Early the next morning.
More than twenty thousand Iron Blood Brotherhood warriors had assembled in front of the East Sea outer defensive position. Lu Yang stood at the front of the formation with Turbid Wine, Bai Shi, Zhou Tianming, Ku Ai Bansheng, and the others.
Lu Yang opened the three-dimensional map outside the position and projected it into the air before them. "From here to L8 Zone, within the four-hour route, there are two hundred enormous Twisted Voids. Starting today, we will clear the magical beasts around those Twisted Voids. Male or female, leave none alive. We must complete the scorched-earth plan before Red Moon Night arrives."
"Yes," Turbid Wine, Bai Shi, and the others answered together.
Lu Yang said, "This will also serve as training. Move out, and get the Tier 1 warriors to their peak as quickly as possible."
The Red Spirit Fruit and Purple Spirit Fruit trees within him had borne fruit once more. With careful use, they could completely raise all forty thousand rookies to Tier 2.
Turbid Wine, Bai Shi, and the others understood this as well. They immediately clasped their fists toward Lu Yang, then led their respective teams onto the attack routes decided the night before.
Whenever they encountered magical beasts along the way, the teams immediately spread out into a wide front and slaughtered every creature they found, not even sparing high-level insects.
For a time, outside the Shekou entrance of the East Sea defensive position, thick smoke billowed and towering flames raged. The temperature had risen above freezing in the early spring afternoon, and the melting snow had left the trees drenched, but even that could not stop the fire from spreading.
The Iron Blood Brotherhood's Mage Legion set fire to one mountain after another while advancing across the flatlands in