At the same time, the Qing He Demon Emperor spoke out loudly, his face full of mockery:
"I was merely toying with you. To think you actually believed me!"
With that, he threw back his head and roared with laughter.
Xiahou Qingyuan frowned.
"This Qing He Demon Emperor truly is an old fox. He deliberately gave those ninety thousand Yan soldiers a sliver of hope, then snuffed it out with his own hands."
"After this, those ninety thousand Yan soldiers' momentum will surely suffer a devastating blow."
At the next table, Zhang Moyan nodded in complete agreement.
"The Yan army's momentum will certainly suffer a devastating blow."
And just as they had guessed, when those eighty or ninety thousand Yan soldiers made their fourth formation charge, they barely even made the Demonic Squid formed from the Demonic Army's battle intent tremble. Its power fell far short of their previous charges.
Seeing this, the Goddess of War, Jiang Cuicui, sighed.
"This Yan army... is finished."
Anyone could see that the momentum of these eighty or ninety thousand Yan soldiers had been completely shattered by the Qing He Demon Emperor.
As for rallying them again, never mind that their current commander was merely an ordinary battle general of the Yan Kingdom-even if several of the kingdom's most renowned battle generals came, they would likely still be powerless to turn the heavens back.
"Rumble..."
But just then, as another earth-and-heaven-shaking rumble came from the Battle-Watching Projection, some cultivators in the spectator seats suddenly shouted:
"The gates are opening!"
Hearing that cry, everyone inside the Spring Rain Pavilion looked toward the gates in shock.
The gates that the Heavenly Wolf Kingdom's Demonic Army had failed to breach despite its prolonged assault had actually opened of their own accord.
But after seeing densely packed armored