Chapter 3598 Paying the Price

Ye Liuyun took the remaining 100 people out of the city immediately and went to the surrounding areas to continue to attack some major forces and expand his team.

Moreover, he accepted surrender in every battle afterwards and began to capture more prisoners. Once those prisoners were controlled by him, they would be sent back to Black Cloud City to serve as the defenders in the city.

Ye Liuyun captured prisoners quickly. In less than half a month, he gathered 10,000 defenders for Black Cloud City. These 10,000 defenders were all equipped with armor and equipment of the soldiers in the city, and they all became regular troops.

After a month, the number of defenders became 30,000. Black Cloud City has almost recovered. Several major forces were all mercenary groups before, and they were in charge of the new business.

The defenders and the city lord's mansion guarding the city were also Ye Liuyun's people. It was not until this time that Ye Liuyun opened Black Cloud City again and allowed people to enter and exit freely.

However, the news of the demon army attacking Black Cloud City spread quickly, and everyone said that it was Duanmu Hall who did it, so Duanmu Hall had to temporarily close all its branches to avoid being retaliated by the Southern Dynasty.

Duanmu Hall also sent people to find Ye Liuyun, but Ye Liuyun only told them about the resources prepared to redeem people and to talk about it later.

Of course, they were also very curious about where the demon army came from. But if Ye Liuyun didn't say, they could only guess.

When Song Qing learned about the war in Black Cloud City, he was worried about who to mobilize to deal with the demon army. He couldn't mobilize the army at Pingyang Pass, lest the demons take the opportunity to cross the border.

He didn't have a suitable commander to complete this task, and he didn't even have anyone to rush to fight against the demon army.

Fortunately, he soon received news that the war had subsided and the demon army had retreated. Someone came to apply for a new city lord, which made him feel relieved.

He was also curious about how the demon army slipped through the border and where it went now. However, the position of the Lord of Black Cloud City was vacant, which was good news for him.

He could not control the Lord of Black Cloud City before, so he had to send someone of his own this time. Because of Song Qing's greed for money, the Southern Dynasty did not set up any marquisate, and the Lord of the City was the most powerful.

He immediately sent one of his confidants to be the Lord of the City. But when the confidant arrived at Black Cloud City and found that the garrison and some major forces were in the same group with the Lord of the City, he did not dare to stay there for long and slipped back directly. If he ran too slowly, he was afraid that those people would kill them directly in the city.

Song Qing was also helpless. He could not send troops to Black Cloud City and fight with that group of people again because of this matter. In the end, he had to agree to let Qian Linghe be the Lord of Black Cloud City.

Ye Liuyun stopped arresting people to supplement the soldiers at this time. The remaining soldiers could be recruited slowly by the new Lord of the City, Qian Linghe.

He chose a suitable courtyard for himself in the city, moved in with the people around him, and asked Qiongqi to arrange the formation.

"Song Qing drove you out of the royal city, but he didn't think that he would have to pay the price of a city for it!" Li Qianjiao was also very moved after seeing the restored Black Cloud City, the City Lord's Mansion, major forces and the garrison guarding the city.

Ye Liuyun just smiled and didn't answer her.

"What?" Li Qianjiao didn't understand what he meant by this smile.

Tang Xinyao sent a voice message to Li Qianjiao: "Don't ask, just watch. The price Song Qing has to pay is not just this Black Cloud City!"

Li Qianjiao immediately widened her eyes and looked at Tang Xinyao.

Tang Xinyao nodded to confirm and asked her: "If you have such a good opportunity to grow and develop, would you stop here?"

Li Qianjiao realized that this Black Cloud City was just the beginning of Ye Liuyun's development, not the end.

"Won't Song Qing lose a lot?" She also asked Tang Xinyao.

"That kind of narrow-minded villain is not worthy of being the king of heaven. He should have stepped down long ago!" Tang Xinyao said indifferently.

Li Tianjiao took a breath of cold air when he heard this. It seemed that Ye Liuyun's goal was to kill Song Qing.

"But the appointment and removal of the king must be approved by the Zhongxing Dynasty..."

She immediately reminded Tang Xinyao through voice transmission. She felt that even if Ye Liuyun could kill Song Qing by force, he would not be able to get the throne, and would eventually be wanted by the Central Dynasty.

"You don't have to worry about it. He knows this kind of thing. At that time, it will not be the Central Dynasty that has the final say." Tang Xinyao was not worried at all.

"The Central Dynasty is very powerful! It is far from being comparable to this Southern Dynasty..." Li Qianjiao was still worried that they did not understand the strength of the Central Dynasty, so she wanted to explain it to Tang Xinyao again.

Tang Xinyao did not refuse. She listened to what Li Qianjiao said, and she would also pass on the information that she thought was useful to Ye Liuyun to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun was not idle either. He quickly organized a team of 300 people, took them into the space world, and then took them out of the city again.

Moreover, he changed his appearance when he left the city, so as not to attract other people's attention.

His goal this time was still Duanmu Tang. He would definitely let Duanmu Xin go, but he would not let Duanmu Tang go. Especially those demon cultivators controlled by Duanmu Tang, most of them were masters, and it would be difficult to catch them again after letting them go.

Based on the memory in Duanmu Xin's sea of ​​consciousness, he could find the hiding places of those people even if those branches were closed down, and wiped out those branches one by one, and took as many manpower and resources as possible.

Now, even if his team enters the city again, no city lord's mansion dares to send soldiers to embarrass them. They are all treated as ordinary mercenary groups, and they turn a blind eye.

And when they fight, the soldiers of the city lord's mansion will never appear. They will wait until they finish fighting, and then they will rush over, saying that they are maintaining order, but in fact they are just cleaning up the battlefield and picking up leaks.

Ye Liuyun has destroyed many branches of Duanmu Hall, and the number of mercenaries in his hands has increased greatly. He has also obtained a lot of resources, so he asked Duanmu Xin to contact his family and ask them to send money to redeem him.

Duanmu Hall hated Ye Liuyun so much that his teeth itched, but he could only obediently send money to redeem him.

After receiving the money this time, Ye Liuyun released the Demon Sealing Stele to absorb the power of Duanmu Hall, and directly reduced his realm to the first level of Taixu.

He also warned Duanmu Xin righteously: "I have taken the money, so I will naturally let you go. But after I let you go last time, you did something to me behind my back, and you must pay the price.

You must think about it after you go back. If you do something to me again and I catch you again, it will not be as simple as lowering your realm!"

After saying that, Ye Liuyun had Duanmu Xin thrown out. Duanmu Xin was already dumbfounded at this moment. He didn't expect Ye Liuyun to really dare to attack him, and he was so cruel.

For a martial artist, the most cruel thing is to make his realm regress, and the same is true for the demons. Without a realm, he is a useless person and will never be valued by his fellow tribesmen.