After Xiao Mo personally led the great army to wage war against Qi State, in the blink of an eye, two years passed.

In these two years, even with Ten-Thousand Islands State assisting Qi State, Qin’s army still took city after city in succession.

Xiao Mo had now pressed close to Qi State’s Canghai Pass.

Reaching Canghai Pass meant that the great war within Qi State had entered its final stage.

Once Canghai Pass was broken, the gateway to Qi State’s imperial capital would be fully exposed before Qin’s army, like a woman untying the sash at her waist.

By then, even if Qi State’s capital was not destroyed, it would already exist in name only.

The King of Qi understood the severity of the situation, so he personally led the campaign, bringing the allied armies of Qi State and Ten-Thousand Islands State, intending to fight Xiao Mo to the death.

As for Zhao State, things were not as smooth as they were for Xiao Mo.

At the beginning, Li Jing and the others, even if they were not taking cities so easily, still held a certain advantage.

But the demon armies of Flowing-Flame State and Creek-Valley State were truly too hard to deal with.

And later, the states of the demon-race world negotiated together, and each state sent additional forces to support Zhao State.

In the eyes of those demon kings, if Zhao State could hold the cities, or even push the battle line back, or even seize Qin’s territory, then they would ride the momentum and take a share of the spoils.

If Zhao State could not hold, that was fine too—they would simply withdraw.

Even if some demon cultivators died in the process, so what?

To them, it was not something that truly hurt.

But as for sending even more massive armies into the world of myriad arts, that was impossible.

First, quite a few demon kings already felt that the affairs of the world of myriad arts had nothing to do with them.

For their demon-race world to sacrifice demon cultivators in order to defend a human realm—this was simply absurd!

If not for that person going around to persuade them, they would not have sent troops at all! 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Second, if too many demon cultivators entered the world of myriad arts, those mountain sects there would not continue to sit by and do nothing.

At that point, it would no longer be a war between dynasties. It might very well trigger a full-scale war between two worlds.

So as things stood, the demon cultivators supporting Zhao State were already more than enough.

And it was precisely by relying on these demon cultivators that the King of Zhao not only held off the attacks of Li Jing, Fang Weiming, and the others, but even carved out quite a few advantages.

However, after stabilizing Zhao State’s situation, the King of Zhao did not hurry to push the line back.

In the King of Zhao’s view, the most urgent matter now was to support Qi State.

Otherwise, once Qi State fell, Zhao State would be a single tree unable to hold up the sky.

Zhao State’s human-and-demon allied army found an opportunity, broke through the defensive line Fang Weiming had arranged, crossed through Jin territory, then took a wide detour and linked up with Qi State’s army.

Beyond that, after deep consideration, Ten-Thousand Islands State’s ruler decided to add more chips and place an even heavier bet on Qi State!

After all, too many cultivators of Ten-Thousand Islands State had died. He truly could not accept withdrawing like this!

So Ten-Thousand Islands State’s ruler sent another three hundred thousand troops rushing to Qi State.

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Ten-Thousand Islands State’s ruler could be said to have staked everything.

The arrival of the human-and-demon reinforcements and Ten-Thousand Islands State’s reinforcements let Qi State’s army breathe a deep sigh of relief, and their morale surged.

The King of Qi was also overjoyed, feeling that he could definitely block Xiao Mo, and even shift from defense to offense.

Inside Qin’s army camp.

Xiao Mo, together with the various generals, stared at the enormous sand table set in the center. Every face was heavy with tension.

“General, now Qi State, Zhao State, the demon-race army, and Ten-Thousand Islands State’s army—added together, they are already four million! And their realms are at least Foundation Establishment.

Our side’s numbers are also four million, but about thirty percent are Qi Refining martial cultivators. In terms of realm, we are at a disadvantage.”

Xu Yao, who was accompanying the army, said with a frown.

“General, should we redeploy some troops over here?” Chen Wang asked.

“No.”

After thinking for a long time, Xiao Mo shook his head.

“Although earlier I killed a batch of feudal lords and intimidated them, there are still many who are only hiding their thoughts, waiting for an opportunity.

And as for those great clans and noble houses, they are not so easy to judge either.

Right now, every region of Qin still needs troops stationed there, so those feudal lords and nobles will behave.

As for Zhao State’s side, if Li Jing redeploys troops here, I also fear the defensive line will develop problems.”

As his words fell, Xiao Mo looked at the vast plain outside Canghai Pass on the sand table:

“Canghai Pass is very large. The plain outside is enough to hold ten million in slaughter and spellcraft.

But Canghai Pass is also very small—too small to hold four million in a defense.

Qi State also knows that the longer this drags on, the more unfavorable it is for them, because Ten-Thousand Islands State and the demon cultivators of the demon-race world do not have that much patience.

Not to mention Liu Xing and the others are still attacking cities on the flanks, like a dull knife carving flesh.

So they will definitely fight us to the death.

And we cannot retreat.

If we retreat, the other two routes will be gone as well.

Since that is the case!

Then we will charge and kill through one battle!”

As he spoke, Xiao Mo lifted his head and smiled. “Whether the world of myriad arts moves toward unification or continues to fracture will be decided by this one time.”

Hearing Xiao Mo’s words, everyone’s spirits tightened.

Even though they had served as commanders for many years, they could not help but feel nervous now.

If all the battles, large and small, in the past were merely the process of unifying the world of myriad arts—

then this final Battle of Canghai Pass would draw a period to the end of the entire world of myriad arts.

“Go make preparations.” Xiao Mo said with a smile to everyone. “Have the soldiers conserve their strength, and spread the news of the coming battle.”

“Yes, General!” The generals gave a salute and withdrew from the tent.

After they left, Xiao Mo lifted his brush and wrote a letter, describing the current battle situation and stating that a decisive battle with Qi State would take place soon.

Beyond that, Xiao Mo wrote another letter, with a blood fingerprint from his own finger on it.

The first letter was sent to the imperial palace by flying-sword letter.

The second letter, along with the seal of the Northern Pacification King, was sent to Qiu Wen.

After arranging everything, Xiao Mo walked out of the tent and looked into the distance, in the direction of Qin’s imperial capital.

After a long time, Xiao Mo withdrew his gaze.

He took out a small clay figurine from his chest.

The figurine was ugly, but in Xiao Mo’s eyes, it was very beautiful.

Xiao Mo reached out a finger, scraped the figurine’s nose, and smiled faintly.

After carefully tucking the figurine back into his chest, Xiao Mo took a deep breath and walked straight forward.

Three days later, Qin Siyao received Xiao Mo’s flying-sword letter and learned that Xiao Mo was about to fight Qi State to a decisive battle outside Canghai Pass.

Holding the letter, Qin Siyao remained silent for a long time.

“Your Majesty, don’t worry. The young master will definitely come back.” Huasheng, seeing Qin Siyao’s worried expression, spoke to comfort her.

“I know.”

Qin Siyao reached out and gently traced each stroke of his writing on the envelope.

“I know he will definitely come back.

Because he promised me.”