During this period, Ye Liuyun also devoured another dragon soul, then went to the Soul Secret Realm to compress his soul. Most of the remaining time was spent refining his divine energy.

A month and a half later, the two clones he had sent out discovered scouts coming to investigate their situation. Ye Liuyun had his clones kill them directly, leaving none alive.

Since the Fire Seal Dynasty was already turning against him, he didn’t need to be polite—kill first, talk later.

In the meantime, the Death Legion had also deployed again, capturing another planet and plundering considerable resources.

Actually, Ye Liuyun wasn’t particularly short on resources at the moment. He had just finished looting the merchant guilds and bandits of the Ferry Bridge Star System not long ago, so he had enough resources to sustain the Death Legion for some time.

However, the Death Legion had been advancing in cultivation rapidly lately. After training in the clones’ spatial worlds for a while, they also needed to come out for combat tempering.

The Demon Legion was the same—they needed battlefield corpses as cultivation resources and food, so he had released them to acquire some resources.

Two months later, a warship dispatched by the dynasty was spotted heading toward them at full speed. The clone’s Golden Pupils detected ten thousand Golden Armor praetorian at the ninth level of the Return to One Realm.

Leading them was surprisingly the Sixth Prince, Jiang Yunfei, along with an official in court robes and an Imperial Guard commander. Among the ten martial cultivators following that official, two possessed powerful souls.

Ye Liuyun estimated that this Sixth Prince had come to seize his military authority. Moreover, the dynasty was clearly prepared to take direct action.

"Well, well! I let you escape once, and you actually dare come again! Do you really think I won’t kill you?"

After the Second Clone finished scouting, it immediately returned to Ye Liuyun’s side to help him deal with those martial cultivators. The First Clone remained in the starry sky responsible for surveillance and interception.

Ye Liuyun had already decided that this Sixth Prince wouldn’t be returning alive this time. And these ten thousand praetorian would perfectly supplement Cui Daoran and Xiao Heng’s armies.

He didn’t avoid them this time either, instead facing these people sent by the dynasty head-on, wanting to see how the dynasty would move against him. Xiao Heng and Cui Daoran were also prepared for battle.

The warship didn’t enter the military camp either, stopping far across from them. The praetorian emerged to form ranks, then advanced toward the camp under that official’s lead.

That official held his head high with an arrogant air, the ten martial cultivators following behind him. To his left was Sixth Prince Jiang Yunfei, looking eager and excited, while to his right was the Imperial Guard commander.

Behind this group followed orderly Golden Armor praetorian, charging aggressively to storm the garrison camp.

Ye Liuyun, however, rode his Snow Wolf directly to meet them, with the Second Clone transformed into a commander beside him. Behind them, Cui Daoran led two thousand soldiers at the ninth level of the Return to One Realm.

Inside the camp, Li Zhaoyuan stood ready with sixty thousand troops in battle formation. Xiao Heng had stored his soldiers in his spatial world, disguised himself as a scout, and circled ahead to ambush the praetorian from behind.

When the opposing Imperial Guard commander saw Ye Liuyun’s posture, he secretly ordered his praetorian to prepare for battle.

When that official saw Ye Liuyun, he directly shouted at him: "I am Liao Fengxian, Grand Army Inspector of the Fire Seal Dynasty, sent by the Fire Seal King to review the recent movements of the Death Legion. Is Army Commander Ye Liuyun present?"

Ye Liuyun, however, wore a calm expression and said slowly: "I just defeated Jiang Yuntian’s five hundred thousand strong army. You didn’t know? What else is there to investigate?"

Liao Fengxian hadn’t expected that Ye Liuyun would admit it so directly. He had originally prepared to waste considerable breath presenting evidence.

"So you’re admitting your act of betrayal?" Liao Fengxian asked in return.

"Betrayal? Betray who?" Ye Liuyun pretended not to understand, asking back.

"Playing dumb!" Liao Fengxian shouted. "Your Death Legion belongs to the dynasty, and you’re still wearing the dynasty’s military uniforms. Yet you led troops to attack the dynasty’s army—of course that’s betraying the dynasty!

Now surrender immediately and hand over your military authority willingly, and you may still争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝对你从宽处理争取王朝

"Ye Liuyun, since you insist on carrying military power for yourself and betraying the dynasty, don’t blame us for taking action!" Liao Fengxian spoke again.

"Alright, then let’s do it!" Ye Liuyun also nodded in confirmation.

Upon hearing this, Liao Fengxian felt a sense of relief in his heart—finally, no more pointless talk. In truth, he quite admired Ye Liuyun’s straightforward style; it saved both sides trouble.

But he still said aloud, "You have some nerve, truly rebelling against authority! Someone, seize Ye Liuyun!"

By protocol, the martial cultivators he brought needed to strike first. Only when they proved no match would the praetorian intervene. So he had no choice but to order the martial cultivators behind him to act.

The Sixth Prince’s smile grew even brighter at this point, convinced he would surely get his military authority back.

"This brat really is courting death! Better to have Ye Liuyun killed directly, so we avoid too many casualties in a fight!"

He was still daydreaming about taking over Ye Liuyun’s army in his heart, and definitely didn’t want the praetorian to move. Otherwise, once both sides clashed, even if he obtained military command, there probably wouldn’t be many soldiers left.

In his mind, he never considered that the praetorian might lose. The praetorian behind him numbered ten thousand, all at the ninth level of the Unity Realm. The enemy only had two thousand soldiers at the ninth level—clearly, his side held absolute advantage.

After receiving Liao Fengxian’s order, the ten martial cultivators charged at Ye Liuyun together. Especially those two with powerful divine souls—they immediately released their souls and plunged into Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness.

Ye Liuyun’s golden pupils saw clearly that these two people’s divine souls both carried pitch-black poisonous energy, and their soul forms were quite large, far more powerful than ordinary ninth-level Unity Realm martial cultivators’ souls.

"Trying to poison my divine soul? Useless!"

Ye Liuyun glanced at them and simply didn’t care. These two people’s souls combined were only slightly larger than one of his souls. Moreover, his own soul had refined the Poison Soul Flower—he couldn’t care less.

And once these two people’s souls rushed into Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness, they were immediately dissolved by the Myriad Gods Token, becoming nourishment for his divine soul. Even the deadly poison carried on their souls was separated out by the Myriad Gods Token, allowing Ye Liuyun to refine it slowly.

With two "pfft" sounds, the two soul cultivators’ main battle souls were instantly devoured. They immediately suffered backlash, spurting blood and collapsing to the ground, utterly weakened.

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