Duan and Sheng settled on a strategy. Since delay was inevitable, they no longer rushed. Step by step, they poured array devices into the void region of the passage between the two realms, while using Myriad Immortals' Ferry to gradually wear down the array formations ahead.
At every moment, tens of thousands of array devices collided with the void-region formations and exploded. The expenditure was astonishing, but so long as they could keep advancing, Origin Xia did not consider it much. Celestial Xia was being depleted as well; as long as the two sides were locked in a contest of attrition, Origin Xia was playing to its advantage.
Zhang Yu watched from the rear, taking in every development at the front.
Seeing that Origin Xia was merely urging the power of Myriad Immortals' Ferry and continuously throwing in array devices, yet had not sent forth a single external body of an Origin Xia cultivator, he knew that Origin Xia intended to proceed steadily this time as well.
The first Heaven-Stacking guarded by Wu Tingzhi was exceptionally secure. The arrangements here had been laid out jointly by all the Court Executives. Although they had been prepared to abandon it at any time, its defenses were in no way inferior to the formations within Celestial Xia's void region.
After holding alone for three months, Wu Tingzhi saw the surrounding formations worn away entirely by Origin Xia's countless array devices.
At that point, he withdrew to the rear with the flow of events. He had no choice but to retreat, for the qi mechanisms of Myriad Immortals' Ferry and the Capital Gate Instrument had been colliding all along. If this continued, Origin Xia would certainly find a gap in their operation, cast him aside, and leap through the void into the rear void