Whether it was the upper echelons of Great Zhou or the Devil Race, their strategic vision—or rather, their response—was exceedingly swift.
That very afternoon, Blood River Military City received a warning from the Heavenly Patrol Division—no fewer than seven Devil Race armies had been spotted moving toward Blood River Military City.
At the same time, at noon the following day, the thirty thousand Earth Spirit Hall priests who had previously built the city at Laiyang Fortress, led by three hundred Earth Spirit Hall Dao Realm Sun Priests, arrived at Blood River Military City aboard Great Zhou's top-tier Marshal-class Spirit Boats.
In merely an hour, they erected a fortress at the entrance to the Blood River Forbidden Zone, one no smaller in scale than Blood River Military City.
Three hours later, Blood River Military City had not only doubled in size, but its defenses had also been strengthened by more than fifty percent.
The first batch of reinforcements from the Central War Zone moved into the newly constructed fortress, named Bloodlight Fortress, at dusk.
From this, it could be seen that when Great Zhou implemented this clumsy yet effective strategy of encircling the Bloodlight Aura, it had already taken Blood River Military City's predicament into consideration.
Only the army and the Ancestral God Hall could move so swiftly.
On the third day, First Prince Prince Huan Ji Ao of Blood River Military City also made his move.
He proactively submitted a memorial to Qiankun Hall in Luoyi, declaring that at such a time of great upheaval, as Great Zhou's eldest imperial son, he had both the obligation and responsibility to hold Blood River Military City, swearing to live and die with it!
How could the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Zhou, Benevolent Sovereign Ji Yan, refuse such an act that