The battle between humans and the Demon Race at Muddy Bay had already lasted a full month.
As the fighting progressed, the younger generation of humans began rising to prominence one after another.
Lu Chen slew the Jade-Eyed Snake Enchantress, winning fame in a single battle.
Meng Tingxue united four forces and slew the Mountain-Moving Ape Chief, sending shock waves through Muddy Bay.
Young experts such as Xue Ping, Tie Shaoxiong, and He Jinnian also showed their mettle amid the demon tide. Those geniuses once known only within their martial halls and great families gradually grew into true experts capable of holding their own through one life-and-death struggle after another.
They slew demons by day and refined pills and cultivated their true arts by night.
Every few days, someone broke through to a new realm.
Each time they took to the battlefield, they were stronger than before.
The names on the Demon-Slaying Ranking kept shifting, and the struggle for first place grew fiercer. The young human warriors were inspired, and their morale climbed steadily.
The water demons, by contrast, fared very differently.
The Jade-Eyed Snake Enchantress was dead.
The Mountain-Moving Ape Chief had lost his head.
One Meridian-Opening Demon General after another fell. The once-boundless, surging demon tide gradually lost its initial ferocity and disregard for death.
Without Demon Generals to oversee them, some demon packs no longer even dared board the ships head-on, instead lurking in the distant river waters.
The human defensive line began advancing inch by inch.
The river stockades, rocky islets, and river bends previously occupied by the Demon Race were also reclaimed one after another.
"Of the Water Tribe's ten great Demon Generals, only the Red-Scaled Alligator General is still alive!"
"Once we kill him, the Water Tribe's demon tide will lose all ability to