Chapter 654: Repay Enmity with Enmity
After this battle, not only Glazed Heaven, but nearly the entire Immortal World lay in desolation.
This battle was in no way inferior to the great war at the end of antiquity. The entire Glazed Heaven Capital had been utterly ruined, its spiritual energy dispersed until it was almost no different from the Mortal World.
The allied forces had attacked far too suddenly, and Glazed Heaven had made no preparations whatsoever. Chen Xiao had not expected True Heaven to strike at this time either; everything had caught them off guard.
Once the enemy reached Glazed Heaven, they showed no mercy—killing, plundering, and destroying whatever they could not take away. As for the more than one hundred million immortals who had come this time, they too were slaughtered to the last by several rounds of Chen Xiao's heart demon tribulations.
Had Chen Xiao brought out the heart demon tribulation from the very beginning, he could have completely held back the allied forces' assault. But he had not.
He wanted to see exactly how many enemies he had, and exactly who they were. Enemies who had revealed themselves were not frightening; what was truly frightening were those who remained hidden in the shadows.
But the price of this had been rather steep.
Glazed Dao Academy had nearly been destroyed, while Glazed Heaven Palace had been battered until it was almost shattered.
Glazed Heaven's victory was a pyrrhic one.
Inside Glazed Heaven Palace, gloom hung heavy in the air.
"Chen Xiao, you should have acted long ago."
Mo Qingtian looked at Chen Xiao, a trace of dissatisfaction in his tone.
Chen Xiao remained silent.
"Don't blame Chen Xiao. If he had checked their offensive from the start, we would never have known that Free Heaven and