Chapter 3264: Confidence in One's Strategy

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil saw from afar a Fire Seal Dynasty Warship carrying one hundred thousand soldiers, advancing toward the assembly point.

He immediately piloted his Flying Boat to meet it. The warship also spotted Ye Liuyun's Flying Boat, instantly activated a Defense Array and readied a warship bombardment.

Before entering their attack range, Ye Liuyun retracted his Flying Boat early, directly employed Time Power, and, while time was frozen, rushed toward the warship, using Technique to blast open its Defense, creating a huge hole beside the Leader. He then surged in and first placed Slave Seals on that Leader and several subordinate Leaders.

After also capturing a few Martial Cultivator strongmen, he was not greedy, turned and ran toward the distance, where another warship was still hurrying to the assembly point.

After he fled the warship, he withdrew the Time Power, released the Flying Boat again, and sped toward the other warship.

He now couldn't even attend to the Technique's attack marks. Anyway, Jiang Yuanhai also knows someone near him can use this Technique, so let them study it slowly.

Inside the Flying Boat he swapped positions with his clone; this time the clone acted, using the same method, capturing the Leader and several deputy Leaders nearby, then seizing a few powerful Martial Cultivators. The Time Power was spent less than half before withdrawing immediately, racing toward the other warships visible to his Golden Pupil.

Afterwards, they consecutively struck three warships. Only when the last warship was reached did he and his clone act together, capturing many more Martial Cultivator strongmen, finally completing the roundup and returning to their base.

The Fire Seal Dynasty initially only warned each Leader to strengthen defenses, diverting other fleets to avoid Ye Liuyun.

Yet even simple reinforced guard couldn't stop Ye Liuyun's move. By the time they realized the severity and dispatched strongmen to meet the various armies, Ye Liuyun had already withdrawn, refusing to clash with them.

The massive holes blasted in those warships were hauled back by the Fire Seal Dynasty for study, yet they could not determine what the Technique was.

The Leaders of the five armies Ye Liuyun captured were all senior commanders who had fought in external campaigns, extremely experienced, and some of their aides were also conveniently seized by Ye Liuyun.

So after returning, they could swiftly take over command, receiving those five routes of one hundred thousand Reinforcement Troops.

The troops were all taken in. However, the combat power of those five hundred thousand Reinforcement Troops was far weaker than their original main army.

Yet after simple training and with the aid of Formations and firepower war chariots, each army defending against an attack of two hundred thousand troops would be no problem.

Moreover, once these Leaders arrived, they began swapping lower-level soldiers with the golden armor Imperial Guard to obtain many higher-level soldiers, replenishing combat strength.

In the end, the entire golden armor Imperial Guard was almost entirely exchanged by the various armies, leaving only the lowest-level soldiers behind.

"Send them to the front as the vanguard, become cannon fodder! Let Qingcheng use the war horn to stir their fighting spirit and catch the opponent off guard," Ye Liuyun suggested to Yu Xiaofeng.

Yu Xiaofeng immediately agreed: "Fine, otherwise keeping these low-level soldiers is useless. First let the Death Legion and everyone else keep the trainee soldiers, and send the remaining soldiers to the front line."

Thus some Leaders, Tang Xinyao and other Tang clan disciples, Monster Beasts and women all selected personnel, and the Death Legion also picked out many trainee soldiers.

The remaining nearly seventy thousand lowest-level soldiers were all dispatched to the front line as the army's assault troops.

The strong soldiers Ye Liuyun happened to seize while capturing the Leaders were handed to the black armor elite troops to replenish combat losses. These soldiers, already battle‑experienced, need only slight training to become qualified elite troops under Slave Seal control.

Yu Xiaofeng also felt confident about this great battle.

"Our five Reinforcement Troop corps can hold back the Fire Seal Dynasty's million‑strong army. The other corps can stop forty thousand elite troops of the Fire Seal Dynasty.

Jiang Yuanhai's hundred‑thousand army can at least hold back a hundred thousand. With the new firepower war chariots, we will essentially be in an invincible position.

The Fire Seal Dynasty can mobilize only about one and a half million troops this time. Moreover, with several of their army Leaders captured by us, their combat power will also decline.

You can consider now, after winning this war, whether to strike the Fire Seal Dynasty.

Ye Liuyun nodded: "I'll have the First Clone assume the form of a black armor soldier, equipped with Magic Vine, hidden among them to lead troops into battle.

I'll bring the Monster Beasts, women, and Tang Xinyao's people

to scavenge, pick cheap fights, and lure some Dynasty strongmen to kill me.

The Second Clone will stay here, monitoring the battle and guarding against ambushes.

After the war, if casualties are light, we'll first go seize the Fire Seal Dynasty's army‑gathering planet."

Yu Xiaofeng thought for a moment and suggested to Ye Liuyun: "I don't recommend you go into battle; those Monster Beasts and women are the Dynasty's top wanted targets, and the Dynasty will surely send strongmen against you."

Moreover, around the battlefield there are so many Martial Cultivators who will act against you. If any slip occurs, they could become hostages in the Dynasty's hands.

Ye Liuyun thought for a while, then told Yu Xiaofeng: "I'll first lead people to encircle and eliminate the scattered Martial Cultivators nearby, so they won't affect the battle. Then dealing only with the Dynasty's strongmen will be much safer."

Yu Xiaofeng considered it and also agreed.

"Fine, the Dynasty's main army hasn't arrived yet, so we still have time. But be careful; among those Flying Boats outside, there are certainly Dynasty‑sent strongmen and scouts."

Ye Liuyun nodded, and immediately the First Clone also assumed the black armor soldier guise, hiding among a squad of soldiers, each bearing a Xuanwu ferocious beast and three thousand black armor elite troops, first rushing to other planets, then boarding void-step Flying Boats from those planets to leave the base.

After their Flying Boats departed, even when encountering Martial Cultivator Flying Boats, they did not engage; instead they flew outward, then released the black armor elite troops, dividing the black armor soldiers into six fan‑shaped squads to sweep the Flying Boats from the outside inward.

Ye Liuyun and the First Clone acted together with the soldiers. Their current Heaven and Earth Power and Spatial Power can fully conceal their identities, making them indistinguishable.

The Second Clone also coordinated with them, and together with Luo Yu released two Puppet Beasts, two zombie puppets, plus the ten thousand soldiers dispatched by Cui Daoran, pursuing the Martial Cultivators inside the Flying Boats from within outward.

The Flying Boats caught in the middle immediately realized they were surrounded.

Some Martial Cultivators, clinging to a hopeful mindset, tried to argue with the soldiers, claiming they were only there to watch the spectacle. Yet the soldiers killed them outright without hesitation, leaving none alive.

Even surrendering Martial Cultivators were slain immediately by the soldiers, who had no time for identification.