Immortals stood thick upon the clouds. Several hundred figures traveled in utter silence, led by the Celestial Immortals as they hurried through the starry night toward the border between the Southern Continent of Buzhou and the Eastern Continent of Sheng.
Underground, the driver Paper Daoist, carrying a full load of paper figures and Immortal Beans, used Earth Evasion to follow unhurriedly behind the immortals of Du Xian Sect.
Meanwhile, one of Li Changshou's Golden Immortal Realm Paper Daoists had appeared beneath the capital of Hong Lin Kingdom, frowning at the scene before him...
How was this merely critical?
The battle was basically already over!
Several hundred figures fought in the skies, and it had become a completely one-sided encirclement and suppression.
The once-prosperous capital had been swallowed by war smoke. At the eastern gate, an entire stretch of city wall had been blasted to pieces, while a mass of iron cavalry crashed against the city guards' last line of defense.
A mortal war.
More precisely, it was a mortal war involving Qi Refiners.
Most of the generals possessed cultivation. Fearing the backlash of karmic sin, they normally followed the principle of 'soldiers against soldiers, generals against generals, immortals against immortals.'
Li Changshou spread out his immortal awareness, surveying a hundred thousand li around him, and saw several other major battlefields.
Hong Lin Kingdom's defenses had not completely collapsed. In several directions, large numbers of soldiers and generals still guarded the land. The army that had appeared at Hong Lin Kingdom's capital had most likely slipped in secretly.
The two invading tribes supported each other, gathering hundreds of thousands of elite troops from the northeast and southeast to launch fierce assaults. Their momentum was nearly unstoppable.
Even without tonight's surprise attack on the capital, Hong Lin Kingdom likely could not have