[Sky-Rending Grand Canyon]
[One enormous immortal dynasty war machine after another collapsed with a thunderous crash during the retreat. The earth shattered, mountain ranges were severed, and an oppressive despair settled over the hearts of every dynasty cultivator.]
["Full retreat! Everyone fall back to the rear!"]
[The commands of the Nascent Soul True Lords directing the battlefield rang in the ears of the dynasty cultivators.]
["Why are we retreating? Our immortal dynasty clearly has the advantage. We're about to tear through the canyon's defensive line."]
[A Core Formation True Person of the dynasty was utterly bewildered. Standing high in the sky, he could not see what had happened on the battlefield above the clouds.]
[On the ground, however, the dynasty's cultivator army indeed held an overwhelming advantage. It seemed poised to break through the Sky-Rending Grand Canyon and move the battlefield into the Infinite Domain itself.]
[The Sky-Rending Grand Canyon was tens of millions of miles from the Infinite Domain, but the land between them was an unbroken plain, with no natural barriers to defend. The Three Great Super Domains-the Infinite Domain, White Emperor Domain, and Great Luo Domain-had concentrated all their strength at the Sky-Rending Grand Canyon.]
[Once the Sky-Rending Grand Canyon fell, the dynasty's conquest would essentially be half won.]
[Yet at this very moment, the commanders of the dynasty's expeditionary army had ordered a full retreat?]
[It was a full retreat, not a local withdrawal. A full retreat meant abandoning most of the advantages accumulated over the past hundred or two hundred years.]
["Don't question the True Lords' orders. On the battlefield above the clouds, our dynasty's True Lords... suffered a crushing defeat."]
["That True Lord Azure Origin killed nearly ten of our dynasty's True Lords. If His Highness hadn't risked his life to hold him back,