Around Blood Vine Demon City, more than forty thousand demonic beasts were still besieging the city, launching relentless attacks.
At their peak, however, more than sixty thousand demonic beasts had surrounded and attacked the city. Over nearly a month of slaughter and battle, close to twenty thousand demonic beasts had fallen around Blood Vine Demon City.
Within Blood Vine Demon City, the Liu Province cultivators and combat troops led by the Liang Family now numbered more than twenty-six thousand.
Liang Zhaohuang and the others had originally led twenty thousand here, then recruited cultivators and troops from the various clans of Liu Province, adding another ten thousand to their forces.
Yet during nearly a month of slaughter and battle, more than three thousand Liu Province cultivators and combat soldiers had also died or fallen. Their casualty ratio against the Demon Country army was roughly one to ten.
Correspondingly, the formations, restrictions, and various war treasures the Liang Family had arranged around Blood Vine Demon City had suffered enormous consumption and considerable damage during the past month of battle and slaughter. The spirit stones, resources, and other reserves the Liang Family had accumulated over centuries had been rapidly drained over the past month or so.
It was utterly a money-burning war.
And yet, in a war like this, there was scarcely any loot to be gained.
The flesh, tendons, bones, hides, scales, demon cores, and so on from those demonic beasts should have been excellent spoils. If collected, they could have been exchanged for a substantial amount of spirit stones and resources.
But in such a battle, it was already no easy task for the Liu Province forces led by the Liang Family to hold Blood Vine Demon City. Gathering the demonic beast corpses, flesh, demon cores, and the like left behind