Jiang Nan defended River City, fighting off wave after wave of the Beast Tide!
Meanwhile, the battle raging in Huaxia's capital, Kyoto, was fiercer than ever!
This was the strategic heart of Huaxia, serving the same purpose as a brain!
Kyoto could not be allowed to fall under any circumstances!
Too many vital facilities were located here. Even if the entire nation had to evacuate, Kyoto still had to be held!
This was a land of faith—and the roots of Huaxia!
The evacuation order had come from Kyoto, and the response had been incredibly swift!
From the outbreak of the Spirit Calamity until daybreak, most of the city's more than twenty million residents had been evacuated!
They had mostly been crammed into Kyoto's Sword Mountain Spirit Ruins and Hotpot Hot Spring Spirit Ruins!
The defense lines had collapsed and fallen back several times. Everything beyond the Fifth Ring Road had already been lost!
Using the city's concrete and steel buildings as a foundation, countless Spirit Warrior engineers had built walls over a hundred meters high to hold back the Beast Tide!
Large numbers of Spirit Warrior Units were fighting outside the walls!
Trucks carrying weapons and ammunition roared through the streets as squads of Spirit Warriors climbed over the walls and charged out!
Wounded fighters were carried back without pause and rushed to makeshift field hospitals. Once they were healed, they grabbed their guns and headed straight back into the fight!
More than a hundred armed helicopters fired Spirit-Binding Bullets in a frenzy. Supersonic fighter jets screamed overhead, dropping enormously powerful bombs on the beasts!
Every so often, flying spirit beasts blew helicopters out of the sky. Meanwhile, large numbers of Spirit Warriors rode Flying Sword Skateboards through the air, battling the aerial beasts!
The fighting had gone on from