After Liu Changxu flew up to the city wall with the four women, he discovered that last night's fighting had been exceedingly brutal as well. Bloodstains covered the wall, along with corpses and wounded cultivators who had yet to be carried down.
For Chunlan and the other three women, this was their first sight of such a bloody scene. Their soaring confidence sank once again. This place was simply too terrifying.
Wu Kun, who was locked in a bitter struggle with an upper-grade third-tier Blue-Star Octopus in the distance, saw Liu Changxu arrive to relieve him and immediately transmitted his voice:
"Junior Brother Liu, come help me drive off this upper-grade third-tier Blue-Star Octopus! I can't handle it alone!"
Liu Changxu did not immediately lend a hand. Instead, he briefly surveyed the battlefield.
His spirit beast, Little Blue the Blue-Scaled Flood Dragon, was fighting a third-tier middle-grade Golden-Horned Sea Ox. Protected by the grand formation, Little Blue repeatedly unleashed the Water Dragon Technique, driving the Golden-Horned Sea Ox back step by step.
Although the water dragons forced the Golden-Horned Sea Ox to retreat again and again, the beast continued fighting, relying on its formidable physical defenses.
The enormous golden horn atop the Golden-Horned Sea Ox's head continually released golden spiritual light to clash with Little Blue's Water Dragon Technique, the thunderous impacts resounding through heaven and earth.
This golden spiritual light took the shape of a golden horn and possessed extraordinary power. From time to time, it pierced the defensive light screen of the city-defense grand formation, killing many low-level cultivators defending the wall.
This was also the Golden-Horned Sea Ox's most powerful divine ability, the Golden Horn Technique, which possessed tremendous armor-piercing power.
However, even when the Golden-Horned Sea Ox's golden spiritual light pierced the city-defense grand formation's light