No sooner had Li Jing issued the order than a soldier rushed into the command tent in a panic and dropped to his knees with a thud.
The moment Li Jing saw the soldier, he froze. This was the man he had sent to investigate the southern harbor.
"How is it? Is the southern harbor still standing?" Li Jing stared at the soldier and asked.
The soldier's eyes were filled with despair, tears glinting within them. "Heavenly King! Southern Heavenly Harbor... has been destroyed!"
Thud!
Li Jing could no longer hold himself up and slumped heavily into the chair behind him. He stared blankly ahead, his eyes equally full of despair.
Yet he still found it difficult to believe. How could three powerful heavenly harbors have been destroyed just like that?
Why had this happened?
Those harbors had incredibly strong defenses. Even if he led a million Heavenly Generals to besiege them, it would have been impossible to destroy them so quickly!
Besides, Uchiha Shin and the others had led only a hundred thousand soldiers. That was even more impossible. Setting aside whether they could destroy the harbors, simply breaking into them would have been a problem.
After all, even a million men would struggle to force their way into a heavenly harbor, much less a hundred thousand.
But the news was irrefutable. Li Jing had no choice but to believe it, no choice but to accept the reality.
"Heavenly King! The demon army is counterattacking us!" Another soldier rushed in and reported.
Li Jing snapped out of it at those words. He was, after all, a formidable general with a strong mental fortitude. He immediately steadied himself, left the command tent, and went onto the heavenly warship.
Now that the harbors had been destroyed, he could not keep dwelling