Amid the bloody fighting, no one deliberately kept track of the passing years.
Boom!
Streaks of divine light broke through the blockade and flew toward the outside world. They were contingents of the Dark Army.
This was far from the first time. The distant Embankment was already riddled with holes. Hastily constructed, it could withstand countless calamities against Immortal Kings, but against Jiuyou Ao, who wielded destruction, it fell far short.
Ever since the Skeleton Immortal Emperor's time, five Quasi-Immortal Emperors had emerged. The Dark Immortal Kings accumulated over that span were already beyond counting, far more numerous than anyone imagined. The beings beneath the Immortal King realm were even more innumerable.
A place like the Foreign Land was merely a frontline outpost, a small place that replenished their troops.
The Immortal Kings who came in an endless stream from the Immortal Domain and elsewhere in pursuit of the Emperor Road were another source of soldiers.
Supreme Beings served as soldiers, True Immortals as squad leaders, Immortal Kings as generals, and Emperor-Light Immortal Kings as commanders. That was merely the standard composition of a single contingent.
Had Ji Hao not intercepted most of the Immortal King Army over these years, the Other Shore would likely have been overwhelmed by those countless Darkness Beings.
"Anyone who crosses the sea without permission will be killed without mercy!"
Ji Hao's imposing aura rose. His shattered battle armor looked somewhat desolate, while hundreds upon thousands of divine rays rose behind him and connected to the firmament.
Each was immensely thick, like a pillar supporting the sky. Boundless universes evolved within them, dazzling and radiant. They tore through space and time, pierced the Great Dao, and made heaven and earth tremble.
"Boundless light, boundless tribulations, boundless universes, boundless epochs!"
"Don't even think about it!" Emperor