"Senior Li, how did you suffer such severe injuries?"
Zhou Yan looked both startled and worried. "What kind of Devil Race expert could have wounded you so gravely?"
He knew that nearly all the Devil Race's higher-ranking figures had been used as blood sacrifices by that Devil Race expert from another world.
That was why the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor's injuries came as such a shock to Zhou Yan.
The Imperial Dynasty Ancestor smiled faintly and said, "It was the Devil Race's high priest."
At those words, Zhou Yan looked even more astonished.
"It survived?"
A hint of triumph appeared on the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor's face. "It survived before, but this time, it's dead beyond all doubt. Along with it, I left its million-strong Devil Race army in the Northeast. Not one of them had another chance."
After hearing the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor's account, Zhou Yan finally understood what had happened.
As it turned out, a last surviving force led by the Devil Race's high priest had suddenly burst out of a large Demonic Qi Passage in the Northeast.
They had set their sights on the Northeast, hoping to take shelter there for the time being.
But the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor was no easy prey. Once he determined that he could not hold back the million-strong Devil Race army, he laid a trap and caught the entire army within it. Not a single one escaped.
The price was tens of thousands of dead Shun Army soldiers, along with some civilians who had also been reduced to bait. Demonic qi and devil blood covered that land.
It would likely take decades of natural purification before the land could recover.
Even the Imperial Dynasty Ancestor himself had been gravely wounded by the Devil Race's high priest in its dying moments. His injuries had