Amid the sprawling Snow Mountain range lay the Seventh Domain.
Chen Xiao'en stood at the entrance to the Seventh Domain in Snow Mountain, waiting for Sima Ji to return.
This operation against the Eighth Domain had been led by William of the First Domain, accompanied by the very strongest fighters from several domains.
Everyone believed it would end in a crushing, one-sided victory.
So he had ordered Granny Hua, Alan, and Sima Ji to publicize the operation throughout their own domains.
He wanted all their people to know that the Eighth Domain was about to fall, extinguishing every shred of hope they should never have harbored.
The people of the Seventh Domain had also learned of this before Sima Ji set out.
To them, it hardly counted as news.
After all, the vast majority of their lives had not changed at all.
Compared with today's victory, the earlier news that Deputy Domain Master Liu Xiaofa had died in the Eighth Domain had shocked everyone in the Seventh Domain far more.
This was no longer a simple story of an underdog defeating a superior.
They had heard that the Eighth Domain's Domain Master had yet to reach Domain Sequence, whereas Liu Xiaofa had killed a Division Chief plotting rebellion years ago. His strength had been unfathomable.
Since the apocalypse descended and Sequence Abilities awakened, everyone had believed that individual strength determined everything.
Thus, the people of the Seventh Domain simply could not understand how the people of the Eighth Domain, who had arrived here twelve years after them, had killed one of their domain's strongest fighters.
After Sima Ji returned, he had given Liu Xiaofa a dignified funeral but never said a word about how he had died in battle. Chen Xiao'en had been equally tight-lipped.
The incident had become a