Chapter 368: The Black Cloud Divine Pool

The person Li Xingyun admired most of all was Nie Li. In the past, Li Xingyun had rarely admired anyone, but even though Nie Li was much younger than him, he had accomplished things that even Li Xingyun could hardly imagine.

The Demon Alliance and the Tianxing Alliance set off together, heading quietly toward the Great World.

Over the past while, the Tianxing Alliance, the Demon Alliance, and the forces under Gu Heng had clashed several times. The fighting had reached a fever pitch, and both sides had gone bloodthirsty. Gu Heng was launching frenzied attacks against the Tianxing Alliance and the Demon Alliance with absolutely no regard for losses.

The Tianxing Alliance and the Demon Alliance launched fierce counterattacks against Gu Heng's forces. Gu Heng's side had suffered far greater losses, but suddenly, over two hundred Heavenly Rotation Realm experts appeared as reinforcements. Gu Bei and Li Xingyun quickly decided to avoid a direct confrontation for the time being.

What baffled Gu Bei and Li Xingyun was that they had no idea where those Heavenly Rotation Realm experts had come from.

As a result, they immediately became much more cautious and could not afford to face Gu Heng's forces head-on for the moment.

The Great World.

The Black Cloud Divine Pool.

This was the single most important divine pool under Gu Heng's control, guarded by over six hundred people, including sixteen in the Heavenly Rotation Realm — a fairly impressive defensive force.

However, Gu Heng's main forces were not stationed here. Guarding a divine pool only required sending a fraction of one's troops.

The guards sat in small groups across the grass near the pool, cultivating. The Heavenly Dao energy here was extraordinarily dense, making cultivation noticeably faster than elsewhere, so none of them were willing to waste time. Only a handful were on patrol.

All this time, following Gu Heng, they had acted without restraint, never believing anyone would dare attack their divine pool!

At this moment, several kilometers from the pool, the members of the Tianxing Alliance and the Demon Alliance gathered swiftly.

"Is everyone here?" Gu Bei asked, glancing toward the back.

"After a headcount, a little over three thousand are present — fifty-six in the Heavenly Rotation Realm," Lu Piao said. They had only brought roughly three thousand this time, but it was more than enough to take the Black Cloud Divine Pool.

"It's about time we made our move!" Li Xingyun looked at Nie Li with a slight smile and said.

"Mm!" Nie Li nodded.

"Good — move out!" Gu Bei waved his hand and shouted, his spirit high. There had been a time when he had deliberately hidden his abilities and played the fool, letting the elders of his family think he was a worthless nobody. But the fire in his heart had never stopped burning for a single day. From that day forward, he could finally step up and stand against Gu Heng.

His sister had been cured by Nie Li. The god-tier growth-type Dragon Blood Demon Spirit had been given to him by Nie Li. This debt of gratitude — even if Nie Li asked him to die, he would not utter a single word of refusal!

"Attack!"

Over three thousand warriors charged toward the Black Cloud Divine Pool.

The dark mass of bodies, seen from afar, resembled a swarm of bees blotting out the sky.

Nie Li was among them, clad in a full set of sixth-grade artifact armor, gripping the Heavenly Meteor Divine Thunder Sword in one hand, his black-and-white wings beating behind him as he streaked toward the pool.

Xiao Yu was still bickering with Nie Li, but she kept close to his side the whole way, flying along at speed.

The people inside the Black Cloud Divine Pool were still cultivating, utterly oblivious.

A few sentries standing guard were chatting idly when one of them pointed into the distance. "Look — why are there so many people over there?"

"Probably some faction mustering troops," another replied, glancing toward the horizon. Scenes like this were nothing unusual, and it never even occurred to them that anyone would dare attack the Black Cloud Divine Pool. If the pool were ever taken, Gu Heng would immediately rush reinforcements within hours. Even if someone managed to seize it, so what? They would just be driven right back out.