Early the next morning, more than three thousand cultivators of the Azure Cloud Sect's Third Regiment, led by Golden Core True Person Su Hao, plunged into a fierce battle with the Diamond Ape Tribe of Golden Ape Mountain.
Compared with the Azure Cloud Sect's forces, the Diamond Ape Tribe was exceptionally powerful. The tribe's own demon apes alone numbered over a thousand.
In particular, the third-tier Diamond Ape possessed intelligence nearly equal to that of an adult human. With its formidable ability to organize others, it could command demon beasts from other tribes.
It had gathered a considerable number of first- and second-tier demon beasts from over ten thousand li around Golden Ape Mountain. Liu Changxu estimated that at least seven thousand demon beasts had joined this battle.
The battle between more than ten thousand humans and demons was spectacular and ferocious beyond belief. Across the battlefield stretching a hundred li before Golden Ape Mountain, countless streaks of Spell Arts light blotted out the sky and sun as they howled back and forth. Flying swords danced through the heavens, raging flames nearly set the entire sky ablaze, and the thunder of exploding Spell Arts resounded between heaven and earth. The shock waves of powerful Spell Arts left the rocks and trees on the battlefield in ruins, transforming the once verdant, beautiful landscape beyond recognition.
Every cultivator caught within the battlefield trembled with fear! Even Liu Changxu, a powerful cultivator with foundation establishment late-stage strength, had to tread carefully.
The fiercest battle of all was taking place ten thousand zhang overhead, where the Azure Cloud Sect's Golden Core cultivators Su Hao and Jin Linhai were fighting the Third-Tier Middle Grade Diamond Ape. Every strike from a Golden Core cultivator shook heaven and earth, far beyond anything a Foundation Establishment cultivator could