Even Heaven's Favored Daughter Fang Yue struggled this much; the other elite cultivators and gifted experts fared much the same.
Young Master Huang was a young genius from the Huang family of Central Province whose cultivation had reached the ninth transformation. Having achieved some success in his training, he had come to the battlefield to temper himself.
Ordinarily, in a one-on-one fight, he rarely met his match among those his age.
But here, rogue cultivator experts were beyond counting. Their myriad sinister arts and vicious, underhanded tricks gave even him a headache.
Under the relentless pressure of the tide of corpse soldiers, he too was wounded through a moment's carelessness and forced to retreat.
Battered and disheveled, he could not help crying out in anguish, "Damn it... what are those Earth Rank Experts doing? Why aren't they making a move at a time like this?"
Several rogue cultivators were caught off guard and surrounded by the zombies lunging at them, their bodies bitten until they were drenched in blood.
In despair, they too screamed in agony, "Help... help us..."
Their companions' eyes nearly split with rage. Unwilling yet helpless, they could only watch them die.
In truth, however, at that very moment, high in the sky beyond the reach of their naked eyes, more than a dozen Earth Rank Spirit Tamers from each of the Righteous and Demonic Paths were locked in a tense standoff.
"Hehehehe..."
"What lovely, fresh flesh! With all this flesh, the corpse soldiers will evolve further. Then you won't be facing ordinary walking corpses, but white corpses, black corpses, and even the more formidable fur corpses!"
"The Profound Yin Sect truly lives up to its reputation as a great sect of the Western Plains. Spirit creatures this formidable are veritable weapons of war!"
"Hahahaha! You turtle-spawn