Seven days later, it was the twelfth day since the Great Huan Fleet had officially reached North America and landed in San Francisco.
San Francisco Royal City was an ancient city steeped in the weight of ages. As a whole, it resembled an infinitely enlarged, interconnected complex of Western castles. Its outermost walls rose into the clouds, built from mottled boulders scarred by time. Behind them stretched countless castles, packed together like scales and comb teeth, spiraling upward. At their center, Devouring Gold Castle stood at the highest point, overlooking all four directions. Dense greenery filled the spaces between the castles, clear streams wound around them, and countless magic towers dotted the landscape. The whole city had a deeply mythical air, looking more like a paradise beyond the mortal world than an ancient city of the undead.
At this moment, dozens of sternly ordered formations surrounded San Francisco Royal City, their spears gleaming, their horses poised, their cold points thick as a forest. Their intense killing atmosphere and ironblood battle formations condensed masses of dark ironblood killing intent overhead, layered like black clouds encircling the city. Their overall layout resembled the grandest and most intricate Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Formation of China's Divine Land, yet left no blind spots. This was the "Great Ambush on Ten Sides Formation" with which War Immortal Han Xin had shaken the annals of history, capable of exerting the strongest intimidation upon an enemy and drastically weakening its morale and will to fight.
Martial Marquis Tong Meng Tian's Meng Clan Iron Cavalry, Heaven-Warring Marquis Wang Ben's Righteous Valor War Cavalry, War Dragon Marquis Long Ju's Loufan Elite Cavalry, Faith Tiger Marquis Ji Bu's Righteous Tiger Cavalry, Marquis Dayi Yang Ning's Flying Swan Feather Cavalry, and more-of the eighteen Great Huan marquises who had followed the