Once the decree was issued, it began spreading throughout Great Qin with astonishing efficiency.
In Great Qin, which was under near-martial law, government orders traveled with remarkable speed. As soon as the decree arrived, the people began carrying it out.
Less than half a day after the decree was issued, every household in Xianyang City had a boulder standing before its gate.
Men and women, young and old, whether or not they understood its deeper meaning, began solemnly reciting it under the officials' direction.
Countless wisps of Belief Power, so faint as to be almost imperceptible, rose from courtyard after courtyard. Like countless rivers returning to the sea, they flowed into the river of National Fortune.
The golden radiance atop the Immortal Great Wall at the border also began visibly solidifying and strengthening once more. It even began to counterattack, shattering some of the weaker Weird creatures outright.
As though enraged by the Immortal Great Wall's counterattack, deeper writhing and whispers that could drive reason to collapse came from the rear of the Weird Army.
Then several enormous, bloated shadows, seemingly formed from countless anguished human faces and tentacles fused together, slowly advanced toward the Immortal Great Wall.
They were the Deep One Warriors of the Cthulhu World, the most adept at breaking through strongholds. Their whispers were enough to rust steel and rot Belief Power.
When they came into contact with the golden radiance atop the Immortal Great Wall, both sides began emitting sizzling sounds of corrosion.
It was not only the Deep One Warriors of Cthulhu being dissolved by the wall's golden radiance; the wall's radiance was simultaneously being eroded by the Deep One Warriors.
While the Deep One Warriors and the Immortal Great Wall battled, the ground outside Hangu Pass split apart inch by inch, and countless