The battle had not lasted long. It had taken only a few months to wipe out tens of millions of Dark Creatures.
And it had been only seven or eight days since Li Ye escaped from outside All Heavens City.
No one would have expected a battle between forces so vastly unequal to end so quickly.
The outcome had been utterly unexpected.
News of the All Heavens Army's great victory soon spread through the surrounding star regions.
Inside All Heavens City, the Golden Old Thief grew increasingly uneasy.
He even felt inexplicably restless.
He was not the only one who felt this way. The Ancestor of the Spirit Transformation Clan felt it too.
"Something's going to happen, and it concerns me."
"What exactly is it?"
The Golden Progenitor murmured under his breath, "Could the All Heavens Army have lost, with the Dark Main Force Army returning to surround me?"
"That can't be. Chi Ming has become an Immortal King and has even mastered Endless Clones. Given his temperament, he wouldn't surrender so easily, much less lose so quickly."
"This is a stalemate."
The old thief muttered to himself.
He decided he was overthinking things.
He wanted to use a fragment of the Underworld Emperor Mirror to see what was happening there, but Immortal King Chi Ming wielded the imperial weapon Guangwu Sword, whose imperial aura covered the battlefield.
The Underworld Emperor Mirror fragment was incomplete after all. When the Golden Old Thief activated it, the images he saw were incredibly blurry.
He could make out that the two sides were fighting fiercely, locked in a dead heat.
Immortal King Chi Ming summoned his life-bound Immortal King Sword. It swelled to the size of a galaxy, carrying the whole army as it swiftly swept across one star region after