Two groups of troops rushed toward Gaiyuan City. This place was originally the territory of the Xiangliu Clan, and Liu Xian had gathered eight battle-hardened Mahayana Stage Demon Kings, arriving at Gaiyuan City before Guldiao.
Traveling with them were Tribulation Stage and Earth Immortal cultivators, as well as more than a hundred Body Integration Realm great demons.
In the Immortality Cultivation World, every realm was a watershed, with the Tribulation Stage being the most extreme. The five tests of the Heavenly Tribulation meant that this realm alone had five great thresholds.
The higher one's cultivation realm, the less likely one was to successfully challenge someone across realms.
Against a Mahayana Stage cultivator—especially a fierce bird like Peacock Demon King, whose reputation resounded far and wide—there was no possibility of ants biting an elephant to death. No matter how many Tribulation Stage and Body Integration Realm cultivators there were, they would only be throwing their lives away. But the Demon Race possessed the Star Dou Formation. Passed down from the First Generation Monster Emperor for ten thousand years, the grand formation had produced quite a few cases of ants biting an elephant to death.
Liu Xian led eight Demon Kings skilled in the Tiangang battle art, then added himself to make up a numerically auspicious total. With more than a hundred stars summoning the Star Dou Formation, he thought that no matter how fearsome Peacock's reputation was, this battle would still end with Peacock falling in defeat, his hatred unavenged.
Actually, none of this trouble was necessary. Liu Cong's strength was on par with Kong Ji's; bringing two enforcers to hold down the formation would have been enough for a triumphant return.
Liu Cong disagreed, and the people below him did not bring it up either.
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