Chapter 2301: Three‑Legged Standoff

Ye Liuyun directly plants a Slave Seal on that Leader, erases his original Divine Soul Contract, then conducts Soul Search to learn his memories.

"You controlling me is useless."

"When my Divine Soul Contract was erased by you, that Deputy Leader learned of it and will no longer believe what I say."

That Leader told Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun was unfazed: "If I can annihilate you, I can naturally annihilate him as well!"

After his Soul Search, he found the data hardly differed from what they had previously obtained, so his goodwill toward this Leader waned further.

This Leader is named Han Mutong, with Ninth Layer Late Stage strength.

Although Ye Liuyun thought his character wasn't great, his troop‑leading ability was still commendable.

So Ye Liuyun didn't kill him, but let him continue leading the Reinforcement Troops.

Of his fifty thousand men, only twenty thousand Reinforcement Troops remained; all signed loyalty contracts, and apart from their armor and weapons, all other resources and Storage Rings were confiscated.

This caused Lan Xin to become busy again.

These soldiers were each filthy rich; before arriving here they had already swept through two other worlds, so in this battle Ye Liuyun again acquired massive resources.

He gave all the corpses to the Demon Race, Demon Beast and Half‑Orc Legion.

He gave the armor and weapons to Qiong Qi and Tong Xin, letting them study the materials and craftsmanship.

The 50,000‑strong Holy Land army intercepted by the Demon Race also promptly withdrew from this region.

Ye Liuyun also didn't let the Demon Race pursue.

Because the strengths of these two forces were comparable.

In the previous clash, both sides each lost over three thousand dead.

After all the main armies finished clearing the battlefield, Ye Liuyun led his troops to retreat and garrison in an empty city.

Then Han Mutong and his Reinforcement Troops were dispatched by Ye Liuyun to the various major cities behind them to search for resources and clean up those battlefields.

The Demon Race Half‑Orc Legion was also sent out by Ye Liuyun to collect corpses as food reserves.

He had previously seen many cities where no one cleaned the battlefield.

Those resources were because the Holy Land soldiers were so wealthy they were lazy to clean the battlefield, but Ye Liuyun didn't mind.

And the locals, the remaining people, were all following them, preparing to rescue the female prisoners, so they had no time to clean the battlefield.

Afterwards, Ye Liuyun had Qiong Qi set up several layers of Defense Array around the cities here to prevent surprise attacks.

Ye Liuyun had all the various armies report their battle losses.

The Spearhead Unit had only a few injured, almost no loss.

The Death Legion surprisingly lost over three hundred dead and over three hundred injured.

The dead were soldiers who had been incorporated into the Death Legion after Yuan Hao, and their coordination was still insufficient.

The Half‑Orc Legion, mainly relying on equipment for this attack and being the main force, suffered only a few dozen casualties, negligible.

Man Feng's fifty‑thousand Imperial Guard joined later, yet within a short time suffered over a thousand casualties.

Only the Demon Race suffered the heaviest loss, instantly losing three thousand.

"The Demon Race still needs to continue cultivation and improvement; the Death Legion and Man Feng's Imperial Guard also need real‑combat honing!"

Ye Liuyun immediately had his duplicate recall the Demon Race to the Space World, and let the Death Legion and Man Feng's Imperial Guard guard the city.

At the same time, he also had Tong Xin and Qiong Qi produce more war chariots and Puppet Beasts for these two forces.

These equipments could unleash great power during the massed battles.

Due to Ye Liuyun's intervention, the locals' and Holy Land army's fighting temporarily ceased.

Both sides began sending people to probe the details of Ye Liuyun's army.

But the Teleportation Array set up by Qiong Qi made it impossible for them to enter the city.

Soon, news arrived that Zheng Huan had rescued over ten thousand female prisoners.

Zheng Huan and others also returned to the city, reporting to several city‑state Elders inside.

Their Heavenly Wolf Realm had originally been jointly controlled by several large city‑states.

After the Holy Land army arrived, they were united in resisting the invasion, but they dispatched forces of fifty thousand or a hundred thousand, or were pulled apart by the Holy Land army, causing each army to be encircled and annihilated.

Eventually the soldiers of each city‑state were exhausted, then they began sending Martial Cultivators, after which they kept retreating, never catching a breath.

Until they retreated here, the city‑states finally united to continue the resistance.

This gave them a buffer period, and they began continuously calling for Martial Cultivators to join, gathering more Martial Cultivators into this Lianhe Chengbang.

The three parties formed a three‑legged stalemate, and none made the first move.

The Holy Land army feared Ye Liuyun's strength and dared not act.

Ye Liuyun wanted to wait and see whether this Lianhe Chengbang would come to cooperate with him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't strike lightly.

So as not to lose his own troops while others showed no gratitude.

He could also use this time to have the Demon Race Half‑Orc and Han Mutong's Reinforcement Troops collect more resources, letting the Demon Race store more food.

As long as a Martial Cultivator's core pill remains, the corpse won't rot easily.

Especially for Martial Cultivators in the Divine Realm, even if they die in battle, their bodies can persist for many years.

Ye Liuyun originally didn't have high hopes for these resources; after all they were things left by others, how much value could they have!

What surprised Ye Liuyun was that twenty days later, the first batch of battlefield‑cleaning soldiers returned, bringing back resources that amazed Ye Liuyun.

Just the Divine Crystals could be stacked into more than twenty Mineral Veins.

The other resources were even more plentiful.

Especially the food reserved for the Demon Race's Demon Beasts; the Demon Race Half‑Orc collected tens of thousands of corpses.

"…You keep cleaning the battlefield!"

Ye Liuyun could only let them continue to clean up the battlefield.

Moreover, Man Feng's 50,000-strong army was also dispatched by Ye Liuyun to join the battlefield‑cleaning team.

"No wonder those Holy Land armies are after this place; it really is rich in resources!"

Man Feng sighed.

"Actually it's not that much! This is the resources of hundreds of thousands of people, and when averaged out it's not a lot!"

Mo Tianheng reminded everyone.

"Indeed, if these people hadn't all died, we couldn't have gathered so many resources."

Even Qiong Qi agreed with Mo Tianheng's statement.

Zhao Hu, a little impatient, asked Ye Liuyun, "When will we act?"

"Will the Holy Land send a large army to reinforce?"

"If they come to reinforce, that would be even better! The current 50,000 aren't enough for us to fight; another 100,000 would be just right!"

Ye Liuyun laughed.

"As for the locals, we can't attack them! Otherwise we'd become the invaders.

The Martial Cultivators here still have some spirit; none have surrendered yet, and I still want to win them over as a source of troops for us.

If they don't join us, we'll keep waiting until they're wiped out by the Holy Land armies! Since neither side dares to attack us, isn't it better for us to use this chance to gather more resources?"

Ye Liuyun, however, was not in a hurry at all.

Instead, he urged the soldiers to cultivate and drill, improving their own strength.