Seeing the eager gazes of the immortal soldiers, Lu Xiaotian finally understood. So that was it. It seemed his trip to Starcloud City had brought him something besides those immortal crystals. Still, their admiration couldn't be turned into immortal crystals. Lu Xiaotian thought a handful of crystals would have been much more straightforward.
Before this silver-traced army, its morale soaring, arrived, the immortal soldiers on this land had been battling hordes of demonic pythons. Hundreds of thousands of immortal soldiers and cultivators were surrounded by the demonic pythons inside the immortal city, relying on its defensive formation to withstand their wave-like assaults.
At that moment, the leading demonic python raised an arm and swept it through the air. A colossal python formed from thousands upon thousands of demonic pythons slammed into the defensive formation. The entire formation shuddered violently. Amid a succession of crashing blows, a gaping hole was smashed into it. The demonic pythons poured through the breach in a great swarm.
"Kill!" Driven to desperation, the immortal soldiers defending the city knew that without the formation's protection, they could no longer withstand the demonic beasts' assault. But they had no way out. Unless they fought to the death, seizing that faintest chance of victory—or at least holding the demonic pythons back for as long as possible—they would die all the sooner, becoming food for the beasts.
In this desperate battle, they did not need to defeat the demonic army before them. If they could hold it off for a few days and buy time for reinforcements to arrive, that alone would be a great victory for the defenders.
As part of the demonic army charged through the breach and into the formation, Cheng Zihu finally led the immortal army forward, driving into the enemy ranks like a sharp