"With the situation this desperate, where are our reinforcements? Where are our experts? Are we only capable of retreating, retreating, constantly abandoning our positions and losing our spirit peaks?"
Cloudview Heaven of the Cloudthunder Sect was an otherworldly space separate from Cloud Province, a grotto-heaven blessed land said to be the abode of immortals. Dazzling colors shone in endless splendor, and the sea and sky were radiant.
The Cloudthunder Sect's true mountain gate headquarters stood atop a towering main peak amid the mountains, surrounded on all sides by a sea of mist. Rosy clouds and immortal cranes flew together, creating a magnificent scene like an immortal paradise on earth.
This Outer Domain grotto-heaven was like a secluded utopia. War raged throughout Cloud Province, but no enemy had yet attacked this place. After all, breaching a great sect's Mountain Gate Grand Formation was no easy task. Their formidable reserves included no fewer than four Nascent Soul experts and more than ten combatants with Nascent Soul-level strength.
Yet inside the headquarters' council hall, several cultivators in immortal robes and magical vestments, all bearing extraordinary poise, were arguing. The air smelled of gunpowder, and the atmosphere was tense.
Elder Qi Xiaoming, head of the Cloudthunder Sect's Outer Vista Academy and a member of its Elders' Council, could not hold back an angry roar.
"Several true disciples under my command have already died in battle, one after another. Even several of my personal disciples and their disciples perished when Gu Lai Peak outside fell. By now, they've probably all become food in the insects' bellies, and you're telling me we're going to keep doing this?"
"Why can't we fight a proper battle and knock the enemy down a peg?"
Seated nearby, a Core Formation elder wearing the same sect elder's robes frowned and said,