Making up for last night's update, and just a quick announcement: the new book, Boundless, has been approved for review and can now be seen on Qidian. During this initial phase, I hope everyone can visit Qidian to read it. Contract details only allow for tipping starting tomorrow, but the most important thing is receiving clicks, recommendation votes, and collections. Old Gu is extremely grateful! …… As Ye Chen was speaking, by the time Jin Huan departed, the battlefield was already awash in gore. Countless frontline fighters, using their own flesh and blood as projectiles, were being trampled into bloody pulp by the undead behemoth army—a sight too horrific to behold, like a living hell.

Yet, these deaths managed to slow the surging momentum of the undead tide. Soldiers in the second line, along with powerful figures gathered from the civilian populace, roared, gripping their weapons tightly as they surged onto the field to engage in life-or-death combat.

"Asura Cannon, begin countdown!"

"City Gate Laser Barrier, activate!"

Orders were barked out by the commanding chief on the ground. Each commander had a deputy, selected from the myriad life forms of the Ancient Continent—individuals possessing the richest combat experience and the most meticulous minds. A strong commander could make a tangible difference in war, turning inferiority into victory, and weakness into strength.

However, amidst this vast spectacle, even these commanders, who had earned countless glorious medals, found their influence limited; they could only barely maintain the war effort, preventing any catastrophic oversight.

Swish, swish, swish!

From the steel city walls, thousands of turrets suddenly sprang forth, their continuous lines of barrels exuding martial strength. Upon completing their final energy storage, they abruptly unleashed their firepower.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…

Thousands of white beams sliced through the air, tracing elegant arcs as they descended upon the battlefield, resembling stars falling from the heavens.

The ferocious beast horde, encountering the bombardment, immediately descended into chaos. Powerful behemoths were instantly pierced by the shells, their bodies proving as fragile as tofu dregs. The corpses of those slain formed significant obstacles for the monsters surging in behind them.

"Fire! Fire!"

The commander roared, waving his banner, his eyes bloodshot. Every shell fired represented an immense expenditure of energy; launching them so freely felt like hemorrhaging fortunes! He felt his heart dripping blood, yet there was no alternative. Humanity had reached its final stand, and all resources and equipment were now mounted upon this steel wall.

Boom, boom, boom!

The might of the Asura Cannons was sufficient to obliterate cultivators at the Epoch Realm; the mere shockwave of energy could kill those at the Divine Emperor Realm. A total of six thousand cannons were arrayed along the wall, set up in pairs, with the rear cannon charging while the front one fired, maintaining a relentless, alternating barrage.

Beams of silver light, like the dawn breaking, shot straight across the darkened battlefield. They tore a gaping chasm through the endless hordes of monsters, sharp as a keen blade.

Less than ten minutes into the battle, the losses were incalculable. The ground before the city wall was heaped high with monstrous corpses, yet when gazing into the distance from the elevated vantage point of the turrets, one could still see endless streams of monsters surging from the horizon.

Infinite!

This grim reality did not extinguish the will to survive; rather, in this desperate plight, it ignited the hot blood and flame deep within everyone's core.

Everyone fought like a frenzy, clutching their weapons, heedless of the disparity in power, charging forward fearlessly and ferociously!

"Roar!"

A tidal wave of people swept down from the ramparts, engaging the monsters in desperate combat. Every eye was crimson, as if bloodthirsty, slamming into the enemy without regard for death. Limbs and remains were flung across the field, trampled into fine mud by scattering hooves.

This was utterly a battle of flesh and blood.

Human and monstrous bodies continued to pile up on the field. Behind the walls, even more humans stood with their respective weapons, watching the fallen warriors ahead with gazes firm yet laced with despair.

They knew that the time they had left to gaze upon this hazy sky was brief.

Perhaps in the next moment, they would never see it again.

"Daughter…"

"Mother…"

"Xiao Juan…"

Recalling the faces of their loved ones and their parting smiles, everyone clenched their fists. This was a war of conviction, a war where surrender was impossible for the sake of human peace!

"If I die, you must live well."

The warriors silently bid farewell to those dearest to them, sending unspoken blessings, then raised their heads to face the deafening roars of the battle ahead. Their own vital essence seemed to erupt outwards, their faces contorted into grimaces.

Others had long since lost their families. Unburdened, they simply stared into the distance, solitary, a silent bitterness rising within them before they followed the rest into the fray.

Carrying the weight of all humanity!

Fight!

Fight to the point of madness!

Everyone charged out from the walls in a relentless succession. The aircraft carrier groups suspended in the sky also joined the conflict, unleashing countless shells from high altitude into the monster hordes, directly severing monster reinforcements in the center and using the corpses of fallen beasts to impede those surging from behind.

