The Sea Race's five Sea Nests in the Ding Wei Region had almost emptied themselves out.
Five armies swept through the area, driving every Human Race cultivator active in the wilderness back to the Floating Island.
The White Elephant King had gone even further, personally leading the vanguard without pause. That was why the fleeing cultivators hadn't even had a chance to send word before the Sea Race forces closed in on the Ding Wei Floating Island.
Now the armies surrounded the island, a vast, dark mass that blotted out the sky above it.
Human Race cultivators were accustomed to forming armies through battle formations, and the Sea Race had formations of their own.
The Sea Race had always relied on their individual strength to survive in the Cang Sea's harsh environment. In the face of grave danger, scattering was often better than gathering, leaving little ground for the development of large-scale formations. Sea Race warriors generally formed battle formations in small groups.
Only after the war in the Lost Realm entered a stalemate did this situation gradually begin to change.
The Sea Race's earliest large-scale formations had all been modeled on those of the Human Race. In the eyes of the Human Race's master strategists, they might have seemed crude, but after so many years of fighting in the Lost Realm, the Sea Race's formation system had developed rapidly, gradually forming advantages all its own.
Now, the five Sea Race armies had split into five formations. Their auras coalesced above them, gathering into phantoms: a raging dragon, a vicious jackal, an octopus monster, a Ghost-Faced Fish Eagle. Above the formation closest to the White Elephant King loomed a savage white elephant.
Compared with the Human Race's intricate, adaptable formations, the Sea Race's were wilder and more ferocious.
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