"Keep up back there! Don't break formation!"
Li Tiezhu stood on the Somersault Cloud, his Chainmail Golden Armor gleaming, looking every bit the imposing hero.
"Thank you for saving our lives! May I ask your esteemed name, Immortal?" Those he rescued would often ask him this.
And Li Tiezhu would smoothly deliver the lines he knew by heart: "Slaying demons and defending the Dao is our duty!"
"I change neither my given name nor my surname! I am Li Tiezhu of the Joyous Union Sect, leader of the righteous path in the Eastern Region!"
The commander's blood boiled at his words. "The Joyous Union Sect is truly righteous! Immortal Li is truly righteous!!"
The remnants of the army around him, whom Li Tiezhu had already rescued, also roared:
"The Joyous Union Sect is truly righteous!!"
"All hail Immortal Li!!"
Accompanied by that utterly out-of-place yet inexplicably invigorating celestial music of "doo doo doo~ boom boom boom~," a jaw-dropping change was taking place at the edge of the battlefield.
At first, Li Tiezhu and the Azure Bull Demon King had merely been "picking up strays" along the fringes, rescuing people.
But as time passed, more and more scattered cultivators began gathering around them, and the ranks behind them grew ever larger.
One thousand.
Five thousand.
Twenty thousand!
Under his and the Azure Bull Demon King's leadership, the scattered cultivators of the Immortal and Demon-Beast Realms had actually reorganized into a defensive line and even begun pushing back!
"Heh heh... now I've really brought glory to my ancestors."
Li Tiezhu happily calculated to himself: *The Joyous Union Sect should finally make its name throughout the Myriad Heavens and Worlds this time, right? When we get back, Sect Master Su has to put up a golden statue of me at the very least.