The speed of the Evil Corrupt Water Lion Ghosts' charge, along with the strength Yu Zhong and the Skeleton General unleashed once they sensed the crisis and went all out, exceeded Su Qing's expectations. A murderous glint flashed in her eyes. The two auxiliary ant nests bearing the brunt of the attack would almost certainly be lost.
If so, she might as well use those two auxiliary nests as bait, luring the enemy deeper and deeper. Then she could either devour the Evil Corrupt Water Lion Ghosts at any cost or use them to tie down the enemy while she searched for another opening.
They hadn't yet been driven into a corner, so Su Qing still had room to weigh her options. The enemy had erupted into action with startling speed, while it would take her side some time to gather its forces.
Yu Zhong and the Skeleton General went all out. From the deeper reaches of the void, swarms of Corpse Storks and Ghost Crows came shrieking and swooping in. The Corpse Storks unleashed a tide of corpse-chill that blotted out the sky, while on the other flank, the Ghost Crows breathed out ghostfire. Their forces intermingled, painting the vast battlefield in two utterly different hues.
Across the distant hills, rivers, and lakes lay fallen skeletons and the apparitions of Bone Lion Ghosts slain in battle, carpeting the ground in bones and muck. The ghostfire breathed out by the Ghost Crows had set the Ghost Mulberry Trees, the Yin Vines, and countless other ghostly plants ablaze, and they had burned for years. After all these years of war, most of Bone Lion Yin Mountain had been left in ruins. To the ghost race, large swaths of it had become barren wasteland.
Yet within a radius of hundreds of thousands