By this point, the Central Region's Demon Suppression Pass was already seething with hidden currents, fraught with danger.
Yet on another frontline battlefield in the southwestern borderlands, the situation was far more stable than in the Central Region.
For one thing, this place's strategic value was now inferior to that of the Central Region, so the Demonic Dao side had dispatched fewer forces here.
For another, the presence of the two old monsters behind the scenes, Luo Qianchou and Nangong Jinghe, made it difficult for Demonic Dao cultivators to gain any obvious advantage on the battlefield by relying on Divine Dao possessions. They could no longer use those concealment methods to infiltrate secretly, either.
Moreover, with the subsequent arrival of Yun Xiwu, Long Yuan, Yang Lingrui, and the other prodigies from the Central Region, the orthodox side now held a considerable paper advantage over the Demonic Dao side in terms of Path Seeking Realm cultivators.
As war was about to erupt, the forces stationed in the Northwest and Northeast to suppress demons were once again reassigned by the Dao Academy and had come to the front lines to establish garrisons.
Figures such as Chen Huaien, a high-level alchemy cultivator from the Yang Clan; He Shenglai, a prodigy of the Tiger Chasing Dynasty; Tao Yuan, Yong Zhuo True Person; Xing Jiuli, True Person Tianxiang; and other capable Spiritual Connection True Persons from several other factions had all completed their assembly behind the southwestern front.
"Fellow Daoist, please stop. The area ahead is restricted. May I ask whether you have a passage warrant?"
In front of a camp at the Southwestern Demon Suppression Pass, a cultivator responsible for guarding the place stepped forward and stopped a person.
This person had a cultivation level in the late Spiritual Connection Realm. His face appeared