Under the cloak of night, a multitude of dancing campfires traced the sprawling shadows across the wilderness.
Outside Tianjiao City in the open field, tents and campfires stretched across the hills and plains, forming a vast expanse of crimson.
Devotees of the Blood Lotus Sect donned red headbands and lotus robes, their silhouettes distinct in the darkness.
Tianjiao City, devoid of any moat, even its wall height was nothing formidable.
In this world, the power of cultivators determined everything; in all historic upheavals and struggles, mortal armies were not even qualified to participate—the sole value of mortal warriors was to shepherd the cultivator's people.
Thus, even though Tianjiao City was one of the largest cities under the control of the Refinement Demon Sect, its walls were merely a few dozen feet high, far from what one would call an impregnable fortress.
A slightly more formidable warrior could easily scale these walls with bare hands.
