In Sanmu Commandery, Wood Province, Yuan Yinying was in a foul temper.
Although the 150,000-strong army he had brought was pressing the siege with all its might, and commanders of every rank had personally joined the slaughter bare-chested, with officers and soldiers alike fighting for their lives, the assault on Sanmu Commandery was steadily accelerating.
By now, the Holy Eagle Realm army had stormed the walls of Sanmu Commandery several times.
Yet Sanmu Commandery's resistance was extraordinarily stubborn. A World King Realm general of the Great Zhou human race had forcibly relied on burning his essence blood and divine soul to severely wound one of their Dao Realm experts, leaving him almost without combat strength.
Yuan Yinying had originally intended to join the battle as well, but the Late Dao Realm old man atop the walls was staring at him with eyes steeped in deathly aura yet blazing with surging battle intent.
In the earlier fighting, Yuan Yinying, with his Peak Early Dao Realm cultivation, had inflicted serious injuries on that Late Dao Realm old man.
But once the old man began fighting with a life-for-life style, Yuan Yinying suddenly became afraid.
He feared that, like the man before him, the old man would pay the price of utterly scattering his soul by burning his essence blood and primordial spirit, only to land a vicious blow on him.
His bloodline, Yuan Yinying's bloodline, was noble. He was in the prime of his life and had a great chance of breaking through into the Creation Realm in the future. Why would he perish together with such a decrepit old man?
Thus, after finding an opportunity to leap out of the battle circle, Yuan Yinying stopped attacking. He merely locked onto the old man with his aura, making the old man equally