Chapter 3313: Agreement to Duel

A month later, the Black Armor Elite Corps was down to 15,000 men, Xiao Heng's army had only 40,000 left, Li Zhaoyuan's army was reduced to 30,000, and each of the two Demon Race armies also had only 30,000 men. Even the Kuailei had more than three thousand destroyed.

Although each army had lost nearly half its troops, the remaining soldiers were all the strongest.

"The Martial Cultivators here are weak, but the ferocious beasts are not too bad, and there are many of them; achieving this result is already decent. This is fine, we can treat it as a selection of elite troops!" Yu Xiaofeng was relatively satisfied with this outcome.

Afterwards, Ye Liuyun's army also began to rest and reorganize.

The Black Armor Elite Corps, Xiao Heng's and Li Zhaoyuan's armies were merged, with Xiao Heng appointed as Grand Leader and Li Zhaoyuan as Deputy Leader. Cui Daoran could then focus on cultivation, preparing to break through his realm.

The two Demon Race armies and the Kuailei Army formed a single force, with Heishan as Grand Leader and Heiyan as Deputy Leader. After the force was reorganized, they began to standardize equipment and armor, allocate cultivation resources, and have the soldiers intensify their training.

Yu Xiaofeng sent envoys to negotiate with Yue Tianyang, urging them to surrender.

Yue Tianyang did not agree to surrender, but it was clear her attitude was no longer as arrogant as before; she neither killed nor drove away the negotiators, merely refused.

Yu Xiaofeng asked Ye Liuyun, "Should we pull Jiang Yuanhai's 300,000‑strong army over here to intimidate them?"

Their other force is a 300,000‑person Reinforcement Troops led by Jiang Yuanhai. It is also a trained and tempered army, and its members are of relatively high realms, almost all at the Ninth Layer Summit.

Ye Liuyun slowly shook his head: "I don't want them involved in this battle; if the news leaks, this star system may never be saved later."

"Fine then; if they don't surrender, my clone and I will have Wu Qingcheng capture planet after planet, and the pace isn't slow anyway."

The large force isn't lacking cultivation resources for now, so let the soldiers train for a while first!

"Alright then!" Yu Xiaofeng agreed, allowing the army to rest and having the Formation Master set up Defense Arrays.

Then Ye Liuyun and his clone, leading the Kuailei Army, continued to capture planets.

On some planets, there were few Martial Cultivator elites left, and even their Kuailei Army couldn't hold them. Ye Liuyun would give them a chance to flee before capturing the planet.

If they still resisted, he would withdraw the Kuailei Army, then have Wu Qingcheng sound the war horn, sending the ferocious beasts to slaughter those Martial Cultivators.

After wiping out the Martial Cultivators, he no longer let the beasts fight each other; instead, Wu Qingcheng used the war horn to calm them, and then he seized the entire planet along with the beasts.

Ye Liuyun and his clone spent another month and captured over eighty planets, far surpassing the army's results.

Together they have now captured nearly two hundred planets, approaching twenty percent of this star system.

Yue Tianyang grew increasingly anxious while waiting and dispatched a million Martial Cultivators and ferocious beasts to raid the planet where Yu Xiaofeng was. Yu Xiaofeng made no offensive move; he couldn't even break the defense against them.

Yue Tianyang, helpless, finally could only order a retreat. Yet she didn't want Ye Liuyun to keep capturing planets, so she sent envoys again to challenge Ye Liuyun to a duel.

"We have 27,000 Guard Warriors and wish to duel you, fighting a fair battle with an army of comparable size," the representative sent by Yue Tianyang told Yu Xiaofeng.

Yu Xiaofeng dared not decide on his own and consulted Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun clearly told Yu Xiaofeng, "We can accept, but the terms must be negotiated."

If they lose, they must hand over half their planets for us to capture, and allow us to exchange our True‑tier armor, equipment, pills, and techniques for more resources.

If they refuse, I will keep seizing planets until half of theirs are taken, then launch a total assault on them.

Yue Tianyang thought Ye Liuyun's continual interference would indeed strip them of their planets, so she accepted the terms.

But she added that if Ye Liuyun's side loses, they must return their soldiers, ferocious beasts, and planets, and compensate them with various resources.

Ye Liuyun agreed.

In the end both sides agreed to field 25,000 troops each, and a month later meet in direct frontal combat, without allies or heavy fire‑power vehicles. During this period, neither side may strike the other.

Ye Liuyun and his clone returned to the base, ushering all combat‑ready personnel into the Space World to accelerate their cultivation.

Especially the ten thousand female soldiers; Ye Liuyun intends to showcase them this time so the locals can see their transformation.

In the past few months, those female soldiers have spent several years in the clone's Space World, markedly improving in all aspects. After a month, the clone's Space World will have only three hundred days left, enough for them to raise their strength another level.

The other 15,000 men, Ye Liuyun assigned the remaining soldiers of the Black Armor Elite Corps to fight, focusing this period on boosting their Bloodline Power, and each was given a ferocious beast mount and a Master‑Servant Contract.

These beasts hail from the Burning Blood star system, all at Ninth Layer Summit or higher, capable of countering Bloodline Pressure and supplementing combat strength. The opposing soldiers all have mounts.

When the time comes, Ye Liuyun and his two clones will bring Lei Ming, a Nine‑Headed Demon Dragon, and a Vermilion Bird into battle, and Leng Qianyu will fight alongside a Demon Lion.

With them in the fight, Yu Xiaofeng isn't concerned they'll lose. He only reminded Ye Liuyun that Yue Tianyang might have some guaranteed‑victory treasure in her possession; otherwise she wouldn't be so confident.

"Very possible! But rest assured, I'm confident I'll beat her; her treasure can't match mine!" Ye Liuyun also thought this likely. Yet he has the Godslaying Bow, so he isn't worried at all.

Yu Xiaofeng trusted Ye Liuyun as well, and stationed the Death Legion at the base to guard against raids.

Yue Tianyang's side was also tense, preparing for war; this concerns their very survival, and she dared not be careless.

She also ordered each planet to boost various cultivation resources, letting the Guard Warriors improve as much as possible within the month. However, the resources for enhancing other aspects are too scarce; even with planetary support, they can't improve much.

Yue Tianyang finally took a Void‑tier Bone‑Marrow Refining Pill, intending to raise her strength. She believed that after boosting herself and using his treasure, victory should be assured.

The treasure she relies on includes a Void‑tier Grade‑1 armor set and spear, a Void‑tier Grade‑3 Demon‑race Puppet, and a Void‑tier Grade‑1 Soul‑Stabilizing Tower that can suppress the enemy army's souls over a wide area. She has few Magic Crystals, unwilling to use them before a critical moment.