Alliance formed! Rush to the aid of Ninefold Pass!

"Kid, are you ready?"

Lin Zhan looked at Lin Yuan, his eyes carrying a hint of solemnity.

"The Ten Thousand Races Battlefield is not a novice village like Blue Star."

"There, those in the Juyuan Realm are everywhere, and only those in the Void Realm can truly make an impact. Although your strength is decent, you must never be careless once you go there."

"Mm."

Lin Yuan simply gave a faint response.

His impervious attitude made Lin Zhan feel a bit helpless, yet there was nothing he could do.

This grandson of his had been like this since he was a child.

"Forget it. Anyway, with your strength, as long as you don't proactively provoke those old monsters who have been slumbering for tens of thousands of years, you should be safe."

Lin Zhan shook his head and said no more.

"The rest of you, return to your respective countries immediately to integrate your forces and form the second and third batches of support troops!"

Lin Zhan issued orders to Augustine, the Grand Magister, and the others.

As the initiator of this Alliance and one of the strongest individuals present, he naturally became the temporary Commander-in-Chief of the Alliance.

"Understood!"

Augustine, the Grand Magister, and the others nodded one after another.

They glanced at Lin Yuan with complex expressions.

This excessively young Dragon Country Genius had brought them far too much shock.

Perhaps he really would become the greatest variable for humanity in this catastrophe... On the other side.

Upon the mountain ridge.

Long Zhan had already gained a general understanding of everything that had just happened from the signals officer.

When he heard the news of the "Alliance Formed" and "Reinforcements for the Ninth Heaven Pass," this iron-blooded general was so moved that his eyes brimmed with tears!

He had waited for this day for far too long!

"Commander!"

An adjutant ran over hurriedly, his face filled with uncontrollable excitement.

"An order has come from above!"

"Our Zhennan Base will serve as the Alliance's vanguard hub in the Dragon Country, responsible for the assembly and transport of all subsequent support troops!"

"Furthermore... the Alliance General Headquarters will be established right here in our Longxia!"

"What?!"

Long Zhan's powerful frame shuddered, and an unprecedented light erupted from his eyes!

To him and to all the soldiers of Longxia, this was a supreme honor!

It was also a responsibility as heavy as a mountain!

"Pass down my order!"

Long Zhan's voice trembled slightly due to excitement.

"All soldiers, return to the base immediately! Cancel all leave; everyone is to enter the highest state of combat readiness!"

"Prepare to welcome a brand new era!"

"Yes!"

Thousands of soldiers roared in unison, their voices shaking the clouds!

...In the center of the basin.

Everything had been properly arranged.

"Time is of the essence; we depart immediately."

Lin Zhan said in a heavy voice.

He raised his hand, and a simple, ancient bronze token appeared in his palm.

Profound spatial runes were carved upon the token.

He injected a massive amount of energy into it, and the bronze token suddenly burst with light!

Buzz—!!!

The space in front of them began to distort violently, rippling like water.

A gate constructed of light, teeming with spatial fluctuations, slowly emerged.

This was the secret passage leading to the Ninth Heaven Pass!

"Go!"

Lin Zhan took the lead and was the first to step into the light gate.

Tie Kuang, Shangguan Jinghong, and the other Martial Gods followed closely behind.

Augustine and the others, after performing a solemn salute toward Lin Yuan and the group, transformed into streaks of light and departed rapidly in different directions.

They needed to bring the Alliance's resolutions back to their respective countries with the utmost speed.

Soon, only Lin Yuan remained in the field.

He took one last look at this world he had personally reshaped, his gaze lingering for a moment on that bottomless canyon.

Then, he turned around and stepped into the spatial gate without the slightest hesitation.

As his figure disappeared,

the light gate also slowly closed, eventually dissipating into nothingness.

Tranquility returned to the world once more.

It was as if the world-destroying battle of gods and demons from before was merely a dream.

In the distance, Su Li stared blankly in the direction where Lin Yuan had vanished, speechless for a long time.

She could feel that the distance between her and that man had become so vast that it was beyond words.

They were already people of two different worlds.

"Hey, stop staring; he's already long gone."

Gu Ningxue walked over and patted her on the shoulder, her tone carrying a hint of bitterness.

"Instead of wallowing in sorrow here, you'd better hurry back and properly comprehend that endless treasury the Great God left for us."

She shook her head, an excited expression appearing on her face.

"I feel that if I can digest even one percent—no, one-thousandth—of that Sword Intent in my mind, I can immediately Breakthrough to the Huagang Realm!"

"When that time comes, I'm going to the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield too!"

"I want to go and see for myself exactly what kind of magnificent world it is!"

An unprecedented fire burned in Gu Ningxue's eyes.

Lin Yuan's strength, rather than making her feel despair, had stimulated the unyielding pride deep within her heart!

Hearing this, Su Li's body shuddered slightly.

She turned her head to look at Gu Ningxue's face, which was filled with Battle Intent, and then at the Dragon Country army in the distance assembling to return to base.

The bit of confusion and sadness in her heart was instantly replaced by an even more fiery emotion.

Indeed.

The road is still long.

The battle has only just begun!

...The moment he stepped through the spatial gate, a completely different worldly aura rushed toward him.

It was a scent that was... heavy, desolate, and filled with iron and blood.

