Chapter 3375

After Ye Liuyun, Xiao Heng, and the others finished clearing the battlefield, they stored the entire army of two hundred thousand in the spatial world of Ye Liuyun’s second avatar, allowing them to recover from their injuries and reorganize their forces.

He then brought out a planet and had the Tiger-Headed Beast King lead a hundred thousand demon soldiers in establishing a camp there. These hundred thousand demon soldiers were all at relatively low realms and served as cannon fodder, making them ideal for defense.

With the assistance of ten thousand puppets, their defenses were more than adequate.

He had his two avatars take turns monitoring the demons’ movements, then returned to the avatar’s spatial world to speed up the Soul-Refining Cauldron’s refinement of the soul source.

In fact, he was quite eager to see how powerful a soul source the Soul-Refining Cauldron would refine this time.

He had also followed the Book Demon’s advice. To prevent the refined divine soul from becoming too powerful, he had deliberately shrunk the Soul-Refining Cauldron and the empty Soul-Sealing Pearl he had prepared, then absorbed them into his sea of consciousness. That way, when he released the refined divine soul, he would not have to worry about it escaping.

According to the Book Demon, although the soul source refined by the Soul-Refining Cauldron had no one controlling it, if it was too powerful, it would automatically resist attempts to refine or capture it.

Although this divine soul would have lost its former memories after emerging, could not distinguish friend from foe, and knew no techniques, it would still be difficult to capture if it was too powerful.

The refinement also took much longer this time. Ye Liuyun waited in the avatar’s spatial world for more than ten days before the Soul-Refining Cauldron finally informed him that it was complete.

The demonic energy within it had already been gradually absorbed and transformed into his own buddhist-demonic power during the refinement process.

He then eagerly released the refined soul source.

Unexpectedly, the soul source’s form was even larger than Ye Liuyun himself, and its soul-source power was four or five times greater than his. Although it had no features, it could perceive everything happening within Ye Liuyun’s sea of consciousness.

The moment it emerged, it was enveloped by the golden light of the Myriad Gods Token, but this did not hinder its movements. After scanning the surroundings, it immediately tried to flee beyond the sea of consciousness.

He guessed that it disliked being controlled by the Myriad Gods Token and felt that its freedom was restricted.

“Stop it!”

Ye Liuyun’s four divine souls immediately rushed over, seized it, and pulled it toward the Soul-Sealing Pearl. But this soul source was far too powerful. Ye Liuyun’s four divine souls each grabbed one of its arms or legs, yet it still dragged them forward.

“This won’t do. It’s going to get away!”

“Cut it apart! We can’t refine something this huge anyway!”

After discussing the matter, two of Ye Liuyun’s divine souls immediately transformed into soul blades and hacked at its legs. Another transformed into a Heaven-Devouring Beast and followed behind it, devouring and absorbing it to make its escape more difficult. The last divine soul used the power of heaven and earth to blast it backward from the front.

However, the soul source was too powerful. Even the power of heaven and earth could not damage it. Fortunately, it had no active consciousness at the moment and did not know how to defend itself, so it simply endured Ye Liuyun’s attacks.

The two soul blades unleashed their full blade intent and hacked away. Even so, each leg had to be struck four times before it could be severed. The severed legs were immediately drawn in by the Heaven-Devouring Beast and thrown into the Soul-Sealing Pearl.

Only after all four limbs and its head had been chopped off could the four divine souls finally work together to pull the soul source into the Soul-Sealing Pearl.

“It’s truly powerful!” Ye Liuyun’s divine souls all marveled sincerely at the soul source’s strength.

However, his other soul sources were currently occupied with the task of being refined, so he could only have the secondary divine souls of his two avatars extract a portion of their divine-soul power and continue the refinement.

Ye Liuyun did not keep the large amount of soul source that remained. He gave it all to Yu Xiaofeng and had him distribute it among the soldiers of the Death Legion.

The demonic beasts, the women, and the commanders already had soul-source power of their own to refine and could not absorb any more, so he simply handed it over to the soldiers of the Death Legion as a reward.

A soul source this large would be enough to enhance the divine-soul power of at least fifty soldiers.

Ye Liuyun also collected the Soul-Sealing Pearls belonging to the demonic beasts. They could no longer absorb any more power, yet their Soul-Sealing Pearls were still occupied. It was better to refine these divine souls first and let the soldiers improve. They could capture other divine souls later.

However, he still refined several relatively powerful soul sources for the three demonic beasts, Lin Feier, and the others who could absorb divine souls containing demonic energy, keeping them in reserve.

This time, he controlled the amount of soul source fed into the cauldron, so the soul sources produced were not especially powerful. His four divine souls could pull them into the Soul-Sealing Pearl by working together.

As for the divine souls in the remaining Soul-Sealing Pearls, he used them all up. He gave the soul sources refined this time to Ye Tiandao and Yue Ying, having them distribute them among the female soldiers.

These ten thousand female soldiers were also an important part of his combat strength. After several major battles, their numbers had fallen below ten thousand. Although he did his best to protect them, casualties were still unavoidable in battle. Fortunately, the losses were not severe, and more than nine thousand remained.

Enhancing the divine-soul power of those with weaker divine souls would also reduce their death rate.

After the soldiers finished absorbing all the soul-source power within the Soul-Sealing Pearls, he took the pearls back and kept them for capturing demonic divine souls in future battles.

Moreover, he had placed the Soul-Refining Cauldron at the entrance to his sea of consciousness. Any divine soul that charged in afterward would be refined directly by the Soul-Refining Cauldron. He did not want to control those demons, nor did he want to leave any survivors.

As soon as he finished using the Soul-Refining Cauldron, Ye Liuyun left the avatar’s spatial world to avoid breaking through to the next realm too early.

He now needed to hurry and improve the strength of the people around him and his soldiers so that he could bring them to the Void World. If he broke through too quickly, then even if he left these people in the spatial world to cultivate, they would have no chance to experience major battles.

Thus, after emerging, he felt that the army had cultivated enough for the time being and immediately ordered all the armies to come out. Together, they set off toward the planet nearest the Sacred Demon Galaxy, so they could train their troops as quickly as possible.

Any cultivation resources they could not use up could be stored temporarily for later. Alternatively, the soldiers could cultivate as they fought.

When the demons learned that all the divine-soul battles launched by Yu Lei had ended in defeat, they could not help but grow worried.

“It seems winning through our numerical advantage is no longer very likely!”

Some demon elders also raised a question. Since Ye Liuyun possessed an army of yin souls, why did he not simply annihilate them, instead choosing to wear them down slowly?

“To train his troops, of course!”

The demon patriarch Ao Feng had hit the nail on the head.

In fact, the demon army was the same. Sometimes they could annihilate an entire star system in one stroke, yet they would still fight slowly, training their troops, acquiring resources, and growing stronger along the way. In this respect, they were just like Ye Liuyun.

Thus, they easily guessed Ye Liuyun’s intentions. He wanted to train his troops while also acquiring resources bit by bit and gradually increasing his strength.

“Then can we no longer launch large-scale divine-soul attacks in the future?” one Crimson Demon elder asked the patriarch.

“It’s not that we can’t. We could do so if we were able to annihilate their entire army in one strike. But we would certainly suffer their retaliation as well. When that happened, their army of yin souls would wipe out every demon in this star system.”