With two first-tier Skyships holding the line, the Azure Cloud Sect's fleet of Flying Boats swept north at high speed in a vast, imposing procession. Not a single Black Evil Sect cultivator along the way dared resist.
In fact, many second- and third-tier blessed lands on spirit mountains along the Azure Cloud Sect army's route had already been deserted.
To consolidate its forces, the Black Evil Sect had ordered the owners of these blessed lands to abandon their homes.
However unwilling these subordinate powers were, they dared not defy the Black Evil Sect's orders. They were forced to withdraw to Chu Province City, a cultivation city under the Black Evil Sect's control-and the target of the Azure Cloud Sect army's current offensive.
Of course, some lineages and sects refused to obey the forced evacuation order. In response, the Black Evil Sect cultivators, members of a demonic sect to begin with, immediately struck them down without mercy.
After several Golden Core Lineages and sects were slaughtered to the last person, no sect dared openly resist the Black Evil Sect's decree again.
In secret, however, many powers sent away some of their elites. They wanted to preserve a few seeds for their lineages or sects, lest they too become cannon fodder in the war between the Black Evil Sect and the Azure Cloud Sect.
Still, the Black Evil Sect's actions made the Azure Cloud Sect army's advance considerably easier. After flying continuously for five days and five nights, the enormous fleet of Flying Boats finally reached its first objective: Chu Province City.
By then, all of Chu Province City had mobilized and stood ready for battle. Its supreme-grade third-tier city-defense grand formation was already active, its dazzling five-colored curtain of light stretching into the clouds.
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