Chapter 3353

Peng Wei had already brought out a bone shield and held it in front of himself, afraid that Ye Liuyun might suddenly attack him. As he retreated, he ordered the others to charge forward.

Ye Liuyun remained where he was, while his two clones joined forces to use Spatial Force to block the martial cultivators rushing toward them before attacking with the power of heaven and earth.

“There are more than thirty here, and over sixty more are on their way from outside. That’s quite a number!” Ye Liuyun surveyed the overall situation while releasing his Guardian Divine Seal, the Buddha-Demon Golden Body, and the golden dragon to help him fight. He took advantage of the opportunity to further enhance his Guardian Divine Seal.

His Guardian Divine Seal was also a hundred zhang tall, and its power was equally formidable. With a single palm strike, it could kill several early- to mid-Ninth-Level martial cultivators using only the power of Buddhist light.

The golden dragon’s attacks relied entirely on brute force. Even the shield Peng Wei was holding cracked when the golden dragon lashed it with its tail.

“After the Guardian Divine Seal fused with the power of my divine soul, its attacks became much more powerful. I hardly need to control it at all—it can launch attacks on its own!”

However, the Guardian Divine Seal also drew on his own strength, consuming both his divine essence and Buddhist light. In that respect, it was different from the giant beasts he condensed with spiritual energy. The spiritual-energy beasts did not require him to expend his own strength.

After the golden dragon sent Peng Wei flying, Ye Liuyun used Spatial Force to move him directly in front of himself. He then stepped on him, crushing his Origin Core outright, before dragging his divine soul into his own sea of consciousness and beginning a soul search.

Peng Wei had never expected Ye Liuyun and the others to be so powerful. He was in the middle of reporting to the Demon Clan’s Holy Son, telling him that Ye Liuyun and his companions had condensed two enormous creatures from spiritual energy to fight.

He did not even know that a cultivation technique like the Guardian Divine Seal existed and mistook them for giant beasts Ye Liuyun had condensed from spiritual energy. He also could not tell whether those two Guardian Divine Seals had been released by Ye Liuyun, so the Demon Clan’s Holy Son received no accurate information from him.

After learning that the Demon Clan’s Holy Son was coming, Ye Liuyun searched through some information about the local resources as well, then destroyed Peng Wei’s divine soul.

The two clones had already charged into close combat with the martial cultivators, using the opportunity to temper their physical bodies as well. They did not even need Spatial Force; using only the power of heaven and earth, they could kill these demonic cultivators.

There was already a huge gap between early- to mid-Ninth-Level cultivators and peak Ninth-Level cultivators. Having encountered monsters like Ye Liuyun and his clones, the martial cultivators found the disparity even more overwhelming.

Ye Liuyun and his clones possessed absolutely top-tier power of heaven and earth among martial cultivators of the same realm, making it even easier for them to kill their opponents. With a wave of his hand, Ye Liuyun could blast a martial cultivator apart. Thus, they were in no hurry to break through the City Lord’s Manor’s formation.

Yu Xiaofeng had already asked Ye Liuyun about the situation and ordered the soldiers to begin their attack. Ye Liuyun also told Yu Xiaofeng what was happening here, assuring the people outside that they did not need to worry about him.

Some powerful martial cultivators did indeed launch sneak attacks on Yu Xiaofeng’s side, but the demonic beasts easily eliminated them all. The Black-Armored Soldiers never even had to take action.

The local martial cultivators inside the City Lord’s Manor saw their own numbers dwindling and realized that they were no match for Ye Liuyun and his two guards. They were even more desperate to get out, but they certainly would not have time to break through the formation on their own.

The command token controlling the formation was in Peng Wei’s hands. These people had now trapped themselves and become sitting targets for the clones to hone their skills on.

Only after all the demonic cultivators inside the City Lord’s Manor had been cleared out did Ye Liuyun take the token controlling the formation from Peng Wei’s Interspatial Ring and deactivate the formation.

Yu Xiaofeng had already led his troops into the city. The city’s garrison was practically useless. A single volley from the firepower war chariots sent them fleeing in panic, after which the Death Legion surrounded and completely wiped them out.

Afterward, Ye Liuyun led them to excavate two Devil Crystal veins as cultivation resources for several demonic beasts, then went around looking for people to practice against.

None of the traps the Demon Clan had designed for them had served any purpose. Instead, they had gathered the few local experts in one place, allowing Ye Liuyun and his companions to finish the battle even faster.

“A bunch of useless fools!”

Ao Yan, the Demon Clan’s Holy Son, was clad in red scales and receiving a report when the transmission suddenly broke off. He immediately guessed that something had happened to Peng Wei.

He merely cursed under his breath. He had never expected Peng Wei to be of much use in the first place, so he ordered his subordinates to change the flying ship’s course.

“Peng Wei’s planet is finished. We’ll head to the planet they may reach in half a month and wait for them there. That will also give us time to set up an ambush.”

“Yes!” Several powerful demons under his command acknowledged the order before going to make the necessary arrangements.

Ao Yan was extremely confident in his own strength. His objective in coming this time was to rely on the experts he had brought with him and the local garrisons to annihilate Ye Liuyun’s force of one hundred and fifty thousand.

He knew that Ye Liuyun probably still had a demonic army under his command, but he believed that as long as Ye Liuyun and his commanders were eliminated first, the army could easily be defeated.

Thus, the orders he issued to every planet about to enter the war were all the same: kill the commanders and experts in Ye Liuyun’s army at all costs.

Demons with red scales like these were rare even among the Demon Clan, and most of them held very high positions.

Ye Liuyun had actually encountered this type of demon before. When he had cultivated his divine soul in the Scarlet Soul Cave of Sacred Martial Academy, the soul power that had served as his sparring partner had belonged to a red-scaled demon.

However, the Red Demon he had once considered exceptionally powerful had possessed divine soul strength inferior to that of an ordinary soldier now serving under him, let alone compared with this Demon Clan’s Holy Son.

When Ye Liuyun learned through soul-searching that Ao Yan was the Holy Son of the Red Demon Clan, he already knew that his opponent’s divine soul would certainly be formidable and difficult to deal with. Thus, while watching the others hone their skills, he and his clones took turns returning to devour dragon souls and increase their divine soul strength.

With half a month remaining, he could use the spatial worlds of his clones to accelerate time and raise his divine soul strength by another considerable amount.

Whenever the others fought, Ye Liuyun would also remind them not to forget to devour divine soul power so they could deal with the approaching Red Demon Clan.

Thus, the Vermilion Bird devoured a large number of sinister souls and directly raised its cultivation to the late Ninth Level. Chilian also absorbed a great deal of the demonic cultivators’ power of bloodline, raising her cultivation to the late Ninth Level.

Both of them had long been capable of breaking through. They had simply been tempering their true essence and other abilities all this time, so it was about time for them to advance.

The other demonic beasts seized every opportunity to devour the divine souls of demonic cultivators and increase their own divine soul strength. In particular, the two Black Tortoises were stockpiling even more divine soul power in preparation for using black light to kill the Red Demon experts when the time came.

There was the Myriad Gods Command in Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness, so he had nothing to fear from attacks. To guard against any unforeseen circumstances, he also switched the two divine souls carrying corpse poison with the two clones.

He switched the divine soul with red pupils with the Second Resentment’s divine soul, which also had red pupils, and switched the divine soul without special pupils with the First Clone. This way, none of the functions of the pupils in the divine souls of the four of them would be affected.