Zong Chi also chose to sidestep just before the Spiritual Impact arrived.
If there had been only one opponent, given his temperament, he would most likely have chosen to meet the attack head-on. But against two, he had no choice but to be more cautious.
Facing two people was nothing like facing one. The danger was more than doubled.
That beam of light instantly slammed into the city wall behind him. Wherever it struck, both the secret rituals carved into the wall and the personnel guarding behind it collapsed and disintegrated beneath the torrent of light.
But then numerous bright lights flashed throughout the camp, and a heavy, almost tangible field rose up there, resisting the force's continued assault.
Hong Ancheng gave a soft sound of surprise and removed the pipe from his mouth. "This Dinghai Army really does have some tricks."
By his estimation, that Spiritual Impact should have destroyed at least half the camp. Yet it had only blasted a huge ravine through the middle.
Zhu Kongqi said calmly, "No surprise. The Dinghai Army was built at tremendous expense by the Old Imperial Household."
The Dinghai Army was not merely an army meant for combat. It was a secret ritual force supported by multiple Superlimit field creatures, linked and interconnected through rituals.
Every fifty soldiers among them were equipped with a group-bound Mutated Creature. Even if some lost consciousness, so long as one person and one Superlimit Creature remained standing, all the rest would continue acting with the collective.
The rituals within the fortress were even denser, enough to dazzle the eye. Ritual Field Domains of every scale overlapped and nested together. Unless the foundations of those fields were destroyed, even if the outer structures were razed, they could retreat underground and continue resisting.
Hong Ancheng grunted. This