"The Immortal Extermination Alliance's Monster Race refined a Minor World into a ship, crossed the chaos, and launched a surprise attack on the Western Three Domains."
Some of what Ancient Formation Heavenly Lord said matched the news circulating outside.
But he also revealed things Li Chang'an and the others had never heard.
According to him, the Nine Great Immortal Sects' Spirit Transformation cultivators had already driven back the Monster Race's Tier 5 powerhouses.
However, vast numbers of Demonic Beasts below Tier 5 were still rampaging across the Western Three Domains.
As Spirit Transformation cultivators, they could not conveniently intervene. Forcing their way into the fight would look like the strong bullying the weak, so they had summoned everyone here.
The beasts would also give everyone a chance to sharpen their skills, adjust to a brutal battlefield, and prepare for the far greater Immortal War to come.
"So that was it."
After hearing him out, Li Chang'an fell into thought.
The overall situation was much as he had guessed.
The Monster Race had come on fiercely, but they did not intend to begin the final showdown. They had merely opened a second battlefield.
Thus, the Tier 5 Demon Gods and the Human Race's Spirit Transformation cultivators had not fought to the death. Both sides had held something back.
The coming struggle for the battlefield would fall to the middle- and lower-ranking cultivators on both sides.
Ancient Formation Heavenly Lord told them that the Nine Great Immortal Sects would each establish defensive lines against the Monster Race's incursions.
"My Myriad Formation Sect has already established eighty-one Immortal Cities, but we lack people to defend them. Young friends, are you willing to go to the front and hold them?"
It sounded like a question.
But everyone knew they had no choice.
If they