Chapter 1601: Nightmare Valley

More importantly, Xu Yang's core team, comprising the Four Demon Saints, representatives of the Eighteen Guardian Saviors, and Xu Yang himself, who stood like a deity above them all, formed a formidable lineup. With such a force, they remained completely fearless, even when facing the opposing elite team of over 100,000 cultivators.

After both sides had arrayed their forces, Xu Yang quickly obtained intelligence on the leadership of the opposing three-million-strong Allied Legion. The true command of this vast army lay with the Allied Legion's leadership group, composed of over thirty top-tier warrior-cultivators.

At that time, within the Allied Legion's command camp, thirty powerful senior generals each commanded 100,000 soldiers. Under the unified direction of the Grand Commander, the Emperor of the Brocade Empire, they divided into ten routes and advanced along the entire front towards the enemy positions in Nightmare Valley.

Meanwhile, Xu Yang, alongside Queen Fire Spirit, served as the absolute leaders of the Barbarian Empire and the invading forces. Queen Fire Spirit was more of a symbolic figure; the true power, however, rested in Xu Yang's hands. After all, his strength and intellect far surpassed those of Queen Fire Spirit.

"Hah! Boss, the enemy has launched a full-scale attack. We should also show our formidable power to kick off this battle!"

Xu Yang chuckled and shook his head, "No hurry, it's not time for our brothers to personally join the fray yet. Since their arrogance is so high, let's first give them a welcoming gift to make these guys understand that sheer numbers alone won't solve anything."

As Xu Yang finished speaking, the core powerhouses around him immediately understood their leader's intentions.

"Hahahaha, Master, let me guess. You plan to use formations to give these surging enemy soldiers a good lesson, don't you?"

The White Lotus Demon Saint, who seemed to know Xu Yang inside out, immediately guessed his next move. Her insight stemmed from her profound admiration and understanding of her master.

Xu Yang chuckled and nodded, "Indeed, you're becoming more and more like your Master, my girl. Facing such a large-scale invasion, although the enemy is fierce and numerous, their advantages cannot be easily exploited in Nightmare Valley. As long as we use formations to trap their advance and then use fire-attribute power to inflict widespread damage on these invaders, we can easily extinguish their arrogant momentum."

As expected, under Xu Yang's strategic planning, the core forces of the demon beast army were dispatched. The Four Demon Saints, along with Long Kun, Xiao Hua, and Ling Yao, led their respective contingents of 10,000 Barbarian warriors, and in a very short time, set up thousands of formation totems. Then, guided solely by Xu Yang's spiritual power, these thousands of protective magical formations were instantly activated.

The vanguard of the opposing army, numbering at least 300,000 from their millions-strong force, was quickly and completely trapped by Xu Yang's surging spiritual power, utterly losing all sense of direction.

"Damn it, what's going on? The patterns of these formations around us have completely blocked our path! I can't lead my warriors to break through the encirclement now!"

The leaders and generals of some vanguard units were utterly bewildered. They had never encountered such bizarre formation totems that, once activated, could not be overcome by sheer force or the cultivation techniques of powerful cultivators! Little did they know that a crucial advantage of Xu Yang simultaneously controlling thousands of formations with his spiritual power was his ability to receive real-time battlefield information from all directions directly into his mind, serving as his optimal medium for battlefield awareness.

"Hahahaha, he's truly too powerful! Our boss, by himself, halted the advance of the combined armies of two great empires. It's incredible!"

At the rear of the battlefield, Queen Fire Spirit, Long Kun, and others, using Xu Yang's spiritual projection, firmly grasped all situations on the front lines. They couldn't help but be astonished by Xu Yang's earth-shattering cultivation.

"It's hard to imagine what kind of civilization could produce such an outstanding powerhouse as Lord Xu Yang. I fear I might never encounter another existence as excellent as Lord Xu Yang in my entire life."

Queen Fire Spirit's words were a profound acknowledgment of Xu Yang's unparalleled power.

Through Xu Yang's spiritual intervention, the initial formations trapped the 300,000 vanguard troops of the Imperial Allied Army for a full three days and three nights, leaving the warriors in a state of extreme exhaustion. Afterward, Xu Yang activated the Law of Earth, completely isolating these 300,000 vanguard troops, nearly 10,000 cultivators who had infiltrated, and the main army at the rear, trapping them completely in the middle of the valley.

"I wonder if the flesh and blood of these 300,000 allied soldiers will be enough to fill the bellies of our demon beast warriors?"

Xu Yang revealed a smile—a king's smile that could annihilate the enemy in an instant. After he subsequently issued new orders, hundreds of thousands of already ravenous demon beast warriors surged into the main battlefield like madmen, unleashing a frenzied slaughter and devouring of the 300,000 soldiers completely isolated by the Law of Earth.

For a full two days and two nights, this battle finally came to an end. Hundreds of thousands of demon beasts completely devoured the 300,000 allied soldiers, leaving not even bones behind, serving entirely as rations for the demon beast army. This battle not only cemented Xu Yang's reputation as the leader of the invading demon beast army but also made the native warriors of the Barbarian Empire truly realize the terrifying power of their ally, Xu Yang. Moreover, the combat capabilities of the demon beast warriors under his command were perfectly showcased.

"What did you say?"

At this very moment, dozens of senior generals stood utterly bewildered before the Emperor of the Brocade Empire in the Allied Legion's camp.

In this battle, they lost one-tenth of their fighting strength. While this did not significantly impact the overall strength of the Allied Army, the loss of so many men in less than a week genuinely shocked the top powerhouses of the two empires, who had initially believed they could sweep all before them.

"Your Majesty," one general reported, "the formations set up by the enemy are too powerful, and their ability to seal off directions is something we have never encountered before. This time, we have indeed suffered a great loss! I hope that in subsequent battles, Your Majesty can dispatch more cultivator forces to help our main army improve its overall combat capabilities. Otherwise, the enemy cultivators' power will be amplified without limit, and we will suffer even greater losses!"

The dozens of senior generals' counsel was not without reason. However, this prospect was painful for the Emperor of the Brocade Empire. After all, these 100,000 cultivators represented a significant portion of his empire's cultivator reserves, and he had invested immense effort in cultivating these elite teams. If the armies of the two empires failed to utterly destroy the Barbarian Empire's forces this time, they would likely find it difficult to get a better opportunity in the future.