When the Azure Cloud Sect's fleet of magical treasure flying boats crossed the Golden Cang River into Anzhou, they did not attack the second-tier cultivation factions within its borders, but headed straight for Anzhou City.
At noon the next day, the Azure Cloud Sect's army arrived outside Anzhou City without incident. By then, news of their impending arrival had long since reached the city. The city lord stationed there by the Black Evil Sect had already mobilized every cultivator in the city to defend the walls and fully activated the City-Defense Grand Formation. A black barrier of formation light protected the entire city.
When the Azure Cloud Sect's army of cultivators disembarked and assembled roughly a hundred li from Anzhou City, they faced a city braced for battle and tightly defended.
In terms of the number of cultivators on either side, the Azure Cloud Sect's army was actually at a disadvantage. Yet battles between cultivators had never been decided by sheer numbers, but by the number and quality of their high-level cultivators.
Naturally, the main force in the Azure Cloud Sect's assault on Anzhou City was not its tens of thousands of Qi Refinement and Foundation Establishment cultivators, but its fifteen Golden Core cultivators.
The fifteen Golden Core cultivators of the Azure Cloud Sect rose into the air and flew straight toward Anzhou City. Once they reached the skies above it, the magical treasures in their hands flashed with spiritual light and rapidly expanded, finally becoming colossal objects hundreds of zhang across. Like meteors plunging to earth, they struck directly at Anzhou City's City-Defense Grand Formation.
Outnumbered, the Black Evil Sect's Golden Core defenders did not leave the city to engage them. Instead, they controlled the City-Defense Grand Formation to counter the attacks of the Azure Cloud Sect's Golden Core