"Ma Kui's" Dharma Nascent Soul Stage pressure was almost tangible, mingling with fury and murderous intent as it bore down brutally on the hearts of every cultivator present.
The generals in the tent fell silent as cicadas in winter. No one dared voice the slightest objection again. They bowed together to accept the order, their voices nearly lifting the roof off the tent:
"We obey your command!"
Military orders stood as immovable as mountains, and within moments, they spread throughout the army.
Like sparks thrown into boiling oil, the news instantly ignited everything inside and outside Wind-Splitting Gorge County's city.
The tense atmosphere, which had merely simmered beneath the surface yesterday, was abruptly stretched to its limit.
Countless gazes came from the battlements, from gaps in Market Ward windows, from the military camp's watchtowers...
Some open, some hidden, some worried, some excited, some fearful, some expectant;
They turned toward the vast gorge outside the city, which seemed increasingly perilous, awaiting the bloody collision destined to come.
The next day, the Chen hour approached.
Outside Wind-Splitting Gorge, a murderous chill filled heaven and earth, and murderous intent flooded the wilderness.
The sky was gloomy. Heavy, lead-gray clouds seemed close enough to touch, pressing relentlessly down upon the rolling black mountains.
Even the wind seemed cowed by the towering killing intent gathered by the tens of thousands of troops, freezing motionless.
A deathly silence lay between heaven and earth, broken only by the invisible killing intent grinding and pressing against itself;
It produced a low, strange hissing that made scalps prickle and teeth ache.
Woooo-!
From Miaochong Prefecture's military formation, a shrill war horn tore through the silence.
Immediately afterward, a fierce peak Golden Core general clad in jet-black scale armor, wielding a fearsome eighteen-foot serpent spear, rode his escape light out