Even now, tens of thousands of heavenly soldiers and generals above the highest heavens had yet to move. At this point, though, they could only join in the commotion; otherwise, there was no need for them to move at all.
As the heavenly soldiers poured out and divine light descended like rain, the battle at Yaohuang Demon City was nearing its end.
Though centered on Yaohuang Demon City, the battlefield spanned a thousand li in every direction, sweeping up both demon kings and all the demon soldiers under their command in a single net.
Aside from the heavenly gods who already knew their purpose in coming, who could have imagined that the Demon-Subduing Great Emperor had acted this time for the sake of an untransformable bone?
Deep within the crater, an entire battalion of heavenly soldiers flew in and searched everywhere for the untransformable bone under a divine general's command.
Yes, an entire battalion. The crater was so vast that even more heavenly soldiers would have left it looking empty, and so deep that, looking up from its bottom, the opening far above seemed like the mouth of a well.
At the very bottom, rock and soil were no longer distinguishable. Everything had been compacted into an extraordinarily solid mass.
Among the Immortal Dao's earth-commanding immortal arts was a wondrous technique called Ground-to-Steel, but the bottom of this crater likely far exceeded even that. Only, this was the Demon-Subduing Great Emperor's "pommel-to-steel."
"Found it!"
A heavenly soldier let out an excited cry. The divine general and the surrounding soldiers hurried over, only then spotting a humanoid outline embedded in the ground where the soldier's weapon pointed.
The untransformable bone was now utterly mangled, its flesh like torn, rotting wadding. Even its corpse aura had been beaten apart.
The divine general