No matter how careful Ye Zhen had been, no matter how dearly he cherished the lives of the soldiers under his command, he had even used the elite Demon Slave Army under his command to hold the most dangerous positions.
After several years of continuous warfare, the number of soldiers in the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army had plummeted from the initial two hundred and thirty thousand to the current one hundred and seventy-five thousand.
However, after the great waves had washed away the sand, every remaining North Sea Heavenly Wave Army soldier had nearly doubled in cultivation and combat power. They were elites among elites.
The Demon Slave Army, originally fifty thousand strong and commanded by the sacrificial guard leader Yi Jue, had suffered more than nineteen thousand casualties after repeated brutal battles, because it had always appeared in the most dangerous places on the battlefield.
However, the number of casualties suffered by the Demon Slave Army had always been a secret within the North Sea Heavenly Wave Army.
The reason was simple. This Demon Slave Army had always been a sharp weapon in Ye Zhen's hand—one that hurt to damage, yet one he absolutely did not feel heartbroken over—and he had used it with great ease.
Thus, Ye Zhen had secretly been replenishing the numbers of the Demon Slave Camp army in small batches.
Most of the Devil Race slaves Ye Zhen had plundered during his several raids on the Golden Moon World had been sold off. A small portion had been settled in North Sea Commandery, Le'an Commandery, and Lone Dragon Island, while an extremely small portion of Devil Race slaves had always been kept within the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space.
Ye Zhen used these Devil Race slaves in the Mirage Dragon Pearl Space to replenish the