After about ten minutes, the First and Fourth Battalions—a total of four thousand Judgment Heavenly Army soldiers—gathered outside Judgment City. Everything was the same as before, except Gui Mei had also cosplayed Qian Jun.
"Ahem, enough. All troops, heed my command. Depart for the Blood Cavern Mountains!!!"
"We obey!!!"
Immediately, the four thousand Judgment Heavenly Army soldiers marched mightily toward the Blood Cavern Mountains.
Deep within the Blood Cavern Mountains.
The skies above the Blood Cavern Mountains were shrouded in dense blood-colored mist. Even the noon sunlight could barely pierce through it, while the air was filled with a thick stench of blood and sinister Soul Power fluctuations. Deep in the mountains, Scorpion Tiger Douluo's scarlet vertical pupils swept over the roughly five thousand evil Soul Masters below him.
Some had twisted faces, while others radiated evil auras. Every one of them gave off a nauseating presence. They surrounded an altar, their hands forming seals as they muttered incantations. Countless dense streams of blood qi rose from the blood pools around the altar like enormous crimson pythons, converging toward the Asura Magic Sword floating at the center of the altar.
The Asura Magic Sword was black as ink, with dark-red patterns flowing across its blade. Each time it absorbed a wisp of blood qi, the sword trembled slightly, and the pressure it emitted grew increasingly terrifying. Scorpion Tiger Douluo licked his cracked lips, his eyes filled with fervor. "Faster, faster! Soon, Lord Asura God will descend. When that happens, the entire Douluo Continent will tremble beneath our feet! Hahaha!"
However, the evil Soul Masters had no idea that, in a wide clearing less than two kilometers outside the Blood Cavern Mountains, Murong Huai and four thousand Judgment Heavenly Army soldiers were already on full alert.
Murong Huai activated his