The outer battlefield of the World Cluster lay in scattered pockets, a small group here, another there.
Powerful cultivators from the Immortal Artifact Sect and the Thunder-Yang Heaven Sword Realm led their forces in pursuit of the Pure-Yang Sword Heir's Dao soldiers. Dazzling bursts of light erupted from time to time as powerful cultivators fell and Great Sun sword cultivators died.
Compared with the Great Sun sword cultivators, the Tu Shan Maidservants fought far more quietly.
These Tu Shan Maidservants had none of the open, honorable bearing a sword cultivator ought to have. They lurked and lurked, occasionally slipping out to stab the two Immortal Orders' Dao soldiers in the back or sabotage supply nodes on a minor world. They were downright sinister. Who had taught them to fight like that?
As a result, although they were much weaker than the Great Sun Longsword Commandery, they had suffered even fewer casualties.
Of course, only somewhat fewer.
Now and then, cultivators of the Immortal Artifact Sect saw through a hidden Tu Shan Maidservant's concealment, found her, and slaughtered her in an instant.
Assassination and counterassassination, the Great Sun sword cultivators' ultimate speed and slaughter—two different kinds of battle, equally brutal, unfolded across this secondary battlefield on the World Cluster's outer edge.
The Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm's disadvantage could not be concealed.
As time passed, casualties among the Great Sun Longsword Commandery and the Tu Shan Maidservants steadily mounted. Even the last batch of promising elites was about to be wiped out.
That did not mean the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm had lost.
Even if every one of them died, the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm would replenish its ranks with a full contingent of Great Sun sword cultivators and Tu Shan Maidservants. Nothing would be lacking.
But for these cultivators themselves, utter