Chapter 89

"Huh?"

It seemed to sense someone gazing from afar; having just let the three avatars each use twelve Sea‑Stabilizing Pearls to defeat Houyi, Xiangliu, and the seven Northern Dipper Star Lords, Jin Bing looked doubtfully into the distance.

"Di Jiang?!"

Di Jiang did not conceal his form, so Jin Bing recognized him at a glance; just as he was astonished, Di Jiang had already turned and left ferociously……

Jin Bing suddenly realized; it seemed this elder brother had just seen his actions.

But what does that matter?

Jin Bing watched Di Jiang leave with a smile, then turned and waved to the fervent Demon Race Great Luo cultivators:

【"Retreat first!"】

【"He still has troops! He still has 800,000 consumables!"】

【Theoretically, once you join the Heavenly Court battlefield with peak combat power, the scales of victory can completely be tipped in your favor…… but in this life, for various reasons, you are still a minor True Immortal.】

【In your previous life as the battle‑hardened Heavenly Emperor, you directly and indirectly slew hundreds of Golden Immortals; had it not been for your brutal and inhumane methods, which instead provoked a fiercer resistance from the myriad demons of the wilderness, you could almost have secured the world through slaughter.】

【In the Demon Race calendar, 374 epochs, 2 meetings, 12 periods, Emperor Jiang, having lost nearly fifty Great Witches, finally fell into despair; what was originally an offensive stance turned into a defensive one, and utter defeat loomed imminently.】

【Although the Great Luo battlefield suffered a complete defeat, the middle and lower tiers remained advantageous; the enemy's patchwork force of 600,000 could not stand against our 800,000 elite troops.】

【The war lasted less than five periods before the Wu Clan's Great Witches were either dead or captured, losing nearly half; the remaining Great Witches would only fall faster under the enemy's growing numerical advantage, and even if Emperor Jiang ordered them to fight to the death at any cost, it would be in vain……】

【The Great Witches were bewildered; they could not understand how Mount Shouyang, originally with fewer than a hundred Great Luo cultivators, had swelled to its present strength in just a single epoch‑meeting.】

【With these new methods, naturally we should first greet our old friends.】

【Is it meaningless to exhaust our last reserves, or should we admit defeat and retreat with our remnants?】

【Emperor Jiang withdrew all the Great Witches, but that does not mean he has admitted defeat!】

【You directly ordered the three avatars to attack your old friend Houyi, first surrounding him to test his skill, then gradually regaining the feel of combat…… once everything went smoothly, you, in high spirits, used the Sea‑Stabilizing Pearl to overturn Houyi.】

【Such a small change involving just one or two people made the mighty ones under the Supreme Heavenly Court bitter beyond words; after all, fighting three opponents of the same rank was already their specialty, and taking on one or two more would truly be deadly!】

【Thus, three peak Great Luo experts, perfectly coordinated and wielding top‑grade innate spiritual treasures, joined the battlefield!】

【Although the main body was lacking, the three Great Luo avatars plus the innate spiritual treasure gave you a total combat power surpassing that of your previous life as the Golden Heavenly Emperor; this means you can single‑handedly alter the outcome of the entire war!】

【The frenzied Emperor Jiang, without hesitation, ordered the 800,000‑strong Wu‑Demon allied forces to launch a full‑scale suicidal charge against Mount Shouyang!】

【In the manner of the gourd babies rescuing their grandfather, you nearly knocked over the seven Star Lords as well; although it ultimately proved that the avatars could not sustain such high‑intensity combat, being able to successively overturn Houyi and Xiangliu—those two old foes—and crush the Seven Stars of the Northern Dipper already amply demonstrates your combat prowess.】

【To boost the avatars' combat power, you equipped them with thirty‑six Sea‑Stabilizing Pearls, twelve each; under your fine control, the three avatars could coordinate as if one, greatly enhancing their combat power.】

【In the Demon Race calendar, 374 epochs, 2 meetings, 8 periods, the Egalitarian Heavenly Court and the Supreme Heavenly Court waged war in the Eastern Wasteland!】

【……】

【Next period, the Kirin King reported victory, slaying two Great Witches!】

"Ten thousand victories!"

