Chapter 697: Aura Shift

Kill!

At this moment, the entire Soul Martial Continent echoed with the shouts of battle.

With the Black Demon having transferred all the undead forces from the Western Continent to the Eastern Continent to engage the Huaxia Empire, the remaining races on the Western Continent were given enough time to regroup.

Meanwhile, Ye Xin secretly sent soul cannons and resources to the Western Continent, allowing them to launch attacks from behind the undead army.

The Western Continent had already held a swearing-in ceremony, where every member of the various races made a heart demon oath to join the Huaxia Empire. Officials from the Ministry of Engineering were present, registering their citizenship.

Even in these dire times, Ye Xin insisted that this procedure could not be skipped.

After completing the process of officially joining the Huaxia Empire, the newly integrated races of the Western Continent began advancing northward, through the now-deadlands of the Chaotic Wasteland, launching attacks from the rear of the undead army and coordinating with the Huaxia Empire’s frontal assault.

All of this went unnoticed by the Black Demon in the outer void. After all, his ability to sense the situation on the Soul Martial Continent was vague at best, relying solely on his undead army.

Now that all the undead forces from the Western Continent had been transferred to the Eastern Continent to attack the Huaxia Empire, how could he track the Huaxia Empire’s movements without any undead soldiers left on the Western Continent?

It wasn’t until the Western Continent’s races, with the assistance of Huaxia Empire’s floating warships and soul cannons, launched a revenge-driven counterattack against the undead army, bolstered by the Huaxia Realm Formation, that the Black Demon finally noticed.

With the support of the Huaxia Empire, the combat strength of the Western Continent’s races soared. Alongside the Imperial Army and the Beast Army, their battle prowess transformed. What had once been a one-sided slaughter was now a fully reversed situation.

Moreover, with the boost from the Huaxia Realm Formation, their combat effectiveness skyrocketed, making the battle exhilarating.

From the outer void, the Black Demon was taken aback by the current state of the Soul Martial Continent. He never expected the peaceful races of the Western Continent to have the audacity to join forces with the Huaxia Empire and fight back against him.

He had initially assumed that these peaceful races would cower in some corner, trying to survive after his undead army had moved on. But now they were bold enough to turn around and strike at him.

What surprised him even more was the sudden surge in the combat strength of these peaceful races, and the fact that the Huaxia Empire had lent them soul cannons, a devastating weapon.

Of course, the Black Demon didn’t realize that these races had already become part of the Huaxia Empire.

“It seems that even without Lin Qian, there’s still someone else in charge of the Huaxia Empire—someone both clever and resourceful,” the Black Demon muttered to himself, stroking his chin thoughtfully.

Ye Xin’s tactics impressed him. He had used similar methods to deal with other forces in the past.

Other factions would typically gather all their forces near the undead army’s stronghold, waiting for the undead to awaken. Once the undead army rose, these forces would launch an all-out assault in a desperate bid for survival, only to be completely wiped out.

The dense death energy surrounding the undead during their slumber only strengthened them further. In head-to-head combat, the undead army was practically invincible. Their first battle would shatter the enemy’s confidence, leading to the complete annihilation of their forces, with the planet left in ruin and the death energy fueling the Black Demon’s own power.

However, the Huaxia Empire was different. Not only was their combat strength terrifyingly formidable, but both the Imperial Army and the Beast Army fought with unyielding tenacity. Moreover, their strategy of defending rather than attacking was brilliantly executed.

The Black Demon was forced to take the offensive, while Ye Xin kept the Huaxia Empire on the defensive. By defending rather than attacking, the undead were compelled to leave the dense zones of death energy that amplified their power. Without that energy boost, the undead army was significantly weaker.

Additionally, the Black Demon noticed that the Huaxia Empire’s soldiers gained immense power from the concealed formations they fought within.

Although the undead could rise again through the infusion of death energy, only a portion of them could do so. Many were too damaged to be restored, rendering their bodies useless.

The Huaxia Empire used this defensive strategy to minimize their own casualties while steadily wearing down the enemy’s forces.

With their powerful formations, soul cannons, and the cooperation between strong and light archers, the Huaxia Empire could wipe out the enemy from a distance with zero losses.

The impenetrable defense of the shield units allowed the strong and light archers to focus entirely on offense without fear of being overrun.

Had Lin Qian been there, he would have marveled at how Ye Xin, without any formal training, had intuitively employed a classic defensive strategy from his past life’s games—the Turtle Strategy!

In Lin Qian’s previous life, the Turtle Strategy involved developing defensive technologies and focusing on shields, strong archers, and light archers. The key was defense, defense, and more defense. When the enemy attacked, their forces would be worn down by strong defenses until their numbers were depleted. At that point, even archers could easily capture the enemy’s stronghold.

The Turtle Strategy was one of the most frustrating strategies in Lin Qian’s previous life’s games. Of course, it wasn’t unbeatable—if the enemy’s forces were far superior, the outcome could still be uncertain.

And now, the undead army’s increasingly overwhelming power was beginning to show. The forces that Lin Qian had left behind on the Soul Martial Continent were beginning to feel the strain as the war dragged on.

If not for the fact that the entire Soul Martial Continent had united under the Huaxia Empire, they might not have been able to withstand the current onslaught.

In the Imperial Palace, Ye Xin reviewed the battle reports from across the continent. Her hands clenched tightly as she prayed silently, “Xiao Qian, where are you? Please come back soon.”

It had been five long years since Lin Qian’s disappearance. The Huaxia Empire had been holding on, but they were reaching their limit.

The undead army’s rampage was not limited to the land; the situation at sea was equally dire.

The recently established Xinghai Province was highly unstable, with more than half of its territory lost once again. The sea clans had flocked to the Huaxia Empire for protection, forming a united front.

In the Central Territory, the regions controlled by the factions that refused to join the Huaxia Empire were gradually falling. Worse still, people began to realize that their fallen comrades were being corrupted by death energy and rising as part of the undead army. The more they died, the stronger the enemy became.

In the small, underground world beneath the fire tree, a figure’s aura suddenly began to change.

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