Stripped of the protection of the City-Defense Grand Formation, Anzhou City immediately lay fully exposed before the Azure Cloud Sect cultivators.
Outside Anzhou City, the Azure Cloud Sect's army of tens of thousands of cultivators had already received orders from the golden core cultivators and was rapidly advancing toward the city.
The Black Evil Sect's golden core cultivators inside Anzhou City had never imagined that the Azure Cloud Sect's attack would be so devastating. The City-Defense Grand Formation on which they had pinned such high hopes had held out for only a day before being broken. Clearly, they had gravely underestimated the Azure Cloud Sect's Third-Tier Formation Masters, and the price was the swift destruction of the City-Defense Grand Formation by the Azure Cloud Sect's golden core cultivators.
At this point, the Black Evil Sect's golden core defenders had no choice but to steel themselves and come out to fight.
But the Black Evil Sect had fewer than half as many golden core cultivators as the Azure Cloud Sect-just seven in all. Although the strongest among them was also at golden core great perfection, he was a scrawny old man with graying hair. Compared with Sima Jinhui, who was at his peak and whose combat strength rivaled that of a nascent soul early stage cultivator, he was hardly worth mentioning.
As for the Black Evil Sect's other six golden core cultivators, there were four men and two women, and their cultivation and combat strength were nothing exceptional either: only one was at golden core late stage, two were at golden core middle stage, and three were at golden core early stage.
The Black Evil Sect's golden core late stage cultivator was a lean middle-aged man, but he was probably the strongest of their seven golden core cultivators. He was also