Boom-crack!
The heavens crumbled and the earth split.
Huge fissures tore open across the ground, like primeval savage beasts opening their enormous jaws. In the blink of an eye, untold numbers of Great Zhao's soldiers and officers were swallowed up. Then came the sounds of sinew, bone, and flesh being crushed, and blood welled out in streams.
Panic spread, throwing the vast army formation's momentum into disarray. Cries of shock and screams rang out everywhere.
In the end, however powerful Great Zhao's army was, it was still a mortal army. It should never have possessed the ability to contend with cultivators, let alone kill them. Only the wondrous nature of Great Zhao's fortune, with its ability to break and extinguish magic, had allowed it to sweep away all resistance like rotten wood and fight undefeated.
It had advanced like a blade splitting bamboo, straight to the Jiang Kingdom's capital.
Now, that seamless body of fortune shuddered violently. An immense external force tore cracks through it, clearing the minds of the many soldiers and officers whose spirits had been steeped in fortune and rendered utterly fearless.
"Demon beasts! There are demon beasts!"
Shrill, piercing howls erupted. Countless soldiers and officers stared with wide eyes, their faces twisted and overrun with terror.
Amid the shaking heavens and trembling earth, enormous demon beasts filled their vision through the flying sand and stones, making their hair stand on end.
"Blood-Devouring Bat, Frost Wolf, Jade-Scaled Flood Dragon, Colorless Lizard..." Among the seven Jade Seal Immortal Officials, a beautiful woman in purple swept her gaze over them and snorted. "The Spirit Controlling Sect's four True Persons have arrived!"
As the greatest rival to Great Zhao's domination of the Jiang Kingdom, the Spirit Controlling Sect was naturally well understood by the Jade Seal Immortal Officials.
The "spirits"