"Bang!..."
Before the Old General could reach the Upper Primordial Lord, his entire body burst apart, turning into a cloud of blood mist that dispersed without a trace.
The Battle Banner clutched in his hand fell with a swish, planting itself in the ground.
Then the world within the projection fell deathly silent once more.
The enormous Demonic Beast that the Primordial Lord had become silently shrank, finally turning into a towering tree that stood facing the tiny Battle Banner from afar.
Gray mist shrouded the entire world once again.
The great battle within the projection had passed almost in the blink of an eye.
If not for the faintly visible Battle Banner and towering Demon Tree, everyone might well have thought that what they had just seen was nothing but an illusion, like flowers in a mirror or the moon reflected in water.
And as the scene within the projection froze there, the previously silent stands erupted once more in a deafening uproar.
Cries from across the various realms likewise rang incessantly from the Spirit Mirrors through which people watched-
"This... when did this happen?"
"Why have I never heard of such a heroic and tragic battle between humans and demons?"
"The Treading the Sea Army-have any of you heard of this Treading the Sea Army?"
"I've traveled the Five Heavens for centuries, and I've never heard of this Treading the Sea Army!"
"I understand now. Xu Taiping must have plucked some random scene to distract us and clear his own name!"
By the end of the discussion, not only the cultivators before the Spirit Mirrors, but even most of the Spectating Cultivators watching from the stands on Heavenly Pillar Peak believed that Xu Taiping had fabricated this scene out of thin air.
At that moment, Mu Yuchen, standing