After the Celestial Race vanguard suffered a crushing setback, Commander-in-Chief Bas Youguang had no choice but to order a retreat. Because the Great An Kingdom army was holding fast to its positions, it did not seize the chance to pursue.
Bas Youguang was an old Saint of the Celestial Race, in the late Celestial Realm. His hair and beard were completely white, his face was wrinkled, and his eyes glimmered with a faint green light. He came from the Bas Family, one of the thirteen great clans.
More than two thousand years ago, Bas Youguang had led a Celestial Race army to wipe out a Human Race cultivation sacred land in the Southern Wastelands.
After the Celestial Race vanguard had retreated dozens of miles to safety, Bas Youguang said to the eleven Saints beside him, "The Human Race's Soulshock Flying Swords and Thunderclap Flying Swords are something else. Once we eliminate the Great An Kingdom, we must destroy the methods for forging them and forbid these arts."
"Brother Bas is right," Brund immediately agreed. "Those two kinds of flying swords allow low-level Human Race cultivators to fight above their level, and their materials are remarkably cheap."
Most of these twelve Celestial Race Saints had also presided over the previous assault on the Great An Kingdom.
The other ten Celestial Race Saints all voiced their agreement. They thoroughly despised the Soulshock Flying Swords and Thunderclap Flying Swords.
Bas Youguang then gave the order for the servant army to attack and wear down the Great An Kingdom army.
Countless demonic beasts and humanoid races surged toward the Great An Kingdom positions in a tide-like, sky-covering assault. There were enormous Mountain-Pulling Apes, Devouring Sky Sparrows spewing green fire, members of the Winged Race... Their scale was several times greater than that of the