After Mirror Bird returned to the city-domain, it brought back news of the successful strike, and everyone in the city felt their hearts settle.
Yin Huanting did not relax. He still ordered the mystic cultivator disciples within the city to continue reinforcing its defenses.
The facts proved this choice correct.
Barely half a day had passed when a disturbance arose in the sky. Two streams of light shot straight toward Sleeping Foothill City-Domain. The arrival of Upper Layer power, though it had yet to launch an offensive, already made the entire city-domain and the earth beneath it tremble.
Mirror Bird immediately soared up to meet them. Spiritual light clashed and flashed ceaselessly in the heavens, turning even the night sky into daylight. The blinding streams of radiance made most people unable to open their eyes and look.
Yet this sight made everyone understand that the old army attacking Sleeping Foothill City-Domain was by no means a single force. Barring unforeseen circumstances, the first old army had deliberately been sent out as bait to lure them into dealing with it, while another force seized the opening to attack. No wonder information about that first force had been so easy to obtain.
But they had miscalculated one thing: Mirror Bird had not been tied down there. It had returned in advance.
Yin Huanting said, "They certainly had their calculations well made."
This operation had truly been perilous. Had they not moved swiftly enough to first wipe out one force, and had Mirror Bird not returned in time to defend the city, they might indeed have been wiped out in a single blow.
In the end, it all came down to the city's insufficient strength. This was the only card they could bring to the table; no matter how they played it, they