Lin Yuan's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.

Gravity.

It was at least three times that of Blue Star.

The air was permeated with an energy more than ten times denser than that of Blue Star.

However, this energy was extremely chaotic, filled with a violent and turbulent aura.

For ordinary Martial Artists, staying in this environment for too long would not be beneficial; instead, the violent energy would erode their Meridians and lead to Qi Deviation.

Only powerhouses who had reached their level could breathe freely in this environment and convert this violent energy into their own power.

"Is this... the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield?"

The Mountain-Swallowing War God, Tie Kuang, took a deep breath. Sensing the violent aura in the air, a look of extreme excitement appeared on his face.

His burly frame seemed even more at ease in this high-gravity environment, like a fish returning to water.

These Martial Gods usually had their own responsibilities.

Many of them were responsible for guarding the borders, and not everyone had been to the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield.

Everyone looked around.

They were currently on an incredibly massive plaza built from bluish-black giant stones.

The ground of the plaza was covered in marks from blades and axes, and dark red bloodstains had long since seeped deep into the cracks of the stones, impossible to wash away.

The sky was not blue.

Instead, it was a strange, dusky yellow twilight.

Three "suns" of different sizes and colors hung high in the sky, emitting a cold and deathly light.

And directly in front of the plaza,

a giant city, whose grandeur was beyond words, crouched upon the earth!

The city walls towered into the clouds, cast entirely from an unknown black metal and inscribed with dense energy runes that shimmered with light.

Countless massive, hideously shaped energy batteries and giant crossbows were spread across every corner of the walls like a forest of steel.

An aura of iron-blooded slaughter and eternal resilience rushed toward them!

This was the first and most important stronghold established by humanity on the Ten Thousand Races Battlefield.

The final pass of the Ninth Heaven Pass.

The Demon Suppressing Pass!

"Welcome to... humanity's final bastion."

Lin Zhan's voice carried a hint of age and heaviness.

"One step out from here, and it is a true meat grinder."

His gaze moved past the towering city walls toward that dusky, boundless wilderness.

Just then,

a series of hurried footsteps approached.

A group of generals wearing various types of battle armor and possessing powerful auras quickly came out from the city to meet them.

At the head was a one-armed, one-eyed old man whose face was covered in scars.

He wore the standard general's armor of the Dragon Country. Although he had only one eye, that single eye flashed with a light sharper than a hawk's!

When he saw Lin Zhan, an expression of extreme excitement appeared on his weather-beaten face!

"Old Marshal!"

The one-eyed old man rushed forward and gave Lin Zhan a standard military salute!

"Qin Pojun, Commander of the Demon Suppressing Pass! Greetings, Dragon Marshal!"

Behind him, the generals from different countries and of various skin tones also paid their highest respects to Lin Zhan, Augustine, and the others!

"Old Qin, you're not dead yet?"

Lin Zhan looked at the one-armed veteran before him, also filled with emotion.

Qin Pojun was once a soldier under him and had been stationed at the Demon Suppressing Pass for sixty full years!

"If the Old Marshal is not dead, Pojun would not dare die first!"

Qin Pojun's voice was powerful and resonant!

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Qin Pojun's expression immediately became extremely solemn.

"Old Marshal, everyone, you've arrived at just the right time!"

"Three days ago, the 'Void Worms' launched their largest siege in a century!"

"Although we barely held on, seventy percent of the defensive formations on the western section of the wall have been destroyed by their 'Rain of Corrosion'!"

"Now, they are massing their army and could launch the next general offensive at any moment!"

Hearing this news, everyone's hearts sank.

The situation was even more severe than they had imagined!

"Take us to see it."

Lin Zhan said in a deep voice.

"Yes!"

Qin Pojun immediately led the way, guiding everyone across the plaza and into the interior of the Demon Suppressing Pass.

Upon entering the city, an even noisier and more complex atmosphere rushed toward them.

On the broad streets, soldiers from various countries of Blue Star were coming and going.

Some wore standard military uniforms, walking with steady steps and strict discipline.

Others were in small groups, wearing all sorts of combat gear, looking more like free mercenaries.

The architectural styles on both sides of the street were also vastly different.

On one side were the eaves and brackets of the Dragon Country style, solemn and dignified.

On the other side might be the Gothic spires of the Oulu Alliance style, filled with a religious and artistic aura.

Further ahead, one could see the rugged stone houses of North Bear Country, with giant beast bones hanging by the doors.

"Our Demon Suppressing Pass is nominally humanity's common line of defense,"

Qin Pojun explained as he walked.

"But due to historical reasons, the teams from each country are still used to being stationed in different areas based on their respective camps."

"The East City is the base for our Dragon Country."

"The West City is the technology zone for White Eagle Country."

"The South City is the Holy Light and magic zone for the Oulu Alliance."

"The North City is the territory of those rough fellows from North Bear Country."

"Everyone usually minds their own business and only follows the unified dispatch of the Joint Command when resisting foreign enemies."

Qin Pojun's tone carried a hint of helplessness.

This model, which seemed united but was actually internally divided, had always been the greatest hidden danger of the Demon Suppressing Pass.

Lin Zhan and the others frowned upon hearing this.

They knew that this was precisely the first problem the 'Humanity Guardian Alliance' needed to solve!

All forces must be twisted into a single rope!