That round had gone rather well. A little time had been wasted, but they had finally cleared another pass. To fill all the divine positions on the Investiture of the Gods, they would still need Jiejiao to contribute some talent.
Of course, some disciples of the Jade Void Palace would do as well. Xiao Tian felt certain that, as time passed, some of them would fall.
After all, blades had no eyes on the battlefield. Death could come in the blink of an eye.
After half a month of reorganization!
The Xiqi army led by Huang Feihu fought its way to the walls of Tong Pass.
The defending commander of Tong Pass was Yu Hualong. There was nothing particularly special about him; he was an ordinary Qi Refiner at Earth Immortal Great Perfection.
He had five sons. Among the four elder sons, some were Earth Immortals and others were Heavenly Immortals. His youngest son, Yu De, was the strongest. Not only did he possess the magic treasure Five-Direction Clouds, but he had also mastered Poison Pox, a technique of the heterodox path, and reached the Entry-Level Golden Immortal realm.
Rather than confront the army head-on, he secretly cast his spell, afflicting the entire Xiqi army with Poison Pox and causing every soldier under Huang Feihu to fall ill.
This Poison Pox technique was extraordinarily powerful. Even Golden Immortals were affected, while everyone below that realm fell ill outright.
Helpless, Huang Feihu could only send Lei Zhenzi back to seek reinforcements.
Upon learning of this, Xiao Tian naturally sent his daughter Yang Chan to Fire Cloud Cave again to seek Shennong's help, obtaining a wondrous cure.
Then he mixed the Immortal Medicine she had obtained into the clouds and asked Ao Guang, the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea, to go