When the drums sounded, cheers erupted across the Inner City and Outer City. Countless people were beside themselves with excitement: they knew the imperial army had retaken the breach in the Imperial City! "Ha! The breach has been retaken. Those who fought their way into the Imperial City are turtles trapped in a jar now." The princes and marquises battling the rebels burst out laughing and led their troops in an all-out attack.
"Kill them! Leave not one of those who dared enter the Imperial City alive!"
"Now that's the Dragon Elephant Divine Martial Battalion. They're strong enough to turn the tide of the entire battlefield."
The imperial troops surged out from every direction as though they had been injected with chicken blood. They trapped the rebels within their formations and slaughtered them without mercy.
The giants of the Demon Sect and the sect masters saw that the tide had turned against them and immediately broke away.
They had to escape the Imperial City before the breach was sealed. Otherwise, there was only one road left: death.
Under the imperial army's relentless assault, the Demon Sect's Bright Heavenly King, the Fox Immortal Path Lord, the Thirty-Six Heavenly Stars, the Heavenly Sound Sect's seven princesses, the heads of the great martial academies, and the sect masters all withdrew from the Imperial City.
Of course, many were not so fortunate. Imperial princes and marquises captured the Demon Sect's Heaven Extinction Path Master, the Spirit Creek Sect's sect master, the Sima Family's Clan Head, and others.
The imperial army reclaimed the Imperial City. Rebels still resisted in a few districts, but the army soon crushed them too.
The court dispatched large numbers of soldiers and National Teachers to repair the breached walls and lay down formations on them again. Having fulfilled its