A great many cultivators hurried toward them. Lord Huaishi's heart finally settled, and he stopped fleeing in panic. While doing his best to use secret arts and command tokens to withstand Xu Yi's frenzied attacks, he revealed his identity, explained that Dian Junming had been ambushed and killed by Xu Yi, and ordered everyone to join forces against him. He even announced a reward, declaring that whoever could wipe out Xu Yi would earn his persuasion of the Divine Lord to bestow the City God's position upon them.
Lord Huaishi was well known throughout the Jiangbei Earth God Palace. At his call, a crowd answered.
Just three breaths later, Lord Huaishi wished he could pull out his own guts and scrub them clean.
He regretted it more than anything.
He had never dreamed that Xu Yi's Spirit-Endowed Thunder Technique could be so powerful.
In a mere three breaths, more than twenty people had perished beneath Xu Yi's terrifying, uncanny thunder technique.
When the thunder crashed down, without command tokens to protect them, the experts' defensive arts were utterly incapable of holding it back. In the confusion, they had no time to form a battle array before Xu Yi manipulated the thunder and blasted them apart.
Seventeen Harmonization cultivators fell outright.
And all of this had taken less than three breaths.
Those with the greatest enthusiasm were naturally the most likely to rush to the front. Nearly every Harmonization cultivator left behind at the City God's Mansion had been wiped out in Xu Yi's first wave of attacks. The survivors were all terrified. No reward was worth more than their lives.
The survivors' courage had already shattered completely before the bloody, brutal reality.
Those three breaths had been Lord Huaishi's best chance to escape. But he had thought he glimpsed the