Chapter 731 – Machine Gun and Artillery
The Divine Race who were turned into ice were immediately absorbed into the Space and were quickly turned into undead.
The attack of the magic cannon made the Divine Race army surprised. They never expected that the simply useless magic cannons would actually kill a hundred of them. This made the Divine Race army startled, but this disturbance quickly calmed down.
The silver commander looked at this with shock. He didn't think that the Ark Continent's magic cannons would actually be this powerful.
At this time, Zhao Hai led Berry and Shue back to the city. Then when they managed to enter it, the magic formation immediately activated.
When the magic formation got up, Zhao Hai laughed towards Silver Shuke and said, "Silver Shuke, are you convinced of our magic cannons now?" Then Zhao Hai's figure vanished as he mounted a sneak attack on the approaching Divine Race army.
Silver Shuke stared, but he knew that he couldn't underestimate the magical formation of the city. Although the protective shield didn't look any different, he still made a careful order, "Let me break the formation first!"
The Divine Race army complied, then they reformed their square formation before Silver Shuke went to the skies and wielded his sword to attack the blue protective shield.
However, Zhao Haid didn't care about them at this time. His attention was currently on the sneaking army from behind. These people weren't a lot, only about ten thousand people, however, they were all God-rank experts. But even with their current strength, this army still found themselves in a bad situation. They were currently faced with undead both in their front as well as their back.
They were veterans in the battlefield, so it only took them a single glance to tell that the undead numbered about 2 million, this was a fearful sight for a small army such as them.
They wanted to do a sneak attack, going behind the enemy and eliminating them in one fell swoop. But who would've thought that they would actually be the ones who were caught in a trap. It seems like the enemy was aware of their actions and was already waiting for them here.
First was the magic cannon eliminating 100 of their kind, and then there was this undead ambush. Moreover, the army that could reinforce them had actually been blocked by the defensive formation of the city.
Although these soldiers were God-rank, they were too few in the end, only ten thousand people. On the other hand, they were faced with 9th rank undead that numbered in the millions. In this case, without Silver Shuke's group, they would certainly meet a quick and unfortunate death.
After knowing about their situation, the small Divine Race army steeled themselves. They knew that as long as they resist for a long time and wait for Silver Shuke's aid, then they would have a chance to survive. However, if they were to fall into Zhao Hai's hand, then they would definitely be exterminated.
These Divine Race fellows weren't fools. They came to the Ark Continent and also saw what happened to the Radiant Empire. Not a single citizen was left alive, and sole reason for this was the Divine Race's magic formation.
These people were nothing in the eyes of the Divine Race. In their minds, these people were no different to magic beasts, they didn't care no matter how many died.
However, the Divine Race also understood that their slaughter would definitely cause an irreversible hatred from the Ark Continent, especially Zhao Hai.
Even the Divine Race had heard of Zhao Hai's name, this person had destroyed a lot of plans that the Radiant Church had made. If not for Zhao Hai, then they wouldn't have been compelled to use their magic formation. But even then, Zhao Hai still had a grudge with the Radiant Church, and similarly to the Divine Race. If Zhao Hai were to forgive them, then that would certainly be very strange.
At this time, the trapped Divine Race army still believed that Silver Shuke would be able to break the formation in a short time. As long as the protective shield gets broken, then Zhao Hai wouldn't have the time to deal with them. When that time comes, they would use the opportunity to escape the undead entrapment.
However, these people have extremely underestimated Zhao Hai's strength. Although these people were God-rank, they were still ordinary God-ranks. And in Zhao Hai had a lot of God-rank undead in his hand.
When these people started to form their battle formation, preparing themselves to battle Zhao Hai, he suddenly made a move, throwing blood lightning beads towards them.
These God-rank experts didn't expect Zhao Hai to throw blood lightning beads one after another. Just as they were dumbfounded, the blood lightning beads exploded.
