320: Chapter 320 Perhaps, only three breaths remain.

Amidst the bitter rain filling the sky, the golden phoenix embers belonging to Jiang Luoli ultimately flickered out.

As that spark of Nirvana fire, which had once illuminated the war zone, dissipated, the defensive line in the direction of the Huayu Association met its true, irreversible collapse.

The total collapse of one side's defensive line also meant that the four-sided defense, which had barely maintained its balance, was cleaved open as if by an invisible giant axe, creating a massive gap hundreds of miles wide.

High-tier Alien Demons could take advantage of this large gap, forcing the people on the other three defensive lines to face enemies from both the front and the rear.

What was even more despairing was that the massive planar rift spanning the sky showed no signs of closing; instead, it was widening due to the constant collision of the laws between the two worlds.

The high-tier commanders of the Alien Demon Plane seemed to have set their sights on Blue Star as a piece of fat meat, continuously pouring their top-tier destructive forces into Blue Star at the terrifying rate of ten Transcendence Realm Alien Demons per day.

The sky has collapsed. It is impossible to win a war of attrition. After all, the longer things drag on, the stronger the Alien Demon Plane becomes.

Facing this hellish war situation that was plummeting rapidly, Zhuge Jinyu's eyes, usually as cold as water and calculating, were finally filled with fine bloodshot lines.

In the makeshift, teetering front-line command post, Zhuge Jinyu looked at the large swathes of red, fallen territory on the map. The vermilion bird feather fan was gripped tightly in her hand, the ribs of the fan groaning and cracking under the unbearable pressure.

"Pass this order down: from now on, abandon the other three defensive lines."

"All warriors capable of retreating, evacuate immediately, and preserve our living strength as much as possible."

Zhuge Jinyu closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and decisively issued this cruel order.

"At the same time, order all warriors still able to move to shrink back to the core position in front of the East Sea Dam."

"We will only hold this final, small defensive perimeter."

"But Hall Master, once we abandon the flanks and the rear, the Alien Demons will surround us completely like a tide. We will be trapped and die!"

A trusted subordinate of Zhuge Jinyu from the Huaxi District Hall of Valor, a blood-soaked female general, knelt on one knee and roared with a hoarse voice.

"If we don't shrink back, we will die right now. You are also stationed on the front line; are you not aware of the situation where the front line is under attack from both front and rear?"

Zhuge Jinyu opened her eyes, her gaze resolute.

"Focusing all defensive pressure onto a single line is our only chance."

"If the position in front of the dam cannot be held..." She paused, her gaze sweeping over the devastated land, her voice low yet resonant. "Then all of us will simply perish along with Blue Star."

Yes. This was the only choice for humanity right now. Burn the boats and fight a desperate battle.

Under Zhuge Jinyu's iron-fisted coordination, the remaining human warriors, like the receding tide, quickly gathered in front of the dam.

And immediately following that, Zhuge Jinyu, Ye Jingjun, and Cang Mingyue, the three last remaining Transcendent Heroic Spirits of Blue Star, had to face the endless, sky-covering tidal wave of Alien Demons.

The battle was so tragic and fierce that it could not be described by any words.

With Cang Mingyue's inexhaustible mermaid water providing support and healing, Ye Jingjun's Heartless Sword intent that cut through everything serving as the main offense, and all of this combined with Zhuge Jinyu's unpredictable Eight Trigrams Array, the three women were like the core blades of a meat grinder, stirring up a storm of blood and gore among the Alien Demon horde.

However, while this method of shrinking the defense temporarily stabilized their footing, it also meant that the terrifying pressure of the entire planar invasion was concentrated entirely on their shoulders.

And in the constant fighting, all the warriors discovered that these monsters from the Alien Demon Plane had a shameless characteristic.

Simply put, even when the strength of the two sides was already unequal, those Alien Demons cut in half by human warriors would, nourished by high-dimensional pollution, wriggle their severed limbs and quickly split and resurrect into two slightly smaller monsters.

Furthermore, they would evolve. The slightly smaller resurrected monsters only needed to kill a few human warriors to immediately recover to the strength they had before being killed.

Added to this were the ever-widening spatial rifts and the constant influx of Alien Demons into the human world. It could be said that right now, the Alien Demon Plane and the Alien Demons were in a state of having both mechanical and numerical advantages. They were endless and impossible to wipe out.

"I have finally seen the logic behind the proliferation of these monsters." Ye Jingjun slashed a Thirteenth Stage Alien Demon to pieces with her sword, looking at the rapidly reforming minced meat on the ground, she spat out a mouthful of blood; her sword-wielding hand was trembling violently from exhaustion.

"Their main bodies are continuously produced by a matriarch within the plane. And when they gather together and enter the human world, they create extremely strong pollution in the place where they gather. This polluted environment is the hotbed for their further proliferation."

"In other words..." "Unless we can vaporize all the Alien Demons present, along with their souls, in a single instant, they will only increase the more we kill."

"My formation's spiritual power reserves are about to run out." Zhuge Jinyu's pretty face was pale, a trace of blood overflowing from the corner of her mouth.

"Don't forget, there are still Transcendence Realm Alien Demons pinning us down. Even if we drain our last drop of blood, it is impossible to kill them all at once. If this continues, by sunset tomorrow at the latest, the dam will be overrun."

Despair. True despair. Like a maggot to the bone, it tightly coiled around everyone's heart.

Just at this moment, Cang Mingyue, who had been silently channeling healing spiritual power to the two of them from the rear, slowly stopped her actions.

The peerless, ethereal Mermaid Demon King, looking at the vast ocean of monsters that covered the sky and the earth, seemingly endless, had a flash of sadness in her azure blue eyes.

"I have a method." "The ocean is my home field." "If I sacrifice my mermaid demon core, which I have cultivated for a thousand years and is close to turning into a dragon, and completely detonate all the ancient sea demon bloodline within me..."

Cang Mingyue's gaze crossed the surging sea surface, as if she were looking at a trivial matter. "I can forcibly drain all the temperature from this East Sea."

Zhuge Jinyu and Ye Jingjun were both stunned.

"The entire surging East Sea will, in an instant, turn into a ten-thousand-mile Great Wall of glaciers spanning heaven and earth." Cang Mingyue continued.

"Within that glacier is the extreme cold of absolute zero, which can freeze space and time together." "Those Alien Demons will be temporarily controlled by this Great Wall of glaciers." "But this control time will be very, very short, perhaps only three breaths."

Cang Mingyue turned her head to look at the two sisters beside her, her eyes somewhat complex.