After spending several months traversing the Void's Southwest frontier, the two thunder boats headed north again, flying toward the northwest! This utterly bewildered the Council Hall cultivators and the disciples tailing them. Was this not the rhythm of sightseeing? What happened to the promised assault? What happened to the promised spies...? Of course, during these months, the Devil Race had not abandoned its attack on the Void. Those omnipresent devil formations could still find flaws in the World Protecting Great Formation and send devil kings and Devil Lords into the Void through channels of devilish qi. Yet when faced with these Devil Race armies, the Creation Sect disciples no longer rushed forward as before. Instead, they feinted, lured the Devil Race army over, then fled early under the thunder boats' might.
In the eyes of the Devil Race, the thunder boats had in fact become banners. Many Devil Race members who had suffered greatly at the Creation Sect's hands had long spread word of the thunder boats' power. Whenever the Devil Race saw a thunder boat, they collapsed without even fighting, cheering one after another. Naturally, they did not pursue. Instead, they seized upon the squads from various sects that were following the Creation Sect disciples and slaughtered them. Most of those squad disciples were low-level cultivators. How could they be a match for the Devil Race? They fled while crying for their fathers and mothers, desperately controlling magical artifacts and flying boats, with no time left to trouble the Creation Sect disciples.
After several such incidents, apart from a small number of cultivators who had received strict orders from the Council Hall and still followed far behind the thunder boats, no large groups of disciples remained in pursuit. Unfortunately, even those cultivators retreated dejectedly after only a dozen or