Although Hui Shuo and Wei Zheng, leading the immortals of Xiankou, were with Wang Yao, they couldn't do anything about the commotion caused by the army's appearance. Wang Yao, of course, still had his pride, so although he deliberately suppressed the marching speed, he didn't go too far, and even Wei Zheng couldn't say anything.
Wang Yao ordered that the wolf tribe's vanguard could only begin to move after the ghost scouts had scouted out that there was no enemy activity within a hundred miles ahead. However, they could only advance 50 miles before having to wait for the scouts to return with news. The distance between the central army and the vanguard had to be maintained at around 50 miles at all times.
Given their limited strength, such caution is understandable.
The army marched and rested intermittently until ten days later when the Lord of the Sea-Filling God sent word that they had landed in the Sea-Filling Divine Realm. Only then did Wang Yao speed up his pace, and by this time, his army had increased to over 200,000.
Heading west from Bird Return Ridge, the first step is through a rugged mountainous area, followed by a vast wasteland. There are no traces of the previous battle at Thousand Sails Harbor, indicating that the seawater of the Ocean of No Return has not washed over this area. However, the army still managed to find some scattered inferior demonic plants along the way.
Since there are immortals in the army, Wang Yao doesn't need to do anything himself. After receiving the information from the underworld ghosts at the front, the immortals will rush over to clean up the mess.
During their march, they also made contact with several Protoss villages along the way.
After talking with the villagers, Wang Yao discovered that almost all of them had fled from the west. Their composition was not complicated. Apart from the original divine soldiers who had been scattered and ended up here, the rest were ordinary people who had fled from the Divine Realm of Reclaiming the Sea.
When the refugees learned that Wang Yao's army was reinforcements invited by the divine realm with the aim of reclaiming the divine domain, they all wanted to follow the army westward. Naturally, Wang Yao and his men could not take these burdens with them, so they could only designate the surviving divine soldiers to be responsible for gathering the divine people on the wasteland.
The army built a base for them in the wasteland, which served as both a place to settle the exiled gods and a logistics transit point for Wang Yao's army. After all, these gods also needed to eat, and having them handle the army's logistics transit solved the problem of feeding these gods.
Of course, this base must be maintained in real time according to the progress of Wang Yao's army; otherwise, the supply line would be too long, which would not be conducive to Wang Yao's army obtaining timely replenishment.
To ensure the stable operation of this temporary base, Wang Yao specially arranged for two immortals to reside there, partly to eliminate newly discovered inferior demons and partly to strengthen the base's defenses.
With this base, Wang Yao's army had no more worries about the rear, and their advance speed greatly increased. They soon arrived at Sweetwater Town, the first town in the reclaimed land divine realm after leaving Bird Return Ridge.
Upon arriving here, the effects of the Battle of Thousand Sails Harbor are finally clearly visible. The entire surface of Sweetwater Town is covered with a layer of silt left behind after the flood receded. However, this silt did not cause much damage to the town; it seemed to have only caused some water to seep into the houses.
Judging from the marks left on the door frames and walls after the water receded, the water that entered Sweetwater Town at that time only reached ankle level, at most making the roads in the town a little muddy and difficult to walk on.
When Wang Yao's army arrived, the ground was already completely dry, and the hardened mud and sand would crack open as soon as you stepped on it.
If they could clear away the silt and gravel from the ground and wipe out the rampant evil spirits in the entire town, Wang Yao believed that living in Sweetwater Town would be fine. However, the army searched the entire town but did not find a single divine being.
Ghost scouts searched a small hill not far from the town that was overgrown with inferior demons and discovered a large number of the remains of the gods, many of which were actually just skeletons that were not very intact.
Wang Yao knew that this must have been the work of the demons. After all, the demons usually used the gods as food. These gods were probably residents of Sweetwater Town. When the demon army suddenly attacked, they fled to the mountains to hide, but they still couldn't escape their fate of death.
They discovered a spring exposed on the surface of the ground in the hills. The accompanying demon soldiers rushed over. The journey had been through mountains and deserts, and the army's water supply was strictly controlled. The demon soldiers were generally suffering from severe water shortages. Upon seeing this rare spring, they could not contain themselves.
"What a strong smell of blood! I love it!" A lion demon who had buried his head in the spring and drunk deeply shook the water droplets off his hair and smacked his lips, muttering to himself. Wang Yao guessed that this spring was probably the origin of Sweetwater Town.
Some of the fleeing gods had mentioned Sweetwater Town to the army. It is estimated that because the town was slaughtered so thoroughly by the demons, the fleeing gods' accounts were not very clear and many extremely terrifying rumors evolved. This is also why the fleeing gods continued to flee eastward into the wasteland.
It seems that the demons' massacre of the gods ended at Sweetwater Town. As for the gods who fled into the wasteland, the demons either lost interest or lacked the ability, and they gave up the pursuit there.
"Cleanse the town and the surrounding area of all the lesser demons, then we'll continue our march." After a brief rest in Sweetwater Town, Wang Yao issued the order to continue the advance. The town was already deathly silent; unless the transit base was relocated, the entire Sweetwater Town would gradually weather away and eventually disappear.
As Wang Yao's army ventured deeper into the heart of the Sea-Reclaiming Divine Realm, the devastation following the Battle of Thousand Sails Port became increasingly apparent.
The silt on the ground was getting thicker and thicker, and it felt as if the Divine Realm of the Sea Reclamation had been buried by silt. Moreover, the burial was getting deeper and deeper as they went west. The silt was also extremely soft, and the vanguard of the Bone Shattering Clan had repeatedly asked the central army for help because they were stuck in the silt and could not move.
To avoid slowing down the march, Wang Yao was forced to adjust the order of his army. He moved the original Shattered Bone Clan vanguard back to the central army and ordered 10,000 Shu Clan members to take their place as vanguard, which ensured that the army's advance speed was restored.
My dear reader, there's more to this chapter! Please click the next page to continue reading—even more exciting content awaits!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
