Chapter 3316

The firepower chariots immediately pursued the remaining demon race soldiers.

Seeing that escape was impossible, the demon commander simply led his remaining twenty to thirty thousand troops to turn back and fight.

After breaking through the firepower chariots’ blockade, half of these demon soldiers were already dead. The ninth-realm experts from Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan’s armies then engaged them using formation plates.

The formation plates deployed by Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan’s soldiers could each accommodate ten men—some used shields for defense while others fired crossbows at the demon soldiers, suppressing the demon charge through coordinated teamwork.

Then Ye Tiandao led her female soldiers in pursuit, followed by the puppet legion surrounding them. Ninth-realm puppets handled direct combat while eighth-realm puppets coordinated with heavy crossbows to kill demon soldiers.

Under the bloodline suppression from the female soldiers, the demon soldiers’ strength was restricted, yet the puppets’ combat effectiveness remained completely unaffected. In the end, nearly all one hundred thousand elite demon troops were wiped out without having a chance to display their full power.

However, these demon soldiers proved quite loyal. Apart from those wounded and captured or controlled by soul attacks, none surrendered—all fought to their deaths before battle finally concluded.

All demon corpses and their storage rings were directly allocated to the Demon Legion; other legions had no use for these resources.

The obtained crossbow bolts were distributed to Xiao Heng and Li Zhaoyuan’s armies, giving them comparable ranged combat capability against this elite demon force.

The retreating demon army contracted entirely into Fire Seal Dynasty’s royal capital city, defending stubbornly behind its formations. They possessed heavy crossbows—a direct assault would indeed cause heavy casualties.

Thus Yu Xiaofeng didn’t rush to attack. He also didn’t claim any planets ceded by the demonic army, merely advancing his forces forward to confront them directly across a standoff line.

Fire Seal Galaxy’s martial cultivators saw demons hunkered down in their capital city and immediately dispatched troops to reclaim occupied planets—fearing Ye Liuyun’s army might seize them first.

Seeing firepower chariots among those fighting demons confirmed Ye Liuyun had returned. Yet many royal family members still held poor impressions of him and refused to bow before him.

These royals even planned waiting for Ye Liuyun and demons mutually weakening each other before swooping in for easy gains when both sides suffered losses simultaneously together alike similarly equally comparably correspondingly respectively individually separately distinctly differently alternatively conversely oppositely contrarily rather instead otherwise elsewhere meanwhile subsequently afterward thereafter later eventually ultimately finally lastly ultimately eventually afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereafter afterward subsequently later thereaft

Only Jiang Yuanhai’s three armies were making defensive preparations and standing ready for battle. Occasionally, one of their forces would be dispatched to bombard the demon race’s defensive formations with firepower chariots, provoking them.

The demon race had once sent ordinary soldiers to fight them, but the firepower chariots were too devastating, causing massive casualties among the demons. After that, they never came out to engage again.

After holding out for some time, the demon race’s resources dwindled. They mustered their courage and dispatched another army to attack the remaining planets of the Fire Seal Galaxy.

On Ye Liuyun’s side, not only did they fail to send troops, but even Jiang Yuanhai stopped attacking the demon race’s defenses. It seemed as if they were deliberately allowing them to assault the Fire Seal Dynasty.

This time, the demon race didn’t immediately retreat either. Instead, they boldly annihilated a resisting force and began slaughtering human martial cultivators everywhere.

They also kept monitoring any movements from Ye Liuyun’s direction. Only after their entire army had withdrawn and confirmed that there was indeed no activity from Ye Liuyun’s side did they finally relax completely.

And as soon as they withdrew, Jiang Yuanhai once again led his troops to resume attacking their defensive formations.

"Their intentions are obvious. They’re not here to help the Fire Seal Dynasty! Humans have never been united. It seems that even if we exterminate everyone in the Fire Seal Dynasty, they still won’t make a move!" The demon grand commander on the opposite side made this assessment.

By this time, Ye Liuyun had already conducted experiments on captured demon prisoners. These demons had also undergone baptism by the Nine Nether Prelude, so its effect on them was quite limited—at most capable of preventing them from attacking him.

The demon side still had three hundred thousand well-equipped and powerful troops remaining; they definitely couldn’t launch a direct assault against such forces. Moreover, engaging in hard combat with the demon army now would require caution regarding what lay behind them—the Fire Seal Dynasty itself.

Thus Yu Xiaofeng ordered his army only to confront without attacking, letting both sides wear each other down through attrition with local martial cultivators instead. With fewer and fewer planets remaining under control by what’s left of said dynasty? They probably wouldn’t last much longer either way; if those people didn’t fight back desperately soon enough then total annihilation awaited regardless!

When seeing how passive Ye Liunyuns’ forces remained during these operations against civilians alike...the confidence among demonic ranks grew steadily bolder until eventually two separate contingents totaling one-hundred-thousand strong equipped specifically around heavy crossbows were deployed simultaneously targeting two different planetary holdings belonging still nominally unto former imperial territories controlled now merely nominally speaking thereof respectively speaking hereof accordingly thereto henceforthwhereunto etcetera ad infinitum...