After a loud bang, several gaps were seen in the Divine Race's formation. Zhao Hai was very satisfied with the might of the blood lightning beads. However, he was also disappointed by the fact that the explosions of the blood lightning beads immediately turned the God-rank corpses into dust. When this happens, it would be impossible for him to turn them into undead.
However, when he saw that the formation has been broken, Zhao Hai immediately shouted, "Kill them, spare nobody!" Then Zhao Hai waved his hand as all the God-ranked undead that he had charged towards the opposing Divine Race army.
Shue also made his move, 1000 of his clones simultaneously threw themselves towards the Divine Race Army. In addition, Berry, Shiying, and the light element undead as well as Zhao Hai's own attacks also flooded towards the Divine Race army. All of a sudden, the Divine Race army was divided into different independent squads.
However, these people were worthy to be called elite. After their initial disturbance, they quickly stabilized themselves and started to resist.
These people were God-ranks who had comprehended their Domains. At this time, they simultaneously made their DOmains appear. What surprised Zhao Hai was the fact that their Domains were actually the same, all of them formed a long spear.
When Zhao Hai saw this, his heart couldn't help but turn cold. He didn't care about these ten thousand people, what he cared about was the might of the Divine Race.
Selecting 10 thousand God-ranked experts with the same Domain wasn't easy. For them to do so was a testament to their military might. This was too astonishing.
But even if Zhao Hai was startled, he still went on and continued his assault. He knew that the formation wouldn't hold up for too long against Silver Shuke's constant attacks. At the same time, the opposing 1 million army wasn't something that can just be disregarded. Although Zhao Hai had placed a lot of crystal stones on the city's formation, he knew that they couldn't support the protective shield indefinitely. Therefore, he needed to eliminate these people as soon as possible.
Zhao Hai's present strength was much more formidable than any ordinary God-rank. These people simply couldn't resist Zhao Hai's attacks. One after another, Domains were broken and people were killed before being turned into undead. In turn, these new undead would then turned on their previous allies, this was the convenience of black magic.
At this moment, Zhao Hai felt that the defensive formation of the city started to fluctuate, then it vanished. However, Zhao Hai didn't turn back, he waved his hand and released close to ten million undead to charge towards the approaching Divine Race army.
Silver Shuke's eyes were now red, he didn't think that their first conquest would have this disappointing result. Under his own eyes, 10 thousand elite soldiers were being killed. This was something unforgivable, he needed to kill Zhao Hai's group in order to satiate the hatred in his heart.
However, after he saw the dense and numerous undead, Silver Shuke knew that his hatred needed to be reeled in. He clenched his teeth as he gave a command, "Battle formations! Kill them all!"
The Divine Race army immediately grouped themselves accordingly before establishing their Domains. Almost immediately, all kinds of Domains appeared in front of Zhao Hai's undead army.
One must say that the Divine Race really did have the real skills. Not only did they gather similar Domain, they also grouped them into teams. With this arrangement, these people would be able to support each others' Domains in order to oppose the enemy. With how well coordinated they were, their might would surely be very formidable.
However, the Divine Race didn't expect that the undead would suddenly form their own formations. Then all of a sudden, blue light suddenly fired off. Every single person hit by this blue light has been frozen, then they vanished before coming back as an undead.
This was a type of formation that Lizzy and Megan had developed. They would use large bodied undead, such as the Dragons, and then place magic cannons on their bodies. They would then be able to be used as mobile turrets, allowing more flexibility in the usage of the magic cannons.
Although this method was good, the magic cannons on Zhao Hai's hands were just too few. He simply couldn't just use it to pressure the Divine Race.
However, they still had other means which were the blood lightning beads. If the magic cannons could be used by Zhao Hai as machine guns, then these blood lightning beads would be like artillery shells. A lot of undead had these blood lightning beads in their hands and would occasionally thrown them into the Divine Race army.
