The instant Yuanshi Tianzun lowered his eyes, every living being within hundreds of millions of miles of Jiepai Pass heard the sound of their joints sinking.
A Sage's pressure descended.
Heaven would not permit living beings to stand.
"Kneel."
The icy will of Yuqing resounded directly in the depths of every living being's primordial spirit.
As those words fell, the wind stilled, the clouds bowed low, and the laws of heaven and earth across the battlefield were forcibly rewritten.
In the Xiqi Camp, hundreds of thousands of surviving soldiers instantly turned deathly pale.
Some still clutched their long halberds.
Some had just climbed up from the ground.
Some were looking up at the Nine Dragon Agarwood Carriage.
The next instant.
Clang!
Weapons fell to the ground one after another.
The front ranks knelt.
The rear ranks knelt.
From the camp gates to the supply routes, from the command platform to the tents, hundreds of thousands of mortal soldiers seemed pinned beneath the same invisible hand, falling face-down into the dust together.
They wanted to raise their heads.
They could not.
They wanted to breathe.
But it felt as though ten thousand mountains weighed upon their chests.
Many weaker-willed soldiers bled from all seven orifices and fainted on the spot.
More pressed their foreheads to the ground, trembling all over, stripped of even the courage to glance at the sky.
Xiqi's heavenly mandate, which had just crumbled under the humiliation of the Twelve Golden Immortals kneeling, was now forcibly pressed back into the dust by a Sage's pressure.
Before the camp gates.
The ravaged Dao bodies of Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Taiyi Zhenren, and the other twelve Jade Void Golden Immortals shuddered at once.
Yuqing Sage Might bypassed the Yellow River Turbid Lock and settled upon them once more.
That familiar Dao resonance