Look Down

As expected, the allied forces of the Longevity Sect and Heavenly Net Sect encountered the main force of the Crimson Fire Branch Hall, which had received word from the rear and pursued them, within Tiger Mouth Gorge!

Tiger Mouth Gorge lay north of Chihuo Martial City. It was named for its tiger-mouth shape and stood eighty li from the defensive zone of the Crimson Fire Branch Hall's Spirit Crystal Mine. It was the only route leading to that defensive zone.

When the Crimson Fire Branch Hall's main defensive force set out from Chihuo Martial City, the vanguard of the Longevity Sect and Heavenly Net Sect alliance had just passed through Tiger Mouth Gorge when news arrived from scouts ahead.

Drawing out the Crimson Fire Branch Hall's main force and then fighting a decisive battle in the wilderness had been the alliance's intention from the start. Thus, the moment they received the news, the Longevity Sect and Heavenly Net Sect alliance stopped advancing. The vanguard became the rear, and the rear became the vanguard. More than a thousand powerful martial artists formed up within Tiger Mouth Gorge, twenty li wide and roughly fifty li long, preparing to meet the Crimson Fire Branch Hall's main force.

Dao talisman messages flew back and forth. Before long, when the scouts reported that the Crimson Fire Branch Hall's main force was still thirty li from Tiger Mouth Gorge, the Brotherhood martial artists whom the Longevity Sect and Heavenly Net Sect had hired at great cost also arrived on schedule!

To be honest, the price they had paid to enlist the Brotherhood had made both the Longevity Sect and Heavenly Net Sect ache to the bone. But now, when they saw the Brotherhood's leader arrive with more than eighty five-hundred Soul Sea Realm martial artists under