The two hundred thousand-strong Vanguard Legion had collapsed across the entire line in less than half an hour, leaving Jin Zheng, the Twenty-First Grand Commander of the Army of the Devil Race, furious beyond measure.
Especially with Marshal Bai Luo and the other mid- and high-ranking generals falling one after another, the Vanguard Legion's near-total rout directly smashed the formations of the Left Wing forces sent to rescue and receive them, scattering them into utter disarray.
Fear on the battlefield was contagious.
The chain reaction caused by the remnants of the Vanguard Legion collapsing and fleeing directly brought about the collapse of the Left Wing forces that had gone to receive them.
"Where are the Shadow Demons? Where are the Shadow Demons guarding the void?"
"Are they all dead?" Jin Zheng pointed at the void and roared furiously.
In the Vanguard Legion's disastrous defeat, the Shadow Demons serving as scouts and sentries guarding the void bore the foremost responsibility.
The void rippled, and a World King Realm Shadow Demon tumbled out, his face filled with terror. He was the Shadow Demon commander under Jin Zheng, the Twenty-First Grand Commander of the Army.
"Reporting to the Grand Commander, the fifty Shadow Demons sent to guard the Vanguard Legion may... all be dead!"
"What?"
Jin Zheng's expression froze. "What did you say? Five of those fifty Shadow Demons were World King Realm Shadow Demons. Even Dao Realm experts would find it difficult to kill them. How could they all have perished?"
The Shadow Demon commander remained terrified. Rather than answering Jin Zheng at once, he roared at the personal guards nearby.
"All of you, sweep the surrounding five thousand meters with your divine sense without pause! Do not relax for even an instant!"
Before Jin Zheng's personal guards could react, the Shadow