Chapter 1613: The Calamity of the Underground World
With Taiyi Academy joining the battle, the entire Underground World descended into chaos. The fighting inevitably caused massive casualties, and those casualties only stoked the fury on every side, driving the scale and intensity of the war ever higher.
This war was more like an escalation of the previous three-year war. The forces committed by both sides, and the intensity of the fighting, had already far surpassed that earlier conflict.
Jiang Yue and his group naturally continued to fan the flames.
Jiang Yue had not rushed to announce Grand Scholar Jiang Ling's death. It was a bombshell, and he had to save it for the very end to make the best use of it.
There was good reason to say this war was far more intense than the last.
In the previous three-year war, both sides had committed a great many troops, but most came from the forces affiliated with them. The war was large in scale, yet many of those involved were not elite forces from the three academies. Most were first-, second-, and third-tier powers dragged into the conflict.
The three academies' own forces had also fought, but their commitment had clearly been limited. The previous war lasted more than three years, yet not a single Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar fell. Not even one Gold Ribbon Grand Scholar died; only a small number of ordinary scholars were lost.
This war was different. Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholars had fallen from the very beginning, at Giant Stone Pass. And that was only what had happened in the open. Jiang Ling and Grand Scholar Shuijing had also fallen.
Besides the Purple Gold Ribbon Grand Scholars, Gold Ribbon Grand Scholars from the three academies had also begun to die in succession. As