Seven Purple-Grade Mechas landed in a plaza at the center of Tianluo City.
The roar of engines gradually faded, and their purple paint gleamed with a steady luster beneath the afternoon sun. The hatches opened one after another, and fourteen soul masters filed out, setting foot on this land that had just suffered a catastrophe.
Xiao Cheng jumped down from the mecha, his gaze sweeping over the surroundings at once. The Spirit Pagoda in every city could be called that city's landmark building, and from the plaza, everyone could easily see the Tianluo City Spirit Pagoda Branch standing in the distance.
Only, the Tianluo City Spirit Pagoda Branch was far more dilapidated than he had imagined.
This branch should originally have been a magnificent seven-story building, but now its tower was covered everywhere in scars left by battle. Spiderweb-like cracks crawled across the walls, several windows had been smashed by brute force, leaving only hollow frames like eyes that had lost their eyeballs, silently staring at the sky. The Spirit Pagoda emblem on the main doors had been scratched up with a sharp weapon, leaving only several deep gouges, as if mocking the former helplessness of the Tianluo City Spirit Pagoda Branch.
This branch had once been a sacred place where soul masters obtained soul rings and raised their cultivation, but now it had become a den of devils occupied by evil soul masters. The outer walls of the tower were covered in dark-red bloodstains, giving off a sinister, eerie aura. Above the tower's roof floated a layer of dark-red mist. It was the blood-baleful energy leaking from the evil formation as it operated, shrouding the entire branch in an oppressive atmosphere.
Around the branch, Federation mecha troops had already surrounded it layer upon layer. Dozens of Yellow-Grade and Purple-Grade