On a September day in the year 4323 of the Great Tang Calendar, the autumn wind blew bleakly, and clouds of war gathered thick overhead. At this moment of shifting winds and gathering storms, the Sun Moon Sect resolutely launched the first strike in an earth-shaking war against the Angel Race.
The Sun Moon Sect understood the importance of this war. To secure ultimate victory, it issued sweeping conscription orders to the sects and lineages under its authority.
Like great boulders hurled into a lake, those conscription orders soon stirred towering waves among the Sun Moon Sect's subordinate sects and lineages.
These were no ordinary conscription orders. Every force that received one had to unconditionally dispatch the required number of cultivators to participate in the war organized by the Sun Moon Sect.
Any sect or lineage that dared disobey was certain to face severe punishment from the Sun Moon Sect.
At best, its clan head would be killed; at worst, its entire clan would be exterminated!
However, to encourage its subordinate sects and lineages to join the war, the Sun Moon Sect also offered many enticing benefits and promises.
Under the combined pressure of harsh punishment and generous rewards, the Sun Moon Sect successfully conscripted tens of millions of cultivators in a very short time.
These tens of millions ranged from young novices with only Qi Refinement cultivation to seasoned experts, steady and wise after weathering life's storms. Bearing different convictions and resolve, they converged like a rising tide.
Before the Sun Moon Sect's gates, tens of thousands of Flying Boats rose into the air at Wu Xuege's command, shooting toward the sky like volleys of arrows.
Carrying tens of millions of Human Race cultivators, these Flying Boats advanced toward Angel Race territory in a vast procession that blotted out