Chapter 2503: Huge Cost

Thanks to everyone's efforts, the remaining foreign tribe were quickly wiped out completely.

The foreign tribe's first sortie was thus repelled.

The ten thousand martial cultivators led by Ye Liuyun also suffered over half casualties.

This result actually counts as a victory for Ye Liuyun and his side.

If we can keep fighting like this, the foreign tribe's six million people will definitely not be a match for us.

Ye Liuyun also immediately recalled the Tin Jin Shou, letting everyone quickly clean up the battlefield.

The corpses on the battlefield were all taken by the Magic Vine, but the scattered resources left the remaining martial cultivators with a rich harvest.

Ye Liuyun then recruited another batch of martial cultivators capable of hand-to-hand combat.

But he has a cultivation limit; those too weak are not wanted, otherwise they would be turned into corpse demons by the foreign tribe and become a burden instead.

Meanwhile, because martial cultivators from all regions were overly enthusiastic, the number of participants had already exceeded forty million.

There were martial cultivators of every cultivation level.

Ye Liuyun had no choice but to let Xiao Muan issue an order, halting the mobilization of martial cultivators, while also persuading those below the Seventh Layer of the Divine Realm to withdraw and leave the cities near the battlefield.

Otherwise, merely managing these martial cultivators would increase the army's burden.

Afterward, Ye Liuyun began to uniformly allocate soldiers and martial cultivators, having soldiers garrison the major cities on the flanks and the strong martial cultivators garrison the central major cities, forming a triangular formation that supported each other.

The other martial cultivators gathered in the rear cities, awaiting Ye Liuyun's dispatch.

Ye Liuyun's own million-strong army, meanwhile, was waiting in Xingkong for reinforcement orders.

Although the foreign tribe lost this battle, their losses were merely a trial for them.

They found Ye Liuyun's tactics extremely troublesome, and thought that if they wanted their main force to break out, they would probably have to pay a huge price.

Next, they also began training some soldiers in hand-to-hand combat and selected martial cultivators with relatively strong divine soul power, preparing to charge out again.

Ye Liuyun also knew the Tin Jin Shou could no longer be used, and the foreign tribe would surely find a way to counter it.

So this time he planned to use hawks, war chariots, and energy cannons to bombard the foreign tribe members who charged out.

Even if they couldn't be completely stopped, they should still be made to pay a huge price.

As for the Tin Jin Shou, he certainly wouldn't abandon it completely; it could be used for occasional sneak attacks.

Thus Ye Liuyun made preparations in advance: besides having Yu Xiaofeng gather all the hawks ready for battle, he also concentrated some war chariots and energy cannons around the battlefield and dispatched three hundred thousand martial cultivators to guard them.

The Magic Vine was also pre‑placed by him underground for an ambush.

The people and monster beasts around Ye Liuyun also prepared to join the fight.

Furthermore, his ten metal puppets, the forty‑one strong cultivators captured earlier at the Third Tier of the Heavenly Man realm, and over seventy martial cultivators at the Second Tier of the Heavenly Man realm were to join the battle, aiming to inflict a heavy blow on the foreign tribe.

Ye Liuyun also didn't forget Liu Kui's side, transferring another ten million martial cultivators there as troop reinforcements to speed up progress.

With these new forces, Liu Kui could also advance a bit faster, so they wouldn't have to fight on two fronts.

Next, as the foreign tribe's swallows surged out of the Secret Realm once more, the second great battle immediately began.

However, the foreign tribe's expected Tin Jin Shou did not appear.

Their swallows were immediately intercepted and shot down by the hawks.

But swallows kept flying out of the Secret Realm, spreading outward; Ye Liuyun's hawks were dispatched in waves of ten thousand, pressing them, and when tired they were replaced with another batch.

The foreign tribe's soldiers also began to charge out of the Secret Realm, but as soon as they emerged they were blasted by the surrounding war chariots and energy cannons.

However, because the foreign tribe's numbers were too great, the war chariots and energy cannons were forced to retreat a little bit by them.

After discovering that the Tin Jin Shou had not appeared, the foreign tribe grew bolder, continuously sending troops and equipment outward, even deploying their giant warships to block the hawks' attacks and use them as shields for their soldiers.

But Ye Liuyun also dispatched many hawks this time—if ten thousand weren't enough, he added another ten thousand, circling and bombarding that warship.

Thus the warship's energy was consumed quickly; in the end the foreign tribe feared it would be destroyed and recalled it.

Although the giant warship withdrew, millions of foreign tribe soldiers still charged out.

They used warships of the hundred‑thousand‑class as shields and advanced outward.

Then the foreign tribe's formation masters began to set up formations, spreading them outward bit by bit.

Ye Liuyun remained airborne monitoring the battlefield, and even shot down a few formation masters with the Great Wilderness Bow, but this had little effect on the overall situation!

Afterward, large numbers of foreign tribe experts also surged out.

「Attack! 」

Only then did Ye Liuyun give the order, issuing the command to attack.

The three hundred thousand martial cultivators previously arranged, under the cover of war chariots and energy cannons, charged out together.

Ye Liuyun immediately arranged his own three‑hundred‑thousand‑strong army to be ready to relieve them, then had the war chariots and energy cannons return to their respective armies.

Then he summoned nearly a million more martial cultivators to follow behind his army, awaiting the attack order.

His clone also led people forward, specifically to kill some foreign tribe experts.

Ye Liuyun dared not act himself; he merely released the Sealing Demon Tablet to assist his clone, while he waited for the foreign tribe's strongest martial cultivator to appear.

If that expert appeared, Ye Liuyun would need to immediately use the White Light to kill him, otherwise his side would suffer great losses.

Moreover, he needed to control the overall situation and make arrangements, so he could not easily join the fight.

Those three hundred thousand martial cultivators took advantage of the chaos to rush into the foreign tribe's army, truly exploiting their advantage and killing no fewer than three hundred thousand of the enemy.

But the foreign tribe's numbers were too great, and in the end these martial cultivators were all wiped out.

As the foreign tribe pushed their front line farther out, the newly emerged foreign tribe began to field complete armies that lined up to attack.

Ye Liuyun then personally commanded his three‑hundred‑thousand‑strong army to meet them; after routing their formations, he had the later martial cultivators surge forward to kill the foreign tribe.

Shouts of killing shook the battlefield, and blood flowed like rivers.

But the foreign tribe had not ceased its advance, often using warships for cover while expanding outward.

Finally, the foreign tribe's expert appeared at the entrance/exit of the Secret Realm.

But he was now far away from Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun also had no confidence he could dodge his own Technique.

As soon as that Foreign Tribe expert appeared, he also instantly saw Ye Liuyun far away and the colossal warship in the Xingkong.

However, he did not make a move; instead, he had the Formation Master continue expanding the Formation outward, then fill it with energy, forming the Foreign Tribe's defense base, and then moved all the remaining Foreign Tribe out of the Secret Realm.

He didn't even seem interested in the Hawk, merely responsible for holding the fort.

Ye Liuyun also sized him up; he was a Foreign Tribe with silver scale armor, possibly of high status.

But looking at the True Essence situation inside the Core Pellet, its quality was far higher than that of an ordinary Heavenly Human Third-Level Foreign Tribe.

Beside him, there was also a Gold-armored Alien Tribe, who should be the Leader of the army, responsible for commanding the army.