In fact, as early as the outbreak of war in the Five Elements God Realm, countless people in Tianming Divine City had fled their homes and headed north to seek refuge. Those who remained in this divine city even now loved this land deeply and were willing to live and die alongside Tianming Divine City.
With the army pressing upon the border and corpse puppets and corpse beasts leading the way, the enemy would certainly unleash their fiercest firepower to build momentum and win an opening victory. The people within the city had only one hope: hold on. Even if the city fell, they had to make the enemy pay a grievous price.
Under such circumstances—
When the Evil Dragon Army and the City Guard Army had suffered virtually no losses, while the enemy's three million corpse puppets and corpse beasts, along with their army of over a million, had lost more than half before even setting foot in the divine city.
Such results had exceeded all expectations. The surprise had come far too suddenly.
"All three million corpse puppets and corpse beasts are gone!"
"Entangled by our protective barrier, at least four hundred and fifty thousand enemy soldiers and their companion beasts were killed!"
"Heavens..."
As the battle report swept through the entire divine city, the people of Tianming Divine City were nearly beside themselves with joy, so excited that some almost went mad.
"The Nine Palaces Ghost Sect and the Six Paths Sword Sect didn't merely suffer heavy losses and lose the initiative—their faces must have been slapped swollen, right?"
"Maybe four or five hundred thousand soldiers isn't much to the allied forces of the Five Great God Realms, but Tianming Divine City has barely suffered any losses at all!"
Once news of this spread, every divine city