Li Xinge issued the first order after becoming Alliance Leader: all major forces were to gather their elite troops at Green Maple Valley and await the Alliance Leader's unified command.
Naturally, no one opposed the Alliance Leader's first order.
The heads of the major forces sent messages to their respective headquarters by every means available, ordering their elite troops to assemble at Green Maple Valley.
Half a day later, apart from forces too far away, the elite troops of nearly every other force had arrived.
After a headcount, all the clans and sects in Baihe County had a combined force of ten Qi and Blood Realm Cultivators, 297 Body Realm cultivators, nearly ten thousand Body Tempering Realm cultivators, and seventy thousand able-bodied commoners!
As the saying went, once a crowd passed ten thousand, it stretched beyond the horizon. For a time, banners fluttered outside Green Maple Valley, and the gathered forces made a spectacular sight!
Li Xinge stood atop high ground, with Old Ancestor Zheng, Zheng Cangfeng, and the head of the Shangguan Family, Shangguan Jie, at his sides.
Li Xinge swept his hand through the air. "Our destination is Feilong Gorge. March!"
His voice, bolstered by Qi and Blood power, carried clearly to every person's ears. The army moved out, shaking the earth and sending countless birds and beasts fleeing!
Feilong Gorge was a treacherous stretch of terrain, dozens of miles long from east to west, with jagged rocks and ancient trees soaring into the sky. Its only passage was a narrow road a dozen zhang wide. Building a simple checkpoint there would make it, in the eyes of ordinary people, a place where one man could hold the pass against ten thousand!
The tens of thousands of alliance troops reached Feilong Gorge. A scout reported that the vanguard