Chapter 362: Entering the City!
Outside the city gates of Qinggang County, more than a hundred horned warhorses brought their front hooves down in unison, the massive sound sending the accumulated snow along the entire official road rolling backward into the air.
The martial artists upon each warhorse mobilized their personal blood qi to connect with one another, entangling them mid-air into a three-foot-tall horned fierce beast.
The illusory giant beast, combined from blood qi and the killing intent of the military formation, possessed four curved horns, a spine raised with heavy bone plates, and hooves treading emptily above the array, casting a heavy sense of oppression that spilled straight out in all directions.
In this world, once a martial artist's martial path reached the late True Astral Realm, they could be called a "match for ten thousand"; ordinary people's military formations were nothing more than clay chickens and pottery dogs before a martial artist of the late True Astral Realm.
Yet that so-called "ten thousand" referred to ordinary individuals lacking martial talent.
The Great Yu Dynasty had been able to sweep across the realm and establish such a massive dynasty not by relying on armies composed of ordinary people; the true elites within the Great Yu military, from soldiers down to generals, were entirely composed of martial artists.
An army formed by these martial artists, after year-round training, could condense a power known as "military might", achieving the effect of overcoming the strong with the weak and defeating the many with the few.
The Windbreath Cavalry witnessed earlier in Qing Province was like this, and the pursuing troops of the Shaman Kingdom before them were equally so.
More than a hundred elites at the Inner Energy and True Astral realms linked their respective blood qi and the war beasts