The decisive battle had barely begun when more than a hundred thousand demon beasts, driven forward by third-tier demon beasts, launched tidal assaults on the Azure Cloud Sect's four camps to the east, west, south, and north of Star-Picking Mountain.
Tens of thousands of demonic birds nearly blotted out the entire sky, while more than a hundred thousand demon beasts surged across the ground like rolling waves. The thunder of their trampling feet resounded through the heavens. Such overwhelming might once again reshaped Liu Changxu's understanding of the Human-Demon War, giving him a glimpse of just how brutal the coming battle would be.
Although Liu Changxu was a seasoned fighter and had just survived several battles against tens of thousands of demon beasts, he still could not help feeling nervous as he watched an army of over a hundred thousand charging through the formation's light barrier, even with a third-tier Grand Formation standing between them.
Every order-of-magnitude increase in the number of demon beasts brought an entirely different visual experience. That staggering spectacle could only truly be felt by someone who stood there in person.
Only elderly cultivators who had lived through the Human-Demon War could maintain even an outward appearance of calm at such a moment.
Most Qi Refinement cultivators were visibly tense, and a few of the weaker-willed ones were so frightened that they wet themselves.
And that was with a formation shielding them. If they had to face the charging horde directly, many cultivators would likely scramble to flee.
As the demon beast army rapidly approached, the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators began operating the camp's third-tier supreme-grade Yin-Yang Five Elements Reversal Formation to attack the horde.
Spiritual lights as dense as rain immediately appeared on the Grand Formation's light barrier and shot toward the beasts. Thousands of