Outside Guangyun City, streams of light shimmered and cultivators soared. Amid ceaseless explosions and bursts of divine light, the mechanically forged army fell in wave after wave.
But they knew neither exhaustion nor fear, and kept pouring forth like demons.
So many!
Enough to blot out the sky and sun, stretching on without end!
The sight irresistibly brought to mind battles against demons and nature spirits.
Almost at that same moment, the First Mutant Insect Legion, which Li Chen had recalled, also deployed.
This legion had already suffered considerable losses in the battle at Chess Mountain, but after its victory, its ranks had been hastily replenished with low-rank soldiers, mostly Flying Ya capable of flight. Even moments before Fang Yuan and the others arrived, the Insect Queen Mother had still been laying and hatching eggs without pause, rebuilding the legion at tremendous speed.
In underground bases and secret workshops everywhere, damaged mecha and battle puppets were also being repaired. Materials that could not be salvaged were melted down into raw stock and put back into use.
Thus, even now, Li Chen could still mobilize hundreds of thousands of puppets of various kinds.
Inside the main base of the Azure Billow Immortal Abode, Heavenly Pivot flickered incessantly, floating like a sphere of light within a cylinder. Through the Divine Bean Seed nodes deployed across Guangyun, she performed calculations at a furious pace, meticulously coordinating an army numbering in the hundreds of thousands.
Under her control, the vast Puppet Legion deployed in multiple layers. Battle formations rose like overlapping mountain ranges, greatly amplifying their strength.
The Outer Dao experts soon discovered that the enemies before them were nowhere near as fragile as they had imagined. Instead, they proved troublesome in a distinctly well-trained way.
They were orderly and powerful, their every movement