Jade Gate is closed and Yuanyuan is opened. In a meeting hall, nearly a hundred monks are gathered here at the moment.

The monks present were all in the Eighth Realm.

Among them are sword cultivators from the Sword Sect, as well as monks from other top sects in the Eastern Region, all of whom are high-level monks in Yumen Pass.

Once a monk reaches the level of transcending tribulations, he will fall into endless busyness. He is either busy preparing to face the next tribulation, or looking for ways to understand the world and join the Tao. Everyone is extremely busy, and it is rare that there are so many

A time when people come together to talk.

The reason why such a situation occurs today is self-evident.

Something big happened!

The atmosphere on the court was very solemn.

"You should all have heard about it," said the Xizhao Sword Master, an Eighth Realm sword cultivator sitting on the main seat, solemnly.

He is the monk in the Sword Sect who is responsible for handling the battle of Chengguan in the battlefield outside the territory.

The handling of such large-scale wars has always been extremely profound and complex.

How to prevent, how to target, how to deploy troops, how to use resources, how to exchange courtesy, there are countless methods, which require the monk in charge to have a certain strategic vision and rich experience.

As the saying goes, there are specializations in the arts. Xizhao Sword Master's cultivation level may not be particularly outstanding among the sword sect, but his experience in large-scale battles is extremely rich.

Therefore, several peak masters gave him this important responsibility.

Hearing Xizhao Sword Master's question, everyone else nodded silently.

"On the Demon Clan's side, this time the troops were divided into seventeen groups and went out at the same time. The targets were directly at the seventeen city gates on the battlefield outside our territory." The Xizhao Sword Master looked solemn, "This is the entire 20,000 years of Chang'an.

It’s a big move that has never been done before.”

Over the past 20,000 years, the demons have launched countless sieges against their human city gates, but most of them were aimed at one city.

Of course, the human race has occasionally done evil things to the demon cities, and they have dealings with each other.

However, this is the first time that the demons have launched an siege against all human city gates at the same time. It is no wonder that the master of the Xizhao Sword has a dark face from the beginning to the end.

"The demon thieves are causing trouble again." Someone in the hall scolded.

"Are the demons preparing to start the second Tao-demon war?" A Tribulation-Transcending Cultivator from the Xingxiu Sect frowned, with worry between his eyebrows.

“It’s not like that, although the demon clan’s move was big this time, it was also very restrained.

Although the number of demon cultivators they sent to fight was extremely terrifying, they still followed the unspoken rules tacitly understood by both of us, and none of them went to battle with any demon cultivator of level seven or above.

The demons still seem to be unwilling to expand the war, so they still limit the battle to eight realms or less." Xizhao Sword Master explained.

"The demons did not dispatch eighth-grade demon cultivators, but they dispatched nearly 40,000 seventh-grade demon cultivators." Another tribulation-transcending body cultivator who knew the situation spoke out what the other cultivators present were thinking.

"The siege they launched this time is not a trivial matter. It is just to consume our strength like before, but it is inevitable to win.

They want to eradicate all our bridgeheads on the battlefield outside the territory in one fell swoop, turning Yumen Pass into an isolated city."

"The demons must have other plans."

"With such a big effort, even if the demon clan is far more powerful than us on the battlefield outside the territory, with forty-seventh-level demon cultivators, the demon clan will probably have to drain most of the city's manpower to put together this kind of lineup."

"With such a large manpower transfer, we didn't notice any clues in advance...

If the predictions are correct, most of the demon clan's manpower this time should not be drawn from the cities on the battlefield outside the territory, but recruited from the abyss." Another tribulation monk added.

After so many years of confrontation with the demons, it is impossible for the human race to be unprepared and passively wait for the demons to approach the city before reacting.

Yumen Pass has always attached great importance to the attention and early warning work on the deployment of demon cultivators in the demon city.

The reason why nothing was detected this time is probably due to this.

The demons ordered most of the demon cultivators in the city to stay put to paralyze the human race, and at the same time, they dispatched seventh-grade demon cultivators from the Abyss Burning Moon Domain to the battlefield outside the territory.

"But no matter what, since the demon clan has not dispatched eighth-level demon cultivators to attack the city, we cannot dispatch eighth-level cultivators to actively expand the war." Xizhao Sword Master said solemnly.

This has always been one of the most important principles for humans to deal with demons. They cannot easily expand the fight and drag it out as long as possible.

On the one hand, this puts the human race in a passive situation: because they are unwilling to easily expand the war, they can only wait quietly for the demon clan to take the initiative to break the unspoken rules and start a second Dao-demon war. It can be foreseen that they will inevitably suffer a big loss.

But on the other hand, this is also a helpless choice.

Adhering to this principle also bought valuable rest time for the human race.

After all, in the first battle between Dao and Demon 20,000 years ago, the human race suffered heavy losses, their vitality was severely damaged, and their overall strength was far behind that of the demon race.

