Yet the situation changed faster than anyone had imagined.
Soon, news of the First Army's battle reached the Second Army!
As it turned out!
On the day Liu Xian'er and Zhang Hong's transport Flying Boat was ambushed, the First Army's transport Flying Boats had indeed suffered no attacks! Nor had a Spirit Communion Stage cultivator like Ghost Sword Deity come knocking on the First Army's door.
But!
The trouble was that, while nothing much had happened on the Second Army's side, the Demonic Path had been thrown into an uproar. That very night, a large group of cultivators had apparently raided the Hehuan Cult's main encampment, inflicting considerable losses. Without another word, the Hehuan Twin Demons launched a major offensive. They mobilized their entire army and brought the Heavenly Spirit Church along, launching an all-out assault on the First Army that night. If not for the formidable defensive restrictions around the First Army's position, together with the Super Spirit Cannons' tremendous destructive power and range, the First Army would probably have been wiped out overnight.
The battle lasted several hours, chiefly because the Super Spirit Cannons were so powerful. They inflicted heavy losses on the Heavenly Spirit Church's and Hehuan Cult's Flying Boats, while the Hehuan Twin Demons could not breach the restrictions in such a short time. They had no choice but to withdraw for the moment!
However, the First Army also suffered considerable losses in the battle. More than half the Restriction Towers they had painstakingly built were destroyed, and the four smaller supporting fortresses failed to survive the assault. Almost all the Flying Boats and disciples patrolling outside were lost, and even a Nascent Soul Realm elder was killed!!
The losses were truly substantial!
The Demonic Path's main losses, meanwhile, were the dozen or so Flying Boats