"All troops, heed my command! Form ranks and advance!"
Above the clouds, Shu Changsheng issued his command.
Golden radiance blazed for miles as the Heavenly Soldiers and Generals moved in unison, sweeping forward like a gale scattering clouds while thunderous war drums rang out.
The enormous clouds were no ordinary things, but treasures refined through the Skycloud Sect's Heavenly Cloud Sacred Art combined with Cloud-Producing Incense supplied by the Incense Accumulation Sect. They provided temporary footing for both sides in battle, while giving the Heavenly Court's forces advantageous terrain and greater opportunities.
As the army took its positions, divine soldiers clad in gold-and-blue armor and wielding eighteen-foot long halberds leaped down from above, charging into the enemy ranks like rolling waves.
The demonic army was also prepared. Demon monsters, zombies, and ghost monsters wreathed in black mist joined forces to meet the assault like reefs standing firm in water.
In an instant, black and white collided fiercely, throwing up towering waves beneath the clear sky above the blue sea.
Shu Changsheng watched from the clouds as the divine soldiers charged straight into a horde of hideous, half-rotted corpses.
These were corpse puppets refined through the Corpse Immortal Sect's secret arts, known as copper corpses. Ordinary zombies were infused with metals such as red copper during refinement, strengthening them beyond the armor and equipment used by mortals.
Among them were also iron corpses and golden corpses of still greater power.
He also saw a group of hunched demon monsters covered in hideous bone spikes, with wings growing from their backs. They bounded swiftly across the broad clouds with astonishing agility.
These were flying yakshas refined from yaksha corpses taken from the Underworld. They were essentially no different from other zombies, but because the Yaksha Clan possessed a different innate physique, all