Chapter 845: Greatest Merit

The Magic Vine has really gotten a great bargain.

He first went to absorb the roughly fifty thousand Corpse Demon elemental pellets.

Those Corpse Demon were all packed together, in a dormant state, not awakened at all. So the Magic Vine effortlessly absorbed their power piece by piece, turning each into a dry corpse.

When it had absorbed enough, it then went to absorb the Lie Mo Sect members. At this point, the Magic Vine's power was such that even an Elder of the Ninefold Creation was not afraid.

Ye Liuyun, to save time, still released the Foreign Tribe souls from the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner, letting them help the Magic Vine kill those strong ones.

At the same time, the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner also absorbed the souls of the Lie Mo Sect members, increasing its Yin Soul troop.

The Lie Mo Sect had buried over ten thousand Demon Cultivators in this underground room; under the pressure of seven exalted souls, they could hardly move.

Basically they didn't put up much resistance and were taken out one after another.

The whole battle went very smoothly; the underground room hardly stirred, and it soon fell silent.

After the seven Foreign Tribe exalted souls swept through again and found nothing missing, they returned to the Hundred-Refined Soul Banner.

Ye Liuyun then entered the underground room, collected the Corpse Demon and Lie Mo Sect corpses as evidence, and rushed straight to another ambush site.

Moreover, for the corpses the Magic Vine hadn't had time to absorb, Ye Liuyun stored them in his storage space, letting the Magic Vine absorb them there.

"Hope we can still make it!" Ye Liuyun dashed through the void.

He now felt the immense energy inside the Magic Vine being digested bit by bit.

The Magic Vine absorbed too much energy at once and couldn't digest it all for a while.

If he finishes absorbing all those Corpse Demon and corpses, Ye Liuyun estimates it could already fight an exalted-level expert.

Thus Ye Liuyun's expectations for the Magic Vine keep growing; he hopes to make it stronger and become his aid.

When Ye Liuyun arrived at another ambush site of the Lie Mo Sect, just as its members were preparing to break out, the underground Corpse Demon were also being awakened but had not yet charged out.

"Still in time!"

Ye Liuyun felt delighted, immediately released those few exalted Foreign Tribe souls, threw the Magic Vine seeds, and attacked them!

Ye Liuyun also noticed that the vines the Magic Vine extended this time had changed.

Not only were there more thorns on the vines, but some vines turned a deeper colour, and several vine tips grew fangs and big mouths, able to swallow a person whole.

"Leave the physical bodies for me; you just need to consume the energy!"

Ye Liuyun warned the Magic Vine, afraid it would swallow all the evidence. Without that evidence, he would really have trouble explaining himself when he returns.

The Magic Vine received the message and stopped devouring physical bodies, instead directly absorbing energy.

Ye Liuyun, under the protection of the Ghost Butterfly, first removed the storage rings from those Demon Cultivator corpses just now.

He only needed to hand over the corpses. Those storage rings were all his spoils of war.

Only after all those ambushed people were dealt with did Ye Liuyun recall the Foreign Tribe souls. Meanwhile, the Magic Vine had not yet finished absorbing the Corpse Demon.

Ye Liuyun also wasn't in a hurry; he first packed up the corpses and removed the storage rings.

Only after the Magic Vine had completely absorbed the Corpse Demon did he pack the Corpse Demon up, then let the Magic Vine absorb energy from the corpses inside the storage rings.

He himself then rushed straight toward the army's direction to report the situation.

As he walked, he also packed all the dry corpses into several storage rings, waiting to turn them in.

Liang Xinyu and the others, who were following the Gold Armor Guard Unit, also let out a sigh of relief when they saw Ye Liuyun return.

The general of the Gold Armor Guard Unit also hurriedly asked about the situation at those two ambush sites.

"All the Lie Mo Sect Demon Cultivators and Corpse Demon in the ambushes have been killed by me. They're all here!"

Saying that, Ye Liuyun took out more than twenty storage rings and handed them to that general for inspection.

Ye Liuyun's words shocked that general and the people beside him!

"Nearly a hundred thousand Corpse Demon and over twenty thousand Lie Mo Sect Demon Cultivators were killed by you alone?" They initially didn't believe it.

But when that general's Divine Sense scanned the storage rings, he was shocked to the point of being unable to close his mouth.

"How…… did you manage that?" the general stammered.

"I have a special treasure that can drain their energy."

Ye Liuyun didn't specify what treasure it was; he only said those Corpse Demon were hiding in the underground room, densely packed, making them easier to handle.

After the general recovered, he immediately went to report.

The army also immediately sent out a small team to inspect and confirm the battle traces.

Ye Liuyun also became famous in the army because of this. One person killed over ten thousand Demon Cultivators and Corpse Demon. This achievement, if reported upward, could earn him a fief and title!

After the general of the Gold Armor Guard Unit returned, he also told Ye Liuyun the good news.

"Your merit has been confirmed. The news has already been sent back to the dynasty; just wait to receive your reward!"

"What about them? They also participated in gathering intelligence!" Ye Liuyun was more concerned whether the Commandery Princess and others could receive rewards.

"Haha, rest assured, they also have merit, just not as great as yours! You single-handedly killed over ten thousand Demon Cultivators and Corpse Demon—this is probably the greatest merit of this battle!"

Moreover, this merit cannot be snatched away; no one has the strength to dare claim it as their own!

The general laughed while comforting Ye Liuyun.

Afterwards, Ye Liuyun and company no longer needed to go out adventuring. The sect disciples outside had already cleared the surrounding Corpse Demon pretty much.

The remaining battle was just the warship blasting open the Lie Mo Sect's mountain-protecting grand formation, then a few exalted-level experts would exterminate the exalted-level Foreign Tribe experts.

However, those exalted-level experts fight by entering the void interior, fearing to harm innocents.

Ye Liuyun and company originally also wanted to watch the gods fight, but they didn't get to see it.

However, they did get to see the strength of the Fire Wolf Battalion.

After several rounds of warship bombardment, the remaining Lie Mo Sect Demon Cultivators, in the face of the Fire Wolf Battalion, could hardly be called resistance; it was practically a massacre.

"These Fire Wolf Battalion soldiers truly have formidable combat power. The key is their coordination, which is simply seamless!"

Ye Liuyun discovered that these soldiers not only have high cultivation levels, but their mutual coordination, as well as the coordination between humans and ferocious beasts, is also spot-on, and their combat experience is also very rich.

"Yes, in a battle, the surrounding protection, this kind of coordination awareness, is truly rare!" Wei Pangzi also praised incessantly.