Why Must We Enter Jade Gate Pass Alive?

Fang Yun looked closely. The demon barbarians had formed fifteen enormous square formations, one of them cavalry. Their mounts were Flood Dragon Horses and Armored Oxen, ridden by slow-moving but immensely powerful Bear Barbarians and Elephant Barbarians. Once they charged, they would be nothing less than a disaster for the Human Race.

A blood-colored banner floated above the demon barbarian formations.

The instant Fang Yun saw that banner, his heart jolted in shock. Its edges seemed inlaid with gold—it was the renowned Gold-Inlaid Army Banner, one of the emblems of the Personal Guard Armies of the saints of the Demon Realm.

With a Gold-Inlaid Army Banner present, the barbarians' vitality and blood would flow without end, their bodies' healing ability would rise to the utmost limit, and the power of their demon arts would increase by at least fifty percent!

The Gold-Inlaid Army Banner would transmit the demon race's more perfect methods of combat to these demon barbarians, allowing them to instinctively fight and slaughter with techniques tempered through a thousand hammerings and a hundred refinements. These one hundred fifty thousand demon barbarians were comparable to four hundred thousand miscellaneous demon barbarians.

No one had expected the Plague Lord to be willing to expend its strength to arm a motley force into a saintly personal army.

Fang Yun looked carefully and cried out in alarm, "There isn't a single Demon Marquis! They actually intend to use one hundred fifty thousand demon barbarians to exhaust our Literary Qi and force us to leave!"

"Before it finishes accumulating its strength, it simply has no intention of fighting us."

"As expected of the Plague Lord. Even without studying the art of war, it knows how to strike at our weakness! Everyone, we of the School of War have already planned the battle methods