The elite cavalry blocking Xu Zhongxing’s path from the front wore tattered leather jackets to show that they were horse bandits, but their disguise was clearly half-hearted. They were all armed with fine steel spears and four-chi-long curved sabers that gleamed with a bluish sheen. The sabers especially were the standard-issue weapons of the Southern Qi’s elite cavalry.

As for the elite cavalry unit being led by Wei Yuan, no one had ever seen it before. Their armor appeared to be a mix between light and heavy cavalry, and their weapons were none other than the firearms that had just given Xu Zhongxing a rough time.

Xu Zhongxing’s face was stormy as he slowly rose into the air. He then saw two Avatars rising from the horse bandits’ side, and two Avatar-stage puppets appearing on Wei Yuan’s side.

The two sides engaged, but though the battle had just begun, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. No matter how formidable Xu Zhongxing was, he could hardly take on four Avatars on his own, not to mention that Wei Yuan was watching intently from the sidelines.

The horse bandit leader appeared to be very young, and his cultivation was only the late-stage of the Dao Foundation stage. However, his skill in spell amplification and defensive enhancement was astonishingly good and clearly effective even on Avatar-stage cultivators. All four Avatars experienced a small boost in their combat strength and put Xu Zhongxing in an even more difficult position than he already was in.

The outcome of the battlefield below was equally predictable: 10,000 elite cavalry versus 40,000 remnant forces who had just come away from a battlefield thinking they had survived, only to come face to face with death itself. It was a...