During the two months Zhang Tie had been cultivating in seclusion underground, the war in Great Xia's Western Theater had not paused. Instead, it had grown even fiercer. Beacon smoke stretched ten thousand miles, and several provinces had become battlefields. Great Xia and the Devil Race were like two heavyweight boxing champions stepping into the ring. After their initial probing attacks and defenses, both overlords of the arena began unleashing even greater offensive power and destruction. Their battle had turned into an exchange of blows and counterblows. Even Great Xia, which was now purely on the defensive, was far from merely passively taking hits...
Over the past two months, Great Xia's eleven forward bases and aerial battle fortresses had advanced west of the Helan Mountains and north of the Wei River, entering Martial Prefecture, Blessing Province, and Silver Province. They had thoroughly secured the evacuation routes for the military and civilians of those three provinces. Moreover, just one month ago, the eleven forward bases had coordinated with one another and surged forward like a gale, launching a surprise raid of over 5,000 kilometers in a single day. They suddenly struck the front-line battlefield where the Devil Race's offensive in the three provinces was at its height. Supported by more than a hundred thousand Great Xia knights, the eleven forward bases were like eleven colossal aerial bulldozers, dealing the Devil Race's Winged Devil vanguard a crushing blow. It was said that more than three of the Devil Race Winged Devils' Phantom Knights had been slain, while several thousand other Winged Devil knights had died. The eleven forward bases had even recaptured several cities already occupied by the Devil Race vanguard, shattering in one stroke the Devil Race's raging offensive across Martial Prefecture, Blessing Province, and Silver Province since its invasion of