Fire Crystal Minor World.
This lay near the center of the Horn Nether Domain. It produced a rare treasure known as fire crystal. Most of the Flame Giant Clan, which had originally rebelled here, had been wiped out several years ago. The Immortal Sect Conscription Legion moved in, mustered another army of flame giants, and sent them to join the ongoing expedition to suppress the rebellion.
Now, with the northern army in retreat, many races here began entertaining rebellious thoughts again. They were quickly suppressed.
A few months after the Skullblood Vine Demon Imperial Court besieged the northern army, the eastern and western armies arrived. They streamed into Fire Crystal Minor World through ultra-long-distance teleportation arrays in the minor worlds.
With these reinforcements, the battlefield began to stabilize.
The Immortal Sect now had more than ten million cultivators in its conscripted starry-sky legions.
Tens of millions of troops from the Skullblood Vine Demon Imperial Court's allied races surrounded them in layer upon layer of encirclement. Vast spells rained down from the stars, shattering the world barrier and striking the earth. Mountains were destroyed one after another, and lakes and seas were boiled away by terrifying magic.
Amid these dreadful waves of spells, the Immortal Sect's minor-world army groups stood immovable on their spiritual-vein mountains. They endured the assaults of countless legions without breaking and even found opportunities to strike back.
The Immortal Sect's conscripted legions were indeed outnumbered. They had been raised in haste, while the ruling races of the minor worlds had prepared for years.
But in training and battle formations, the Immortal Sect's legions outstripped the allied races by a vast margin.
An alliance was still an alliance.
Steel Bone King of the Skullblood Vine Demon Clan was hailed by the other races as the "Heavenly King," their