But Zhao Hai also discovered the the might of these blood lightning beads were also limited, especially to those God-ranks who had their own Domain. The blood lightning can still affect them, but only when it exploded in close range, of which the Divine Race could just eliminate the undead.
Although the blood lightning bead and magic cannons were limited regarding its capabilities to suppress the Divine Race, they still managed to divert some of the Divine Race's attention. With the possible lethal consequences of these two things, the Divine Race also needed to consider dodging their attacks. As the matter stands, the Divine Race was currently mired in a sticky situation of the battlefield.
Silver Shuke was starting to worry. Their side only had about a million people while Zhao Hai's undead numbered to ten million. At this time, Zhao Hai's 100 magic cannons changed their crystal to fire type ones. The red beams coming from these magic cannons were now causing explosions, which was also quite lethal to the Divine Race army. These actions actually made it impossible for the Divine Race army to make a counter-attack.
Chapter 732 – King of Kings
Since they cannot repel the undead, then they can't rescue the 10 thousand trapped soldiers. Silver Shuke can just watch as they get slaughtered by Zhao Hai.
For the first time, Silver Shuke felt being powerless. This feeling only came to him when he fought with other races in the Divine Realm. He didn't expect to have this feeling while in the Ark Continent.
The 10 thousand troops that went on to sneak attack Zhao Hai suffered serious casualties. At this point, 2000 of them were already left after the others were killed and turned into undead, and this number continued to decrease.
Nobody could blame the Divine Race army for being unable to fight back. After all, they were now being assaulted by more than 10 thousand God-ranks, and some of them were even their former comrades. These undead allies weren't weak, and all of them were even able to establish their Domains. It was no wonder that they had been completely suppressed.
More than 10 thousand people attacking 2000. Moreover, their strengths were almost identical. For the 2000 Divine Race army to be able to defend up to this point was already laudable. However, they were now beginning to get tired.
These people haven't used spells like the blood lightning beard. This was because they knew that even if this magic was useful to humans, they were completely useless to the undead.
When the Divine Race went to fight the undead, they discovered how formidable the durability of these undead were. Even if their arms and legs were crippled, they could still fight for quite some time. This ability was something that was absent from these Divine Race people.
Zhao Hai didn't have the mood to care about what the Divine Race was thinking. All he wanted to do right now was to quickly eliminate this army so that he can turn to deal with Silver Shuke's group.
After about half an hour, the 2000 remaining soldiers were finally eliminated by Zhao Hai. Then Zhao Hai turned to Silver Shuke's group as well as the battle that was currently happening.
One could see the miserable losses that the undead had suffered. The attacks of the Divine Race army wasn't a joke. The might of their combined Domains wasn't any worse than the attack of the magic cannons. With how clumped up the undead were, it was no wonder that the losses were what they were.
Zhao Hai asked Lizzy and the others about their casualties, of which Lizzy provided the answer. From the time the city has been attacked to the present, the undead losses had already numbered to more than 20 thousand.
This figure was within Zhao Hai's expectations. After all, the undead that he had sent were all 9th ranks. Naturally, they would be in a very disadvantageous place against the Divine Race. It can be said that if Zhao Hai wasn't able to discover the might of the magic cannons as well as acquire the blood lightning beads, then there would be even more casualties. Once Zhao Hai killed 10 thousand Divine Race soldiers, then he might have already lost undead that numbered to the millions.
Zhao Hai's new undead in the Space now counted up to twenty thousand, majority of them were from the prior Divine Race army. Only a few of them were acquired from the magic cannon attacks.
Although Zhao Hai has been doing well in dealing with the Divine Race army, it was still impossible for him to repel them. After all, the God-ranks in his hand were too few.
Silver Shuke also noticed that Zhao Hai had turned his head to their direction. His blood red eyes looked straight at him. The troops under his command had just been exterminated by this Human in front of him. Moreover, they were turned into undead, this made Silver Shuke angry. But since he was embroiled with the battle with the undead, he still couldn't order a full charge.
