This was a powerful squad of soldiers, without a single weakling among them. By the Primordial Ancient Realm's cultivation divisions, they were all beings at the Escape One level.
Of course, although they were at the Escape One level, they did not cultivate the Dao of the Primordial Ancient Realm, so their cultivation levels could not correspond exactly. There were some discrepancies.
"Why is there a squad like this here? Are they the enemies the people in the Imperial City mentioned?" The Golden Hou was somewhat frightened. Some of those beings were humanoid, some were beasts, and others were birds. Bearing the murderous aura of survivors of a hundred battles, they marched toward them from ahead.
"Just ignore them. Let's keep going," Di Yi said instead of answering.
"Big brother, that... surely we can't ignore them? Even if we leave them alone, they won't necessarily ignore us." The Golden Hou did not believe the two sides could coexist peacefully.
"Rustle, rustle..."
Yet to the Golden Hou's surprise, the squad marched through the desert as though they had not seen them. They ignored them completely and passed straight through the area.
"This... are they blind?" The Golden Hou found it utterly unbelievable.
"Would cultivators be blind? I simply made them unable to see us," Di Yi said, walking ahead and urging the Golden Hou to follow.
The desert was vast. There were beacon fires here, as well as blood-colored rivers running across the sands. Even now, seeing these things, one could imagine how brutal the wars of bygone years had been.
As they continued onward, Di Yi saw quite a few beings from the Foreign Realm in this region covered by the Heavenly Abyss. They had built camps here and stationed large numbers of soldiers.
Clearly, these should be the Foreign