The ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Before dawn, the once-open valley plain beneath Star-Magnetic Peak had become a sea of people steeped in killing intent. An army of one hundred and eighty thousand cultivators stood in enormous formations arranged by sect, clan, and cultivation level, each clearly distinct yet part of a seamless whole.
As far as the eye could see, heads crowded together and armor gleamed coldly. Countless banners representing different forces snapped in the morning wind, gathering into a vast sea of flags that obscured half the sky.
At the very front stood the allied army's core elite: the three battalions of the Heaven Division. The Giant Que Battalion's three hundred disciples all wore heavy black iron armor and carried broad swords like door panels on their backs. Their auras were steady and weighty as mountains; they were the vanguard for storming strongholds and breaking formations.
The Azure Edge Battalion's three hundred disciples wore pale green light armor, with slender swords hanging at their waists. They stood tall, sword qi flickering around them, and moved swiftly as the wind. The Army Breaker Battalion's three hundred disciples wore armor of varying styles, but all carried standard-issue long dagger-axes or heavy halberds. Their baleful auras were the strongest; they were the blade that would carve through the chaos of a melee.
The nine hundred elites of the Heaven Division were all at least at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, with nearly a hundred Core Formation cultivators among them. Under Lu Yun's command, they stood in three orderly, triangular arrowhead formations, solemn and silent. Only their concentrated killing intent stirred, faintly warping the air before them.
Behind the Heaven Division stood the Earth Division under Nangong Wan's command, together with formation masters, talisman masters, and restriction specialists