However, once the message had been delivered,
Lei Jiuxiao's lightning avatar said no more. It dissolved into crackling light and slowly vanished.
"Fight to the death? With a million Fire Demons bearing down on the city, what chance do we have even if we fight to the death?"
"What else can you do? The Divine Thunder Shockbird has arrived, and the prefecture lord's decree has been issued. If we dare retreat, we defy the prefecture!"
"Then let us fight. Since the Divine Thunder Shockbird has appeared, the prefecture lord should come in person. When that happens, perhaps this crisis can be resolved!"
Several city lords harbored resentment and voiced a few complaints, feeling that Lei Jiuxiao's command was far too overbearing. Yet Lei Jiuxiao was a peerless Emperor Realm cultivator whose combat prowess shook the heavens. However dissatisfied they were, they could only obey. Otherwise, the prefecture's wrath would soon descend, and none of the nine present could withstand even the slightest anger from Lei Jiuxiao!
With the appearance of the Divine Thunder Shockbird, the closed-door meeting, which had been bristling with drawn swords and bent bows, swiftly came to an end.
After deliberations between the nine city lords and the Apex of the Ten Kings, the Divine Army decided to deploy immediately, heading outside the city to slay enemies and investigate.
As the Nine-City Divine Army assembled, the mighty Fire Demon army had also swiftly gathered. At that moment, it was scattered among several eerie, terrifying stretches of Demon Forest outside Azure City.
Thus began a hunt in which the hunters could become the hunted.
Because the city lords of the Nine Cities and the ten great battle groups lacked mutual trust, none dared entrust their backs to the others. In the end, the Divine Army decided that the