Seven days later.
Azure Mist City.
One of the main cities in the southwestern region of Xilin Commandery.
Azure Mist City stood in the heart of the southwestern region and was the wealthiest, most expansive main city in the area.
Not long ago, the Heroes Alliance had swept through the southwest's major cities, and Azure Mist City had been among the first to fall.
A band of ruthless outlaws had seized the city, burning, killing, and plundering within its walls, committing every conceivable evil.
Today, however, this main city came under a fierce assault before the first light of dawn.
A great army of black-clad cultivators used vast quantities of offensive talismans and advanced siege engines to breach Azure Mist City's City-Protecting Grand Formation.
Just as this "Black Legion" was about to pour into the city, and the defenders on the battlements were frightened nearly out of their souls.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...!"
From three directions outside Azure Mist City, together with the three Saint Warrior level cultivators stationed in the main city.
Twelve streaks of escape light came speeding over at once.
They surrounded a figure in blue robes hovering above the army, at the rear of the Black Legion.
"Gu Chenfeng, we've finally cornered you!"
At that moment, among those twelve streaks of escape light.
Li Tianhan, the hall master of the Blood-Seeking Hall, whose skin was deep as mithril, whose build was burly, and whose single eye was vicious, stared fixedly at the young figure, wariness and resentment in his eye.
"So you're Gu Chenfeng. You look quite ordinary."
At that moment, a Purple-Robed Woman among them also studied Gu Chenfeng with an icy gaze.
"In less than a month, you've taken sixteen main cities occupied by our Heroes Alliance, reclaiming almost half the cities in the Southwestern