Chapter 2431: Skeleton Siege

Soon, Ye Liuyun and his duplicate reached the other side of the cemetery and collected every weapon they could see.

The Yin Souls within the corpses also became nourishment for their Divine Soul Power.

Just as Ye Liuyun thought they could withdraw, suddenly he noticed a dry bone seemed to twitch.

When he looked again, the bone was still.

"Perhaps it's been so long that the skeleton can't hold together any more."

Ye Liuyun paid it no mind and walked back with his duplicate.

But suddenly he heard a light "crack" sound.

This time he paid attention, releasing his Golden Pupil and Divine Sense to monitor the bones.

He finally realized the bones were moving, only sporadically and with very stiff motions.

Immediately, some stone coffins and burial grounds began to tremble; the stone coffin lids were lifted, and the skeletons inside sat up.

From below, dry hand bones protruded, as if a skeleton were trying to crawl out.

"Retreat quickly!"

Ye Liuyun and his duplicate accelerated outward.

The Demon Wolf and its captives also ran here to support them.

But those dry bones moved faster and faster, and gradually some skeletons stood up.

When Ye Liuyun and his group gathered in the middle of the cemetery, the skeletons had already surrounded them.

"A skeleton army?"

At this moment Ye Liuyun realized he had truly caused trouble.

The trial here turned out to be this difficult, spawning an entire skeleton army at once.

He and his duplicate immediately drew the Demon Slaying Sword and the Heaven Devourer, slashing at the nearby skeletons.

"Swish, swish," with two strokes, those two skeletons had their heads cut off in response.

To his surprise, the two headless skeletons did not fall; they continued to rigidly swing their arms, reaching for Ye Liuyun and his companion.

Ye Liuyun and his duplicate immediately hacked several more strokes, shattering the two skeletons into pieces, after which they finally ceased moving.

Where their bones scattered, a white Crystal Stone appeared.

But then the crackling continued, and the surrounding skeleton army began to attack them.

Ye Liuyun and his duplicate immediately leapt onto the Demon Wolf, brandishing their battle blades, and commanded the captives riding the Demon Wolf to charge outward.

At first they proceeded smoothly; the skeletons moved stiffly, barely able to fight back, merely hard to kill, requiring several blows to shatter them and obtain the Crystal Stone.

But soon the skeletons' movements became increasingly agile, able to dodge and even counterattack.

Their attack power also grew, and gradually their strength approached that of the few of them.

On Ye Liuyun's side, casualties began to appear.

The first to be killed by the skeletons was Xiao Mulin.

He initially tried to command others based on his status, only to be slapped down by the others.

When he was a prince he was arrogant; now he is being bullied mercilessly.

Before he treated others as cannon fodder; now everyone bullies him as cannon fodder.

In every battle, he suffers the most damage, gains the least, and his True Essence is hard to replenish.

This time he was also forced by the others to charge at the front.

Thus he was the first to be knocked off the Demon Wolf by those skeletons, fell into their ranks, and was torn to pieces.

Ye Liuyun did not intervene; seeing the Demon Wolf pack stalled, he had his duplicate release the Demon Beast army to charge together.

The Demon Beast army and the skeleton army were evenly matched, and a chaotic battle began.

Ye Liuyun also deployed ten Metal Puppets and ten Martial Cultivator elites, as well as the Monster Beasts beside him, Ye Tiandao, and the thirty soldiers of the Sharp Blade Squad, letting them all join the fight.

He and his duplicate focused on protecting Ye Tiandao and the Sharp Blade Squad, allowing them to unleash their formation's power.

Under Ye Liuyun's command, the Demon Beast army, led by the Demon Lion, cut a bloody path, causing the beast herd to surge forward.

Once the beasts formed a tide, the skeletons could no longer block them.

The Demon Lion led the beast tide, circling the area; wherever it passed, skeletons were knocked aside and their bones scattered.

Ten Metal Puppets, ten Martial Cultivator elites, and the Sharp Blade Squad led by Ye Liuyun formed a triangular defense.

The captives mixed with the Demon Wolf herd; aside from two who were killed by skeletons before the herd moved, the others survived after joining.

After the beast herd turned a few circles, it had nearly wiped out the skeleton army.

Ye Liuyun recalled the ten elites and Metal Puppets, and his duplicate withdrew the Demon Beasts, leaving the remainder for everyone to practice with.

Ye Liuyun and his duplicate, leading the Sharp Blade Squad and Monster Beasts against the remaining skeletons, suddenly noticed some Martial Cultivators entering the battlefield.

They had sensed the battle's turbulence and came to investigate.

Upon arriving, seeing the fight nearing its end and the ground littered with uncollected Crystal Stones, they gathered and planned to loot, taking advantage.

The resources Ye Liuyun's group had fought hard for hadn't been collected yet; they wouldn't let others profit from them.

Especially Demon Wolf Lei Ming and the other Monster Beasts must not be allowed to act!

"How outrageous, they dare to rob us!"

Lei Ming was the first to charge, unleashing a barrage of Lightning Strike.

Ye Liuyun immediately deployed the ten Martial Cultivator elites and the Demon Wolf pack to slay those Martial Cultivators.

Those few captives were also sent by Ye Liuyun.

The duplicate also led Monster Beasts to kill those Martial Cultivators, leaving the remaining skeletons for Ye Liuyun and the Sharp Blade Squad.

Thus another great battle flared up again.

Dozens of Martial Cultivators clashed with Ye Liuyun and his group.

These people's combat strength is not weak either; the split self was originally at a disadvantage the moment they made contact.

However, as several strong ones were gradually killed or controlled by the split self using Spiritual Soul Attack, the battle immediately changed.

Moreover, the opponent kept getting fewer as they killed more.

"Stop fighting! Can't we retreat?"

"Exactly, there's no need to go to such lengths for this little resource, right?"

The others also shouted hurriedly.

At this moment, the few captives that Ye Liuyun had captured had already been killed, and several slightly weaker Demon Wolves had also been taken down.

The opponent also had fifteen or sixteen fall.

So, seeing the split self and others and these ferocious beasts fighting so desperately, they immediately wanted to withdraw.

The split self, however, kept launching Spiritual Soul Attacks without pause, having no intention of letting them go.

Leading Liao Yunyang and ten other strong ones, they kept dealing ruthless blows.

Lei Ming then shouted, "Now you want to run?

Too late! If you dare to snatch our stuff, none of you will even think of leaving alive!"

Roar!

Bai Hu let out a huge roar and charged upward, not bothering with any words to those people.

Those people at this moment were full of regret, but now their numbers kept dwindling, surrounded by a pack of Demon Wolves, and with these strong ones intervening, they really couldn't escape.

Seeing more and more of their own being killed, someone immediately knelt and surrendered, but those Monster Beasts and Demon Beasts paid no heed and simply kept killing.