The northern wind and snow lashed Long Xingyu's face, but he showed no reaction and simply continued forward. Five Eternal Heroes followed behind him, while at the foot of Snow Mountain lay the battlefield of Imperial Dragon Pass.
Snow Mountain was only five hundred meters high. Outside the northern lands, a mountain of this height would never have had wind and snow lingering year-round, but this elevation offered a complete view of the ground below.
Long Xingyu and the others had come here mainly to prevent Demon Gods or small groups of Demon Race troops from circling around to attack from the rear, and also to strike the Demon Race forces below from both sides when the opportunity arose.
At the Demon Race positions, Leng Xiao saw that the troops advancing on Imperial Dragon Pass were already less than two hundred meters from the ruins of its outer wall and immediately ordered the bombardment to stop. Without Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing, continuing to shell the area would have been little different from shelling their own troops.
The instant the bombardment from the Demon Race positions stopped, almost every demon attacking Imperial Dragon Pass immediately sprinted toward the inner city.
They knew that the artillery suppression of Imperial Dragon Pass's defenders had ended. Next came close-quarters combat, and only by closing the distance immediately could they reduce the counterattacks the defenders launched from the walls.
But Imperial Dragon Pass's defenders realized this too. The moment the bombardment from the Demon Race positions ceased, they immediately appeared atop the walls and fought back.
Seeing scattered demons already crossing the ruins of the outer wall, the defenders on the inner wall immediately operated their Magic Cannons to retaliate. At that moment, more than a thousand Magic Cannons atop Imperial Dragon Pass's inner