Fang Dongbai saw that his attacks could barely break through their defenses and immediately changed tactics.
He turned every attack into a needle, unleashing a sky full of Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles at the soldiers climbing below.
The needles slipped through gaps and struck furiously at the soldiers' bodies.
But the soldiers below wore armor that covered them from head to toe. The fine needles formed from Destruction Sourceflow could only jolt them; they could not pierce the armor at all.
The tremendous impacts did throw them off balance, knocking quite a few of them down.
The army below slowed rapidly. Many of the soldiers around Fang Dongbai were new recruits.
Seeing him slow the enemy's climb, they followed his example.
The climbers were successfully held back. The commander of this stretch of wall nodded slightly.
That commander was a powerful Intelligent Spirit: the Black Rock Demon God. A smile appeared in his eyes. "These people from the lower realms have some ability after all. They found the key so quickly."
The battle remained deadlocked. The defenders tried one tactic after another, focusing entirely on delaying the enemy's ascent. They no longer hoped to kill with a single blow.
They had realized that their targets would not be easy to kill. All of them were intelligent beings, and even the weakest had strength equivalent to the evolution level of the lower realms.
For a time, the battle took a strange turn. The enemy could not get up, while the defenders devoted all their strength to holding them back. They remained locked in a tug-of-war, with no bloody melee breaking out.
But no matter how long they delayed them, some powerful fighters always made it to the top.
The moment they did, they plunged into the ranks of the Gods and