One must say that Silver Shuke was an outstanding military man. He knew that keeping a clear mind in the battlefield was essential to being an effective commander. If his thoughts were to slip, then he might get killed.
A reason why he hadn't ordered his army to mount a full charge was because he was afraid of the blood lightning beads in the hands of the undead. To be honest, Silver Shuke didn't look to highly upon blood lightning beads in the past. In his opinion, although the might of these beads were strong, the time to prepare them was also quite long. Moreover, after being launched, one couldn't control them. If the opponent doesn't dodge and just stood there, then they might get destroyed, otherwise, the bead would just be useless.
However, after seeing Zhao Hai's undead army and the blood lightning bead on their hands, Silver Shuke discovered that his previous thoughts were very wrong. Blood lightning beads could actually be used as an ultimate weapon, it almost single handedly blocked the advance of the Divine Race army.
If these undead only threw the blood lightning beads, then Shuke wouldn't have been worried since the explosions can just be easily avoided. As long as they coordinate well, then they can definitely avoid the blood lightning beads.
However, Shuke was quick to discover that the undead had another method of using the blood lightning beads. As long as a soldier takes the initiative to clash, then the undead would immediately take several blood lightning beads and directly detonates itself near the soldier. This would ensure mutual destruction to both parties. This was the method that gave Silver Shuke the most headache.
The undead weren't afraid of death, however, it was a different matter regarding the Divine Race. Although they had formidable strength, they were still people in the end, they were also afraid of death. Because of this, the suicide attacks of the undead had made them afraid to proceed any further.
Actually, Zhao Hai didn't want to use such a methods. The undead in the Space were intelligent, they weren't any different from a normal person. In this case, making the undead kill themselves by explosion left Zhao Hai a bad taste in his mouth.
However, if he didn't do this, then he wouldn’t be able to block the attacks of the Divine Race. This method wasn't Zhao Hai's original thought. Back on Earth, he had seen suicide bombers in the TV, bombs in driven cars or even just inside walking people. Whenever he sees these, he would groan, but he didn't think that he himself would have do it.
In the end, Zhao Hai had to recognize how effective this method was. After a few suicide bombings by the undead, Silver Shuke began to hesitate in launching a full scale attack. This caused both sides to be in a stalemate.
Zhao Hai also looked at the other big contributors in this war, which were the magic cannons. After discovering the use of the crystals, the power of the magic cannons have been increased, becoming terrifying weapons in Zhao Hai's hands.
But Zhao Hai was still not satisfied with this. He had all the alchemist in the continent unite and start to develop a new magic cannon. He had three requests for them, make a powerful cannon, make it more durable than the existing ones, and make them waste as less energy as possible.
Before the new magic cannon was developed, Zhao Hai had already told Patriarch Billy about it, having the Dwarves help with the process. Zhao Hai wanted to produce the ultimate magic cannon that was fit to be used in the war.
The newly promoted 9th ranks now had a new purpose, they were now in charge of refilling the empty crystal stones.
Zhao Hai had a lot of these crystals in the Space. Moreover, he has Bubble, so the Space can produce these crystals over and over. However, Zhao Hai didn't like the crystals produced by the Space, this was because most of them were of the water element. Although water element crystals were still formidable, they weren't really geared towards offensive attacks. What Zhao Hai liked to have were fire element crystals since they had an explosive effect, causing the most amount of casualties in the battlefield. Therefore, Zhao Hai wanted to have fire element crystals to be supplied towards the frontline.
Fortunately, crystals can store energy of a different element once they are used up, making it possible to have a lot of fire element crystals. In order to meet his demand, Zhao Hai adjusted his criteria to promote people who had the fire attribute to 9th rank. He wanted to have as much fire element 9th ranks to charge the crystals.
