After the Phoenix's Cry

The sky above the Eternal City Wall was crimson.

Cultivators defending the Eternal City Wall crowded its battlements. The Azure Cloud Li Family had said that the Eternal City Wall was the sole defensive line of the Blue Ancestor's Immortal-Banishing Sword Array, and the Southern Border's first line of defense against its endless enemies. In the future, this line would expand into Qingyun Prefecture, until it sheltered the entire south.

The cultivators had come prepared to die.

The Eternal City Wall, still under construction after twenty years, remained unharmed thanks to the achievements of the cultivators fighting at the border. For twenty years, unease had filled their hearts. The only thing that kept them holding fast was their initial decision to enter the sword array, leaving themselves no chance to regret it.

But what were they facing? Immortals from within the Blood Moon!

Unease and fear clung to them like maggots burrowing into bone, until today...

They had not even known that the immortals had dispatched a fleet. They could only hear about it through word of mouth from their comrades, and in that brief interval, some had even resented their superiors for concealing the news.

Then came a deafening boom, and a phoenix's cry.

They rushed up to the battlements.

Violent spiritual power swept across the battlements, where a hundred colossal objects stood in neat ranks spanning ten thousand meters. Cracks had appeared in the wall. Several cultivators who had supported those colossal objects were behind them, swallowing pills to treat their injuries. And there was also...

The crimson distance.

Violent magical power still ravaged the air. A Qi Refining cultivator who ventured ten thousand meters beyond the Eternal City Wall would have to shield themselves with true qi, and the farther they went, the worse it became. After