It could only be said that human hearts were ever fickle.
When they had first mobilized their forces, everyone had been thinking about reclaiming Border Purgatory, driving God's Enemy out of his lair, and then giving the stray dog a thorough beating. What a delight that would be!
But once Ji Jue had actually shouldered his pack as they had wished, they were dissatisfied again.
At that moment, amid the dim heavens and earth, flames and Electric Light erupted without end. Cracks covered the hollow firmament above, while ash and blood blanketed the ground. Amid the devastation, mangled limbs and shattered corpses lay piled like mountains.
Within the scar, points of starlight rose one by one.
They launched a counterattack against the encircling army!
When Ji Jue stretched out his hand again, the cracked and dying Nether River Dragon threw back its head and roared. Its Iron light grew once more, and massive engines sprouted from its back one after another. Like comets, they shot abruptly into the sky, while Blazing Light gathered in its mouth and burst forth.
The scorching Blazing Light was sharp as a blade, slashing recklessly across heaven and earth, burning everything it touched to ash.
Countless angels charged forward one after another, only to be swallowed by its enormous maw or torn apart effortlessly by its claws.
Bracing head-on against the firepower and encirclement of countless angel legions, the maddened steel dragon rampaged and crashed through their ranks, ripping open a huge gap.
The White Knights charged straight in!
Yan Fei was at the very front, his entire body covered in the blood and torn flesh of angels. Blood Flame rose around him as his steel body mutated once more. Wearing a ring of thorns, iron wings unfolded from the bloody wind, and he raced