Without a doubt, from the moment Ling Dong and the others disappeared from the battlefield, the invasion that had lasted for thirty-seven years in the Southern Overgrown Desolation Star Region had failed. It was a complete failure.
It could be said that the Vermilion Bird Star Region, which had been led by Ling Dong and played an important role in the war, had won.
However, before this, no one would've thought that the initial trigger for the war between the two star regions, which involved millions of soldiers and billions of lives, would be the disappearance of the Constellation Heavenly Monarch of the Wood Puppet Realm, Di Nading.
Even now, the Chi Huang Ancestor and Young Commander Huan Ying in the southern Remnant Desolation Star Region had not expected all of this. The only thing they could do now, or rather, the only thing they could strive to do, was to leave behind enough seeds for the revival of the southern Remnant Desolation Star Region.
However, the army was defeated like a landslide!
This kind of situation was like a mortal facing a tsunami; they were powerless even if they wanted to. Even the genius commander of the Vermilion Bird Star Region, the invincible Huan Ying, couldn't do anything.
The Chi Huang Ancestor had risked his life to take a few vicious blows from the Vermilion Bird Ancestor in order to save the Vermilion Bird Great Emperor, who had been enslaved by Ling Dong.
At the level of the Ancestor Vermilion Bird Mother, her attack was no joke. It immediately caused the Scarlet Desolation Ancestor to suffer heavy injuries. However, the Scarlet Desolation Ancestor relied on his powerful cultivation to forcefully suppress the injuries.
However, when Ling Dong disappeared, the Chi Huang Ancestor let out a sigh of relief. The Vermilion Bird Ancestor's repeated attacks and the Vermilion Bird Ancestor's defeat in the south immediately caused his injuries to erupt.
However, the three-legged Golden Crow Race was extremely powerful. Moreover, at their level of cultivation, if they were pushed too hard, they could destroy a planet with a wave of their hand and annihilate all life on the planet.
This was also the reason why the Vermilion Bird Star Region didn't dare to push the Vermilion Bird Star Region too hard even though they had won many battles in the past thirty-seven years.
At the same time, the Vermilion Bird Ancestor didn't dare to push the Chi Huang Ancestor too hard. She only used this opportunity to quickly reap the lives of the elite soldiers of the Vermilion Bird Star Region.
At the same time, the invincible Vermillion Bird Star Lord and Vermillion Bird Little Four gathered together. The two Vermillion Birds covered the sky and turned the northern sky of the Earth Deer World into a fiery apocalypse.
Seeing this scene, Patriarch Chi Huang and Huan Ying could only endure it. Huan Ying bit his lip so hard that it bled. He tried his best to get a portion of the elites to use the large-scale teleportation formations they had set up over the years and even used several special treasures to quickly retreat.
When the flames of war gradually died down, the northern sky wall of the Earth Deer World had become a sea of blood and mountains of corpses. It was not an exaggeration to say that millions of corpses were lying on the ground.
During the confrontation at the Earth Deer Realm, there were already three hundred and forty thousand soldiers on both sides. Later, the Vermilion Bird Realm gathered most of their soldiers to launch an attack, and the Lu Huang Star Realm to the south sent over another three hundred thousand soldiers as reinforcements, bringing the total number of soldiers to one million and four hundred thousand.
Almost two-thirds of the 800,000 soldiers from the Southern Outpost Desolation remained here. The Suzaku Star System lost almost 200,000 soldiers.
It couldn't be helped. It was too easy for the Vermilion Bird Star Lord and Vermillion Bird Little Four to kill those soldiers. One wave of the sea of flames would cause thousands of casualties.
Moreover, the defeat was like a landslide. The fleeing soldiers were chased down and slaughtered by the Suzaku Star System's soldiers.
In the end, less than 200,000 soldiers managed to retreat to the Southern Outpost Desolation Realm.
Why did they say that they successfully retreated to the Southern Outpost Desolation Realm?