The people on the continent had no qualms regarding Zhao Hai's action. At this point, everyone knew about Zhao Hai's efforts in the frontlines against the Demons and the Divine Race. Therefore, they did as much as they could to not pull on Zhao Hai's leg.
The continent's most powerful nation's Emperor, the Rosen Emperor, was Zhao Hai's father in law. In the Lyon Empire, Zhao Hai was the acting Emperor. The Buddha Emperor currently had his people take refuge in the Lyon Empire, so naturally, he would give Zhao Hai some face. At the same time, the Aksu Empire was too far from their previous power. And even if they were in their heyday, they would still refrain from going against Zhao Hai. Not only are they adjacent to the Rosen Empire, they were also right beside the Black Wasteland, of which Zhao Hai's elite troops were stationed in. In this case, nobody in the continent would dare bare their fangs towards Zhao Hai's direction.
Just as the Dwarf prediction said, Zhao Hai had now become the Ark Continent's King of Kings. Although he wasn't explicitly crowned, every single resident of the continent were still listening to his words.
At the same time, the other races of the continent also didn't have any problems with Zhao hai. Although Zhao Hai promoted a lot of Humans to 9th ranks, he wasn't neglecting the other races. Beastmen, Dwarves, Elves, Fishmen, all of them were given spatial water and blood pond water in order to have their own 9th ranks.
Because of this, the other major races gave Zhao Hai their approval, giving him their complete support. Zhao Hai can now be said to be the uncrowned King of the entire Ark Continent.
While the research for the new magic cannon was ongoing, Zhao Hai also sent an order to all of the races. He wanted them to search for crystal stones. Zhao Hai didn't believe that only the Northern Icefield had these crystals. He believes that these crystals also existed on other parts of the continent, it was just that nobody paid any attention to them. Zhao Hai wanted to scour the entire continent for these crystals in order to aid the continent in the future war.
Although crystals can be recharged, they still had their breaking point. This meant that the crystals were consumable. They would certainly need as much crystals as then can in order to curb any shortages that may happen in the future.
While Zhao Hai was thinking about the magic cannons, he suddenly felt a deep and hateful gaze. He turned his head to look and saw that it was Silver Shuke!
Chapter 733 – Formidable Diamond Ape Tribe
Silver Shuke's fiery eyes were looking straight at Zhao Hai. If looks could kill, then Zhao Hai would have already died 10 thousand times. Shuke's hatred towards Zhao Hai couldn't be described through words.
Of course, Zhao Hai wasn't intending to become friends with him. After all, the Radiant Empire's citizens have been used by the Divine Race to activate their formation. Zhao Hai and the Divine Race's enmity had now reached a point of no return.
Zhao Hai wasn't a hero, and to be honest, he didn't want to be. If not for the Demons and the Divine Race forcing him, then he wouldn't have stepped forward. He wasn't afraid to live off of two acres of land with his wives, have a kid who would give him headaches, and even a cow to take care of. Inside his heart, Zhao Hai really didn't have that much of an ambition.
However, the pressure brought by both the Demons and the Divine Race had compelled him to fight for survival, making him end up to where he is today. He didn't want to be a hero, but he already made a lot of connections in the continent, he had friends, relatives, loved ones, his home, and he didn't want all of them to get affected.
The people in the Radiant Empire had nothing to do with him, he hadn't even visited the country before. He thought of it as the lair of the Radiant Church, his biggest nemesis. Therefore, how could he visit such a place.
However, he couldn't help but be enraged when he saw the fate of the Radiant Empire's citizens. This meant that the Divine Race didn't see the people in the Ark Continent as people, and this angered Zhao Hai.
In fact, in Zhao Hai's eyes, the Divine Race were no longer people. They were monsters in humans skin, they were beings that would forever be his enemies.
