Chapter 3364: Soul War

The million Demon Race on the opposite side weren't an army, so Yu Lei also shouted for a long while before most of the Demon Race quieted down and listened to his unified command.

Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan were both rather nervous at this moment. Although the soldiers were inside the Defense Array Plate, such a massive Spiritual Soul Attack would inevitably cause heavy casualties to the army.

But Ye Liuyun did not order them to retreat; instead he had them hold their ground. Only the Kuailei were still protecting the firepower war chariot, advancing forward with strong crossbows.

On the Demon Race side, they had all ceased attacking, staring hungrily at them. The front‑line Demon Race only defended; even when hit by the firepower war chariot, they stood firm without flinching or dodging.

Then Yu Lei let out a roar, and all the Demon Race released their entire Soul, charging toward Ye Liuyun and his side.

The Souls swarmed from the sky at breakneck speed, their terrifying Soul pressure making the soldiers' legs tremble.

"Truly spectacular!" Lei Ming couldn't help but exclaim upon seeing it.

However, the Demon Beasts were unperturbed, because they knew Ye Liuyun was the lord of the Underworld, with countless Yin Soul armies.

At this moment Ye Liuyun began summoning the Nether Hell. He had already finished communicating with Zhuge Feiyu and Xiu Luo, and Xiu Luo had already organized his troops for deployment.

Now the timing was perfect. The Demon Race Souls filling the sky were besieging their Defense Array Plate. The Spiritual Soul Attack here from Ye Liuyun was the most numerous and strongest. He and the Demon Beasts kept using Soul Sealing Pearls to capture Souls.

After the gate of Hell was summoned, he resolutely stepped out of the Defense Array arranged by Qiong Qi. He sealed the entrance of his Sea of Consciousness with the Refining Soul Cauldron, causing any Demon Race Souls that dared to rush in to be driven into the cauldron and instantly shattered and refined.

Otherwise, with too many Yin Souls attacking him, his Ten Thousand Gods Command would be overwhelmed.

Yu Lei led some Demon Race with powerful Souls to focus attacks around Ye Liuyun and the Demon Beasts. However, this Defense Array was arranged by Qiong Qi, and they could not break through it at once.

When the Underworld gate suddenly appeared, that aura of death terrified every Soul of the Demon Race.

But Yu Lei knew it was too late to call the Demon Race to retreat now; they could only kill as many as possible, one by one.

Seeing countless Yin Soul armies pouring out from the Underworld gate, Yu Lei's heart burned with urgency.

He led numerous Demon Race Souls to recklessly charge the Formation.

When they saw Ye Liuyun suddenly emerge, they had no time to think further and all rushed desperately into Ye Liuyun's Sea of Consciousness.

"Little brother, you really hit the jackpot this time!" Lei Ming watched with great envy.

She didn't realize that Ye Liuyun had blocked the entrance of his Sea of Consciousness with the Refining Soul Cauldron; she merely thought the Ten Thousand Gods Command would hold those Souls in place, allowing Ye Liuyun to load them directly into the cauldron.

At the same time, the wailing cries of Yin Souls filled the entire Xingkong. The Demon Qi in the Xingkong was dispersed, replaced by a chilling, bone‑gnawing coldness.

That deathly Yin ghost aura made every living person shudder.

All the soldiers stayed within the Formation, while the Yin Souls did not attack them, focusing on killing the Souls in the Xingkong.

Some Demon Race Souls that wanted to return to their Physical Body could not do so now, being surrounded by tens of millions of Yin Soul armies, destined only to be devoured.

Time passed slowly in the Soul world; this Soul War felt as if half a day had passed, watching the Demon Race Souls being surrounded by Yin Souls, gradually devoured and erased, until only countless Yin Souls drifted across the sky.

In reality, less than a quarter of an hour had passed.

The battle on Ye Liuyun's side had long ended; at least a hundred Demon Race elite Soul Sources and several hundred relatively strong Souls had directly plunged into the Refining Soul Cauldron.

These Souls were shattered and crushed the moment they entered the cauldron, their spirits scattering.

The Demon Beasts' Soul Sealing Pearls were all filled. Ye Liuyun borrowed one, poured the Souls inside into the Refining Soul Cauldron, and lifted it. He planned to use the now‑empty Soul Sealing Pearl to store the refined Soul Sources from the cauldron.

"How powerful must this Soul Source be?"

"Can a single Soul Sealing Pearl hold it?"

The Demon Beasts became curious.

Ye Liuyun only guessed: "If it's a refined Soul Source, it should fit. Using a Soul Sealing Pearl to store it allows batch release for absorption. Otherwise the Soul Source would be too massive for anyone to absorb and refine at once!"

At this moment, the Yin Souls, led by Xiu Luo, had already returned to the Nether Hell.

Ye Liuyun exchanged a greeting with Xiu Luo, with no time for further talk.

He still needed to be sent immediately to arrange

the cleanup of the battlefield. The remaining Demon Race on the opposite side numbered less than a million, but still at least six or seven hundred thousand. Now they had become corpses, drifting in the Xingkong.

The resources and corpses in their Storage Rings were all cultivation resources for the Demon Race army, and could even be exchanged by Xuan Yuan Ling for many other cultivation resources.

"Clean up the battlefield: store corpses, weapons, and Storage Rings separately!"

Ye Liuyun immediately ordered Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan to dispatch troops for the cleanup.

Lei Ming's Demon Beasts also rushed out, selecting high‑level Demon Race to extract Yuan Dan, store corpses, and gather cultivation resources.

Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan's army, in such a short time, lost over ten thousand soldiers. Moreover, the Souls of more than twenty thousand soldiers were damaged, losing combat ability.

If the Yin Souls from the Nether Hell had not arrived in time, this army could have been completely annihilated by the Demon Race.

Looking again at the hundreds of thousands of intact Demon Race corpses floating in the Xingkong, Ye Liuyun sighed at the horror of such a Soul War.

"The power of this Spiritual Soul Attack is truly terrifying! Next time we face the Demon Race army, we can let the Yin Souls of the Underworld help, reducing our soldiers' losses!"

This gave him some insight. If the Demon Race continues to push Soul power like this, he will unleash the Yin Soul army to deal with them.

After his earlier talks with Zhuge Feiyu and Xiu Luo, he learned that the Underworld's standing Yin Soul army numbers fifty million, all screened and filtered, discarding those of too low a realm.

The remainder serve as reserve troops scattered throughout the Nether Realm. If needed, Xiu Luo can summon another fifty‑million army at any time.

If the entire Yin Soul army were released, they could easily wipe out this Holy Demon Star System.

But that would defeat the purpose of training troops. Xiao Heng and Jiang Yuanhai's armies had previously been Reinforcement Troops, and were accustomed Imperial Guard, needing sufficient war‑time tempering to become qualified Death Legion soldiers.

Ye Liuyun's goal was not to annihilate the entire Holy Demon Star System, but to harvest resources and boost his and his soldiers' strength.

Thus, if the Demon Race does not launch such a Soul War, he will not summon the Underworld's Yin Souls for assistance. After all, they are two different worlds, and he can forgo the Underworld's power if unnecessary.