"The cause of this battle's outcome lay here: we underestimated the Human Race and thought too highly of ourselves!"
"Demon-Suppressing Pass has many troops, but there is also Deep Mountain."
"Have the main force tie down the troops in front of Demon-Suppressing Pass, then send elite troops to attack Deep Mountain instead, exhausting the humans as they scramble to respond. That is the best strategy."
Old White Ape's voice rang out, his face fearless.
Ji Hong still stood beside him, expressionless, as though already aware of everything Old White Ape had said, looking all the more unfathomable.
"Although the Convention does not state that attacking Deep Mountain is forbidden, that is the Human Race's red line."
"When we attack their cities, the humans defend them."
"But every attack on Deep Mountain provokes a frenzied counterattack from the humans. A human at the ninth awakening even once left seclusion over it."
"By now, leaving that mountain alone has become a consensus."
Eight-Tailed Fox frowned slightly.
The Demon Domain knew where the mountain was, and knew it was a weakness of the Human Race.
But recalling the humans' hysterical attitude during the previous forced assaults... there were also the countless ambushes the humans had laid using that mountain.
By now, no one even knew how many arrays the humans had inscribed on it.
"This mountain is the only weak point before Demon-Suppressing Pass."
"On the previous occasions, our Demon Domain launched large-scale attacks. The humans knew that nothing could be allowed to happen to the mountain, which was why they were willing to fight to the death."
"But if the two sides are evenly matched, and the attack before the mountain is only meant to tie them down, it will not set off the humans' tightly strung nerves."
"For our Demon Clan,