Sword Emperor of the Astonishing Sky

Lin Bai and Li Guxian did not enter the battlefield. Under the protection of tens of thousands of warriors from the Jiuyou Demon Palace, they stood on the cloud boat outside the magic circle and watched the battle on the battlefield.

From the time the magic circle was broken to the present, only about half an hour had passed, and the warriors in the Chunyang Sect camp were already showing signs of defeat.

"This is simply the huge gap between the regular army and the miscellaneous troops!"

"Judging from the situation on the battlefield, the Nine Nether Demon Palace army commanded by Li Guxian is advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, and their offense and defense are very rhythmic."

"From the moment the magic circle was broken, the 'Sky Guard' troops were the first to charge into the battlefield."

“Although the warriors of the Imperial Sky Army are not very powerful, most of them are only at the Dao God level, but they are outnumbered.”

"The Imperial Army has a force of 500,000 to 600,000 men, and every ten of them ride on a ferocious monster."

"Relying on the extremely powerful body and strength of this ferocious beast, it rushed into the battlefield first, and after a series of attacks, it almost completely dispersed the Pure Yang Sect's camp in Yong'an City."

"After the formation of the Chunyang Sect was broken up, the troops that were originally assembled by small and medium-sized families and sects quickly fought on their own and became a pile of loose sand."

"Then Li Guxian ordered the 'Nine Nether Army' to enter the battlefield and begin to harvest these warriors who were fighting on their own."

"There were many 'two on one' or 'three on one' situations. In just a few moments, the Pure Yang Sect's warriors were slaughtered by the Nine Nether Demon Palace, and many warriors were killed!"

Lin Bai stood on the bow of the Yunzhou, frowned, twisted his chin, and carefully examined the battlefield below.

“Although the Chunyang Sect claims to have gathered an army of ‘50 million warriors’ in Yong’an City, judging from the number of people, the army of the Jiuyou Demon Palace must have suffered a great loss.”

"After all, this is the capital territory of the Chunyang Sect. The resources and number of warriors they can mobilize far exceed those of the Jiuyou Demon Palace."

"The Nine Nether Demon Palace only has about five million troops on this expedition, which is obviously not proportional to the number of people."

"But under Li Guxian's deployment of troops, this army of five million people actually fought with the momentum of fifty million people."

“…”

Lin Bai watched the battlefield carefully without saying much, while Li Guxian passed on messages from time to time to change the layout of the battlefield.

As the "Yutian Army" broke up the Chunyang Sect's formation, the "Jiuyou Army" entered the battlefield to reap lives.

The Chunyang Sect's warriors who fought on their own soon showed signs of collapse. The deaths of a large number of warriors caused the Chunyang Sect's military morale to become unstable.

The army's morale is unstable and its momentum is weak.

The warriors of Chunyang Sect showed signs of fleeing. The army claiming to have “50 million people” fled in all directions like a pile of loose sand.

The Grand Elder of the Chunyang Sect and a group of ordinary elders all shook their heads slightly when they saw this:

"Let's go."

"Yong'an City can no longer be defended."

The ordinary elders saw the fleeing warriors and cursed angrily:

"This group of warriors from small and medium-sized families are really unreliable. They can't hold on so quickly."

"If everyone works together, 50 million people spitting can drown the warriors of the Nine Nether Demon Palace."

"How could we lose so miserably?"

The Grand Elder of the Chunyang Sect seemed to have foreseen this happening, and said with an exceptionally calm expression:

"Before the small and medium-sized family warriors engage in battle, they must be full of confidence."

“But once the battle started, the Nine Nether Demon Palace came with great momentum. After the Imperial Army charged in, they completely dispersed the camp, and many warriors began to lose their minds.”

"Once the formation is disrupted, it will be easy for the Nine Nether Demon Palace warriors to defeat them one by one, and defeat is inevitable sooner or later."

"The morale is getting lower and lower, and the army's morale is unstable."

"After all, warriors are not a well-trained army. It is human nature to seek good fortune and avoid danger, so they will naturally choose to flee!"

After the Grand Elder of Chunyang Sect patiently explained a few sentences, as expected, there was not much emotional fluctuation.

“But our goal has been achieved.”

"We didn't intend to use these small and medium-sized families to defeat the Nine Nether Demon Palace. We just wanted to use these '50 million warriors' to exchange for some of the Nine Nether Demon Palace's losses."

“Although the Yutian Army and the Jiuyou Army of the Jiuyou Demon Palace are coming with great force, they will more or less suffer casualties in this fierce battle.”

"We have achieved our goal. Now let's go back to the sixth line of defense and fight to the death with the Nine Nether Demon Palace!"

After saying this, the Grand Elder of Chunyang Sect turned around and left, and several other elders of Chunyang Sect also left at the same time.

