Though he had accepted the deputy general's words on the surface, a thread of unease still hung in the depths of his heart, like a fine needle faintly pricking the back of his neck, as though a storm were silently drawing near.
His instincts were warning him:
Blazing Sun Island was far from as simple as it appeared.
If something truly went wrong, only by preparing defenses first could they seize a chance of survival.
Though Black Snake General was not as dazzlingly sharp as Ice Peng, to hold firm as Kunpeng's second-ranking battle general, how could he have earned that reputation for nothing?
The Northern Darkness Deep Sea was a place of fierce winds and raging waves, where the weak had long since been swallowed whole.
The skill in his hands had never been for show.
"Yes!"
The demon soldiers behind him answered in unison, blades already drawn, armor tightly fastened, their eyes like eagles, their breaths drawn like bows, ready to fight to the death at any moment.
They knew well that life and death often turned on an instant.
The sooner they stayed alert, the greater their chance of finding a way out.
"Move out!"
Seeing the entire army in perfect order, Black Snake General swept out an arm and took the lead in tearing through the air, diving straight toward the distant island wreathed in surging demon aura.
Yet their movements
had been fully detected by the Demon Race on Blazing Sun Island
the moment they entered the hundred-li radius.
Over the past few days, Blazing Sun Island's three armies had swept forward like a prairie fire, encountering almost no worthy resistance—
just as Eastern Emperor Taiyi had dealt with the Crocodile King back then, crushing all in his path, clean and decisive.
Two days ago,