The Heaven Dou army, like an awakened torrent of steel, marched out of the Eight Longitudinal and Transverse Lines in a mighty host.
Heavy footfalls mingled with the cries of various tamed soul beasts, forming a storm of destruction that bore down on Lingdou City.
Along the way, the scattered remnants of resistance were like mantises raising their arms against a chariot, instantly crumbling before the Heaven Dou Eastern Army's soaring momentum.
They marched extremely quickly.
In just half a month, they could already see on the horizon the capital that had once symbolized the Dou Ling Empire's supreme glory.
The sunset's lingering glow stained the towering walls a tragic gold and red, like the final gasps of a dying behemoth.
On the walls, Sky Sun Douluo desperately waved the Dou Ling Empire's flag, yet it conveyed only a despairing, deathly silence.
On the plains east of Lingdou City, another military encampment of equally enormous scale had been established.
Under Dai Hao's command, the Star Luo Empire's army had arrived beneath the city walls like another fierce tiger poised to devour its prey.
Though their momentum was not as sharp as the Heaven Dou army's, it was still beyond what Lingdou City could now withstand.
The Heaven Dou army stood to the west, its azure-gold dragon flags radiating an imposing sharpness, bearing the overwhelming momentum of a will to unify.
The Star Luo army stood to the east, its white tiger flags on black fields like dark clouds pressing against the border, grim and iron-blooded.
The two powerful armies faced one another from afar. The air seemed to freeze, and even the wind grew cautious.
Caught between them, Lingdou City was like fish on a chopping board, awaiting the arrival of the two great empires.
Huo Yuhao reined in the