This invasion of the Southern Outpost Desolation Realm couldn't end with the Southern Outpost Desolation Realm's defeat. Otherwise, the Vermilion Bird Star Lord and the Vermilion Bird Matriarch would have lived in vain.
The Vermilion Bird Star System's soldiers chased down the soldiers that couldn't retreat through the large-scale teleportation formations. They swept through more than twenty star realms in the Southern Outpost Desolation Realm. Regardless of whether they were star realms or auxiliary star realms, all of them surrendered.
Want to resist?
Want to be loyal?
Why don't you take a look at the two Vermillion Birds that are chasing after the defeated army before you consider this question?
In less than half a month, under the leadership of Planet Suzaku and Little Four, the Martial Army of the Suzaku System was like a red flood. Not only did they recover their lost territory, but they also expanded the territory of the Suzaku System by more than one-third.
As for the Vermilion Bird Matriarch, she mysteriously didn't appear.
Only when the Vermillion Bird Star Monarch and Vermillion Bird Little Four arrived at the Southern Remnant Desolation Starfield's Remnant Desolation Starfield, did the Vermillion Bird Matriarch lead her 200,000 well-rested and energetic soldiers to the Southern Remnant Desolation Starfield.
At this moment, there were less than three hundred thousand martial soldiers guarding the Southern Remnant Desolation Star Region. Half of them were martial soldiers that had been formed at the last minute. There were even a large number of Star Realm martial artists that Little Four could kill with a single breath.
However, the most important thing wasn't the difference in the number of military troops. The difference in the number of military troops could be made up by the battle fortress that was the Imperial Star Lord's residence in the southern Imperial Star Region.
More importantly, the Southern Remnant Starfield had suffered a crushing defeat in terms of peak existences!
The Scarlet Desolation Ancestor, who had been able to fight against the Vermillion Bird Matriarch, had yet to recover from his injuries. Everyone could see that his aura was weak.
How could the Vermillion Bird Matriarch's attack be so easy to endure?
With the Scarlet Desolation Ancestor's current injuries, he might not be able to recover to his peak state even after a few decades, let alone a few days.
Apart from the Vermillion Bird Matriarch, there were five Zhou Tian True Gods under the Vermillion Bird Star Monarch and Vermillion Bird Little Four, as well as dozens of Zhou Tianshen Generals.
The Southern Remnant Starfield originally had the upper hand when it came to Zhou Tian True Gods and Zhou Tianshen Generals. However, they couldn't withstand the sudden massacre of the Vermillion Bird Star Monarch and the Vermillion Bird Matriarch.
Killing ten thousand ordinary martial soldiers wasn't as effective as killing a single Zhou Tianshen General. The Vermillion Bird Star Monarch and the Vermillion Bird Star Monarch knew this very well. They had done this many times that day.
If it weren't for Huan Ying, the young marshal of the Southern Remnant Desolation Star Region, who had acted quickly, more than half of the Southern Remnant Desolation Star Region's core forces would've perished.
With such a great disparity in power, the destruction of the Southern Remnant Desolation Star Region was almost at hand.
However, Patriarch Chi Huang and Young Marshal Huan Ying of the Southern Remnant Desolation Star Region didn't panic too much in the face of such a threat!
If the All-heaven Starfield only possessed the Southern Remnant Wilderness Starfield and the Vermilion Bird Starfield, then perhaps the Southern Remnant Wilderness Starfield would really be annexed by the Vermilion Bird Starfield.
However, the All-heaven Starfield possessed nine starfields.
In particular, the Four Corners Star System and the Four Spirits Star System were sworn enemies. The outcome of the battle between the Vermillion Bird Star System and the Southern Remnant Star System didn't affect them much, but they definitely didn't want to see the Vermillion Bird Star System swallow the Southern Remnant Star System and become a superpower.
Just as the war was about to begin, the Star Lord Special Envoys from the Western Gold Soaring Star Area, the Northern Common Seal Star Area, and the Eastern Coiling Dragon Star Area appeared together. Behind them, there was a faint shadow of the True God Zhou Tian.
