The two continued their pursuit for some distance, then successively discovered the corpses of the remaining three Spiritual Connection Perfection demonic cultivators.
Though they had died in different ways, just like the True Person who had died earlier, the three of their Primordial Spirits had vanished without a trace.
"Fellow Daoist, I believe this matter should be reported."
"Fellow Daoist speaks reasonably. The difficulty of breaking through this front must be reassessed."
Having spoken, the two gathered demonic clouds around themselves and retreated deeper into the Demon Soil.
By rights, with the combat strength of two True Persons, it should not have been much of a problem for them to scout farther ahead.
Yet clearly, the deaths of six high-level cultivators here—especially the disappearance of their Primordial Spirits—had filled them with deep apprehension.
This area was not the main battlefield of this great war, yet the elite forces of an entire front had been wiped out together. It was simply too strange.
Where something goes against the grain, there must be a demon at work. The Righteous Dao had certainly arranged some hidden trump card here that they did not know about.
In truth, there had been nothing wrong with the Demonic Path side's troop deployment along this front.
One True Person against one True Person, while the remaining three Spiritual Connection Perfection demonic cultivators, bolstered by the geographical advantage of the Vast Sea Demonic Land, could also fight the Righteous Dao's five Spiritual Connection Perfection cultivators to a draw.
Even if they could not breach this defensive line, such combat strength should certainly have inflicted considerable losses upon the Righteous Dao. At the very least, these six high-level combatants should never have died here.
But the arrival of the variable that was Yang Yuanhong upset the balance of strength