Several hours later, elsewhere, the battle in the Crouching Dragon Mountains was also nearing its end.
Fifteen thousand troops of the Body Cultivator Army formed solid battle formations, grinding down the dispirited, utterly disorganized remnants of the Spider Demon Guard bit by bit.
Occasionally, small bands of enemies tried to resist by taking advantage of the treacherous terrain;
they immediately drew a ferocious assault from body cultivators several times their number and were swiftly wiped out amid flashes of fist force and qi and blood.
But the real main event lay in the direction of the White Stone River!
Lin Changsheng's thirty thousand elite troops were like fierce tigers released from their cage, paying no attention whatsoever to the routed Spider Demon Guard;
instead, following Qing Chen's plan, they drove straight into the undefended Qiong Prefecture Hinterlands at astonishing speed!
Their objective could not have been clearer-White Stone County City!
And several major resource cities farther behind it!
At that moment, White Stone County City had fewer than a thousand defenders, most of them old, weak, sick, or disabled. The strongest was merely a commandant at the Golden Core Early Stage.
His original orders had been to hold fast and prepare to welcome the triumphant Demonic Spider Guard.
Unfortunately, what he awaited was not the Demonic Spider Guard;
it was thirty thousand elite troops of the Miao-Conquest Army, brimming with killing intent, superbly equipped, and fresh from a great victory, their morale soaring to its peak!
There was almost no suspense to the siege.
Lin Changsheng personally led the charge. Ten treasure ships took turns firing their spirit cannons, and several large battle formations combined their strength in a single strike;
together, they blasted a breach in the hastily activated Protective City Barrier.
Soldiers of the Miao-Conquest Army poured into