Beasts roared, and chariots rumbled onward.
A fine drizzle turned the ground into a sea of mud as figures charged forward through it.
Across the boundless plains, two forces began a head-on slaughter.
Li Ping'an sat in the dungeon, high above the clouds, his left hand supporting his forehead as he watched the living beings slaughter one another and listened endlessly to the voices of all beings.
Fear, fury, the release of pleasure...
All manner of negative emotions rose up, transforming into blood-red runes that filled the phantom of the Great Dao of Slaughter behind him.
Li Ping'an did not ponder anything. He merely watched in silence.
This battle no longer had any direct connection to him. He was a maintainer of Heaven and Earth, a judge of fairness and injustice. If an immortal suddenly appeared below and massacred mortals, he would immediately bring down heavenly punishment and reduce that immortal to ashes.
The Qi cultivators who had been pulling strings behind the scenes were clever as well.
They had previously assisted the Eastern Yi tribe in striking deep into Shang territory, but once Di Xin's army appeared on the plains, those Qi cultivators immediately fled.
Their objective had already been achieved.
Even if the Shang people won this battle, the Shang king's elite main force would suffer losses, and their strength would be plainly exposed to the various feudal lords watching this place.
At the edge of the battlefield, dozens of groups of scouts lay concealed at varying distances. They would relay every detail of this war to their masters.
Every living being's thoughts are exceedingly complex.
That is also why the Heavenly Dao grows ever stronger.
Then, after a new world is opened, should the Heavenly Dao still exist?
Li Ping'an pondered quietly.
Beneath his feet came the