As one of the Nine Martial Sects, the Nine Abyss Gate's protective formation was not actually that fragile. Under normal circumstances, Chen Yuan, a mere Divine Altar Realm martial artist, could never have destroyed it so easily.
Yet the Nine Abyss Gate's protective formation was also nowhere near as powerful as those of the Lu Clan of Tianshui City or the Shangguan Clan.
Far removed from the warfare of the Central Plains, the Nine Abyss Gate had lived too comfortably in Yanzhou. Unlike the leading martial powers of the Central Plains, it did not reinforce its formations whenever it had time to spare.
Thus, its protective formation ranked near the bottom among the major powers. Nor was the formation usually activated on a large scale. To save Origin Stones, parts of it were kept dormant.
Chen Yuan had attacked too quickly, catching the Nine Abyss Gate completely unprepared. They had never even imagined such an assault.
When his full-powered Ten Thousand Karmas Demon Lotus smashed down, it destroyed more than half of the Nine Abyss Gate's protective formation outright. The remaining formations could no longer link together into a defensive array.
Apart from Yu Lan and another Divine Altar Realm elder, dozens of Nine Abyss Gate martial artists near the front were blasted to death by the Ten Thousand Karmas Demon Lotus.
Thousands of Nine Abyss Gate disciples poured out from the rear to resist the enemy. But before Yu Lan could catch his breath, boundless fighting spirit and murderous intent had already soared into the heavens.
Led by Luo Lie, the Vanguard Battalion's elite troops plunged into the mass of Nine Abyss Gate martial artists like a sharp blade.
When had the Nine Abyss Gate's martial artists ever experienced such savage battlefield slaughter?
Despite their numerical advantage, the Vanguard