North of the Heavenly Evolution Mountains!
Ever since the Ancient Devil Race had seized this territory, the entire land had changed beyond recognition.
Fields that had once been fertile could no longer grow a blade of grass. Lush forests had withered and blackened. Thick, acrid devil miasma filled the air, while cold winds carried wisps of black devil mist in every direction. Even the vital energy flowing between heaven and earth had been tainted by devil energy, turning violent and foul.
The Ancient Devil Race was savage and brutal by nature. Wherever they went, living beings suffered.
City after city that had once bustled with life lay in ruins. No pedestrians walked their streets now. Only heaps of dry bones remained, with devil soldiers and their shadows scattered among them. A heavy, deathly silence filled the world.
They fed on the blood essence and souls of humans and fierce beasts, expanding their territory and gnawing southward step by step. Demon-Breaking Pass, south of the Heavenly Evolution Mountains, had become the Human Race's last natural barrier against the Devil Race's advance.
At Demon-Breaking Pass in the Heavenly Evolution Mountains, banners crowded the walls that stretched for hundreds of thousands of li, and armored soldiers and weapons stood thick as a forest!
Before the pass, devilish figures massed in a black tide that stretched beyond sight.
Black devil mist surged like waves across the sky, staining half the heavens the color of ink.
Countless hundreds of millions of devil soldiers stood in formation outside Demon-Breaking Pass. They gripped rusted weapons and bone blades, their eyes bloodred and low growls rumbling from their throats. Their fetid stench could be smelled from dozens of li away.
Behind them, three war chariots hovered in the air, pulled respectively by three devil dragons, a two-headed devil