The series of unexpected developments that followed was truly dazzling.
The next morning, before the date agreed upon by the Northern Realm's four great sects had even arrived, the God Pavilion suddenly used the South Pavilion Master's disappearance and unexplained absence as a pretext to make trouble for the Daluo Territory, demanding that it open its grounds and allow them to search the encampment.
As the old and new overlords of the Northern Realm, the two sides had clashed repeatedly, their friction constant day and night.
Naturally, the Daluo Territory refused on the spot.
The negotiations collapsed, and the two great sects immediately came to blows. Blood flowed across the earth, corpses littered the ground, and countless sects and powers present were caught in the conflict.
In the end, the God Pavilion withdrew of its own accord, having been outmatched.
Under Emperor Mu's command, the Daluo Territory's army of more than a hundred thousand marched to the outskirts of the Battle Domain, where they cleared out the wandering skeleton armies and seized a vast number of Fallen Source Pills.
The Northern Realm's many powers assumed the God Pavilion had simply made up an excuse to provoke the Daluo Territory. Little did they know that the South Pavilion Master, an Eighth Grade Sovereign, had truly disappeared in the middle of the night.
As the commander of the God Army, Zhan Tai Liuli naturally had to avenge him.
With the two overlords absent, the Demon Sect and All-Saint Mountain were left isolated. Unable to break through the Four Spirits Battle Array, they withdrew one after another, thoroughly bewildered.
The rest of the Northern Realm's large and small powers—nothing more than a motley collection of nobodies—could only stare at one another.
It was at this very moment that the ancient Battle Domain of