"Dissolution!"
After detonating his physical body, the old cultivator from the Donglai Sect showed no hesitation and immediately used the Dissolution technique to scatter his Primordial Spirit, giving his opponent no opportunity to exploit him.
This Spiritual Connection self-detonation ultimately succeeded in heavily wounding three Demonic Dao Spiritual Connection cultivators and lightly injuring five others. More than twenty unlucky Condensing Origin demonic cultivators were caught in the explosion and died on the spot.
As the commander of this outpost, this old cultivator—who considered himself mediocre and incompetent—used his most prized Dao art here and now to complete an extraordinarily brilliant final performance, drawing a worthy and regret-free full stop to his Dao Path.
The ambush he and the young messenger had laid dealt this group of demonic cultivators surging out of the Wild Forest a head-on blow, effectively slowing the speed of their expansion and advance outward.
Another five days passed. By the time a new batch of demonic cultivators arrived and the demons regrouped to march east and south, Northwest cultivators who had gathered from the west had already formed new resistance forces in various places.
Moreover, with the passage of time, more and more cultivators from the great sects were able to join the battlefield, allowing the Northwest cultivators at the front line to barely stand on equal footing with the Demonic Dao side in terms of high-level combat strength.
But this stalemate between the two sides did not last long.
As mentioned before, the reserve army outside the Demon Emperor's Burial Mound was continuously descending into the Northwest through the Spatial Folding route, while the native Northwest cultivators were constantly being depleted in the unending fighting and would have difficulty receiving reinforcements in the short term.
With one side waning and the other waxing, the Northwest cultivators'