Compared with the Azure Demon Wolves Yue Chen and Chen Qi rode, the Radiant Knight Order advanced rather slowly.
The Dark Night Assassin Hall had as many members as the Radiant Knight Order. Without looking closely, most people would easily overlook the streaks of black crouched behind the armored knights: members of the Dark Night Assassin Hall, crouching on horseback as they rode into battle alongside the Radiant Knight Order.
As the distance to the demon camp steadily shrank, Chen Qi suddenly rose from his crouch on the wolf's back and gazed at the distant camp. After a moment, he sat back down.
"There aren't any Demon God Pillars in this camp," Chen Qi told Yue Chen.
Yue Chen: Buddy, don't go tempting fate like that.
As the army drew closer to the demon camp, the rapidly advancing force gradually slowed, trying to keep the demons from noticing their approach too soon.
Then the knight commanding the force at its very front took an extremely old-looking scroll from inside his armor and opened it before him.
Rip-
The lead knight tore the scroll, made from the hide of some unusual creature, straight down the middle.
At the same time, a dull gray mist rose around the force. Before long, it enveloped all six thousand-plus troops.
The next instant, the mist began to coalesce, forming a pale gray dome of light around the force and over the heads of Yue Chen and everyone else.
From outside, the elite force that had set out from Zhennan Pass seemed to have vanished from the plains. Aside from the occasional scrape of armor betraying their presence, nothing revealed the army's existence. Even after they entered the range of the Mental Detection of the Demon Eye Warlocks guarding the Demon Camp, the warlocks noticed nothing