Gathering battle intent, the battle intent of eight thousand skeletal Heavenly Soldiers!

The three thousand skeletal Heavenly Soldiers and Divine Generals whose battle intent Xu Taiping had already roused, awakening a sliver of awareness within them, answered almost in unison:

"We are unwilling!"

Among the other Heavenly Soldier Skeletons, however, fewer than a hundred gave scattered responses to Xu Taiping.

Some Divine Generals Skeletons were even resisting Xu Taiping's battle intent.

They were like wild horses yet to be tamed. They might seem docile enough while you stood beside them, but the moment you tried to mount them, they would instinctively begin to resist.

This resistance also caused the sound of soul weeping to ring incessantly through Xu Taiping's divine soul, hurting so much that he could only clench his fists hard.

Meanwhile, in Xingtian's military formation-

As the qi and blood power surrounding Xingtian surged outward in wave after wave, the military might of the entire formation climbed steadily.

The wall formed from sand and dust had already been pushed past the midpoint and was drawing ever closer to Xu Taiping and his skeleton army military formation.

Xu Taiping immediately gritted his teeth. Enduring the utterly unceasing sound of soul weeping, he once again used Overlord's Breath to roar:

"Would you willingly watch your wives, children, and parents become blood food for the Great Yao raised by those deities?"

As he spoke, Xu Taiping endured the agonizing soul weeping, but his own battle intent did not weaken. Instead, it rose once again.

This time, spurred by his battle intent, nearly another thousand skeletal Heavenly Soldiers finally developed battle intent and roared together in response:

"We are unwilling!"

Seeing that this method worked, Xu Taiping immediately disregarded the backlash, raised his own battle intent once more, and roared:

"Would you willingly see your kin denied freedom for lifetime after lifetime, with no