Nine Heavens Spirit Maiden, Tang Shuyue

The Fire Cloud Great Empire, one of the four advanced Fifth Grade Civilizations under the jurisdiction of the Bright Holy Land, had also come under attack from the demon beast army.

The border defenses had already been breached.

They entered a great border city. It was utterly deserted, its streets covered in blood. Only crows perched upon the branches, letting out bleak, piercing cries!

Roar!

A saber-toothed wolf covered in black fur charged out from a Heart Nourishing Hall. Extending its sharp claws, it pounced at Ning Xiaochuan.

Splat!

Ning Xiaochuan did not even glance at it. With a casual slash of his hand, the Fifth Grade mystic beast saber-toothed wolf was severed in two and fell to the ground.

Treasure Pearl Earth Treasury flew up and landed atop a ruined ancient tower. Clad in white as snow, her long hair drifting in the wind, she used a profound divine ability to gaze into the distance. "The Fire Cloud Great Empire lies in the heart of the northern frontier. It is immensely powerful and has been fighting the demon beast army for several months."

"Yet not long ago, the Fire Cloud Great Empire's border defenses were finally breached by the demon beast army. The demon beast army has already slaughtered its way toward the empire's heartland!"

"If the Bright Holy Land does not send powerful cultivators to rescue the Fire Cloud Great Empire, then in three years at most, the Fire Cloud Great Empire will fall completely and become ruins like the Heaven Pivot Great Empire."

The Fire Cloud Great Empire had a far longer history than the Heaven Pivot Great Empire.

Within the Fire Cloud Great Empire's territory stood many great sects and ancient clans with inheritances spanning tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of years. Its cultivators