Just as the two sides seemed evenly matched, thousands of earth-shattering roars suddenly erupted from the rear of the monster army. Immediately following, colossal entities, seemingly piercing the clouds—their tops obscured, only their immense waists and a pair of legs like ancient bronze steel visible—began to advance.

The Ancient Gods!

The arrival of the Ancient Gods behind the battle lines was like giants wielding the cosmos. They strode forward slowly, and the countless monsters that had been rushing forward quickly retreated to the sides, fearing being trampled to dust by accident.

"They are making their appearance so soon…" Ye Chen watched the giants in the distance, his eyes flickering as he murmured, "Deploy the War God Guards."

"Yes," Jin Huan nodded, then whistled a strange, clear tune.

Amidst the boundless battlefield filled with roars of slaughter and rage, that crisp whistle carried a peculiar melody to great distances.

The four thousand War God Guards concealed in a camp behind the walls heard the signal and immediately swept rapidly toward the ramparts, led by their commander.

These War God Guards were soldiers personally trained by the Ancient War Venerable, each selected from the peerless geniuses across the Ancient Continent, every single one possessing the cultivation level of the Void Heaven Realm!

A total of ninety thousand men!

Ninety thousand Void Heaven Realm powerhouses!

This was the might held in reserve by the Ancient War Venerable.

These four thousand War God Guards were clad in golden armor forged from rare extraterrestrial metals, wielding various Divine Weapons. The moment they appeared on the wall, the overwhelming aura they projected caused every soldier to feel their breath catch, their eyes blazing with intense light: "Hope!"

The despair that had filled everyone’s hearts instantly seemed to revive. They watched the retreating backs of the War God Guards with eyes full of boundless expectation.

As soon as these four thousand War God Guards entered the fray, they traversed half the battlefield in a single leap, charging toward the members of the Ancient God race. Each held their unique weapon—be it a great blade, a sickle, or a long sword—and launched a frantic offensive against the bodies of the Ancient Gods.

Almost every War God Guard engaged one Ancient God clansman.

Thwack!

The sharp weapons struck the bodies of these Ancient Gods, actually eliciting sparks like metal striking metal. On their rough skin, only a shallow, tiny trace of blood appeared, a mark so small it wasn't even as thick as a hair on the Ancient God's body—completely negligible.

"So hard!"

Every War God Guard thought this, yet they did not hesitate. Relying on their richly accumulated combat experience, they aimed directly for the eyes of the Ancient Gods' heads.

The eyes were the only weakness!

"Roar!" The Ancient God clansmen let out earth-shattering roars. The heads of these beings were still firmly attached, unlike the headless ancient corpses of earlier stages. Fury burned in their eyes as they swung their massive fists down toward the War God Guards.

Their immense size did not slow their movements; instead, they were swift as lightning. Some War God Guards failed to evade in time and were violently swatted away like flies, crashing into the beast horde below. The impact was like a falling atomic bomb, shaking the very earth, sending a shockwave radiating outward that caused the surrounding beasts to bleed from their noses and ears.

Other War God Guards were nimble and light, circling around the Ancient Gods, spiraling upward to strike at their eyes.

However, these Ancient Gods were not only massive but seemed covered in eyes themselves, exhibiting exaggerated agility that prevented the War God Guards from closing in.

It must be noted that each War God Guard was at the Void Heaven Realm, while the Ancient God clansmen were only at the peak of the Epoch Realm—they hadn't reached the Void Heaven Realm yet!

Yet now, facing Void Heaven Realm experts, they were not yielding an inch!

"Truly worthy of being the most powerful race on this continent, even the Ancient War Venerable is wary of them," Ye Chen watched the distance, turning his head to Jin Huan. "Dispatch another ten thousand War God Guards here, double the strength of all other forces!"

Jin Huan was clearly shaken by the might of the Ancient Gods before him. He hastily nodded and swiftly turned to leave.

"Roar!"

Just then, another overwhelming roar erupted from behind the monstrous battlefield, followed by a cage, massive almost to the size of a mountain, slowly being dragged by ropes held by two Ancient Gods, pulling it toward the rear of the battlefield.

There were ten cages in total.

Each cage held a monster of colossal size, before whom even the Ancient Gods appeared somewhat small. These monsters glared with savage eyes, like the most primitive beasts, roaring as they stared at the field, their eyes filled with bloodlust and avarice, as if looking upon endless food.

Ye Chen frowned, quickly calling Jin Huan back. He said in a deep voice, "No need to dispatch more War God Guards. Bring out the 72 Ancestral God Generals immediately."

"All of them?" Jin Huan asked, astonished.

"All of them."

Ye Chen's gaze swept over the ten giant cages. "If we only use one contingent, they will only become their food."