As the Creation God Dynasty's expeditionary army returned from the Epoch Battlefield, they smoothly drove the foreign-domain forces out of the Creation God Dynasty's territory. Yet the predicament of troubles within and enemies without remained unchanged.
The losses suffered amid this string of upheavals had struck the Creation God Dynasty's most elite forces. No one knew how long it would take to recover from such losses. This had already determined that, for a long time to come, the Creation God Dynasty would remain in a state of strategic contraction, no longer as aggressively pressing forward as before.
The Creation God Dynasty's formerly invincible confidence—the confidence to face attacks from either the foreign domains or the Ancient Era at any time and any place, even to march into the Epoch Battlefield without the slightest concern—had not come without reason. It truly had grounds enough for such confidence.
While the foreign domains digested the gains and losses of this campaign, the Creation God Dynasty did the same. This time, the losses had been devastating; many races had even been uprooted entirely. The Creation God Dynasty had not suffered such immense losses in countless years.
At this time, the races in those territories once occupied by the foreign domains had either been uprooted completely or had defected to the foreign domains, serving as the vanguard of their armies. The Creation God Dynasty had only one attitude toward such fence-sitters: cut the grass and pull out the roots.
The ones tasked with acting were the veteran Celestial Venerables. After returning from the Creation Road, they discovered that the entire Creation God Dynasty no longer had any territory left for them. They had remained in an aggrieved, shrinking state for some time, and now, at last, they had been given an opportunity to act.
Naturally,