Chapter 3367: Relentless Raids

But the Demon Race's ten‑million‑strong army never split up; it kept chasing them. Even when they sent out detachments to encircle, they were still million‑level armies that swarmed over, and Ye Liuyun and his side could not fight them.

With no other choice, Ye Liuyun's army was pursued by the Demon Race for more than ten days, forced to retreat. Yet the Demon Race showed no sign of withdrawing, as if they intended to drive them back beyond the previous Forward Outpost Star System.

Ye Liuyun and Yu Xiaofeng discussed and decided to let Ye Liuyun's two duplicates each lead a raid—one with the female soldiers, the other with the black‑armored elite—while the front line would deploy Kuailei to hold off the Demon Race for a while.

So the next time they met the Demon Race, the firepower war‑car and Kuailei's heavy crossbow would no longer retreat. The Demon Race, as usual, sent million‑strong armies on both flanks to encircle.

But this time the Demon Race's two winged encircling armies were hit by side raids, and giant spirit‑energy beasts appeared, attacking their advancing forces.

When the other armies on both sides closed in, they withdrew quickly and then raided the outermost Demon Race army again.

At the same time, Kuailei and the firepower war‑car on the front began to fall back, ensuring they never got trapped inside the Demon Race's encirclement.

The Demon Race, of course, tried to press the attack, but was blocked by the Demon Lion's wind‑thunder fan, the flames of Zhuque and Qiong Qi, and Lei Ming's thunder and lightning power.

And after Ye Liuyun's army withdrew, the two duplicates' raids never stopped, sometimes striking the outermost Demon Race corps several times a day.

They would hit and leave, never getting trapped, yet each time inflicting over ten thousand casualties on the Demon Race's army.

That number is nothing for an army of ten million, but the Demon Race worries that over time the cumulative losses will become significant.

So they began their own raids. Yet each raid involved at least a million troops, which can no longer be called a raid but rather a blitz.

Such a large‑scale blitz would surely be detected by Ye Liuyun's side, so several times they were intercepted by firepower war‑cars they had pre‑positioned, even having the two duplicates cooperate to strike the flanks of the blitzing force.

The Demon Race also organized five elite squads of thirty thousand each, all at the Ninth Layer Summit level, specifically to chase the raid teams led by the two duplicates.

However, their speed was slower than the duplicate‑led teams; they were usually lured away and then eliminated in several blows. The two duplicates even teamed up to wipe out an entire thirty‑thousand‑strong elite squad in one go.

After several battles, the Demon Race could no longer spare any Ninth Layer Summit soldiers for deployment. In fact, Ye Liuyun's side also suffered considerable losses.

The black‑armored elite had dwindled to under twelve thousand, and the female troops to under eight thousand. Both sides were attriting, but Ye Liuyun's side consumed less thanks to superior equipment.

Later, Ye Liuyun ordered Jiang Yuanhai's three armies to each dispatch ten thousand Ninth Layer Summit soldiers, forming raid squads led by the two duplicates, taking turns to continue ambushing the Demon Race and wearing them down, yet they never dispersed their main force.

All their hundred‑thousand‑level Leaders received a death‑order from the Demon Race's Clan Chief: the main army must not split. Even when sending troops to attack, the unit must be over a million strong. No hundred‑thousand‑level army may fight alone.

Thus the two sides stalemated for a month without a single hard‑fought battle.

Only the duplicates kept leading small squads in continual raids. The Demon Race, after trying out a few elite troops, stopped paying them any further attention.

This left Ye Liuyun, Yu Xiaofeng and the other Leaders feeling rather frustrated.

"Wasting away like this isn't a solution!"

"How about a massive raid—send the black‑armored elite, the female troops, and those thirty‑thousand elite over, even bring along the ancient Demon Race, and together swallow an entire ten‑million Demon Race army in one go, then withdraw?"

Ye Liuyun suggested using the duplicates' Space World to house troops, then during the next raid annihilate the Demon Race's ten‑million army outright.

"We could try that, and bring the ten thousand Kuailei as well!"

Yu Xiaofeng had no objection, merely telling Ye Liuyun to also bring the Kuailei, just in case.

Afterward, they redeployed their forces. While Ye Liuyun went out to raid the Demon Race, they also had to guard against Demon Race raids. To prevent the Death Legion from being overrun, they shifted Jiang Yuanhai's army over for defense.

Once ready, Ye Liuyun and the two duplicates set out together, pulling everyone into the Space World, then slipping into the void to look for an opening.

The duplicates tried two more raids, numbing the Demon Race's army, and then the three of them suddenly struck, launching a fierce assault on the outermost Demon Race force and releasing everyone they had taken with them.

But the Demon Race had long prepared defenses. When the initial raid began, they still dispatched the two nearest large armies to reinforce.

When they realized this raid was too fierce and aimed to wipe out the ten‑million army, several of their elite squads rushed over one after another.

Moreover, the Demon Race had a ten‑thousand‑person unit dedicated to launching Spiritual Soul Attacks, to hold the line when reinforcements were delayed. At that moment, the unit instantly released Divine Soul Power, attacking Ye Liuyun's side.

At the same time, they sent a million‑strong army, charging at full speed toward Ye Liuyun's forces.

"These damned Demon Race, pulling the same trick again!"

Ye Liuyun muttered under his breath, but few Demon Race units launched the Spiritual Soul Attack this time, and none possessed the powerful soul‑source Divine Soul Power, so he did not summon a Yin Soul army, instead letting the soldiers he carried experience the danger themselves.

Of course he did act, bringing the Monster Beasts to help block most of the Spiritual Soul Attacks.

Especially since most of the Spiritual Soul Attacks were aimed at him, the duplicates, Ye Tiandao, the Monster Beasts, and a few other Leaders.

Thus it was the perfect moment for the Monster Beasts to capture Demon Race souls. Even the weakest Divine Soul Power among these beasts can easily snatch a Demon Race soul, and within the Sea of Consciousness they only need to retain a single soul‑source.

After a Spiritual Soul showdown, the Demon Race's ten‑thousand‑person unit was annihilated, but over three thousand of Ye Liuyun's soldiers fell, including nearly six hundred female troops.

That broke Ye Liuyun's heart. He immediately seized all the Soul Sealing Pearls from the Monster Beasts, and together with the two duplicates alternated the use of Time Power, freezing time and then launching Spiritual Soul Attacks on the Demon Race's army, exterminating and capturing souls one by one.

The three of them can now sustain their Time Power for over half an hour, so without exerting full strength they easily wiped out the Demon Race's army. The Soul Sealing Pearls were filled with the strongest Demon Race souls from that army.

Then he restored the Time Flow Speed and released the Kuailei to sweep the battlefield.