Huo Xuan checked the time, then sensed the situation over at Heavenly Thunder City. He sighed and said:
"Xu Taiping, oh, Xu Taiping, in the end, you still made me... wh-what is this?"
Before Huo Xuan could finish, a strange scene appeared within the Divine Sense he had extended toward Heavenly Thunder City.
In that scene, as a dazzling beam of light shot skyward, the auras of the more than six hundred thousand troops within Heavenly Thunder City vanished completely.
In a single instant, all of Heavenly Thunder City became an empty city.
"Xu Taiping, what are you doing?"
Disbelief covered Huo Xuan's face.
Yet almost simultaneously, a voice suddenly rang out from the Heaven-Patrolling Mirror floating before him:
"Xu Taiping, Commander-in-Chief of the Five Emperors' Demon-Slaying Army, addressing the Heaven-Demon Battlefield."
Huo Xuan's heart jolted. His mouth opened and closed several times before he murmured:
"Could it be..."
Before he could finish, Xu Taiping's voice came from the Heaven-Patrolling Mirror:
"Demon-Slaying Army, heed my command! Follow me to breach the city and slay the Northern Emperor!"
Those words sent a shiver across Huo Xuan's scalp.
And because Xu Taiping was addressing the entire Heaven-Demon Battlefield, not just Huo Xuan but almost every battle general on the battlefield heard that voice.
This, too, was one of the Demon-Suppressing Stele's divine powers.
Rumble...
Immediately afterward, amid the violent sound of heaven and earth shaking, a clear phantom image appeared upon the sky canopy overhead.
The location shown in that image was none other than the region of the Demon Domain where Northern Emperor City stood.
Even through the layers of demonic mist, the outline of that mighty Northern Emperor City could faintly be seen.
In an instant, an astonishing thought arose in Huo Xuan's mind-
*Xu Taiping's Demon-Slaying Army might appear