Gu Xu's expression turned cold as he said, "Hmph. You and I are both among the finest geniuses in the Myriad Worlds. Why go this far?"
At the same time, a strange light flashed in Gu Xu's eyes. The armor on his back slowly parted, exposing the Black Crescent tattoo beneath.
The Black Crescent actually stirred, like a living thing, emanating a peculiar aura.
The Sages' Tree, Demon Realm.
The Sages' Tree's canopy spread in overlapping layers, covering an area even greater than the Saint Origin Continent, with vast numbers of Demon Barbarians dwelling within it.
Today, however, on a layer of leaves as vast as a continent, an elite army that had never appeared before the outside world stood ready for battle.
This army wore uniform black demon iron armor and stood in square formations divided by race. Its ranks numbered a full ten million!
Even the Demon Barbarians outside Two Worlds Mountain, where the Demon Realm concentrated its attacks, paled in comparison to this army.
The Demon Barbarians had assembled this army solely for Dragon City. To seize Dragon City's treasures, the Demon Realm had laid plans for thousands of years, keeping this army out of both Battles of Two Worlds Mountain.
Even the weakest Demon Barbarian in this army was a Demon King!
The Great Demon Kings numbered a million, and those in the Emperor Realm numbered a full ten thousand.
Without a Half-Sage to stop it, this army could slaughter almost any race.
Even against an ordinary Half-Sage, the Dragon City Army could prevail!
However, fewer than one-tenth of the Dragon City Army's elite had reached their ranks through their own cultivation. The remaining ninety percent had been forcibly advanced through external means. The price was that they had only thirty years left to live and