The flames of war spread. On street after street, the private armies of the great clans fought back the insect tide pouring into the sky curtain, but the arrival of the two Saints nearly shattered their morale in an instant.
It was a collapse from top to bottom.
Western Pacification Prefecture City had once been a crucial border stronghold and was also the seat of Western Marsh Province. Among its great clans were no few high-level cultivators. Once they had resolved to resist the enemy, they had kept close watch over every movement within the city.
The Third Young Master's arrangements at the Prime Minister's Mansion, along with the miserable state of the three Saints who had entered the city first, had given them confidence in victory. But that confidence shattered into pieces in an instant.
The blood-soaked white wolf, also a Saint, struggled to rise from the crater. Meanwhile, the aura surrounding the figure wreathed in a dragon's shadow overhead was like an immortal descending into the world, its pressure leaving them unable to breathe.
Above the western district, the scorching sea of fire surrounding that old man seemed capable of burning away the heavens themselves, rapidly destroying the city's defensive formation patterns.
The moment these two newly arrived Saints made their move, the city's once-promising situation collapsed completely.
Yet under the present circumstances, they had no path of retreat. They could only pin their hopes on the Third Young Master of the Prime Minister's Mansion, hoping that he could deal with these two terrifying Saints.
But the thoughts of these clan higher-ups never reached the Third Young Master of the Prime Minister's Mansion, because Xu Yuan had no attention to spare for anything else.
After the White Emperor and the stooped old man appeared, the mere gazes they