Night had fallen deep.
The world beneath the dark clouds seemed deathly still.
Yet in truth, a savage undercurrent had already begun churning through everyone's hearts like a colossal beast.
When Li Tianming stepped out of the civilian house and looked back, nearly all the tens of millions of people in the Divine City were staring at him with blazing eyes, their eyes bloodshot.
"Imperial Son, we don't want to die..."
"I still have so many things I haven't done. The woman I love is in Gusu Divine City. I promised I would marry her."
"Imperial Son, I still owe my son an apology. I've lived my whole life like such a bastard. I was wrong. I want to find him..."
People always believed life was long, that they could squander it as they pleased.
Only when death's blade was pressed against their throats did they understand regret.
"Everyone, relax a little."
Li Tianming grinned at them like a sunlit young man.
Xuanyuan Xie and the others had already repeated morale-boosting speeches countless times.
There was nothing more he could say. He could only step onto the battlefield.
He arrived at the southern city gate, where Jian Wuyi and ten Three-Origin Tribulation Elders stood guard.
The enemy would attack the city from all four directions.
The Destiny Divine City had only a million-man army. The south was the enemy's main direction of attack, and four hundred thousand soldiers had been left here.
There were a total of two thousand Two-Origin Tribulation Elders and more than twenty thousand One-Origin Tribulation Elders within the Divine City.
Jian Wuyi had kept the Two-Origin Tribulation Elders on the battlefield to hold back the enemy's peak forces.
He had arranged for the more than twenty thousand One-Origin Tribulation Elders to guard the Sun, Moon, and