Chapter 814: Stand-off at the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass (II) (1/2)

The impartments from the nine seniors would definitely make the younger generation of the Warrior Temple become much more powerful than Qiu Yonghao’s generation. As a result, the nine Eternal Heroes garnered the highest respect from the members of the upper echelon.

“The Demon God of Death Samigina is currently marching through day and night with sixteen demon gods and five hundred thousand demon elites. According to the information provided to us, they will arrive at the Southeastern Fort in around three days’ time. I’ve gathered everyone today to discuss our countermeasures.

Qiu Yonghao’s words made the atmosphere there tense. Even though they had already anticipated that the Demon God Emperor would treat them as a fantastic target as the fort closest to Modu, they still became very nervous when the demon army was actually coming.

After all, the Southeastern Fort guarded by the Warrior Temple had been attacked the most. It was also one of the weaker forts of the six. The demon army had come this time with great aggression, such that just the demon gods amounted to sixteen. That only demonstrated how much pressure the Warrior Temple was under.

“Is the information accurate, temple head Qiu?” The old man who sat at the end of the table asked sternly out of the nine Eternal Heroes.

Qiu Yonghao nodded, “The information is very accurate. The chairman had ordered people to deliver it. At the same time, it matches up with the information we’ve obtained ourselves, so it’s very reliable. Senior Ye, what would be your suggestion?”

The old man at the fourth rank of the ninth step was called Ye Sanmi. He shook his head gently, “We’re only responsible for fighting. You decide the battle strategy and tactics. However, I have to remind you that are troops are a mix of the six temples now. It’s different from before, so the battle strategy and tactics must be adjusted accordingly.”

“Yes,” Qiu Yonghao replied politely. He really was not afraid of Samigina anymore. Currently in the Southeastern Fort, there were several hundreds of thousand people with vocations, almost amounting to half a million. They did not pale in comparison to the demons at all in terms of numbers. Even if the demons’ army was composed of the greatest elites, the Southeastern Fort had been favoured by the union after the last holy war and its defences increased. There were also nine Eternal Heroes present. They could not necessarily win a battle against the demons on open ground, but Qiu Yonghao had great confidence in guarding the Southeastern Fort.

Orders were sent out one after another, making arrangements according to Long Haochen’s strategy for the entire war. If the Southeastern Fort was attacked by the demon army, they would only have a single objective, which was to defend, to keep the demon army busy there and to reduce their losses. Just that was enough.

The same battle strategy was used at the Myriad Beasts Mountain Pass guarded by the Spiritual Temple. The Myriad Beasts Mountain Pass had received quite a large reinforcement, but they had always been one of the most difficult forts to breach out of the six, together with the Tombal Mountain Pass guarded by the Mage Temple. Coupled with the rearrangement of vocations, the Myriad Beasts Mountain Pass also possessed people of all six vocations. Chen Hongyu also had nine Eternal Heroes by his side, so he was filled with confidence. Not only did he want to defend, he was even slightly tempted to launch a counterattack against the demons.

As the troops of the humans and demons were mobilised, the atmosphere over the entire Shengmo Dalu became more and more tense.

However, the first clash would not involve their armies. Instead, it would come from the peak forces amounting to around a thousand lead by the Demon God Emperor

When they had basically crossed half of the demons’ territory and reached the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass using their great strength, the armies lead by the Demon God of Death and the Hell Demon God had not even reached their respective forts.

The Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass was already in view in the distance. The Moon Demon God Agares arrived beside the Demon God Emperor’s carriage and asked sternly, “Your majesty, do we launch an attack immediately, or do we…”

The Demon God Emperor said indifferently, “There’s no hurry. Didn’t Long Haochen purposely draw us over? Let me see him first. Just here will do. Find a level area to set up camp.”

“Yes,” Agares replied and immediately passed on the Demon God Emperor’s order.

Agares might have ranked second amongst the demon gods, but he seemed more like the caretaker of the entire army in that moment. He carried out the Demon God Emperor’s will.

They were twenty-five kilometers away from the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass.

Amongst the chilly wind, fine tents made from tanned leather were quickly erected in the wilderness.

Having great strength was the best. Even when it came to erecting tents, it could be completely very quickly.

If it was an ordinary army, seventh step powerhouses would possess an extremely high status. However, in this group, even powerhouses of the eighth step had to perform menial jobs. There were no seventh step demons in the army at all. Even the lowest was at the eighth step. With around a thousand eighth ste demons, just how terrifying of a force was this? Even if the six temples were combined, they might not have been able to gather so many powerhouses.

The tents had to be shared between a pair of eighth step demons. Only ninth step powerhouses possessed the right to a tent alone, while the tents of the demon gods were dark golden. The largest obviously belonged to the Demon God Emperor.

The tent was like a palace. That was the best description of the Demon God Emperor’s tent.

All these demons really did not stand out in the north buffeted by wind and snow, when night had already descended. However, once the tents were erected and the demons had settled down, the Dragon Resisting Mountain Pass immediately discovered them.

It was impossible for the mountain pass to ignore them. They stood out just too much.