Lu Xiaotian had originally planned to act alone, leaving the matter of confronting the immortal army to Ao Zhan. But after taking a turn, the matter had unexpectedly come back around to him.
His destruction of the various Star Forts around Starfall Lake had merely been intended to throw the waters of the countless starfalls into disarray, allowing them to spill into the surrounding immortal realms, shake the foundation of Honghao Celestial Court's rule in the region, and even destabilize Starfall City.
What he had not expected was for Starfall City to use its grand formation to divert the starfall waters against the enemy. If the water flowing from Starfall Lake poured down after all the Star Forts were destroyed, then under the guidance of the grand formation's power, at least half of it would head toward the mountain pass north of Starfall City.
The grand formation's power could indeed draw upon the waters surrounding Starfall City, but as a grand formation master, Lu Xiaotian could naturally see that it had a limit to what it could withstand. Releasing the countless starfalls from Starfall Lake would far exceed that limit.
With the Cloudsand Golem army in danger, Lu Xiaotian no longer held anything back. When he reached the remaining three Star Forts, he directly summoned eighteen puppet battle golems. Against a battle formation composed of only several thousand immortal soldiers, even with preparations made in advance, they were still crushed like dry weeds before the eighteen puppet battle golems and the four Celestial Immortal-level experts—Yun Zhongshu and Yun Zhongshan among them.
The direct commander of one of the Star Forts, a resolute-looking Celestial Immortal immortal general, forcibly raised his strength through a blood-sacrifice technique. Using a star-water mirror inside the Star Fort, he transmitted the situation here to Starfall City.