Chapter 836: W
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While Yang Kai was rushing through Mu's Space-Time River, a great battle broke out outside the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction.
After dealing with the Black Ink Clan's army, Yang Kai set out first to investigate the situation at the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction, while the expeditionary forces were a step behind because they needed to reorganize their forces.
But after only a few days, the expeditionary army set out.
With the help of the Void Guard's Space Array, the army quickly arrived at the edge of the Land Without Spirituality.
This was the location of the last Universe Temple.
An accident had occurred on the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction, the Withdrawing Black Ink Army had been swallowed up by the Great Restriction. A large number of Black Ink Clan cultivators had rushed out from the Great Restriction's gap, so the Void Guard had no way to set up a Space Array outside the Great Restriction. If they did, they would only be courting death.
At the edge of the Land Without Spirituality, the army regrouped, and a few days later, the massive army set out towards the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction.
A month later, the army arrived at the periphery of the Great Restriction and a great battle broke out.
This was a war that had been waged by the entire Human Race. Three or four million Human Race soldiers had participated in this war, with more than thirty Ninth Order masters leading them.
Originally, the Human Race had very few Ninth Order masters, and before they launched their attack, there were only ten of them, including Yang Kai.
However, after tha battle in the No-Return Pass, many of the rising stars was able to see the way to break through.
At that time, twenty-three people had attempted to break through, but in the end, three had failed and twenty had succeeded.
As a result, the Human Race's Ninth Order masters had reach thirty people!
On the road, there were several people who had broken through to the Ninth Order. Currently, in the Human Race's Expedition Army, there were more than thirty Ninth Order cultivators.
Thousands of years ago, during the battle in the Spatial Territory, the Human Race's Ninth Order had withered, leaving only Smiles and Wu Qing. After thousands of years of struggling, they had finally recovered some of their strength.
More than thirty Ninth Order, millions of soldiers, and elite battleships shuttling through the battlefield, the strength of the Human Race gathered was unprecedented.
However, the Black Ink Clan was not to be trifled with.
The Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction had been maintained for nearly a million years, and over the years, Black Ink's strength had been constantly increasing, but his strength had already reached a certain limit, so even if he increased it, it would be difficult for him to break through the current shackles.
He used all of his increased strength to nurture the Black Ink Clan.
It could be said that within the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction, the number of Black Ink Clan members had accumulated to a terrifying number. If Mu hadn't used her trump card to force Black Ink into a deep sleep, once the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction was broken, the Black Ink Clan's figure would have been able to step into every corner of this void.
It was Mu who had given the Human Race time to breathe, creating the current situation.
Currently, the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction was still in Wu Kuang's hands, and although the gap in the Great Restriction had become much wider than before, it was still a limit. This limited the speed at which the Black Ink Clan could escape from the Great Restriction, and it was even more difficult for a Royal Lord-level master to pass through. Forcefully passing through it would only result in a great loss of vitality, as the past had proven.
When the Human Race's Expeditionary Army arrived in front of the Great Restriction, there were already hundreds of millions of Black Ink Clan troops gathered outside the Great Restriction. Although there were no Royal Lord-level masters among them, there were definitely no small number of them!
Compared to the massive army of the Black Ink Clan, the Human Race's millions of soldiers seemed extremely small.
When the great war broke out, although the Human Race's army was far inferior to the Black Ink Clan's, with the powerful forces they had accumulated over the years, their close cooperation, and even the power of the various battleships, they were unable to gain the upper hand.
From afar, the Human Race's army was like a small snake, nimbly swimming in the void around a giant python, constantly tearing apart its flesh.
The entire void was filled with the remains of the Black Ink Clan's corpse, the scattered Ink Force condensing into black clouds.
One by one, Ninth Order masters displayed their might and killed the Pseudo-Royal Lords of the Black Ink Clan.
The Eighth Order masters were not to be outdone and joined forces to attack.
From the gap in the Great Restriction, reinforcements from the Black Ink Clan continued to spread out.
However, to the shock of all the Black Ink Clan cultivators, the speed of reinforcements was actually slower than the speed of the Human Race's slaughter, and the number of Black Ink Clan gathered outside the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction continued to decrease.
The morale of the Human Race army soared.
However, Mi Jinglun, who was in charge of the Central Army, showed no signs of joy.
He knew that this was only the beginning of the great battle, and even now, he had yet to see any of the Black Ink Clan's Royal Lord-level masters appear. Through his communication with Wu Kuang, he had learned of Yang Kai's whereabouts, as well as the reason why he had been unable to leave the Great Restriction.
The current him was facing a choice.
With Withdrawing Black Ink Army trapped inside the Great Restriction, although they had received Wu Kuang's help and were temporarily safe, the countless Royal Lords inside the Great Restriction were still searching for the Withdrawing Black Ink Army's whereabouts. Once the Withdrawing Black Ink Army's whereabouts were exposed, the Withdrawing Black Ink Army trapped inside would be doomed!
Wu Kuang's side had the ability to send Withdrawing Black Ink Army out of the Great Restriction. The reason he hadn't done so before was because the Black Ink Clan had gathered outside the Great Restriction. Even if he sent Withdrawing Black Ink Army out, it would be like sending a sheep into a tiger's den. Rather than doing so, it would be better for the Withdrawing Black Ink Army to remain inside the Great Restriction so he could take care of them.
However, now that the Human Race's Expeditionary Army had arrived, the Withdrawing Black Ink Army had a way out. As long as they could coordinate with the Expeditionary Army, it wouldn't be a problem to send them out of the Great Restriction.
