Qin River Prefecture, Provincial Commandant's Residence.
The once solemn Provincial Commandant's Residence now carried an even graver atmosphere.
Yao Shouyi sat quietly in the seat of honor, clad in heavy armor, his face cold and expressionless.
Seats had also been arranged to either side of him.
On the left sat an elderly Daoist in white robes, the mark of the Heaven Feather Sect faintly visible upon his Daoist robe, carrying an air of otherworldly detachment.
On the right sat an old man dressed like a farmer, clad in coarse cloth, his palms covered in thick calluses. He was an elder of the Earth Sect, sitting cross-legged in silence without a word.
"Sect Master Chen, Elder Huang. With matters having deteriorated to this extent, do the Grandmasters of your two sects have any way to handle this?"
Yao Shouyi asked the two beside him in a deep voice.
"The front lines have already collapsed. The invading Demon Ghosts are all under powerful command. Ordinary soldiers have virtually no ability to fight back against them. If we meet them head-on, we simply cannot hold them off."
Yao Shouyi said helplessly.
The remaining forces of Abundance Prefecture, together with the Earth Sect and Heaven Feather Sect, had been forced by the immense pressure of the Demon Ghosts to lean upon one another.
Had the Grandmasters of the two sects not acted to restrain those True General- and King General-level Demon Ghosts, the entire territory of Abundance Prefecture would have long since fallen completely, and the flames of war would already have burned through Qin River Prefecture.
The white-robed old Daoist let out a long sigh, his brow filled with dark clouds of worry.
"What response could there possibly be!"
"The Demon Ghosts are endless in number. Those True Generals wear steel armor that