The dragon's horn, a symbol of war, began to play. It was desolate and full of primordial chaos, as if the soul of an ancient Heavenly Dragon was soaring above the battlefield.
"First conquer the frontier, then attack the Imperial Dynasty, this is the first battle of the extinction of the nation!"
Lu Qian shouted loudly.
Upon hearing this, the one hundred and twenty thousand warriors were all shaken to their cores. Each of them was a master above the Soul Forging Realm, especially with a large number of experts from the Southwest state scattered in their midst.
With just the Divine Military Regiment, including Lu Qian, there were a formidable ten half-step peeks at divinity.
Chu Yuan did not plan to assign an expert like Qingyun to other armies, but had them stay in the Divine Military. Only he could subdue them.
One hundred and twenty thousand troops stormed in. Although they were just a tiny portion of the tens of millions of troops, they were all martial arts experts—invincible, their aura overwhelming. They exuded a strong aura that formed a tangible domain of war.
The War Army Chessboard, a domain of a hundred miles!
Tying the Divine Army together!
Even though Chu Yuan leveled the fort with his divine cannon, after all the Great Secluded Dynasty had been around for five hundred years, the army did not collapse but formed a battle array under Lin Yu's command.
Dawu's momentum is indeed overwhelming, but Lin Yu has no plans to retreat.
He also held over ten million soldiers from four countries, and the gap between the half-step peeks at divinity and the opposing side wasn't significant.
Even without the fort for defense, a head-on battle isn't out of the question. Who will fall in the end is as yet unknown. At the very least, they could consume the opponent's strength, leaving them unable to continue the final annihilation battle.
The very front line was the Great Secluded Divine Archery Camp.
In order to face Dawu's millions of troops, the Great Secluded Dynasty had made ample preparations. They saw the front line of one hundred thousand archers from the Divine Archery Camp, all holding powerful bows made from Dragon Wood, and their arrows possessed the property of piercing armor.
The archers shot their arrows, and behind them were crossbows with an even longer range.
Although the Divine Military Regiment of Dawu was elite and invincible, they were not invulnerable.
In an instant, a dense, endless volley of arrows and bolts shot out, as fierce as a raging storm, blanketing the entire Divine Military.
Lu Qian let out a loud shout, storming forward at full strength, his mana forming a defensive shield.
Qingyun and other half-step divine experts also mustered all their strength to create their defensive shields.
"You go and block the arrows!"
Zilin Thunder Dragon was also roaring loudly.
Many strong, high-ranking beasts appeared in the Beast Army, such as black bears and pangolins, creatures that weren't afraid of ordinary arrows. Some arrows wouldn't matter if they didn't hit vital points. These beasts could retreat immediately.
"They're using beasts to withstand the arrows!" Lin Yu roared. "Shoot, keep shooting for me!"
But by then, Lu Qian and other half-step peaks at divinity had erected a defensive shield, opening a path for the army.
Maintaining such a defensive shield drained mana heavily, but Chu Yuan was fully prepared for this annihilation battle, with countless elixirs to restore mana at his disposal.
"God-killing crossbow, fire!"
Great Secluded had a Divine Archery Camp, but Chu Yuan's Divine Military was equipped with the more powerful and more penetrating God-killing crossbow.
One hundred and twenty thousand troops spread out in a line, simultaneously pulling out the God-killing crossbows. The destructive glow on it made even the Divine Power experts feel heart palpitations.
After the people in front fired the God-killing crossbows, they quickly crouched down for the people behind them to follow.
The range of the God-killing crossbow was much farther than the Divine Archery Camp of Great Secluded.
Moreover, the God-killing crossbow was originally created by the Ancient Dynasties specifically to kill divine experts. Even if a Divine Power expert set up a shield, it would be of no avail.
Several rounds of concentrated volleys fell, causing tens of thousands from the Great Submersion Divine Bow Battalion to fall.
What's at stake in the battlefield is the strength of a nation and courage.
