"Imperial guards, heed my order. Withdraw from the battlefield and return to defend the Imperial Palace of Heaven Worship."
At Zhou Mou's command, the many thousand-commanders retreated one after another, leaving this battlefield where the dust had finally settled.
Before Zhou You left, he held his twin spears and gave a slight bow toward a certain direction—the direction where Zhou Nanwang stood.
"Whew!"
Zhou Nanwang exhaled, watching as a fingernail cracked and peeled away, with no further changes.
Cold sweat had drenched him. The area where he had stood earlier was very close to where the phantom of the Charm Empress had appeared—but how close?
A Human Sect master fifty meters in front of him had had his body shattered apart by the aftershock.
Though he had escaped disaster, one fingertip had still been brushed by the aftershock. Fortunately, he had lost only a fingernail.
Zhou You left the battlefield and returned to the Imperial Palace of Heaven Worship, and the last weight on his heart finally fell away.
He raised his head toward the sky. That was a spatial level beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. A gleaming Bronze Ge hung at the edge of the heavens, burning like a blazing sun, so dazzling that every grandmaster had to force themselves not to look up.
Today, Earth Capital had descended into chaos. Demon weapons and Calamity Charms had appeared in turn, while residents and aristocratic families who had enjoyed peace for many years struggled on the line between life and death.
More than a dozen aristocratic families had been wiped out in an instant. Earth Sect and Human Sect masters had fallen in the blink of an eye. Yet none of that was as threatening as the Bronze Ge above their heads.
North-Zhen North-Ge—the foremost man of the northern