Qin Shuo was confident. If things continued this way, the Demon Race would eventually be worn down to its doom. But he also knew Prince Shen would never sit back and await his fate. In a sense, Qin Shuo believed Prince Shen was the same kind of person he was.
They would use any means necessary to achieve their goals. Given their respective positions, some overlap in their methods was all but inevitable.
Yet there was one problem he had to acknowledge: Humankind was now entirely on the defensive. After all, the Demon Race could stake everything on one desperate gamble, but Humankind could not.
Humankind still had a bright future, while the Demon Race did not. Although Qin Shuo had never heard the saying "the barefoot have nothing to fear," he understood the principle. That was why, throughout these ten years, he had refused to rise to any of the Demon Race's provocations.
He also knew his opponent had seen through his intentions: he meant to outlast Prince Shen.
Humankind's two greatest problems were also plain for all to see. The first was the Southern Continent.
After the New Year's Eve incident, the humans of the Southern Continent had become estranged from the Heavenly Dynasty. That had been unavoidable. But if Qin Shuo had to make the choice again, he would still do the same thing.
Fortunately, Ji Hu retained his loyalty to the Heavenly Dynasty and to Qin Shuo himself. The cultivators of the Southern Continent, however, would probably no longer obey the Heavenly Dynasty's orders so unconditionally.
The second problem was the Seven Demon-Sealing Passes.
Over these ten years, the Heavenly Demon incursions at the Seven Demon-Sealing Passes had not been particularly intense, but neither had they been mild. Humankind's elite troops at the Second Great Wall