Killing intent shrouded the heavens, and the stench of blood assaulted the nose. Hideous corpses had become a marsh, and crimson blood stained the earth red.
Human strength had its limits.
Three hundred thousand Ravenous Wolf Guards, two hundred thousand Spring-Autumn Iron Cavalry, one hundred thousand Violet-Armor Army troops, and a million elite cavalry had fought outside Mayi Imperial City for two days and a night. The hundreds of millions of Great Wei Allied Forces, packed as densely and boundlessly as an ocean, had been torn apart like dark clouds blotting out the sky and sun, reduced to battered remnants.
In two days and a night, the Great Wei Allied Forces had suffered over a hundred million casualties, their blood pooling into marshes. The elite Great Huan cavalry had also suffered grievous losses. Only around two hundred and ten thousand Ravenous Wolf Guards remained, along with just over eighty thousand Spring-Autumn Iron Cavalry and thirty thousand Violet-Armor Army troops. Of the million cavalry, fewer than one in ten survived-not even a hundred thousand. Xun Xiong, commander of the Great Huan Imperial Guards, had fallen, as had Zang Ba and Cao Xing of the Eight Warriors under Lü Fengxian.
Faint clouds of bloody mist could now be seen enveloping the surviving elite Great Huan cavalry. Blood-red light flickered around them, making them look like demons that had crawled out of hell, drenched in blood and wreathed in mist-like killing intent. Yet this savage battle of such intensity had raised the survivors' cultivation and strength by an average of one minor realm, while their combat experience and coordination had improved by several levels.
The million elite cavalry had gained the most, advancing at least three minor realms, with the greatest gains spanning major realms-from the postnatal ninth layer to early-stage Loose Immortal.