The entire Devil Race army came to an abrupt halt. The Devil Race commander seated within the aerial war fortress rose into the air and flew directly toward Xuanyuan Fortress under the gaze of the hundreds of millions of Devil Race troops below. At the same time, a figure flew out from Xuanyuan Fortress toward the Devil Race army. Both moved like lightning, and after each had flown more than a hundred kilometers, they met in midair, over a hundred kilometers away from their respective aerial war fortresses.
The Devil Race commander stopped, as did the figure who had flown out of Xuanyuan Fortress. The two faced each other from roughly a thousand meters apart.
The man who had flown out from Xuanyuan Fortress was Great Xia's Grand Marshal, Zuo Qiu Mingyue.
Behind the Devil Race commander stood one hundred thousand Devil Race Knights, along with several hundred million Devil Race troops.
Behind Zuo Qiu Mingyue stood one hundred thousand Great Xia Knights, as well as the Xuanyuan Fortress complex and several hundred million Great Xia troops, standing solemnly east of the Wei River, separated by its surging waters—a natural barrier.
At that moment, even the air between heaven and earth seemed to freeze solid. Countless Knights and innumerable troops of both the human and devil races fixed their eyes on the scene unfolding in the sky.
"I am Sagus, Abyssal Lord of the Dark Domain in the Devil Realm, conqueror of the Hua Clan. Who are you?" The Devil Race commander's voice seemed not to emerge from his body or throat, but to rebound from the vault of the heavens, rumbling like thunder tearing across the sky and shaking all directions. With a single utterance, everyone within a radius of ten thousand kilometers could hear him with perfect clarity.