The Azure Abyss Marquis was coming out of seclusion?!
Recalling the increasingly terrifying vortex of spiritual energy above Qiong Prefecture these past few days, which seemed about to devour heaven and earth, the two men's expressions shifted several times.
They had challenged Su Zixuan today precisely because the disturbances caused by Qing Chen's seclusion were growing greater and greater.
Yan Ming and Qing Xuansu cast sinister glances at the hovering Provincial Governor's Command Token, seemingly plotting something...
Just as thoughts raced and the atmosphere grew delicate-
Clop-clop-clop-clop-!
A burst of urgent hoofbeats erupted without warning from the end of the main street, approaching from afar like a dense drumbeat striking everyone's hearts.
At the end of the fifty-zhang-wide bluestone thoroughfare, ripples of spiritual energy surged into the sky!
A troop of over five hundred black-armored riders came galloping toward them, every last one at Foundation Establishment or above!
Their mounts were not ordinary first-tier warhorses, but Red Tiger Beasts over a zhang tall at the shoulder, their eyes glowing with bloody light and their fangs bared!
Even the weaker ones were early second-tier demon beasts, and there were third-tier great demons among them.
Iron hooves trampled the air, and a savage, baleful aura rushed toward the crowd!
They were Qing Chen's Black Armor Guards!
Those selected for the Black Armor Guards were all veterans of a hundred battles, with cultivation of at least the qi refining peak. They numbered four thousand in total, including over ten Golden Core True Persons.
Once they formed their battle formation, they came and went like the wind. With a High-Grade Fortune Talisman activated, their ferocious combat strength could challenge a Nascent Soul True Lord of dharma cultivation!!
The rider at their head was none other than Gao Yuliang, the leader of Qing Chen's personal