The massive legion began marching out under the commander's orders.
This legion numbered a full fifty thousand men, with over a thousand Immortal Family disciples who had cultivated Immortal bodies among them. In other words, this legion alone contained more than a thousand third-level creatures.
It had gathered nearly all the Daoist elite of the Noble Family Alliance. Aside from a few Daoists specializing in the Pill Dao and Artifact Dao who had not joined the legion, the rest were all worthless rabble inferior even to warriors.
If this assault ended in catastrophic losses, then unless the gates of the Immortal Sect opened and true immortals descended into the world, the Noble Family Alliance would inevitably shatter.
Their target this time was the goblins' Position Thirteen, a place they called Tai Chuan. Though its defenses had no obvious gaps, it had the advantage of a great river nearby.
With that river, whether they attacked or fled, it would be immensely useful.
The Daoists formed a great array and traveled through the sky as clouds and mist. Vast energy flowed through the formation, almost turning all the Daoists into a single whole.
Such an overt operation naturally drew the goblins' attention.
Looking at the reports sent back from the front lines, a group of goblin commanders stood around a map without saying a word.
"Defense Zone Thirteen?"
"Defense Zone Thirteen."
"Are our defenses there weak? Are the fortifications unfinished? Or is the manpower deployment incomplete?"
"None of those."
"Looks like another smokescreen."
The goblin commanders had always judged their enemies by standards higher than their own. Therefore, in their minds, every enemy command and deployment had to possess some internal logic.
The gulf between them meant that before they understood the enemy's true level, they could not possibly comprehend the Daoist