Realm-Hopping Martial Master

"Cough, cough, no wonder that creature Xuan Ming personally guarded this place."

The Flame Daoist Venerable also appeared beside Jiang Shu at this time, and seeing what had happened, he spoke.

According to him, Xuan Ming was the Saint Heir of the previous generation of the Kunpeng Clan to Jiang Shu, a figure destined to succeed the ancestor of the Kunpeng Clan, with extremely strong power.

At this moment, the Human Clan’s morale was high with Jiang Shu’s return, and the Desolate Sand Sea was surely their first target. Even so, Xuan Ming still took a huge risk to come, which indicates the Demon Race must have their own plans.

The Demon Race did not completely abandon the Desolate Sand Sea, knowing that defending it fiercely might lead to severe losses.

By leaving a shell behind, they could both delay the Human Clan’s clearing and stabilizing of the place, consuming their power, and also keep the core of the array hub hidden elsewhere.

Jiang Shu’s face showed no excessive disappointment; if the key points of the Demon Race’s Great Array could be easily uprooted, then they would not have been worthy of contesting with the Human Clan for so many years.

The ability to destroy the array hub earlier was all because the Demon Race was complacent.

They didn’t expect a Daoist Monarch of the Vientiane Realm who wasn’t even a Daoist Venerable to dare to delve into the Demon Domain.

Now having grown stronger, they certainly wouldn’t let him destroy the array hub of the Great Array again.

So he said in a deep voice to the rapidly arriving True Martial Sect’s Xuanwu Daoist Venerable and Dan Fu Sect’s Heavenly Talisman Daoist Venerable:

"Xuan Ming is heavily injured and has fled; this array hub is a fake, its core has been moved by the Kunpeng Secret Technique."

"I have already sent a communication to Daoist Venerable Hong Yue, to proceed with the original plan, fully advance, and once taking the perilous points of the Desolate Sand Sea, then focus on clearing the remaining Demon Race and stabilizing the space."

Though Jiang Shu rarely appeared in the alliance army, and held no fixed position, his reputation had already surpassed most Daoist Venerables.

"A fine method in selecting Daoist Venerables!"

Xuanwu Daoist Venerable praised, his voice low like thunder.

"The Demon Race’s schemes are myriad, but the overall situation is settled!"

The Heavenly Talisman Daoist Venerable swiftly flicked his fingers, sending several communication talismans flying out.

Without Xuan Ming, the strongest core power, nor resistance from several key Demon Venerables, and with the Human Clan’s top reinforcements arriving successively.

The remaining demon defense line in the Desolate Sand Sea collapsed like an avalanche once Jiang Shu resumed command.

The Human Clan army swept into the depths of the Desolate Sand Sea like a raging tide, toppling key nodes like Blood Evil Rock one by one. The remnant demon groups were either annihilated or captured.

Numerous array masters and artifact refiners thoroughly combed and fortified this land once pregnant with countless dangers, preventing the Demon Race from exploiting the complex terrain for sneak attacks again.

Afterward, rather than launching aggressive large-scale cross-border offensives, a wiser strategy was adopted.

Extending the battle lines too far with a purple extreme Daoist Venerable could be unwise; the current priority was stabilizing newly gained territories, digesting the gains, and firmly controlling the Demon Domain’s coastal regions as a springboard to establish a more stable frontline.

Split Stone City as a core fortress remained important, but the most crucial city in Human hands was still Panhai City, standing in the midst of the Chaotic Demon Sea, serving as the strongest bastion close to the Demon Domain’s doorstep, monitoring the Endless Demon Sea as the first outpost.

Panhai City was situated atop a massive cliff, with a spatial rift above carved by a Daoist Master of the Demon Lord Realm, and below lay the billowing, year-round foggy Chaotic Demon Sea.

This place was originally an extremely important coastal hub for the Demon Race, far larger and sturdier than any city in the Desolate Sand Sea.

The architectural style was rugged and mysterious, primarily consisting of giant black stone houses, totem poles etched with demon patterns, and palaces mimicking the deep-sea giant beast’s skeletal structures. The air retained a strong salty sea breeze and the unique, sulfurous, turbid air of the Demon Race.

When Jiang Shu first visited here, he had only recently achieved the position of Daoist Monarch, but in nearly two years, he had already become a Daoist Venerable, spanning hundreds, even thousands of years of cultivation.

Previously, Panhai City was nearly reduced to ruins by the aftermath of battle but was rebuilt by array masters.

One great array after another arose in succession.

The captured demons were all restrained in their cultivation; once rulers of islands in the Endless Sea Domain, now these transformed realm demons became nodes for extracting energy from the great array.

Ordinary demons had even less chance of survival.

They were skinned and their tendons extracted by alchemists and artifact refiners, refined into elixirs and treasures.

A strong medicinal aroma permeated the city.

As for those who hadn’t set foot on the battlefield and possessed part Human Clan blood like the half-demons.

They were gathered in one location, and each joining the Human Race Alliance Army had to undergo the Heart Inquiry Formation test.

This practice was extremely systematic and quick.

Jiang Shu merely surveyed them briefly before turning into a streak of light, flying into the City Lord Mansion.

The sea breeze, carrying a faint scent of saltiness and lingering smoke from the distant battlefields, penetrated the crevices of the rugged stone walls, swirling in this sparse and somber hall.

The hall was almost empty, save for a large table in the center piled with talisman array maps and frontline military intelligence jade scrolls, storing various data of the current Human Race Alliance Army.

"Calm on the surface, but turbulent underneath."

Jiang Shu whispered lightly to himself.

At this time, Panhai City had not yet been fully stabilized.

No Daoist Venerable had arrived to oversee, hence he temporarily took over.

Precisely because of taking over, every action within here must be cautious.

At his realm, he naturally understood that as the war had progressed to this point, unless a Daoist Master or Demon Lord Realm expert intervened.