Military orders were absolute and beyond question.
The instant those words fell, more than half the cultivators in the Mysterious Water Divine Continent's ranks bowed in unison and accepted the order.
The primordial Dao resonance filling the sky faded away in succession. Countless streaks of light vanished in an instant, cutting through space to return to every corner of the Prehistoric Era.
In mere breaths, the mighty army of several thousand Primordial Chaos Realm cultivators lost ninety percent of its fighting strength. Beneath the heavens, only a few dozen supreme experts remained, their auras unfathomable and their Dao foundations profound, each firmly established above the seventh level of the Primordial Chaos Realm.
The dozens of experts stood silently in the void, straight-backed and battle-ready. Few though they were, each possessed the strength to hold dominion over an entire region of Chaos alone. They awaited the Dao Venerable's command, ready at any moment to shatter the void and rush to the battlefield in Chaos.
At Xuan Qing's command, the mighty host under his command regrouped, and the Primordial Chaos Realm experts formed ranks in unison.
Once the vast army had marshaled its ranks, they crossed the boundless reaches of the far eastern wilderness and stepped straight into the emptiness of Chaos.
In an instant, the countless troops and experts vanished. The mighty procession left the Primordial Heaven and Earth behind entirely, disappearing without a trace.
Only faint, ethereal ripples of Dao resonance lingered over the Primordial Land, slowly drifting and dispersing. Without that lingering trace, none of the world's living beings would have known that an overwhelmingly powerful army had briefly halted at the Primordial Border.
Azure Dragon stood on the far eastern coast, raising his eyes to gaze into the hazy, boundless depths of Chaos.
A solemn anticipation lay within