They had realized that the Exotic Beasts were gathering here to guard the palace, and at this moment, an entire peak of them was rushing towards the palace. Besides the powerful exotic beasts equivalent to a Ninth-Order Swordsman they had seen earlier, they even encountered stronger beings comparable to Tenth Rank.
Luckily the cliffs on both sides of the palace were steep, and the open ground in front was extremely narrow. The over one hundred surviving swordsmen, all among the elite of the elite, formed a group to hold off the assault for a while, but they couldn't possibly hold out for long.
"Trust me, we're brothers in this. If you die, I, Qu Fengting, will certainly not live alone," Qu Fengting patted his shoulder and declared solemnly.
A simple sentence had moved those few confidants and Mu Cheng to tears.
"Alliance Leader, rest assured, unless I die, I will never let the Exotic Beasts step half a pace into the palace," Mu Feng, holding his longsword, declared resolutely.
