Great Luo Heaven, Jiu You Palace.
The Jiu You Palace of today was completely different from before. Most noticeably, its scale had expanded by nearly more than double, and the entire palace complex appeared even more magnificent.
Between the vast palace halls, armies clad in black armor marched in strict formation. Powerful spiritual energy fluctuations filled the skies above, with spiritual patterns flickering in and out of sight. It was obvious that formidable spiritual arrays were guarding the place.
Across the four eastern, southern, western, and northern plazas belonging to Jiu You Palace, ranks of black-armored military formations stood tall, terrifying battle intent reverberating among them.
Each of those four plazas held ten thousand-man formations of Jiu You Guard, and every single thousand-man formation was capable of condensing a complete Jiu You Battle Intent Spirit.
All of them had been personally trained by the siblings Zhan Tai Liuli and Zhan Taiyun. Apart from the forty thousand soldiers in the four plazas, another ten thousand had been selected as the finest among those troops. Even the weakest possessed the combat strength of a First Grade Supreme, making them thirty percent stronger than the Great Luo Heavenly Army personally forged by Mandala in the past.
Because of Liu Bai's status as an Emperor, Mandala had personally permitted Jiu You Palace to rise into an imperial-grade faction. This had also elevated each of Jiu You Palace's commanders by half a step.
The reason it was only half a step was that even an imperial-grade faction could not overstep Great Luo Heavenly Region's King Title Battle. Thus, those people were still merely commanders. However, as commanders under an imperial-grade faction, not only were they personally stronger, but their status was naturally much higher as well.
As long as one had sufficient strength or strong