"Since the Primordial Era, three thousand years have passed!"
"Our Eastern Wasteland Human Race has endured bitter hardship, blazing trails through brambles and thorns, expanding our territory and founding the Thirty-Six Domains. Only then did we establish the flourishing Eastern Wilderness Cultivation World."
"Yet these demon beasts are untamable by nature. They took the initiative to break the Ancient Covenant..."
After the Nascent Soul Cultivators had all arrived, the Soaring Sky City Lord began a long-winded speech.
It sounded quite pleasant, but everyone understood perfectly well that this was merely about finding a just cause before raising troops.
Everyone appeared to listen to his speech attentively, but in truth, they were all waiting for the real matter to arrive.
The Soaring Sky City Lord did not keep them waiting long. After a brief pause, he said in a deep voice:
"The Demon Race's wolfish ambitions should be plain for all of you to see. They do not merely want one city or one patch of land, nor one domain or ten domains. They wish to seize the entire Eastern Wasteland and wipe our Human Race out completely!"
"Therefore, my Mingyuan Sect has taken the lead in building Soaring Sky Pass here, to block the advancing edge of the Demon Race's army."
"As the saying goes, the first beat of the drum raises morale, the second weakens it, and the third exhausts it. So long as we hold them back, those countless Low-Rank Demon Beasts, with their dim intelligence and wild natures, cannot be commanded for long even by powerful Demon Emperors. When that time comes, it will be our turn to strike back!"
"Clearly, there are capable people among the Demon Race as well. They regard Soaring Sky Pass as a thorn in their eye and a splinter in their