"Grandson-in-law, you mean Grandpa has been sleeping on this thing these past few days?"
The young Taoist nodded naturally and said, "That's right, Grandpa. But don't worry, this thing won't explode."
Lin Tian was stunned, then relieved. "You kid actually scared Grandpa like this! Why didn't you tell me you'd made a technological breakthrough earlier? You played such a big joke on Grandpa."
"Technological breakthrough?" The young Taoist was taken aback.
"Grandpa, did you misunderstand? Our technology hasn't improved. It's still the same thing. It's just that I had my senior brother divine a fortune."
"He said this thing wouldn't explode in our hands. It would only explode when the Celestial Race occupied the defense line. Otherwise, how would I dare to use it?"
Everyone present instinctively looked at Lin Tian.
Divining a fortune?
Asking Zhang Haoran from the Celestial Master's Mansion to divine a fortune?
Could that be trusted?
That guy, apart from predicting whether it would rain today, hadn't been accurate about anything else.
Let's not even mention anything else. Take that kid from the Jiang family as an example.
The esteemed Commander of the Sixth Army Group, a Human Race Grand General, was actually divined by this kid from the Celestial Master's Mansion to surely perish after a hundred battles. He even gave the Jiang family kid a nickname, 'Hundred Battles Commander.'
The meaning was that you could only fight a hundred battles, and you would die in the hundred and first.
He had thoroughly confused the Jiang family kid, almost making him resign.
Just as Lin Zhan was about to comfort his grandfather, he saw Lin Tian directly hang up the communication jade talisman.
As the communication jade talisman was hung up, everyone could faintly hear Lin Tian's voice.
"Retreat, everyone retreat! Retreat immediately! Forget it, take all the supplies you can carry. If you can't carry them, leave them."
"What? You ask why we're retreating? Damn it, I feel like the Celestial Race is attacking too fiercely, and we can't hold them back."
Everyone: ...
That evening, it was heard that the first line of defense of the Human Race's Sky Road Fortress had been taken.
Qi Ming Shengzi, who had originally intended to intercept Lin Zhan, changed direction and led his personal guards to the Celestial Race camp attacking the Sky Road.
"Are you sure the Human Race retreated because our attack was too fierce, and not because their troops voluntarily withdrew?" Qi Ming Shengzi asked the commander of the Celestial Race's Thirteenth Main Combat Legion, who was in charge of the offensive, with a complex expression.
After all, the Human Race's retreat was too orderly. Although they retreated in a hurry, they were not flustered at all.
Furthermore, they had taken away everything they could, leaving behind only large defensive weapons that couldn't be dismantled, such as wolf-tooth clubs and giant rolling logs.
Although the Thirteenth Legion Commander also had doubts, the great merit of being the first to break through a Human Race defense line and fortress made him extremely eager.
He could only brace himself, salute Qi Ming Shengzi, and say, "Your Highness Shengzi, rest assured, this defense line was definitely captured by our Thirteenth Main Combat Legion. I swear to my ancestors that the Human Race was driven away by us."
Although Qi Ming Shengzi harbored doubts, breaking through a Human Race defense line was a great encouragement to the legions below.
At this time, no matter how much suspicion he had, he could only suppress it. After all, morale could only be boosted.
"Good. Issue an order: the Thirteenth Main Combat Legion's military merit for this operation will be doubled. Each soldier in the entire legion, from top to bottom, will receive an additional two months' military pay."
"Your Highness Shengzi is wise! We will surely repay your Highness with our lives!" Upon hearing of the reward, the entire Thirteenth Legion responded in unison.
Seeing the Thirteenth Legion receive rewards made the other legions cry out in excitement. For a time, the entire Celestial Race army's morale was high, and they wished they could crush the Human-Earth Allied forces immediately.
"Issue an order to the Heavenly Power Legion and the Thirteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Main Combat Legions to enter the Human Race's first defense line and launch an assault on the second defense line tomorrow morning."
Strike while the iron is hot; enthusiasm wanes with a second effort, and is lost by a third.
Since the morale was currently usable, Qi Ming Shengzi would certainly not miss this opportunity.
The Heavenly Power Legion, one of the Celestial Race's ten elite legions, coupled with four main combat legions.
Given the current combat strength of the Human Race legions defending the Sky Road defense line, even with double the enemy's forces, they would not be able to withstand the attack of these five legions.
After arranging the offensive, Qi Ming Shengzi ordered the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Main Combat Legions to station themselves outside the Sky Road defense line to prevent the Human Race army from launching a surprise attack on the defense line and trapping the Celestial Race's attacking forces within the Sky Road, thereby encircling and annihilating them.
After seeing that all the arrangements were in place, Qi Ming Shengzi once again led his personal guards to the Celestial Race camp. After all, Lin Zhan was his main course.
What Qi Ming Shengzi did not know was that his every move had been meticulously observed by a primordial-class Dragon Sparrow in the sky.
Long Zhentian, through a secret technique of the Dragon Sparrow tribe, transmitted everything he saw to Xiao Ji.
Xiao Ji then used her clan's divine ability to project everything, which Lin Zhan and the others watched with great interest.
Lin Zhan smacked his lips and said, "See? It's because they're too stingy usually and not generous enough to their subordinates. If this were our Human Race's army, you tell me, for those two months of military pay, who the hell would care? Let alone anything else, the Nine Army Groups have done so much shady business behind the scenes. Their monthly share is more than their annual military pay."
Everyone present instantly focused their attention on Leng Shan. After all, he was the only Army Group Commander present. They all wanted to ask him what shady business he usually did and if they could get a piece of the action.
Leng Shan felt the unkind gazes around him and quickly waved his hand. "Don't look at me like that. I'm the poorest. Forget about doing shady business, I don't have a single cent left even after doing any work." Sudan Fiction Network.
Seeing the disbelieving looks on everyone's faces, Lin Zhan chimed in, "Don't blame Old Leng. If it weren't for his wife Bai Qing being a little rich girl, Old Leng would be peeing blood right now."
"If you want to do business, go find He Dazhuang, Wang Erzhuang, and Zhang Cong. One is a bandit, one is a fierce bandit, and one is a water bandit. These three are all rolling in wealth."
Leng Shan looked at Lin Zhan with a wronged expression and said, "Old Lin, are you speaking human? When has my Seventh Army Group not suffered the most casualties in every war? Why am I so poor? Isn't it all for our Human Race?"
Lin Zhan pouted, "Oh, come on, Old Leng. Your dogs have two litters a year, and each litter can have more than ten puppies. The puppies can go to the battlefield after three years. You have the most casualties, but all the casualties are war dogs. Moreover, I'm giving you compensation based on the standard of our soldiers. Why don't you say your dogs can breed too much?"
As soon as Lin Zhan finished speaking, everyone present instantly looked at Leng Shan.
Holy crap, this kid is something else. We need to get along well with him.
If you calculate it this way, his dogs alone are more than the Human Race's army. Isn't this a definite big shot?