"Lord... I’ve been here before!" exclaid Baron Milton, "Look at the castle over there... This is Le Havre! Just north of Paris City!"
"Lord above, we’re really ho!"
"Long live the Divine Envoy!"
The mbers of the France Envoy Team embraced each other, overwheld with tears of joy. Although their journey to the East hadn’t taken too long, the miraculous travel and imnse joy of returning ho from a foreign land in an instant left them emotionally moved beyond words.
Even though they couldn’t understand what these foreigners were cheering about, the cultivators from the Immortal Alliance could sense their joy from their expressions.
It wasn’t until Joan appeared in front of them with a cavalry team.
"Divine Envoy, welco. It seems the Teleportation Array is running successfully." She dismounted and saluted Chen Xuan by pressing her chest. Chen Xuan had already briefed her, and she only needed to recite the script.
"Let introduce to everyone, this is the commander of the entire army of France, Holy Maiden Joan," said Chen Xuan.
The cultivators were greatly surprised!
A Kingdom’s army commander is actually a woman? Moreover, judging by her fully armored outfit, she is clearly not the type of strategist who sits in the rear but is a warrior who leads troops in combat.
Governor Xu Yuanqing, accustod to grand scenes, maintained his poise and clasped his hands to Joan, "I am the Immortal Alliance Governor from the Eastern Central Plains Dynasty, and these fifteen are representatives of the Immortal Alliance envoy, assigned to address the issues faced by cultivators in the West. Those wearing jade tags are orthodox sect cultivators here to see firsthand how rampant the demon fiends are here."
The translator imdiately began interpreting the languages for both parties.
At this mont, Chen Xuan had nothing else to do.
He walked to the side alone, took out his phone, and pressed the capture button toward the group of people talking.
This is undoubtedly a historic scene—a French army clad in full armor led by the renowned Holy Maiden Joan; on the other side, Eastern cultivators donned in silk and brocade robes, their leader not as famous as Joan, but after this event, the na Xu Yuanqing will surely beco part of history.
As the two groups were engrossed in the conversation, a sudden urgent sound of horn blasts ca from afar.
"Woo woo woo woo————————"
"This is a warning signal." Joan’s brows furrowed, "Governor, Divine Envoy, the enemy has arrived, please excuse !"
With that, she turned and jumped onto her horse, leading her cavalry towards the main camp.
At the sa ti, everyone noticed unusual phenona appearing on the previously calm sea surface, where many dark shadows erged from underwater, like giant whales rising from the depths to the shallows. As they advanced swiftly, they caused the seawater on their backs to rise like rolling waves.
But soon everyone realized that these were not giant whales, but warships!
Masts pierced through the splashes and rose from the sea, resembling rapidly growing forests, followed by the bows and hulls... These water-breaking ships were entirely pitch-black, covered with shells and barnacles, as if soaked at the bottom of the sea for hundreds of years.
The cultivators were seeing ships capable of subaquatic navigation for the first ti.
They didn’t need sails to maintain high speeds, and even as they approached the coast, they showed no intention of stopping.
A total of more than twenty warships charged directly onto the beach.
Chen Xuan finally saw the "demon fiat army" Joan had ntioned.
Not only did they co from the ships, but also from the sea... accompanied by the forced beaching of the black ships, a large number of monsters erged from underwater and began advancing toward the land. These demons maintained the shapes of creatures but were larger and more imposing, like giant crabs whose pincers were as thick as a grown man’s arm, with shells seemingly capable of withstanding ordinary sword strikes.
And those enemies jumping off the ships were visibly different from the sea shrimps and crabs, resembling a half-human, half-demon species in shape, they held leadership positions in attack formations, likely leaders among these demon fiends.
"Amazing..." Xu Yuanqing exclaid, "They are indeed demon fiends, and they exist in different levels... so many demon fiends gathering together without mutual slaughter, but acting like an army..."
