More than ten thousand li west of Glazed City, at the border with the Leopard Plains, the new city Liang Zhaohuang and the others had built was named Soaring City—a homophone for "subduing demons," chosen as an auspicious sign.
However, with the enemy strong and them weak, subduing demons would clearly not be easy.
Boom! Rumble...
Standing atop Soaring City's walls, Liang Zhaohuang heard thunderous rumbling from the earth ahead, like muffled thunder rolling beneath the ground. As though an Earth Dragon had turned over, the land rose and fell in waves, surging toward Soaring City.
"Pangolin Demon King!"
At once, Liang Zhaohuang knew that the Pangolin Demon King of the Demon Country's Demon Race was leading pangolin demons and a group of burrowing demon beasts through the earth, employing the same tactic the Demon Country's Demon Race had used in its previous counterattack on Leopard Demon City.
They churned the earth's energy and destroyed its veins, causing mountains and land to quake, the earth to split apart, directly wrecking the foundations of cities built upon it, along with the many formations reliant on the land and its veins.
This robbed cities and formations alike of their defensive and offensive functions.
During the Demon Country's Demon Race's previous counterattack on Leopard Demon City, they had used precisely this method to shatter the city's defenses. The cultivators of the various clans and their battle troops had lost the protection of the city and its formations, forced to face the onslaught and assault of the Demon Race and the blood-colored vines head-on. After that great battle, casualties had been heavy.
And now, the Demon Country's Demon Race was clearly repeating the same old trick, seeking to destroy the Soaring City Liang Zhaohuang and the others had built, as well as the layered