"Report... Grand Commander, numerous fluctuations of Space Dao power have appeared within Anshan City. Someone must be warping the void to bring in reinforcements from outside!"
"Report... Hermit Mountain's defenders have appeared on the battlements. The head of the Han household has personally taken command and is confronting our vanguard!"
"Report... the heads and elders of the other eleven households have all appeared. Their elite forces have arrived!"
While the head of the Han household and the others took measures to respond, thirty li outside the city, a towering platform stood within a massive wooden pavilion temporarily constructed through the wondrous craftsmanship of Mystic School cultivators. An armored senior officer of the Heavenly Dao Alliance sat in the seat of honor, with three red-cloaked Demon-Subduing Envoys and more than a dozen gold-badge Wind-Catching Envoys and Shadow-Capturing Envoys arrayed to either side. They watched as scouts with small feather-marked flags on their backs rode Lightning Beasts in to deliver urgent reports, one after another.
This senior officer of the Heavenly Dao Alliance was named Lei Liangyu. He had already been a widely renowned master of the Righteous Path before Sun Zhuo took charge as alliance leader. After numerous campaigns and promotions, not only had his standing within the alliance risen like a boat on a swelling tide, but his cultivation and strength had also reached the pinnacle of Earth Rank.
Those were the years when Fang Qianyuan single-handedly suppressed the demons of the world, roaming undefeated for twenty years and slaying countless Warrior survivors and demons, ghosts, and monsters of every stripe. Lei Liangyu had followed closely in his wake, handling many major cases, until he finally became a veteran highly valued by Alliance Leader Sun Zhuo. His standing within the alliance was even higher than that of the fellow sect