Chapter 2744: Too Afraid to Report

The local City Lords have lately been suffering unbearably.

On one hand, the mercenary corps can't collect its fees; on the other, Ye Liuyun keeps stealing and extorting them, leaving them with no resources.

Ye Liuyun's actions, however, are extremely swift.

He is rapidly advancing along the route he planned.

He kept going until he completed a circuit and finally returned to Jing'an City.

Moreover, he altered his appearance, and no one could recognize him.

During the battle with the Shangliang Mercenary Corps, Ye Liuyun directly used a Spiritual Soul Attack to kill Xue Liang, but he spared Ling Yuan, leaving him alive.

When he saw Ling Yuan, he restored his appearance right before him and did not hide it.

Ling Yuan also did not expect Ye Liuyun to develop so quickly.

Upon learning that Ye Liuyun was specifically extorting these City Lords and not paying them, Ling Yuan immediately agreed to join Ye Liuyun's team.

He had previously refused to enlist because he did not want to serve this Empire.

Before, he wanted to contribute but had nowhere to apply his strength; now that Ye Liuyun is opposing the Empire, he is, of course, willing to lend a hand.

During this period, Ye Liuyun also endured many battle trainings, and even Magic Vine, Nine-headed Demon Dragon, and the Vermilion Bird took part in numerous fights, all of which boosted his strength.

Even the thief cat's Spatial Power kept increasing, making theft ever smoother.

Ye Liuyun's Mercenary Corps has also expanded to a scale of a thousand men.

There are sixty‑five people at the Sixfold Sovereign Sixth Layer Realm, two hundred at the Zhuanzai Wuchong Fifth Layer Realm, and the rest are Martial Cultivators of the third and fourth layers, none of whom are too weak.

Ye Liuyun's two right‑hand men are Ling Yuan and Mo Ran.

Ling Yuan is suited for head‑on combat, while Mo Ran is scheming and in charge of gathering intelligence.

The City Lords of each city finally began dispatching troops to unite and clear Ye Liuyun's band of mercenaries.

At this point, Ye Liuyun felt that resource collection was nearly complete.

The resources obtained in these few months exceed what he gathered in several years before.

So he gathered his forces into the Space World, letting them cultivate, while he changed his appearance and went to the source of this world's Primordial Power to absorb it for cultivation.

Of course, he wouldn't absorb all the Primordial Power here; he takes about half, then withdraws immediately, moves to another planet, and uses the same method to expand his mercenaries, extort City Lords, and steal resources from guilds and major powers.

These duped City Lords are initially taken in.

Especially after Ye Liuyun gathered more followers, he even had them pose as Imperial soldiers to extort City Lords alongside him, almost always succeeding.

But even after these City Lords realized they'd been deceived, none dared report to the Empire; they swallowed their anger and kept silent.

Fearing that the news would jeopardize their positions.

Therefore, Ye Liuyun's subsequent extortions became even bolder.

He swept across seven or eight planets consecutively, amassing a huge amount of resources.

Because there were too many unused resources, he set up bases on those planets, letting the mercenaries establish merchant guilds to sell off the resources.

For a time, their mercenary merchant guild was booming.

People went to the mercenary guild for purchases, and fewer entered the cities.

The City Lords of each city now cannot dispatch troops to eradicate Ye Liuyun; his mercenary corps, besides the thousand‑strong elite unit by his side, has several thousand Martial Cultivators attached to the Wolf Hunt Mercenary Corps on each planet.

Moreover, the mercenaries have fast intel; once a City Lord sends troops, the mercenaries receive the news in advance, and Ye Liuyun brings his strongmen to reinforce.

After several rounds, the City Lords end up with fewer and fewer soldiers, eventually forced to hunker down inside their cities.

More and more people defect to the Wolf Hunt Mercenary Corps.

In the end, the City Lords could only report upward under the pretext of bandit trouble, requesting Imperial reinforcements.

The Empire did not take it seriously, being busy fighting the Demon Race and having no mind to attend to them; assuming the mercenaries had simply grown too large, it sent a patrol envoy with a thousand soldiers to inspect the situation.

The official patrol envoy Lu Xiao, experienced as he was, recognized the mess and that his own forces were insufficient.

Thus, before departing, he contacted the City Lords of each city, urging them to gather troops.

These City Lords, realizing this was indeed a genuine patrol envoy, promptly cooperated in assembling forces.

But as soon as they moved troops, the mercenaries spotted them.

Ye Liuyun rushed over, captured a prisoner, and a Soul Search revealed the true situation.

"The official has arrived; I should step down too!"

Ye Liuyun smiled and called to Ling Yuan: "Gather some people to pose as Martial Cultivators and soldiers; we'll impersonate a City Lord to greet this official patrol envoy!"

"Haha, alright!"

Ling Yuan immediately understood that Ye Liuyun intended to strike Lu Xiao, and promptly gathered men to intercept Lu Xiao.

Moreover, they were piloting the official City Lord's Flying Boat.

Lu Xiao arrived in a small Warship, just encountering Ye Liuyun's Flying Boat.

Ye Liuyun instantly used the Thousand Illusion Technique to assume a City Lord's appearance, and led several Martial Cultivators of varying realms and soldiers onto the Flying Boat.

They claimed they were there to receive Envoy Lu.

"Recently the mercenaries have been causing trouble; we feared you might encounter them on the road, so we came early to welcome you."

"Let them board!"

Lu Xiao didn't mind, assuming someone truly came to meet him.

Moreover, having heard of the mercenaries' strength, he felt that being met by someone made him safer.

Ye Liuyun and his group easily boarded the Flying Boat, and after meeting Lu Xiao, Ye Liuyun immediately launched a Spiritual Soul Attack, planting a Slave Seal on Lu Xiao.

Lu Xiao sighed inwardly at his misfortune, not expecting the mercenaries here to be so brazen as to hijack an official vessel.

Ye Liuyun first forced Lu Xiao to hand over all the resources he possessed.

Then he left their Warship, leaving Lu Xiao to deal with those City Lords himself.

However, through Soul Search, he also learned that the patrol envoy's authority is indeed vast, able to appoint or dismiss City Lords directly.

Moreover, according to his memory, the Patrol Envoy can change the management methods on these planets.

Ye Liuyun also needs to go back and think carefully about how to make good use of these planets and infiltrate the interior of this star system.

Lu Xiao suffered a setback and became Ye Liuyun's servant, but he dare not hold any grudge against Ye Liuyun, so he can only take his anger out on these City Lords.

So when he arrived, he directly dismissed those City Lords who came to greet him.

He also did not appoint new City Lords, but left the City Lord positions vacant.

In this way, other major powers that want to become City Lords will naturally send gifts and resources to Lu Xiao.

Lu Xiao soon had no shortage of resources.

This is their usual method for Patrol Envoys to extort resources, and there's nothing unusual about it.

As for those City Lords who were dismissed, they have no channel to file a complaint and can only resign themselves to fate.

So after Lu Xiao arrived, he just made a round and extorted some resources.

Afterwards, he announced that the Wolf Hunt Mercenary Corps operates normally, is reasonable and lawful, and no other city may continue to send troops to exterminate it.

These newly appointed City Lords, in any case, cannot defeat Ye Liuyun.

As long as Ye Liuyun does not enter the cities to plunder them, they don't care.

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