Chapter 3598 Pay the price
Ye Liuyun took the remaining more than a hundred people out of the city immediately, and continued to attack some big forces in the surrounding areas to expand his team.
And he accepted surrender in every subsequent battle and began to take more prisoners. Once those prisoners are under his control, they will be sent back to Black Cloud City to serve as the city's defenders.
Ye Liuyun was also fast at catching prisoners. In less than half a month, he gathered 10,000 defenders for Black Cloud City. The 10,000 defenders all put on the armor and equipment of the soldiers in the city, and they suddenly became regular troops.
A month later, the number of defenders increased to 30,000. Black Cloud City has almost recovered. Several big forces are former mercenary groups, and they will control the new business.
The defenders guarding the city and the city lord's mansion were also Ye Liuyun's people. It was only then that Ye Liuyun opened Black Cloud City again, allowing people to enter and exit at will.
However, the news that the demon army attacked Black Cloud City spread quickly, and everyone said that it was Duanmutang who did it, which made Duanmutang have to temporarily close all branches to prevent the southern dynasty from taking the opportunity to retaliate.
Duanmutang also sent people to look for Ye Liuyun, but Ye Liuyun only told them to prepare the resources to redeem people, and we would talk about everything later.
Of course they were also curious about where that demon army came from. But Ye Liuyun didn't say anything, so 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 cannot mobilize the army at Pingyang Pass, lest the demons take the opportunity to cross the border.
He doesn't have a suitable leader who can complete this task, and he doesn't even have anyone who can 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 gave him a sigh of relief.
He was also curious about how the demon army slipped over from the border and where it went now. However, there is a vacancy for the city master of Black Cloud City, which is good news for him.
He couldn't control the city lord of Black Cloud City before, so he must send one of his own this time. Due to Song Qing's greed for money, the southern dynasty did not set up any marquis position, and all were dominated by the city lord.
He immediately sent one of his cronies to be the city lord. But when the cronies arrived at Black Cloud City and discovered that the defenders and some major forces were all on the same side as the city lord, they didn't dare to stay there any longer and simply slipped back. If he ran too slowly, he was afraid that those people would directly kill them in the city.
Song Qing was also helpless. He couldn't send troops to Heiyun City to fight with that group just because of this incident. In the end, he had to agree to let Qian Linghe be the lord of Heiyun City.
Only then did Ye Liuyun stop arresting people to replenish his soldiers. Just let the new city lord Qian Linghe slowly recruit the remaining soldiers.
He chose a suitable villa for himself in the city, moved in with everyone around him, and asked Qiongqi to set up the formation.
"When Song Qing drove you out of the royal city, he never thought that he would have to pay the price of a city!" Li Qianjiao saw the restored Black Cloud City, the city lord's palace, major forces and the garrison guarding the city. Finally, I was also very emotional.
Ye Liuyun just smiled and did not answer her words.
"What?" Li Qianjiao didn't understand what his smile meant.
Tang Xinyao sent a message to Li Qianjiao: "Don't ask, just watch. The price Song Qing has to pay is not just Black Cloud City!"
Li Qianjiao immediately looked at Tang Xinyao with wide eyes.
Tang Xinyao nodded to her to confirm, and asked her via voice transmission: "If you had such a good opportunity to develop and grow, would you just give up?"
Only then did Li Qianjiao understand that Black Cloud City was just the beginning of Ye Liuyun's development, not the end.
"Then isn't Song Qing going to suffer a big loss?" She also asked Tang Xinyao.
"That kind of narrow-minded villain is not worthy of being the king in the first place. He should have stepped down long ago!" Tang Xinyao said nonchalantly.
Li Tianjiao gasped when he heard this. It seemed that Ye Liuyun's goal was to kill Song Qing.
"However, the appointment and dismissal of the king must be approved by the Zhongxing Dynasty..."
She immediately sent a message to remind Tang Xinyao. She felt that even if Ye Liuyun could kill Song Qing by force, he would not be able to get the throne, and would still be wanted by the central dynasty in the end.
"You don't have to worry about it. He knows this kind of thing well. Then it won't be the central dynasty that has the final say." Tang Xinyao was not worried at all.
"The strength of the central dynasty is very strong! It is far beyond what the southern dynasty can compare with..." Li Qianjiao was still worried that they did not understand the strength of the central dynasty and wanted to explain it to Tang Xinyao.
Tang Xinyao did not refuse. She listened to what Li Qianjiao said and would pass on any information she thought would be useful to Ye Liuyun.
Ye Liuyun was not idle either. He quickly organized a team of three hundred people, took them into the space world, and then took them out of the city.
Moreover, when he left the city, he also changed his appearance and did not attract anyone's attention.
His goal for leaving the city this time was Duanmutang. He would definitely let Duanmu Xin go, but he would not let Duanmutang go. Especially those demon cultivators controlled by Duanmutang, most of them are masters. After letting them go, it will be difficult to catch them again.
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 gathered as much manpower and resources as possible. have.
Now even if his team enters the city again, no city lord will dare to send troops to embarrass them. They were all treated as ordinary mercenary groups and turned a blind eye.
And when they were fighting, the soldiers from the City Lord's Mansion would never show up. They only rushed over after they finished fighting, saying they were maintaining order, but in fact they were just cleaning up the battlefield and picking up any leaks.
Ye Liuyun killed many more Duanmutang branches, greatly increased the number of mercenaries in his hands, and gained a lot of resources, so he asked Duanmuxin to contact his family and ask them to send money to redeem the people.
Duanmutang hated Ye Liuyun so much that his teeth itched with hatred, but he could only obediently send money to redeem him.
After Ye Liuyun received the money this time, he released the Demon-Sealing Monument to absorb Duanmutang's power, directly reducing his level to the first level of Taixu.
He also warned Duanmuxin sternly: "After I collected the money, I will naturally let you go. But after I let you go last time, you must pay the price for the dirty tricks you did behind my back."
You should think carefully about it after you go back. If you do evil things to me again and you happen to be caught by me again, it will not just be as simple as lowering your level! "
After saying that, Ye Liuyun had Duanmu Xin thrown out. Duanmu Xin was stunned at this moment. He didn't expect that Ye Liuyun would dare to attack him, and he would attack him so cruelly.
For a martial artist, the most cruel thing is to let his realm regress, and the same is true for demons. Without realm, he is a useless person and will never gain the attention of his fellow tribesmen.