Outside of Mount Daybreak, every spike that whistled through the air contained explosively destructive power. And they had an unusually restrictive effect on spell formations. When they stabbed into the defensive spell formation, they created black lightning bolts that slowly connected. Though Mount Daybreak’s spell formation was very powerful, even it was being slowly weakened.2

“It’s gonna blow soon!”1

“Hahaha! Keep it up, everyone!”0

“After it blows, we’ll charge in, kill everyone, loot the place, then tear down the mountain!”0

This attack on Mount Daybreak was obviously the result of careful planning. At the moment, there were over a thousand cultivators involved in the siege. Roughly eighty former prisoners from the Corrections Division formed the core of the operation. The others were rogue cultivators and random hoodlums that had been recruited to help. There were also clues indicating that some of the major nonhuman species in Daybreak Prefecture were secretly backing the effort. That was especially true of the spikes being used on the formation. They were not a weapon that ordinary cultivators would have access to; only a major species would be able to provide them.9

In terms of the cultivation level of the besieging forces, most of them were in Foundation Establishment or Gold Core. There were only three Nascent Soul cultivators present.14

Of those, two were male and one was female. All were nonhumans. One of the males had scales covering his face, while the other had four arms. The female was middle-aged, with...1