Outside Heavenly Journey City, the Barbarian Tribe and the border army were locked in their decisive battle.
The sound waves of the Startling Dragon Bell and the Spirit-Taming Roar collided fiercely in the air.
Below, the beast tide continued its tug-of-war against the defensive line outside Heavenly Journey City.
The tolling of the Startling Dragon Bell still carried a powerful deterrent force.
But the Spirit-Taming Roar sent large numbers of Origin Beasts into a half-berserk state, greatly diminishing the bell's might.
Endless waves of Origin Beasts advanced toward Heavenly Journey City's defensive line.
But Heavenly Journey City had deployed large numbers of new defensive works.
These included devastating slaughter formations, city-defense weapons that inflicted wide-area damage, and attack talismans.
When Heavenly Journey City's defenses unleashed their full firepower,
even the surging beast tide could not draw close in the short term.
The two forces remained fiercely deadlocked for a long time, like giant waves crashing against each other.
Boom...!
A great beast at the one-star Source Core Realm exploded with its Inner Core.
A violent wave swept outward, blasting everything within dozens of yards of it into nothingness.
It tore a breach straight through the battlefield's defensive line.
The surging Origin Beasts behind it poured through.
They charged toward the final defensive line the garrison had established beneath the city walls.
This heralded an even fiercer stage of the drawn-out battle.
Humans and beasts clashed at close quarters, erupting into savage combat.
Fortunately, when these ferocious Origin Beasts approached this defensive line, they were also very close to the Startling Dragon Bell.
Even in their berserk state, the Origin Beasts still instinctively felt dread and fear.
Their charging momentum weakened, and they struggled to bring themselves to self-detonate in an act that would shatter jade and stone alike.
Thus, although