Without support from the central army, Huang De's Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion had pushed deep into enemy territory alone and faced the cultivators' onslaught from three sides. Like trees without roots and water without a source, however fierce its momentum, it could stir up no waves.
"You again!"
Huang De bitterly hated Mu Bai and wished he could tear him into ten thousand pieces on the spot. But with two armies now at war, the military command abilities of each side's generals faced a greater test.
"Giant Bird Legion, attack their rear!"
At Huang De's command, thousands of Gray Eagles and giant eagles beat their wings and rushed toward the skies above Qishan Canyon, seeking to throw the Human Race's formation into disarray from behind. If they succeeded, they would immediately relieve the encircled Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion. The Red-Eyed White Tiger Legion was the elite of Huang De's army. How could he bear to let them suffer losses in the opening engagement?
Seeing the beast army's fierce birds approach, Mu Bai's Divine Crow clone immediately led five hundred cultivators into the air and spat fire straight at the enemy. Mu Bai's Soul Power had long since surpassed ten million stone; only the emergence of his fifth Soul Mark had kept him from forming his Inner World yet. In Soul Power alone, however, he was already no weaker than an ordinary Dao Zun.
Soul Spirits grew with a cultivator's cultivation, so all four of his great Soul Spirits, including the Divine Crow, already possessed the combat strength of a Dao Zun themselves. As clones, they could also call upon twenty percent of the original body's combat strength, making Mu Bai's Divine Crow clone exceptionally formidable. In moments, he had burned through a swath of fierce birds, whose charred corpses trailed