In the end, it was Feng Wujiang who decided to stay behind and guard the Jade Blood Sacred Land.
It wasn't that they wanted to live and die with the Jade Blood Sacred Land, but if they ran away without even fighting, it would damage the reputation of these old seniors.
Besides, even if the Blood Race really did have the power to attack the Jade Blood Sacred Land, they still had a good chance of fighting their way out.
Just as the Holy Land was preparing for the war, Lu Ye arrived.
He brought the Twin Qi Binding Formation Disk, which increased the sacred land's overall strength by thirty percent. Not to mention, he also had the ability to control the sealed Blood Race Dao Soldiers.
Lu Ye had been busy these past few days and didn't have much interaction with the outside world. However, the old seniors of the Nine States had been secretly watching him. Now that they were in front of him, they naturally sized him up.
"Everyone, let's act according to our previous arrangements," Feng Wujiang instructed.
The old seniors didn't say anything else. They activated their spiritual power and flew out in all directions.
Only Feng Wujiang, Meng Jie, and Yue Ji stayed behind.
"Senior Brother, what do I need to do?" Lu Ye asked.
Feng Wujiang said, "There are eleven islands around the sacred land that form a defensive line. This line of defense cannot be broken, or the sacred land will be lost. Junior Brother, I want you to stay on this island and work with Senior Meng Jie and Senior Yue Ji to protect this island.
Lu Ye nodded. "No problem." After a pause, he asked, "What are our chances of winning?"
Feng Wujiang smiled. "Everything depends on effort. We'll know after we fight."
He patted Lu Ye's shoulder and flew into the sky. He was probably going to do his final patrol.
Lu Ye watched him leave, then turned to Meng Jie and Yue Ji. "I'll have to rely on you two seniors for this battle."
Yue Ji smiled. "Meng Jie and I are only two people. You'll be the main defensive force in this battle. This is also why your Senior Brother arranged for you to stay here. But don't be too nervous. If any powerful Blood Race appears, Meng Jie and I will take care of them."
Although the two old seniors had high cultivation levels, they were too few in number. Moreover, once powerhouses like them fought, they would definitely be targeted and entangled by the powerhouses of the Blood Clan. When that time came, the main defense force would be the Blood Clan's Dao soldiers under Lu Ye.
Over a hundred Divine Sea cultivators who could form a formation at any time. No one could underestimate such a force.
"We have a sixty percent chance of winning." Yue Ji answered Lu Ye's previous question for Feng Wujiang. "But it's war. There are always accidents and changes, so we can't be too sure. We just have to do our best."
Currently, the Holy Land only had a 60% chance of winning. One could only imagine how low the Holy Land's chances of winning had been before Lu Ye's arrival.
It wasn't that the old seniors weren't powerful enough, it was just that there were too few of them.
Although the Jade Blood Holy Land had experienced several decades of development and had an extremely large number of mortals, the number of cultivators they had was still quite small.
Take the small island that Lu Ye needed to guard as an example. There were only ten to twenty thousand human cultivators here.
The situation on the other islands was not much different.
The total number of human cultivators was around a hundred thousand, while the Blood Race army numbered in the millions.
Even if the defending side had the geographical advantage, it would still be difficult to make up for the huge gap in numbers.
This was a war with a great disparity in military strength.
Yue Ji and Meng Jie were both conserving their strength for the upcoming battle. Lu Ye had Dao Shisan watch over the Blood Race Dao soldiers while he patrolled the island's defenses alone.
One had to admit that the logistics provided by the Kingdom of the Nine States were very good. Fierce and huge offensive weapons could be seen on every section of the city's walls. Each weapon was supported by a formation and had a different number of cultivators overseeing it.
Moreover, Lu Ye keenly sensed that there were many formations set up in the city, including the Twin Qi Linking Formation.
He had provided the Holy Land with a large number of Twin Qi Linking Formation discs. With these discs, any formation cultivator with a little bit of skill could easily set up a Twin Qi Linking Formation.
It could be said that the current city was truly armed to the extreme.
Lu Ye felt a bit of pity. If he had enough fire spirit stones, he could provide the Holy Land with another weapon suitable for war.
However, he had already used up all the fire spirit stones he had accumulated. The Blood Refining Realm itself didn't produce any spirit stones, so there weren't many fire spirit stones in the Kingdom of the Nine States.
It was useless to think about this now. The Holy Land had already done its best. Whether they won or lost the next battle, it was all fate.
Lu Ye also began to conserve his energy.
He didn't know when it started, but dark clouds covered the sky and surged over at an extremely fast speed.
"They're here." Yue Ji's soft voice came from beside him.
Lu Ye opened his eyes and looked over. At the end of his vision, dark clouds covered the sky. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled in the clouds. Below the clouds, there was an endless number of figures. They were either flying in the air or riding on spirit weapons.
The Blood Clan didn't have much need for offensive spirit weapons. Not many Blood Clan members would use offensive spirit weapons. Their blood techniques were extremely corrosive to the spirituality of spirit weapons.
However, this didn't mean that the Blood Clan didn't have flying spirit weapons.
The small island that Lu Ye was in charge of guarding was located in the north of the Holy Land. In other words, he was facing the Blood Clan's northern front. It was led by Star Moon Saint.
