Another day and night passed. By noon that day, the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army had crossed the vast distance and was nearing its destination.
By now, it was no longer only the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army following the Manifest Holiness True Lord. Higher overhead, heavenly soldiers and generals stood arrayed upon clouds of magic, fully armored.
These were the troops of the local Celestial Court, commanded by the Lord of the Martial Star. Fifty thousand strong, they joined the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Army to form a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals!
Divine armies were unlike mortal armies. They needed no auxiliary forces, no supply troops, and no laborers for miscellaneous duties. A hundred thousand troops meant a hundred thousand divine soldiers ready for battle.
The Manifest Holiness True Lord gazed toward the mountain region, now not so distant. Of course, he also saw through Xuanxi's eyes, a peculiar perspective he had now grown accustomed to.
With the great battle about to begin, the mind linking his demon body and divine body still wandered to other matters. The first time he had heard of a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers was in the Journey to the West television series he had watched as a child.
Back then, the young Yi Shuyuan had naively thought that a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers were nothing special. Whenever he heard of them marching against someone, they hardly ever seemed to win in the show.
But now, standing above the central command warship, the Manifest Holiness True Lord sensed the heavenly soldiers and generals he had brought, as well as the troops of this Heavenly Realm farther away, their currents of murderous resolve and divine light melding together.
Merely standing here, those hundred thousand troops seemed to form a vast formation, exerting a terrifying pressure.
This was no longer