After the letters of complaint from Shen Yue and Wen Chenghe arrived, time seemed to hit fast-forward.
The eighth year after the Seventh Great Wall fell.
Although the demons had been drawn into urban warfare in Beijing City and bogged down in the Outer City District, seemingly unable to advance another step, wave after wave still poured in from the Seventh Great Wall from time to time. Yet the Allied Army still maintained its full fighting formations and could occasionally launch counterattacks, reclaiming some occupied areas and holding the demons in a stalemate in the Outer City District.
The tenth year after the Seventh Great Wall fell.
The Allied Army began to show signs of exhaustion and could no longer mount powerful counterattacks. The demons' advance became steady, gradually eating away at the Allied Army's territory in the Outer City District.
The twelfth year after the Seventh Great Wall fell.
Cheng Yu revised his original plan and sent Chu Chang into the Outer City District to fight as well. With Chu Chang's formidable reinforcements joining the battle, Bai Man organized a massive counteroffensive, restoring the Allied Army's territory in one stroke to what it had held shortly after the northern wall was breached.
The fifteenth year after the Seventh Great Wall fell.
Reinforcements once again ran critically short, and both the humans and the yao were nearing their limits. With no word from the Heavenly Dao, Cheng Yu began transferring Allied Army troops from the Northern Continent's rear to Beijing City. The precarious Outer City District was stabilized once more, but the previously stable situation across the Northern Continent began to unravel.
The eighteenth year after the Seventh Great Wall fell.
The demons' fixation on Beijing City seemed to wane. The city enjoyed a hard-won peace for the first time