Pingcang Kingdom, Changlin Commandery.
The banners atop the city walls had changed masters.
The Blood Alliance's banners now flew over the walls, where well-equipped soldiers with fierce auras patrolled their posts.
These soldiers were, of course, troops under the Blood Alliance's command.
Once martial prowess reached the upper three ranks, ordinary armies could no longer do much against it. Supreme masters of first-rank blood exchange, with bodies like indestructible diamond, could easily carve through vast armies, slay their generals, and raze their cities.
In theory, armies no longer held much significance in a world where such tremendous power rested within a single individual.
Yet the Refiners' unique cultivation methods regarded all things as-while the slaughter of military formations and the contest of the battlefield were the ultimate expression of the surging tide of the Human Dao.
Thus, the mighty figures of the Celestial Star Sea did not emerge from secluded, single-minded cultivation. They immersed themselves in the mortal world and rose through trial after trial.
"Mister Hong, the one guarding the walls should be 'Thousand Eyes,' Li Qing. He's an unaffiliated practitioner of the Demonic Path. Though he's only at third-rank meridian opening, he was born with a pair of spirit eyes that can see in all directions, across heaven and earth. Not even a mosquito can escape his watch."
Bai Hongfei paused, a trace of wariness appearing on his face.
"To avoid alerting the Blood Alliance's masters, we should skirt the main city and enter from another direction-" As he offered the warning, he shifted his movement technique, about to dart southwest.
"No need!"
Hong Yuan uttered those two words, reached out, and seized Bai Hongfei by the shoulder. Like fierce lightning, he shot straight ahead.
Whoosh!
Like a dazzling streak of light, he swept over the city walls