Finding a weak point in the defenses under the enemy army's layers upon layers of encirclement was no simple matter. From too far away, they could not see the situation clearly; from too close, they were highly likely to expose themselves and risk their lives.
Yan Hong sought Lu Ye's opinion and was about to send several Ghost Cultivators to scout the situation when someone suddenly hurried over.
"Brother Yan, there is another remnant force of our Battle Alliance nearby!"
"How did you learn of this?" Yan Hong hurriedly asked.
The man replied, "A friend of mine is among them. He contacted me just now."
Yan Hong immediately understood. "Have them come and join us." In such circumstances, the more people they had, the better their chances of breaking through the formation.
Having received his orders, the man hurriedly sent a message.
Less than an hour later, a remnant force indeed arrived. This group numbered fewer than two hundred, and many were wounded, their morale low.
It was clear they had only recently gone through a fierce battle, and quite a few people must have died.
When the two groups met, the leading cultivator clearly knew Yan Hong. After he explained what had happened, everyone learned of their previous experience.
This man had originally intended to do the same as Yan Hong: gather scattered cultivators along the way and seek out a weak point in the defenses to fight their way back to Azure Water War Star. Yet they had failed, because the supposedly weak point they had scouted was actually a trap deliberately left open by the enemy.
They had merely been waiting for them to walk straight into the jar, so they could surround and crush them from all sides.
After one battle, they had suffered heavy casualties