Zhao Hai looked at Silver Shuke and then smiled faintly. He gave Silver Shuke a small bow as he said, "Thief Shuke, do you still want to decide victory and defeat today?" Silver Shuke knew what Zhao Hai meant. Before, Zhao Hai said that his name sounded like a thief's name, so he called Shuke Thief Shuke. To be honest, Zhao Hai's naming had made Shuke feel uncomfortable, however, he couldn't do anything about it.
After Zhao Hai said this, Shuke looked at the army that he brought. Some of his men were turned into undead by Zhao Hai, and more than 20 thousand of them were blown up by the blood lightning bead. The losses of this battle had exceeded 30 thousand. This didn't count the wounded, their losses absolutely weren't small.
Although Shuke's army numbered a million, they were also the vanguard forces. The vanguard shouldn't have too much losses upon entering the continent, otherwise, the succeeding armies would find it hard to transfer here.
After thinking up to here, Silver Shuke coldly snorted and said, "We'll let you off today, Zhao Hai. Just you wait, when the main Divine Race army comes, then we will certainly eliminate you." Zhao Hai smiled faintly and replied, "If you think you are confident, then feel free to do so." Silver Shuke snorted, then he ordered, "Reform your ranks and slowly retreat!" It didn't take too long before the Divine Race army formed their ranks and slowly went back.
Zhao Hai didn't pursue them, he just calmly looked at Shuke's army. Shue and Berry were also right beside Zhao Hai. Shue received his clones while Berry went out of her stealth. All of them looked at the retreating silver army. At the same time, Silver Shuke was also paying attention to Zhao Hai.
When the army got back to the Radiant Empire, Zhao Hai, Berry, and Shue immediately went back to the Space.
Upon reaching the Space, Zhao Hai immediately turned to Lizzy and said, "Lizzy, have you calculated our losses?" Lizzy nodded and said, "We did, in the battle, we used a total of 892 crystals. The undead casualties surpassed a hundred thousand. However, we also received about twenty thousand God-rank undead. Moreover, the Space just gave a prompt, all fire element undead had now been upgraded to God-rank, but they only have Demigod level strength."
Zhao Hai was happy, "A prompt? Why haven't I heard of it? I may be too focused on the fight. Anyway, that's good. We have more fire element undead compared to the light element ones. How many new God-rank undead do we have?"
Lizzy smiled and said, "Right now, we have more than 20 million undead in the Space. However, majority of them are marine life forms, so almost all of them have the water attribute. In comparison, we don't have that much fire element undead. In total, we have less than two million fire element undead. Although they only have Demigod strength, they aren't that weak."
Zhao Hai laughed and said, "Good, fantastic. With these undead, the Divine Race would surely be surprised at our next clash."
Lizzy nodded and smiled, "With these many undead, along with the magic cannons and crystals, we could definitely block the next advance of the Divine Race. However, things wouldn't be that easy, Big Brother Hai, we just went to take a look, the Demon army has increased significantly. The God-ranks in their camp had already reached a thousand. Moreover, this number has been constantly increasing.
Zhao Hai nodded, although it looks like the number of the Demon Race's God ranks were incomparable to the Divine Race, he still didn't underestimate them. The Demon Race's fighting prowess can be seen as the strongest out of all the parties currently in the Ark Continent, it had something to do with how they lived back in the Demon Realm. Additionally, according to Cai'er, the Demon population was much more than the Ark Continent. And with how formidable their 9th ranks were, Zhao Hai didn't dare to neglect them.
Zhao Hai let out a long sigh and said, "The Demons shouldn't be acting for quite a while, however, I will still send light element undead to face them. Once we have the light element undead stationed there, then we can rest assured. After all, we now have a lot of God-rank undead, separating 10 thousand wouldn't be much of a loss for our side."
Lizzy nodded, at this time, Laura walked in. Zhao Hai looked at her and said, "How is it?" Zhao Hai was asking about the state of the crystals. In this battle, they had used more than 800 crystals. This rate of consumption wasn't small. After having emptied the crystals, Zhao Hai immediately had them sent to the Space and then to the different parts of the continent, making the various 9th ranks input more energy into them.
