Li Yang hurried back from the minor world.
The moment he reached the Heavenly Origin Imperial Capital, he heard an evil fiend disguised as a righteous empress undermining the army's morale. Before so many people, the fiend actually declared that the Heavenly Origin Dynasty would fall-and that he would bed the Heavenly Origin Empress once she became a prisoner.
If that wasn't an evil fiend, what was?
He exchanged no pleasantries with the Heavenly Origin Empress.
Gazing into the distance, he saw that evil fiends were already attacking the Rosy Cloud Mountain Range checkpoint. A vanguard adept at stealthy movement had even broken inside by some unknown means.
This vanguard had a clear target-the formation masters maintaining the checkpoint's defensive formation.
They launched a surprise attack, sweeping forward like a blade through bamboo and driving the cultivators guarding the formation masters into retreat after retreat.
Every one of them was an outstanding Demonic Path cultivator, every one a Golden Core expert. Their leaders were more than twenty Nascent Soul True Persons.
As for the Heavenly Origin Dynasty's side...
Their rout was already a foregone conclusion. Not only had they withdrawn inside the checkpoint, their fighting spirit was rapidly fading. Facing this Nine Nether Vanguard of merely a thousand, very few cultivators dared step forward to stop them.
"Damn it! Is no one protecting us?!" A formation master's eyes widened.
"Protect us, my ass! We'll lose sooner or later. Better to surrender now and be done with it!" Another hot-tempered formation master promptly disengaged and fled.
"Good thing I set up a Teleportation Formation long ago. Everyone, I'll be leaving first!"
Seeing how few people were protecting them, why would these formation masters throw their lives away for the Heavenly Origin Dynasty? One after another, they decisively chose self-preservation.
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