Two days later, Mount Heavenly Sword was as noisy as ever. Blood-red light shot up in every direction, reaching straight for the stars. When Heaven stirred with killing intent, the stars shifted; when Earth stirred with killing intent, dragons and serpents rose from the land; when man stirred with killing intent, Heaven and Earth were overturned.
The great war before them, which had swept across several Cultivation Realms, was undoubtedly a calamity brought about by human hands.
The three Cultivation Realms had formed the Battle Moon Alliance, whose forces pressed forward one after another, conquering nearly a hundred immortal cities, including Blackleaf City and Moonwatch City. Their army had already swept to the doorsteps of every sect and school. The recent attack on Soaring Heavens Palace by A Mu Sang and the other Golden Core cultivators was one such assault. But that had been only a small portion of their forces. The region around Mount Heavenly Sword had now become the last place in the Moonwatch Cultivation Realm where its defenders could rely on the terrain.
If the Mount Heavenly Sword region fell, the entire Moonwatch Cultivation Realm would have nowhere left to make a stand. It would lose the strategic advantage it had spent many years building. With the manpower it had now, it was no longer capable of facing the Battle Moon Alliance head-on. It was bound to be crushed: most of its forces would be wiped out, while the remainder would scatter to places where spiritual energy was thin, scraping out a wretched existence. Some might even become Rogue Cultivators once more.
At that moment, the various sects of the Moonwatch Cultivation Realm were still locked in fierce battle with these foreign cultivators, just as before.
The sects of the Battle Moon Alliance were also gathering large