Chapter 3423

“I can see the rear of their ranks. There are nearly a hundred thousand of them in total!”

Ye Liuyun immediately reported this to Xiao Han as well. After giving Xiao Han a heads-up, he began setting the enemy army ablaze.

He immediately released the Golden Crow Fire Spirit, which shielded Ye Liuyun within it as it swept toward the enemy army.

“Burn them. Let’s see how powerful you are when you go all out!”

This time, the Golden Crow Fire Spirit no longer needed to conserve its strength and unleashed its full power.

The scorching flames instantly reduced the martial cultivators who approached to flying ash.

The temperature of the entire planet rose sharply, and the sky was illuminated in golden red. From a distance, it looked like a golden-red Golden Crow sweeping toward the ground. Everything in its path turned to ashes, and even the rocks melted into magma.

Haotai’s army waited where they were, not daring to approach, while Xiao Han’s army took a wide detour around the flames.

But even from a distance, they could feel the intense heat. Even the air trembled as it burned.

“This flame power can destroy an entire planet. It seems this kid is no ordinary person!” Haotai thought to himself.

“What kind of power is this? Who released it?” Zhao Yuanpei asked Haotai, still bewildered.

“It’s flame power, released by the soldier who led the team to save you last time!” Haotai replied.

“He’s still alive? He has such powerful strength—why didn’t he use it when he saved me?” Zhao Yuanpei finally realized what was happening. His first reaction, however, was to assume that Ye Liuyun had held back when saving him.

“He was probably afraid you wouldn’t be able to withstand it!” Haotai replied casually.

Zhao Yuanpei thought that made sense and no longer complained. Still, he marveled inwardly that the army actually had such a powerful soldier, one who even possessed such a special flame attribute.

By this time, Ye Liuyun had already charged into the enemy formation. Everywhere he went, the enemies were burned to nothing, unable to last even one or two breaths.

The surrounding void had already been burned through. Within a radius of twenty li, the martial cultivators could not escape the flames’ annihilation even by hiding in the void. The entire battlefield was more terrifying than purgatory—a sea of fire.

Once the Golden Crow Fire Spirit had released all its power, Ye Liuyun waved his hand and sent it charging forward on its own. He could not bear to watch the scene himself, so he let the Golden Crow Fire Spirit handle it.

“Leave more than thirty thousand of them alive. Don’t burn them all!” Ye Liuyun also instructed the Golden Crow Fire Spirit not to turn every one of them to ash.

The Golden Crow let out a long cry and flapped its wings, sending a heaven-shaking inferno surging forward. It followed immediately afterward, advancing with that terrifying, deathly heat.

The enemies at the rear of the formation had completely lost the will to fight and turned to flee one after another.

Xiao Han’s forces felt the heat of the flames as they skirted around them, taking a wide route to intercept the fleeing enemies.

The Golden Crow Fire Spirit completed its task and returned after making only one pass. Ye Liuyun immediately recalled it. However, the intense heat around them did not subside for the time being.

When he checked with his divine sense again, Ye Liuyun found that the Golden Crow Fire Spirit had indeed left him more than thirty thousand people alive. However, they had all scattered in various directions; the Golden Crow Fire Spirit had probably simply been too lazy to pursue them.

Ye Liuyun immediately reported to Xiao Han. Only after learning that Ye Liuyun had withdrawn the flames did Haotai order the army to advance. The three armies moved to surround the martial cultivators.

Xiao Han also hurried over at full speed, intercepting as many as he could.

The battlefield had already been burned to ashes. When Haotai’s army arrived, the terrifying heat had not completely dispersed, and the magma on the ground had yet to fully cool.

Ye Liuyun had already hurried over to join Xiao Han and did not remain there. Although he felt somewhat guilty, he and these martial cultivators were now enemies. He was a soldier as well and had to obey orders.

The fighting that followed could hardly be called a battle. The army simply spread out and captured prisoners everywhere.

The martial cultivators had been so frightened that they no longer had the courage to fight. Once they scattered, they were even less able to withstand the army’s attacks. They were divided and surrounded, then captured alive.

In the end, Haotai’s army captured nearly twenty thousand more prisoners before declaring the sweep complete and returning victoriously to the city.

Ye Liuyun naturally became the person with the greatest battle merits. Not long after returning, he was promoted by Haotai to commander of ten thousand.

Haotai also described the battle to Marquis Zhenwu, Zhao Yu’an, further deepening Zhao Yu’an’s impression of Ye Liuyun.

“Leaving such a talent there would be a waste. How about this? You’ve been there long enough, and now that you’ve achieved great merit in this battle, you can return. I’ll make the arrangements for you to take over the city’s defenses here. When the time comes, bring him back with you!

His cultivation is still too low. Have him improve it as quickly as possible!”

In the end, Zhao Yu’an also issued Haotai an order. He even allowed Haotai to benefit from the arrangement, letting him return to the planet where the marquis’s estate was located and prepare to take over the city’s defenses.

Haotai thanked him repeatedly and then immediately urged Ye Liuyun to improve his cultivation as soon as possible.

After Ye Liuyun was promoted to commander of ten thousand, Xiao Han received a corresponding promotion and was transferred away from this place. Ye Liuyun then took over Xiao Han’s troops.

Ye Liuyun became famous throughout the army as a result. Rumors spread that he had burned a hundred thousand enemies by himself and was a true god of slaughter. No one in the unit he took over dared to voice any discontent, as everyone knew his strength.

“Looks like I really can’t shake this title of God of Slaughter!”

After learning of it, Ye Liuyun could only smile helplessly.

As for military affairs, Liao Yaotian, Qi Tianlin, and Chen Mo handled them for him. The three of them were promoted as well, while Ye Liuyun himself did not concern himself with such matters.

He was currently busy preparing to reclaim another clone and increase his own strength.

The main issue was time. There was time acceleration within the clone’s spatial world. Once he reclaimed the clone, he would have to consider how to solve the problem of finding enough time for his own cultivation in the future.

Ye Ling and the clone’s Origin Spiritual Demon were both helping relocate the planets within the clone’s spatial world and researching a solution.

Ye Ling suddenly made Ye Liuyun a suggestion: preserve the most powerful origin force within the clone’s spatial world, make time flow at a different rate on the planet containing that origin force, and have the clone’s Origin Spiritual Demon specifically control that planet.

However, that origin force needed to be strengthened by merging with the origin force of a Void World.

Ye Liuyun had no objections to this and immediately asked Ye Ling and the Origin Spiritual Demon to carry it out. The Origin Spiritual Demon first used the time acceleration within the clone’s spatial world to merge with the origin force of a Void World, making one planet even more powerful.

Only then did it relocate to Ye Liuyun’s spatial world and alter its own time flow. Ye Ling also helped monitor the flow of time on that planet.

At present, however, it could only reach five times the normal speed. To accelerate it further, Ye Liuyun gave it another portion of the origin force of a Void World, allowing it to reach ten times the normal speed.