Besides Shen Yue, his squad had three other young cultivators ranked around the middle of the fourth page of the Heavenly Talent Ranking.
A lineup like this—one Gold Ranking talent as its mainstay and four ordinary talents—was now standard for an elite mobile squad on the righteous side.
Some young cultivators who had fought in the previous battle at Demon Suppression Pass, such as Dongfang Yinghao, had gone from tagalongs who could only hide behind others to dependable captains who could lead fellow cultivators.
The battlefront stretched so far that, once the large-scale counteroffensive began, the Gold Ranking talents stationed at Demon Suppression Pass were dispersed across it.
As for the ten talents on the ranking's main page, Xiao Huai, who had long been stationed at Demon Suppression Pass, and Chi Tian, the Dao Academy's newly appointed Chief Disciple who had arrived at the front with the Demon Eradication Order, were carrying out special assignments alone.
The arrangement was mainly because the gap between those ten and the talents below them was simply too great. Unless they traveled with one another, anyone else would only drag them down rather than help.
From high above, with the entire Demon Suppression Pass battlefront in view, the frontline cultivators of the Righteous and Demonic Paths looked like two immense waves surging toward each other, crashing together across the land of Azure Waves.
Above those waves, countless threads of karma and wish power converged, forming two vast torrents of fortune locked in an unseen struggle.
That fortune reached down to the waves on the ground and up to the realm beyond the heavens.
Every victory and defeat born on those two battlefields shaped the course those torrents of fortune would take.
This battle was therefore more than a struggle between cultivators of the Righteous