"Thud, thud, thud...!"
The ground shook in the Imperial Palace square.
The Futu Army and the Sea-Shaking Army, two of Great Li's finest cavalry forces, charged at the same time.
Though each cavalry formation numbered only a hundred riders,
the force of their charge far surpassed a thousand-man formation of ordinary Great Li cavalry.
Under the eyes of the spectators on all four sides of the square,
the two armies accelerated sharply, becoming as swift as phantoms in an instant.
No one could make out individual riders or mounts anymore.
They could see only two masses of light and shadow, one black and one blue, hurtling toward each other.
The Futu Army resembled a black dragon wreathed in bloody mist, while the Sea-Shaking Army was a blue dragon surrounded by watery mist.
Across the short distance of their charge, the bloody and watery mists around them gathered furiously, their might soaring all the way.
Finally, beneath the eyes of the entire crowd,
the two enormous dragons slammed head-on into each other.
"Boom...!"
An earth-shattering crash rang out like heavenly thunder striking the ground, making the earth hum and quake.
"Whoosh..."
Energy spread like a surging tide from the collision of the army formations.
Both armies' charges came to an abrupt halt, riders and mounts alike driven backward.
In their first head-on charge, neither army had gained an advantage. They were almost evenly matched.
Yet none of the commanders from the southern and northern armies present were particularly surprised.
In a head-on charge on the battlefield, when two armies had equal numbers and similar cultivation,
it was almost impossible to decide the victor in a single charge unless there was a substantial gap in their abilities.
Thus, after the Futu Army and the Sea-Shaking Army clashed head-on,
both armies swiftly changed