Published: March 12, 2025
The Demon Dragon King looked at the deserted Yangping City in the distance, and combined with Zhao Hai's recent actions, he had already figured out Zhao Hai's intentions. To be honest, this kind of harassment tactic was truly giving him a headache.
Although Zhao Hai did not gain much advantage while using this tactic today, it greatly delayed their progress. By the time the Demon Dragon King and the others arrived at Yangping City, the sky was already darkening. In just a few hours, night would fall, and now there wasn't a single person in Yangping City.
What troubled the Demon Dragon King the most was that he did not dare to split his forces. After calculating roughly today, he estimated that Zhao Hai had sent at least several million cavalry to hold them back. If he split his forces now, the only outcome would be to be defeated one by one by Zhao Hai's side.
Because of this, the Demon Dragon King dared not divide his troops; he could only concentrate his forces. Previously, when he fought against Zhao Hai, he mostly dealt with undead beings, so he did not fully understand the strength of ordinary people on the Ark Continent. However, previous intelligence showed that the general combat power of ordinary people in Yangping City was not high and could not possibly rival the members of the demon clan.
However, recently, the Demon Dragon King had received news that Zhao Hai had developed a potion that could elevate a person's strength to the ninth level in a short amount of time. Initially skeptical of this claim, upon seeing those cavalry today, the Demon Dragon King was convinced that Zhao Hai indeed had a way to elevate people's strength to the ninth level in a short period.
This discovery made the Demon Dragon King even more worried. The demon clan had previously been confident in dealing with the ordinary people of Yangping City because their ordinary soldiers were stronger than those on the Ark Continent, not to mention having numerous divine-level experts. But now, the Ark Continent had a way to elevate individual strength to the ninth level, allowing them to stand on equal footing with the demon clan’s ordinary soldiers. Furthermore, Zhao Hai also had something that could harm divine-level experts, making it much harder for them to deal with the people of the Ark Continent, especially with a divine race watching closely from the sidelines.
Consequently, facing constant attacks from those cavalry had left the Demon Dragon King without confidence in conquering the Ark Continent. He did not know how Zhao Hai managed to create such a potion... Moreover, the people he had arranged on the Ark Continent had also obtained some potions that could elevate people to the eighth and ninth levels. These potions were effective not only on humans but also on their demon clan members.
He had even specially asked the clan's wizards to research these potions. Unfortunately, the answer he received was disappointing. The wizards claimed that the eighth-level potion was merely water, while the ninth-level potion was some kind of unknown creature's blood, not an actual potion at all.
The Demon Dragon King was naturally very disappointed by the wizards' conclusions. He had never heard of any water that could directly elevate someone to the eighth level; even the Elven Race's life liquid did not have such an effect. As for the ninth-level potency, it was impossible for it to be blood—he had never heard of any magical beast's blood that could elevate someone to the ninth level. If such a creature existed, Zhao Hai could not conquer it, let alone provide large quantities of such blood.
This realization made the Demon Dragon King feel as if he had fallen into complete passivity; dealing with Zhao Hai was no longer easy.
Looking at Yangping City, the Demon Dragon King sighed and said, “Let’s rest here tonight. Notify everyone to set up camp.” The group responded and began their preparations.
The efficiency of the demon clan was not inferior to that of the divine race. Since they used a similar ark as a base to set up camp in Yangping City, the speed was naturally very fast.