Chapter 3381

The fleet of the Demon Clan’s five-hundred-thousand-strong army was quite sizable. In addition to the five main warships, there were more than a hundred scouting vessels around them.

Ye Liuyun’s golden eyes locked onto the three main warships carrying the army’s commander and the other experts. He intended to strike all three warships at once.

He put his first clone and Vermilion Bird in one group, and his second clone and Qiong Qi in another, sending them to attack the warships carrying the army’s commander and the Demon Clan’s experts, respectively. He himself took Lei Ming to attack the warship with the greatest concentration of Scarlet Demons.

The scouting vessels on the perimeter could not stop Ye Liuyun at all. He crossed the void in a single step and appeared directly above the warship he intended to attack.

He then teleported his two clones, Vermilion Bird, and Qiong Qi to the warships they were going to attack.

The moment the Demon Clan’s experts noticed them, the two clones and Lei Ming all used the white light of their golden eyes to blast huge holes through the warships.

The first clone not only shot through the warship with white light, but also directly melted the supreme commander and several subordinate commanders of the Demon Clan army. Vermilion Bird then released her flames into the warship, beginning to burn and slaughter the Demon Clan soldiers on a massive scale.

The flames released by Vermilion Bird could burn both the soul and the physical body. The commanders and soldiers in the army were not strong enough to withstand them, and almost none could escape their power. Many were killed before they could even rush out of the warship.

The second clone’s group proceeded in much the same way. The clone blasted open a huge hole, while Qiong Qi unleashed flames. Qiong Qi also waved the Formation Flag he had just obtained, sealing the void and enveloping the entire warship, leaving those inside with nowhere to flee.

Some Demon Clan experts forced their way out of the warship through the flames. Several of the strongest experts joined forces to break through the Formation Flag, but the clone killed them with white light, sealing all the Demon Clan members within the Formation Flag’s domain.

Qiong Qi continued spewing flames and launching formations into the space sealed by the Formation Flag. Most of the experts sent by the Demon Clan were killed inside.

On Ye Liuyun’s side, Lei Ming did almost all the attacking. After blasting a huge hole in the warship with white light, she began releasing lightning into it, killing the soldiers.

Lei Ming’s lightning was quite powerful as well. Although it was not as strong as Ye Liuyun’s, even ordinary peak Ninth-Layer experts could not withstand it.

Moreover, Ye Liuyun stood guard outside the warship with the Demon-Slaying Saber. Anyone who came out was cut down, so the Demon Clan could not break out at all.

Ye Liuyun also released the Demon-Sealing Stele, letting it land on the warship and absorb the power of the Demon Clan soldiers inside.

There were more Scarlet Demons aboard the warship attacked by Ye Liuyun and Lei Ming. Thus, when the Scarlet Demons saw that the assault was too fierce for them to break out, they all released the power of their souls and attacked Ye Liuyun and Lei Ming.

That was also why Ye Liuyun had not released his flames. Otherwise, his flames would have been too powerful and burned these Scarlet Demons to death outright, leaving him unable to obtain their soul sources.

Those Scarlet Demons did not think that far. They only wanted to kill the two of them as quickly as possible and escape their predicament. Thus, the soul sources of several hundred Scarlet Demon experts rushed toward the seas of consciousness of Ye Liuyun and Lei Ming.

Lightning flickered at the entrance to Lei Ming’s sea of consciousness. She had already refined the Thunder Spirit into her soul source, so she was not afraid of these soul-source attacks. Whenever she encountered an especially powerful soul source, she let the bone tablet in her sea of consciousness devour it first.

The pitch-black bone tablet in her sea of consciousness grew stronger with every soul it devoured. By now, it took only a few breaths to devour a soul source.

She dispersed the remaining soul sources with the power of heaven and earth or destroyed them with the Thunder Spirit.

Most of the soul attacks, however, were directed at Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun dealt with these soul sources even more simply. He aimed the mouth of the Soul-Refining Cauldron at the entrance to his sea of consciousness, and every soul source that rushed in was immediately destroyed by the cauldron without him having to do anything.

The entire ambush unfolded very quickly. Only then did the other two warships and the surrounding patrol vessels finally react and begin moving in to provide aid.

But Ye Liuyun also released the Demon Clan army led by Heishan.

Heishan first had the firepower chariots bombard and destroy the other two warships. The smaller flying vessels nearby exploded from a single blast from the firepower chariots.

Once all the Demon Clan warships had been destroyed, Heishan also ordered his soldiers to charge at the disorganized Demon Clan troops. Both sides were members of the Demon Clan, and the battle turned this stretch of starry sky into utter chaos, with cries of slaughter ringing without end.

The demonic legion led by Heishan kept its formation intact and held an absolute advantage. The Demon Clan soldiers who had escaped from the warships were still dazed, and no one was coordinating them, so they were simply surrounded and slaughtered.

Ye Liuyun and his clones monitored the situation inside the three warships. Once nearly all the experts had been eliminated, they fired a few more indiscriminate beams of white light, completely destroyed the three warships, and withdrew from the battlefield.

At the same time, Heishan led the demonic legion in completely surrounding the Demon Clan army.

After leaving the battlefield, Ye Liuyun released Commanders Yu Xiaofeng and the others, along with the Death Legion, the Black-Armored Elite Soldiers, the female soldiers, the demonic beasts, the women, and the Tang family disciples, so that they could also gain some combat experience.

He also sent the two clones into the fray to capture several of the remaining Scarlet Demons and Demon Clan experts and search their souls for information about the Demon Clan’s next plan.

He then released the armies of Jiang Yuanhai and Xiao Heng, having them form another encirclement outside to prevent any Demon Clan soldiers from slipping away.

With their commanders and experts gone and having been caught completely off guard, the Demon Clan army did not hold out for long before some of its soldiers began to surrender.

Before the five-hundred-thousand-strong Demon Clan army and its experts could even reach Ye Liuyun’s base, they were completely annihilated in a single ambush.

The Demon Clan army had been thrown into such chaos that the soldiers never managed to organize any effective resistance before surrendering. There were as many as two hundred and fifty thousand prisoners alone.

Most of the fallen Demon Clan soldiers had been burned to death inside the warships. Only a little over a hundred thousand had actually died in combat.

Through soul searching, Ye Liuyun’s clone also learned that the Demon Clan would not let the matter rest. However, even these Demon Clan members did not know that their clan leader would personally take action next time.

Ye Liuyun immediately had Heishan clean up the battlefield and put all the prisoners into his spatial world. He then sent them to the first clone’s spatial world to accelerate the army’s reorganization.

He estimated that the next attack would come soon. If Heishan reorganized the army slowly outside, there definitely would not be enough time.

They all quickly withdrew to the planet where the army was stationed. Jiang Yuanhai and Xiao Heng led the troops in its defense, while everyone else accelerated their recovery inside the clones’ spatial worlds in preparation for the next battle.

Ye Liuyun left the two clones in the army to continue monitoring the Demon Clan’s movements. He himself once again accelerated the refinement of the soul sources they had collected.

This time, the Soul-Refining Cauldron had collected quite a few soul sources, and refining them produced another powerful soul source.

He used the same method as before, cutting it into several pieces before storing it in the Soul-Sealing Pearl. He then handed it to the female soldiers for distribution.

The demonic beasts’ Soul-Sealing Pearls were filled again as well. After Ye Liuyun condensed these souls into soul sources, he gave them to the soldiers of the Death Legion.