Chapter 2277: Live Performance

Ye Liuyun's Puppet Beast army has many tiny, unnoticed scouting Puppet Beasts, all shaped like small insects and extremely concealed.

So Ye Liuyun already knew the positions of the various armies on the battlefield and had planned the timing and rhythm of the attack in advance.

Ye Liuyun only showed the scouts the number of Foreign Tribe corpses killed, then led his troops to continue clearing the battlefield.

After the news spread, the entire allied force cheered.

They immediately looked at Ye Liuyun's unit with new respect.

According to the scouts' report, Ye Liuyun's army seemed to have suffered little loss in manpower.

This strength shocked Man Feng and the others.

So they immediately halted their main force, wanting to see how Ye Liuyun would fight next.

They even sent some people to observe Ye Liuyun's battle from afar.

The two wings of the Foreign Tribe main army each had twenty thousand soldiers, and now they were charging toward Ye Liuyun's position.

They intended to block Ye Liuyun from continuing to pursue their main force.

But when they saw that Ye Liuyun only had a little over ten thousand soldiers, they thought of taking revenge on the Human Martial Cultivators and then retreating.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they approached, they were attacked by the Formation that Qiong Qi had set up in advance.

Ye Liuyun reminded the Death Legion soldiers not to use Puppet Beasts and equipment.

"They are watching us, we will give them a performance, and fight these Foreign Tribe properly.

Prepare for a desperate kill!"

Ye Liuyun mobilized the Death Legion soldiers.

The Death Legion soldiers, all wielding shields and spears, formed their battle formation.

After Qiong Qi's Formation had consumed part of the Foreign Tribe, they charged forward.

The Death Legion had not displayed its might for a long time.

Now that battle began, a soaring killing aura erupted again.

Among those Foreign Tribe soldiers, even the Ninth Layer Summit elites were suppressed and annihilated by their formation.

Ye Liuyun also led from the front, wielding the Demon Slaying Sword, clad in ancient demonic war armor, and charged ahead.

Zhao Hu, Yuan Hao, Mo Tianheng and others also joined the fight.

Mo Shaowen and Liu Yang, however, held the position with Jing Yong, staying within the Formation as reserve forces.

"Kill!"

The battlefield rang with a deafening war cry.

The opposing forty thousand Foreign Tribe had already been cut down by Qiong Qi's Formation, and began to panic.

Under the Death Legion's intense killing aura, they lost the will to fight; any resistance collapsed instantly.

They were continuously pursued and encircled by Ye Liuyun's troops.

Moreover, the Death Legion now equipped Storage Yuan Stones, so every soldier's power was greater, at least no longer as restrained as before.

Therefore this battle was fought especially splendidly, earning the allied forces' admiration of their strength.

In the end, only a few thousand of the forty thousand Foreign Tribe escaped; the rest became Ye Liuyun's spoils.

After Ye Liuyun's group cleared the spoils, they did not linger.

Their mission was complete, so there was no need to continue fighting.

So Ye Liuyun greeted Man Feng, then led his troops back, saying the soldiers needed to cultivate and recover.

After returning, they set up their base far from the allied main camp, maintaining a certain distance.

To avoid being ambushed by the other side in future conflicts.

This battle, the Death Legion fought cleanly and efficiently, fully displaying its combat power, leaving both the allied forces and the dynasty behind them deeply shocked.

Likewise, the Foreign Tribe immediately withdrew, and the original invasion plan was halted at once.

They had thought that the arrival of a hundred thousand reinforcements would allow them to advance further, but Ye Liuyun's uproar disrupted their advance plan.

Seeing the Foreign Tribe withdraw, the allied forces also pulled back, and both sides returned to a stalemate.

After Man Feng returned, he saw changes in Ye Liuyun's base and vaguely guessed Ye Liuyun's intention.

However, most Martial Cultivators and soldiers in the allied forces paid no attention to this detail; their attitude toward Ye Liuyun's group changed immediately, from suspicion to acceptance.

They regarded Ye Liuyun's group as their savior, and many agreed to ally with them.

Everyone discussed the alliance.

The soldiers were somewhat better, only discussing it during rest.

But the lax-discipline Martial Cultivators were already boiling over.

Man Feng, Song Tianyang, and Gong Lei all knew that the difficulty of an alliance between the two sides was great.

Especially now that three dynasties are divided, unifying opinions is very hard.

They merely reported the facts upward; how to decide is left to the dynasties.

Man Feng thought about it but still did not mention Ye Liuyun moving his base farther away.

After all, it was only his suspicion, with no concrete evidence.

Moreover, he thought that if things got sour, he wouldn't have to worry about Ye Liuyun's surprise attacks.

He immediately, together with Song Tianyang and Gong Lei, studied Ye Liuyun's formation layout.

They felt that the coordination within Ye Liuyun's team was very harmonious and could be used as a reference.

Yet no matter how much they studied, they only examined variations and did not grasp the core principle of Ye Liuyun's formation.

Some Martial Cultivators were also researching this three-person coordination method.

In any case, having coordination is better than none.

So although they had not mastered the essence, each person's coordination improved compared to before, and they continued to praise Ye Liuyun's group endlessly.

The three dynasties behind the allied forces, upon hearing the news, also learned of Ye Liuyun's group's strength.

But after all, Ye Liuyun's side only had over ten thousand troops, so persuading these dynasties to ally immediately had limited persuasive power.

The main issue was who would command the allied forces and resources after the alliance, which was of utmost importance.

Thus they also instructed Man Feng to first deliver the promised mineral vein resources to Ye Liuyun, to secure his cooperation.

That way, if fighting broke out later, they could still call upon this unit.

At the same time, they had Man Feng negotiate with Ye Liuyun to ensure that command of the allied forces after the alliance would belong to them.

Then they also had Man Feng persuade Ye Liuyun to train their army to reach the combat strength of Ye Liuyun's forces.

Man Feng also knew it would be hard to reach an agreement, but he still had to carry out the order.

Thus he first brought Song Tianyang and Gong Lei to deliver the rewards to Ye Liuyun, to increase goodwill.

Then he began negotiations with Ye Liuyun.

They considered more issues, including what ratio the two worlds should send troops at, who would provide the soldiers' resources, how the two different worlds could be connected, and how to deploy troops.

If attacked simultaneously, who to protect first, who would serve as president of the allied forces, etc. —there are actually quite a few details here.

Ye Liuyun's side also, in these negotiations, gained a deeper understanding of the alliance issues.

Many issues, Ye Liuyun's side also needed time to consider, so after Man Feng raised the questions, he waited for Ye Liuyun's side to respond.

The next day, Man Feng again brought up to Ye Liuyun the matter of helping with training troops.

Ye Liuyun also used the excuse that the leader in charge of his troop training hadn't arrived, and that they were unfamiliar with the principles of this formation, to temporarily put the matter aside.

Otherwise, if he taught them and the two sides still couldn't reach an agreement, that would just be asking for trouble.