Hearing this, Duan Xiaoyu immediately asked, somewhat nervously:
"Doesn't that mean the Heartless Demon Emperor and the others can recover their cultivation?"
In this Dragon-Slaying Assembly, whoever first fulfilled their Dragon Catcher's petition and recovered their cultivation would seize the initiative.
Zhu Huai shook his head.
"It probably doesn't count yet."
Zhu Huai took another sip of tea, then continued explaining:
"As long as the Yan Kingdom Army surrounding the city doesn't withdraw, the siege cannot be considered lifted."
Hearing this, Duan Xiaoyu immediately let out a great sigh of relief.
"Rumble..."
Just as the two were speaking, a thunderous tremor, as though the earth were shaking and the mountains rocking, suddenly came from the projected image on the Dragon-Suppressing Platform below.
Everyone in the pavilion stands looked closely and saw that, several miles beyond the city gates, the Yan Kingdom Army's formation had already collided with Pang Zhong's Northern Garrison Army.
"Boom!"
With another deafening crash, the fierce winds formed from the battle intent above the two military formations slammed into each other.
In the blink of an eye, both surges of battle intent dispersed.
But just then, three figures wrapped in azure gang qi shot out of the Northern Garrison Army's formation like three sharp swords, breaking through the Yan Kingdom Army's formation ahead and closing in on its commanding general from three sides.
These three were none other than the Heartless Demon Emperor, Qing He Demon Emperor, and Demon Emperor Li Yezhu.
Though the commanding general, Yan Wushuang, and the Yan Kingdom soldiers around him had all spotted the Heartless Demon Emperor and his companions,
the three moved with incredible speed and devastating killing power, leaving nothing but flesh and blood strewn across the ground wherever they passed.
Thus, in no more than the blink of an