These high-level warriors who belonged to the Chunyang Sect took advantage of the chaos on the battlefield to leave Yong'an City.

As for the warriors in the Supreme Dao Fruit and Chaos Dao Fruit realms of the Nine Nether Demon Palace, they were busy dealing with the high-level warriors from small and medium-sized families.

Although the overall strength of these small and medium-sized families and sects is not strong, there are one or two warriors in the Hunyuan Daoguo or Hunchun Daoguo realm in each sect, which is enough to cause trouble.

Half a day later.

The Nine Nether Demon Palace finally won the battle. The Chunyang Sect warriors, who claimed to have an "army of 50 million", fled in all directions, and the entire Yong'an City was in ruins.

Li Guxian arranged for the formation master to destroy the core formation under the ground of Yong'an City, while Lin Bai was busy collecting the devouring power.

"Each battalion will count the number of casualties, and the entire army will rest for half a day."

After occupying Yong'an City, Li Guxian quickly arranged for each camp to check casualties and give the warriors enough time to rest.

As the commander of the entire army, Li Guxian naturally could not rush into the battle and kill the enemy alone; and as Lin Bai was the son of the emperor of the Demon Palace, after he had experienced an assassination attempt, the warriors of the Nine Nether Demon Palace were unwilling to let Lin Bai take risks.

It is estimated that in this battle, Lin Bai and Li Guxian became two spectators, but fortunately the result was very good.

Soon, all the battalions of the army reported their casualties. After reading the reports, Li Guxian's face became a little gloomy.

"What's wrong?"

"Were there a lot of casualties?"

Li Guxian handed the compiled list to Lin Bai.

After Lin Bai took the list, he scanned it carefully and recorded all the casualties in his mind. His face couldn't help but reveal the same gloomy expression as Li Guxian.

The casualties of the Nine Nether Demon Palace were indeed heavy this time, with the casualties of both the Yutian Army and the Nine Nether Demon Palace exceeding 200,000.

Logically speaking, Li Guxian and Lin Bai should have been happy that they defeated an army of 50 million people with only nearly 500,000 casualties.

This is clearly a feat worthy of being recorded in history.

But if after this battle, the Nine Nether Demon Palace no longer needs to fight, then they should naturally be happy.

But unfortunately... after this battle, the entire territory of the Chunyang Sect’s capital was not taken over.

There are still the sixth and seventh lines of defense behind, and the army of Jiuyou Demon Palace needs to continue the conquest.

Li Guxian said to Lin Bai with a worried look on her face:

"Brother Di Zi, what I am most worried about is that... the overall plan of the Chunyang Sect has not been fully revealed."

Lin Bai asked in confusion:

"What's the meaning?"

Li Guxian stared at the ruined Yong'an City and said thoughtfully:

"Brother Di Zi should have seen that although the Chunyang Sect claims to have 50 million troops stationed in Yong'an City, they want to fight us to the death."

"But in fact, these 50 million people are composed of warriors temporarily transferred from small and medium-sized families within the territory of the Chunyang Sect's capital."

"They didn't even go through any pre-war arrangements or deployments, and just showed up on the battlefield like that."

"But none of the elite disciples from the Chunyang Sect were seen."

Lin Bai suddenly remembered that he did not seem to see any elite disciples of the Chunyang Sect on the battlefield.

Not only that, even the Grand Elder of Chunyang Sect who presided over the battlefield, apart from saying a few harsh words to Li Guxian before the battle, seemed to have not seen the role this person played after the battle.

Even Lin Bai and Li Guxian didn't notice when the Grand Elder and other elders of Chunyang Sect escaped.

Li Guxian's eyes sparkled with brilliance as she said to Lin Bai:

"I suspect that the 50 million people that the Chunyang Sect prepared in Yong'an City were meant to be killed through us!"

Even if Lin Bai was stupid and didn't know much about military tactics, he understood what Li Guxian meant at this moment:

"You mean to say... Chunyang Sect deliberately sent 50 million people to us to kill, so that these 50 million people can cause as many casualties as possible to the troops of Jiuyou Demon Palace and weaken the strength of the Demon Palace army?"

Li Guxian nodded slightly and continued:

"If the Chunyang Sect really has this as their goal, then they have already achieved it."

"The Demon Palace army went out to fight this time. There are nearly five million soldiers in total. In the battle just now, nearly half a million people died."

"There are more than two million warriors left, all of whom are injured. There are only a few who are still in peak condition."

Lin Bai suddenly realized that something seemed to be wrong, and his thoughts turned to the ideas of the Chunyang Sect.

"If I were the Chunyang Sect, then what I would do next..."

Lin Bai's thoughts spread out, and he couldn't help but guess the final plan of Chunyang Sect.

