the Boundless Sea, to prevent it from spreading outward.

Once he had reclaimed the black water of the Boundless Sea, the entire ruined town had already been corroded into a deep pit.

The soil inside the pit had all turned black.

There was nothing inside.

Looking at Ye Liuyun's hundred-thousand-strong army from afar was shocking.

"A hundred-thousand-strong army, all gone in an instant?"

"The water of the Boundless Sea is truly terrifying!"

"With this weapon, attacking the Royal City in the future will be much easier!"

The soldiers all marveled at the power of the black water of the Boundless Sea.

Ye Liuyun looked at the black pit before him and also felt great regret.

"Alas! Those hundred thousand people, if they had gone to fight the Foreign Tribe, what a great contribution they would have made!"

But there was no choice; if he didn't act ruthlessly, this battle would drag on endlessly.

If they attacked the city, his troops would also suffer heavy casualties, and the final death toll would be the same, possibly even higher.

Ye Liuyun retreated, instructed He Lian Xiu to continue besieging the city in the Northern Region, and then advance toward the Royal City.

Together with Xiao Yunfang and Pei Yong, they encircled the Royal City.

He then had Yu Xiaofeng provide coordinates, used the Teleportation Black Tower, and rushed to Yu Xiaofeng's western army.

But the news that Ye Liuyun had flooded the ruins with Boundless Sea water, directly slaughtering the hundred-thousand-strong army, quickly spread throughout the Central Region.

After all, many martial cultivators had personally witnessed this scene from afar.

For a time, the other rebel forces and bandits in the Central Region were so frightened that upon encountering Ye Liuyun's army, they would immediately surrender.

Many cities also fell without being attacked.

Either the city lord fled, or they surrendered voluntarily.

The armies of He Lian Xiu, Xiao Yunfang, and Pei Yong all advanced at an unusually fast pace.

Ye Liuyun and Yu Xiaofeng's hundred-thousand-strong army also arrived at Reverent Soul City.

Yuan Hao led his troops to defend Pass Soul Mountain stubbornly, without taking the initiative to attack.

He wanted to wait for Ye Liuyun to take the initiative and strike him by surprise.

His hundred-thousand-strong army had been cultivated by his father and himself over two generations.

Within the army, there were over ten thousand experts at the Ninth Realm.

Moreover, the lowest cultivation level among them was the Seventh Layer, making their combat strength formidable.

He felt that if Yu Xiaofeng dared to rashly attack Pass Soul Mountain, relying on the terrain, a single charge could wipe out Yu Xiaofeng's hundred-thousand-strong army.

He had previously sent people to monitor Yu Xiaofeng's forces along the way, discovering they had only over two thousand Ninth Realm martial cultivators, far weaker than his own.

Moreover, he also guessed that this Ye Liuyun here was an impostor using the name "Thousand Faces", and that when the time came, he himself could deal with Thousand Faces.

But he didn't know that upon Ye Liuyun's arrival, Thousand Faces had already transformed into the appearance of a Black Armor Guard, standing beside Ye Liuyun.

Thereafter, any Ye Liuyun that appeared was truly him.

Moreover, after he fled back and learned that Ye Liuyun had drowned every single one of the hundred-thousand-strong army, he also felt lingering fear.

Now even he confirmed that Ye Liuyun is an extremely difficult opponent to deal with.

Even if he won this battle, he would still have to be very careful in dealing with him thereafter.

From the start of the war to now, he has not seen Ye Liuyun suffer any major losses.

This is sufficient to show that Ye Liuyun Ye Liuyun is a talented general!

Ye Liuyun did not rush to attack.

Ye Liuyun was waiting, waiting for the Zhongxing Wangchao to be surrounded by his other three armies, at which point Mo Xiaotian would surely order Yuan Hao to come to the rescue.

When the time comes, Yuan Hao will naturally have to dispatch troops.

Xiao Yunfang also had Qiong Qi, Liu Yang, and Mo Shaowen bring the Soul Cultivators and one thousand Ninth Realm Martial Cultivators to reinforce Ye Liuyun, so the defense array of Reverent Soul City was also all set up by Qiong Qi.

Therefore Ye Liuyun had no worries at all; instead, he tried to buy as much time as possible for the Vanguard Squad to rest.

Near the Royal City, Xiao Yunfang was the first to arrive.

But she also didn't stay too near the Royal City; instead, she stopped after a few days' march, stationed the troops, and let the army rest on the spot.

Next was Pei Yong, then He Lian Xiu.

They were all the same: when they were about three or four days' distance from the Zhongxing Wangchao, they all stopped.

Three hundred thousand troops surrounded the Royal City, as if brewing a general assault, in order to put pressure on the Zhongxing Wangchao.

The citizens of the Zhongxing Wangchao had already begun to flee wildly outward; the defending soldiers couldn't stop them.

The populace feared Ye Liuyun would return and flood the Royal City, burying them all.

Even major powers like the Ten Thousand Merchants Alliance, the Artificers' Alliance, and the Alchemists' Alliance feared being implicated, so they all temporarily moved out of the Royal City.

Thus, inside the Royal City at this moment, everything was deathly quiet; aside from patrolling soldiers, not a single civilian could be seen on the streets.

Mo Xiaotian kept urging Yuan Hao to send reinforcements while arranging the dynasty's Formation Masters to continuously lay multiple layers of arrays in the Royal City, preparing to resist the erosion of the Boundless Sea.

He even dug a huge pit and an outward diversion canal, making preparations to divert the water.

Yuan Hao saw that Yu Xiaofeng did not launch a rash attack, but instead set up formations, and also realized that they had Formation Masters on their side.

"Looks like Ye Liuyun has plenty of talent around him! Otherwise he wouldn't have expanded so quickly!"

He thought to himself.

If he doesn't act soon, Ye Liuyun will likely come here to reinforce via the Teleportation Array.