"We've broken into the hinterlands, but we haven't reached the Divine Court yet. However, the commander of the Ghost-God Realm has already broken through to the other side of the Divine Court's Blood Sea. After the great battle, they'll blow open a passage, and the army will pour into the Divine Court!" the Old Imperial Peace King answered calmly, then smiled and said, "Li Guxian was unbelievably clever, but also unbelievably foolish!"
"Then what exactly was it?" I was stunned. She was calling Li Guxian clever and foolish at the same time—wasn't that just leaving me confused first?
"She was clever because she knew the army definitely couldn't assemble at the appointed time and attack the Divine Court from both sides. So she personally led the cream of the crop, turned back to the Blood Sea, and joined forces with the Supreme of the Ghost-God Realm. With the most elite troops, she attacked the Divine Court's central command directly! An elite host of immortals charging forward like that would naturally leave the Divine Court hard-pressed to defend itself. Then, once the army outside began harassing them, the Divine Court would inevitably collapse..."
"Good strategy. But where was the foolishness?" I asked curiously.
"She was foolish because she actually trusted the Demon Venerable and Demon Sovereign of the Demon-God Realm enough to let them command the armies together! Heh heh, these two Immortal Venerables—let alone claiming that I'm wronging them—once Li Guxian was gone, how could they possibly have been strong enough to shoulder such a responsibility? Not only were they suspicious of each other, they each had their own selfish designs. After running into setbacks several times and exhausting the elite troops of the Ancient Immortal Realm, they actually withdrew their armies to preserve their strength! They retreated to the