While Ning Chen was busy building his earl's manor and using intelligence reports to find children with body martial souls.
In the outer reaches of the Star Dou Great Forest.
The rampage of the Sky Azure Bull Python and the Titan Giant Ape had driven large numbers of soul beasts out of the Star Dou Great Forest, from its outer reaches and even its Core Area.
They roamed the surrounding human cities, even going on rampages. No one knew how many humans had died at the hands of these soul beasts that had fled the Star Dou Great Forest.
The Balak Kingdom lay on the border of the Heaven Dou Empire, in the region near Spirit City.
When large numbers of soul beasts gathered in the Balak Kingdom, along the outskirts of Suotuo City.
The Balak Kingdom immediately dispatched elite troops from its Kingdom Army to stop the soul beast invasion.
But the Kingdom Army consisted mostly of ordinary soldiers who could not cultivate. How could they possibly stand against hundred-year, thousand-year, or even ten-thousand-year soul beasts that had cultivated for so many years?
In just over ten days, the kingdom's soldiers suffered devastating losses.
Left with no choice, they could only retreat to Suotuo City and prevent the soul beast tide from advancing farther into the kingdom.
Meanwhile, the Balak Kingdom appealed to both the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit City for aid.
In name, the Balak Kingdom was a vassal state of the Heaven Dou Empire.
When the Balak Kingdom's envoy arrived in the imperial capital to request aid, Emperor Xue Ye did not hesitate much before ordering troops to be allocated to the Balak Kingdom.
Whether they actually fought the soul beast tide was another matter. At the very least, they had to put on a show