Primordial Continent, waters of the West Sea.
Dongyang Xiao, Second Grand Authority Priest of the Ancestral God Hall, stood suspended high in the air alongside Changsun Baimei, commander of this Western Expeditionary Army, observing the vast, mist-shrouded West Sea from afar.
"These West Sea vermin are far too cunning. The moment our army arrived, they all retreated into the sea, yet they turned Great Zhou's prefectures and counties into a living hell!" Tu Men Chang Yin, who had already been promoted to Sixth Grand Authority Priest, said bitterly.
"Merely cunning?" Dongyang Xiao sneered. "I would say they are also cowardly, cautious, and probing us."
"What does the Grand Authority Priest intend to do?" Changsun Baimei, commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, respectfully asked for instructions.
Dongyang Xiao stared at the boundless West Sea in the distance, his face filled with cold laughter and killing intent.
In the autumn of the 753rd year of the Great Zhou Jianwu Calendar, the West Sea Aquatic Race invaded Ye Prefecture of Great Zhou. Luoyi flew into a rage and dispatched the Sea Conquest Legion, led primarily by a million Sacrifice Guards and Priests.
Yet the West Sea Aquatic Race was far more cunning than anyone had imagined.
The Sea Conquest Army had only just arrived after its long journey when the West Sea Aquatic Race began a large-scale retreat, leaving behind a ravaged Ye Prefecture and countless corpses.
They also left behind lands that had nearly become hell on earth, where fewer than one in ten of the population remained.
Having filled their coffers through plunder, the West Sea Aquatic Race rode the floodwaters and retreated at top speed into the vast West Sea.
Dongyang Xiao's Sea Conquest Army could only stare at the ocean and sigh.
Under such circumstances, Dongyang Xiao, Second Grand