In the skies above the Demon Country, stars appeared in broad daylight. Countless stars fell, and even the firmament showed signs of cracking apart.
The moment Liang Zhaohuang saw this, he knew that the Demon Country's True Spirit Heavenly Palace had finally been unable to hold on beneath the Immortal Dynasty's Human Way Heavenly Court's ceaseless attacks and was beginning to collapse on a vast scale.
The Demon Country's downfall had become inevitable. Naturally, this was also the moment for them to seize the chance and send out their armies.
As for how to deploy their forces, Liang Zhaohuang had already discussed it with the Yang, Liu, and Xiao families, as well as the East Sea King, over the past few months. They had planned to split their troops into three routes and advance against the northern, western, and southern sides of the Azure Roc Mountains, taking as much of the Demon Country's land as they could and plundering as many resources as possible.
With the Demon Country crumbling, striking now meant taking advantage of the chance to seize every possible benefit—land, resources, fortune, even Demon Race members. Naturally, the more, the better.
Yet before Liang Zhaohuang and the others could set out, they received a military order issued by the Immortal Dynasty's central Ministry of War, bearing both the Ministry's great seal and the imperial Human Emperor's seal.
The order commanded them to march out from Liu Province and head directly west, cutting across half of the Demon Country's territory to intercept the Demon Country's fleeing forces retreating from Jiao Province and Ning Province.
According to the military order, the Demon Country's True Spirit Heavenly Court had already suffered grievous damage. If they now marched deep into Demon Country territory, even cutting across the northern half of its lands,