But doing so will require facing another problem.
The gap in the Great Restriction had been torn many times, and each time it was torn, it was an irreparable damage to the Great Restriction. If Wu Kuang wanted to send the Withdrawing Black Ink Army out, he would have to tear the gap in the Great Restriction again.
Right now, the gap in the Great Restriction could only allowed those below the Royal Lord-level master to go out. If a Royal Lord-level master tried to force their way through it, their vitality would be greatly damaged, so they did not leave and instead hid inside the Great Restriction.
However, if he were to tear open the gap again, perhaps a Royal Lord-levell master would be able to freely enter and exit the Great Restriction.
Inside the Great Restriction, there were many Royal Lord-level masters. Once they joined the battlefield, the pressure the expedition army would have to endure would not be limited to the current situation. At that time, the intensity of the battle would definitely soar.
This was the decision Mi Jinglun was currently facing.
With the Withdrawing Black Ink Army on the brink of death, the price to save them was perhaps to have the Black Ink Clan's Royal Lords join the battlefield.
However, he already had an answer in his heart. Saving the Withdrawing Black Ink Army was imperative!
Leaving aside the fact that the Withdrawing Black Ink Army was an elite force of the Human Race and had spent two thousand years guarding the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction on their own, the Withdrawing Black Ink Army had many Divine Dragons and Yang Kai's relatives, which was why the Human Race couldn't abandon the Withdrawing Black Ink Army.
If the meritorious soldiers were not saved, wouldn't the Human Race's soldiers be bitterly disappointed?
Of course, this was not the main reason.
From a different perspective, the Black Ink Clan that the Human Race had just dealt with could not directly affect the outcome of the war. No matter how many Pseudo-Royal Lords they killed or how many Black Ink Clan members they killed, it would only weaken the power of the Black Ink Clan and not shake its foundation.
No one knew how many Black Ink Clan were hidden inside the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction, and even Wu Kuang didn't know.
The Royal Lords and Territory Lords of the Great Restriction would have to be face by the Human Race sooner or later.
Taking advantage of the fact that Wu Kuang was still able to control the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction, opening the gap to lure the Royal Lords out and kill them was better than having the Great Restriction completely collapse one day and having countless Royal Lords rush out.
Looking at the current situation, tearing open the Great Restriction's gap and allowing the Royal Lords to pass through was beneficial to the Human Race, allowing them to reduce some of the pressure.
Therefore, logically speaking, the Withdrawing Black Ink Army required saving.
What's more, it wasn't as if the Human Race didn't have any trump cards. What they had just displayed was not their full strength!
Having come to a decision, Mi Jinglun and Wu Kuang discussed for a while before deciding on a solution.
The movements of the Human Race's army quickly changed. Originally, the Human Race's millions of troops had been circling around the Black Ink Clan's army. After all, the Human Race's numbers were inferior to the Black Ink Clan's, so if they wanted to kill more Black Ink Clan cultivators, they had to preserve as much of their strength as possible.
But now, the Human Race's army suddenly formed a rope and rushed towards the gap in the Heavenly Beginning Great Restriction.
The masters were scattered around the periphery, forming the defences of the great army.
The Black Ink Clan had not expected the Human Race to suddenly change their strategy. Moreover, their lineup was not as tight as the Human Race's, so they had been caught off guard. Under the rampage of the Human Race's army, a gap was instantly torn open.
The Human Race's army marched straight into the middle, using the blood and remains of the Black Ink Clan to pave a path to the Great Restriction.
Just as the expedition army was about to reach the gap, the gap suddenly expanded like the mouth of a ferocious beast, spitting out the Withdrawing Black Ink Pavilion!
The timing was just right, Wu Kuang's guidance was indispensable. If it weren't for Wu Kuang's secret guidance, the Withdrawing Black Ink Army wouldn't have been able to break out of the Great Restriction at such an appropriate time.
If the timing was too early, they would be surrounded by the Black Ink Clan's army. If it was too late, the Human Race's army would suffer even greater losses.
The Human Race army, which had condensed into a single force, didn't stop at all. When the Withdrawing Black Ink Army retreated and merged into the Withdrawing Black Ink Platform, the army once again broke out of the Black Ink Clan's encirclement and left.
It wasn't until they reached a suitable distance that they were able to re-establish their formation.
The first confrontation between the Human Race and the Black Ink Clan army ended with the Human Race's victory.
However, everyone knew that this was only the beginning. There was no time to rest on this battlefield. Once it began, it would be a fight to the death!
A powerful aura emerged from the Great Restriction, and through the black gap, one could vaguely see many figures wandering about.
These were the Black Ink Clan's Royal Lords!
All the Human Race masters wore solemn expressions because there were simply too many of them.
During the Human Race's first expedition, the Black Ink Clan had dispatched two or three hundred Royal Lords, twice the number of Ninth Order Human Race masters.
At this moment, although there weren't so many Royal Lords gathered at the gap, there were at least forty or fifty.
And this was just the beginning. There would definitely be more Royal Lords who would receive this news and rush over from the depths of the Great Restriction.
Mi Jinglun had already tried his best to overestimate the strength of the Black Ink Clan, but in the end, he had still underestimated them.
The Royal Lords didn't immediately rush out of the Great Restriction, they weren't sure if they could safely pass through this gap.
After a brief hesitation, a Royal Lord tentatively stepped forward.
Taking a step forward, the Royal Lord appeared outside the Great Restriction. He stood there in a daze, obviously not having expected things to go so smoothly.
TO BE CONTINUED
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