When Bai Yang reached the top of the stairs, turmoil erupted outside. Chen Yongfa and the others had waited there for an entire day, but the scene they'd hoped to see never came.
For five whole days, a tremendous surge of primordial energy had gathered in the center of the area whenever the moon reached its zenith. But today, nothing happened.
By the pattern of the previous days, primordial energy should have gone berserk by now. Though some was still gathering, the scale was less than a thousandth of what it had been before!
Changkong Ao and the others had already decided to attack the Great Moon Dynasty's defenses today. Now that the scene they'd hoped to see had failed to appear, how could they sit still? They immediately chose to charge.
"Quick! If we wait any longer, things could change. If we rush in now, we might still make it!" the woman in red said gravely, her face taut with anxiety.
The black-clad man who'd been lying in wait let out a sinister laugh. "When the primordial energy went berserk a few days ago, I suggested we charge in. You all hesitated again and again. Now who knows what's happened? If we miss our chance, you'll have no one but yourselves to blame!"
He'd already started laying the blame on them.
But he wasn't wrong. If they'd resolved to charge the night before, this turn of events might never have happened. Now the primordial energy was a thousand times weaker than it had been then. Heaven knew what had gone wrong.
Thinking of the scale of the energy surges from the previous days, they felt as though their hearts were bleeding at the thought of missing this chance. No words could describe their regret.
In their desperation, none of