The beast tide raged fiercely. Yuan Zun Rao Xing, Sect Master of the Jialan Sect, personally commanded the armies, stationing the cultivator legions of dozens of Southern Marsh sects and the Jialan Sect's main force at the center of the embankment wall to meet the beast tide head-on. He also divided the cultivator legions arriving from across Eastern Ridge Territory into two armies, stationing them on either side of the wall and leaving the beast tide no opening to exploit.
Considering the long journey and difficult supply lines of the Spirit Taming Sect and dozens of other sects, Yuan Zun Rao Xing stationed the cultivator army from northern Eastern Ridge along the western section of the wall, under Elder Dao Zun Lu Ling of Eastern Ridge's supersect, the Primordial Soul Sect. The western section connected to the Shuhuan Mountain Range, guarding against attacks on the flank by the beast tide.
The eastern section of the wall not only had to withstand frontal assaults, but also guard against flying fierce beasts attacking from the Dao Sea, so it was entrusted to the sects of central and southern Eastern Ridge Territory. Among them, Yuan Zun Lu Ping, Sect Master of the Primordial Soul Sect, also came in person to hold the position, allowing him to coordinate from afar with the central army commanded by Rao Xing.
This deployment left no gap unguarded, turning the Jialan Defense Line into an impregnable wall of iron and bronze.
Cultivators stood in formation atop the wall, weapons in hand, while massive, long-range Soul Crystal Cannons stood in dark, chilling rows. Over millions of years, generations of array grandmasters had continually reinforced the wall with the power of arrays. Through this accumulation, virtually every massive stone in the million-li-long wall bore powerful arrays, both defensive formations and