Two days later, the Demon Ape Lord, Black Rhino Lord, Python Lord, Silver Roc Lord, and Carp Lord—the five Mountain Lords of the God Pavilion—led their respective armies and all arrived at the nameless valley.
Yet the three forces of the Lord of Crocodile Mountain were nowhere to be seen. Instead, they had fallen into an ambush on all sides, laid by the Nine Kings of the Daluo Territory, and were slaughtered in a crushing defeat. Their corpses littered a hundred miles, and their forces were routed.
At the brink of death, several Mountain Lords abandoned their troops and fled, only to be slain by the Asura King.
The Asura King, hailed as the foremost of the kings, was a Seventh Grade Sovereign.
Among the Ten Mountain Lords of the God Pavilion, only the Heavenly Dragon Lord and White Tiger Lord could match him.
The battle was fought beneath a sky so dark it blotted out the sun, and the very face of heaven and earth changed.
After the battlefield was cleared, the communication Spirit Artifacts used by the Ten Mountain Lords to keep in touch also fell into the hands of the Daluo Territory. They even learned where the last two Mountain Lords were.
Lord Emperor Mu decided to root them out completely. He led the Nine Kings and set off in pursuit.
Eight of the Ten Mountain Lords of the God Pavilion had already fallen.
The remaining Heavenly Dragon Lord and White Tiger Lord were no fools. They keenly sensed something amiss, changed their course several times, and finally discarded their communication Spirit Artifacts altogether.
But the two Mountain Lords had already rendezvoused, and the Daluo Territory was hot on their heels.
One side fled while the other gave chase. The old and new overlords of the Northern