The Martial Warrior Gu Xizhou took over from Li Ping'an to perform Breaking Formation.
Then enormous white pillars of light descended onto the battlefield at Demon-Suppressing Pass, as dazzling as the sun.
With every pillar of light that fell, ranks of iron armor emerged.
Great battle banners snapped in the wind.
Behind them, ten thousand Mo Dao Soldiers stood in a blade formation, perfectly aligned and ready for battle.
All ten thousand Mo Dao Soldiers wore heavy armor.
Their armor plates interlocked like fish scales, and amid the surging sound of their Qi and Blood, an invisible current flowed over the plates.
This was Great Sui's renowned Bright Armor.
More than a hundred Mechanism Masters of the Mohist School and Great Sui's Imperial Astronomy Bureau had researched it for over a century.
Only after three further revisions had it been forged.
Great Sui had then devoted the strength of the entire nation to mass-producing it.
Even then, they had barely managed to make thirty thousand suits.
Rumor had it that this armor could not only protect the wearer, but also turn an enemy's force back against them.
So long as the armor was not destroyed, no matter how severe the damage it sustained,
it could gradually recover by absorbing the essence of the sun, a truly miraculous property.
On both wings stood Great Sui's renowned Guanning Iron Cavalry.
The inner layers of the riders' armor were all made from the scales of the Aquatic Clans, while the outer layers were fully covered in Cloud Armor.
The Cloud Armor also featured large, symmetrically arranged round guards on the chest and back, with arm guards draped over both shoulders.
Talismans covered their surfaces.
The horses' face coverings and Horse Armor were all complete.
Equipped this way, they were not well suited to