Heaven and earth changed color as red mist swept in.
The first city pass had barely mounted any resistance before it was swallowed by crimson specks filling the sky. The mist howled past, and every figure within the haze turned around and leaped toward the next city pass.
The commander of the second city pass came from a branch of the imperial Xia clan. He too possessed the Divine Flame Fate and wielded the Samadhi Divine Fire, making him a great cultivator of the Dao Inquiry Realm. Though he lacked Empress Feng's imposing might, his innate bloodline still placed him among the finest of the seventh realm.
Seeing the demonic miasma surge in with no way to stop it, he immediately roared, "Retreat!"
As he ordered all his subordinates to fall back, he faced it alone. Spreading both hands, he raised a wall of violet-gold flames. The mayfly seeds in the red mist met the Samadhi Divine Fire and instantly crackled, popping apart and vanishing one after another.
But his divine fire was limited, while the red mist in the sky was endless. In the blink of an eye, it had surrounded him from every direction. Even when he wrapped the fire wall around himself as a protective barrier, its breach was merely a matter of time.
Just as despair nearly overtook him, a ray of dawn suddenly flared up, piercing through the red mist.
Whoosh—
It was divine light carrying the aura of utmost yang, like a sun rising from level ground. In an instant, it tore through the red mist and violently scattered it.
Bang! The Prison-Suppressing King landed beside the commander. Without another word, he seized the man's shoulder and flung him backward.
With the commander thrown clear, the vast open ground contained only collapsed walls and