Zhu Yan did not know that Li Qingjun's words carried a hidden implication. From his perspective, he truly felt that this group simply made no sense at all—they were cheating outright.
There were hundreds of thousands of these demon beasts. The weakest were at the Myriad Manifestations realm, most were Demon Emperor level, and there were even Ancestor Saints among them. Even the Demon Calamity of old had been no more than this. Together, they were enough to bring catastrophe upon all living beings—so how had they been inexplicably controlled so thoroughly by three demons who had only broken through to Ancestor Saint not long ago?
And this was even my home ground... Oh, no, that was wrong. Once the Heavenly Cycle Star Chart had been shattered, there truly was no home-ground advantage left to speak of.
On the contrary, once the Sealing God Tablet was broken, it almost seemed as if this had become the other side's home ground.
Their divinity worked, while his did not. Therefore, they could control the battlefield, while he had lost his grip over it.
That was the fundamental reason.
The God of War, who should have found it easiest to display his power here, and the sturdy Star Realm that had been built with immense painstaking effort and resources—neither could exert the slightest value. All that remained was Zhu Yan, the commander, relying on his personal martial prowess... What fucking use was that? No matter how valiant he was, could he be more valiant than the Heaven-Opening Phoenix Sovereign?
Under the attacks of Meng Qingying and Li Qingjun, who claimed this was their "first cooperation" yet coordinated with flawless tacit understanding, Zhu Yan was left scrambling, battered and wretched. He knew that once those other women freed up their hands, he might not