News traveled through Azure Crossing Continent with considerable delay.
One Ferry Ship after another was still sailing toward Heavenly River Pass.
The Immortal Cultivators who had initially gathered at the ferry crossing sixty miles west of Heavenly River Pass had not simply sat waiting for death.
Instead, they began intercepting the Ferry Ships passing overhead, informing the Immortal Cultivators aboard of the living hell Heavenly River Pass had become.
Before long, more than three thousand Immortal Cultivators had gathered at this ferry crossing, including over twenty Qi Sea Realm cultivators.
These later-arriving Immortal Cultivators came from all corners of Azure Crossing Continent.
They all knew why they had come, yet they lacked any true understanding of Outer Dao's terror.
As the group steadily grew larger, these Immortal Cultivators made a decision.
They would counterattack Heavenly River Pass.
And it was precisely as these three thousand-plus Immortal Cultivators were on their way to counterattack Heavenly River Pass
that they collided head-on with the Outer Dao Puppets that had already completely breached Heavenly River Pass.
Eight breaths.
In merely eight breaths, the Outer Dao Puppets slaughtered and transformed all three thousand-plus Immortal Cultivators.
Chen Yan, above the heavens, slightly extended his Spiritual Sense and made a calculation.
At this very moment, the total number of Outer Dao Puppets roaming Azure Crossing Continent had already reached twenty billion.
Among them, the number of Outer Dao Puppets equivalent to Spirit Realm cultivators had rapidly risen from zero to thirty thousand in just a single day.
Thirty thousand Outer Dao Puppets with combat strength equal to Spirit Realm cultivators.
One had to know that the entirety of Azure Crossing Continent currently possessed only twenty-one Spirit Realm cultivators in total.
And not long ago, five of them had just died in battle.
But something even more