Southeast of Azure Waves, Vast Sea Demonic Land.
The earth lay beneath the shroud of five enormous shadows. When the five great Demon Caves appeared in this realm at once, the demonic qi within the Vast Sea Demonic Land reached its zenith.
Such an environment, where demonic qi ran rampant, gave demonic cultivators a natural advantage. If righteous cultivators entered it, they had to guard against the ceaseless corrosion of that demonic qi.
As the great sun sank in the western sky and demonic clouds blotted out the radiance of the stars and moon, the boundless darkness was filled only with wave after wave of "woo-woo" cries, like ghosts weeping and wolves howling.
A wicked wind blew wildly from the west across the Demon Soil, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws as it swept northward amid the dance of countless demons.
Because of the successive severe injuries suffered by their prodigies, the righteous side had completely abandoned control of the medium-risk and high-risk areas. They deployed troops only within the low-risk region closest to Demon Suppression Pass.
This was, in truth, an extremely passive defensive strategy, because the low-risk region accounted for less than one-fifth of the entire Demon Soil war zone.
Looking back at the several demon-slaying campaigns of the past two hundred years, this was also the first time the righteous side had chosen such a conservative strategic response.
In those previous demon-slaying campaigns, because they held an absolute advantage, their battle lines had always been pushed far forward.
Thirty-four years ago, righteous cultivators had even charged straight to the sites of the five great Demon Cave Descents, blocking their doors and slaughtering them.
But this time, the situation was clearly vastly different from before.
During the vanguard clashes before the war, the Demonic Dao had already