God of Pets-Chapter 683: Baili City

Chen Guan was also making preparations. The alliance between the Gong Family and the Demon King City against him was a big problem, but it was also a great opportunity.

He had been worrying about finding an excuse to eliminate the Gong Family's influence in the Pengxuan Grotto Heaven, and to take over their population and territory. Now, with this situation, he had a legitimate reason to take action against the Gong Family.

The key issue was that the Purple Sun City wasn't financially strong at the moment, and might not win the battle against the Gong Family and the Demon King City.

Chen Guan thought he needed to make more preparations. Otherwise, if Purple Sun City suffered too significant a loss in this battle, it might not have the strength to take over the Gong Family's territory, and it could even be taken advantage of by other families and forces.

Moreover, after taking over the Gong Family's territory, he would need people to manage it, requiring additional manpower.

Chen Guan was working hard to upgrade his pet and strengthen his subordinates. Fortunately, the previous battles had built up a considerable foundation for Purple Sun City.

Originally, he had thought to develop slowly and steadily, but now he couldn't afford to be cautious. He allocated resources to the soldiers, allowing them to enhance their own strength as much as possible.

The number of Purple Sun Soldiers also needed to be increased, or it would be challenging to face the upcoming situation.

That alone wasn't enough. Chen Guan was also considering whether he could find some external assistance.

After thinking it over, it seemed that apart from the Ten Great Families, no one could provide him with any real help.

However, the intertwining interests within the Ten Great Families were very deep, and they were unlikely to openly assist others against the Gong Family, one of their own.

And among the scattered cultivators, few had the courage to oppose the Ten Great Families.

Reflecting on this, it indeed felt like being surrounded on all sides.

"Luckily, I have the Imperial Palace. The Sixth Sense's power is insufficient to destroy the Imperial Palace. If worst comes to worst, let Purple Sun City's army and civilians hide inside the Imperial Palace," Chen Guan thought to himself.

However, this was a last-resort option, because Chen Guan didn't know how many troops the Demon King City and the Gong Family would send, nor if the Imperial Palace could withstand too many soldiers' combined attack.

If it really was an army of a million, even attacking in units of ten thousand, the damage caused by a million troops attacking together would be apocalyptic. Chen Guan wasn't confident that the Imperial Palace could withstand it.

What Chen Guan could rely on now was Jin Taohua's Blood Spirit Banner.

Under normal circumstances, the Blood Spirit Army was hard to match regular army troops, but if Chen Guan used the name of God and the Spirit of the Cheerleaders to control the Blood Spirit Army, then he could transform them into a formidable legion that wouldn't fall behind when matched against regular troops.

The crucial point was the Blood Spirit Army had a sufficient quantity—there were tens of millions of Blood Spirits.

However, if he used this method, Jin Taohua might become suspicious of his relationship with Blood Spirit No.6, and Chen Guan didn't know how she would react then.

Of course, if it came to the point of no return, Chen Guan would have to take that risk.

Chen Guan explained the situation to several core leaders, and they discussed strategies together. But due to insufficient intelligence, they didn't know how many people the Gong Family and the Demon King City would send, and couldn't come up with any solutions. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Such confidential information, if Ximen's Drunkard knew it so early, it shows that his intelligence network is very powerful. We must bring him and his intelligence network over," Chen Guan schemed in his mind.

As there were no better options and no external support, Chen Guan could only think about reducing the enemy's numbers first.

He couldn't touch the Gong Family yet. If he moved against them now, it would alert them, making them hesitate to act against Purple Sun City and positioning them on the moral high ground, while Chen Guan would be acting without a good pretext.

Then the Gong Family might request assistance from the other Nine Families, which was not a scenario Chen Guan wanted to see.

Since he couldn't move against the Gong Family first, Chen Guan decided to target the Demon King City instead, to remove the Gong Family's claws first.

To reach the Demon King City, there was no need to cross the Kunwu Sea. Demons traveled via the Kunwu Sea because they didn't dare to teleport to the Divine Land.

Chen Guan only needed to teleport to a grotto-heaven close to the Demon King City, making the journey to the Demon King City much closer.

Having made up his mind, Chen Guan instructed Fujimura Reiko and others to maximize their strength and train their troops well, while he headed to the Demon King City.

Of course, he wouldn't go to the Demon King City under the name Zi Donglai. Chen Guan planned to assume a different identity to first explore the new Demon King's base.

Everyone said the new Demon King was terrifyingly invincible, but Chen Guan didn't quite believe these rumors.

Based on his understanding of the Ten Great Families, he found it hard not to suspect that there was some collusion between the Ten Great Families and the demons.

Using external enemies to suppress ordinary people and small powers and thus hold power, forcing ordinary cultivators to become dependent on them, was a typical tactic of the great families.

Chen Guan found Xiu Yingmei, and smoothly reached the border between humanity and the Demon King City, known as Baili City.

This was merely one of the borders between humanity and the Demon King City, garrisoned by the Celestial Court Army, and currently led by Xiu Jie Ming.

The city was called Baili City because within these hundred miles, the Celestial Court Army and the Demon King City had repeatedly contested, with the battle raging for nearly a hundred days, with both sides investing massive forces in a bloody tug-of-war over positions.

The position in Baili City was lost and regained seventeen times, and the city, besides becoming a ruin, had also been blasted into a giant pit.

Within this hundred-mile area, countless pets, Celestial Court soldiers, and demons died, nearly turning the vast grounds of close to a hundred miles red with blood.

Baili City was eventually defended, but out of the more than a hundred thousand Celestial Court Army forces, less than thirty thousand survived, and the ordinary cultivators and pets died in uncountable numbers, the casualty rate shocking.

Even today, some call Baili City the Human-Demon Graveyard.

Every Baili City lord has been one of the most exceptional commanders in the Celestial Court Army. After numerous wars, the newly built Baili City has never fallen again.

Now it was Xiu Jie Ming's turn to guard Baili City. Without a transfer order, he had to remain here, even with the ability to sense the seventh level, he couldn't travel to the Great Cave Heaven.

As Xiu Jie Ming's deputy, Xiu Yingmei had also become a mainstay of Baili City.

"Do you really intend to fight the Gong Family to the end?" Xiu Yingmei asked, leaning against the bed, looking at Chen Guan.

She knew Zi Donglai was really Chen Guan, but she hadn't told anyone else, not even Xiu Jie Ming.

"The Gong Family wants to fight me to the end." Chen Guan shrugged.

Xiu Yingmei gave him a sidelong glance. "I know you well enough; even if the Gong Family didn't move against you, you would have found a way to deal with them. Don't bother saying things that are useless to me."

Chen Guan, with thick skin, said, "It's as you said, you do understand me. Indeed, you are my confidante."

"Stop trying to flatter yourself. Who's your confidante? I'm your superior; you're my subordinate. Don't forget, you still have the mission to go undercover at Ji Nanhong's place." Xiu Yingmei said, and couldn't help but laugh.

If Chen Guan managed to win this battle, his future achievements would be immeasurable, making him a dominant force.

The idea of someone like that going undercover at Ji Nanhong's place seemed amusing even to Xiu Yingmei.

Thinking about having such a figure beside her now, massaging her shoulders with an obedient demeanor, Xiu Yingmei couldn't help but narrow her eyes.