After all, his status had accounted for half the reason he had become the acting Alliance Leader.
And the Divine Firmament Sect was one of the top hundred sects in the Eastern Region.
At that moment, Lu Yunfei stood before tens of thousands of disciples, raising his voice in a rousing speech to boost morale. It was nothing more than pretty words about "slaying demons and defending the righteous path" and "carrying out Heaven's justice."
After shouting his speech, he instinctively puffed out his chest and gazed eagerly toward Qin Ruoxue among the female disciples, hoping to earn a glance from the beauty.
Yet Qin Ruoxue had never so much as lifted her eyelids. She simply stood quietly in the crowd, like an ice-mountain snow lotus untouched by the smoke and dust of the mortal world.
Meanwhile, the Heavenly Baleful Valley's forces were likewise brimming with murderous fury.
They had assembled only twenty thousand troops, with barely a thousand Core Disciples among them, but their imposing presence was not the slightest bit inferior. If anything, it was even greater.
Especially striking were the neatly arranged supreme-grade Mystic Tier War Puppets. An ominous metallic sheen shimmered across their bodies, red light pulsed in their eyes, and they radiated a cold, heart-stopping murderous intent.
Their leader, however, was a female disciple.
The woman wore a long purple dress that tightly hugged her voluptuous figure, tracing breathtaking curves. Amid the sea of purple-robed disciples, those eye-catching purple contours stood out all the more sharply.
She was Ye Liuli, a Saintess candidate of the Heavenly Baleful Valley.
An unparalleled genius seen only once in a century in the Heavenly Baleful Valley, she had been born with a Fire Spirit Body. Ruthless, erratic, and violent, she was someone all the Core Disciples both respected