Sun Shangxiang let out a shriek like a cuckoo crying blood, her eyes sharp with hatred as she stared at Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha, who hovered alone high in the sky...
Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha retrieved the Sea-Calming Pearl and was about to unleash it again when his movements stiffened. His heart tightened, and for a moment, apprehension kept him from attacking again.
Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha knew Sun Shangxiang's true identity very well. Although his actions were entirely justifiable and did not constitute an offense against her-in a sense, they were even for her own good-who knew what Sun Shangxiang would be like after awakening? What if she still bore a grudge?!
"Granduncle Master!"
Just then, another group of over a hundred True Buddhas arrived through the air and bowed to Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha, relieving his dilemma of being afraid to attack yet unable to refrain.
More True Demons also kept arriving to join Wei's descended True Demons. Clearly, while the two sides fought their great battle, the Upper Realm continued transporting reinforcements to strengthen the Wei-Shu faction.
By this point in the fierce battle, the Great Wu Palace had been completely razed, with not a trace of its former splendor remaining. Jianye Royal City had nearly been reduced to ruins. More than half its buildings had collapsed, corpses littered the land, wails rose everywhere, and the fires of war burned in clusters.
This devastation had mainly been caused by the shock waves of battle. The Wei-Shu faction had not deliberately attacked the common people or ordinary troops.
More importantly, only seven hundred or so of the Great Huan Faction's thousand Immortal Guards remained, while its ten thousand experts had suffered losses of more than half. The Wei-Shu faction, however, grew stronger and more numerous as the battle