His deanor gradually beca serious, then he looked at Chen Xuan, "Sect Leader Chen, you’re right, they indeed pose a great threat, if we leave them alone, sooner or later they will threaten the entire East."
"Has the Immortal Alliance never observed phenona of demon fiend alliances before?" Chen Xuan asked.
"Not only the Immortal Alliance, since cultivators gained montum, we haven’t discovered such a situation," Xu Yuanqing shook his head, "As for more ancient tis, who knows. Legend says humans fought desperately to defeat demon fiends before settling on the most fertile lands of the Central Plains, while the demon fiends were driven to barren mountains and forests, never daring to show up again. But legends are just legends, fundantally unfounded."
"Why?"
"It’s simple; demon fiends lack wisdom. They are beasts transford after gaining spiritual Qi, granted strong bodies and sharp teeth and claws, so even capable of casting spells, but remain beasts in essence," Xu Yuanqing explained, "Take big bugs for example, a Cyan-forehead Tiger Demon refined into a spirit not only would kill villagers but also hunt weaker demon beasts to consu their spiritual Qi and enhance its own power."
Chen Xuan stroked his chin; he had consulted Liu Shuyue regarding knowledge about demon fiends. However, from her perspective, demon fiends seed like sothing else: their powers defy ordinary understanding, not like spells, but more like the force of the Great Dao after directly communicating with the heavens and earth, such as the Anba causing droughts, Cyan Dragon Vortex affecting winds and causing thunder, or the Shadow Demon appearing only in dreams or hallucinations.
It seems that the demon fiends of the two worlds aren’t identical either... he mused.
If the Vortex appeared in this world, it would likely imdiately trigger a bloody storm.
"No wisdom leads to mutual slaughter, plundering each other’s spiritual Qi... How did they unite now?" Soone from the cultivator team inquired.
"And the number of these demon fiends is astonishing! There might be thousands of them!"
This statent elicited unanimous agreent from everyone.
However, their expressions weren’t of fear but eager anticipation.
Usually, hunting demons requires determining the territory first, seeing if the demon belongs to the sector managed by one’s sect, such as Tiger, Fox, Wolf Demons, which often involve searching several mountain tops to possibly find two or three, most reside within the sect’s controlled Grotto Heavens, unlike the scene at hand with them everywhere!
Chen Xuan didn’t find the latter question particularly strange.
In contrast, the absence of monsters in deep mountains and forests while none in the sea struck him as unusual. In terms of species diversity and territory size, the sea far exceeded the land. Coupled with humans frequently expanding territories and exterminating various land animals, the likelihood of many demon fiends existing in the sea was higher, unless the spiritual Qi avoids the sea.
Now he had a confird answer: the sea doesn’t only house demon fiends, but their numbers are astounding.
As for the previous question... Chen Xuan felt the answer probably lies in those half-human-shaped commanding demon fiends.
After all, the environnt of the sea is completely different from the land, phenona unseen on the continent might still occur in the deep sea. If soone now told him demon fiends established an empire similar to humans at the seabed, he wouldn’t be too surprised.
It proves that constructing an organization of mutual support and reliance doesn’t always require all mbers to possess wisdom, only one or two wisely avoiding harm would suffice.
Like ants and bees.
Xu Yuanqing clearly reached the sa thought, "If we can capture a few of those upper-level demon fiends hopping off the ships, perhaps we can uncover the reason behind their unification."
With that, he turned to face the sect cultivators, "I believe you all realize your purpose for being here, and the Immortal Alliance hopes you will break through yourselves in battles with demon fiends, making constant advancents to showcase the authority of our Immortal Alliance!"
"Attention!" Another Immortal Alliance official shouted.
All the cultivators clasped their fists simultaneously.
"The Immortal Alliance grants you the authority to fight demon fiends here—regardless of sect, background, or seniority, the demon fiends here have no allegiance, slay them without hesitation!"
"Yes!" They responded in unison and rushed toward the battlefield without hesitation.
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