The battle ended in a mere twenty minutes, less than two quarter-hours.
The outcome exhilarated and encouraged the Puppet Dao faction, but every Great Power of the Immortal Alliance was chilled to the bone, unable to believe it.
These Puppet Masters were far too powerful! This seemed to be an extension of Li Chen's power. The inherent nature of the Puppet Dao allowed the mighty power of Great Powers to be divided and put to use by countless living beings. Thus, once a breakthrough was achieved, the potential for warfare it unleashed was astonishing.
The industrialization and mortalization Li Chen promoted had made that power commonplace, spreading it to every Sky City and every Puppet Master.
Although they had yet to fully grasp its true intent and replicate or create it entirely on their own, they could already wield this tremendous power.
Given time, they could even continue down the road Li Chen had paved, discarding the old to bring forth the new.
Fu Changsheng and the others learned of the incident afterward as well. After watching the footage recorded by the cultivators sent to investigate, they remained speechless for a long time.
"Perhaps we really were wrong..."
"We should never have opened those Immortal Coffins in the first place!"
"Even the remnants of the old era are no match for them!"
Now they, too, had to start considering how the Immortal Alliance could survive. Whether the Puppet Masters won or lost, neither outcome would bode well for the alliance.
Several more days passed. At the frontline fortress, shafts of light pierced heaven and earth, while enormous, vortex-like cyclones revealed the residual power left by spatial transfers.
From time to time, enormous Alien Insect spacecraft and giant insect mothers could be seen arriving through spatial transfer technology.
This was a