At this time, the Divine Martial Army had already invaded the border, colliding and engaging in close combat with the troops of the four countries of the Great Submersion, mixing and fighting.
Eight million beasts also stormed into the city. Under the command of those monsters whose intellects rival humans, they did not simply charge carelessly but used their huge bodies to carry out circular warfare.
They encircle the whole battlefield, advancing and consuming step by step.
"To make achievements and establish a reputation!"
The leaders of the Death Penalty Battalion were the Two Old Men of Water and Fire.
They too roared; from being high and mighty senior elders to being relegated to the Death Penalty Battalion, they experienced a heavenly fall, but seeing such a war, they too were burning with passion.
They knew that the only chance to escape the Death Penalty Battalion was to make achievements and establish a reputation.
Although the cultivation of the five million-strong Death Penalty Battalion was far from that of the Divine Martial Army, they, one after another, seemed to have gone crazy, charging in, risking their lives, repaying blood with blood, tooth for tooth.
Veterans like Feng Lin, seeing the explosive momentum of the Death Penalty Battalion, were stunned. He had never seen such a fierce army before, and even he felt waves of chilling fear if he were to face them directly.
The Divine Martial Army, the beast army, and the Death Penalty Battalion totaled more than ten million and have penetrated into the city.
However, the battlefield did not become overcrowded, not spreading out.
Chu Yuan, assessing the terrain, had already made plans on the eve of the war. The Divine Machine Cannon seemed to be meant to raze the Xiong Pass, but it also had another task - to level the mountains, open the battlefield, and expand a massive area to accommodate all the soldiers for combat.
"To make achievements and establish a reputation!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"
There were also five to six million people on both wings who, at this moment, were invading Xiong Pass like a flood under the command of their generals.
A fierce battle was about to erupt.
Tens of millions from both sides were engaged in close combat within the border.
Even the four countries of the Great Submersion had not imagined such a scene. Their plan was to use Xiong Pass to hinder the Dawu Army, but who would've thought that the other side would raze Xiong Pass directly, forcing them to go to war with the surging Dawu Army.
They were outnumbered, and crucially, their morale was lower than their opponents'.
One was fighting a battle to obliterate a nation; the other was a defensive battle.
However, that is not to say that the four nations had no power to resist. Although they were at a disadvantage under the onslaught of Dawu's tens of millions of troops, they had made two-handed preparations and were on guard step-by-step in the rear.
The Divine Martial Army that is charging at the front now is facing the Submarine Dragon Guard from the Great Submersion.
There was also the Iron Armor Guard from Dazhi, the Thunder Guard from Great Sheng, and the Soul Slayer Guard from Dalü.
"Warlord Lin Yu of the Great Submersion."
As millions of troops below were fighting, Chu Yuan rode his Purple-Scaled Lightning Dragon into the middle of the battlefield, his indifferent gaze fixated on the Warlord of the Great Submersion.
Lin Yu levitated into the sky, his eyes staring intently at Chu Yuan, saying coldly, "The new ruler of Dawu is indeed formidable. We used to take you as a minor emperor. The proposal for marriage union was my idea, I didn't expect you to refuse it outright, causing us the Great Submersion to lose a prince. Impressive, you've done very well!"
"So, the marriage proposal came from you." Chu Yuan indifferently said: "Then you absolutely deserve to die."
Besides Lin Yu soaring into the sky, the three countries of Dazhi, Dalü, and Great Sheng also levitated one by one.
It was this young man in front of them who initiated a war of national obliteration.
Even though the war below was also fierce, the addition or subtraction of a Semi-Divinity may not make a significant difference. If they could restrain the Emperor of Dawu, they might still have a chance to win the war.
The power of Chu Yuan exploded violently; the dark cloud that had just formed in the sky shattered with a bang, giving way to clear skies and unobstructed sunshine. After his breakthrough into Divinity, his power had influenced the heavens, a spectacle truly terrifying.