The Liang Family and the other twenty-three commandery gentry clans had originally divided their forces into seven routes, cutting across the Demon Race's deployments.
But now, beneath the Demon Race's frenzied counterattack, the defenses along the seventh, sixth, and fifth routes had all been breached and shattered.
Liang Zhaohuang left behind a destructive formation on the reef island they had seized, briefly slowing the momentum of the attacking demon army.
They were not the only ones. On the distant island of the Azure Cloud Pine Mo Family, the Mo Family had likewise left a trap for the Demon Country's advancing demon army.
After the Mo Family cultivators withdrew by ship, the Demon Country army boarded the island, only for the vast groves of Azure Cloud Pines planted there by the Mo Family to rapidly wither and decay.
Terrifying power of death and decay erupted from the Mo Family's island, instantly swallowing the demon army forces that had landed there.
That power of death and decay even burst outward, forming gray clouds of death and decay that spread across and flooded more than half the sea region of the fifth route.
The pursuing Demon Country army entered those gray clouds of death and decay and suffered grievous losses one after another. Some even withered and died outright.
The Liang, Mo, and Zhao Family cultivators each boarded their seagoing ships and swiftly withdrew, taking the opportunity to join up with the commandery gentry clan forces that had retreated from the seventh and sixth routes.
Without the support and protection of the three families' islands, even the combined ships and cultivator forces of ten commandery gentry clans from the three routes could hardly withstand the impact of the ever-growing demon beast hordes behind them.
Thus, without hesitation, the forces of the ten commandery