Their attack had been thwarted, and they had lost two or three million people. The cultivators from the Earth and Yellow Planes had no choice but to retreat. Just as Tian Ru had said, their commanders gathered together to discuss how to attack Thundercloud Gorge.
These people had some ability, too. They came up with a strategy similar to Ling Tian's: hundreds of thousands of Quasi-Near-Gods formed battle formations and condensed energy shields, then layered them together. Afterward, countless others launched a concentrated attack under the shields' protection.
What happened next was more or less as Ling Tian had predicted. They concentrated their attacks on one area, and with the help of cultivators using strange secret arts, they blasted a huge hole in the protective formation. Then the Earth and Yellow Planes' forces slowly advanced.
Everything matched the strategy Ling Tian had anticipated, except for two things: the number of people and how well they worked together.
That was right. Just as Ling Tian and the others had guessed, the people surrounding Thundercloud Gorge belonged to different factions. They schemed against one another, so there was no way they could work together wholeheartedly. Besides, they knew that the vanguard carrying out this strategy would face great danger and might even be wiped out. How could they bear to send their own people?
Even after they finally reached some sort of agreement, each faction sent ten thousand people, and they managed to gather several million experts for the mission. Still, that was nowhere near the tens of millions Ling Tian had expected.
The deadliest problem was that these people came from many different factions, making it difficult for them to coordinate. Everyone knew this mission was dangerous, and most put staying alive first. As a result, they couldn't bring their full