For the battles, they would need fire element crystals with a small amount of earth element as well. The fire element had the strongest attacking power while the earth element had the strongest defense. The earth element crystals would be used in the defensive formations, they should be much better compared to the water element.
When she heard Zhao Hai's question, Laura smiled faintly and said, "It's going alright. They had already started to recharge the crystals. However, the energy of those 9th ranks are still too low. It takes several people to fill up an entire crystal."
Zhao Hai nodded and said, "Don't worry, just take your time. Filling those 800 crystals shouldn't take too much time. Right, how is the situation with the magic cannons, are they being done?"
Laura smiled and said, "Rest assured, you might not be aware of the Dwarf craftsmanship, but they used to be experts in making weapons like these. However, they still need to familiarize themselves. They are able to make 30 magic cannons per day at this point, but this rate would surely increase in the coming days." Zhao Hai nodded, "That's great, with the Dwarves' help, we can relax even more. Right, how about the Diamond Ape tribe, how are they doing?"
The Diamond Ape Tribe was a powerful warring race. Their attacking strength was very strong, and upgrading their levels was something that Zhao Hai saw as important. Because of this, when he thought of promoting people, he naturally couldn't forget about them. Moreover, he was also placing more importance regarding their development.
However, Zhao Hai didn't think that the Diamond Ape tribe's potion consumption was vastly greater compared to the other races. Even the Elephant tribe would need less in order to promote to 9th rank. This fact astonished Zhao Hai.
After undergoing multiple investigations, Zhao Hai finally found the root of the problem. The reason why the Diamond Apes were slow to promote to 9th ranks was because both the Diamond Ape and their giant ape companion needed to be 9th ranks together in order for them to be promoted. Otherwise, it would be difficult for a Diamond Ape to promote on his own.
After having this discovery, Zhao Hai didn't hesitate and immediately promoted both Diamond Apes as well as their companion beasts. Then Zhao Hai tested how strong they got.
The tests gave Zhao Hai a glimpse as to why the Diamond Apes were called the kings of the Beastman Race. After rising to 9th rank, the Diamond Apes would undergo a huge change. Each of them would be able to acquire a new innate skill. This skill had a great relationship with their giant ape companion, this skill was even called synthesis!
After a Diamond Ape uses this skill, their body would combine with their giant ape companion. Not only would they be able to command the actions of the giant apes, but their strength, speed, and defensive capabilities would also be greatly improved. It was a genuine, real type of fusion.
Zhao Hai estimated that the Diamond Apes now had the strength that rivalled God-rank experts. And this was regarding a Full God, not a Demigod.
However, since the Diamond Apes were still 9th ranks in the end, they weren't able to establish a Domain. But still, once the Diamond Apes use their innate skill, their combat capabilities would improve, and they would then be able to contend with God-rank experts.
This discovery filled Zhao Hai with joy. He immediately went on and promoted the Diamond Apes en masse. But even if the Diamond Apes' strengths had been promoted, Zhao Hai still didn't make them go to the battlefield. The Diamond Apes had been fighting for their lives in the Northern Icefield for many years. Zhao Hai wasn't cruel enough to plunge them into battle once more.
The Patriarch of the Diamond Apes had even told Zhao Hai countless times that they wanted to be in the battlefield. But Zhao Hai still didn't take them there. Instead, he told them that he wanted them to guard the Black Wasteland. He discussed this matter with the Patriarch. The Black Wasteland was now Zhao Hai's root, once the Demons or the Divine Race finds out that about this place, then they would definitely target it in their future attacks. It wouldn't be good if a powerful guard force wasn't stationed here. Because of this, Zhao Hai appointed the Diamond Apes to be the guardians of the wasteland, of which the Patriarch agreed. Therefore, Zhao Hai was now relieved with regards to the security of the Black Wasteland.