Soon after, the Tiger Beastman announced the merger with Tiger Mercenary, renaming it Dark Legion.

WIth it, the Beast Clan naturally became part of the Dark Legion.

At this time, He Lianxiu arrived with ten thousand troops, taking up residence among the Beast Clan.

Ye Liuyun, in the meantime, had ten thousand additional soldiers brought here in batches.

Their movement of troops wasn’t done in one batch to avoid suspicion and attention. So they trickled in, batch by batch with the number of incoming troops matching the casualties from battles, maintaining the balance.

Yu Xiaofeng also sent Xiao Yunfang to lead one hundred thousand soldiers to the border, while also delivering a unified set of armour for the Beast Clan’s troops.

They also assisted in procuring a vast number of feral beasts, ensuring the continuation of their race.

The merger between the Beast Clan and Tiger Mercenary caused a ripple throughout the entire Eastern Region.

However, since they didn’t interfere in any major forces’ interests, no one cared to intervene in their movement.

In terms of both territory and troop numbers, the Dark Legion had now become possibly the most formidable army. No one wanted to bother them since it would not bring them any benefit.

A few months later, all of the Demi Beasts soldiers sported the black armour uniform, fully equipped. Xia Yunfang began her comprehensive training for them.

The Demi Beast’s territory had become the base of the Dark Legion. They set up a city here and named it after the Necropolis. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Ye Liuyun started to bring in his people to reside in the new Necropolis.

Cao Meng and Master Wei were given the rank of commander of the city gate. They followed Ye Tiandao’s orders every day and trained regular soldiers.

Even if the original Tiger Mercenary forces didn’t exist anymore, they were content with their present status and abundance of resources.

Orchid has been living with Ye Liuyun in the City Lord Manor every day, becoming Ye Liuyun’s first alchemy alchemy apprentice.

Once the Demi-Beast Clan Leader had been a part of Ye Liuyun’s forces for some time, the Demi-beast’s fighting prowess and resourcefulness had grown tremendously. It didn’t seem bad when he considered it, so he was content to follow Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun’s Dark Legion had unified all the minor powers in the Border Battlefield under his control.

Wu Qingcheng, Su Miaoyin, and others started assisting Ye Liuyun in consolidating and streamlining his multiple businesses while searching for his next target.

At this moment, the Chen family has invaded a village that was under the umbrella of the Dark Legion.

As it turned out, the Chen family’s bodyguards pursued a group of miners who had fled back to their village when they could no longer bear being exploited in the mines. When the bodyguards arrived at their village, they not only captured the miners but the other innocent villagers as well.

Ye Liuyun has been closely monitoring the actions of the Chen family. Of course, he would not let go of this perfect opportunity. He wasted no time to take Wu Qingcheng and others into the Spatial World, boarded the Eight level Flying vessel, and rushed straight to intercept, with Ye Tiandao’s Blade Legion leading the way.

"Young lad, get out of the way and mind your own business! The Chen family is not someone you can mess with.”

Those bodyguards didn’t know of Ye Liuyun. One of the bodyguard leaders could tell that Ye Liuyun was of high status and immediately tried to intimidate Ye Liuyun with the Chen family’s background.

"You dare to act arrogant on my turf?" Ye Liuyun laughed before he released Ye Tiandao, Wu Qingcheng and others.

"Your turf? Who are you?" Seeing the situation, the bodyguard leader asked nervously.

Wu Qingcheng and others had already elevated to the primary fourth level, far stronger than a dozen bodyguards.

Especially since everyone was donning the black armour of the Dark Legion. They instantly realised that they had been intercepted by the Dark Legion.

"This is our leader of the Dark Legion, Ye Liuyun!" Ye Tiandao introduced.

"Commander Ye? Well met! I am Chen Zhiyuan, Commander of the Chen family’s mine bodyguard!" The bodyguard leader secretly cursed his foolishness inside.

Dealing with ordinary soldiers, a little bluff might have worked. However, facing a commander, he dared not act impudent. Hence, he immediately softened his attitude.

Ye Liuyun retorted, "Commander Chen, I don’t object to your apprehension of the miners. But why would you take my men away just like that?"

"Er... because they were harbouring our miners and were disrespectful to us. I take them back to teach them a lesson," Chen Zhiyuan justified himself.

"Oh, is that so? Well, Commander Chen, you had spoken rudely to me as well. How about you come back with me, so I can teach you a lesson, too?" Ye Liuyun calmly suggested.

"Commander Ye, don’t you know that I am from the Chen family?" Chen Zhiyuan reminded Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun brushed off his comment and retorted, "What has it got to do with this? They’re still my people, aren’t they?"

"You have no jurisdiction over the Chen family!" Chen Zhiyuan rebutted firmly.

"I don’t usually intervene. But if you simply grab my men on my territory, it becomes my business! If you refuse to leave now, then let’s fight!" Ye Liuyun challenged.

Ye Liuyun made a wave with his hand and a flash of lightning was released by Lei Ming, knocking out Chen Zhiyuan. Soon, smoke rose from his hair.

The rest of Ye Liuyun’s troops took action and captured the ten bodyguards of the Chen family and tied them up. Then, confiscated their Interspatial Rings, armour, and weapons.

Ye Liuyun then released the miners and villagers who were being held.

The men were exceedingly grateful to Ye Liuyun.a

Ye Liuyun asked the miners, "Why did you run back here? Aren’t the working conditions in the mining area satisfactory?"

"Are you kidding? It’s hardly humane. We toil from dawn till dusk and if we don’t dig enough ore, we don’t get paid with Alora Crystal. And, even if we want to earn Alora crystals for our efforts, it’s hardly enough to recover our physical strength."

"That’s right! We were only given two meals in two years, surviving purely on our genuine energy. Many of us died from fatigue. They also found all sorts of excuses to deduct our payment!”

"Not only have we not progressed in space after two years, we have actually regressed, and we didn’t manage to save up a single crystal!"

A few miners took turns speaking up to Ye Liuyun in distress.

Ye Liuyun never thought the Chen family could be so heartless. Digging in the mines was extremely profitable, but they were gluttonous, unwilling to share even a bit with the miners.

"But if you guys come back to the village, the Chen family might harass the villagers. Not only you won’t escape, but the villagers will also suffer! I presume this won’t end like this!" Ye Liuyun analyzed.

The miners all had a troubled look on their faces, and said, "Back then, we thought that fleeing to other places would only end up being captured or used as cannon fodder. It is better to die at home. But these people not only want to bring us back to labour for them again, they tried to take our families as well!"

Ye Liuyun offered them advice, "Why don’t you join me in the Dark Legion? Tell your families that you’ve been taken by me along with the guards. Even if the Chen family sends people, they won’t look for you here or trouble your families, they’ll come straight to me. But because you are already my soldiers, I definitely won’t surrender you."

The miners were overjoyed and instantly agreed to his offer.

They quickly returned home, told the family what to say if the Chen family sent people after them, and then followed Ye Liuyun back to the base of the Dark Legion.