Under the boundless night sky, a figure stood atop the towering city wall, her calm gaze fixed on the Lion Nether Sect banners fluttering in the distance. Even she felt somewhat weary.
Since the war began, the Jia Ma Empire led by Medusa, along with the many powerful cultivators whose sects had been destroyed, had clashed with the Lion Nether Sect in battles great and small more than ten times. Every time, the outcome had been far from favorable.
The Lion Nether Sect had many powerful experts. Though some did not originally belong to the Lion Nether Sect, they had now become part of its strength.
So far, the Lion Nether Sect had revealed no fewer than thirty Dou Zun experts, including quite a few above the five-star Dou Zun level.
On Medusa's side, although they had gathered some defeated experts, their number was still only eleven, and that included Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa herself.
Had it not been for the immense strength of Medusa and Xiao Yi Xian, the Jia Ma Empire would likely have ceased to exist long ago.
After Xiao Heng left, relying on some of the things he had left behind, as well as Medusa's own overwhelmingly powerful strength, the Jia Ma Empire's territory began to expand rapidly. In just a few short years, the Jia Ma Empire's strength had entered the top ten across the entire Northwest Continent, surpassing ninety-nine percent of the forces there.
Even so, with the Soul Hall joining the fray, the Lion Nether Sect's strength had expanded to a level the Jia Ma Empire found difficult to resist.
Less than a month after the war officially began, the Jia Ma Empire had already lost one-third of its territory and could only retreat to defend Xuanhuang Fortress.
Xuanhuang Fortress lay beyond