Mid-February of the eighth year of the Genesis Era, which was also mid-February of the fifth year of the Great Huan Era.
A month and a half had passed since the decisive battle between the Great Huan Dynasty and the Great Chu Imperial Dynasty in Yingzhou. The Great Huan Dynasty had just celebrated the traditional New Year of China Civilization.
Though the Battle of Yingzhou had ended a month and a half ago, its enormous repercussions still reached across the world. Every nation, faction, and community continued to debate it endlessly and discuss it with relish.
According to rumor, the two dynasties had fought their decisive battle in Yingzhou's Kyoto Prefecture, each deploying a terrifying army numbering two hundred million, with the battlefield stretching over thousands of li. The Great Chu Imperial Dynasty had also fielded around fifty million Blood Clan reinforcements, roughly fifteen hundred Descended Immortal Gods, and a hundred thousand Loose Immortals drawn from various nations.
The moment war broke out, the arts of formations for which China Civilization was most renowned had vied for supremacy. The four great ominous formations of Desolate Antiquity, long lost and preserved only in myth and legend, had all appeared: the Celestial Cycle Star-Dipper Formation, the Twofold Dust Formation, the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, and the Dutian Gods-and-Demons Baleful Formation. Even Transcendent Heaven Grade (Immortal Grade) formations originating from the Immortal Realm-the Myriad Immortals Formation, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches Demon-Sealing God-Slaying Formation, and the Heaven-Covering Formation-had made formidable appearances. Every one possessed the power to seal heaven and lock down earth, or destroy heaven and shatter earth.
With such a magnificent lineup and such terrifying expenditure, the fighting had soon split heaven and earth and robbed the sun and moon of their light. Yingzhou, whose crust was already unstable, had gradually