The human army, since counterattacking the Eastern Continent, had split into two routes: Zhu Yu and Ji Wudi led one, while Xiao Fei and Huang Feifei led the other.
Each army comprised two Nascent Soul powerhouses, a flying giant ship, and tens of thousands of human cultivators.
The two armies advanced in tandem, and wherever they went, the stationed demon tribes were unable to resist the human advance.
Often, before the human armies arrived, some demon strongholds would retreat to the rear, leaving only ruins for the humans.
The humans recaptured over a dozen cities consecutively, but there were not many direct confrontations with the demon tribes.
The cultivators in both armies fled at the mere sight of the demons, recalling how humans had once fled in the same manner.
The tides had turned; humans finally held their heads high, switching roles and chasing the demons like rabbits.
However, while the lower-level cultivators rejoiced and felt vindicated, the human higher-ups were filled with worry.
The lost territories recovered in these days were all ruins, depleted of resources, offering no practical benefit to human development.
Meanwhile, the demons, while appearing to flee at the first sign of trouble, were actually consolidating their forces and retreating in an orderly fashion.
They had plundered the resources of the Eastern Continent, yet their strength remained largely unaffected.
Currently, with the demon forces dispersed across the entire Eastern Continent, once they retreated to their rear and gathered, their overall strength would likely surpass that of the humans, making them much harder to deal with.
One day, the two human armies converged, with tens of thousands of cultivators slowly advancing behind the flying ships.
However, the four powerhouses stationed within the flying ships had quietly detached from the main force and were heading towards the demon territory ahead.
The four of them broke away from the main army, taking different routes, rapidly flanking and encircling to reach the demon rear.
Xiao Fei, currently riding on the back of a flying fish, found that even though the flying fish was only at the late Nascent Soul stage, its speed was not inferior to that of a Soul Transformation expert.
The demons who had retreated earlier had plundered a large amount of wealth and were not moving quickly. Xiao Fei soon caught up with a group of demons.
This group of demons had no Soul Transformation experts; their strongest was only at the late Nascent Soul stage. Xiao Fei himself did not make a move, allowing the flying fish to charge into the demon horde, rampaging through them.
In an instant, these demons were scattered. Some who tried to escape were also caught up by the flying fish's incredible speed and killed with a flick of its tail.
The flying fish, having always served as Xiao Fei's mount and mostly used for escaping, felt that it had disgraced its ancestors' reputation.
Today, it finally had the opportunity to showcase its prowess.
Therefore, the flying fish unleashed its signature techniques, ensuring that not a single demon escaped.
Moments later, only a pile of corpses remained at the scene.
Xiao Fei collected all the demon corpses and stored them in his spatial artifact.
In this great battle, he had once again acquired a large number of demon corpses, all stored within his spatial artifact.
However, after the previous incident, he remained vigilant and dared not sacrifice them carelessly anymore.
At the very least, he would not sacrifice them within his spatial artifact. If any unknown powerful being detected the existence of his spatial artifact, he had no idea what the consequences would be.
From the hands of these demon corpses, he found nearly a hundred million spirit stones, along with several other treasures, all of which he stored in his spatial artifact.
He had made a small fortune, recovering some losses for humanity.
Xiao Fei briefly cleaned up the battlefield and then mounted the flying fish, flying towards the front.
On the road ahead, he encountered and annihilated two more groups of demons carrying wealth, all of whom were killed by the flying fish.
The demons viewed humans as mere livestock, and humans treated the demons in the same manner, showing no mercy to any survivors.
Then, Xiao Fei continued to ride the flying fish deeper into demon territory. Any demon strongholds he encountered along the way, as long as they were not guarded by Soul Transformation experts, were easily breached by him.
After breaching the demon strongholds, he would naturally engage in a massacre and plunder all the resources.
As the four human powerhouses positioned themselves along the demon retreat routes to hunt them down, the news spread, causing the demon tribes to finally fall into chaos.
The demons guarding various strongholds were already in disarray.
They were further routed by the pursuing human armies, resulting in countless casualties.
In a short period, the demon tribes suffered immense losses, with even a Soul Transformation expert being killed.
Seeing this, the demons could only gather all their forces to engage the human armies in a decisive battle.
Ultimately, the main forces of both sides met in the former territory of the Great Qin Kingdom, initiating a battle that would determine the fate of humanity.
After the previous successive battles, the remaining strength of the demon tribes was now on par with that of the humans.
As for the Soul Transformation experts, including the demon dragon, the demons still had six, while the humans, including Xiao Fei, had only four.
Despite the disparity in numbers, the demon Soul Transformation experts had already suffered significant depletion from the continuous fighting.
Especially the demon dragon, which had escaped from Xiao Fei and Zhu Yu's combined attack last time, had paid a considerable price, and its strength was now greatly diminished.
On the battlefield where both sides were in a standoff, Xiao Fei, Huang Feifei, Zhu Yu, and Ji Wudi flew thousands of feet in the sky, gazing at the six demon Soul Transformation experts opposite them.
Below, tens of feet in the air, the main forces of both sides faced each other.
Looking at the enemies before them, Huang Feifei, Zhu Yu, and Ji Wudi each took out a wine bottle and drank it down in one gulp.
Before the battle, Xiao Fei had prepared a batch of ten-thousand-year spirit wine for them. This spirit wine was brewed using thousand-year-old spirit herbs as ingredients and had been aged for over twenty thousand years in his spatial artifact.
In the entire cultivation world, it would be difficult to find spirit wine with such concentrated spiritual energy anywhere else besides Xiao Fei's possession.
Every drop of the spirit wine contained dense spiritual energy, more abundant and purer than the spiritual power contained in a spirit stone.
With the spiritual energy of the Eastern Continent now depleted, the combat effectiveness of Soul Transformation experts had been greatly reduced, especially their ability to replenish consumed magical power.
The spirit wine provided by Xiao Fei was precisely to compensate for this deficiency, and it would greatly enhance the combat power of the human Soul Transformation experts.
After the spirit wine was consumed, it transformed into dense spiritual energy, rising in their abdomens and turning into pure spiritual power that spread throughout their bodies.
"Kill!"
Ji Wudi roared, seizing the surge of spiritual power within him. He hefted his golden greatsword and charged towards the opposing demons, bare-chested.
Simultaneously, Zhu Yu and the others did not dare to delay, charging towards the enemy.
Xiao Fei, appearing to be only at the Nascent Soul stage, seemed somewhat out of place among this group of Soul Transformation experts.
However, through his daily cultivation of the "Wind Thunder Battle Body" with elixirs, his strength had progressed by leaps and bounds in recent days.
He was significantly stronger than during the previous East Sea battle.
With the enemy having two more experts, the four of them had already discussed their strategy before the battle.
Zhu Yu's sword formation was quite effective; he alone could engage two Soul Transformation experts simultaneously.
Huang Feifei and Ji Wudi would each handle one.
The remaining two Soul Transformation experts would be dealt with by Xiao Fei.
Xiao Fei raised his hand, and a hundred puppets appeared in the air, forming the "Heavenly Star Demon Trapping Formation," successfully trapping one demon Soul Transformation expert.
After trapping one, he himself charged towards the demon Soul Transformation expert who appeared to be the weakest.
He had to kill this person as quickly as possible before going to support the others.
At this moment, Huang Feifei had already engaged the strongest combatant among the demons, the demon dragon. She only needed to contain it, waiting for Xiao Fei to defeat his opponent before she could receive his support.