Chapter 3277

For a moment, black vapors instantly appeared on everyone's faces. Jiang Yunmu and the other strong ones at first suspected the first clone, but when they saw that he was also poisoned and was even more frantic than they were in searching for antidote pills, they did not strike him immediately.

The front‑line soldiers in the Imperial Guard formation also discovered they were poisoned, and some Imperial Guard soldiers moved closer, intending to take the Fourth Crown Prince away.

"Don't come closer, it's poisonous!" a Martial Cultivator strongman warned the Imperial Guard, telling them not to walk into death.

At this moment the first clone, his face covered in black vapors, collapsed outright. This left no one doubting him any longer; everyone's attention turned to the Fourth Crown Prince.

The Fourth Crown Prince and several other Martial Cultivators of slightly lower strength could not hold on any longer and fell one after another.

At that moment the Imperial Guard Leader was also poisoned and fell to the ground, and the front‑line Imperial Guard collapsed en masse. The Imperial Guard behind them were startled, immediately retreating in all directions to avoid further danger, and no one dared to advance.

"The toxicity is too strong!"

"What kind of poison is this, it acts so quickly!"

Those three Martial Cultivator strongmen also found that even after taking antidote pills, they seemed unable to control the poison's onset.

At that point, the only ones still able to stay upright were two Sword Cultivators and one strongman.

The strongman's antidote pills took some effect; one Sword Cultivator could resist the poison himself, and although his ability was weak, it allowed him to endure a bit longer than the others. The other Sword Cultivator relied on sword intent to brace himself, shielding himself within it.

"If these three don't fall soon, I'll have no time left to rescue anyone! What a waste of so many Martial Cultivator strongmen!"

The first clone was extremely anxious inside, yet he dared not act, fearing that the three might together unleash a Spiritual Soul Attack on his Sea of Consciousness.

Fortunately, the Sword Cultivator who had braced himself collapsed immediately, and the other Sword Cultivator and the strongman also could not hold on; their Divine Sense had already begun to blur.

The first clone acted at once, continuing to feign lying down, quietly planting a Slave Seal on the unconscious strongman and administering antidote, while ordering his subordinates to attack the distant Imperial Guard and sow chaos. Over at Ye Liuyun's side, Martial Cultivator strongmen were also dispatched to help kill and capture those Imperial Guard.

The first clone seized the confusion to speed up his actions, striving to seize as many strongmen as possible.

But there were too many poisoned individuals, so his intervention came relatively late; in the end he only managed to rescue those three strongmen and five Sword Cultivator strongmen. Even the illustrious Fourth Crown Prince died a gruesome death on the spot, his corpse turning into a pool of black liquid.

However, through Soul Search he learned that the Storage Rings of a poisoned Martial Cultivator and an Imperial Guard Deputy Leader each concealed more than ten of the dynasty's top Martial Cultivator strongmen.

The first clone immediately seized those two Storage Rings, then rummaged through the other people's Storage Rings, and promptly withdrew back into the main army camp.

His subordinates were killed on the spot by the Imperial Guard, and after the Martial Cultivator strongmen sent by Ye Liuyun dispersed the Imperial Guard, they too immediately withdrew back to the main army camp, without pursuing further.

"Haha, this haul is substantial; we've wiped out half of the forces the Fire Seal Dynasty sent!"

Ye Liuyun, upon receiving the two Storage Rings the first clone brought back, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

The Fire Seal Dynasty dispatched over sixty top strongmen this time. The clone captured eight, and the Storage Rings contained another twenty‑four, already exceeding half. caso21

At that moment, a soldier outside reported that there was a situation to be reported.

Ye Liuyun and the clone glanced with their Golden Pupils, exchanged a look, and then let the soldier enter.

As soon as the soldier entered the main tent, Ye Liuyun and the clone acted together, planting a Slave Seal on the soldier and taking control of him.

That soldier's Yuan Dan was a Ninth Layer Summit strongman, with a very high Soul, yet he masqueraded as an ordinary soldier to infiltrate the camp, hoping to seize an opportunity to strike at Ye Liuyun.

What they didn't know was that Ye Liuyun's rule for soldiers was that they could not report directly to the Grand Leader; reports had to go up step by step. Moreover, only a dozen or so junior Leaders in the entire army could report directly to Ye Liuyun.

Moreover, Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil saw through his disguise at a glance, so he acted immediately and seized him.

"Haha, another one added, just like Baishong!"

Ye Liuyun smiled, then immediately assigned the newly subdued strongman to guard inside the main tent; he and the first clone took all the Storage Rings into the clone's Space World, released those strongmen one by one, and planted a Slave Seal on each.

Then Ye Liuyun released the freshly captured strongmen, sending them to kill and capture the Imperial Guard. He remained in the army, waiting for the fallen‑net strongmen to continue attacking him.

Jiang Yuantang at this time learned that there was a poison‑using expert beside Ye Liuyun, and that he had also poisoned the Fourth Crown Prince, and he instantly flew into a rage.

"Looks like this kid is going to turn against me completely!"

He immediately realized that Ye Liuyun was about to engage him seriously. Even the Prince said, "If it's a kill, then kill."

However, it was impossible for him to act personally again. His cultivation realm and Soul had not yet recovered, the Crown Prince's bloodline had not recovered, and the only ones he could still dispatch were Jiang Yunyang and Jiang Yunmo.

And after Jiang Yunyang learned that Jiang Yunmu had died, he dared not strike at Ye Liuyun any longer. No matter how many strongmen Jiang Yuantang promised to bring him, he would not go.

Helpless, Jiang Yuantang could only let some Martial Cultivator strongmen go themselves to kill Ye Liuyun, abandoning any unified coordination.

Later, Ye Liuyun continued his activities within the army as usual, having the soldiers spar daily for training; the number of soldiers in the army kept decreasing, and soon only fifty thousand remained.

During this period, many Martial Cultivators sent by the dynasty tried various ways to strike Ye Liuyun. Most of them were injured and captured by the invisible strongmen he had arranged, while some were killed outright.

Another portion evaded those strongmen's detection and attacked Ye Liuyun directly, but only two managed to hit him; his War‑God armor blocked the blows, and they were taken alive.

The rest basically had no chance to strike him; either he used a Spiritual Soul Attack to plant a Slave Seal, or captured them with poison, or killed them outright.

The protective forces around Ye Liuyun had already grown to one hundred fifty, all Ninth Layer Summit strongmen, with over fifty among them representing the pinnacle of Ninth Layer Summit strength.

When these were sent out, they almost captured all the more than one thousand Imperial Guard that Jiang Yunmu had brought, adding many Ninth Realm strongmen to Ye Liuyun's army.

Subsequently, Ye Liuyun assigned all of them to guard around his own camp. Any strongmen arriving later could not get past this line.

The army was once again streamlined through joint training, reducing its size to forty thousand. ωωwcaso21

Ye Liuyun sensed the surroundings, found no Martial Cultivators hidden nearby, the army had been sufficiently streamlined, and he immediately set out with his troops to begin clearing the entire Tianmen Star System and start claiming its planets.