Those Heavenly Soldiers and Generals possessed extraordinary combat prowess. Forming battle arrays, they rampaged through the enemy with the imposing might of disciplined military formations. Ordinary cultivators might have exchanged a few blows with them in single combat and put up a proper fight, but in equal numbers, they were utterly outmatched and soon sent sprawling in bloody defeat.
Some quickly discovered, moreover, that these Heavenly Soldiers and Generals did not possess mortal bodies of flesh and blood. Their bodies were formed of origin energy, somewhere between gas and solid, with pure celestial spiritual qi condensed into their Dao foundations and a masculine yang quality radiating throughout their souls.
These soul bodies resembled ghost spirits, yet possessed the exact opposite kind of yang-aligned gang baleful energy. Blazing heat replaced the yin qi of ghosts and monsters, and when unleashed at full strength, their destructive power was greater, not less.
"Aah!"
Many pirates were scorched by their furnace-like heat without the soldiers even needing to strike.
The cultivators, too, were drenched in sweat, disbelief written across their faces.
"Th-this is a yang spirit..."
"How is that possible?"
"Who exactly are they? Why have they suddenly appeared to help us?"
Mu Qingsi and the others watched from a distance. Although they had not personally experienced the power of these Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, they, too, discerned a few clues.
"Madam Mu, you summoned them. Don't even you know?" The head of the Court of Celestial Observations turned to Mu Qingsi, his face filled with bewilderment.
Mu Qingsi said, "I truly don't know, either."
Yet she could not help recalling something from the past. These might be the Skycloud Sect's Dao soldiers.
Long ago, Mu Qingsi had heard that the Skycloud Sect was secretly planning great campaigns to conquer far and wide. Those