On Horse-Tethering Road, foul winds gusted in waves. Deep, dark baleful intent mingled with the monster blood flowing over the ground, forming fleeting bursts of blood balefulness that exploded in the air.
Since the beginning of the year, more and more monsters had been coming from Eastern Secret, including quite a few in the middle stages of Qi Refining.
Most disciples stationed here were in the middle or late stages of Fetal Breath. Although three or four had now broken through to the First Layer of Qi Refining, they were still of little use.
Thus, Xu Xuan had invited Liang Yong over. Protector Liang's usual pastime had been carousing in Du Wang City, but now he had found fresh entertainment: drilling the disciples stationed on Horse-Tethering Road.
A camp had already been established here, named Guarding the Azure.
Xu Xuan had settled on the name, while Liu Xiaowen had assigned the disciples. The camp had thirty-six disciples in total, all equipped with standard magical artifacts forged by the Fire-Waiting Hall.
A Dharma Sword and a set of robes, both Fetal Breath magical artifacts, provided both offense and defense.
The Dharma Swords were upper-grade Fetal Breath artifacts. After pooling their ideas, the members of the Fire-Waiting Hall had used scarlet blood stone as the base, mixed it with bloodfire essence iron, and refined them together in a furnace. Each sword was inscribed with two small Fetal Breath formations.
The Little Azure-Edge Formation enhanced the sword's sharpness, while the Fire-Gathering Formation spewed flames and ignited magical power. The Fire-Gathering Formation had been used by Wang Qiyun when he forged the Fire Prayer Token for Liu Xiaowen years ago; now it had found another use.
As for the robes, they were the Cloud-Crane robes, forged according to the Record of Cloud Garments and