Three days later, just before dawn.
The clouds shrouding the sky had yet to disperse.
In the air outside Purple Cloud City.
Over a hundred menacing large warships hung like islands of steel, blotting out the sky in tightly ordered ranks.
Their hulls gleamed with a cold, eerie purple light, like the icy scales of colossal beasts.
They also resembled enormous eyes, fixed relentlessly on the majestic city before them.
The Purple Cloud Sect's army had finally reached Purple Cloud City!
Thousands upon thousands of Purple Cloud Sect elites stood aboard the warships, the cold gleams of their weapons and armor interweaving.
At the very front of the fleet was a deep purple warship several times larger than all the others.
A lone figure stood at its bow.
Ye Beixuan, sect master of the Purple Cloud Sect, stood in purple-and-gold robes with his hands behind his back, his deep eyes coldly surveying Purple Cloud City.
Deep within those icy eyes surged towering fury and murderous intent.
Ye Beixuan had ruled the Purple Cloud Sect for hundreds of years, holding the power of life and death over almost all of Purple Cloud Prefecture.
Even though Si Mingwei's appearance had made him feel threatened.
He had never believed she could shake the Purple Cloud Sect.
His secret schemes had merely been intended to destroy Purple Cloud City and Si Mingwei in the most flawless manner possible, without a single mistake.
But he had never expected that, in just a few short days.
Everything would change so drastically.
First, the envoy he had dispatched, Han Heavenly Journey, had secretly betrayed him.
As a result, the Golden Ape Tribe reinforcements he had paid no small price to invite had been ambushed and slaughtered by Purple Cloud City, leaving them resentful of the Purple Cloud