He said to Li Guxian: "The Chunyang Sect has deployed nearly 50 million people in Yong'an City to consume our overall strength, and the elite disciples of the Chunyang Sect are waiting for us on the sixth line of defense."

"We have just experienced the great battle in Yong'an City, and our army will be more or less damaged. If we rashly head to the sixth line of defense, we will definitely be caught off guard by the elite disciples of the Chunyang Sect!"

"This is the real plan of the Chunyang Sect!"

Thinking of this, Lin Bai couldn't help but feel a little afraid of the "cruelness" of the Chunyang Sect.

More than 50 million people were sent to the Nine Nether Demon Palace to be killed, just to consume some of the Nine Nether Demon Palace's combat power.

Although the Jiuyou Demon Palace paid the price of more than 500,000 casualties and killed nearly 10 million warriors, it was still a narrow victory.

Lin Bai thought about it and asked, "How many elite disciples can there be in the Chunyang Sect?"

In fact, Lin Bai knew in his heart that a top sect like the Chunyang Sect already had a large number of disciples.

Moreover, the Chunyang Sect had already been preparing for the war. Over the past few decades, it had been continuously recruiting disciples, and the number of Chunyang Sect disciples had reached a very terrifying number.

According to previous rumors about the Qiye Divine Sect’s territory, the number of Chunyang Sect’s disciples is estimated to have exceeded tens of millions.

Apart from these disciples, there are estimated to be more than five million warriors whose cultivation is below the Feitian Realm.

Then there are more than five million elite disciples above the Flying Heaven Realm.

"The sixth line of defense is the real decisive battle!"

Lin Bai sighed softly.

Li Guxian nodded and said, "It would be great if the sixth line of defense is a real decisive battle."

"Even if it costs some money, as long as we win at the sixth line of defense, we can directly defeat the Chunyang Sect."

After a brief moment of contemplation, Lin Bai said:

"If we fight head-on, it will inevitably lead to heavy casualties among the warriors of the Nine Nether Demon Palace."

"Even if the Nine Nether Demon Palace won, it was a narrow victory!"

Li Guxian had foreseen this and nodded in agreement:

"That's right."

"With the current strength of the Demon Palace's army, even if they have to fight the Chunyang Sect on the sixth line of defense, they will not necessarily be defeated."

"As Senior Brother Di Zi said, even if the Demon Palace wins in the end, it will be a miserable victory."

Lin Bai nodded, and without saying anything more, he asked:

"What does Goddess Li Guxian think about this?"

Li Guxian paced back and forth twice, thought for a moment, and then answered:

"There are two options now."

"The first solution is to stay where we are and not move."

"At the same time, I asked the Demon Palace for help and asked them to send me another 5 million troops."

"But this round trip will delay it by at least three to five months."

"The second method is that we will use our current combat power to fight a decisive battle with the Chunyang Sect on the sixth line of defense."

"As for winning or losing, it's probably fifty-fifty."

After listening to Li Guxian's analysis and solutions, Lin Bai felt that they were not appropriate.

The first method would delay the process for too long. Although the Demon Palace could send out troops again, it would take at least three to five months for them to arrive.

If it were an ordinary time, waiting three to five months would not be too long, but the current situation in the territory of the Seven Nights Divine Sect and the Eastern Region of the Demon Realm is too bad, and Lin Bai and Li Guxian must seize the opportunity.

As for the second method, it is also unlikely. If a head-on battle were to take place on the sixth line of defense, let alone whether the Nine Nether Demon Palace could win, even if it did, it would pay an extremely tragic price.

Lin Bai took a deep breath and began to think about the corresponding solutions.

Not long.

Lin Bai suddenly had an idea and whispered, "Is it possible to carry out a decapitation operation?"

Li Guxian was slightly surprised and asked, "Brother Dizi, are you saying... that he took advantage of the chaos to break in and kill the high-ranking officials of the Chunyang Sect?"

Lin Bai nodded: "If there is a great chaos in Chunyang Sect, or if the warrior in charge of commanding the battlefield dies, will it cause chaos in Chunyang Sect?"

"In this case, even if the Chunyang Sect has millions of elite martial artists, they will not be able to use their strength."

Li Guxian thought about it and nodded, saying, "Although Senior Brother Dizi's idea is good, it is too risky."

"Warriors who rashly enter the Chunyang Sect are likely to be surrounded by them."

"You will be left alone and helpless by then."

Lin Bai nodded seriously, thinking that Li Guxian's analysis was reasonable. After a little thought, he said:

"Is it possible for us to act at the same time?"

Li Guxian asked curiously: "What kind of simultaneous actions?"

Lin Bai said: "While you are attacking from the front, we will start to take action inside the Chunyang Sect."

"If we take both approaches, there may still be a chance!"