Their commander was gone, and the defensive spiritual light had vanished completely.
Staying here would only mean dying in vain.
As for the rogue cultivators and cultivators from small lineages, they had wanted to keep themselves safe from the outset. Now, they had not the slightest intention of helping.
They hid in their own cave abodes, heads tucked down, not daring to breathe loudly;
they only hoped these "Great Jin Heavenly Soldiers" would leave even the finest autumn hair untouched, as the proclamation promised, and not drag them into this.
"Seize every node of the spirit veins and earth veins! Destroy the rebels' runes! Lay our army's formation foundations!" Lie Feng's voice rang like a great bell, his orders brief and forceful.
"Kill only military personnel and anyone who dares resist or show their head!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Dozens of openings instantly opened along the treasure ship's sides, and four thousand body cultivators leaped out like locusts.
Though they landed without a sound, they seemed to carry crushing weight, making the ground tremble slightly.
Upon landing, they immediately dispersed, dividing into dozens of agile, ferocious squads.
These squads moved swiftly and worked in perfect coordination, as though they had rehearsed this hundreds upon thousands of times;
they pounced with unerring precision on the county town's crucial spirit veins, earth vein nodes, formation cores, government offices, and treasury.
They actually knew the county town's layout like the backs of their hands.
Swift movements, seamless coordination, cold and efficient!
Bang!
A body cultivator squad captain in the boulder realm held a specially made Formation-Breaking Warhammer, its runes flashing.
With a shout, he swung the heavy hammer and smashed it down on the altar engraved with the "Wu Gui Mark" in the center of the county office plaza.
With a tremendous crash, the