Beyond Yuqiu City, as the Military Commander described, lay a vast expanse of land. Aside from the open ground outside the city itself, there were broad stretches of farmland. But since the weather had not yet warmed, nothing had been planted in the soil.
When the sky was just beginning to brighten, roughly several dozen vicious-looking yet not particularly accomplished fiends were escorted outside Yuqiu City. They were almost entirely monsters and spirit creatures, with no Demonic Beasts or Ghost Creatures among them.
Even so, these monsters had essentially all refined their Horizontal Bones. They were by no means harmless beings. In any ordinary town of the past, they would have been calamities capable of ravaging an entire region. If they refused the jurisdiction of ghosts and gods, they would be hunted down and even executed by them.
At this moment, these monsters—vicious enough to give most children and even adults nightmares at night—were all escorted to the foot of the city wall. At least five soldiers wielding Long Weapons stood pointing them at each monster. Beyond them, ranks of bare-chested soldiers carrying heavy weapons resembling Mo Sabers had already stepped forward from the crowd. Their physiques and vitality surpassed those of ordinary soldiers by several levels.
"Kneel! Kneel!"
First, the soldiers pointing their weapons at the monsters issued loud commands. Then the entire army glared furiously at them and shouted.
"Kneel! Kneel!" "Kneel!" "Kneel..."
At first, the voices rose and fell in a somewhat disorderly fashion. Then they became increasingly unified, gradually forming a single sound wave like mountains roaring and seas crashing.
To be honest, the sheer volume of several thousand people shouting together was intimidating enough. What was more, this was an army—an extraordinary army.
Ji Yuan walked to the edge of the city wall and gave