Seeing the devastation behind him, the Old Monster Huoyun wore a look of relief. With his cultivation, his ability to withstand danger was naturally far greater than that of ordinary immortal soldiers. Even so, that struggle had been fraught with peril, and how many would ultimately survive still depended partly on luck.
Fortunately, they had more or less weathered the crisis for now. More than eighty thousand soldiers had survived, but most of the original formations had been crippled.
The immortal armies merging with one another had become inevitable. Aside from recovering their condition, they also needed to coordinate with one another. More importantly, their morale had taken a blow. For such an immortal army to recover its former strength would be a long and arduous task, absolutely impossible to accomplish in just one or two years.
The exact situation at the Demon-Exterminating Devil Pool was still unclear. He reckoned it was far more serious than anticipated. What kind of predicament had Chen Fufeng and Prison Lord Bai Tai forced Lu Xiaotian into for them to be willing to endure such heavy losses just to maintain the teleportation?
Carrying these doubts, the Old Monster Huoyun regrouped with the other immortal armies. As a Daluo Golden Immortal skilled in formations, he and several others were received by Prison Lord Bai Tai. After a brief rest, they were assigned certain tasks.
The disasters inside the teleportation formation were all blamed on the Void-Rift Beast horde and Lu Xiaotian. The excuse was that the grand formation had been struck during teleportation, causing spatial fluctuations and making them the culprits behind the immortal army's heavy losses.
The overwhelming majority of the immortal soldiers believed it. However, some of the higher-ups, as well as formation experts like the Old Monster Huoyun, naturally knew that the