At Flood River Pass in Eastern Court, one of Zhang Yu's shadow-avatar incarnations hovered in the sky.
Even now, there were still quite a few tribes migrating from the inland, though they were generally not large in scale—dozens at the smallest, a thousand or so at the largest.
Since this place was easy to defend, Eastern Court Prefecture had previously built sturdy fortifications here and stationed a large number of cultivators. Yet even so, after many tribes approached the Flood River, they still chose attack over communication.
For the most part, this was not their own choice, but the will of the divine descendants and the alien gods behind them.
Although some tribes submitted, unless a certain degree of force was displayed, these natives would never obediently comply. Even if they submitted for the time being, they would still cause trouble later.
The Eastern Court Profound Residence had concluded that, apart from those alien gods, the Revival God Association must also be pushing the natives' hostility toward Eastern Court from behind the scenes.
At its root, the land east of Peace Mountain was still a place shrouded in divine light. Everything living there, including their consciousness and actions, remained under the control of the gods.
To resolve this, the alien gods and the Revival God Association had to be thoroughly purged.
However, the prefectural seat had not yet been built, and the expansion of the prefecture was incomplete. If they stopped now to deal with this matter, they might instead be playing into the enemy's hands. Thus, he did not intend to act directly, but planned to counter them by another method.
With a flash, he arrived beside a river deep within a dense forest. Any inland tribe migrating here would inevitably pass through this place.
With a sweep of