Chapter 3917: Battle Situation Changes

The Faction gladly relinquished half of the Eastern Xing Xi it had occupied, returned it to the Human Race, and immediately withdrew its people.

Shura's resource demands were gathered and sent over at once, leaving Shura without any excuse to mobilize troops.

Shura could only stand down and return to the Underworld to recuperate.

"It's our turn! Let's add more fire to the Faction so they'll be completely unable to keep invading."

Ye Liuyun immediately reversed course, rushed toward the Western Region where the Faction and the Demon Race faced each other, preparing a two‑sided pincer with the Demon Race.

The Ancient Demon Race's surrender to the Yin Soul army was so decisive that it retained much strength. Ye Liuyun could only shift the fight elsewhere to wear them down.

He had already seen that the Faction's willing surrender was to preserve its strength. With all Eastern forces redirected to the Demon Race, the lost territory could be reclaimed from them.

So he moved the battlefield nearer to the Demon Race; even if strong Faction warriors arrived, he could still cooperate with the Demon Race.

Moreover, after striking the Faction, the Demon Race could also adjust, keeping both races' strength in balance so they would check each other.

After its defeat in the East, the Faction indeed began transferring the troops and elites withdrawn from the East to the West.

Since the Underworld forbids them from expanding toward the Human Race, it certainly won't intervene in the Demon Race's war with the Underworld.

Thus their Western combat power not only didn't diminish but actually increased.

This puzzled the Demon Race. They had been waiting for Ye Liuyun's containment to work so they could push the front toward the Faction, but instead the Faction's forces grew stronger.

The Demon Race Clan Chief Fan Tian summoned Yan Tang to inquire again.

Yan Tang was equally baffled, not knowing why this situation arose. He volunteered to lead men to the battlefield and capture some prisoners for questioning.

It was then learned that the Faction had been repelled by the Underworld's massive army in the East, ceding half of the Xingqiu, and consequently moved all its people to the West.

Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun's Human Race forces had vanished without a trace, with no news for the time being.

The Demon Race found the news both amusing and frustrating.

The Faction suffered a crushing defeat; they should have been pleased, yet the pressure they now face is greater, leaving them unable to feel any joy.

Helpless, they could only muster manpower and a large army to respond, strengthening front‑line defenses to temporarily avoid direct clashes with the Faction.

The Demon Race Clan Chief also asked Yan Tang: "Could those Yin Soul armies have been created by the Human Race?"

"Unlikely. Their strength is indeed not weak, but they shouldn't have the ability to mobilize the Underworld's massive army; after all, that belongs solely to the realm of the dead."

"Moreover, according to information from the prisoners, the Underworld's Yin soldiers have no connection with the Human Race."

Clan Chief Fan Tian also nodded, agreeing that cooperation between the Human Race and the Underworld seemed unlikely.

Yan Tang added: "I think Ye Liuyun's people might also be heading to the West. They were already planning to go west. Since there's no chance for him to act in the East now, they may come to the West."

The number of evil entities on the Place in the East has already doubled; it would naturally be harder for Ye Liuyun to strike them again, especially since his manpower is already insufficient.

Thus Yan Tang speculated that Ye Liuyun's likelihood of causing trouble in the West is higher, possibly cooperating with the Demon Race to covertly attack the Faction.

Fan Tian, however, did not place great hope, since he also knows little about Ye Liuyun's people.

He only instructed Yan Tang: "Hope, huh! But we can't rely on those few humans; even if they are strong, their numbers are limited."

"We are facing the Faction's massive army; individual strength offers little advantage on the battlefield, so we must rely on ourselves."

"You are the Demon Race's hope; don't take risks in upcoming battles, preserve your strength. If we are defeated, we'll need you to lead the Demon Race to rise again!"

"Yes!" Yan Tang could only reply.

After all, he knows little about Ye Liuyun, cannot be sure if Ye Liuyun will reach the front, nor how much impact he can make.

Meanwhile, as they talked, Ye Liuyun's void Warship appeared in the West. Upon its arrival, they immediately swapped the Flying Boat and concealed the conspicuous Warship.

However, they were soon spotted by patrolling winged evil entities. Defense awareness across the Western Xing Xi is relatively strong, mainly to guard against Demon Race infiltration.

Ye Liuyun also sent his clone to eliminate those patrols, performed a Soul Search to gauge the Western Xing Xi, and then rushed toward the nearest Xing Xi.

Along the way, they repeatedly encountered the Faction's scouts and patrols. After wiping out the patrols, the Faction immediately took notice and kept sending people to investigate.

Although they could always detect the opponent early, the other side could infer their approach by the missing patrols' locations.

So before they reached that Xing Xi, they ran into the Faction's Hédào Jìngjiè strongmen blocking the way.

"All yours!"

This time Ye Liuyun assigned the task of dealing with the Faction's Hédào Jìngjiè strongmen to Lei Ming, having her cooperate with Long Nv and the Nine‑Head Demon Dragon to capture prisoners.

Anything the Zhenmo Tower couldn't contain was temporarily handed to the clone to control with a Slave Seal.

Lei Ming's team acted smoothly, releasing the thirty‑six evil entities imprisoned in the Zhenmo Tower, capturing all opponents, then weakening the strong and securing the Zhenmo Tower.

The eliminated evil entities were collected by the clone into the Space World for later use. The Cave Heaven Realm evil entities were all dealt with by Long Nv and the Nine‑Head Demon Dragon.

The opponent immediately guessed their strength was not weak, seeking aid from their lair while rallying troops for battle.

When the Faction heard Ye Liuyun had reappeared in the West, they instantly mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops that had just arrived from the East to encircle him, aiming to temporarily hold him back.

At the same time, a Warship launched from their lair, carrying their Evil Worship Legion, led personally by their Clan Chief Mo Yuhan, to annihilate Ye Liuyun's Human Race forces in one blow.

After Ye Liuyun arrived at the local Xing Xi, he also faced interception by the opponent's strongmen and army.

In his first battle, to draw the Faction's attention, he deployed all the Skeleton Soldiers he had, with Ye Jin Yuan leading a focused strike.

He also brought all forces above the Cave Heaven Realm into action. The clone and Lei Ming equipped the evil entities in their hands with armor, letting them fight alongside them.

Thus their Hédào Jìngjiè strongmen far outmatched the opponent, routing them and instantly shattering the prepared defenses.

Next, they scoured the area collecting resources, exterminating and driving out the remaining Faction evil entities.

One month later, they had swept the entire Xing Xi, and reinforcements from neighboring planets arrived. Subsequent battles occurred almost every two days without pause.