Narrowing his eyes and adding on what he could sense, Jian Shen quickly understood that the enemy soldiers he had been waiting for had finally arrived.
"Soldiers to your positions!"
Along with Xue Ling whose shout travelled all the way down the tall wall and into the buildings close to it, Jian Shen climbed on the ledge as he continued looking.
After a while, Jian Shen guessed that the number of soldiers that were coming towards the wall was around 5,000 or so.
This wasn't a small amount, but neither was it a large one which made it perfect to launch attacks and retreat without having to worry about someone holding up the rear.
Also, all of them were at least in the Dharma Realm due to which all of them could most likely fly away whenever needed to.
Licking his lips and gulping from seeing no many enemies who would essentially serve as sparring partners to him, Jian Shen took to the skies while shouting, "I'll take care of them all, don't intervene!"
Flying at not a fast pace, Jian Shen met the enemy that were travelling by using horses not too far away from the wall.
No matter how strong he was, it would be foolish for Jian Shen to land at the centre of the group and get bombarded with the enemy attacking him.
Due to this, Jian Shen landed in front of the group and started running towards them.
With his hands holding both the swords, Jian Shen fearlessly ran straight towards the army who showed no signs of stopping their approach.
Pointing towards Jian Shen and mocking him, the soldiers made the horses further increase their speed.
Suddenly, the Sword of Despair vibrated a little due to which all of the horses that were running suddenly came to a standstill and threw the cultivators that were riding them.
Not giving the soldiers the chance to curse the horses or even wonder why those well-trained horses had suddenly gone against their orders, the horses turned around to run away as far as possible from that terrifying black sword.
"Fuck! I'm going to kill all of you useless horses!"
"Let's have a roasted horse party when we get back!"
"Look out! He's he...!"
With the man's warning cut short due to the sword which pierced his throat and killed him, everyone turned around to look towards what was happening in surprise.
Jian Shen who was previously around a hundred feet away from them was now close to them with one of their comrades already killed.
After having made the horses leave due to wanting to make it easier for him to fight, Jian Shen didn't stop or feel proud after obtaining the first kill.
Pulling his sword back out of the man's throat, Jian Shen stepped to the side and escape the stream of blood which rushed out of the hole in his throat.
Bending forward and changing his grip over the two swords to reverse grip, Jian Shen slashed the both of them upwards to kill two soldiers who hadn't recovered from the shock of seeing one of their own killed so quickly.
Passing through the gap between the two men, Jian Shen felt that the real battle would start now.
With the Taiyang Empire's soldiers no longer in shock, it would no longer be as easy to kill them as he did with the first three soldiers.
"Get him!"
Moving at his highest speed through the group and slashing the soldiers up and down while making sure that no one hit him, Jian Shen managed to make all the soldiers fall to chaos.
Despite being an army that trained together, the soldiers who were used to their general giving them orders couldn't show their real strength as a group.
After all, with so many Saint Realm Cultivators in the group who each possessed at least one Domain each, it wouldn't be much hard for them to trap Jian Shen inside their Domains and make it to for the others to attack him.
Luckily, it didn't take long for them to remember how their general used to make them fight.
With the Saint Realm Cultivators flying to the sky, each of them manifested their Domains to cover the entire space around them.
Starting with the fire type Domains that were at the outer most end, those cultivators who had wind type Domains began taking advantage of the fire tornado around them.
Using the wind in such a way that it created streams of fire from it, the cultivators began using them as if they were whips or snakes to target only Jian Shen and not their fellow soldiers.
Frowning a little from the combo attack of two Domains by so many Saint Realm Cultivators, Jian Shen now had to move around a lot more and focus on evading the additional attacks due to which the enemies he was killing every minute reduced by a lot.
Still, Jian Shen didn't mind this at all. The harder the situation became for him, the more excited Jian Shen became at how intense and fruitful this training session of his would be.
It was also then that a shockingly large explosion sounded from one of the multiple fire vortexes surrounding them all.
Looking towards the huge hole which appeared from a water-type attack being landed in it, Jian Shen saw the one who launched the attack.
"Don't think that you can hog all the fun, Jian Shen."
Joining the fray through the steam due which appeared from her Intent of Water having exhausted a lot of flames, Li Mei began attacking the soldiers from the opposite side of Jian Shen forcing them to split their attention.
Once she entered the battlefield, Li Mei who unlike Jian Shen wasn't treating this as a training session used all of her strength when fighting which in turn ended up killing two-tenth of the total soldiers in less than a few minutes since she entered the battle.
Seeing all of this from afar, Xue Ling forced himself to not think about what would've happened if he had chosen to oppose these two monsters to the bitter end that day.