The moment Xu Nian saw the immortal power surging into the sky and the half-bodied giant towering between heaven and earth emerge, the expression on her cool, detached face changed drastically.
Though she was also shocked and surprised, what she felt more strongly was intense delight.
She covered her mouth at once, revealing only her wide eyes as she stared blankly at the scene on the distant horizon.
Tears slowly welled up in them, shimmering endlessly in her eye sockets.
Through her blurred vision, Xu Nian felt as if she had returned to the far-northern Snow Domain, atop the walls of Yan Ting City.
Behind her billowed thick smoke from the burning of fallen comrades. At her side stood Human cultivators, exhausted beyond measure yet unwilling to become lambs awaiting slaughter, persisting in battle against the demon barbarians. Before her stretched a boundless, terrifying demon barbarian army, densely packed all the way to the horizon.
It was a sight that could make every battle-hardened Human cultivator of profound cultivation feel suffocated and despairing.
Yet within that apocalyptic scene, there had been a hope.
It was a heavily armored divine general above the demon barbarian army, a thousand zhang tall, its feet planted upon the earth and its head reaching into the void.
The entire demon barbarian army, several powerful demon barbarian chieftains, and two Immortal Dao Mountain experts who cared nothing for the lives of Human cultivators—
All of them had been held back ahead by that heavily armored divine general, unleashing earth-shaking battle fluctuations.
Though the armored giant above Jianshui City now had only half a body, the two were almost identical. Coupled with that vast immortal energy and the suddenly familiar aura, Xu Nian determined without a second thought that this was the figure she had thought of