Another Defeat for the Dragon Guard Army
After dozens more exchanges, General Jiao the Demon Drake finally faltered, his body covered in wounds, collapsing to the ground and barely clinging to life.
In truth, Ian Song could have finished General Jiao in just ten moves, but he purposely held back his strength. First, to keep his true power hidden; second, to let his demon king subordinates gain experience fighting a Tribulation-realm expert.
With General Jiao defeated, the remaining ten-thousand-man demon commanders and his hundred personal guards all looked lost, unsure what to do next.
"Surrender and you live. Resist and you die!"
Ian Song swept his gaze over them, his voice cold.
Demons lack discipline and are ruled by strength. Surrendering isn't something they strongly resist—especially when threatened with death. After a brief hesitation, they all submitted.
Still, Ian Song didn't trust them. He branded their seas of consciousness with his Puppet Mastery Divine Art—if they ever betrayed him, a single thought would destroy their souls.
Inside the grand array, everything was handled by Huang Yan. He led the Dragon Guard Army into the city, capturing the twelve ten-thousand-man demon commanders and the hundred Combined-Body personal guards under Jiao Yue, sealing their cultivation and waiting for Ian Song's orders.
Ian Song reached out, grabbed the battered General Jiao, and dragged him to a secluded spot in the city. Without any nonsense, he drove three Puppet Mastery Sigils into Jiao's body.
With his willpower weakened by heavy injuries, General Jiao lasted only ten breaths before being completely enslaved by the Puppet Mastery Divine Art.
With another burst of Radiance of Life, most of his wounds healed instantly.
He quickly scrambled up, knelt respectfully before Ian Song, and said, "General Jiao the Demon Drake pays respects to Master!"
With General Jiao on his side, it took just one day to reorganize the entire Dragon Guard Army.
Adding in those hundreds of Combined-Body experts, Ian Song’s army saw its overall strength multiply several times over.
Next, Ian split his forces into ten prongs, and in just ten days, every city in the White Tiger Demon Domain fell.
His army now numbered a staggering ten million.
Apart from the two hundred thousand Dragon Guards, there were only one and a half million form-taking demon cultivators.
With the White Tiger Demon Domain conquered and his ten million-strong army aiming straight for the Black Tortoise Demon Domain, news quickly reached the Red Dragon Demon Kingdom’s royal court, shaking everyone to the core. The Red Dragon Crown Prince was furious.
At the same time, this news also reached the Nether Phoenix Demon Kingdom, where both the Red Dragon King and the Nether Phoenix King learned of it.
When the Nether Phoenix King heard the news, he was stunned, but soon a glimmer of hope appeared in his previously despairing heart. He secretly sent agents to contact the mysterious rebel demon commander.
As for the Red Dragon King, he was furious—he even lashed out at Crown Prince Roland Reddragon for his incompetence. At this critical moment, a problem had broken out in the rear, and that so-called rebel army had smashed through the White Tiger Demon Domain.
"Someone, send word to the Crown Prince. Tell him to resolve those rebel demon troops within ten days. Otherwise, don’t blame me for replacing him!"
If not for needing to personally oversee the siege here, the Red Dragon King would have rushed back to the capital himself.
Half an hour later, Crown Prince Roland Reddragon received a personal message from the Red Dragon King, delivered by a top Tribulation expert.
His face instantly turned ugly, but he forced down his anger and told the messenger, "Go back and tell the King, within ten days, I will personally wipe out those rebel demon troops!"
After dismissing the messenger, Crown Prince Roland Reddragon immediately summoned his last three top demon generals to discuss sending out troops.
After a round of discussion, they decided that General Tiger Tai and General Jinni Koi would each lead half a million Dragon Guards to annihilate the rebels. To guarantee overwhelming strength, the Crown Prince also sent ten Tribulation experts along.
Among them, two were late Tribulation, and eight were mid Tribulation.
The million-strong Dragon Guard Army moved quickly, charging straight toward the border between the Black Tortoise and White Tiger Demon Domains—because Ian’s rebel army was heading for the Black Tortoise Domain.
That evening.
Ian Song camped his army on a plain near the Black Tortoise Demon Domain.
He already had word that a million Dragon Guards were coming for him.
"More troops delivered right to my door!"
He was thrilled. The Dragon Guards left in reserve only numbered around 15 million—if he could devour this force too, the Red Dragon King’s rear would be thrown into total chaos.
That night, Ian and Huang Yan worked together to lay out a massive formation, waiting for the Dragon Guards to arrive.
Finally, by noon the next day, the million-strong Dragon Guard Army arrived.
Ian sent General Jiao, the Demon Drake, to lead his troops out for battle.
"General Jiao, you traitor! Get up here and die!"
General Tiger Tai roared, pointing at General Jiao and cursing him.
"As you wish!"
General Jiao stepped into the air and stared at Tiger Tai, "Come and die!"
"Traitor, die!"
Tiger Tai charged into the air to fight General Jiao, but after just one exchange, he was shocked—his strength and Jiao’s used to be evenly matched, but now he realized Jiao seemed much stronger.
He had no idea Ian Song had taught General Jiao Immortal-grade flood-dragon arts and divine techniques, and thrown him into the Divine Temple for training days before. Jiao’s strength had more than doubled.
After fifty moves, Tiger Tai was struggling to keep up. Seeing things go south, General Jinni Koi immediately joined the fight, weapon in hand.
But strangely enough, even with Tiger Tai and Jinni Koi teaming up, they still couldn’t overpower General Jiao.
As they fought, both armies clashed on the plain beneath the sky.
Though Ian’s ten-million-strong host was mostly a mixed crowd, he still had one and a half million form-taking cultivators and two hundred thousand Dragon Guards, so for now, he held the clear advantage.
At this point, the ten Tribulation experts couldn’t sit still. They planned to strike together and flip the battle.
"Your opponent is me!"
Ian stepped into midair and blocked all ten Tribulation experts.
Seeing Ian suddenly appear, the ten Tribulation experts couldn’t help but feel a bit ridiculous, as if an ant was challenging ten elephants.
Ian didn’t bother with nonsense. He directly unleashed the Five-Flag Array Set, planting the five formation flags over a hundred li.
In an instant, space within a hundred li twisted, heaven and earth shifted, making all ten Tribulation experts feel like they couldn’t get a grip.
"Not good, this array is ancient and dangerous—break it now!"
One of the late Tribulation experts shouted.
"Too late!"
Ian threw out over a hundred array disks, and in an instant, a super-grade grand array not inferior to an Immortal formation appeared, isolating the ten Tribulation experts.
"Now it’s my turn to take you down one by one!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ian charged in with his sword.
A quarter of an hour later, Ian dragged out ten gravely wounded, exhausted Tribulation experts from the grand array.
Seeing this, the two grand generals who were still struggling couldn’t help but be shocked—their faces were filled with utter disbelief.
General Jiao seized the moment, revealed his flood-dragon true form, and in just a few moves, knocked both grand generals from the sky.
An hour later, the battle was over.
A hundred thousand Dragon Guards lay dead; the remaining nine hundred thousand all surrendered.
After a day of reorganizing, Ian led his massive army and charged into the Black Tortoise Demon Domain.
News of this spread—Crown Prince Roland Reddragon was left dumbfounded, the Red Dragon King was shocked and furious, and the Nether Phoenix King was overjoyed.