Jiang Yuntian’s two hundred thousand surrendered soldiers landed first, clearing out space for the main army to encamp, followed by Li Konghan’s hundred thousand troops.
However, Xiao Heng didn’t wait for Li Konghan’s army to finish forming up before launching an attack alongside the second clone. Nearly five thousand soldiers at the Return to One Ninth Heaven realm charged at the forefront like an unstoppable force, directly plunging into Li Konghan’s army.
Meanwhile, the local two hundred thousand troops also coordinated with them, charging together toward the surrendered soldiers’ camp. The elite soldiers mixed within the army went straight for the commanders of the enemy’s surrendered troops.
The Demon Vine was also released by Ye Liuyun, sent first to coordinate with the second clone and the women for practice, then allowed to freely devour the remaining corpses on the battlefield.
The Qin Mu warship following behind Li Konghan immediately changed course upon discovering Li Konghan was under attack, preparing to land outside the battlefield before coming to reinforce.
But Ye Liuyun didn’t give them this opportunity, directly releasing five thousand elite soldiers in mid-air who immediately began bombarding their warship.
These five thousand elite soldiers all wore black armor and ferocious demon masks, with the lowest cultivation at the middle stage of Return to One Ninth Heaven. Their combined assault quickly destroyed the warship.
No matter how skilled Qin Mu was at deploying troops, he still needed to spread his soldiers out. In this situation, he could only lead his men to fight their way back. The battlefield was out of reach— it was already surrounded.
Moreover, as soon as he came under attack, Jiang Yuntian suspected Ye Liuyun had made his move, so he ordered immediate dispersal and retreat to avoid ending up like his previous dispatched forces, all captured by Ye Liuyun.
Thus, as soon as Qin Mu’s warship was destroyed, his soldiers immediately scattered in all directions, fighting their way back toward Jiang Yuntian’s stationed forces. At the same time, Jiang Yuntian also dispatched a hundred thousand troops to meet them, preventing excessive losses.
Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, was mixed among the soldiers, using the Thousand Illusions Technique to alter his cultivation level, then charging alongside them as if this force had no commander at all.
The weapon he held was an ordinary battle blade, inconspicuous among the soldiers. He didn’t even need to use blade intent, mostly suppressing with power of bloodline before killing with a single palm strike using heaven and earth energy.
Or he would launch soul attacks, directly wiping out the enemy’s souls. Even if anyone sensed his soul or bloodline pressure, they were immediately killed before they could transmit any message.
The demon beasts followed behind the main army, coordinating with each other. Ye Liuyun had already told them to use the black-white light when in danger, and with their current soul and bloodline strength being quite formidable, he wasn’t worried about their safety.
Moreover, Qin Mu’s army was focused solely on fleeing defeat and didn’t prioritize killing the demon beasts at the rear. They could surround a batch of soldiers and slaughter to their heart’s content.
The second clone led the women in practicing against Li Konghan’s lowest-level soldiers, becoming Jiang Yuntian’s primary target. He continuously dispatched soul-powerful cultivators to attack the second clone and the women.
The second clone could only use soul power to plant slave seals on anyone daring to charge over one by one.
His soul power was already far stronger than most cultivators, and after recent purification and enhancement with Golden Source Liquid, plus devouring two dragon souls, he could not only detect approaching elites in advance but also launch soul attacks from greater distances, not giving them any chance to target the women.
Xiao Heng’s army, after several rounds of brutal training and elimination, had come to understand that every training session required them to fight for their lives. Thus, everyone was fully prepared and had developed combat awareness.
Xiao Heng had previously told them this was live combat training, so they went all out from the start. Li Konghan’s elite soldiers simply couldn’t withstand their concentrated assault.
Soon Xiao Heng directed his ninth heaven realm soldiers to form a torrential force. Li Konghan tried several times to concentrate his elite soldiers but was scattered by this flood each time.
Xiao Heng’s deputy commander Li Zhaoyuan also directed fifty thousand Return to One Eighth Heaven soldiers to begin sweeping through Li Konghan’s army. Several battle formations that hadn’t even finished lining up were instantly swallowed.
The effects of harsh, brutal training finally manifested at this moment. Wherever their army went, no one could stand against them.
The second clone used divine sense to monitor the overall situation. As long as Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan didn’t make major command errors, this battle was guaranteed.
"Be careful— Li Konghan might still have cards hidden."
The second clone warned Xiao Heng at this point. He noticed Li Konghan merely had a worried frown without showing panic. For a young commander with little battle experience, this was clearly abnormal.
Xiao Heng immediately adjusted, directing his army to circle around Li Konghan while killing, first eliminating the ninth heaven realm soldiers around him without directly attacking Li Konghan himself.
Li Konghan apparently realized his defeat was inevitable and immediately decided to break out with the elite soldiers around him, taking as many as he could.
Xiao Heng only symbolically pursued, intercepting some soldiers trying to escape with him before letting him flee.
Li Konghan merely thought the other side hadn’t pursued him desperately. After hesitating briefly and deciding there was still no chance to turn defeat into victory, he could only withdraw first.
However, at this moment, Ye Liuyun suddenly turned around, leading all his elite troops to charge back at Li Konghan.
The demonic beasts rushed at Li Konghan first, and from the very start, they unleashed their black and white light, beginning to slaughter Li Konghan’s guards in large numbers.
There weren’t even a thousand soldiers around Li Konghan to begin with, and they couldn’t even withstand the white light barrage from the White Tiger, the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon, and Thunderclap. A large swathe of them fell on the spot.
The Vespera and Xenocide also shot black light at Li Konghan, but it was all blocked by the guards around him, failing to kill Li Konghan directly.
Li Konghan hadn’t expected these demonic beasts’ black and white light to be so powerful. He didn’t know what it was either, so he could only use men as fodder.
He immediately released another thousand soldiers with stronger cultivation at the first level of the ninth stage from his spatial world. Relying on numbers, they forcibly carved out a bloody path, scattering the demonic beasts. However, Ye Liuyun’s five thousand elite troops were still ahead, and another bloody battle awaited.
He felt his decision had been quite correct—not engaging in a head-on clash with Xiao Heng. Otherwise, with insufficient true essence among his men, they definitely wouldn’t have been able to hold off Ye Liuyun’s elite force.
And now, although his elite troops were few in number, they could guarantee he would break out of the encirclement.
"These thousand men are quite impressive!"
When Ye Liuyun saw this newly emerged thousand soldiers, he praised them inwardly, then immediately used his temporal power to begin capturing them.
However, these soldiers were all equipped with treasures that defended against soul attacks. Using his temporal power once, he couldn’t capture many of them. He could only do his best to plant slave seals on over a hundred of them first, store them in his spatial world, and then kill off a portion of the remaining soldiers.
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