Chapter 3375: Driving Back the Demon Race

After more than three hundred thousand remaining Demon Race soldiers surrendered, they finally received news from the Demon Race army that their Clan Chief had been eliminated, so they were even more shocked by the strength of Ye Liuyun's army.

Ye Liuyun's various forces were also tallying casualties. Jiang Yuanhai's army suffered over seventy thousand casualties.

Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan's armies had similar casualty numbers, so their units were reorganized into a single hundred‑thousand‑strong army.

After this battle, the Death Legion was reduced to just over sixty thousand. Female soldiers numbered about six thousand. Even the black‑armored elite soldiers were down to nine thousand.

Including the Demon Race army's losses, this battle cost about three hundred thousand lives, annihilated seven hundred thousand Demon Race troops, and captured three hundred thousand.

That result is actually quite good. However, they were already short on manpower, and if they kept fighting like this, they would run out of soldiers.

This time even Yu Xiaofeng and the other Leaders thought the casualties were too great, so the army should be given a proper rest. In future battles, the Demon Race army will serve as the main force.

Thus the Death Legion and the female soldiers returned to the Second Clone's Space World to accelerate cultivation. Ye Liuyun refined the Divine Soul Power inside the Sealing Demon Orb into soul sources for them to take back and distribute.

The resources they gathered were exchanged by Xuan Yuan Ling into the supplies they needed, allowing them to quickly advance their realms.

The remaining human forces, in subsequent battles, focused on using fire tanks and heavy crossbows, preserving strength as much as possible. The black‑armored elite soldiers were assigned solely to guard the central camp's security and would neither be needed nor sent into combat.

Hei Shan began reorganizing the eight hundred thousand Demon Race troops, allocating resources to prepare for future battles. The Death Legion's fire tanks were temporarily lent to the Demon Race army.

The news of the Demon Race Clan Chief's death had not yet reached the Holy Demon Star System, providing a perfect chance to catch them off guard.

By interrogating those Demon Race Reinforcement Troops, they learned that the previously withdrawn army was still concentrated on several planets at the edge of the Holy Demon Star System, awaiting orders, and had not been dispersed.

The attack objective set by Ye Liuyun and Yu Xiaofeng was to drive the Demon Race back.

Half a month later, Ye Liuyun's army finished its rest, boarded the Warship, with Hei Shan leading eight hundred thousand Demon Race troops at the front, Jiang Yuanhai and others bringing nearly four hundred thousand.

troops behind.

They deliberately bypassed the ten‑million garrison, racing straight to the Demon Race stronghold in the Holy Demon Star System to lure the garrison into sending reinforcements in batches.

Even when small groups of Demon Race soldiers tried to block them en route, they were easily wiped out, leaving no chance of escape.

The remaining strong fighters at the Demon Race stronghold were few and could not withstand Ye Liuyun and his Monster Beasts, so they were quickly defeated, and the core planet of the Exorcising Demon Star System was seized.

After arriving, Ye Liuyun also let the Demon Race beasts enter the Demon God Temple to test, but they gained no inheritance.

So he let the Demon Race army continue to sweep surrounding planets, while he, accompanied by Lei Ming and other Monster Beasts, extracted the Primordial Power from this core planet and scavenged many resources.

The ten‑million Demon Race garrison holding position, upon learning the stronghold had been raided, initially dared not act rashly and only dispatched a million Demon Race troops as reinforcement.

Only after receiving news that the stronghold had fallen, the Primordial Power had been taken, and Ye Liuyun's Demon Race legion had begun attacking neighboring planets did they send an additional two million troops to reinforce.

During this time, they kept contacting Ao Feng, asking whether to mobilize the entire army toward the stronghold. However, without a reply from Ao Feng, most of their forces still dared not act rashly.

Those who returned to reinforce were the bold Leaders unafraid of punishment.

Unfortunately they returned in batches. The first million troops that rushed back were intercepted by Jiang Yuanhai's army; after bombarding them with fire tanks for hours, Hei Shan led the Demon Race army to encircle the remaining soldiers, ultimately capturing over four hundred thousand prisoners.

Hei Shan assigned the Tiger-Head Beast King to reorganize the Reinforcement Troops. He then again faced the two million troops that arrived later.

Again, Jiang Yuanhai's army was responsible for intercepting with fire tanks, causing heavy attrition to the Demon Race army.

However, the Demon Race's two million troops still held a numerical advantage. Several times they used human shields to break through Jiang Yuanhai's lines, but each time they were repelled by Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan leading tens of thousands of elite soldiers and Ye Liuyun with his Monster Beasts.

Both sides stalemated for a day; the Demon Race army lost more than half its forces, its Leader was crushed to death by a Sealing Demon Tablet, and Jiang Yuanhai's army also suffered over fifty thousand casualties.

Just as the Demon Race grew weary, Hei Shan again led eight hundred thousand Demon Race troops from behind

to flank those Demon Race troops. They could no longer resist and ultimately surrendered; this time the Reinforcement Troops alone numbered nearly seven hundred thousand.

"Too many!" even Ye Liuyun thought the Demon Race legion's numbers were excessive.

He now cannot even assemble uniforms for so many soldiers. And without uniforms, these Demon Race troops could not be distinguished from the Demon Race army in combat.

Thus, the newly surrendered one million one hundred thousand troops were reorganized by the Tiger-Head Beast King under Ye Liuyun's orders, then sent to capture planets in preparation for withdrawal.

They quickly occupied more than twenty planets, brought the First Clone into the Space World, and then transferred the over one million Demon Race troops into the Space World for reorganization.

The eight hundred thousand Demon Race legion began moving in one direction, continuously seizing planets of the Holy Demon Star System. Jiang Yuanhai's army stayed behind as a guard, ready to intercept any incoming Demon Race forces.

Demon Race Martial Cultivators certainly could not match these armies. Without orders from the Clan Chief, the Demon Race army dared not act rashly. Eventually some Leaders could no longer wait and privately led their own units to pursue.

However, each ten‑thousand‑person army became a target for Jiang Yuanhai's troops to practice on. Jiang Yuanhai and Xiao Heng no longer needed fire tanks; their three hundred thousand troops took turns engaging in close‑quarters combat with the Demon Race to hone their soldiers.

After more than ten battles, Jiang Yuanhai and Xiao Heng's armies were reduced to fifteen thousand before they finally retreated to the Second Clone's Space World to rest. The remainder was handed over to the Demon Race army led by Hei Shan.

Hei Shan also began filtering elite soldiers through successive battles, ultimately selecting three hundred thousand Demon Race elite troops, about sixty thousand of whom were veteran soldiers whose realms were slightly below the First Nine Levels. However, the captured Reinforcement Troops all possessed realms above the First Nine Levels.

These three hundred thousand elite troops were given focused resources to nurture and sharpen them, while the remaining five hundred thousand were used for combat attrition.

Even the one million one hundred thousand troops that the Tiger-Head Beast King had just reorganized were taken by Hei Shan, who tied white ribbons on the heads and arms of those Demon Race soldiers as identifiers before sending them onto the battlefield for training.

Finally, before leaving the Holy Demon Star System, Hei Shan selected another two hundred thousand Demon Race elite troops from these forces, assembling a fifty‑thousand‑person army.