Heaven's Gifts Refused Bring Calamity; Beat the Dog That Has Fallen into the Water

Inside the Third-Order Cave Mansion.

Luo Chen reviewed all the intelligence gathered over the past few days.

A clearer and more comprehensive picture of Fallen Cloud Sect's attack on the Flame Alliance gradually formed in his mind.

Although that battle had lasted only a single day, its brutality far exceeded the civil war between the two Upper Sects.

Of course, that brutality was only directed at the Flame Alliance.

Fallen Cloud Sect's preparations had simply been far too thorough.

Five hundred Foundation Establishment True Cultivators controlled over a thousand puppets, almost all of them the long-range bombardment puppets that had appeared on the Accumulated Thunder Mountain battlefield.

They were not particularly difficult to control; all that was needed was enough Spirit Stones.

Round after round of bombardment plowed through the Flame Alliance several times, as though tilling a field.

And the Flame Alliance's hidden reserves, suddenly revealed to the world—fourteen Golden Core Immortals in total—were utterly insufficient before Fallen Cloud Sect's Ten Great Golden Cores.

For while Fallen Cloud Sect seemed to have only ten Golden Cores, they were truly no different from having twenty.

Every one of them possessed powerful Divine Sense!

Beyond their conventional methods, each of them controlled Tier 3 puppets comparable to Golden Core Cultivators, creating a situation where many fought against few.

Moreover, in terms of the highest-level Late Stage Golden Core combat power, Fallen Cloud Sect had formed an absolute suppression.

Cheng Yan of Fallen Cloud Sect, Golden Core Ninth Layer!

He was also the senior brother of Fallen Cloud Sect's Han Zhan Zhenren, and his methods had always been extraordinarily formidable.

In that battle, he had even brought out a puppet refined by Han Zhan Zhenren over these years, its power nearly comparable to a Nascent Soul Early Stage cultivator.

Under such an