One morning a month later, Liu Changxu and Tian Chengkun led the Purple Sky Legion to a deserted mountain ridge, where they finally met the reinforcements sent by the Great Brightness Temple and the Giant Sword Sect.
The Great Brightness Temple had sent over fifty thousand warrior monks this time. Even the weakest were at early Core Formation, and twenty-six were at Void Refinement. Leading them was a tall, powerfully built monk in golden robes, whose cultivation was at the integrated body early stage.
The Giant Sword Sect had also sent an army of forty thousand cultivators, including twenty Void Refinement experts. They were led by the newly advanced Integrated Body Divine Lord Xiao Zier, and her future Dao companion, Lü Changqing, was among them.
The cultivators from the two sects arrived before the Purple Sky Sect's forces in a grand procession of dozens of high-grade flying boats.
"Fellow Daoist Tian, why did your Purple Sky Sect send so few people? Don't tell me the rest all died in battle!"
The Great Brightness Temple's Body Integration Realm monk spoke to Tian Chengkun with a broad smile.
His eyes were full of mockery.
"What could we do? The Angel Race army overwhelmed us with sheer numbers. It was already no small feat for our Purple Sky Sect to escape with this many survivors.
"Fellow Daoist Wuming, don't be so skeptical. Had your Great Brightness Temple done what we did, you might have fared even worse!"
Ashamed and angry at the monk's mockery, Tian Chengkun defended himself.
This monk was an expert of the Great Brightness Temple's Wu Generation. However, given the unfriendly relations between their sects, Tian Chengkun and Wuming were hardly on good terms themselves. They usually traded barbs whenever they met.
"Senior Brother Tian, how strong is the Angel