The Rout of a Defeated Army

For top-tier experts, battles were fought not only with their own strength. Intangible things like conviction were important, too.

Take the present moment: as the convictions of several clan leaders in the Six Clans' allied forces crumbled, their combat strength had visibly declined.

The clearest sign was that they no longer dared to risk their lives. They launched fewer and fewer attacks, while their timid, shrinking defenses grew more frequent. And if you defended for long enough, you were bound to leave an opening.

One by one, they were getting wounded!

Yet what drove them to despair even more was that the two Dragon Ancestors who had descended like heavenly soldiers, after routing the Six Clans' allied forces on the lower battlefield, didn't linger. Instead, they barged into the battlefield where the top-tier experts were fighting!

The first unlucky one was the Sky Snake King, clan leader of the Sky Snake Clan. Suddenly facing three Dragon Ancestors at once, the Sky Snake King was on the verge of a complete breakdown.

He wasn't some exceptionally gifted genius. Just fighting one Dragon Ancestor was nearly enough to cost him his life, let alone three!

So, in fewer than a dozen breaths, his body was cut in half. He tried to flee with his Divine Soul, but the Black Dragon Ancestor grabbed it and refined it in an instant!

In that moment, the entire battlefield seemed to freeze. An indescribable sorrow rose in the hearts of every Sky Snake soldier, as if they had lost something immensely important.

Blood rained from the sky, as if the Origin World itself were mourning.

The Sky Snake King was the first major domino to fall in this disastrous defeat, but he certainly wouldn't be the last!

The other clan leaders in the Six Clans' allied