The job change is a bizarre and calamity; the nation begs me to tone it down.

It should be noted that these are all ninth-tier saints, the backbone of the Divine Xia Empire, who have grown up by spending countless resources and going through countless life-and-death battles.

The fall of each one signifies a serious setback in the nation's strength.

This battle was not exactly brutal!

Ji Wenzhou took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing those sad emotions back into his heart.

He raised his head, his gaze passing over the ruins of the city to the still gray sky over the East China Sea.

As the deputy commander, he had an extremely keen sense of higher-dimensional forces.

He knows the truth better than ordinary netizens who make wild guesses online.

The earth-shattering roar that came from the dimensional rift just now was not a forbidden spell at all.

That aura carried an ultimate wave of destruction.

Of course, as the deputy legion commander, he knew that the loud noise just now must have been caused by Ye Nantian, the God of War, detonating his demigod origin.

This old man, who once again stood up for his country, ultimately chose the most resolute way: to use his own life to toll the death knell for those four high-ranking demigods of the Forbidden Water Clan.

The explosion was truly earth-shattering, causing the entire coastline to tremble.

But Ji Wenzhou was not at ease.

He didn't know whether Old Master Ye's explosion would be enough to wipe out the invaders.

If the four demigods are killed, the battle in the East China Sea will still have a chance to catch its breath; but if they are not killed, given the current state of Divine Xia, coupled with the covetous eyes of various alien races, the situation will be dire.

It can only engage in strategic defense.

Many of the retreating soldiers stopped and turned around to look in the direction from which the explosion came.

Everyone felt a heavy weight on their hearts, awaiting the final verdict.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, with only the whistling sound of the wind blowing through the ruins.

But the next moment, everyone's brows furrowed slightly!

Because they sensed that after the aftershocks of the explosion gradually dissipated, there was no sign of the war ending from the dimensional rift that had been torn even wider.

Instead, there was a completely unfamiliar, eerie fluctuation, ancient and suffocating.

It was seeping out extremely slowly along that crack.

……

As time passed, Ji Wenzhou's heart beat faster and faster.

Soon, his brows furrowed slightly, forming a tight knot.

Within his perception, the other side of the crack had not calmed down at all.

Instead of calm, there was more chaos, and volatile energy was gathering wildly.

"There's movement!" a soldier with sensory abilities shouted.

He didn't need to shout; everyone saw it.

Where the sea meets the sky, the originally dark seawater suddenly began to churn violently.

Those weren't normal waves; they were like water boiling in a pot, constantly bubbling upwards.

Immediately afterwards, a dark mass of shadows squeezed out from the crack.

At first, everyone thought it was mud and sand kicked up by the explosion.

But a few seconds later, the dark shadow spread outward at an extremely fast speed, directly covering half of the sea surface.

That was the army of the Forbidden Water Tribe.

They were so numerous that it was impossible to count them all.

Giant deep-sea serpents, tens of meters long, tumbled in the water; hard-armored sea monsters covered in sharp spikes surfaced; and groups of half-human, half-fish monsters wielding tridents appeared.

They huddled together in layers, like a swarm of ants that had been disturbed.

Seeing this, the Sherman soldiers on the defensive line immediately felt their hands and feet turn ice cold.

They had just fought with all their might and barely managed to withstand the first wave of attacks.

Who would have thought that so many troops were hidden behind this crack?

Just when everyone was feeling hopeless, something even worse happened.

"boom!"

More than a dozen huge columns of water suddenly exploded on the sea surface.

Seven or eight extremely powerful auras surged out from the crack and pressed down on everyone.

That was the aura of a saint.

And it's not just ninth-order saints.

Above these auras, there was also a high-dimensional fluctuation that made it impossible for anyone to even think of resisting.

That was the pressure of a demigod. This pressure swept across the coastline without any concealment, like an invisible hammer slamming into the chests of every Shenxia soldier.

"A demigod... there's still a demigod alive..."

Ji Wenzhou bit his tongue, his mouth filled with the taste of blood.

The lower-ranking officers around him were panting heavily, unable to even hold their weapons steady.

The space in mid-air distorted, and a huge figure slowly appeared below the clouds.

That was Alaya, the Lord of the Sea Rift of the Forbidden Water Clan.

At this moment, Alaya no longer possessed the lofty and domineering aura it once had.

The once magnificent robe had been blown to shreds, and the exposed skin was covered with charred wounds.

Its once-proud scales have fallen off in large areas.

In some places, you can even see the dark red flesh and blood churning inside.

He hovered in mid-air, his chest heaving violently, his breathing extremely heavy.

Dark blue blood dripped from his chin into the sea.

Alaya's state is very unstable, with its energy fluctuations sometimes violent and sometimes weak.

But he is indeed still alive, and he has not suffered that kind of irreversible fatal injury.

This was thanks to his use of an extremely valuable life-saving item at a crucial moment.

That was the "Abyss Barrier" personally bestowed upon him by the Emperor of the Forbidden Water Clan before his departure; it was a piece of bone armor crafted from the remains of demigods throughout history.

Just as Ye Nantian's self-destructing energy was about to hit him, the bone armor automatically protected its owner, taking 70% of the damage for him.

Now, that piece of bone armor has shattered into powder and is completely gone.

Alaya clenched his fists, his knuckles cracking.

His heart ached terribly; this was his biggest trump card for survival, and it had been used up by a dying old human.

Alaya turned her head and glanced at the crack behind her.

Four demigods joined forces to deal with Ye Nantian, but the result was extremely tragic.

Because the Skeleton Lord was too close to the center of the explosion and was too arrogant to defend himself in time, even his hard skeleton was blown to ash, and his soul fire was completely extinguished. He was dead beyond any hope of survival.

The other two demigods barely survived, but their essence was severely damaged, and their bodies were almost destroyed.

They can't even maintain their current form and can only slink back to the depths of the Deep Sea Royal Court to eke out a living. It will definitely take them hundreds of years to recover.

In other words, the four demigods who led the Forbidden Water Clan on their first expedition.

Now, the only demigod standing here is Alaya.

Not only that, the aftershocks of the explosion also killed several ninth-rank marshals who were too close.

The battle resulted in the loss of one demigod, two demigods being seriously injured, and the fall of several saints.

Such battle losses are unprecedented in the nearly thousand-year history of warfare of the Jinshui tribe.