"How could there be so many!" At that moment, both Sage Lord Chen Yuan and the Divine Source Saint Lord's expressions changed.
They had anticipated that the Yaksha Race and the Baleful Ghost Race would join the battle.
After all, they knew the Jade Soul Race had promised treasures to the Yaksha Race and the Baleful Ghost Race when attacking the three great Soul-Repelling Cities.
But neither the Yaksha Race nor the Baleful Ghost Race actually lived on the Mortal Dust Continent. By rights, they had no need to rush into this battle. Sending two or three eighth-stage experts and a dozen seventh-stage experts would already have been a considerable force.
Yet before them stood three ten-winged, eighth-stage yakshas and three eighth-stage Baleful Ghost Lords, along with even more seventh-stage experts.
It had truly caught them off guard.
"The Jade Soul Race must have paid a hefty price just to make life difficult for us!" The Divine Source Saint Lord's expression was equally dark.
He and Chen Yuan had been chosen to lead the vanguard for this operation. If it ultimately failed, the Soul Destroyer Earth Immortal would have a legitimate reason to blame them.
"Activate the array. Have all the lower-level cultivators board the Ancient Wilderness Arks and form battle formations!" Sage Lord Chen Yuan was unwilling to accept this outcome. They had prepared so thoroughly, yet achieved so little.
As his words fell, array flags resembling spirit banners suddenly appeared in the distance. No one knew when they had been set up, but now they linked together to form a wall of azure jade spiritual energy. Standing before the array was an eighth-stage Demon Lord of the Water Spirit Race.
Behind him stood more than ten Water Spirit Demon Venerables.
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