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Chapter 840: Fierce Battle
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As the Red Armor Guard charged in, a Puppet army also rushed into the savage tribe's formation.
This Puppet army had about two thousand troops, each Puppet reaching the Nascent Soul realm. Especially the few leading ones, their strength was subtly above Nascent Soul realm.
However, Puppets lack spiritual intelligence and still need people to command them using Divine Sense in battle. For such a small army of two thousand, at least ten people were responsible for commanding them.
The ten commanding officers stayed far behind the army, controlling it remotely with Divine Sense.
This was the Puppet army's first participation in a formal war, and not all of them were deployed.
The remaining Puppets were still hidden in some storage artifacts, ready to be used at critical moments.
This Puppet army, apart from having formidable average strength, fought ferociously without fearing death, making their killing power match or even surpass the Red Armor Guard.
Under the powerful assault of these two elite vanguards, the savage tribe's army of millions fell into chaos.
Wang Hong, Ling Yuan, and the Elders were currently stationed on Xuanyuan Immortal Palace's Floating Sky Fortress, observing the battle below.
A battle of this scale no longer required their personal involvement. With only three Void Refining experts, the Human Clan could control the entire situation as long as it didn't deteriorate.
"Fellow Daoist Wang, your elite troops are truly enviable," said Bai Lingzi, admiring the two vanguards. "Did you collect materials for refining these Puppets recently?"
"Indeed. I must thank the two Elders for their great assistance in this matter," replied Wang Hong.
At that moment, the savage tribe's army was in disarray under the vanguards' assault. Countless tribesmen were panicking, colliding with each other in terror.
Seizing this opportunity, the Human Clan's central and left armies advanced, as individual bravery couldn't change such a large-scale battle.
Effective resistance required overall unity and coordination, which the savage tribe repeatedly failed to muster against the Human Clan's assault, quickly breaking their elite defensive formations.
Taking advantage of the chaos, the two Human armies struck with full force.
The central Great Chu Immortal Nation army advanced in battle formations, supported by a barrage from airborne Flying Boats, pulverizing all obstacles.
The left army was led by Xuanyuan Immortal Palace's Floating Sky Fortress, with the rest acting as support, cooperating seamlessly.
The Floating Sky Fortress was like a city floating in the sky, able to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people, protected by a large-scale defensive array formation and equipped with offensive arrays to attack approaching enemies - extremely difficult to breach.
Wang Hong stood on the Fortress, seeing the Human forces advancing relentlessly. If this momentum held, victory seemed imminent.
However, the savage tribe was no unintelligent herd. After successive defenses were breached by the vanguards, they finally organized two Void Refining experts leading a group of Soul Transformation warriors to stall the assault.
Another savage tribe Void Refining expert single-handedly blocked the advance of two Floating Sky Fortresses.
The tribe seized this chance to reorganize their shattered army from the rear into disciplined ranks to replace the frontline forces.
But by now, tens of thousands of tribesmen had been slain, the ocean stained red with their blood, corpses floating everywhere.
The battle had become white-hot, a merciless fight to the death with no tricks.
Though the Human Clan had seized some early advantages in numbers and positioning, the savage tribe had only gathered seven to eight million troops initially, losing tens of thousands in the first clash while morale suffered.
So overall, the Human Clan maintained an edge in the fighting.
By the third day, both sides were completely entangled, unable to disengage without a decisive victory.
On the fourth day, though the Human Clan still had the upper hand, cultivators on both sides were utterly spent, replenishing their stamina with spiritual herbs, wines and pills.
At this point, it became a contest of financial resources between the two sides. Without sufficient spiritual objects for replenishment, the soldiers would quickly lose their combat ability.
It was easy to see the difference in strength between the various forces. Many cultivators scrambled to find spirit wines or pills, but their effects varied after consuming them – some good, some bad.
On the battlefield, every moment of slow recovery meant increased danger.
In contrast, the Great Chu Immortal Nation's cultivators mainly used spirit wines to restore their spiritual power and physical strength, with exceptionally good effects.
Wang Hong had stockpiled a massive amount of spirit wines in his storage, some aged over ten thousand years, providing an extremely potent boost to spiritual power replenishment.
Before the battle, Wang Hong took out some high-tier spirit wines from his storage and distributed a portion to his Soul Transformation cultivators, one bottle each.
With a Soul Transformation cultivator's vast spiritual power, once depleted, ordinary pills or spirit wines could hardly replenish it, often requiring over ten days of meditation for full recovery.
However, these high-tier spirit wines aged for tens of thousands of years could refill a Soul Transformation expert's spent spiritual power with just a single large mouthful.
As for cultivators below the Soul Transformation realm, they used lower-tier or diluted spirit wines, but these were still sufficient for their needs.
The Great Chu Immortal Nation had allocated these logistical supplies before the battle for use during combat.
Meanwhile, the supporting Human Clan armies were in a less favorable situation.
The cultivators inside the Floating Sky Fortresses were fine, well-protected by the large-scale formations and with timely logistical support.
However, there were less than two hundred million people inside the two fortresses, with the majority outside. Many had depleted their personal resources and sustained injuries, losing combat ability. If not rescued, they would soon be trampled into a bloody pulp.
The savage tribe fared no better, as although they came from a higher realm with slightly better resources compared to the Human Clan.
Seeing this situation, Wang Hong immediately ordered the Great Chu Immortal Nation's logistics teams to provide spiritual objects and support to the left army, while rescuing the injured who had lost combat ability from the battlefield.
There would be more fighting ahead, and with the Great Chu Immortal Nation's national strength, reviving these cultivators was not difficult. Most would only need a few days to recover and rejoin the battle.
The Great Chu Immortal Nation had organized countless elite logistics teams. They did not directly participate in combat but shuttled across the battlefield with supplies, providing support to the fighting soldiers.
Upon receiving Wang Hong's order, these elite teams mobilized and infiltrated the left army's battlefield.
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