Once the second Dao-Demon War breaks out and Dao Ancestor does not come out, they will have to annihilate their clan. Not only the demons are not sure whether Dao Ancestor has fallen, but the human race is also the same.

Twenty thousand years have passed, and the vitality of the human race has gradually recovered, and even geniuses have emerged in large numbers, showing a trend of vigorous development.

Although there is still a huge gap in strength with the demons, the situation is much better than it was 20,000 years ago.

There are advantages and disadvantages to avoiding war, but from the current point of view, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

The human race's choice of forbearance and not taking the initiative to expand the fight is the best choice made after weighing the pros and cons.

"How many of the seventeen human cities can we save?" the Xingxiu Sect's Dharma Cultivator asked.

In Yumen Pass, although the Jian Sect is the leader and has the strongest strength, in terms of the total number of monks, it is the Xingxiu Sect that has the largest number.

Fa Xiu is the largest group in the world of cultivation. As the most powerful Fa Xiu sect in the Eastern Region, it is not surprising that the Xingxiu Sect has the largest number of people.

But because of this, among the seventeen human cities, almost all of their Xingxiu Sect monks are in high positions.

Once all these city gates fall, Xingxiu Sect will suffer the most heavy losses.

No wonder he seems to be the most concerned about this matter.

"The demons moved too fast. By the time we reacted and sent support, sixteen of the seventeen human city gates had already fallen.

At present, only Beihe Pass, which is the farthest away from Yumen Pass, does not know the specific situation. Our manpower is already on the way and we will arrive soon." Xizhao Sword Master once again dropped a piece of bombshell news.

Seventeen city gates fell to sixteen in one day...

The monks present breathed a little faster at this time, but that was all.

It's not that they are indifferent, it's just that at their level, they are already used to life and death and will not lose their composure easily.

When something happens, what I consider more is how to deal with it afterwards and how to get revenge.

In a word, the human race will definitely suffer this loss.

The question now is how to minimize losses.

"There is a high probability that Beihe Pass has also fallen." The tribulation cultivator from Xingxiu Sect shook his head and sighed.

This is already a euphemism.

In his eyes, Beihe Pass has 100% ceased to exist.

"Beihe Pass is a city at the forefront of our human front, and its formation is also the most powerful among all city defense formations. Is there really no hope of defending it?"

Some of the tribulation monks were unwilling to lose all the small and medium-sized city gates, so they asked Sword Master Xizhao: "Didn't the Sword Sect secretly place one or two tripod-carrying monks in Beihe Pass?"

He knew very well that with the power of the Beiheguan Formation, at most it would only delay Beiheguan for a little longer, and it would be difficult to reverse the desperate situation.

To achieve this, we can only hope that Jian Zong secretly planted one or two Eighth Realm Overhaulers in Beihe Pass.

After all, in terms of status alone, Beiheguan is the most important among the seventeen cities of the human race.

"Not really." The Xizhao Sword Master gave a negative answer.

He was angry inside, but also helpless.

The so-called cauldron-carrying monks refer to those monks who are sophisticated in their work, have reached the eighth level of cultivation, have profound skills, rich combat experience, and have leadership abilities.

The manpower of sword cultivators in the Sword Sect is scarce and has always been very valuable.

Excluding the seven peak masters, there are a total of 267 sword cultivators in the eighth level of the Sword Sect, less than 300 people.

Among them, there are no more than twenty who can be called tripod-carrying monks, which is simply not enough.

The Xizhao Sword Master paused and said solemnly: "When encountering this kind of situation, there was no early warning, and now there is no news at all. Can the various city gates be able to hold on until our support arrives? It cannot be a prayer to go to the warehouse to hang the curtain, it can only be

It’s up to them.”

"The reason why I called you here today is because all of you here are the coordinators and principals of each sect."

Xizhao Sword Master glanced at the faces of every monk present, and spoke calmly, but his voice contained a heart-stopping fighting spirit, "The demon clan has been making frequent changes some time ago, and this time it is even more dramatic.

I have already informed several peak masters about this matter."

Seventeen city gates were attacked at the same time. This was obviously not something he could handle alone. He needed to contact all the peak leaders and even get a unified charter.

At this time, he was bringing the unified regulations of the peak masters to inform these monks of various sects.

"The peak masters asked me to inform you that all sects should be prepared for war from now on."

"It's time for the monks who are still in seclusion to wake them up and let them come out of seclusion and prepare for the attack."

"Because the war is about to begin!"

The master of Xizhao Sword said coldly: "It's either today, or tomorrow soon."

There was silence.

The monks from all the sects on the field looked at each other, obviously not expecting that it was just a large-scale siege battle without the participation of eighth-grade demon cultivators. In the eyes of the peak masters of the Sword Sect, it would rise to such a high level.
To be continued...