"Slay demons!"
"Defend the people!"
"Protect the Human Race's undying flame!"
Atop Azure City's military towers, several cultivators clad in spirit armor held black drum mallets three meters long, covered in inscriptions. Their blood surged as they raised their arms and struck the mountain-sized deep-blue drumheads before them, roaring at the top of their lungs.
Rolling sound waves spread like river swells, shaking the mountains and wilderness.
The next moment, the Divine Army marched out of the city, its divine might surging.
With a creak, the heavy city gates slowly opened, and an endless, terrifying Divine Army poured out like a torrent of steel.
Their blood surged like dragons, their eyes brimmed with sharp resolve, and their armor and weapons gleamed coldly.
Hundreds of thousands of exotic beasts roared, shaking heaven, splitting earth, and sending their cries across mountains and rivers.
Crimson blood energy, eerie green beast light, chilling killing intent, and the deep-blue moisture between heaven and earth mingled and intertwined, glittering beneath the scarlet-gold sunlight.
Above, endless divine rainbows shot into the sky. Ten-colored clouds of light seethed, painting heaven and earth with godlike grandeur.
The Human Race's Divine Army matched the Demon Race in numbers. With all Nine Cities deploying, it too numbered a million.
A million soldiers galloped forth, a boundless spectacle. Every movement seemed ready to swallow mountains and rivers.
"Today, Azure City will be awash in crimson!"
"So many sons of the Human Race are fighting desperately to protect us. Before long, who knows how many will return alive!"
"War is a fiend that devours heaven and murders earth. When will this battle between demons and humans ever end?"
Many citizens of Azure City gathered in the streets. Watching dust rise across the sky and the million-strong Divine Army depart, they murmured softly, sorrow