Suddenly, a beam of black light shot from behind the three-eyed alien, striking directly into its consciousness.

With a swift motion, Ye Liuyun summoned the alien’s corpse along with its invisibility cloak into his spatial realm.

Almost simultaneously, another alien found itself under the combined assault of Ye Liuyun and the Vermilion Bird, swiftly subdued with a slave seal.

Yet another alien was ambushed by two newly emerged half-beast corpse puppets. Desperate, it utilized its spatial power to flee, barely escaping their grasp—only for another black beam to pierce its back, ending its life instantly. Its body, too, was reclaimed by Ye Liuyun.

These precise strikes were orchestrated by Mu Lai, the Vermilion Bird, and the half-beast puppets, all acting on Ye Liuyun’s directions. Despite their invisibility cloaks, the aliens stood no chance against his golden pupils.

Without breaking a sweat, Ye Liuyun secured two more cloaks, the eye of the three-eyed alien, and the energy cores of two elite warriors—valuable resources for cultivation.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Sangda tensed as he spotted the twin flashes of black light. His scouts had likely been compromised.

*How did they see through the cloaks?* he wondered, hesitating whether to send more operatives under the same cover.

To make matters worse, his dispatched forces were suffering heavy losses, their desperate pleas for reinforcements flooding in.

*How does Ye Liuyun command so many powerful allies?*

Frustration gnawed at Sangda. He hadn’t anticipated such formidable resistance. Yet abandoning his elites wasn’t an option.

"Dispatch reinforcements!" he barked. "Retrieve our warriors at once!"

Unbeknownst to him, Ye Liuyun’s clone monitored every move. The moment fresh troops mobilized, the warning reached Ye Liuyun.

The pressure weighed heavily on him. A single alien warship harbored at least two million soldiers. Though Liu Kui’s Swift Swallow Fleet and his own Falcon Fleet rained destruction upon them, the sheer numbers were overwhelming.

Although they had already eliminated numerous half-beast zombie puppets, it was unrealistic for their small group to completely annihilate all these alien creatures. While Ye Liuyun had joined the battle, his primary focus remained on dealing with the elite warriors sent by Sanda.

Without hesitation, Ye Liuyun ordered Yu Xiaofeng to lead 200,000 troops into the fray to encircle and suppress the enemy. The alien forces were already in disarray, and with the army equipped with puppet beasts, war chariots, and energy cannons, 200,000 soldiers were more than enough to handle them.

Ye Liuyun had successfully lured out a significant number of elite alien warriors—it was time to close the net.

He sought out the Purple Kylin Snake once more, promising it double the usual amount of origin energy as a reward.

The Purple Kylin Snake, eager to both gain resources and hone its mastery over temporal powers, readily agreed.

Just as another wave of elite alien warriors emerged from their warship, the Purple Kylin Snake reappeared on the battlefield.

Ye Liuyun didn’t send it into immediate action. Instead, he pointed out specific high-priority targets for it to eliminate.

This time, the aliens had dispatched 6,000 warriors at the third level of the Celestial Realm, along with 30,000 soldiers at the first and second levels, all charging toward the armored human soldiers.

Meanwhile, Sanda, spotting the Purple Kylin Snake’s return, immediately ordered two of his three-eyed alien commanders into action—one to assassinate Ye Liuyun, the other to take down the Purple Kylin Snake.

At the same time, he sent out an alien commander cloaked in an invisibility shroud, carrying a Soul Devourer, accompanied by three other concealed elites, all tasked with ambushing Ye Liuyun in one decisive strike.

"Finally, they’ve taken the bait!" Ye Liuyun couldn’t help but smirk in satisfaction.

After this battle, the alien elites would be all but wiped out.

Feigning ignorance of the impending danger, he even summoned Lei Ming, Liang Xue, and the others, allowing them to join the armored soldiers in mopping up the remaining alien warriors—both to contribute and to temper their skills.

The moment the invisible alien elites stepped out of the warship—

"ROAR!"

The Violet Kylin let out a thunderous roar first, freezing time itself as it began its merciless slaughter of the alien invaders.

Its targets were the elite reinforcements the enemy had just deployed. However, under the influence of its temporal power, even Ye Liuyun stood frozen in place, unable to witness the beast’s most glorious moment.

The aliens suffered even worse this time. Their squad of elite warriors had been charging toward the encirclement of armored soldiers, still tightly clustered when the Violet Kylin struck—its single attack annihilating swathes of them in one devastating blow.

Growling with exhilaration, the beast relentlessly wielded its time-manipulating abilities. Yet, wiping out tens of thousands of aliens one by one was no small feat.

After half an hour of relentless carnage, the Violet Kylin finally eradicated the last of them. Exhausted, it panted heavily as it trotted back to Ye Liuyun’s side, its pre-stored energy and vital essence nearly depleted.

Still, it refused to show weakness. With a proud snort, it struck a majestic pose, as if declaring its dominance.

So when time resumed its flow, all the onlookers saw was the gruesome aftermath—the alien elites reduced to mangled flesh.

But the Violet Kylin wasn’t done yet. Before Ye Liuyun could recall it into his spatial realm, the doppelgänger activated another time halo. In a flash, it retrieved a pre-forged metal cage, lunged forward, and trapped the Soul Devourer inside before shoving the cage into Mulai’s arms.

The doppelgänger was wary—what if the cage couldn’t contain the beast’s spectral essence? Better to let Mulai test it first. If the Soul Devourer attacked, it would strike Mulai first, buying time to devise another plan.

With the last remnants of the time halo’s power, the doppelgänger unleashed a pulse of dark energy, obliterating the two three-eyed aliens and stashing their corpses into the spatial realm.

Then, the time halo’s effect dissipated, and reality snapped back into motion.

Ye Liuyun immediately recalled the Violet Kylin into his spatial world.

Meanwhile, the doppelgänger ordered Mulai to retreat from the battlefield with the caged Soul Devourer while firing dark beams to eliminate the remaining cloaked alien elites.

The doppelgänger’s mastery of spatial power far surpassed theirs—no matter how they tried to evade, it hunted them down one by one, their lifeless bodies vanishing into the spatial realm.

Sangda was still seething over the Violet Kylin’s massacre of his elite forces. He had just commanded the Soul Devourer to kill the beast first—only to feel his connection with the creature abruptly severed the next instant.

It immediately contacted the alien commander who had been holding the Soul Devourer.

The commander was still standing there in shock. Just moments ago, the creature had been cradled in its arms—how could it have vanished so abruptly? But before the commander could even respond, a streak of dark light from the doppelgänger struck it down.

"Mulai!"

Sangda, assuming Mulai was behind this, let out a furious roar that echoed beyond the warship.

Mulai, who had been running far into the distance with the cage containing the Soul Devourer, froze at the sound of Sangda’s voice.

"Why is Sangda calling for me?" It had no idea what had happened—not even what was inside the metal cage it was carrying.

Trapped inside, the Soul Devourer could sense nothing of the outside world.

All it knew was that Sangda had ordered it to destroy the Violet Kylin. But before it could even act, it had somehow ended up in this tiny cage, completely cut off from the chaos unfolding beyond.

With no cultivation base of its own, it couldn’t break through the surrounding formations. Helpless, it could only huddle inside, waiting miserably for whatever fate had in store.