Ashen Ruins!
This was where the Line Source Skyway within Tai Yu's borders lay closest to the Myriad Evils Dreamsource.
Ashen Ruins was a colossal cosmic city built around a cosmic line source roughly the size of the Divine Tomb Seat. This colossal city had no civilians; in truth, it was a military fortress, housing Tai Yu's Ashen Army, numbering around a hundred million.
Both Ashen Ruins' Line Source Skyway and the Ashen Army had, in reality, been prepared for the Myriad Evils Dreamsource. Of course, nominally, they were there to guard against the Myriad Evils Dreamsource advancing into Tai Yu... but anyone in their right mind knew that was impossible.
The reason the Myriad Evils Dreamsource could maintain its current arrangement and hold fast to this region's "seaport" was precisely because it adhered to a policy of stubbornly defending one place. With its size, once it took the initiative to expand, it could easily meet its end... This was an iron law of the Myriad Evils Dreamsource, one every generation of prison wardens had obeyed.
Thus, although the Ashen Army had been stationed here generation after generation, its task had merely been to intercept criminals and displaced people attempting to sneak into Tai Yu. It was usually exceedingly idle.
But this time, a mission of historic proportions had fallen upon the Ashen Army's shoulders.
Naturally, it was to attack the Myriad Evils Dreamsource!
Coincidentally, most of the Ashen Army's commanders and generals belonged to the Eldest Prince's faction. They were all veteran figures who had followed the Eldest Prince for quite some time. The Tai Yu Marshal commanding the entire Ashen Army was named Kang Tianrong. She came from the Kang Lineage, one of the four great lineages of Kanglong Chen Palace, and belonged to the same generation of