The powerful figures of Wizard Civilization and the Immortal Domain charged into the main war zone of the Demon Subjugation Alliance Battlefield—the Metal Graveyard—providing a measure of cover for the Evil Tide Army's withdrawal.
Close behind Sage Laozi, Sword Saint Carell, and the others, Level-8 Peak powerhouses from three other top-level civilizations—Silver Knight, Genji, Yun Long, and others—also descended one after another, making the Evil Tide Front at the Metal Graveyard as impregnable as a fortress.
It was more than merely impregnable. In terms of high-level combat power on this local battlefield, the Five Directions Civilization Axis Group had surpassed the Demon Subjugation Alliance.
First Flame Emperor of the Yan Emperor Divine Clan was still nominally part of the Demon Subjugation Alliance. However, the previous conflict with the Element Pioneer had deeply wounded the Yan Emperor Divine Clan's heart, leaving First Flame Emperor with little desire to fight the Five Directions Civilization Axis Group.
First Flame Emperor's attention was now entirely fixed on the Level-9 Great War in the distant starry sky.
When he saw even Astral Realm Overseer Ming being reduced to such a sorry state by the Gray Mist Level-9 and Demon Fall Supreme, First Flame Emperor began to hesitate over whether their long-standing practice of following the Astral Realm Will's and the Overseers' advice to oppose Evil Tide Civilization had truly been right.
If fighting Evil Tide Civilization in the past had indeed been for his own civilization's development and his race's survival—
Then now, with Evil Tide Civilization having gone to wage Dimensional Hegemony and its military edge no longer pointed here, continuing to fight Evil Tide Civilization to the death... seemed rather meaningless.
The complete recapture of the Endless Fire Territory Battlefield, along with the vast starfield that Evil Tide Civilization had voluntarily ceded some