The Vermilion Bird Ancestor seemed to have already anticipated this and was not surprised in the slightest. In front of the Star Monarch envoys from the three star regions, she began to negotiate the terms of the retreat with the Vermilion Bird Ancestor.
Some people wanted to say that since powerful beings from all three star systems had arrived, why not take advantage of this opportunity to annihilate the Vermilion Bird Star System?
If that was the case, wouldn't the White Tiger Star Field, the Azure Dragon Star Field, and the Black Tortoise Star Field become mere decorations?
The tyrannical, tyrannical, and pure auras hidden behind the Vermilion Bird Matriarch's army were no joke.
As a result, the negotiations continued in a friendly atmosphere as the Four Spirits Star Area and the Four Directions Star Area wrestled with each other.
In the end, the Vermilion Bird Star Area withdrew their troops and ceded the Southern Willow Star Area, the Southern Willow Star Area, and the Flying Feather Star Area, as well as their seventeen auxiliary star realms, to the Vermilion Bird Star Area.
Of course, this was not the end of the compensation.
One million supreme-grade Reiki and one billion high-grade Reiki were the most basic war reparations. There were also millions of kilograms of other rare materials from the Southern Remnant Star Area.
The war reparations were stored in supreme-grade Universe Rings that were a thousand meters long, wide, and tall. It took more than one hundred and eighty rings to store them all.
Even with the support of the three star regions, the Southern Remnant Star Area had no choice but to accept these war reparations. There was no other way. The losing side had no human rights!
Even the Southern Remnant Star Area's request to redeem their Star Lord and the Southern Remnant Star Emperor was mercilessly rejected by the Vermilion Bird Ancestor.
Of course, the truth was that the Vermilion Bird Ancestor had no idea where Ling Dong was.
The most direct result was that both the Vermilion Bird Ancestor and the Young Commander Huan Ying hated Ling Dong to the core!
They hated him so much that they gnashed their teeth!
Not to mention, the other three star regions behind the Vermilion Bird Ancestor were also eyeing them covetously.
The war reparations from the Southern Remnant Star Area were settled within a month and handed over to Star Lord Vermilion Bird. It wasn't that the Southern Remnant Star Area was obedient, but that the Vermilion Bird Star Area's army had already occupied a third of their star realms.
Aside from the star realms that they had ceded, the Vermilion Bird Star Area's army was frantically plundering the other star realms. They were plundering all the people and cultivators with potential.
The wisdom that Star Lord Vermilion Bird and the others had accumulated over the years was the most fundamental of things.
After the Southern Remnant Star Area handed over the war reparations to Star Lord Vermilion Bird, everything except the star realms that they had ceded belonged to the Vermilion Bird Star Area.
The Reiki, all kinds of precious materials, and more than 180 Universe Rings that were a thousand meters long and wide were filled with precious materials. After Star Lord Vermilion Bird passed through his hands, only a pitiful 30 or so Universe Rings were left.
Following that, the Star Lord special envoys from the other three star regions left with smiles on their faces. They had only shown themselves on the battlefield and hadn't spent any effort, yet they had obtained a huge amount of wealth. Was there a better deal in the world than this?
Within the Southern Bright Scarlet Flame Peak of the Vermilion Bird Star Area, the victor of this war, Ancestor Vermilion Bird Mother, was currently conversing with Star Lord Vermilion Bird.
"They left?" Ancestor Vermilion Bird opened her slightly tired eyes and asked when she sensed Star Lord Vermilion Bird entering.
"Replying to Ancestor Mother, they have all been sent away. Fifty Universe Rings per person … "Star Lord Vermilion Bird's expression was slightly unhappy, but he understood the situation very well.
"Did they continue to pester you about the matter of Ling Dong?" Ancestor Vermilion Bird asked.
Star Lord Vermilion Bird's expression became serious when he heard Ancestor Vermilion Bird mention Ling Dong.
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