C829 For the Upper Realm for Everything We Have!
C829 For the Upper Realm for Everything We Have!
There were a total of 4,480 scouts who had yet to return and had not received any news.
There were still six hundred Soul Lamps that were still burning among these people.
An order immediately came out from the Monarch's Hall. They organized a ten-thousand-man vanguard team to set out from the Great Wall of Despair to save their comrades!
This action naturally aroused the objection of many higher-ups. The Devil Clan was in the dark while they were in the light. They were not clear about the number of people and their strength. It was undoubtedly irrational to send troops out of the Great Wall of Despair at such a critical moment.
However, Shen Jun also used one sentence to suppress all the objections.
"If we just watch as our comrades fall into the enemy's hands without saving them, how can the others work for us?!"
If they couldn't even take care of their own lives, what was the point of worrying about the big picture?
Since Shen Jun, the Heavenly Sovereign Alliance Master, had already said so, the people below naturally did not dare to object anymore. They immediately gathered ten thousand people and prepared to set out.
When everyone jumped down from the Great Wall of Despair, they couldn't help but tighten their weapons.
It could be said that this was the first time the Upper Realm and the Devil Clan had fought head-on in a hundred thousand years.
As the search locations were scattered, the ten-thousand-man team was split into five teams, and they went into the depths of the snowfield in five different directions.
One of the teams was the luckiest. Half a day after they set out, they discovered traces of the Devil Clan's activities in the snow.
To be more precise, they were corpses.
Corpses of the Alliance Army scouts.
Seeing the broken corpses of their compatriots, the captain of the thousand-man team wanted to immediately go over and collect the corpses to report back to the Great Wall, but a second before he gave the order, he suddenly hesitated.
There was no reason for that hesitation, it was purely an instinct that he had developed over the years.
It was also at this moment of hesitation that the fate of this thousand-man team changed.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
In an instant, the surrounding snow suddenly exploded, and the Devil Clan rose from the snow.
After a hundred thousand years, the cultivators of the Upper Realm were once again facing this terrifying race.
Red eyes, black scales covering their entire bodies, a height of ten feet, and sinister bone spikes at their joints.
They crawled out from the snow, like evil spirits that climbed up from the underworld.
The cultivators of the Alliance Army hurriedly welcomed the battle, and in just a single exchange, they lost three hundred people!
The captain waved his arms and roared to break out of the siege.
After the initial panic, the cultivators of the Alliance Army immediately calmed down. Which one of them had not experienced hundreds of thousands of life and death situations? They immediately relied on their experience to counterattack.
It was even to the extent that without the captain's command, the cultivators immediately switched from the rear to the front, forming a spindle-like formation, and began to fiercely attack the Devil Clan in the south, attempting to tear open a gap.
In the snowstorm, the battle was abnormally intense.
The bodies of the Devil Clan were strong, and they were best at close combat. The cultivators of the Alliance Army were unable to adapt to this barbaric fighting style in a short period of time, and were inevitably caught in a bitter battle.
Fortunately, the squad that was responsible for rescuing them this time was strong enough. In addition, they had not completely fallen into the enemy's encirclement, so a gap in their defenses was quickly torn open.
Seeing that they were unable to annihilate the Devil Clan, the Devil Clan was unwilling to fight head on. After a horn sounded, they retreated like a tide.
The entire battle lasted less than fifteen minutes.
Two thousand cultivators, six hundred died, and six hundred were injured.
As for the corpses left behind by the Devil Clan, there were only one hundred and thirty-three of them.
Such a battle result caused everyone to gasp.
The average cultivation of this squad had already reached the peak of Emperor Stage, and it had even surpassed the average cultivation of the alliance army. Although the enemy had the advantage of surrounding and sneak attacks, the 1:10 battle damage ratio was still unacceptable!
After recalling all the corpses, the squad immediately returned to the Great Wall of Despair.
That night, all the squads that had been sent out to rescue returned to report.
The squad with the best luck did not encounter the Devil Clan, and they even brought back more than a hundred scouts.
This was also the total harvest of this rescue operation.
Four out of five squads were crippled, and the squad with the worst luck had run into the Devil Clan's vanguard force and was almost completely annihilated!
Such a result had already shaken the morale of the army.
"The first batch of Devil Clan troops have already arrived in the Upper Realm. Their numbers have already reached one billion, and they are still increasing."
In the Finger of Heaven and Earth Pavilion, Shen Jun held the report that Ao Xing had rushed out of the Great Wall of Despair overnight and told everyone the situation in detail, "This time, we only met the vanguard forces sent by the Devil Clan to scout the terrain. When they completely understand the situation in the northern snow plains and our defenses, the true main force of the Devil Clan will show up."
Ao Xing, who was at the side, took over and said, "From now on, no one is allowed to leave the Great Wall of Despair without permission. Whether it's going north or south, anyone who leaves their post will be killed! The scouts will all be divided into two groups, and they will be made up of cultivators at the True Immortal Stage who are best at hiding and escaping. Under the condition that their lives are safe, they will try their best to gather some information about the Devil Clan."
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the Finger of Heaven and Earth Pavilion looked at each other in silence.
Everyone's thoughts were written on their faces.
Since the Devil Clan had already arrived, the entire northern snow plains was a zone of danger. Under the army of millions of Devil Clan soldiers, there was no difference between the peak of the True Immortal Stage and the peak of the Body Refining Stage. It was just a matter of how many people they could take away.
To leave the Great Wall of Despair at this time was just a gamble.
However, it was not feasible to just hide.
Looking at the fearful expressions of the higher-ups, Shen Jun suddenly stood up, his expression and tone unprecedentedly serious. "I know what you are afraid of. The Devil Clan is powerful, and there is no doubt about it. However, we can still defeat them a hundred thousand years ago in the Upper Realm. Now, we can do the same!"
"Indeed, 100,000 years ago, there was a dragon race in the Upper Realm, and there were many cultivators and experts like today. But now, we also have the Great Wall of Despair, the majestic White City. We are not fighting a war that we have not prepared. We have prepared with the entire strength of the Upper Realm for a whole ten years!"
"Human Race, Devil Clan, and all the other races of the Upper Realm have gathered here. We have the same number of people!"
"After the Great Wall, it will be your family's inheritance, sect, and the Devil Clan is not here to conquer us. They are here to destroy us!"
"Everyone, now is not the time to be afraid. Now is the time to fight for our lives!"
After saying that, Shen Jun pulled out the long sword at his waist and raised it above his head. "For the sake of the Upper Realm! For everything we have!"
Within the Finger pointing at the Mountain Pavilion, the crowd was excited and responded.
"For the sake of the Upper Realm!"