When the Shadow Guard obtained the news, battle reports had already surged in from every direction like floodwaters bursting through a dam, inundating heaven and earth.
Cities, forests, Outer Realm, rivers...
They reached everywhere.
Because the news was too explosive, in only a short while, the earth-shattering calamity that Xiao Chen had angered the Spirit Realm and brought a dynasty-destroying disaster upon Great Xia spread across every land like mountains roaring and seas howling.
This time.
All spirits were shocked.
Terrified beyond measure.
Plunged into utter despair.
Previously, during the Myriad Dynasty War, even if Great Xia lost, only half its living beings would fall into the Netherworld, never to be redeemed through countless calamities.
Most Ancient Clans and great sects only had to symbolically hand over some people.
They would most likely escape alive and evade the fierce tribulation.
However.
At this very moment, the Spirit Realm had ruthlessly issued a Dynasty-Destruction Edict.
The decree was crystal clear: ten billion living beings, not even chickens or dogs spared.
This meant.
Every living being in the Great Xia Dynasty.
Would be annihilated.
Even chickens and dogs.
Would find it hard to survive.
Under the will of the Spirit Realm, no matter how overwhelming your power in Great Xia or how deep your foundations ran like dragons, you could not contend against it.
If the Spirit Realm wanted you dead by the third watch, it would never allow you to live until the fifth.
Though the Spirit Realm held no direct rule over the Mortal World.
Still, the Spirit Realm stood lofty and profound. With but a casual word from it, quite a few super dynasties that had long borne resentment toward Great Xia would certainly swarm in and wreak havoc.
What was even more distressing was that the Myriad Dynasty