When the Nine Abyss Gate decided to join forces with the Dingnan Army, it had never imagined its losses would be so devastating.
As the Nine Abyss Gate saw it, the Dingnan Army and the Day-Changing Alliance had been locked in a standoff because there was little difference between their strength. Otherwise, the confrontation would never have lasted so long.
Whichever side they chose to support would surely gain an overwhelming advantage.
Yet barely had they entered the fray before they lost an elder of the eighth-level divine altar realm. In that instant, Yu Lan almost lost his composure.
Heavy-water demonic qi surged around Yu Lan. He was about to attack when Gongsun Qi stopped him.
"Deputy Gate Master! Something is wrong! Look at the Dingnan Army!"
They had been fighting Chen Yuan so fiercely that they had failed to notice what was happening around them.
Against the thousand soldiers of the Vanguard Battalion, the Dingnan Army had actually committed relatively few men this time-only a little over five thousand.
Five against one might seem like a lot, but the Vanguard Battalion was the Day-Changing Alliance's elite core. It would take at least ten times their number to suppress them.
The Dingnan Army had sent so few men chiefly because the Nine Abyss Gate's involvement would give them an advantage in top-level combat power.
Who could have imagined that all four of their divine altar realm grandmasters would be held at bay?
Not only had Yu Lan suffered a setback, but Zhao Hongtian, fighting the two juniors Luo Lie and Gu Linchuan alone, had also failed to defeat them.
As for the soldiers, although the Vanguard Battalion had indeed been caught off guard at first, they soon stabilized their formation and began striking back, relying on their outstanding defense and