Immortal Spirit

This battle, as always, brought grievous losses and enormous gains.

There was no need to dwell on the losses. Though they had occupied every advantage of timing and terrain, bolstered by the Dao Law World's home-field advantage and the upgraded Grand Ceremony of Luo Tian, the Demon Abyss's all-out assault had still inflicted devastating casualties. Large numbers of Epic and Legendary heroes had fallen, more than half the soldiers had been killed or wounded, and even the Ming Xiao Daoists had ultimately suffered losses of over forty percent.

After all, this had been a war against an outside enemy, with no question of making them submit or accepting their surrender. Those Demon Abyss Lords driven into a dead end had fought desperately at the final moment. Though they were trapped beasts still struggling, they had also chosen to perish together with their foes, causing Xu Yang considerable losses.

But that was how warfare between Tongtian Tower and the Myriad Demon Abyss worked: the greater the losses, the greater the gains.

Though there had not been many captives in this battle, it was precisely because there were no captives that they could wipe out the enemy completely and gain vast amounts of experience. The spoils were also exceptionally abundant.

After the battle, all sixty thousand surviving Ming Xiao Daoists had risen to the "True Person" rank. Though their overall numbers had fallen by forty percent, their strength had increased severalfold, creating an alternative transformation from quantity into quality.

The same was true for the other troop types. Because the mythical building Hundred Battles Training Ground was only second-rank, third-rank troops could use it as well, but its effects were inevitably weakened. Thus, Xu Yang's third-rank troops, such as Yellow Turban Generals and Yellow Turban Spell Masters, had generally not reached their