Several days later.
Wang Chao and Ma Han led three thousand Divine Strategy Army soldiers back to the capital in triumph.
More than a dozen enormous warships cleaved through the sea of clouds, their hulls draped with captured battle banners. Their holds were piled high with spoils confiscated from the Fallen Immortal Alliance.
Vast quantities of spirit stones, divine artifacts, fragments of World Origin, Spirit Vein Cores, and countless Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures shimmered with flowing radiance, nearly bursting the holds apart.
Wherever the warships passed, rosy light soared into the heavens and holy might surged in all directions.
Cultivators, mortals, and members of the Demon Race along the way all stopped to stare upward, their faces filled with shock.
"Those are warships of the Chu Tian Division's Divine Strategy Army!"
"I heard they raided the Fallen Immortal Alliance's lair!"
"Is that true?"
"Look at those spoils piled up like mountains—they must have won a crushing victory. The Fallen Immortal Alliance... is completely finished!"
The people discussed it fervently, their amazement unceasing. Many cultivators stared, entranced, at the faint treasure light leaking from the warships. Feeling the vast resources within, their hearts shook.
The news spread throughout Great Chu in an instant.
The entire dynasty was plunged into unprecedented turmoil.
The dark clouds that had hung over Great Chu for thousands of years scattered in a single day.
Inside the Golden Palace Hall.
Wang Chao and Ma Han presented a jade slip recording the full details of the campaign and an inventory of the spoils.
This had also been Chu Jiang's instruction.
These spoils were of limited use to the Chu Tian Division, which already possessed immense resources.
But for Great Chu, which was in the midst of rapid ascent, they were exactly what it needed.
"Good! Good! Good!"