Chapter 579: Chapter 307: The Demon King of Heaven, the Commander of the Monster Extermination Army Appears

After some discussion, Lu Yun and several respected elders jointly established the selection for the life-and-death battle participants.

This life-and-death battle is crucial for the stability of the Endless Great Wilderness in the following time.

If they win, the Demon Race will give up invading the Demon Suppressing Pass and retreat fifty thousand miles backward.

If they lose, the Demon Suppressing Pass will be pushed back fifty thousand miles.

Therefore, only victory is acceptable in this life-and-death battle.

Since the selection for the life-and-death battle is between the early Rune Seed Realm and the peak of the Golden Core Realm, the Heavenly Prides of the Celestial Strategy Army must contribute.

However, most of the Heavenly Prides of the Celestial Strategy Army are currently on tasks to accumulate Luck Value and are not in the Demon Suppressing Pass, so the battle quotas cannot be determined for the time being.

For the time being, only the early Rune Seed Realm and peak Rune Seed Realm participants can be determined.

The lowest realm among the Heavenly Prides of the Celestial Strategy Army is the mid-Rune Seed Realm.

Therefore, the participants for the early Rune Seed Realm will be selected from the Monster Extermination Army.

Zhang Meng, a rising powerhouse from the Monster Extermination Army, has immersed himself in the early Rune Seed Realm for more than a decade and participated in hundreds of battles, killing more than a dozen seventh-rank mid-level Demon Beasts. Not long ago, he even engaged in a fierce battle with a late seventh-rank Demon Beast, eventually retreating unscathed.

After several rounds of selection, he became the participant for the early Rune Seed Realm in the life-and-death battle.

As for the participant at the peak of the Golden Core Realm, naturally, it falls on Lu Yun.

Although he is only at the peak of the Rune Seed Realm, his record of slaying the Demon King is there, and no one at the peak of the Golden Core Realm in the Monster Extermination Army is confident they can surpass him.

After some time, the Heavenly Prides of the Celestial Strategy Army returned one after another after completing their tasks.

Returning to the Demon Suppressing Pass means they have accumulated enough Luck Value to turn their tokens golden, earning them the qualifications to enter the starry sky.

Lu Yun also learned that the Luck Value required to change the token to gold differs from person to person.

He needed to accumulate two hundred thousand Luck Value before his token changed color to gold.

Although it took him less than a day, others, even Dugu Jue, couldn’t do it even in a month.

As expected, after inquiring, Dugu Jue’s token turned gold when his Luck Value reached one hundred thousand.

For Ye Xingxuan and others, their tokens turned gold when their Luck Value reached fifty thousand.

For the rest of the Heavenly Prides in the Celestial Strategy Army, Luck Values ranged from forty thousand to ten thousand.

That is to say, at least ten thousand Luck Value is needed to turn the token gold.

Regardless of whether you are in the mid-Rune Seed Realm or the peak Rune Seed Realm.

Of course, there is only one mid-Rune Seed Realm Heavenly Pride in the Celestial Strategy Army.

Lin Jinglei, as the only mid-Rune Seed Realm Heavenly Pride among them, has a genuine strength not weaker than those late Rune Seed Realm Heavenly Prides.

Keep in mind, each Heavenly Pride has the ability to battle across realms, yet Lin Jinglei is stronger than most of them.

As such, Lin Jinglei’s ability is exceptional.

After returning to the Demon Suppressing Pass, Lin Jinglei defeated numerous strong Monster Extermination Army warriors and was chosen as the participant for the mid-Rune Seed Realm in the life-and-death battle.

Of course, many Heavenly Prides still haven’t returned.

Perhaps they are currently engaged in fierce battles with Demon Beasts to gain the Human Race’s Luck Value.

Or perhaps they have already died at the hands of powerful Demon Race individuals.

As the time for the life-and-death battle approached, Celestial Strategy Army’s Heavenly Prides returned one after another.

When they set out from the Imperial City, there were more than thirty thousand Heavenly Prides.

Now, there are fewer than twenty thousand left.

Such a loss is undoubtedly disastrous.

Of course, the Demon Race must also have suffered massive damage, otherwise, they would not propose a life-and-death battle.

With the return of the Heavenly Prides of the Celestial Strategy Army, subsequent participants are determined one after another.

Without a doubt, the Heavenly Prides of the Celestial Strategy Army are invincible among their peers.

In the end, all the participants for the life-and-death battle were confirmed.

The participant for the early Rune Seed Realm: Zhang Meng of the Monster Extermination Army.

The participant for the mid-Rune Seed Realm: Lin Jinglei of the Celestial Strategy Army.

The participant for the late Rune Seed Realm: Meng Xiaoyun of the Celestial Strategy Army.

The participant for the peak Rune Seed Realm: Bu Fan of the Celestial Strategy Army.

The participant for the early Golden Core Realm: Xiao Qingyu of the Celestial Strategy Army.

The participant for the mid-Golden Core Realm: Nangong Xue of the Celestial Strategy Army.

The participant for the late Golden Core Realm: Dugu Jue of the Celestial Strategy Army.

The participant for the peak Golden Core Realm: Lu Yun of the Celestial Strategy Army.

Except for the participant for the early Rune Seed Realm, all of the others were Heavenly Prides from the Celestial Strategy Army.

If the realm of many Heavenly Prides of the Celestial Strategy Army did not start from the mid-Rune Seed Realm, it’s very likely that all the participants in the life-and-death battle would have been their Heavenly Prides.

Every Heavenly Pride of the Celestial Strategy Army has the ability to battle across realms.

The participants are undoubtedly the strongest among these Heavenly Prides in terms of their ability to battle across realms.

…

Thirty thousand miles away from the Demon Suppressing Pass, in the dark void, a huge crack in space tore open, and a pitch-black battleship emitting a horrifying aura emerged from within.

With the appearance of this massive battleship, all the light was swallowed. In the surrounding dozens of miles, the sky and earth were pitch-black.

Lu Yun and the others stepped out from the battleship, standing tall in the void, looking down below.

Thousands of miles away was an endless battlefield. Even at such a distance, one could feel the Evil Qi permeating the void.

That extremely thick Evil Qi would undoubtedly linger for hundreds, if not thousands, of years without dissipating.

“Is that the place where the life-and-death battle is to be held?”

…

Boom!

On the other side of the Endless Battlefield, a vast and majestic army appeared.

The Demon Race army had arrived!

Under the watchful eyes of all, the Demon Race army appeared. Their numbers were vast, with over a million soldiers. The weakest among them were fifth-rank Demon Beasts, all gathered on the other side of the battlefield.

From a distance, the massive Demon Race troops had various shapes and sizes. Some had bodies like mountains, some were shrouded in vast black fog, and others emitted a strong aura of brutality and ruthlessness.