Back then, when hundreds of thousands of Blood Clan members gathered under the Star Moon Holy Land, he didn't feel much. Now that the army was pressing in, the pressure was indescribable.
The Blood Clan's northern front crossed the Shen Que Sea and advanced. At the same time, Lu Ye couldn't see the armies advancing from the east, south, and west.
There was no cover on the sea. Moreover, it was impossible to cover up such a large-scale march. The Blood Clan didn't need to cover up anything.
If it weren't for the Jade Blood Holy Land's battle record of repelling the Blood Clan several times, many people would have lost their minds.
Compared to the pressure brought by the Blood Clan's army, Lu Ye was more concerned about another matter.
He sensed traces of malice surging from all directions. It was as if a pair of invisible eyes were spying on him, wanting to do something unfavorable to him.
The Soaring Dragon Realm's origin in his body was stirring.
This was a phenomenon that had never happened before.
Lu Ye immediately understood that the invisible malice came from the Will of Heaven and Earth of this world!
The Will of Heaven and Earth in this world was muddled and incomplete. It was not as strong and clear as the Will of the Nine Continents. Previously, Lu Ye could not sense it because the Heaven Secrets of the Nine Continents had concealed it when he was sent here. Moreover, compared to the vast Blood Refining World, a True Lake Stage cultivator like him was not worthy of the Will of Heaven and Earth's attention.
"Fairy Wood's Miracle"
However, the situation now was different. The Blood Clan's army was pressing in and enveloping the entire Blood Refining Realm. This made the world's will of this world much clearer.
To the Blood Clan, the Jade Blood Holy Land was a malignant tumor. The Blood Refining Realm was the Blood Clan's world. The world's will of this world was naturally on the Blood Clan's side.
However, that was all.
Unlike the Nine Provinces' Tian Ji, who could directly interfere with the actions of cultivators, the world's will of the Blood Refining Realm didn't have this ability. It could only instinctively create momentum for the Blood Clan's army and create some psychological pressure on the human race.
Just like the dark clouds that came with the Blood Clan's army.
The reason why the Soaring Dragon Realm's origin was stirring was because the Blood Realm had destroyed the Soaring Dragon Realm.
It was unknown what the relationship between the Blood Realm and the Blood Refining Realm was, but the Blood Clan lived in both realms. The Soaring Dragon Realm's origin naturally had some abnormal reaction to the world's will that seemed to be related to the world's destruction.
The Blood Clan's army was pressing in.
On the eleven small islands, the human race was waiting in formation.
The distance between them was getting closer and closer. From afar, they could hear the earth-shattering battle cries from the Blood Clan's army.
The dark clouds that covered the sky also quickly advanced with the Blood Clan's army until they covered the Jade Blood Holy Land and the surrounding islands.
There was no longer any light in the sky. The whole world fell into darkness. The atmosphere was so oppressive that it made people feel as if there were more than ten quilts on their bodies.
With a roar, lines quickly lit up, piercing through the oppressive darkness and turning into the brightest light in the world.
It was the human cultivators who were responsible for the formation on the city wall that activated the great formation.
In an instant, an extremely complicated formation enveloped the entire city. In the city, all the human cultivators who were standing in it trembled. They had a strange feeling. They could clearly feel that they could inject their own power into the great formation under their feet and let anyone in the city borrow it. At the same time, they could also extract the power injected by others from the great formation under their feet.
The Twin Qi Connected Great Formation was the first to be activated.
Eleven small islands and eleven Twin Qi Connected Great Formations lit up like eleven lanterns in the vast Shen Que Sea.
Buzzing sounds continued. Following closely behind the Twin Qi Connected Great Formation, sections of the defensive formations on the city wall were activated.
Crunching sounds could be heard.
Yue Ji and Meng Jie, who were standing beside Lu Ye, turned to look at Lu Ye at the same time. With one glance, the two elders' eyes twitched.
Yue Ji couldn't believe her eyes. "What are you eating?"
Lu Ye handed over the half-eaten blood crystal to her. "Senior, have some."
Even though Yue Ji was experienced and knowledgeable, she couldn't help but be deeply shocked. "You're … fine eating this?"
"I have a good appetite and digestion." Lu Ye smiled and swallowed the blood crystal. Her spiritual energy surged and continuously injected into the great formation under her feet, making it easier for the others in the great formation to borrow power.
Yue Ji stiffly shifted her gaze away.
She didn't intend to persuade her. Although Lu Ye looked old, she was still a True Lake Stage cultivator. She didn't need to tell her what she could and couldn't eat.
"Monster." The usually taciturn Meng Jie couldn't help but comment.
He had been in the Blood Refinement World for so many years, but he had never seen a human who could eat blood crystals.
Was she still human?
He couldn't understand what kind of monsters had appeared in the Nine Continents. Feng Wujiang might be ridiculously strong, but he was still within the range of a normal person. This junior martial brother of his was obviously abnormal.
Suddenly, there was a violent tremor. Following that, a beam of light shot out from the city wall. That beam of light was as straight as a sword and directly blasted into the vampiric army.
Everywhere it passed, the vampiric army turned into powder.
The war had begun!
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