Supreme Emperor of Mist

"Your highness... Not good." Sun Ding Tian's adjutant came into the tent in a hurry without asking for his permission to enter. Looking at what was happening inside this tent filled with the flavor of lust, he had a sudden urge to throw his uniform down and leave.

"What happened?" Sun Ding Tian pulled his tool out from the woman as she fell on the ground lifelessly. Judging from her reaction, she's either exhausted, drugged, or dead.

'This useless prince...' the adjutant wished he could speak what was in his mind right now.

"Our two thousand experts... Are all dead..." the adjutant said as he lowered his head until his eyes were staring at the ground.

**Shoosh!**

An empty wine jar struck the adjutant's head and shattered on the spot. The impact wasn't good enough to cause a Bone Layer expert like the adjutant to bleed, but it at least made him look like a mess due to the alcohol smeared on his face and uniform.

"What happened?" Sun Ding Tian asked the same question for his second time. Listening to the first reply just now already made him lost all his urge to continue to 'penetrate' the woman that rested lifelessly on the floor.

"We're tricked by our opponent. They've sent out the elites from the Country of Wei itself to fight the battle. All our experts are dead. Should we send out the next group of people?" the adjutant asked.

With two thousand people died right now and a little over three thousand people yesterday, he was left with less than five thousand soldiers in hand. Sending another two thousand is equals to meaninglessly sacrificing his men on the second day of the battle.

Even Sun Ding Tian knew how to weigh the seriousness of the current situation.

"Pull back, and defend our camp in case Xu Hu wanted to bring the battle to his disadvantage." he gave out the order as soon as he sobered up.

...

The same situation happened at the seventh prince's battlefield.

Close to five hundred experts were beheaded when the battle started. It was surprising to all the other soldiers, but not from Sun Chen Long's expression. He looks like it's happened according to what he had expected.

"Your highness..." his adjutant wanted to say something, but Sun Chen Long raised his hand to stop the adjutant from continue.

"It's a regretful loss, but a battle is a battle... It will be impossible for them to even kill three targets on their own and come back." Sun Chen Long said like he already knows what the adjutant wanted to say.

"Call everyone to be on alert and defend the camp when necessary. There's no more grace or rest period for those participating in yesterday's battle." Sun Chen Long added.

"Yes, your highness. I'll relay your order right now." the adjutant left in a hurry. Even the flagbearers standing behind Sun Chen Long started to slowly lose their spirit as they witness the massacre happening below the cliff.

'You've prepared... Yang Yuan, you scheming rat...' Sun Chen Long wanted to vent the anger inside him but find it inconvenient to do so right now.

He's so pissed as he thought he was at least ready for it.

In the end, he's still unable to change a thing or make a difference. All he could do is looking down from his cliff while witnessing how his two thousand experts slaughtered without scoring a single kill.

...

"Careful... They looked like a troublesome bunch." the four subordinates of Qin Lan were lucky to avoid their killing blow at the start of the battle. But the bit luck wasn't enough for them if they're looking to turn the result around.

And while You Qing and the others were lucky, more of the other experts were not.

About a third of the two thousand experts who participates in this battle royale were killed from their first engagement. The identity of the participants from the Kuanglei Province also ended up exposed after their first attack.

"That's the Blood Lion General's Beheading Army. To think that one of the Country of Wei's top three generals actually willing to spare some of his soldiers to help the Thunder Roaring Palace." Sun Wu Jian tightened his fist as he witnesses the battle on top of the cliff.

Losing close to 700 experts was a heavy blow to Sun Wu Jian. Furthermore, over half of the soldier he had in hand was 'borrowed' from the mayor of Fuyun City and the Cloud Plucking Sect. Be it victorious or not, he's expected to pay a hefty amount of compensation after this battle.

Furthermore, losing so many experts right now would be detrimental to his following plan after achieving a victory here in the Yunshan Province. There's still the aftermath of a battle to follow as their initial plan was to control at least a city in Kuanglei Province.

"They're coming! Disperse and fight in a team!" You Qing ordered. Bringing his team along with him as he took a detour to escape from their chase, he occasionally retaliates whenever the opponents were trying to push their luck.

"Heavenly Flicking Fingers!" You Qing spreads his arm open as he fired ten or so projectiles over at his opponents. But it was a disappointing move as not a single one of the opponents was killed. In return, more of his men were caught by the Beheading Army and had their heads forcefully separated from their bodies.

Not only You Qing had it hard. Yi Feng, Qiang Shou, and Han Xue all had their problem. Although their opponents were a compromise of half-step Bone Reconstruction experts like them, the two sides were incomparable.

In front of the Beheading Army's individual, Sun Wun Jian and Qin Lan's men were nothing but a pile of flowers groomed inside a greenhouse. They were considered fragile and delicate.

Some of them even laughed as they assume that sending two thousand world-devouring vines like them to trample the delicate flowers was too overkill.

It was until a horn was blown.

"Wooo..."

A lonely cultivator wearing the attire of a Chi-Lan soldier entered the battlefield on his own. The crimson cape fluttered as he rode the horse forward to the nearest group of Beheading Army.

"One man against us? Test his strength!" one of the senior soldiers of the Beheading Army said as he pointed at the incoming expert on the horse.