"Rumble!"
The thunder of battle reverberated through the mountains. After a brief silence, the flames of war instantly reignited around Lingwu City.
The Nine-Gate Heavenly Demon Formation's nine critical nodes all occupied crucial positions.
They converted spiritual power to sustain the formation's operation and also formed an essential part of its foundations.
The distances between these nine nodes were neither too great nor too small.
They formed an almost perfect circle, allowing them to share part of the pressure borne by the entire formation.
"Buzz, buzz, buzz~"
Yet now, even though this arrangement remained intact, the entire formation began to tremble slightly after Zhang Tao successively deployed the Earthshaking Talisman, the Forbidden-Breaking Pearl, and his other measures.
The nine newly assembled cultivator squads naturally would not let this opportunity slip away and immediately launched a fierce assault on the formation.
"Bang! Bang!"
Treasure after treasure bombarded the pale-red barrier in the distance, scarcely pausing for an instant.
"Damn it, these humans' attacks have grown far more than just a little stronger!"
"Do they really need to fight this desperately?!"
The demon cultivators guarding the front line felt the increase in intensity most keenly and immediately came under crushing pressure.
Standing on opposing sides, they naturally found it difficult to understand one another's feelings.
As the ruling class of the Annam Six Provinces, the demon race naturally struggled to think from the human cultivators' perspective.
Thus, in the eyes of many demon cultivators, the humans outside the formation seemed to have shed their old bodies and been reborn, sparing not a drop of magic power in their attacks.
The resolve to smash their cauldrons and sink their boats, heedless of their lives and tinged with heroic tragedy, swept toward them!
Amid the rapidly flashing multicolored spiritual light, some demon cultivators began