For a moment, black qi immediately surfaced on everyone’s faces. Jiang Yunmu and the other powerful experts had initially suspected the first clone, but seeing that he had also been poisoned and was even more panicked than them in searching for antidote pills, they didn’t immediately attack him.
The front-line soldiers in the imperial guard ranks also realized they had been poisoned, and some praetorian moved closer, intending to take away the Fourth Prince.
"Don’t come near, there’s poison here!" One martial cultivator expert warned the praetorian, telling them not to come here to die.
At this time, the first clone also collapsed directly with his face full of black qi. Now no one suspected him anymore; instead, everyone was focused on the Fourth Prince.
The Fourth Prince and several other martial cultivators with slightly weaker strength also couldn’t hold on any longer and collapsed one after another.
By this time, the imperial guard commander had also collapsed from poisoning, and the front-line praetorian had fallen in large numbers. The praetorian in the back were startled and immediately retreated to avoid [the poison], with no one daring to approach anymore.
"This poison is too strong!"
"What kind of poison is this? It acts so quickly!"
Those three martial cultivator experts also discovered that even after taking antidote pills, they seemed unable to control the poison’s onset.
At this point, only two sword cultivators and one powerful expert remained standing who could still endure.
That powerful expert’s poison pill was having some effect. One sword cultivator could inherently resist poison; although his ability was weak, it allowed him to last a bit longer than others. The other sword cultivator was using his sword intent to forcibly endure, protecting himself within it.
"If these three don’t fall soon, I won’t have time to save anyone! What a pity—so many powerful martial cultivators!"
The first clone was extremely anxious in his heart but dared not make a move for fear that these three would release soul attacks on his sea of consciousness together.
Fortunately, that sword cultivator who was forcibly enduring soon collapsed. The other sword cultivator and the powerful expert also couldn’t endure any longer; their consciousness was already beginning to blur somewhat.
The first clone immediately took action. Continuing to pretend he was lying down, he quietly planted slave seals on and detoxified the unconscious powerful expert first. At the same time, he had his subordinates attack the distant praetorian to create chaos. Ye Liuyun also sent out martial cultivator experts from his side to help kill and capture those praetorian.
The first clone took advantage of the chaos to speed up his actions, striving to capture as many powerful experts as possible.
But there were too many poisoned people, and he had acted rather late. In the end, he only managed to save those three powerful experts and five sword cultivator experts. Even someone as prestigious as the Fourth Prince died tragically on the spot—his corpse completely turned into a pool of black water.
However through soul search [technique], he learned that a certain already-poisoned martial cultivator’s Interspatial Ring contained over ten top-tier martial cultivation experts from various dynasties hidden within it—and so did an assistant commander’s Interspatial Ring among those present (who belonged specifically)to(the)imperial(guards).
The first clone immediately collected those two storage rings first then looted others’ storage rings before promptly withdrawing back into army camp territory
His subordinates were all killed by praetorian on spot Ye Liuyun’s dispatched group dispersed remaining enemies then withdrew without pursuing further
"Haha quite harvest this time eliminated half Fire Seal Dynasty dispatched forces!"
Receiving news about retrieved items made Ye chuckle uncontrollably
Fire Seal Dynasty sent sixty-plus peak experts Clone captured eight plus twenty-four inside rings exceeding half total dispatched
Just then soldier reported outside requesting audience situation needing report
Ye exchanged glances using golden pupils admitting soldier inside
Upon entering tent both Ye clone struck simultaneously planting slave seal controlling soldier completely
Soldier possessed ninth-level peak core cultivation formidable soul yet disguised ordinary infiltrating camp attempting assassination opportunity against Ye
Unknown them however Ye established regulations prohibiting direct reports requiring hierarchical chain command Only dozen small commanders entire army qualified direct reporting privileges Moreover golden pupils instantly exposed disguise prompting immediate capture action
"Haha another one basically free gift!"
Ye Liuyun smiled and immediately had the newly subdued expert guard the main tent. He then took his first clone to the clone’s spatial world with all the storage rings, releasing those experts one by one and planting slave seals on each of them.
After that, Ye Liuyun released these newly captured experts to kill and capture the praetorian. He remained in the army, waiting for any remaining experts who hadn’t been caught to make a move against him.
At this time, Jiang Yuantang learned that Ye Liuyun had a poison expert by his side who had even poisoned the Fourth Prince to death. He flew into a rage.
"It seems this brat is going to completely turn against me!"
He also immediately realized that Ye Liuyun was getting serious. Even princes were being killed without hesitation.
However, it was impossible for him to take action personally. His cultivation realm and soul hadn’t recovered yet, the Crown Prince’s bloodline hadn’t recovered either, and the only ones he could still send out were Jiang Yunyang and Jiang Yunmo.
After learning of Jiang Yunmu’s death, Jiang Yunyang became even more afraid to make a move against Ye Liuyun. No matter how many experts Jiang Yuantang promised to bring him, he dared not go.
With no other choice, Jiang Yuantang could only have some martial cultivator experts rush to kill Ye Liuyun on their own initiative, without making unified arrangements anymore.
Meanwhile, Ye Liuyun continued his normal activities in the army. Every day he had soldiers spar against each other for training. The number of soldiers in the army grew smaller and smaller until soon only fifty thousand remained.
During this period, quite a few martial cultivators sent by various dynasties tried every possible method to attack Ye Liuyun. Most of them were injured and captured by the concealed experts he had arranged; some were directly killed.
A portion managed to evade detection by those experts and attacked Ye Liuyun directly. But only two managed to strike him—they were blocked by his War God Armor before being captured alive.
The others basically had no chance of attacking him at all—either they had slave seals planted on them through his soul attacks directly or were captured or killed outright with poison.
The protective force around Ye Liuyun already numbered one hundred fifty people—all peak Ninth Order Return Origin Realm experts—with over fifty among them representing the absolute pinnacle of peak Ninth Order strength.
Once these people were sent out, they almost completely captured over a thousand praetorian that Jiang Yunmu had brought along. This added many Ninth Order realm experts to Ye Liuyun’s army again.
Subsequently, these people were all arranged by Ye Liuyun to guard around his camp perimeter. Any subsequent experts who arrived couldn’t get past them at all.
The army was once again streamlined through sparring exercises down to forty thousand troops.
Ye Liuyun sensed around and found no more hidden martial cultivators nearby; the army streamlining was also about complete—so he immediately prepared to lead his troops in beginning cleanup operations across the entire Tianmen Star System and start claiming planets from this system as well.
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