Half a year.
For a full half year, the sea-demon army led by the Dragon Emperor ravaged nearly half of the southeastern coast like locusts sweeping through, slaughtering who knew how many cultivation sects and Cultivation Families along the way.
Only half a year later, when even the Fubo Sect, the strongest power in the southeastern Cultivation World, was finally trampled down by the Dragon Emperor, did the matter swiftly shake the entire Pure Light Continent. Countless cultivators were so frightened that they fled without fighting, madly escaping the eastern coast.
Yet unexpectedly, after destroying the Fubo Sect, the Dragon Emperor and his party suddenly vanished without a trace.
For a time, opinions differed wildly over the whereabouts of the Dragon Emperor's army. Some said the Dragon Emperor had already withdrawn to the outer seas and would kill his way back to the mainland after a brief rest and reorganization. Others said the reason the Dragon Emperor had gone into hiding was perhaps because he was secretly plotting an even greater scheme.
No matter how people speculated, the Dragon Emperor never showed himself.
And so, over the following months, cultivation forces large and small throughout Pure Light Continent all chose to proactively shrink their spheres of influence while keeping strict formations and standing ready, using this to guard against a sudden assault from the Dragon Emperor.
Merely half a month later, a million sea beasts suddenly surged upstream along the White Dragon River, plainly putting on the posture of a massive invasion inland.
This time, Bajing Sect, a hegemon-level force of Pure Light Continent, reacted extremely quickly, actually dispatching seven Dao-soldier legions at the very first moment of the sea-beast army's invasion.
Under the leadership of several Nascent Soul Ancestors, the Dao-soldier legions ambushed the sea-beast vanguard at Kuiling Gorge