The moment Mr. Mu appeared, all the cultivators from the Spiritualized Universe retreated in unison. The Round-faced Old Man stood outside the stone gate, glaring at Lu Yin, his eyes filled with unwillingness and fury.
The starry sky finally fell quiet.
The battle hadn't lasted long. From the moment Lu Yuan was surrounded to the arrival of reinforcements from the Heavenly Sect, it had been a chance encounter. Yet the intensity of that clash had been no less than the final battle between Primordial City and the Eternal Clan.
It had been only a chance encounter, but both sides had suffered heavy casualties.
The Spiritualized Universe no longer wanted to fight. The people from the Heavenly Origin Universe were exhausted as well. They slowly retreated, drawing a clear line between the two sides as they faced one another across the starry sky.
No one had expected things to turn out this way.
The Spiritualized Universe had believed it could easily bring the Heavenly Origin Universe to an end, so at the start of the war, it hadn't bothered to negotiate. It had simply attacked.
The people of the Heavenly Origin Universe hadn't expected the Spiritualized Universe to suddenly pull back, either. Lu Yin had expected this clash to end with one side wiped out. He didn't know how many people from the Heavenly Origin Universe would die, but he had wanted to intercept and kill as many of the Spiritualized Universe's forces as possible.
Unfortunately, they hadn't been strong enough. The power of the Spiritualized Universe had been on full display.
If Bao Qi hadn't suddenly fallen into tribulation, Lu Yin wouldn't have been able to seize the Sky Devouring Luo Umbrella, and Second Life might not have survived, either.
That was what war between universes was like: the fiercest