Although the enemies were as numerous as ants, the Immortal-ranked cultivators on my side had also joined the battle—for the sake of their own sects and the Ancient City Sea. There were a great many of them: out of the hundreds of thousands of people from the four islands, some seventeen or eighteen thousand had come. Men and women, old and young, everyone was included. Some civilians had even taken out their own fishing boats and sailed behind us to bolster our presence!
Although the winds and rain raged and huge waves rolled, the fishermen were fearless. They had been born and raised here, and with the War of Annihilation imminent, who could simply ignore it? Once the Six Great Sects were allowed through, their homes would be destroyed, and their parents, wives, and children would have nowhere to flee. So now everyone was ready to die, their momentum soaring to the heavens!
I did not want to see the people slaughtered, either, but the cultivators of the Six Great Sects certainly did not share that sentiment. To seize the godhood, they would stop at nothing to incite their sect members to join this great battle. The Ancient City Sea was also one of the famous resource transfer hubs of the Azure Sea, and the resources stored here were unimaginably vast. As long as they killed all the civilians, whatever remained to be plundered would become their chance to reach the peak of life! No one would let that opportunity slip away!
We outnumbered the enemy three to one, but that did not mean we had three times as many cultivators of equal strength. Civilians still made up the majority. Their fishing boats carried weapons designed to deal with sea beasts, which were also somewhat effective against cultivators. But I