The great decisive battle they had expected never came.
That day, for some unknown reason, Lin Nation's army simply remained several dozen li ahead of the enormous fortress, without moving...
Wang Yan had felt that something was wrong all along. The other Cloud Nation cultivators noticed something amiss too, but none of them could put their finger on it...
Until.
The next day!
Orders suddenly came down from above to launch a counterattack against the cultivator army.
Good heavens.
That densely packed army of enemy cultivators was no army at all. It was an enormous illusion formation. Since Cloud Nation's cultivator army had stayed inside the fortress, no one had noticed.
The entire Lin Nation cultivator army had vanished, and no one even knew when.
The Five Great Sects of Cloud Nation seemed to have already received intelligence. They counterattacked all the way to the fortresses established by Lin Nation's cultivator army, only to find activated defensive restriction arrays inside, without a single cultivator.
Had Lin Nation's cultivator army actually retreated?
However.
What followed.
All cultivators of the Five Great Sects of Cloud Nation at the Golden Core Stage or above were mobilized and sent off in one direction. Core Condensation Realm cultivators like Wang Yan were all left behind to attack the fortresses' restriction arrays...
The course of the entire war seemed to have undergone some earth-shattering change.
After thinking it over, Wang Yan guessed that something might have happened in the rear of Lin Nation's cultivation sects...
Not until the next day.
Did reliable news begin to spread.
The cultivator war launched by the two nations' leading sects was over.
This sudden outcome came far too quickly. The war had ended without even the great decisive battle they had expected.
After making careful inquiries, they learned the details