【"How come the people of Mount Shouyang keep increasing the more we fight?"】

……

"Your Majesty, ten thousand victories!"

【Thus, a great defeat inevitably began to emerge……】

【Emperor Jiang's heart was torn, but he knew he had to make a choice……】

【Could it…… truly be because of that ridiculous popular sentiment……】

【In the Demon Race calendar, 374 epochs, 2 meetings, 9 periods, the Eastern Sea True Dragon King, with the aid of several Demon Race Great Luo cultivators, finally slew the Great Witch he had long been entangled with!】

【Another period, nearly ten cultivators from humans and demons jointly slew a Great Witch……】

【"No matter how you put it, it's 800,000 versus 600,000—the advantage is mine!"】

【As your transcendent combat power was unleashed, the previously stalemated battlefield gradually came alive; victories kept piling up on the front lines, little by little building into an unstoppable torrent!】

【Thus, the Great Witches who had been desperately fighting on the battlefield let out a breath of relief, quickly covering each other as they withdrew, glancing back with lingering fear at the seven or eight Great Luo they had been facing……】

【In that period, you used your avatars to control the Sea‑Stabilizing Pearls, successively defeating and capturing several veteran Great Witches including Houyi, Xiangliu, and Kuafu; frightened, Emperor Jiang hastily dispatched ten Great Witches to focus on you, and although your combat power far exceeds that of an ordinary Great Luo, being targeted by ten of them left you overmatched, and you could no longer freely slay Great Witches singly.】

【Your cultivation and battle experience are lacking in nothing; speaking frankly, as the Golden Heavenly Emperor whose might awed the world in your previous life, your combat power even surpassed that of veteran Great Witches like Houyi!】

【Soon after, Xiangliu came to rescue, and you promptly replicated the classic move, knocking him down as well in no time!】

【Ultimately, unwilling to exhaust the Great Witches, the reluctant Emperor Jiang chose to retreat.】

【Then, unexpectedly, another seven Northern Dipper Star Lords came to the rescue……】

【Faced with Emperor Jiang's attempt to overwhelm with force, you naturally did not sit and wait for death; considering that Mount Shouyang's Golden Immortals were numerous but unrefined, you could only barely hold the line, so to break the stalemate you thought of yourself……】

【Another period, the entire clan of the True Phoenix King reported victory, slaying seven Great Witches!】

【However, you still have three avatars!】

【But the more this happened, the happier you became, for those ten Great Witches assigned specifically to you, plus the few you had captured, meant you could almost single‑handedly restrain half of the Wu faction's Great Luo powerhouses!】

【Thus, the enemy's effective forces being tied down by you instantly eased the pressure on our other Great Luo on the battlefield, shifting from three or four attackers per defender to four or five, allowing the Egalitarian Heavenly Court's numerical advantage to take effect.】

"Come on! Today we'll first let those seven Star Lords go, take Houyi and Xiangliu with us, and head back to Mount Shouyang!"

【After countless epochs of refinement, the three avatars formed by the Supreme Purity clone technique have already reached peak Great Luo Golden Immortal status; although the crafting materials are of low grade and the avatars are inherently inferior to a true body of equal cultivation, their strength is lacking, yet they are ultimately three peak Great Luo.】

【After all, the wilderness is a transcendent realm; only ultimate high‑level combat power decides the outcome of war, and on a battlefield where even sages and half‑sages are banned and the highest rank is Great Luo Golden Immortal, you, whose combat power far exceeds that of an ordinary Great Luo Golden Immortal, automatically become the core of our side……】

【Emperor Jiang roared: "Aren't you most afraid of karmic retribution? Come! If you have the ability, then annihilate these 800,000 of mine; otherwise, I will lay waste to the entire Eastern Wasteland!"】

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(End of chapter)