Because the Demon Commander Avatar had to accompany the army into battle in order to absorb the Innate Souls of enemy and allied soldiers slain in the great war and strengthen itself, Ye Zhen had to join the campaign as well.
After all, in the eyes of Long Nu, the incredibly formidable Soul Demon King Di Kuohai was merely one of Ye Zhen's avatars. It possessed no independent consciousness and required Ye Zhen to constantly devote a strand of divine sense to control it.
Fortunately, Ye Zhen's true body simply sat cross-legged in meditation under Little Demon's protection, swiftly refining the High-grade Spirit Nurturing Pills Little Cat had obtained from Princess Changle.
Compared to Low-grade Spirit Nurturing Pills, High-grade Spirit Nurturing Pills not only contained purer energy and could be refined at a significantly faster rate, but more importantly, the increase in Soul Power during refinement was several times greater.
Ye Zhen poured all of his remaining ninety percent of divine sense into the Demon Commander Avatar, focusing entirely on handling every danger that might arise during the battle.
Just as the Bull Demon Long Nu had said, battles between Devil Race lords were mostly head-on clashes. Once they believed they possessed crushing strength, they would charge forward without hesitation.
The two lords who had conspired against Long Nu believed that together, they could easily swallow him whole. They had not expected the vast amount of military equipment suddenly deployed among Long Nu's forces to deal them a crushing blow, wiping out roughly three hundred thousand of their troops, including seventy or eighty thousand soldiers from their main battle legions, leaving them utterly dumbfounded.
What bewildered them even more was the astonishing effect of the Soul Arts bolstered by the Soul Demons in Long Nu's legion. Often, the moment a