The war in the stars lasted several hours, then came to an end.
The nine-million-strong army of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, dragged here by Equal King of Yama Hell's Yin-Yang Reversal Formation, had been utterly defeated. Countless soldiers fled in every direction using teleportation talismans, magical treasures, and secret arts. The army scattered like a pot boiling over, all courage to resist gone.
It was not because they were weak.
In fact, for an army made up of a motley crowd, they were strong enough.
Every one of them had considerable talent for battle formations and cultivation.
Every one of them, even the women and children, had helped suppress servant rebellions. Their hands were stained with the blood of many enslaved peoples, and they had ample military experience. Even as a hastily assembled army, they could defeat entire groups of sect Dao soldiers.
Yet under the assault of the ten Dao Children, their supposed resolve and fighting spirit proved illusory.
The vast army in the stars melted away as swiftly as snow beneath the sun. All that remained were countless Horned Demon Imperial Clan members fleeing in every direction with whatever escape measures they had saved.
Their sheer numbers, however, caused even more trouble than they had on the battlefield.
It was estimated that the Nine Great Immortal Sects' Dao soldiers would need months to find and kill the last of them.
The next nine million members of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan would surely be weaker still.
Until...
Not a single member of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan beneath the rank of emperor remained alive.
What had happened to the Skullblood Vine Demon Clan hundreds of thousands of years ago had, after all those cycles of cause and effect, fallen upon the Horned Demon Imperial Clan in turn.