Watching from the Sidelines (Twenty-Seven)

The Eastern King Duke's Purple Mansion Faction was retreating step by step before Dijun and Taiyi's Sun Palace forces. With nowhere left to fall back, he had no choice but to unleash one of his trump cards—the Myriad Immortals Formation.

The Eastern King Duke tossed the Immortal-Hiding Diagram into the sky above Purple Manor Immortal Island. Oh, I forgot to mention: Dijun and Taiyi had attacked first this time, so the main battlefield was the Eastern King Duke's own stronghold. And that stronghold was Purple Manor Immortal Island. Whether he won or lost, he was in for a terrible time. A battle fought on the island was bound to devastate it. On that count alone, the Eastern King Duke had already "lost." He had every reason to feel wronged.

But though he had lost on that count, the Eastern King Duke could not afford to lose the battle itself. Otherwise, there might be nowhere in the entire Primordial Wilderness for his Purple Mansion Faction to stand. How could he, the "Chief of Male Immortals," ever show his face again?

In this battle, the Eastern King Duke had to win. He could not bear the cost of defeat.

As soon as the Immortal-Hiding Diagram soared high above Purple Manor Immortal Island, its inner space enveloped the entire island. At the same time, over a hundred million immortals of the Purple Palace entered the diagram of their own accord and began setting up the formation. That was right: the Eastern King Duke had turned the "Myriad Immortals Formation" into the "Billion Immortals Formation."

This was a feat on a scale even Tongtian, who would later set up the Myriad Immortals Formation himself, could not match. Who knew whether the entire Investiture War would even have a hundred million participants? Yet this single