While the Sacred Academy's elder councilors were locked in dispute, the Human Race army withdrew at high speed.
The barbarian kings were no incompetents either. After Lang Yuan and the Great Barbarian Kings became familiar with the properties of the wild grass, and received Ao Xuan's guidance, their speed in clearing it greatly increased.
The many Great Barbarian Kings merely stomped lightly upon the ground, pouring their powerful blood-and-qi strength into the soil. It then spread in all directions half an inch below the surface, instantly killing every blade of wild grass within several hundred zhang.
However, wildfire could not burn it all away; when the spring wind blew, it grew anew.
The Northern Sea Dragon Palace could drain the water from this place, but it could not drain the heaven-and-earth vital energy. This Enemy-Blocking Poem continued to absorb heaven-and-earth vital energy without end, transforming it into wild grass that endlessly bound every barbarian.
What gave the barbarians the greatest headache was that the Weak Water and Strange Wind could not be eliminated; they could only be worn down through sheer force.
The barbarians advanced slowly, while the Human Race maintained its highest speed. The distance between the two sides steadily widened.
The grassland had originally been covered in towering flames, but now the unceasing wild grass had worn them down until little remained. Most of the flames had already vanished, replaced by long, sprawling grass.
Many barbarians could not accept this. Even if the Barbarian Emperor could only wield one percent of the Heaven-Burning Furnace's power, its blazing flames should not have been extinguished by Grand Academicians.
Before long, an army of one hundred thousand barbarians came galloping from the west, charging toward the Human Race.
Lang Yuan laughed loudly. "Are those Sand Barbarians or Forest Barbarians? We agreed