During these six months in the East Sea, aside from protecting Song Xuanfeng during his closed-door cultivation, Song Qingming had also followed the Hundred Flowers Palace army south to Skyborne Island, where the Yunyang Sect's mountain gate was located.
Because news of the frontline sect's main force being utterly wiped out had arrived in advance, chaos had already erupted in the Yunyang Sect's rear before the Hundred Flowers Palace army even arrived.
Jin Xuanyao, the Yunyang Sect Nascent Soul Elder who had luckily escaped from the Golden Dragon Island battlefield earlier, was among them.
After returning to Skyborne Island and knowing he lacked the strength to resist, he simply took some of his trusted disciples and fled south to the Tianhai Cultivation World.
With the Sect Old Ancestors either dead or fled, the Yunyang Sect's mountain gate had descended into utter chaos in less than half a month, leaving only several thousand old, weak, and wounded remnants behind.
When the Hundred Flowers Palace army arrived at Skyborne Island, the Yunyang Sect disciples left behind still tried to rely on the mountain gate array to resist.
But with only these people, even with a Grade 4 Middle-rank Mountain Protection Array, they could hardly withstand the Hundred Flowers Palace army led by so many Nascent Soul Cultivators.
After holding out for only a few days, Skyborne Island's Mountain Protection Array was breached by the Hundred Flowers Palace army, and countless cultivators charged directly onto the island.
Of the several thousand disciples remaining on the mountain, apart from a small number who voluntarily gave up resisting, nearly all were slaughtered on the spot.
Immediately afterward, the dozens of islands surrounding Skyborne Island that had originally been controlled by the Yunyang Sect also fell into the hands of the Hundred Flowers Palace without exception.