Empress Elissa mounted her golden war elephant, and the sacred lion's phantom reformed behind her, this time so solid it looked real.
Every strand of its mane became a burning golden chain, winding around eight hundred giant elephant war beasts.
Blood-red incantations covered the beasts' tusks, and the sound of their charge shattering space thundered like ten thousand drums.
The Giant Elephant Legion became a golden spear, its tip aimed straight at Li Chen before the Heavenly Strategy army's formation!
"Li Chen! You have violated my borders. Today will be the day you die!"
The Empress's furious roar carried the sacred lion's oppressive might. Wherever the sound waves swept, the Heavenly Strategy cavalry's black iron heavy-armored troops buckled beneath that overwhelming pressure.
As expected of the Sasanian Dynasty's core Demon Beast army, its power was terrifying.
Yet Li Chen merely raised his eyes slightly and waved for the black iron heavy-armored troops to clear a path.
At that moment, the six Saint Realm experts behind him formed hand seals in unison.
Orchid Fairy of the Heavenly Evolution Divine Sect lightly tapped her delicate fingers, and seventy-two stellar orbits suddenly appeared above the Empress.
They were the surviving formation patterns of the Three Enclosures Guardian-State Formation shattered earlier, now reversed into a cage!
"Reverse heaven and earth, refine all creation-Heavenly Cycle Star Lock!" the six shouted together.
The Empress realized with alarm that the surrounding space was collapsing. Like giant pythons coming alive, the stellar orbits dragged her and the Giant Elephant Legion into an isolated spatial rift.
It was as though she had been trapped inside a special "barrier."
The sacred lion's phantom crashed against the stellar orbits, producing thunderous booms, but could not break through at all.
The giant elephants battered themselves bloody, yet could not advance even half