Lord of Ashes
Chapter 2786

Steel Wall Frontline

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The greatest advantage of Saine's cooperation with the Demon Race was that they could complement each other.

The Demon Race possessed the largest population base in Immortal Domain Civilization.

And compared with human cultivators, Demon Race beings were even more fearless of death in war.

Of course, in a certain sense, "fearless of death" was also the mark of cannon fodder.

Throughout the Immortal Domain's history of foreign wars, the Demon Race had always been the unlucky lot that endured the most hardship and suffered the greatest losses, yet ultimately gained far less from the spoils of war than the cultivators of Buddhism and Taoism.

All brawn and a bellyful of fighting spirit, but no other specialties—this was the common impression Demon Race beings gave people.

The Immortal Domain Civilization's dazzling achievements in alchemy, artifact refinement, Formation Studies, and the like had all been tinkered out by human cultivators.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the Demon Race had relied on brute strength and bodies tempered through hardship.

Hundreds of thousands of years later, they still relied on the same things.

Given that, it was no wonder Demon Race beings had always remained in the middle to lower tiers of Immortal Domain Civilization's food chain.

Taking the battlefield before them as an example, cultivators of Buddhism and Taoism both had vast quantities of war machinery and special formations to support them on the battlefield.

But what did the Demon Race have?

Indeed, on the Hou Hei Plane, there was a small quantity of war machinery supplied by cultivators from the Chan and Jie sects.

But looking across the entire Southern Front battlefield, as well as the vast war zones the Demon Race would need to defend next—

This little bit of war machinery was not even enough to fill their

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