Within the passage between the two realms opened by the Capital Gate Instrument, aboard one of the flying vessels, Zhang Yu looked below. In this campaign, Chief Executive Chen held the rear personally, concealing their line of retreat, while all matters at the front were entirely at Zhang Yu's discretion.
At this moment, he contacted the Profound Venerables and Court Executors aboard the various vessels through the Heaven-Training Dao Canon and said, "Everyone, prepare yourselves."
Responses rang out one after another from within the Heaven-Training Dao Canon. After a short while, with an order from him, countless golden-red thunder pearls trailed slender arcs of light, shooting into Origin Xia's airspace like orderly threads of rain, like innumerable dazzling meteors.
At the same time, flying vessels laden with thunder pearl profound weapons, steered by cultivators' external bodies, also charged downward beneath the cover of the thunder pearls.
Because Origin Xia's Dao mechanism differed from Celestial Xia's, when Origin Xia attacked Celestial Xia, it relied on the Heaven-Bearing Diagram to maintain the heavenly order.
When Celestial Xia counterattacked Origin Xia, under normal circumstances, it needed the Clear Vault Aura as a shield in order to bring Celestial Xia's heavenly order to this place.
But the Clear Vault Aura could not be exposed now, so that was naturally impossible. Thus, these thunder pearl vessels were merely wrapped in Nether City Golden Sand. Although it could not compare to the Clear Vault Aura and would soon be exhausted, these were only explosive objects. Celestial Xia had no need to sustain them for long; temporarily maintaining them was enough.
Moreover, they had no intention of sending cultivators at the Profound Venerable level down there, so for the present, this was sufficient.
Zhang Yu gazed below. In Origin Xia, every speck of dust and every wisp